With extensive use of quotations from original source material, this book examines the political events in the Hellenistic world from Alexander's death until his incorporation i...
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Since his death in 1883, Marx has been revised, distorted and rediscovered. This work provides a survey of Marx's life and his contributions to the varied fields of history, eco...
Margaret Donaldsonâ??s seminal work on child development, first published in 1978, has become a classic inquiry into the nature of human thought.
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Century of the Scottish People
T. C. Smout · ISBN 9780006861416
Julkaistu 1990 Kieli englanti nidottu
A reprint of T.C. Smout's account of the Scottish people, from 1830-1950.
Raymond Williamsâ?? seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language.
A reissue of Simon Schamaâ??s landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780â??1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nationâ??s desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and...
A comprehensive study which introduces the reader to the vigour and variety of the fourth century AD. After being beset by invasion, civil war and internal difficulties for a ce...
Why does music have such an effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most intangible of all forms of art. Anthony Storr believes that music today is a signi...
â??Magisterial â?¦ As engagingly readable as a good novelâ?? Observer The definitive biography of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, from the acclaimed historian Paul Preston.
A fascinating and comprehensive history, Demanding the Impossible is a challenging and thought-provoking exploration of anarchist ideas and actions from ancient times to the pre...
Within the space of three centuries, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilization which domi...
Between the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 BC and the middle of the second century BC, a part-time army of Roman peasants, under the leadership of the ruling oligarchy, conque...
Democracy and Classical Greece
J. K. Davies · ISBN 9780006862512
Julkaistu 1993 Kieli englanti nidottu
The art of classical Greece, and its political and philosophical ideas, have had a profound influence on Western civilization. It was in the fifth and fourth centuries BC that t...
This history of the Roman Empire has three purposes: to describe what was happening in the central administration of the Empire; to indicate how life went on in Italy and the pr...
Interpretation of Cultures
Clifford Geertz · ISBN 9780006862604
Julkaistu 1993 Kieli englanti nidottu
This is a collection of essays which attempt to push forward a particular view of what culture is, what role it plays in social life and how it ought to be properly studied. Wha...
This sequel to "The Interpretation of Cultures" is a collection of essays which reject large abstractions, going beyond the mere translation of one culture into another, and loo...
History of the Soviet Union
Geoffrey Hosking · ISBN 9780006862871
Julkaistu 1992 Kieli englanti nidottu
The author traces the evolution of the Soviet political system from its origins in 1917 to the present day. He shows how power has rarely been devolved outside a particularly ti...
The author demonstrates that there exist many human "intelligences", common to all cultures - each with its own patterns of development and brain activity, and each different in...