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Book The Disciplinary Revolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip S. Gorski
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2010-09-17
  • ISBN : 0226304868
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Disciplinary Revolution written by Philip S. Gorski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of military or capitalist revolutions, Philip S. Gorski argues instead for the importance of a disciplinary revolution unleashed by the Reformation. By refining and diffusing a variety of disciplinary techniques and strategies, such as communal surveillance, control through incarceration, and bureaucratic office-holding, Calvin and his followers created an infrastructure of religious governance and social control that served as a model for the rest of Europe—and the world.

Book Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution

Download or read book Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution written by A.D. Morrison-Low and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the Industrial Revolution, it appeared that most scientific instruments were made and sold in London, but by the time of the Great Exhibition in 1851, a number of provincial firms had the self-confidence to exhibit their products in London to an international audience. How had this change come about, and why? This book looks at the four main, and two lesser, English centres known for instrument production outside the capital: Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield, along with the older population centres in Bristol and York. Making wide use of new sources, Dr Morrison-Low, curator of history of science at the National Museums of Scotland, charts the growth of these centres and provides a characterisation of their products. New information is provided on aspects of the trade, especially marketing techniques, sources of materials, tools and customer relationships. From contemporary evidence, she argues that the principal output of the provincial trade (with some notable exceptions) must have been into the London marketplace, anonymously, and at the cheaper end of the market. She also discusses the structure and organization of the provincial trade, and looks at the impact of new technology imported from other closely-allied trades. By virtue of its approach and subject matter the book considers aspects of economic and business history, gender and the family, the history of science and technology, material culture, and patterns of migration. It contains a myriad of stories of families and firms, of entrepreneurs and customers, and of organizations and arms of government. In bringing together this wide range of interests, Dr Morrison-Low enables us to appreciate how central the making, selling and distribution of scientific instruments was for the Industrial Revolution.

Book Revolution Beyond the Event

Download or read book Revolution Beyond the Event written by Charlotte Al-Khalili and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolution Beyond the Event brings together leading international anthropologists alongside emerging scholars to examine revolutionary legacies from the MENA region, Latin America and the Caribbean. It explores the idea that revolutions have varied afterlives that complicate the assumptions about their duration, pace and progression, and argues that a renewed focus on the temporality of radical politics is essential to our understanding of revolution. Approaching revolution through its relationship to time, the book is a critical intervention into attempts to define revolutions as bounded events that act as sequential transitions from one political system to another. It pursues an ethnographically driven rethinking of the temporal horizons that are at stake in revolutionary processes, arguing that linear views of revolution are inextricably tied to notions of progress and modernity. Through a careful selection of case studies, the book provides a critical perspective on the lived realities of revolutionary afterlives, challenging the liberal humanist assumptions implicit in the ‘modern’ idea of revolution, and reappraising the political agency of people caught up in revolutionary situations across a variety of ethnographic contexts.

Book The French revolution

Download or read book The French revolution written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in M DCC  LXXXIX  to the Restoration of the Bourbons  in M DCCC XV

Download or read book History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in M DCC LXXXIX to the Restoration of the Bourbons in M DCCC XV written by Archibald Alison and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in M DCC LXXXIX  to the Restoration of the Bourbons in M DCCC XV

Download or read book History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in M DCC LXXXIX to the Restoration of the Bourbons in M DCCC XV written by Sir Archibald Alison and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life of Napoleon Buonaparte with a Preliminary View of the French Revolution

Download or read book Life of Napoleon Buonaparte with a Preliminary View of the French Revolution written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A history of the French revolution

Download or read book A history of the French revolution written by French revolution, 1789 and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Violence  Civil Strife and Revolution in the Classical City  Routledge Revivals

Download or read book Violence Civil Strife and Revolution in the Classical City Routledge Revivals written by Andrew Lintott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent conflict between individuals and groups was as common in the ancient world as it has been in more recent history. Detested in theory, it nevertheless became as frequent as war between sovereign states. The importance of such ‘stasis’ was recognised by political thinkers of the time, especially Thucydides and Aristotle, both of whom tried to analyse its causes. Violence, Civil Strife and Revolution in the Classical City, first published in 1982, gives a conspectus of stasis in the societies of Greek antiquity, and traces the development of civil strife as city-states grew in political, social and economic sophistication. Aristocratic rivalry, tensions between rich and poor, imperialism and constitutional crisis are all discussed, while special consideration is given to the attitudes of the participants and the theoretical explanations offered at the time. In conclusion, civil strife in the ancient world is compared to more recent conflicts, both domestic and international.

Book From Vichy to the Sexual Revolution

Download or read book From Vichy to the Sexual Revolution written by Sarah Fishman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades after World War II, French ideas about gender and family life underwent dramatic changes, laying the groundwork for the sexual revolution of the 1960s. This book offers a broad view of changing lives and ideas about love, courtship, marriage, giving birth, parenting, childhood, and adolescence in France from the Vichy regime to the sexual revolution of 1960s.

Book Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution written by Paul R. Hanson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Revolution remains the most examined event, or period, in world history. It was, most historians would argue, the first “modern” revolution, an event so momentous that it changed the very meaning of the word revolution, from “restoration,” as in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England, to its modern sense of connoting a political and/or social upheaval that marks a decisive break with the past, one that moves a society in a forward, or progressive, direction. No revolution has occurred since 1789 without making reference to this first revolution, and most have been measured against it. One cannot utter the date 1789 without thinking of revolution, and so significant were the changes unleashed in that year that it has come to mark the dividing line between early modern and late modern European history Kings This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on the causes and origins; the roles of significant persons; crucial events and turning points; important institutions and organizations; and the economic, social, and intellectual factors involved in the event that gave birth to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this period.

Book Revolution   Romanticism

Download or read book Revolution Romanticism written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rousseau and Revolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Will Durant
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2011-06-07
  • ISBN : 1451647670
  • Pages : 1323 pages

Download or read book Rousseau and Revolution written by Will Durant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 1323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Civilization, Volume X: winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the rest of Europe from 1715 to 1789.

Book Skepticism and American Faith

Download or read book Skepticism and American Faith written by Christopher Grasso and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of religious skepticism and faith profoundly shaped America. Although usually rendered nearly invisible, skepticism touched-and sometimes transformed-more lives than might be expected from standard accounts. This book examines Americans wrestling with faith and doubt as they tried to make sense of their world.

Book Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine

Download or read book Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine written by Daughters of the American Revolution and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: