Published By
Created On
15 Nov 2020 15:10:09 UTC
Transaction ID
Cost
Safe for Work
Free
Yes
The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States
Author: Ellen Meiksins Wood
File Type: epub
Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of bourgeois society. In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the emergence of a modern state and political culture in Continental Europe, signalled the persistence of precapitalist social property relations. Conversely, the absence of a modern state and political discourse in England testified to the presence of a well-developed capitalism. The fundamental flaws in the British economy are not just the symptoms of arrested development but the contradictions of the capitalist system itself. Britain today, Wood maintains, is the most thoroughly capitalist culture in Europe. Weaving together economic and political history with the history of ideas, Wood ranges across a broad spectrum of current debates, from the NairnAnderson theses to the contribution of J.C.D. Clark and Alan Macfarlane, and over a wide variety of topics the development of British capitalism and French absolutism the state, the nation and their symbolic representations revolution and tradition the cultural patterns of English speech, urbanism, ruralism and the landscape garden ideas of sovereignty, democracy, property and progress. This book will be as interesting and provocative to observers of contemporary capitalism as to historians of early modern Europe or Western political thought.
File Type: epub
Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of bourgeois society. In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the emergence of a modern state and political culture in Continental Europe, signalled the persistence of precapitalist social property relations. Conversely, the absence of a modern state and political discourse in England testified to the presence of a well-developed capitalism. The fundamental flaws in the British economy are not just the symptoms of arrested development but the contradictions of the capitalist system itself. Britain today, Wood maintains, is the most thoroughly capitalist culture in Europe. Weaving together economic and political history with the history of ideas, Wood ranges across a broad spectrum of current debates, from the NairnAnderson theses to the contribution of J.C.D. Clark and Alan Macfarlane, and over a wide variety of topics the development of British capitalism and French absolutism the state, the nation and their symbolic representations revolution and tradition the cultural patterns of English speech, urbanism, ruralism and the landscape garden ideas of sovereignty, democracy, property and progress. This book will be as interesting and provocative to observers of contemporary capitalism as to historians of early modern Europe or Western political thought.
Author
Content Type
Unspecified
application/epub+zip
Language
English
More from the publisher
Controlling
FEMIN
70382
Author: Wulan Dirgantoro
File Type: pdf
While Indonesian contemporary art is currently on the rise on the international art scene, there hasnt yet been an in-depth study of the works of Indonesian women artists and the feminist strategies they employ within the art world. This book fills that gap, presenting the first comprehensive study of feminisms and contemporary arts in Indonesia, using feminist readings to analyze the works of Indonesian women artists historically and today, illuminating the sociocultural contexts in which they have worked and offering a nuanced understanding of local feminisms in the nation.
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
Controlling
POETR
103747
Author: Mary K. Ruby
File Type: pdf
