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Author: Trevor Henry Aston
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0415694760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcerns the changes in the hundred years after 1560 in the nations of Europe. Past and present.
Author: Trevor Aston
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1136505229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPast and Present began publication in 1952. It has established itself as one of the leading historical journals, publishing in lively and readable form a wide variety of scholarly and original articles. Much important work by English and foreign scholars on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries first appeared in the form of articles in the journal. Originally published in 1965, this collection brings together a broad selection of these articles which have much common ground in the questions they discuss. Together they cover many aspects of crisis and change in most European countries – in society, government, economics, religion and education. The book will be welcomed by all interested in this much debated period.
Author: Ekkart Zimmermann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 809
ISBN-13: 1136599754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1983, this extraordinary study provides a comprehensive systematic evaluation of cross-national theorizing and quantitative empirical evidence on four interrelated phenomena: Political violenceCrisesMilitary Coups D' ÉtatRevolutions. Findings from social-psychological research on aggression are integrated in this outstanding study, as well as results reported in social-historical studies of revolution. The focus of the book is always on analytical perspectives and correspondi.
Author: Raphael Samuel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-20
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1317207130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1982, this book is inspired the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm, and has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationship to political and religious belief. It explores some of the oldest question in Marxist historiography, for example the relationship of ‘base’ and ‘superstructure’, art and social life, and also some of the newest and most problematic questions, such as the relationship of dreams and fantasy to political action, or of past and present — historical consciousness — to the making of ideology. The essays, which range widely over period and place, are intended to break new ground and take on difficult questions.
Author: Catherine Belsey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-17
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1317744438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1985, The Subject of Tragedy takes the drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as the starting point for an analysis of the differential identities of man and woman. Catherine Belsey charts, in a range of fictional and non-fictional texts, the production in the Renaissance of a meaning for subjectivity that is identifiably modern. The subject of liberal humanism – self-determining, free origin of language, choice and action – is highlighted as the product of a specific period in which man was the subject to which woman was related.
Author: Michael D. Bristol
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-18
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1317748301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a social institution: on Marxism, and its revisions in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin; on the theories of Emile Durkheim and their adaptations in the work of Victor Turner; and on the history of social life and material culture as practiced by the Annales school. This valuable work is an important contribution to literary criticism, theatre studies and social history and has particular importance for scholars interested in the dramatic literature of Elizabethan England.
Author: M. I. Finley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-09-23
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0415694809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1978, this volume comprises articles previously published in the historical journal, Past and Present, ranging over nearly a thousand years of Graeco-Roman history. The essays focus primarily on the Roman Empire, reflecting the increase, in British scholarship of the post-war years, of explanatory, 'structuralist' studies of this period in Roman history. The topics treated include Athenian politics, the Roman conquest of the east, violence in the later Roman Republic, the second Sophistic, and persecutions of the early Christians. The authors have all produced original studies, a number of which have generated significant research by other ancient historians.
Author: Paul Q. Hirst
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-22
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1351358588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1975, this book investigates the various pre-capitalist modes of production briefly indicated in the works of Marx and Engels, and gives an examination of the conditions of the transition from one mode of production to another. The fundamental concepts used in these investigations, including those of mode of production, of necessary labour and surpass labour, of politics and state, are derived from Capital and from other works of Marxist theory. The primary aim of the analysis is to raise the conceptualisation of pre-capitalist modes of production and of transition to a more rigorous level. This book will appear controversial to both Marxists and non-Marxists alike.
Author: Charles Webster
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 1136505164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntellectual history and early modern history have always occupied an important place in Past and Present. First published in 1974, this volume is a collection of original articles and debates, published in the journal between 1953 and May 1973, dealing with many aspects of the intellectual history of the seventeenth century. Several of the contributions have been extremely influential, and the debates represent major standpoints in controversies over genesis of modern ideas. Although England is the focus of attention for most of the contributors, their themes have wider significance. Among the topics covered in the collection are the political thought of the Levellers and of James Harrington; radical social movements of the Puritan Revolution; the ideological context of physiological theories associated with William Harvey; the relationship between science and religion and the social relations of science; and the function of millenariansim and eschatology in the seventeenth century. The editor’s Introduction indicates the context in which the articles were composed and provides valuable bibliographical information about the subjects discussed.
Author: Caroline Boggis-Rolfe
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2019-04-15
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1445688514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Baltic Story recounts the shared history of the countries around the Baltic, from the events of a thousand years ago to the present day.
