An Analysis of David Brion Davis's the Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (Money Duncan)(Paperback)

An Analysis of David Brion Davis's the Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (Money Duncan)(Paperback)

How was it possible for opponents of slavery to be so vocal in opposing the practice, when they were so accepting of the economic exploitation of workers in western factories - many of which were owned by prominent abolitionists? David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution,

The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (Davis David Brion)(Paperback)

Winner of several national awards including the 1967 Pulitzer Prize, this classic study by David Brion Davis has given new direction to the historical and sociological research of society's attitude towards slavery. Davis depicts the various ways different societies have responded to the intrinsic

An Analysis of Natalie Zemon Davis's the Return of Martin Guerre (Tendler Joseph)(Paperback)

Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850 (Cookson Gillian)(Paperback)

The engineers who built the first generations of modern textile machines, between 1770 and 1850, pushed at the boundaries of possibility. This book investigates these pioneering machine-makers, almost all working within textile communities in northern England, and the industry they created. It

An Analysis of Walter Benjamin's the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Dini Rachele)(Paperback)

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism's treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of addressing a work of art in this manner have a wider resonance: closed off from any active visual or

An Analysis of Michelle Alexander's the New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Moore Ryan)(Paperback)

Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system. Named after the laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States until the mid-1960s, The New Jim Crow

The Trader, the Owner, the Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery (Walvin James)(Paperback)

In thisnew and original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of its historic end in April 1807, the parallellives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavementa trader, an owner, and a slaveare examined. John Newton (17251807), best known as the author of

The Postsecular Sacred: Jung, Soul and Meaning in an Age of Change (Tacey David)(Paperback)

In The Postsecular Sacred: Jung, Soul and Meaning in an Age of Change, David Tacey presents a unique psychological study of the postsecular, adding a Jungian perspective to a debate shaped by sociology, philosophy and religious studies. In this interdisciplinary exploration, Tacey looks at the

The Origins of the Choson Dynasty (Duncan John B.)(Paperback)

The Origins of the Choson Dynasty provides an exhaustive analysis of the structure and composition of Korea's central officialdom during the transition from the Koryo dynasty (918-1392) to the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) and offers a new interpretation of the history of traditional

Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire (McNally David)(Paperback)

Blood and Money tells the story of money as a history of violence and human

An Analysis of Ludwig Von Mises's the Theory of Money and Credit (Belton Pdraig)(Paperback)

Urban Slavery in the Age of Abolition: Volume 28, Part 1 (Fatah-Black Karwan)(Paperback)

When the full abolition of slavery appeared on the political agenda in the Atlantic world, the institutional arrangements that underpinned it changed dramatically. This volume explores how cities were part and parcel of slave societies, and how methods of control as well as routes to emancipation

The Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death (Munif Yasser)(Paperback)

Understanding the Syrian revolution is unthinkable without an in-depth analysis from below. Paying attention to the complex activities of the grassroots resistance, this book demands we rethink the revolution. Having lived in Syria for over fifteen years, Yasser Munif is expert in exploring the

An Analysis of David Riesman's the Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (Homer Jarrod)(Paperback)

David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd: A Study in the Changing American Character is one of the best-known books in the history of sociology - holding a mirror up to contemporary America and showing the nation its own character as it had never seen it before. Its success is a testament to Riesman's

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback)

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution (Duncan Mike)(Pevná vazba)

From the massively popular podcaster and New York Times bestselling author comes the story of the Marquis de Lafayette's lifelong quest to protect the principles of democracy, told through the lens of the three revolutions he participated in: the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the

The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions (Quammen David)(Paperback)

'Compulsively readable--a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism.' --Bill McKibben, AudubonA brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The Song of the Dodo is a crucial book in precarious times. Through personal observation, scientific

How Race Survived Us History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Eclipse of Post-Racialism (Roediger David R.)(Paperback)

An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor The Obama era produced countless articles arguing that America's race problems were over. The election of Donald Trump has proved those hasty pronouncements wrong. Race has always played a central

Rebel Cities - Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution (Rapport x Mike)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliant historical narrative of London, Paris and New York in the Age of Revolution, just as they were transforming into the great global cities we know them to be

Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique (Morton David)(Paperback)

Age of Concrete is a history of the making of houses and homes in the sub rbios of Maputo (Louren o Marques), Mozambique, from the late 1940s to the present. Often dismissed as undifferentiated, ahistorical 'slums,' these neighborhoods are in fact an open-air archive that reveals some of people's

The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols (Legutko Ryszard)(Pevná vazba)

The book has two currents. The first is an analysis of the three concepts of freedom, which are called, respectively, negative, positive, and inner. Negative freedom is defined as an absence of coercion, positive freedom as an ability to rule oneself and rule others, inner freedom as being oneself,

The Day After Tomorrow: How to Survive in Times of Radical Innovation (Hinssen Peter)(Paperback)

An analysis of the future of business, aimed at those who want to fulfil their potential in this age of

The Age of Revolution (Kovacs Charles)(Paperback)

An overview of world history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, including the French, American and Industrial Revolutions. Kovacs chooses pertinent stories which create a tapestry showing the development of humankind from medieval times, when every person had their place in the hierarchy

Might, Right, Prosperity and Consent - Representative Democracy and the International Economy 1919-2001 (Thompson Helen)(Paperback / softback)

This book offers an original analysis of the problem of the authority of the state in democracies. Unlike many discussions of democracy that treat authority as a problem primarily of domestic politics or normative values, this book puts the international economy at the centre of the analysis. This