div dir=ltr 13.44px serif left 65.92px top 274.88px transform scale(1.13894, 1) transform-origin 0% 0% data-font-name=Geneva data-canvas-width=659.4484102041245Cummings E(dward) E(stlin) anyone lived in a pretty how town 30div dir=ltr 13.44px serif left 65.92px top 292.16px transform scale(1.11967, 1) transform-origin 0% 0% data-font-name=Geneva data-canvas-width=659.4846982055664Swenson May Centaur, The 30div dir=ltr 13.44px serif left 65.92px top 309.44px transform scale(1.11781, 1) transform-origin 0% 0% data-font-name=Geneva data-canvas-width=659.5075462064742Heaney Seamus Follower 30div dir=ltr 13.44px serif left 65.92px top 326.719px transform scale(1.13712, 1) transform-origin 0% 0% data-font-name=Geneva data-canvas-width=659.5290502073289Cervantes Lorna Dee Freeway 280 30div dir=ltr 13.44px serif left 65.92px top 343.999px transform scale(1.11207, 1) transform-origin 0% 0% data-font-name=Geneva data-canvas-width=659.4551302043913Walker Alice Good Night, Willie Lee, Ill See You in the Morning 30div dir=ltr 13.44px serif left 65.92px top 361.279px transform scale(1.12538, 1) transform-origin 0% 0% data-font-name=Geneva data-canvas-width=659.473946205139Hughes Langston I, Too 30div dir=ltr 13.44px serif left 65.92px top 378.559px transform scale(1.11773, 1) transform-origin 0% 0% data-font-name=Geneva data-canvas-width=659.4618502046585Finch Anne Nocturnal Reverie, A 30div dir=ltr 13.44px serif left 65.92px top 395.839px transform scale(1.11782, 1) transform-origin 0% 0% data-font-name=Geneva data-canvas-width=659.5156102067948Soto Gary Oranges 30div dir=ltr 13.44px serif left 65.92px top 413.118px transform scale(1.11401, 1) transform-origin 0% 0% data-font-name=Geneva data-canvas-width=659.4927622058867Berry Wendell Peace of Wild Things, The 30div dir=ltr 13.44px serif left 65.92px top 430.398px transform scale(1.10466, 1) transform-origin 0% 0% data-font-name=Geneva data-canvas-width=659.4820102054597Komunyakaa Yusef Slam, Dunk, & Hook 30div dir=ltr 13.44px serif left 65.92px top 447.038px transform scale(1.1032, 1) transform-origin 0% 0% data-font-name=Geneva data-canvas-width=178.7184071016312Paz OctavioSunstone30div dir=ltr 13.44px serif left 65.92px top 464.958px transform scale(1.11973, 1) transform-origin 0% 0% data-font-name=Geneva data-canvas-width=659.5236742071152Lowell Amy Taxi, The 30div dir=ltr 13.44px serif left 65.92px top 482.238px transform scale(1.11966, 1) transform-origin 0% 0% data-font-name=Geneva data-canvas-width=659.4779782052993Bryant William Cullen Thanatopsis 30div dir=ltr 13.44px serif left 65.92px top 499.517px transform scale(1.12149, 1) transform-origin 0% 0% data-font-name=Geneva data-canvas-width=659.4390022037506Carroll Lewis Walrus and the Carpenter, The 30div dir=ltr 13.44px serif left 65.92px top 516.157px transform scale(1.11212, 1) transform-origin 0% 0% data-font-name=Geneva data-canvas-width=659.4873862056733Sidney Sir Philip Ye Goatherd Gods 30div dir=ltr 13.44px serif left 65.92px top 534.077px transform scale(1.11971, 1) transform-origin 0% 0% data-font-name=Geneva data-canvas-width=659.5102342065811Sexton Anne Young 30 Annotation Give students the tools they need to make books and authors a meaningful part of their lives by introducing them to one of our For Students literary references. These resources are specially crafted to meet the curricular needs of high school and undergraduate college students and their teachers as well as the interests of general readers and researchers.Each title in the series provides understandable, comprehensive explanations of the most commonly studied poems, novels, dramas, epics and short stories as identified by an advisory board of teachers and librarians. No other literature references furnish such a high level of coverage -- all written in an unassuming tone that users will welcome.The references in the Gale Groups For Students series provide -- Easy-to-read discussions of themes, plots and characters -- Easy-to-understand critical essays chosen specifically for students -- Analysis of each works construction and historical context -- Photos, illustrations and other graphics -- And moreThe For Students series includes Poetry for Students, Novels for Students, Short Stories for Students, Drama for Students, Shakespeare for Students, Shakespeares Characters for Students and Epics for Students. Theyre sure to be a welcome addition to your library.Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Students will discover -- An overview essay -- An analysis of the poems construction and form -- A thematic examination -- A discussion of the poems historical and cultural context -- Selected criticism on the poem or poet -- A briefauthor biography -- Sources for further study and suggested research topics -- Subject, thematic, nationality, author and title indexes.
