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The Life of Marie Antoinette (Hardcover): Maxime De 1837-1917 La Rocheterie The Life of Marie Antoinette (Hardcover)
Maxime De 1837-1917 La Rocheterie; Cora Hamilton Bell
R984 Discovery Miles 9 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Orbis Pictus of John Amos Comenius - The Educational Classic - The First Illustrated Children's Textbook, Published in... Orbis Pictus of John Amos Comenius - The Educational Classic - The First Illustrated Children's Textbook, Published in 1658 (Hardcover)
John Amos Comenius
R576 Discovery Miles 5 760 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Medici and the Italian Renaissance (Hardcover): William Henry Oliphant 1856 Smeaton The Medici and the Italian Renaissance (Hardcover)
William Henry Oliphant 1856 Smeaton
R886 Discovery Miles 8 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The King is Dead (Hardcover): Samuel K Eddy The King is Dead (Hardcover)
Samuel K Eddy
R1,500 R1,238 Discovery Miles 12 380 Save R262 (17%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Kindred And Clan In The Middle Ages And After - A Study In The Sociology Of The Teutonic Races (Hardcover): Bertha Surtees... Kindred And Clan In The Middle Ages And After - A Study In The Sociology Of The Teutonic Races (Hardcover)
Bertha Surtees Phillpotts
R875 R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Save R72 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Life, Work and Legacy of Friedrich Engels - Emerging from Marx's Shadow (Hardcover): Eberhard Illner, Hans A.... The Life, Work and Legacy of Friedrich Engels - Emerging from Marx's Shadow (Hardcover)
Eberhard Illner, Hans A. Frambach, Norbert Koubek
R2,715 Discovery Miles 27 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As the author of The Condition of the Working Class in England and, along with Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels is a seminal 19th-century figure; the co-founder of Marxism, he left an indelible impression as a philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian and revolutionary socialist. The Life, Work and Legacy of Friedrich Engels is nevertheless the first book to comprehensively explore Engels' contributions in all of these spheres. The book sees 13 experts from a range of scholarly backgrounds examine Engels and his writing in relation to topics including the United States and the future of capitalism, European social democracy and the nature of the political economy, with technology, capital, and labor acting as fundamental cross-cutting themes throughout. The volume analyses the intriguing relationship between Engels and Karl Marx, the towering historical figure whose long shadow has obscured the achievements of Engels for so long, and reassesses Engels' significance in this context. There are 66 images to be found throughout the text, 30 of these in colour, as well as a conclusion which successfully views Engels in the context of the age. As a journalist, author and communist figurehead, Engels dealt succinctly - and with strong opinions - with the core questions of the developments changing the globe in the 19th century and The Life, Work and Legacy of Friedrich Engels finally shines a light on this in a compelling call for revisionism.

The Cold War Begins - Second Volume of the Berlin Tunnel Trilogy (Hardcover): Roger L Liles The Cold War Begins - Second Volume of the Berlin Tunnel Trilogy (Hardcover)
Roger L Liles
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Christianity and Islam in Spain (Hardcover): Charles Reginald Haines Christianity and Islam in Spain (Hardcover)
Charles Reginald Haines
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The General History of Drugs Volume Two Part Two (Hardcover): Antonio Escohotado The General History of Drugs Volume Two Part Two (Hardcover)
Antonio Escohotado; Translated by Glenn Robinette
R965 Discovery Miles 9 650 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Warriors of Epona - A Novel of the Roman Empire (Hardcover): Adam Alexander Haviaras Warriors of Epona - A Novel of the Roman Empire (Hardcover)
Adam Alexander Haviaras
R842 R746 Discovery Miles 7 460 Save R96 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
May '68 (Paperback): Donald Matthew Reid, Daniel J. Sherman May '68 (Paperback)
Donald Matthew Reid, Daniel J. Sherman
R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This issue presents new directions in the study of the civil unrest in France during May 1968 on its fiftieth anniversary. Authors from France and the United States emphasize the nature and experience of the political upheaval in May 1968, the long-term cultural impacts of events in Paris, and the ways in which these events figures into a global context. Contributors offer new ways of understanding and interpreting the discord by focusing on the emotional and cultural resonance of the events of May 1968 in activism and popular culture. Other essays explore the relation of student activism in former French colonies to events in France, place the events of May 1968 in a global context by considering diplomatic and radical networks between Europe and the United States, and examine the cultural relationship between France and Germany. Contributors: Ludivine Bantigny, Francoise Blum, Tony Come, Boris Gobille, Bethany Keenan, Salar Mohandesi, Donald Reid, Sandrine Sanos, Daniel Sherman

