Employing a chronology that is not bound by traditional datelines, this volume moves beyond the familiar political narrative to engage with the economy, society, population, emigration, religion, language, state formation, culture, art and ...
A highly original collection of essays, demonstrating how comic books can be used as primary sources in the teaching and understanding of American history.
In Malaise of Modernity, Charles Taylor focuses on the key modern concept of self-fulfillment, often attacked as the central support of what Christopher Lasch has called the culture of narcissism.
The Wealth of Nature captures the fruit of what Worster calls "my own intellectual turning to the land." History, he writes, represents a dialogue between humanity and nature--though it is usually reported as if it were simple dictation.
" --Steven Hayward, Cleveland Plain Dealer " A] thumping great volume." --Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian "Very occasionally there appears a book destined to endure. A Secular Age is such a book.
The result is a new interpretation of Irish history in its wider imperial context which is also filled with insights on the origins, expansion, and decline of the British Empire.This book offers the first comprehensive history of Ireland ...