Revolution Or Renaissance

Author : D. Paul Schafer
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780776617732

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Revolution Or Renaissance by D. Paul Schafer Pdf

In Revolution or Renaissance, D. Paul Schafer subjects two of the most powerful forces in the world – economics and culture – to a detailed and historically sensitive analysis. He argues that the economic age has produced a great deal of wealth and unleashed tremendous productive power; however, it is not capable of coming to grips with the problems threatening human and non-human life on this planet. After tracing the evolution of the economic age from the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations in 1776 to the present, he turns his attention to culture, examining it both as a concept and as a reality. What emerges is a portrait of the world system of the future where culture is the central focus of development. According to Schafer, making the transition from an economic age to a cultural age is imperative if global harmony, environmental sustainability, economic viability, and human well-being are to be achieved.

Author : J. V. Field,Frank A. J. L. James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521627540

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Renaissance and Revolution by J. V. Field,Frank A. J. L. James Pdf

A collection of fifteen essays on some of the problems associated with the Scientific Revolution.

Author : Jack A. Goldstone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197666302

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Revolutions: a Very Short Introduction by Jack A. Goldstone Pdf

"In the 20th and 21st century revolutions have become more urban, often less violent, but also more frequent and more transformative of the international order. Whether it is the revolutions against Communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR; the "color revolutions" across Asia, Europe and North Africa; or the religious revolutions in Iran, Afghanistan, and Syria; today's revolutions are quite different from those of the past. Modern theories of revolution have therefore replaced the older class-based theories with more varied, dynamic, and contingent models of social and political change. This new edition updates the history of revolutions, from Classical Greece and Rome to the Revolution of Dignity in the Ukraine, with attention to the changing types and outcomes of revolutionary struggles. It also presents the latest advances in the theory of revolutions, including the issues of revolutionary waves, revolutionary leadership, international influences, and the likelihood of revolutions to come. This volume provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the nature of revolutions and their role in global history"--

Author : Gary D. Rosenberg
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813712031

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The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment by Gary D. Rosenberg Pdf

Author : Hauser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1951008006

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Revolution and Renaissance by Hauser Pdf

Author : Joseph Anthony Mazzeo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000021844

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Renaissance and Revolution by Joseph Anthony Mazzeo Pdf

Originally published in 1967, this book discusses some key writers of the Renaissance: Machiavelli, Castiglione, Bacon and Hobbes and compares their work by relating it that of others in England and elsewhere. Chapters on Bacon contain references to Galileo and Descartes; the chapter on Castiglione also touches on Montaigne. The book also contrasts various currents of thought in the Renaissance with their medieval counterparts or forerunners. The volume isolates the great themes, or revolutionary shifts in as they manifest themselves in the work of important writers and thinkers.

Author : Kenneth B. Moss
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0674035100

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Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution by Kenneth B. Moss Pdf

Between 1917 and 1921, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the Russian empire pursued a “Jewish renaissance.” Here is a revisionist argument about the nature of cultural nationalism, the relationship between nationalism and socialism, and culture itself—the pivot point for the encounter between Jews and European modernity over the past century.

Author : Larry J. Reynolds,Professor of English and Thomas Franklin Mayon Professor of Liberal Arts Larry J Reynolds,W. Michael Reynolds
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300042426

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European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance by Larry J. Reynolds,Professor of English and Thomas Franklin Mayon Professor of Liberal Arts Larry J Reynolds,W. Michael Reynolds Pdf

Political issues and events have always acted as a catalyst on thought and art. In this pioneering study, Larry J. Reynolds argues that the European revolutions of 1848-49 quickened the American literary imagination and shaped the characters, plots, and themes of the American renaissance. He traces the impact of the revolutions on Emerson, Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Thoreau, showing that the upheavals abroad both inspired and disturbed. Extraordinarily well informed and creative treatment of the influences of the 1848-49 European revolutions on writers of the American Renaissance...The book is especially effective in providing a historical context for reading major writings. It demonstrates influences at work at a number of levels and presents historical narrative and subtle readings of literary texts with equal clarity. Highly recommended.- Choice

Author : Aaron Wilkes
Publisher : Folens Limited
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1843034077

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Renaissance, Revolution and Reformation by Aaron Wilkes Pdf

Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Margaret Morgan Grasselli
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 184822043X

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Renaissance to Revolution by National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Margaret Morgan Grasselli Pdf

The outstanding collection of French old master drawings held in Washington's National Gallery of Art, represents in remarkable richness and breadth the history of French draftsmanship before 1800. Showcasing for the first time the heart of this outstanding body of work, Renaissance to Revolution celebrates the singular originality, elegance and spirit of French draftsmanship.

Author : Lord Acton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 125811741X

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Renaissance to Revolution by Lord Acton Pdf

Author : William C. McMillin
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1698706642

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From the Renaissance to the Revolution: History Disguised as Fiction by William C. McMillin Pdf

This book is the story of five contiguous seventy-five year periods of history. They start in 1404 with the demise of the Middle Ages and end in 1779 with the beginnings of the Age of Enlightenment. In between, they contain the European Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution. Not your usual history book, however. My autobiography titled "It's All About Me" has a subtitle "A Rather Ordinary Life in Some Extraordinary Times." This book tells the story of each of those seventy-five year periods through the eyes of a fictional character who lived a rather ordinary life in those extraordinary times. The book focuses more on the How and Why of history and not so much on the What, When, Where, and Who. The How and Why are always more interesting, and the others are included when needed to help complete the picture. Enjoy the ride.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:215524954

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Renaissance to revolution by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marie Boas Hall
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486144993

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The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630 by Marie Boas Hall Pdf

A noted historian of science examines the Coperican revolution, the anatomical work of Vesalius, the work of Paracelsus, Harvey's discovery of the circulatory system, the effects of Galileo's telescopic discoveries, more.

Author : Ewart Oakeshott
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843837206

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European Weapons and Armour by Ewart Oakeshott Pdf

The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. A treasury of information based on solid scholarship, anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial Revolution will welcome this book. The author chooses as his starting-point the invasion of Italy by France in 1494, which sowed the dragon's teeth of all the successive European wars; the French invasion was to accelerate the trend towards new armaments and new methods of warfare. The authordescribes the development of the handgun and the pike, the use and style of staff-weapons, mace and axe and war-hammer, dagger and dirk and bayonet. He shows how armour attained its full Renaissance splendour and then suffered itssorry and inevitable decline, culminating in the Industrial Revolution, with its far-reaching effects on military armaments. Above all, he follows the long history of the sword, queen of weapons, to the late eighteenth century, when it finally ceased to form a part of a gentleman's every-day wear. Lavishly illustrated. EWART OAKESHOTT was one of the world's leading authorities on the arms and armour of medieval Europe. His other works on the subject include Records of the Medieval Sword and The Sword in the Age of Chivalry.