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
Controlling
AFGHA
43425
Author: Jonathan L. Lee
File Type: pdf
Located at the intersection of Asia and the Middle East, Afghanistan has been strategically important for thousands of years. Its ancient trade routes and strategic position between India, Inner Asia, China, Persia and beyond has meant the region has been subject to frequent invasions. Modern Afghanistan is a culturally and ethnically diverse country, but one divided by conict, political instability and by mass displacements of its people.Jonathan L. Lee places the current conict in Afghanistan in its historical context and challenges many of the Wests preconceived ideas about the country. Lee chronicles the regions monarchic rules and the Durrani dynasty, focusing on the reigns of each ruler and their efforts to balance tribal, ethnic, regional and religious factions, moving on to the struggle for social and constitutional reform and the rise of Islamic and Communist factions. He offers new cultural and political insights from Persian histories, the memoirs of Afghan government ofcials, British government and India Ofce archives, recently released CIA reports and WikiLeaks documents. Lee also sheds new light on the countrys foreign relations, its internal power struggles and the impact of foreign military interventions such as the War on Terror.**ReviewA comprehensive history of a storied nation held together by an alliance of tribal and political groups that threatens to dissolve at any moment. . . . Anyone seeking to understand a complex, even bewildering part of the world will benefit from Lees careful account.(Kirkus Reviews) An epic achievement at once a model of clarity, accuracy, and balance and a testament to Lees learning and life-long erudition in Afghan primary sources. Authoritative and remarkably comprehensive, it deserves to become the standard English-language history of Afghanistan.(William Dalrymple) This is the most comprehensive available history of power and politics in Afghanistan, from the medieval period to the present. The narrative spans a millennium of history, from the Ghaznavids to Ashraf Ghani. It deliberately locates the roots of modern Afghanistan in the succession of Muslim entities that developed military power, government, and civilization in northern India and on either side of the Hindukush. There are detailed treatments of issues from the classical right up to contemporary Afghan affairs which includes the consequences of aid to the anti-Soviet mujahideen, the roots of the Taliban movement, the inadequacy of the Bonn Agreement as a basis for peace, Islamic identity and the state, and militarization of humanitarian assistance and governance reform and corruption. This work is an encyclopaedia of the ways in which the past helps shape the ideas and possibilities of the present.(Michael Semple, Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice, Queens University Belfast) This impressive book results from Lees professional lifetimes work in Afghanistan. Lee uses his command of Persian, an abundance of British and American archival sources, and a critical historiographical approach to provide readers with a refreshingly original treatment of Afghanistans modern political history. Lees book combines nuanced attention to the dynamic variety of regional, religious, and tribal identities, loyalties, alliances, and resources within Afghanistan, while also constructively engaging the diverse and changing constellation of external actors, agencies, and pressures in this new history of Afghanistan.(Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, James Madison University) This work is the last word on the history of Afghanistan and I have no hesitation in recommending it.(Chris Wyatt, University of Birmingham, author of Afghanistan in the Defence of Empire) About the Author Jonathan L. Lee is a social and cultural historian and a leading authority on the history of Afghanistan. He has lived for many years in Afghanistan and is a fellow of both the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and the British Institute of Persian Studies. His previous books include The Journals of Edward Stirling in Persia and Afghanistan, 182829 The Ancient Supremacy Bukhara, Afghanistan, and the Battle for Balkh, 17321901 and Amazing Wonders of Afghanistan.
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
Controlling
FOR Q
16486
Author: Michael Gillard
File Type: epub
In For Queen & Currency, investigative journalist Michael Gillard exposes a massive fraud and security scandal at Buckingham Palace which Scotland Yard and the Royal Household tried to suppress. Drawing on thousands of leaked documents and police sources, Gillard tells the inside story of a group of Royalty Protection officers who entertained a life of high-risk gambling, brown envelopes of cash and striking gangsta poses on the throne of England while supposedly guarding the royal family and their secrets from terrorism and press intrusion.Paul Page, a young royal protection officer turned degenerate gambler, ran a hedge fund for cops during the credit and property booms. His Currency Club bet millions on movement in sterling and gold and paid investors returns beyond the dreams of avarice and financial logic. As word spread to other royal palaces, more protection officers and their friends piled in with savings and cheap loans from banks, many of which were running their own Ponzi scam. Page was hiding huge gambling losses and when the returns dried up a hit man threatened his family, sending the royal cop over the edge and on the rampage with a gun. Scotland Yard tried to spin the scandal to divert attention from its own regulatory failures. But Page refused to go quietly. His sensational trial became an arena to expose the so-called elite royalty protection squad and the private life of a senior royal. The Queen is going to be mightily pissed off, ? he warned. [There was] an agreed understanding that what happened at Royalty stayed at Royalty. ? Not any more.
