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An examination of the emergence of the phenomenon of deductive argument in classical Greek mathematics.

A pioneering analysis of duelling, politeness and civility in early modern England.

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Comprehensive and unique volume exploring the differences and similarities between primate communities worldwide.

This book explores natural law theories in the early Enlightenment from Grotius to Kant.

A study of the importance of the language of rights during three crucial periods in American history.

In this volume a team of distinguished contributors examines all the main aspects of Newton''s thought.

This book shows how the Age of Reason actually began during the late Middle Ages.

A 2001 reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history, treating the civil and metaphysical philosophers as rival intellectual cultures.

Third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world''s leading historians.

Explores women''s responses to Cartesian philosophy and its intellectual legacy in England and Europe.

Important and learned contribution to the cultural and educational history of Elizabethan England.

This book explores Friedrich Nietzsche''s response to the debates sparked by Charles Darwin''s The Origin of Species.

This book offers an analysis of the concept of ''national character'' in the intellectual histories of Britain and France.

This 2002 book is a study of myth and controversy in Britain''s role in the First World War.

The most accessible rendition ever of a classic of political thought in action.

This book systematically traces the development of the idea that the improvement of human understanding requires public activity.

Different conceptions of the world and of reality have made witchcraft possible in some societies and impossible in others.

This collection of essays is addressed to the legacy of Enlightenment thought, with respect to eighteenth-century notions of human nature, human rights, representative democracy or the nation-state, and with regard to the barbarism, including the Holocaust, allegedly unleashed by eighteenth-century ideals of civilization.

The Politics of Cultural Policy in France offers a lively and iconoclastic account of cultural policy-making in France.

The book provides a thematic examination of republican theory from the Italian Renaissance, through seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century England, the late- eighteenth-century Enlightenment and the experiences of the early American republic to contemporary debates.

This book traces the origins and evolution of extreme-right wing thought in France from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.

This study examines the development of Marxist-Leninist ideology in the U.

A clear and balanced presentation of the dilemmas associated with each of the four nations.

Only a person of Keynes's unique character could have achieved what he did.

There is no better way to understand a society's assessment of its own success or failure than an examination of its theories of education, because any attempt to improve national performance will be reflected in educational policy.

Entries in this dictionary focus on the people, organizations, events, and ideas that have been significant in the slightly more than two centuries of political communication in this country.

This book offers the first full-length biography of the man often described as one of the most influential and innovative people in the gaming industry over the past 50 years.

Part of the enduring fascination of the Salem witch trials is the fact that, to date, no one theory has been able to fully explain the events that ravaged Salem in 1692.

In 1966, Anton LaVey introduced to the world the Church of Satan, an atheistic religion devoted to the philosophy of individualism and pitilessness often associated with Satan.

This comprehensive resource explores the intersection of religion, politics, and the supernatural that spawned the notorious witch hunts in Europe and the New World.

Hoodoo, voodoo, and conjure are part of a mysterious world of African American spirituality that has long captured the popular imagination.

From early sorcery trials of the 14th century-associated primarily with French and Papal courts-to the witch executions of the late 18th century, this book's entries cover witch-hunting in individual countries, major witch trials from Chelmsford, England, to Salem, Massachusetts, and significant individuals from famous witches to the devout persecutors.

This volume is a thematic study in legal history that uses past and present landmark court cases to analyze the legal and historical development of moral regulatory policies in America and resulting debates.

Cesar Chavez, the labor organizer and founder of the United Farm Workers of America, was, perhaps, an unlikely hero.

In October of 1563, 18-year old Anne Mylner was herding cows near her home when she was suddenly enveloped by a white cloud that precipitated a months-long illness characterized by sleeplessness, loss of appetite, convulsions, and bodily swelling.

Women are vital members of the economics profession, yet they have traditionally received scant recognition for their work.

Even as a young girl, Jane Goodall was fascinated with animals.

When did fidgety children begin to suffer from attention deficit disorder?

The creation of Afghanistan in 1880, following the Second Anglo-Afghan War, gave an empowering voice to the Pashtun people, the largest ethnic group in a diverse country.

A feverish expectation of the end of the world seems an unlikely accompaniment to middle-class respectability.

The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose.

Recent American political developments, including the election of Donald Trump, reveal profound disquiet with the highly centralized political regime based on discretionary allocation of funds and powers to interest groups that has developed since the creation of emergency institutions after America's entry into World War I.

During the tenth century England began to emerge as a distinct country with an identity that was both part of yet separate from 'Christendom'.

Michel Foucault continues to be regarded as one of the most essential thinkers of the twentieth century.

Michel Foucault continues to be regarded as one of the most essential thinkers of the twentieth century.

This seaman's journal recounts a twenty-month voyage from Boston to the African coast to intercept slave-trading vessels as America approach the Civil War.

A thoroughly researched account of weapons innovation and industrialization in South Carolina during the Civil War and the man who made it happen.