Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre (Israel Jonathan)(Paperback)

Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre (Israel Jonathan)(Paperback)

How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French Revolution Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have

The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848 (Israel Jonathan)(Paperback)

A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Revolutionary Europe 1780-1850 (Sperber Jonathan)(Paperback)

Jonathan Sperber's Revolutionary Europe 1780-1850 is a history of Europe in the age of the French Revolution, from the end of the old regime to the outcome of the revolutions of 1848. Fully revised and updated, this second edition provides a continent-wide history of the key political events and

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

A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy (Israel Jonathan)(Paperback)

A leading historian reveals the radical origins of humanity's most cherished secular values Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (Rose Jonathan)(Paperback)

This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain's working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. A new

Virtue and Terror (Robespierre Maximilien)(Paperback)

Robespierre's justification of the Terror in the French RevolutionRobespierre's defence of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written. It has an extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed with terrorism and appalled by

Television Studies (Gray Jonathan)(Paperback)

Television Studies provides an overview of the origins, central ideas, and intellectual traditions of television studies. The book charts the establishment of the field, and examines its various approaches and objects of study. What have been the primary areas of inquiry in television studies? Why

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

Citizens - A Chronicle of The French Revolution (Schama Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Offers a social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution. This title provides an impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of

A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution (Popkin Jeremy)(Pevná vazba)

From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern world The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World

A Vindication of the Rights of Men/A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback)

This volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its

History of the French Revolution (Michelet Jules)(Paperback)

The End of the French Intellectual: From Zola to Houellebecq (Sand Shlomo)(Pevná vazba)

Charting the decline of the French intellectual, from the Dreyfus Affair to Islamophobia Internationally acclaimed Israeli historian Shlomo Sand made his mark with books such as The Invention of the Jewish People and The Invention of the Land of Israel. Returning here to an early fascination, he

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

Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction (Barnes Jonathan)(Paperback)

The influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of the West is second to none. In this book, Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle's scientific researches, his discoveries in logic and his metaphysical theories, his work in psychology and in ethics and politics, and

The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Doyle William)(Paperback)

The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours. Beginning in 1789, this period of extreme political and social unrest saw the end of the French monarchy, the death of an extraordinary

History of Modern France - From the Revolution to the War with Terror (Fenby Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

Adefinitive analysis of France since the First Revolution and Napoleon's demise at Waterloo in

The French Revolution (Carlyle Thomas)(Paperback)

Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774 and ends with Napoleon suppressing the insurrection of the 13th Vendemaire. Both in its form and content, the work was intended as a revolt against history writing itself, with Carlyle exploding the

The Oxford History of the French Revolution: Third Edition (Doyle William)(Paperback)

Since its first publication to mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989, this Oxford History has established itself as the Revolution's most authoritative and comprehensive one-volume history in English, and has recently been translated into Chinese. Running from the accession of Louis

A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time (Sachar Howard M.)(Paperback)

First published in 1976, Howard M. Sachar's A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time was regarded one of the most valuable works available detailing the history of this still relatively young country. Decades later, readers can again be immersed in this monumental work. The second

The Case for Israel (Dershowitz Alan)(Paperback)

The Case for Israel is an ardent defense of Israel's rights, supported by indisputable evidence. Presents a passionate look at what Israel's accusers and detractors are saying about this war-torn country. Dershowitz accuses those who attack Israel of international bigotry and backs up his argument

Writers and Revolution: Intellectuals and the French Revolution of 1848 (Beecher Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

The revolution of 1848 has been described as the revolution of the intellectuals. In France, the revolution galvanised the energies of major romantic writers and intellectuals. This book follows nine writers through the revolution of 1848 and its aftermath: Alphonse de Lamartine, George Sand, Marie

How the French Think - An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People (Hazareesingh Sudhir)(Paperback / softback)