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/epub+zip
English
Controlling
CIVIL
13378
Author: Lucan
File Type: epub
A magnificent new translation of the enduring epic about the sundering of the Roman Republic.Lucan lived from 39-65 AD at a time of great turbulence in Rome. HisCivil Warportrays two of the most colorful and powerful figures of the age-Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, enemies in a vicious struggle for power that severed bloodlines and began the transformation of Roman civilization. With Right locked in combat with Might, law and order broke down and the anarchic violence that resulted left its mark on the Roman people forever, paving the way for the imperial monarchy. Accessible and modern yet loyal to the rhetorical brilliance of the original, this will be the definitiveCivil Warof our times.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/epub+zip
English
Controlling
WHY D
34934
Author: Mark Leyner
File Type: epub
The Doctor Is In . . . Again!Did the mega-bestselling Why Do Men Have Nipples? exhaust your curiosity about stuff odd, icky, kinky, noxious, libidinous, or just plain embarrassing? No, you say? Well, good, because the doctor and his able-bodied buddy are in! Again! Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D., now take on the differences between the sexesthose burning questions like Why doesnt my husband ever listen? or Why does my wife ALWAYS have to pee? And of course, Why do men fall asleep after sex?, plus plenty of others to keep you fully informed.Full of smart and funny answers to an onslaught of new questions, all in a do-ask-well-tell spirit that entertain and teaches you something at the same time, Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? offers the real lowdown on everything everyone wants to know about all things anatomical, medical, sexual, nutritional, animal, and mineral, but would only ask a physician after a few too many, like Why do you have a bionic sense of smell when youre pregnant? Does peeing in the shower cure athletes foot? Is a dogs mouth clean? Can you breastfeed with fake boobs? Does thumb sucking cause buckteeth? Do your eyebrows grow back if shaved? Bigger, funnier, and better than ever, Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? proves that in the battle of the sexes, as in most things, a little Q&A is a safe, effective, minimally invasive remedy.Also available as an eBookFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/epub+zip
English
Controlling
THE B
26975
Author: Les Murray
File Type: epub
The Biplane Houses is Les Murrays first new volume of poems since 2002s Poems the Size of Photographs. In it we find the poet at his near-miraculous best. The collection exhibits both Murrays unfailing grace as a writer and his ability to write in any voice, style or genre there are story poems, word-plays, history- and myth- makings, aphoristic fragments and domestic portraits. Houses are a many-sided theme of the book, and as ever, Murrays evocation of the natural world is unparalleled in its inventiveness and virtuosity.
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/epub+zip
English
Controlling
STATE
117775
Author: Charlotte Mathilde Louise Hille
File Type: pdf
span orphans 2 widows 2State building processes in the Caucasus are influenced by the culture of the Caucasus, and previous experiences with state building after World War I. The conflicts which erupted at the time have influenced territorial claims. The role of foreign powers as Russia, the United States, Turkey, Germany is considerable in the region. Divide and rule policy of Joseph Stalin is another factor which describes existing animosities between peoples in the Caucasus. Since 1989 a transition process, or state building process, has started in the North and the South Caucasus. This book gives an in-depth analysis of the backgrounds of the conflicts, including activities by IGOs and NGOs, and the developments in international law with regard to state building practicspan
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
Controlling
LANGU
86915
Author: Diana Raffman
File Type: pdf
Taking a novel approach to a longstanding problem in the philosophy of art, Diana Raffman provides the first cognitivist theory of the nature of ineffable, or verbally inexpressible, musical knowledge. In the process she also sheds light on central issues in the theory of mind.Raffman invokes recent theory in linguistics and cognitive psychology to provide an account of the content and etiology of musical knowledge that can not be put into words. Within the framework of Lerdahl and Jackendoffs generative theory of music perception, she isolates three kinds of ineffability attending our conscious knowledge of music - access, feeling, and nuance ineffability - and shows how these arise.Raffman makes a detailed comparison of linguistic and musical understanding, culminating in an attack on the traditional idea that human emotions constitute the meaning or semantic content of music. She compares her account of musical ineffability to several traditional approaches to the problem, particularly those of Nelson Goodman and Stanley Cavell. In the concluding chapter, Raffman explores a significant obstacle that her theory poses to Daniel Dennetts propositional theory of consciousness.Diana Raffman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University.
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English