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  • The Enlightenment

    And Why It Still Matters

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSOne of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world.Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Worlds at War

    The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    Spanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagden’s mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the “clash of civilizations” between East and West that has always been a battle over ideas, and whose issues have never been more urgent.Worlds At War begins in the ancient world, where Greece saw its fight against the Persian Empire as one between freedom and slavery, between monarchy and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

    by Bartolome Las Casas ...
    Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting the Indian community. He wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies in 1542, a shocking catalogue of mass ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Peoples and Empires

    A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    Series series Modern Library Chronicles
    Written by one of the world’s foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires—the Roman, the Spanish, the French, the British—and their colonies, and the back-and-forth between “us” and “them,” culture and nature, civilization and barbarism, the center and the periphery. It’s the history of how conquerors justified conquest, and how colonists ... Read more

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  • The Pursuit of Europe

    A History

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    The European Union, we are told, is facing extinction. Most of those who believe that, however, have no understanding of how, and why, it become possible to imagine that the diverse peoples of Europe might be united in a single political community. The Pursuit of Europe tells the story of the evolution of the “European project”, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars, which saw the earliest creation ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters

    And Why it Still Matters

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    This book tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking, tradition ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

  • Beyond States

    Powers, Peoples and Global Order

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    Today, the majority of the peoples of the planet live in nation-states, based upon the idea, if never the reality, of a single people, a single culture, a single rule of law and a single source of sovereign authority. But will they continue to do so in the future?None of the major challenges that confront humanity today – from climate change to disease, from terrorism to mass migration – can be ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Burdens of Empire

    1539 to the Present

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    Despite the long history of debate and the recent resurgence of interest in empires and imperialism, no one seems very clear as to what exactly an empire is. The Burdens of Empire strives to offer not only a definition but also a working description. This book examines how empires were conceived by those who ruled them and lived under them; it looks at the relations, real or imagined, between the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800

    Edited by Nicholas Canny, Anthony Pagden ...
    The description for this book, Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, will be forthcoming. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Facing Each Other (2 Volumes)

    The World’s Perception of Europe and Europe’s Perception of the World

    Edited by Anthony Pagden ...
    Series series An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 to 1800
    The perception of Europeans of the world and of the peoples beyond Europe has become in recent years the subject of intense scholarly interest and heated debate both in and outside the academy. So, too, has the concern with how it was that those peoples who were variously ’discovered’, and then, as often as not, colonised, understood the strangers in their midst. This volume attempts to cover both ... Read more

    $525.00 USD

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    Worlds at War

    The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 37 min

    In the tradition of Jared Diamond and Jacques Barzun, prize-winning historian Anthony Pagden presents a sweeping history of the long struggle between East and West, from the Greeks to the present day.The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil. In this historical tour de force, a renowned historian leads us from the world of classical antiquity, through the Dark Ages, to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Virtues and Vices

    by Katarina Barrling, David Butterfield, Pär Cassel, Marie Kawthar Daouda, Torbjörn Elensky, Jessica Frazier, Peter Haldén, Thomas Idergard, Anthony Pagden, Ritchie Robertson, Hans Ruin, Malise Ruthven, Mateusz Strózynski, Fredrik Svenaeus, Sten Widmalm ...
    Narrated by Justine Harris ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 13 min

    What is a virtue and what is a sin? Is it possible to say that our actions are evil or good? Every age and culture have their own answers to these timeless questions. For example, in the Western Protestant tradition, the human body and its desire have been considered to be inherently evil, but that is not a position taken for granted in other cultures. Virtue and sin seem to represent a duality ... Read more

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