harvard university press apr 2014 (664 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Two Faces of American Freedom boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of shifting notions of empire and citizenship. Today, while the U.S. enjoys tremendous military and economic power, citizens are increasingly insulated from everyday decision-making. This was not always the case. America, Aziz Rana argues, began as a settler society grounded in an ideal of freedom as the exercise of continuous self-rule-one that joined direct political participation with economic independence. However, this vision of freedom was politically bound to the subordination of marginalized groups, especially slaves, Native Americans, and women. These practices of liberty and exclusion were not separate currents, but rather two sides of the same coin. However, at crucial moments, social movements sought to imagine freedom without either subordination or empire. By the mid-twentieth century, these efforts failed, resulting in the rise of hierarchical state and corporate institutions. This new framework presented national and economic security as society's guiding commitments and nurtured a continual extension of America's global reach. Rana envisions a democratic society that revives settler ideals, but combines them with meaningful inclusion for those currently at the margins of American life.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Migrations and Belongings traces burgeoning population flows across several continents from 1870 to 1945 and explains the variables involved and the processes of acculturation by which ¿belonging¿ takes shape. Migration, it shows, is both a critique of unsatisfactory conditions in one society and a contribution of human capital to another.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Old English Shorter Poems offers tantalizing insights into the Anglo-Saxon mental landscape. These poems and charms find meaning in the loss of fortune and reputation, exile, and alienation. Wisdom also emerges as folk remedies, such as charms to treat stabbing pain, cysts, childbirth, and nightmares of witch-riding caused by a dwarf.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded treatise of 1651. Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic account to explain how modern statehood took shape between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, before it unraveled into the political uncertainty that persists today.Modern states were far from immune to the modernizing forces of war, technology, and ideology. From 1845 to 1880, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina were all reconstituted through territorial violence. Europe witnessed the unification of Germany and Italy, while Asian nations such as Japan tried to mitigate foreign incursions through state-building reforms. A global wave of revolution at the turn of the century pushed the modernization process further in China, Russia, Iran, and Ottoman Turkey. By the late 1930s, with the rise of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, the momentum of history seemed to shift toward war-glorifying totalitarian states. But several variants of the modern state survived World War II: the welfare states of Western democracies; single-party socialist governments; and governments dominated by the military, especially prevalent in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.Toward the end of the twentieth century, all of these forms stood in growing tension with the transformative influences of globalized capitalism. Modern statehood recreated itself in many ways, Charles S. Maier concludes, but finally had to adopt a precarious equilibrium with ever more powerful economic forces.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Emily Rosenberg examines the social and cultural networks that emerged from global exchanges between 1870 and 1945. Transnational connections were being formed many decades before 'globalization' became a commonplace term in economic and political discourse, and these currents underscore the fluidity of spatial and personal identifications.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Maximos the Confessor is one of the most challenging and original Christian thinkers of all time. The Ambigua is his greatest philosophical and doctrinal work, in which daring originality, prodigious talent for speculative thinking, and analytical acumen are on lavish display. The result is a labyrinthine map of the mind¿s journey to God.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the 1960s and 1970s, analogies between sex discrimination and racial injustice became potent weapons in the battle for women's rights, as feminists borrowed rhetoric and legal arguments from the civil rights movement. Serena Mayeri's Reasoning from Race is the first history of this key strategy and its consequences for American law.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offering a fresh look at trade during the second industrial revolution, Global Markets Transformed describes a world of commodities on the move¿wheat and rice, coffee and tobacco, oil and rubber, all traveling around the planet through commodity chains of producers, processors, transporters, and buyers, often invisible to one another.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Maximos the Confessor is one of the most challenging and original Christian thinkers of all time. The Ambigua is his greatest philosophical and doctrinal work, in which daring originality, prodigious talent for speculative thinking, and analytical acumen are on lavish display. The result is a labyrinthine map of the mind's journey to God.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Henry of Avranches, professional versifier to abbots, bishops, kings, and a pope, displays pyrotechnical verbal skill and playfulness that rivals the Carmina Burana and collections of rhymed secular verse. Yet The Saints' Lives also stands as self-conscious heir to the great classicizing tradition of twelfth-century epic poets.