Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke Edmund)(Paperback)

Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke Edmund)(Paperback / softback)

Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke Edmund)(Paperback)

'To make a revolution is to subvert the ancient state of our country; and no common reasons are called for to justify so violent a proceeding' Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses,

Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke Edmund)(Paperback)

This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, and revolutionary thought for two hundred years offers readers a dire warning of the consequences that follow the mismanagement of change. Written for a generation presented with challenges of terrible

Reflections on The Revolution in France And Other Writings (Burke Edmund)(Pevná vazba)

Amid the 18th century's golden generation that included his companions Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson and Edward Gibbon, Burke's controversial mixture of conservative and subversive theories made him first a marginal figure, and finally a revered theorist - a hero of the

Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy (Collins Gregory M.)(Pevná vazba)

Although many of Edmund Burke's speeches and writings contain prominent economic dimensions, his economic thought seldom receives the attention it warrants. Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy stands as the most comprehensive study to date of this fascinating subject. In

Revolution in France (Mason James)(Paperback / softback)

Revolution in France is part of the series a Sense of History for 11-14 year

The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump (Robin Corey)(Paperback)

Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is 'boring,' said the founding father of the American right. 'Devoting your life to it,' as conservatives do, 'is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex.' With this unlikely conversation began

Reflections on the Guillotine (Camus Albert)(Paperback / softback)

Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' of capital punishment remains one of the most powerful, persuasive arguments ever made against the death penalty.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great

American Slavery, American Freedom (Morgan Edmund S.)(Paperback)

In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. George Washington led the Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them in declaring independence. Virginians drafted not only the Declaration but also the Constitution and

The challenge of the sublime (Ibata Hlne)(Paperback)

This interdisciplinary study looks at the influence of Edmund Burke's theories of the sublime on British Romantic art, arguing that it is far more significant than previously

Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-1987 (Sankara Thomas)(Paperback)

We Are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 (Sankara Thomas)(Paperback)

Life in Revolutionary France (Harder Mette)(Paperback)

The French Revolution brought momentous political, social, and cultural change. Life in Revolutionary France asks how these changes affected everyday lives, in urban and rural areas, and on an international scale. An international cast of distinguished academics and emerging scholars present new

Revolution of Everyday Life (Vaneigem Raoul)(Paperback)

Originally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life offered a lyrical and aphoristic critique of the 'society of the spectacle' from the point of view of individual experience. Whereas Debord's masterful analysis of the new

The War of Words (Burke Anthony)(Paperback)

When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated 'Motivorum' project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become canonical theoretical documents. A

Letters Written in France (Williams Helen Maria)(Paperback)

The first and most important of eight volumes chronicling the French Revolution to an England fearful of another civil war. The author's twenty-six letters recounting old regime tyranny and revolutionary events provide both an apology for the Revolution and a representation of it as sublime

Interference (Burke Sue)(Paperback)

Sue Burke's sweeping, award-finalist, SF Semiosis epic continues in Interference as the colonists and a team from Earth confront a new and more implacable intelligence. Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of explorers arrives from Earth on what they claim is a

Father Frank (Burke Paul)(Paperback / softback)

A charming, witty and stunning debut with the breadth of appeal from Ardal O'Hanlon to Mike

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

The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy - Third Edition (Burke Peter)(Paperback)

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions that existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and he analyses the ways of thinking and seeing that

Reflections in the Library: Selected Literary Essays 1926-1944 (Szerb Antal)(Paperback)

The French Revolution: A History in Documents (Alpaugh Micah)(Paperback)

The French Revolution: A History in Documents explores the rapidly evolving political culture of the French Revolution through first-hand accounts of the revolutionary (and counterrevolutionary) actors themselves. It demonstrates how radical Enlightenment philosophy fused with a governmental crisis

Russian Revolution - A New History (McMeekin Sean)(Paperback / softback)

Now in paperback, the first major new history of the Russian Revolution in a decade combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on a great turning point of the twentieth

The French Revolution in Global Perspective (Desan Suzanne)(Paperback)

Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out of