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  • Socialism and the Experience of Time

    Idealism and the Present in Modern France

    podle Julian Wright ...
    How do we make social democracy? Should we seize the unknown possibilities offered by the future, or does real change develop when we focus our attention on the immediate present? The modern tradition of social revolution suggested that the present is precisely the time that needs to be surpassed, but can society change without an intimate focus on today's experience of social injustice? In ... Přečtěte si více

    2 347,19 Kč

  • Pluralism and the Idea of the Republic in France

    podle Julian Wright ...
    Série série History (R0)
    The idea of the centralized State has played a powerful role in shaping French republicanism. But for two hundred years, many have tried to find other ways of being French and Republican. These essays challenge the traditional account, bringing together new insights from leading scholars. ... Přečtěte si více

    1 093,79 Kč

  • Audiokniha

    Sun and Flesh

    What would you do for love?

    Nezkrácené

    13 hodin/y 34 min

    Set in the lush tropical rainforests of Indonesia, SUN and FLESH is a powerful story of lust, love, pride, and a fight for survival—drawn from genuine historical events. This is an IMMERSIVE audiobook with realistic stereo soundscapes surrounding the characters.Melati, a young Malay girl, is wanted for a bride by the old chief of a powerful Java tribe. But her Malay tribe refuse. And so, the Java ... Přečtěte si více

    367,23 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

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  • How the French Think

    An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People

    Sudhir Hazareesingh's How the French Think is a warm yet incisive exploration of the French intellectual tradition, and its exceptional place in a nation's identity and lifestyleWhy are the French an exceptional nation? Why do they think they are so exceptional? An important reason is that in France intellectual activity is regarded not just as the preserve of the thinking elite but for almost ... Přečtěte si více

    237,89 Kč

  • Trudeau Transformed

    The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965

    This groundbreaking biography continues the story begun in Young Trudeau, taking Canada's legendary Prime Minister from his pro-fascist youth all the way to his entry into federal politics as a crusading Liberal democrat.When he went to Harvard in 1944, Pierre Trudeau was twenty-five, a recent graduate of the University of Montreal Law School; true to his elite Catholic-French education, he had ... Přečtěte si více

    330,59 Kč

  • Young Trudeau: 1919-1944

    Son of Quebec, Father of Canada

    Překlad: William Johnson ...
    This book shines a light of devastating clarity on French-Canadian society in the 1930s and 1940s, when young elites were raised to be pro-fascist, and democratic and liberal were terms of criticism. The model leaders to be admired were good Catholic dictators like Mussolini, Salazar in Portugal, Franco in Spain, and especially Pétain, collaborator with the Nazis in Vichy France. There were even ... Přečtěte si více

    285,49 Kč

  • Counter-Democracy

    Politics in an Age of Distrust

    Série Kniha 7 - The Seeley Lectures
    Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the steady erosion of confidence in representatives that has become one of the major political issues of our time. Amidst these challenges, the paradox remains that while citizens are less likely to make the trip to the ballot box, the world is far from ... Přečtěte si více

    667,29 Kč

  • The Society of Equals

    podle Pierre Rosanvallon ...
    Překlad: Arthur Goldhammer ...
    Since the 1980s, society’s wealthiest members have claimed an ever-expanding share of income and property. It has been a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon—the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. And just as significant as the social and economic factors driving this contemporary inequality has been a loss of faith in the ideal of ... Přečtěte si více

    752,89 Kč

  • Democratic Legitimacy

    Impartiality, Reflexivity, Proximity

    podle Pierre Rosanvallon ...
    Překlad: Arthur Goldhammer ...
    It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But in Democratic Legitimacy, Pierre Rosanvallon, one of today's leading political thinkers, argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding. He makes the case that the sources of democratic legitimacy have shifted and multiplied ... Přečtěte si více

    871,39 Kč

  • The French Revolution in Global Perspective

    The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms—at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing—were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.Believe iSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern ... Přečtěte si více

    495,39 Kč

  • Good Government

    Democracy beyond Elections

    podle Pierre Rosanvallon ...
    Překlad: Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated political geographies have placed the Congress and state legislatures in a stranglehold that is often at odds with public opinion. Campaign financing ensures that only the affluent have voice in legislation. Europeans, meanwhile, increasingly see the ... Přečtěte si více

    769,99 Kč

  • A Companion to the French Revolution

    Upravil: Peter McPhee ...
    Série série Blackwell Companions to European History
    A Companion to the French Revolution comprises twenty-nine newly-written essays reassessing the origins, development, and impact of this great turning-point in modern history.Examines the origins, development and impact of the French RevolutionFeatures original contributions from leading historians, including six essays translated from French.Presents a wide-ranging overview of current historical ... Přečtěte si více

    840,59 Kč