Human rights is a concept that only came to the forefront during the eighteenth century. When the American Declaration of Independence declared "all men are created equal" and the French proclaimed the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they were bringing a new guarantee into the world. Professor Lynn Hunt questions why it happened then and how ...
Praised for its highly readable narrative and unmatched integration of political, social and cultural history, "The Making of the West: A Concise History" captures the spirit of each age as it situates Europe within a global context. The rich narrative pays sustained attention to important topics and developments over time and reveals the cross ...
A team of renowned scholar-teachers created "The Making of the West" to address three of the biggest challenges teachers of western civilization face -- demonstrating how the West has been an evolving entity shaped by global influences; conveying the dynamic interaction of social, political, cultural, and economic history in shaping events over ...
This book, by three major American historians, grapples with the problem of historical truth. Seeking the roots of contemporary historical study in the Enlightenment, the authors argue that a model of historical research, based on neutrality and objectivity, served historians well until World War II. Then postmodernism suggested history could not ...
"The Making of the West "offers a geographically and culturally expansive conception of the West that prepares students to understand today's globalized world. Its integrated chronological narrative makes the impact of historical developments clear by highlighting the interconnections among the politics, people, and ideas of a specific period. ...
A team of renowned scholar-teachers created "The Making of the West" to address three of the biggest challenges teachers of western civilization face -- demonstrating how the West has been an evolving entity shaped by global influences; conveying the dynamic interaction of social, political, cultural, and economic history in shaping events over ...
This is a collection of 38 primary documents covering the issue of rights and citizenship in Revolutionary France. There is an extensive introductory essay which provides the context for the documents and discusses the controversies over citizenship and rights in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France. Many of the documents have never been ...
Praised for its highly readable narrative and unmatched integration of political, social and cultural history, "The Making of the West: A Concise History" captures the spirit of each age as it situates Europe within a global context. The rich narrative pays sustained attention to important topics and developments over time and reveals the cross ...
Praised for its highly readable narrative and unmatched integration of political, social and cultural history, "The Making of the West: A Concise History" captures the spirit of each age as it situates Europe within a global context. The rich narrative pays sustained attention to important topics and developments over time and reveals the cross ...
Across the humanities and the social sciences, disciplinary boundaries have come into question as scholars have acknowledged their common preoccupations with cultural phenomena ranging from rituals and ceremonies to texts and discourse. Literary critics, for example, have turned to history for a deepening of their notion of cultural products; some ...
Hailed as a path-breaking contribution and a sensible new choice for the Western Civilization classroom of the 21st century, The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures -- written by a team of notable historians and experienced teachers -- offers a new synthesis, one that reveals history as a process while capturing the spirit of each age.
In America today the intense and controversial debate over the censorship of pornography continues to call into question the values of a modern, democratic culture. This collection of ten critical essays traces the history and various uses of pornography in early modern Europe, offering the historical perspective crucial to understanding current ...
"The Making of the West "offers a geographically and culturally expansive conception of the West that prepares students to understand today's globalized world. Its integrated chronological narrative makes the impact of historical developments clear by highlighting the interconnections among the politics, people, and ideas of a specific period. ...
New Press's four-volume Postwar French Thought Series charts the radical intellectual transformations that have taken place in post-World War II France. HISTORIES, the first volume in the series, focuses on the changing field of historiography. It contains selections from major foundational texts as well as lesser-known works, many translated here ...
The CD-ROM in this set contains images from the French Revolution, including: primary documents, songs, maps, caricatures, portraits, sculptures, and photographs of artifacts. Whilst the text is a narrative of the revolution through to the defeat of Napoleon. Given the centrality of visual artifacts (imagery, symbolism, and print culture) to the ...
By the end of the nineteenth century, women had become an undeniable force both in the public discussion of social life and in politics itself. Yet in art and literature women's bodies continued to be represented-- and domesticated-- by men. They were still more often the object of the artist's or writer's gaze than they were the subject of their ...
Using a wide range of artistic, iconographic, literary and historical sources, Lynn Hunt undertakes a Freudian influenced analysis of the French Revolution. The deposition of France's monarchy, allegations of Marie-Antoinette's sexual debauchery and incest with her son, followed by the execution of Louis XVI and later his wife, were part of an ...
Based on the widely acclaimed survey text, The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, and condensed by the authors themselves, A Concise History retains the unique chronological synthesis, broad coverage, and geographic inclusion of the original work while providing an even sharper, more focused treatment of the historical development of the ...
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