History of architecture

This absorbing biography, often conveyed through Peter Selz's own words, traces the journey of a Jewish-German immigrant from Hitler's Munich to the United States and on to an important career as a pioneer historian of modern art.

The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture.

From the Werkbund to the Bauhaus to Braun, from furniture to automobiles to consumer appliances, twentieth-century industrial design is closely associated with Germany.

The "e;new community"e; movement of the 1960s and 1970s attempted a grand experiment in housing.

Germany of the 1920s offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still spectacular.

Why do we live in homes and communities built around the century-old industrial model of large service networks that use polluting resources?

This book deals with the institutionalist movement in American economics, a significant part of American economics in the interwar period.

A broad overview of the nature and contemporary significance of the concept of sovereignty.

Facts often acquire a life of their own; the stories in this book explain why.

This book looks at conceptions of the individual in recent new approaches in economics.

This book provides a survey of the major developments in monetary theory and policy from Hume and Smith to Wicksell.

HThis book describes how a small group of anthropologists shaped American thought from the late nineteenth century until the mid-1960s.

This volume provides essays on the Laws, Plato''s last dialogue and major work of political philosophy besides the Republic.

This book explores the debates surrounding Spinoza''s Theological-Political Treatise, covering topics such as political theory, metaphysics and religious toleration.

This volume in John Pocock''s acclaimed sequence on Barbarism and Religion examines Gibbon''s controversial treatment of the early Christian church.

Enables students to assess critically the development of Locke''s theory of toleration and its importance for liberalism.

Argues for the importance of Darwin for the development of Nietzsche''s philosophy, but emphasizes the antagonistic character of their relationship.

This book explores the constitutional issues at the heart of the conflict between Britain and its American colonies in the eighteenth century.

This book contains the most explicit formulation of Hegel''s enduringly influential dialectical method and of the categorical system underlying his thought.

Religion and the Political Imagination offers new ways of thinking about the urgency of religious issues in the contemporary world.

Civil Religion traces a continuing intellectual dialogue on the challenge posed to political and civic life by religion.

In this book, Gregory Claeys proposes a new chronology for the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850 to 1920.

Examines the philosophical origins of the Anglo-American political and constitutional tradition in seventeenth-century England.

A history of Gandhi''s previously underestimated influence on Western protest, and thereby modern Western history.

A wide-ranging study of the English reception of Hobbes''s political and religious ideas.

An investigation of the theory of melancholy and its applications in the Renaissance.

This collection explores Hannah Arendt''s thought against the background of recent world-political events.

A translation of Hegel''s ''Greater Logic'' which includes the revised Book I (1832), Book II (1813) and Book III (1816).

This book cuts through the confusion and controversy about whether modern economics has succeeded or failed.

An interpretation of Hobbes''s philosophy that focuses on political disobedience and demonstrates the existence of a Hobbesian theory of resistance.

The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual lifeScion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (19231987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin.

Examines Rousseau''s contribution as a constitutionalist and builder of institutions, relating his major ideas to twenty-first century debates.

This volume provides a comprehensive view of Russian intellectual thinkers, with fourteen essays by an international team of experts.

Uses the work of Zhang Shizhao, a famous Chinese thinker, to challenge democratic views about the origins of social change.

This book examines the entirety of Giambattista Vico''s oeuvre and demonstrates his significance as a theorist who adapted the discipline of rhetoric to modern conditions.

This book explains why ''fracture'' and ''fragmentation'' are two crucial concepts in Romanticism.

In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch''s works - his humanist philosophy and his concept of the self.

This book shows how Chinese intellectuals engaged according to their different cultural and political persuasions in the early twentieth century.

A major history and interpretation of Russian philosophy from 1830 to 1930.

This part of Proclus'' Commentary is especially significant for the study of the Platonic tradition from the earliest commentators onwards.

This second edition considers how the ''global war on terror'' has changed the way the West views the Islamic world.

A broad-ranging 2010 study of Smith''s views on moral judgement, humanitarian care, commerce, justice and international law.

This book examines responses to Pliny the Elder''s encyclopedic Natural History over the last two millennia.

This book contains three essays that examine three forms of anti-Zionism and their use of the Holocaust to delegitimize Israel.

This book offers a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create.

Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900.

This book introduces the concept of semi-citizenship into debates about people who hold some but not all elements of citizenship.

A literary account of how the modern divide between the sciences and the humanities emerged in the eighteenth century.

The Labour Party, Housing and Urban Transformation explores how the urban transformation of Britain between 1945 and 1970 was understood politically by the Labour Party.

Leading literary scholars and historians examine Shakespeare''s engagement with the characteristic questions of early modern political thought.