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  • Sleepwalking into a New World

    The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century

    de Chris Wickham ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    "A fresh look into how communes in the mid-12th century successfully prepared Italian power structures for the cultural significance they would later have." — Publishers WeeklyAmid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government—the commune—arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642

    de Lawrence Stone ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Dividing the nation and causing massive political change, the English Civil War remains one of the most decisive and dramatic conflicts of English history. Lawrence Stone's account of the factors leading up to the deposition of Charles I in 1642 is widely regarded as a classic in the field. Brilliantly synthesising the historical, political and sociological interpretations of the seventeeth ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Past and the Present Revisited

    de Lawrence Stone ...
    First Published in 1987. Presented as two sections, the first includes three surveys which aim to describe and comment on some of radial changes in the questions historians have been asking about the past and some of the new data, tools and methodology they have developed to answer them. The second is a collection of essays that were originally reflective book reviews and are concerned with the ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Rules

    A Short History of What We Live By

    de Lorraine Daston ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don’t, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, ... Leer más

    $36.79 USD

  • Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference

    Historical Perspectives

    de Frederick Cooper ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    A succinct and comprehensive history of the development of citizenship from the Roman Empire to the present dayCitizenship, Inequality, and Difference offers a concise and sweeping overview of citizenship's complex evolution, from ancient Rome to the present. Political leaders and thinkers still debate, as they did in Republican Rome, whether the presumed equivalence of citizens is compatible with ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • No Enchanted Palace

    The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations

    de Mark M. Mazower ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    A groundbreaking interpretation of the intellectual origins of the United NationsNo Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes of World War II as ... Leer más

    $16.59 USD

  • Magdalena Coline

    A Life Beyond Slavery in Mediterranean Europe

    de Daniel Lord Smail ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    The courtroom drama that denied the legitimacy of slavery in late medieval EuropeIn 1387, a young Muslim woman from North Africa was captured on a galley in the Bay of Naples and brought to Marseille as a slave. For more than ten years, she was held in bondage to a shipwright and privateer named Peire Huguet. Daniel Lord Smail tells the extraordinary story of Magdalena Coline, a woman who dared to ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Living I Was Your Plague

    Martin Luther's World and Legacy

    de Lyndal Roper ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life imageMartin Luther was a controversial figure during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends and enemies alike, and his outsized persona has left an indelible mark on the world today. Living I Was Your Plague explores how Luther carefully ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • Time and Power

    Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich

    de Christopher Clark ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    From the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers**, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of time**This groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four key figures from German history—Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia, Frederick ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • The Pity of Partition

    Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide

    de Ayesha Jalal ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    A history of partition seen through the life and fiction of one of the subcontinent's most important modern writersSaadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto ... Leer más

    $29.59 USD

  • Not Even Past

    Barack Obama and the Burden of Race

    de Thomas J. Sugrue ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    The paradox of racial inequality in Barack Obama's AmericaBarack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox of race in Obama's America and how President Obama ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The "America's" Cup Races

    de Herbert Lawrence Stone ...
    AMERICA'S CUP 1851-1914 - History of the oldest trophy in international sport. From the beginning ...Herbert Lawrence Stone(January 18, 1871 – September 27, 1955) was a noted American publisher. Editor of Yachting (magazine) from 1908 until 1952. ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus