Télécharger le livre :  The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender

This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe.  Where Volume I traced the development of the narrative in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and refuted it with...
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Télécharger le livre :  The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender

This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe. It traces how and why this narrative was constructed as a philosemitic narrative in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-14
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment

An interdisciplinary examination of the Enlightenment character and its broader significance. Whilst the main focus of the book is the Scottish Enlightenment, contributors also employ a transatlantic scope by considering parallel developments in Europe, and America.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-25
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  Genealogies of Genius

The essays in this volume seek to examine the uses to which concepts of genius have been put in different cultures and times. Collectively, they are designed to make two new statements. First, seen in historical and comparative perspective, genius is not a natural fact...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-12-08
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Uses of Space in Early Modern History

While there is an growing body of work on space and place in many disciplines, less attention has been paid to how a spatial approach illuminates the societies and cultures of the past. Here, leading experts explore the uses of space in two respects: how space can be...
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Parution : 2015-03-18
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  William James and the Quest for an Ethical Republic

Pragmatist philosopher William James has long been deemed a dubious guide to ethical reasoning. This book overturns such thinking, demonstrating the coherence of James's efforts to develop a flexible but rigorous framework for individuals and societies seeking freedom,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-17
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  Negotiating Knowledge in Early Modern Empires

This volume takes a decentered look at early modern empires and rejects the center/periphery divide. With an unconventional geographical set of cases, including the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg, Iberian, French and British empires, as well as China, contributors...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-17
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  Translations, Histories, Enlightenments

Historian and minister William Robertson was a central Scottish Enlightenment figure whose influence reached well beyond the boundaries of the British Isles. In this reception study of Robertson's work, Laszlo Kontler shows how the reception of Robertson's major...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-06-05
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond Catholicism

The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today. In particular, they explore how religious discourse has unfolded within Italian culture in the context of shifting...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-12-18
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  German Freedom and the Greek Ideal

This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. McGrath shows how German intellectual and artists invoked the ancient Greeks in order to inspire Germans to cultural renewal and to enrich their understanding...
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Parution : 2013-12-18
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Dream of a Democratic Culture

This book presents a moderately revisionist history of the great books idea anchored in the following movements and struggles: fighting anti-intellectualism, advocating for the liberal arts, distributing cultural capital, and promoting a public philosophy, anchored in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-11-26
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera

In Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, printed literature and performances - from celebrity narratives and opera fandom to revolutionary acts and political speeches - frequently articulated extreme emotional states and passionate belief. A uniquely intense...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-09-11
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe

It is the aim of this volume to investigate how academic practices of Memory Studies are being applied, adapted, and transformed in the countries of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union.It affords a new, startlingly different perspective for scholars of both...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-09-11
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Life and Death

Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movement through one of its most prominent exponents, Ludwig Klages, revealing...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-09-11
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  Geographies of the Romantic North

This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the "North," circa 1790–1830. British perceptions, representations and imaginings of the North are considered part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century processes of British self-fashioning as a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-08-28
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  Music and Empire in Britain and India

Music has been neglected by imperial historians, but this book shows that music is an essential aspect of identity formation and cross-cultural exchange. It explores the ways in which rational, moral, and aesthetic motives underlying the institutionalization of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-08-20
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  Art and Life in Modernist Prague

In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on the Czech writers and artists...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-05-07
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Scottish Enlightenment

The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society. Whereas women emancipated themselves from the yoke of male-masters, men in turn acquired polite manners and became civilized. Such a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-02-20
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  Nature Engaged

This volume gathers essays that focus on the worldliness of science, its inseparable engagement in the major institutional bases of social life: law, market, church, school, and nation. With a chronological span reaching from the Renaissance to Big Science, its topics...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-12-10
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  History and Psyche

Today, a widening range of historical phenomena are being examined through the psychoanalytic lens, while the psychoanalytic tradition itself is coming in for unprecedented historical scrutiny. This collection of essays showcases the innovative, and sometimes...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-11-28
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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