Das Buch, aus einem PowerPoint-Vortrag entstanden, beschreibt die Entwicklung des Katalanischen Architekten Antonio Gaudi anhand seiner Werke, die in Barcelonea in einer Phase gesellschaftlicher und kultureller Unruhe in der Zeit von 1878 bis 1915 entstanden sind.
Der vorliegende Band versammelt autobiografische Essays von namhaften deutschen Historikerinnen und Historikern, die um 1940 geboren sind und über ein langes Forscherleben hinweg ihre Disziplin maßgeblich prägten.
Miroslav Hroch legt in diesem Band Zeugnis darüber ab, wie er aus Sicht eines Intellektuellen, eines in Prag forschenden und lehrenden Historikers, der weder zur politischen Prominenz noch zu den politisch Verfolgten zählte, sein Leben in der zunächst besetzten, dann sozialistischen Tschechoslowakei wahrgenommen hat.
Die moderne Demokratie wurde zuerst von Alexis de Tocqueville wegweisend und in einer nach wie vor aktuellen, komplexen, aber zu wenig untersuchten »neuen Wissenschaft der Politik« analysiert.
In Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy Christopher Goto-Jones contends that existing approaches to the controversial Kyoto School fail to take it seriously as a school of philosophy, instead focussing on historical debates about the alleged complicity of the School's members with the imperialist regime in Japan.
In Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy Christopher Goto-Jones contends that existing approaches to the controversial Kyoto School fail to take it seriously as a school of philosophy, instead focussing on historical debates about the alleged complicity of the School's members with the imperialist regime in Japan.
Standard accounts of nineteenth-century German philosophy often begin with Kant and assess philosophers after him in light of their responses to Kantian idealism.
Standard accounts of nineteenth-century German philosophy often begin with Kant and assess philosophers after him in light of their responses to Kantian idealism.
The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian peninsula and beyond to explore the importance of letters as a crucial document for understanding the Italian Renaissance.
The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian peninsula and beyond to explore the importance of letters as a crucial document for understanding the Italian Renaissance.
The new edition of this classic history of International Relations has been completely revised and updated throughout and remains a major guide to the intellectual lineage and development of the field.
In this important volume, Joost Hengstmengel examines the doctrine of divine providence and how it served as explanation and justification in economic debates in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries throughout Western Europe.
In this important volume, Joost Hengstmengel examines the doctrine of divine providence and how it served as explanation and justification in economic debates in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries throughout Western Europe.
This book examines the epistemological, social and political dimensions of practising interdisciplinary approaches to enhance knowledge, pedagogy, and methodological aspects of research in the South Asian context.
Selected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.
The Fontana History of Chemistry, which draws on both the author's own original research and that of other scholars, is an unrivalled work of synthesis.
Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated book tells the story of science and the Royal Society, from 1660 to the present.
