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Bede "the Venerable," English theologian and historian, was born in
672 or 673 CE in the territory of the single monastery at Wearmouth
and Jarrow. He was ordained deacon (691-2) and priest (702-3) of
the monastery, where his whole life was spent in devotion, choral
singing, study, teaching, discussion, and writing. Besides Latin he
knew Greek and possibly Hebrew. Bede's theological works were
chiefly commentaries, mostly allegorical in method, based with
acknowledgment on Jerome, Augustine, Ambrose, Gregory, and others,
but bearing his own personality. In another class were works on
grammar and one on natural phenomena; special interest in the vexed
question of Easter led him to write about the calendar and
chronology. But his most admired production is his Ecclesiastical
History of the English Nation. Here a clear and simple style united
with descriptive powers to produce an elegant work, and the facts
diligently collected from good sources make it a valuable account.
Historical also are his Lives of the Abbots of his monastery, the
less successful accounts (in verse and prose) of Cuthbert, and the
Letter to Egbert his pupil (November 734), so important for our
knowledge about the Church in Northumbria. The Loeb Classical
Library edition of Bede's historical works is in two volumes (the
second of which includes Lives of the Abbots and Letter to Egbert).
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator,
politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other
Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise,
dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic.
In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we
see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part
he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches,
delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were
political, before jurors if judicial, 58 survive (a few of them
incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian
humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters
of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by
others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more
striking because most were not written for publication. Six
rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical
works include seven extant major compositions and a number of
others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as
translations from the Greek.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine
volumes.
The first volume of this critical history covers the social,
political, and theoretical forces behind the development of Marxian
economics from Marx's death in 1883 until 1929, the year marking
the onset of Stalin's "revolution from above," which subsequently
transformed the Soviet Union into a modern superpower. During these
years, Marxists in both Russia and Germany found their economic
ideas inextricably linked with practical political problems, and
treated theory as a guide to action. This book systematically
examines the important theoretical literature of the period,
including insightful works by political functionaries outside
academia--journalists, party organizers, underground activists, and
teachers in the labor movement--presented here as the primary
forgers of Marxian economic thought. Beginning with Engels's
writings, this book analyzes the work of leading Marxist economists
in the Second International, then concludes with a review of the
intellectual movements within the Marxian political economy during
the 1920s. A second volume treating the period from 1929 to the
present will follow. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
This second volume completes a critical history of the social,
political, and theoretical forces behind Marxian economics--the
only work in English to offer such comprehensive treatment.
Beginning with Marxian analyses of the Great Depression and
Stalinism, it explores the theories developed to explain the "long
boom" in Western capitalism after the Second World War. Later
chapters deal with post-Leninist theories of imperialism and
continuing controversies in value theory and the theory of
exploitation. After outlining recent work on the "second slump,"
the integration of rational-choice theory into Marxism, and the
political economy of socialism, the book concludes with a review
and evaluation of Marxian theory over the whole period since Marx's
death. Praise for the first volume: "Howard and King have done an
excellent job...One comes away with the impression of Marxian
economics being a vibrant subject, relevant to the problems of
these times and useful in practical matters."--Meghnad Desai, The
Times Higher Education Supplement Originally published in 1992. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
This second volume completes a critical history of the social,
political, and theoretical forces behind Marxian economics--the
only work in English to offer such comprehensive treatment.
Beginning with Marxian analyses of the Great Depression and
Stalinism, it explores the theories developed to explain the "long
boom" in Western capitalism after the Second World War. Later
chapters deal with post-Leninist theories of imperialism and
continuing controversies in value theory and the theory of
exploitation. After outlining recent work on the "second slump,"
the integration of rational-choice theory into Marxism, and the
political economy of socialism, the book concludes with a review
and evaluation of Marxian theory over the whole period since Marx's
death. Praise for the first volume: "Howard and King have done an
excellent job.. One comes away with the impression of Marxian
economics being a vibrant subject, relevant to the problems of
these times and useful in practical matters."--Meghnad Desai, The
Times Higher Education Supplement
Originally published in 1992.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
The first volume of this critical history covers the social,
political, and theoretical forces behind the development of Marxian
economics from Marx's death in 1883 until 1929, the year marking
the onset of Stalin's "revolution from above," which subsequently
transformed the Soviet Union into a modern superpower. During these
years, Marxists in both Russia and Germany found their economic
ideas inextricably linked with practical political problems, and
treated theory as a guide to action. This book systematically
examines the important theoretical literature of the period,
including insightful works by political functionaries outside
academia--journalists, party organizers, underground activists, and
teachers in the labor movement--presented here as the primary
forgers of Marxian economic thought.
Beginning with Engels's writings, this book analyzes the work of
leading Marxist economists in the Second International, then
concludes with a review of the intellectual movements within the
Marxian political economy during the 1920s. A second volume
treating the period from 1929 to the present will follow.
Originally published in 1989.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
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