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Download this eBook Monism
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Monism


T. Weir


The first survey in the English language of the history of naturalistic monism in the works of Haeckel, Spinoza, and others. Contributors demonstrate that, to a greater extent than previously shown, monism provided an essential epistemological framework for...

Publication date: 2012-08-06
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Download this eBook The French Enlightenment and its Others
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The French Enlightenment and its Others


D. Harvey


This book explores the French Enlightenment's use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage - to praise of critique aspects of European society and to draw general conclusions regarding human...

Publication date: 2012-08-06
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Download this eBook Alfred Weber and the Crisis of Culture, 1890-1933
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Alfred Weber and the Crisis of Culture, 1890-1933


C. Loader


Alfred Weber was an important participant in the dialogue over the political and cultural crises of the late Empire and Weimar Republic. This study connects Weber's career to the social, political, intellectual, cultural, and institutional contexts of the period.

Publication date: 2012-07-25
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Download this eBook Making British Indian Fictions
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Making British Indian Fictions


A. Malhotra


This book examines fictional representations of India in novels, plays and poetry produced between the years 1772 to 1823 as historical source material. It uses literary texts as case studies to investigate how Britons residing both in the metropole and in India...

Publication date: 2012-06-18
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Download this eBook At the Edges of Liberalism
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At the Edges of Liberalism


S. Aschheim


The essays in this volume seek to confront some of the charged meeting points of European - especially German - and Jewish history. All, in one way or another, explore the entanglements, the intertwined moments of empathy and enmity, belonging and estrangement,...

Publication date: 2012-06-15
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Isaiah Berlin


A. Dubnov


This study offers an intellectual biography of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin. It aims to provide the first historically contextualized monographic study of Berlin's formative years and identify different stages in his...

Publication date: 2012-03-14
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Download this eBook The Origins of Modern Historiography in India
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The Origins of Modern Historiography in India


R. Mantena


This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of 'sources,' the forging of a new historical...

Publication date: 2012-02-14
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The European Antarctic


P. Roberts


This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic. Rather than charting how Europeans unveiled the Antarctic, it uses the history of Antarctic activity as a window into the political and cultural worlds of...

Publication date: 2011-12-19
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Download this eBook Religious Transactions in Colonial South India
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Religious Transactions in Colonial South India


H. Israel


Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the "making" of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the Tamil literary and sacred landscapes...

Publication date: 2011-08-15
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Download this eBook A Cultural History of the British Census
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A Cultural History of the British Census


K. Levitan


The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters, including statisticians, novelists, national and local officials, political and social reformers, and journalists responded to and used...

Publication date: 2011-08-14
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The Emergence of Russian Liberalism


J. Berest


A fresh perspective on the history of Russian liberalism through the life and work of Alexander Kunitsyn, a teacher and philosopher of natural law, whose academic and journalistic writings contributed to the dissemination of Western liberal thought among the Russian...

Publication date: 2011-05-23
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Download this eBook Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India
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Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India


D. Ali , I. Sengupta


This volume seeks to revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades, which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of representations of colonial hegemony. It seeks to contribute to research...

Publication date: 2011-05-09
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Download this eBook The Gospel of Beauty in the Progressive Era
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The Gospel of Beauty in the Progressive Era


L. Szefel


Szefel investigates the use of poetry in addressing political reform at the turn of the twentieth century. It charts the work of poets and editors - many of whom were women and minorities - who created a network of organizations to nurture writers who addressed the...

Publication date: 2011-05-09
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Download this eBook Benjamin Constant and the Birth of French Liberalism
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Benjamin Constant and the Birth of French Liberalism


K. Steven Vincent


This book advances a new interpretation of the timing and character of French (and more broadly European) liberalism, and contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the place of morality, sociability, and conceptions of the "self" in modern liberal thought.

Publication date: 2011-01-12
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The American Bourgeoisie


S. Beckert , J. Rosenbaum


This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains how culture...

Publication date: 2010-12-20
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Download this eBook Sir John Malcolm and the Creation of British India
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Sir John Malcolm and the Creation of British India


J. Harrington


Through his writings, the leading East India Company servant, Sir John Malcolm helped to shape the historical thought of British empire-building in India. This book uses his works to examine the intellectual history of British expansion in South Asia, and shed light on...

Publication date: 2010-11-14
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Download this eBook Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought
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Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought


S. Dorsett , I. Hunter


A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss colonial deployments of European law...

Publication date: 2010-11-08
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Carl Gustav Jung


J. Sherry


Carl Gustav Jung has always been a popular but never a fashionable thinker. His ground-breaking theories about dream interpretation and psychological types have often been overshadowed by allegations that he was anti-Semitic and a Nazi sympathizer. Most accounts have...

Publication date: 2010-10-25
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Download this eBook Rammohun Roy and the Making of Victorian Britain
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Rammohun Roy and the Making of Victorian Britain


L. Zastoupil


This book investigates Rammohun Roy as a transnational celebrity. It examines the role of religious heterodoxy - particularly Christian Unitarianism - in transforming a colonial outsider into an imagined member of the emerging Victorian social order  It uses his fame to...

Publication date: 2010-08-16
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The Reading of Russian Literature in China


M. Gamsa


This book traces the profound influence that Russian literature, which was tied inseparably to the political victory of the Russian revolution, had on China during a period that saw the collapse of imperial rule and the rise of the Communist Party.

Publication date: 2010-05-24
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