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The star of Northanger Abbey is seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, Jane Austen's youngest and most impressionable heroine. Away from home for the first time, on a visit to Bath with family friends, Catherine, a passionate consumer of novels (especially of the gothic variety), encounters a world in which everything beckons as a readable text: not only books, but also conversations and behaviors, clothes, carriages, estates, and vistas. In her lively introduction to this newest volume in Harvard's celebrated annotated Austen series, Susan Wolfson proposes that Austen's most underappreciated, most playful novel is about fiction itself and how it can take possession of everyday understandings.The first of Austen's major works to be completed (it was revised in 1803 and again in 1816-17), Northanger Abbey was published months after Austen's death in July 1817, together with Persuasion. The 1818 text, whose singularly frustrating course to publication Wolfson recounts, is the basis for this freshly edited and annotated edition.Wolfson's running commentary will engage new readers while offering delights for scholars and devoted Janeites. A wealth of color images bring to life Bath society in Austen's era-the parade of female fashions, the carriages running over open roads and through the city's streets, circulating libraries, and nouveau-riche country estates-as well as the larger cultural milieu of Northanger Abbey. This unique edition holds appeal not just for 'Friends of Jane' but for all readers looking for a fuller engagement with Austen's extraordinary first novel.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jacopo Zabarella's two treatises On Methods and On Regressus (1578) are among the most important Renaissance discussions of how scientific knowledge should be acquired, arranged, and transmitted. They belong to a lively debate about the order in which sciences should be taught and the method to be followed in demonstrations.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) was the leading philologist of the first half of the fifteenth century, as well as a philosopher, theologian, and translator. His extant Latin letters, though few, afford a direct and unguarded window into the working life of the most passionate, difficult, and interesting of the Italian humanists.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Henry of Avranches, professional versifier to abbots, bishops, kings, and a pope, displays pyrotechnical verbal skill and playfulness that rivals the Carmina Burana and collections of rhymed secular verse. Yet The Saints' Lives also stands as self-conscious heir to the great classicizing tradition of twelfth-century epic poets.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Salutati¿s first surviving treatise was written for a lawyer who entered a Florentine monastery and requested a piece encouraging him to persevere in religious life. On the World and Religious Life is a wide-ranging reflection on humanity¿s misuse of God¿s creation and the need to orient human life with a proper hierarchy of values.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Giovanni Pontano, the dominant literary figure of quattrocento Naples, wrote two brilliantly original poetical cycles. On Married Love is the first sustained exploration of married love in first-person poetry. Eridanus combines familiar motifs of courtly love with an allusive matrix of classical elegy and Pontanös distinctive vision.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -No detailed description available for 'Climatic Atlas of the United States'. 416 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -No detailed description available for 'The Life and Times of Henry Monnier, 1799-1877'. 284 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -No detailed description available for 'Capital and Credit in British Overseas Trade'. 248 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -No detailed description available for 'Imitation and Innovation'. 264 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Since 1958 state courts of last resort in the United States have handed down a notably larger number of overruling decisions than ever before. This distinctive record raises many questions about how and by whom law reform should be effected. Mr. Keeton examines this issue in relation to private law the branch of law concerned with the rights and duties of private individuals toward each other, enforceable through civil proceedings. 192 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -No detailed description available for 'Antitrust Policy'. 372 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -No detailed description available for 'War'. 436 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Every presidential election since 1964 has been won by the candidate backed by the most united party; yet as party unity has become more important to voting decisions, it has also become increasingly difficult to achieve. In his latest book, Martin Wattenberg offers an in-depth interpretation of the presidential elections of the 1980s, illuminating current theories of political behavior and how they operate in today's candidate-centered politics. 200 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In the first biography of this distinguished American, Donald Smith portrays Chafee as temperamentally conservative, only accidentally a defender of radicals and a civil rights advocate. This perceptive intellectual biography brings to life the story of a scholar caught up in the dramatic political events of his time. 368 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -No detailed description available for 'Entrepreneurs of Lebanon'. 200 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -No detailed description available for 'The Political Tradition of the West'. 384 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -No detailed description available for 'One-Tenth of a Nation'. 344 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -No detailed description available for 'Wool-Growing and the Tariff'. 392 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -No detailed description available for 'Culture, Thought, and Social Action'. 424 pp. Englisch.