edinburgh university press mär 2007 (17 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This Glossary explains the key concepts, institutions, personalities and events most commonly referred to in the teaching of US politics and government.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For the Gaels it is I Chaluim Chille. From here, Colum Cille - or St Columba - and his successors spread their Christian mission throughout Scotland and beyond. An early king of Dál Riata was consecrated here, and later the mighty Lords of the Isles brought their chieftains for burial on Iona's soil. In more recent times the island was the setting for the Iona Community, a radical experiment in church witness and worship.Living alongside these events, and often in their shadow, there has also been a local community. This is the first book about Iona to span the ages, tracing the population from prehistoric times to the present era. From the inhabitants of an iron-age fort to the medieval village clustered beside the Cathedral walls, and onwards right up to the men and women who worked the land and sea through two World Wars, it takes a fresh look at Columba's Island. And it seeks to delve behind the layers of myth and mystery which have built up around this historic place and the lives of its people, great and small, throughout the centuries.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Feminist Philosophies A-Z covers contemporary material in a number of feminist approaches. It illustrates the complexity, range and interconnectedness of issues in feminist philosophy while making clear the relationship of feminist philosophy to the rest of philosophy as a discipline (epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, social philosophy and metaphysics). Entries are pithy, detailed, informative and are cross-referenced to guide the reader through the lively debates in feminism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This engaging textbook provides a critical assessment of British literature produced between 1900 and 1945.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first glossary to cover the theories, debates, concepts, problems and philosophers within the philosophy of language in one volume.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This concise, accessible glossary of key Islamic terms is written by two of France's most eminent scholars of Islam, edited by Carole Hillenbrand and translated by Caroline Higgitt. It offers brief explanations of the core background elements required by those beginning the study of Islam and covers famous historical figures, theological schools, juridicial schools, Qur'anic symbols and themes and religious rites and institutions. This book offers brief, clear definitions of the key background elements needed by anyone new to the study of Islam. An ideal foundation text for those new to the subject of Islamic Studies and Islamic and Middle Eastern History.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book looks beyond the common label of 'Ronald Reagan's America' to chart the complex intersection of cultures in the 1980s. In doing so it provides an insightful account of the major cultural forms of 1980s America& mdash;literature and drama; film and television; music and performance; art and photography& mdash;and influential texts and trends of the decade: from White Noise to Wall Street, from Silicon Valley to MTV, and from Madonna to Cindy Sherman. A focused chapter considers the changing dynamics of American culture in an increasingly globalised marketplace.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While philosophy of science has always been an integral part of philosophy, since the beginning of the twentieth century it has developed its own structure and its fair share of technical vocabulary and problems.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a stimulating account of the dominant cultural forms of 1950s America: fiction and poetry; theatre and performance; film and television; music and radio; and the visual arts. Through detailed commentary and focused case studies of influential texts and events -- from Invisible Man to West Side Story, from Disneyland to the Seattle World's Fair, from Rear Window to The Americans -- the book examines the way in which modernism and the cold war offer two frames of reference for understanding the trajectory of postwar culture.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first volume of critical texts to define the field of Transatlantic Literary Studies. The Reader provides 42 exemplary readings that map the theoretical and literary aspects of this growing cross-disciplinary subject area.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - MacIntosh examines the political events of Scotland under Charles II, providing the first detailed and accessible account of the Restoration Scottish parliament and revealing its hitherto unexplored constitutional development.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book focuses on the leading figures in radical politics in Ireland and Scottish highlands and explores the links between them. It deals with topics that have been at the centre of recent discussions on the Highland land question, the politics of the Irish community in Scotland, and the development of the labour movement in Scotland. The author argues that the Irish activists in the Scottish Highlands and in urban Scotland should be seen as adherents to notions of social and economic reform, such as land nationalisation, and not as Irish nationalists or Home Rulers. This leads him to make radical reassessments of the contributions of individuals such as John Ferguson, Michael Davitt and Edward McHugh. Andrew Newby looks closely at the political activities and ambitions of the Crofter MPs showing them to be a widely influential but diverse group: he reveals, for example, the extensive links between Angus Sutherland, the most radical of the Highland MPs, and John Ferguson's groupings of Irish political activists of urban Scotland. This is a balanced and vivid account of a turbulent period of modern Scottish history and makes an important contribution to the historiography of the Highland land agitation of the 1870s onwards.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tim Brooks studies the organization, operation, and nature of the British propaganda effort in France during the Second World War, focusing on 'white' propaganda (BBC broadcasts, leaflets dropped by the RAF) and 'black' propaganda (secret broadcasting stations, 'German' documents distributed clandestinely, and rumors). Brooks briefly covers the British propaganda effort from the outbreak of war to the fall of France then assesses the effectiveness of the campaign.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Feminist Philosophies A-Z covers contemporary material in a number of feminist approaches. It illustrates the complexity, range and interconnectedness of issues in feminist philosophy while making clear the relationship of feminist philosophy to the rest of philosophy as a discipline (epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, social philosophy and metaphysics). Entries are pithy, detailed, informative and are cross-referenced to guide the reader through the lively debates in feminism.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While philosophy of science has always been an integral part of philosophy, since the beginning of the twentieth century it has developed its own structure and its fair share of technical vocabulary and problems.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Universal (In the realm of the sensible) proposes a radical, new philosophical system that moves from ontology to ethics.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When did Scots first think of Scotland as an independent kingdom What did they think was Scotland's place in Britain before the age of Wallace and Bruce The answers argued in this book offer a fresh perspective on the question of Scotland's relationship with Britain. Dauvit Broun challenges the standard concept of the Scots as an ancient nation whose British identity only emerged in the early modern era, but also provides new evidence that the idea of Scotland as an independent kingdom was older than the age of Wallace and Bruce.This leads to radical reassessments of a range of fundamental issues: the fate of Pictish identity and the origins of Alba, the status of Scottish kingship vis-à-vis England, the papacy's recognition of the independence of the Scottish Church, and the idea of Scottish freedom. It also sheds new light on the authorship of John of Fordun's 'Chronicle' - the first full-scale history of the Scots - and offers an historical explanation of the widespread English inability to distinguish between England and Britain.All this is placed in the wider context of ideas of ultimate secular power in Britain and Ireland and the construction of national histories in this period. The book concludes with a fresh perspective on the origin of national identity, and the medieval and specifically Scottish contribution to understanding what is often regarded as an exclusively modern phenomenon.Dauvit Broun teaches medieval Scottish hsitory from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries at the University of Glasgow.