October! - The Soviet Centenary (Paperback): Michael Hardt, Sandro Mezzadra October! - The Soviet Centenary (Paperback)
Michael Hardt, Sandro Mezzadra
R373 Discovery Miles 3 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Contributors to this issue approach the October 1917 Russian Revolution and the experiments of the revolutionary period as events that opened new possibilities for politics that remain vital one hundred years later. The essays highlight how those events not only affected Russia and Europe but led to the emergence of a new political image of the world and a profound rethinking of Marxist traditions. This issue globalizes the 1917 revolution, emphasizing its echoes throughout the world and the parallel development of political possibilities beyond Russia. Topics include the Soviets from the revolution to the present, the impact of the revolution in Latin America, the work of the legal theorist Evgeny Pashukanis analyzed through the lens of the revolution, anarchist imaginaries, and the historicizing of communism. Contributors. Giso Amendola, Martin Bergel, Kathy Ferguson, Michael Hardt, Wang Hui, Artemy Magun, John MacKay, Sandro Mezzadra, Antonio Negri, Enzo Traverso

J.S. Bach (Volume I) (Hardcover): Albert Schweitzer J.S. Bach (Volume I) (Hardcover)
Albert Schweitzer
R1,004 R913 Discovery Miles 9 130 Save R91 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
History of Spain - A Captivating Guide to Spanish History, Starting from Roman Hispania through the Visigoths, the Spanish... History of Spain - A Captivating Guide to Spanish History, Starting from Roman Hispania through the Visigoths, the Spanish Empire, the Bourbons, and the War of Spanish Independence to the Present (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R651 R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Save R66 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Basques - A Captivating Guide to the History of the Basque Country, Starting from Prehistory through Roman Rule and the... The Basques - A Captivating Guide to the History of the Basque Country, Starting from Prehistory through Roman Rule and the Middle Ages to the Present (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R629 R568 Discovery Miles 5 680 Save R61 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
What Russians Think (Hardcover): Olga Childs What Russians Think (Hardcover)
Olga Childs
R709 R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Napoleonic Wars - A Captivating Guide to the Conflicts That Began Between the United Kingdom and France During the Rule of... The Napoleonic Wars - A Captivating Guide to the Conflicts That Began Between the United Kingdom and France During the Rule of Napoleon Bonaparte and How They Stemmed from the French Revolution (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R661 R590 Discovery Miles 5 900 Save R71 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Frithiof's Saga (Hardcover): William Lewery Blackley Frithiof's Saga (Hardcover)
William Lewery Blackley
R837 Discovery Miles 8 370 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Hostages of the Northmen (Hardcover): Stefan Olsson The Hostages of the Northmen (Hardcover)
Stefan Olsson
R1,349 Discovery Miles 13 490 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont, in the Year MDCCCXXIII; and Researches Among the Vaudois, or Waldenses... Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont, in the Year MDCCCXXIII; and Researches Among the Vaudois, or Waldenses (Hardcover)
William Stephen 1789-1855 Gilly
R1,014 Discovery Miles 10 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How Long Is Exile? - BOOK III: The Long Road Home (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Astrida... How Long Is Exile? - BOOK III: The Long Road Home (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Astrida Barbins-Stahnke
R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Transforming Saints - From Spain to New Spain (Hardcover): Charlene Villasenor Black Transforming Saints - From Spain to New Spain (Hardcover)
Charlene Villasenor Black
R3,202 Discovery Miles 32 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Transforming Saints explores the transformation and function of the images of holy females within wider religious, social, and political contexts of Old Spain and New Spain from the Spanish conquest to Mexican independence. The chapters here examine the rise of the cults of the lactating Madonna, St. Anne, St. Librada, St. Mary Magdalene, and the Suffering Virgin. Concerned with holy figures presented as feminine archetypes, images that came under Inquisition scrutiny, as well as cults suspected of concealing indigenous influences, Charlene VillaseNor Black argues that these images would come to reflect the empowerment and agency of women in viceregal Mexico. Her close analysis of the imagery additionally demonstrates artists' innovative responses to Inquisition censorship and the new artistic demands occasioned by conversion. The concerns that motivated the twenty-first century protests against Chicana artists Yolanda LOpez in 2001 and Alma LOpez in 2003 have a long history in the Hispanic world-anxieties about the humanization of sacred female bodies and fears of indigenous influences infiltrating Catholicism. In this context Black also examines a number of important artists in depth, including El Greco, Murillo, Jusepe de Ribera, and Pedro de Mena in Spain and Naples and Baltasar de Echave IbIa, Juan Correa, CristObal de Villalpando, and Miguel Cabrera.

Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe - Power, Ritual and Legitimacy in Bohemia, Hungary and Poland (Hardcover): Grischa... Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe - Power, Ritual and Legitimacy in Bohemia, Hungary and Poland (Hardcover)
Grischa Vercamer, Dusan Zupka
R5,522 Discovery Miles 55 220 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book provides the first detailed overview of research on rulership in theory and practice, with a particular emphasis on the monarchies of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland in the High and Late Middle Ages. The contributions examine the legitimation of rule of the first local dynasties, the ritual practice of power, the ruling strategies and practices of power in the established monarchies, and the manifold influences on the rulership in East Central Europe from outside the region (such as from Byzantium, and the Holy Roman Empire). The collection shows that these ideas and practices enabled the new polities to become legitimate members of Latin Christendom.

Hitler and the Germans (Paperback): Eric Voegelin Hitler and the Germans (Paperback)
Eric Voegelin; Volume editing by Detlev Clemens, Brendan M Purcell; Translated by Detlev Clemens; Brendan Purcell
R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Between 1933 and 1938, Eric Voegelin published four books that brought him into increasingly open opposition to the Hitler regime in Germany. As a result, he was forced to leave Austria in 1938, narrowly escaping arrest by the Gestapo as he fled to Switzerland and later to the United States. Twenty years later, he was invited to return to Germany as director of the new Institute of Political Science at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.

In 1964, Voegelin gave a series of memorable lectures on what he considered "the central German experiential problem" of his time: Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the reasons for it, and its consequences for post-Nazi Germany. For Voegelin, these issues demanded a scrutiny of the mentality of individual Germans and of the order of German society during and after the Nazi period. "Hitler and the Germans" offers Voegelin's most extensive and detailed critique of the Hitler era.

While most of the lectures deal with what Voegelin called Germany's "descent into the depths" of the moral and spiritual abyss of Nazism and its aftermath, they also point toward a restoration of order. His lecture "The Greatness of Max Weber" shows how Weber, while affected by the culture within which Hitler came to power, had already gone beyond it through his anguished recovery of the experience of transcendence.

"Hitler and the Germans" provides a profound alternative approach to the topic of the individual German's entanglement in the Hitler regime and its continuing implications. This comprehensive critique of the Nazi period has yet to be matched.

History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages; v.2 (Hardcover): Hartmann 1845-1932 Grisar History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages; v.2 (Hardcover)
Hartmann 1845-1932 Grisar; Created by Charles Louis Ed Dessoulavy; Luigi Cappadelta
R1,014 Discovery Miles 10 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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