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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 736 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97162-2
EAN 9780674971622
Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and Rome. This two-volume set contains an ample, representative sample from his enormous and fascinating correspondence with all the leading figures of his day, from popes, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54544-1
EAN 9780674545441
Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar account is nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of audio-recorded literature, Matthew Rubery traces the path of innovation from Edisons recitation of 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' for his tinfoil phonograph in ...
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Vanishing America
Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 262 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97156-1
EAN 9780674971561
Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness preservation efforts became entangled with racial anxieties'specifically the fear that forces of modern civilization, unless checked, would sap white Americas vigor and stamina.Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 170 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54513-7
EAN 9780674545137
The passage of texts from scroll to codex created a revolution in the religious life of late antiquity. It played a decisive role in the Roman Empires conversion to Christianity and eventually enabled the worldwide spread of Christian faith. The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity describes how canonical scripture was established and how scriptural interpretation ...
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Law's Abnegation
From Law's Empire to the Administrative State
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 250 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97144-8
EAN 9780674971448
Ronald Dworkin once imagined law as an empire and judges as its princes. But over time, the arc of law has bent steadily toward deference to the administrative state. Adrian Vermeule argues that law has freely abandoned its imperial pretensions, and has done so for internal legal reasons.In area after area, judges and lawyers, working ...
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Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea
The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 440 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-65986-5
EAN 9780674659865
For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times'a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Carter J. Eckert finds the roots of South Koreas dramatic socioeconomic transformation in the countrys long history ...
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The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes
Progymnasmata from Twelfth-Century Byzantium
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-66024-3
EAN 9780674660243
Progymnasmata, preliminary exercises in the study of declamation, were the cornerstone of elite education from Hellenistic through Byzantine times. Using material from Greek literary, mythological, and historical traditions, students and writers composed examples ranging from simple fables to complex arguments about fictional laws. In the Byzantine period, the spectrum of source material expanded to include ...
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The Old English History of the World
An Anglo-Saxon Rewriting of Orosius
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 500 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97106-6
EAN 9780674971066
The Old English History of the World is a translation and adaptation of the Latin history known as the Seven Books of History against the Pagans, written by the Spanish cleric Paulus Orosius at the prompting of Saint Augustine after the sack of Rome in 410. To counter the pagan and republican narratives of Livy ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73789-1
EAN 9780674737891
Because Thomas Hardy is so closely associated with the rural Wessex of his novels, stories, and poems, it is easy to forget that he was, in his own words, half a Londoner. Focusing on the formative five years in his early twenties when Hardy lived in the city, but also on his subsequent movement back ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 630 páginas
PVP: 39,90 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73739-6
EAN 9780674737396
When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler ...
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Red Ellen
The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 470 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97152-3
EAN 9780674971523
In 1908 Ellen Wilkinson, a fiery adolescent from a working-class family in Manchester, was 'the only girl who talks in school debates.' By midcentury, Wilkinson had helped found Britains Communist Party, earned a seat in Parliament, and become a renowned advocate for the poor and dispossessed at home and abroad. She was one of the ...
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Once Between Borders
Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 370 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05978-8
EAN 9780674059788
Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide practice ...
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China's Crony Capitalism
The Dynamics of Regime Decay
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 35,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73729-7
EAN 9780674737297
When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build 'socialism with Chinese characteristics.' More than three decades later, Chinas efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working peoples paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and ...
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Thundersticks
Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73747-1
EAN 9780674737471
The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of Indians' historical relationship with guns, arguing against the ...
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Tibet in Agony
Lhasa 1959
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 372 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-08889-4
EAN 9780674088894
The Chinese Communist government has twice invoked large-scale military might to crush popular uprisings in capital cities. The second incident'the notorious massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989'is well known. The first, thirty years earlier in Tibet, remains little understood today. Yet in wages of destruction, bloodshed, and trampling of human rights, the tragic toll of ...
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QBism
The Future of Quantum Physics
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 27,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50464-6
EAN 9780674504646
Measured by the accuracy of its predictions and the scope of its technological applications, quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science'as well as one of the most misunderstood. The deeper meaning of quantum mechanics remains controversial almost a century after its invention. Providing a way past quantum theorys paradoxes and puzzles, ...
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America's Dream Palace
Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 380 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97157-8
EAN 9780674971578
In T. E. Lawrences classic memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence of Arabia claimed that he inspired a 'dream palace' of Arab nationalism. What he really inspired, however, was an American idea of the area now called the Middle East that has shaped U.S. interventions over the course of a century, with sometimes tragic consequences. ...
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Democracy s Detectives
The Economics of Investigative Journalism
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 354 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54550-2
EAN 9780674545502
In democratic societies, investigative journalism holds government and private institutions accountable to the public. From firings and resignations to changes in budgets and laws, the impact of this reporting can be significant'but so too are the costs. As newspapers confront shrinking subscriptions and advertising revenue, who is footing the bill for journalists to carry out ...
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Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia
Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 350 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97148-6
EAN 9780674971486
As readers of classic Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. With incomes erratic and banks inadequate, Russians of all social castes were deeply enmeshed in networks of credit and debt. The necessity of borrowing and lending shaped perceptions of material and moral worth, as well as notions of ...
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Rage for Order
The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73746-4
EAN 9780674737464
International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it come from? Rage for Order finds the origins of international law in empires'especially in the British Empires sprawling efforts to refashion the imperial constitution and use it to order the world in the early part of that ...
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