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  • A Philosopher and Appeasement

    R.G. Collingwood and the Second World War

    de Peter Johnson ...
    Series Libro 2 - A Philosopher at War
    This book is volume one of a two-part series. Taken together, the two volumes of A Philosopher at War examine the political thought of the philosopher and archaeologist, R.G. Collingwood, against the background of the First and Second World Wars. Collingwood served in Admiralty Intelligence during the First World War and although he was not physically robust enough to play an active role in the ... Leer más

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  • In Defence of History

    de Richard J. Evans ...
    "A lucid, muscular, and often sly reflection" on the worth and purpose of historical scholarship by the award-winning author of The Third Reich Trilogy ( Kirkus).In this volume, the renowned historian Richard J. Evans offers a fervent and deeply insightful defense of his craft and its importance to civilization. At a time when fact and historical truth are under unprecedented assault, Evans shows ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Virtual History

    Alternatives and Counterfactuals

    de Niall Ferguson ...
    **Leading historians explore what might have been if nine of the most decisive moments in modern history had never happened.“A welcome, optimistic assault on an intellectual heresy that has done much, much more harm than good.” –Sunday Times (UK)**What if there had been no American War of Independence? What if Ireland had never been divided? What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • George Orwell: English Rebel

    English Rebel

    de Robert Colls ...
    An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in God, a fierce opponent of nationalism who defined Englishness for a generation. Aside from being one of the greatest political essayists in the ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Pursuit of History

    Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of History

    de John Tosh ...
    This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions – what is the point of studying history? How do we know about the past? Does an objective historical truth exist and can we ever access it?In answering these central questions, John Tosh argues that, despite the impression of fragmentation created by Postmodernism ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • The Twilight Years

    The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars

    de Richard Overy ...
    From a leading British historian, the story of how fear of war shaped modern EnglandBy the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists?among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H. G. Wells?sought a vision for a rapidly changing world. Coloring their innovative ideas and concepts, from eugenics to Freud?s unconscious, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • A Philosopher at the Admiralty

    de Peter Johnson ...
    This book is volume one of a two-part series (volumes sold separately). Taken together, the two volumes of A Philosopher at War examine the political thought of the philosopher and archaeologist, R.G. Collingwood, against the background of the First and Second World Wars. Collingwood served in Admiralty Intelligence during the First World War and although he was not physically robust enough to ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • What I Came To Say

    de Raymond Williams ...
    A collection of the writings of Raymond Williams, who many considered to be the most significant post-war intellectual in Britain. He wrote on diverse subjects, and his books included "Culture and Society", "The Long Revolution", "The Country and the City", "Towards 2000" and "The Black Mountain". ... Leer más

    $16.59 USD

  • The Social and Political Thought of George Orwell

    A Reassessment

    de Stephen Ingle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    Stephen Ingle is Professor at the Politics Department, University of Stirling. His main academic interests are in the relationship between politics and literature and in adversarial (two party) politics, especially in the UK. ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell

    Edición de John Rodden ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. The massive critical literature on Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and therefore somewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also attributed to and even created misconceptions about the man, the writer and his literary legacy. For these reasons, an overview of Orwell's writing ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Why Wales Never Was

    The Failure of Welsh Nationalism

    de Simon Brooks ...
    Written as an act of protest in a Welsh-speaking community in north-west Wales, Why Wales Never Was combines a devastating analysis of the historical failure of Welsh nationalism with an apocalyptic vision of a non-Welsh future. It is the ‘progressive’ nature of Welsh politics and the ‘empire of the civic’, which rejects both language and culture, that prevents the colonised from rising up against ... Leer más

    $9.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • What is History For?

    de Beverley Southgate ...
    An experienced author of history and theory presents this examination of the purpose of history at a time when recent debates have rendered the question 'what is history for?' of utmost importance.Charting the development of historical studies and examining how history has been used, this study is exceptional in its focus on the future of the subject as well as its past. It is argued that history ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD