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Book Renaissance and Revolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. V. Field
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1997-10-02
  • ISBN : 9780521627542
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Renaissance and Revolution written by J. V. Field and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fifteen essays on some of the problems associated with the Scientific Revolution.

Book Renaissance to Revolution

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  • Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
  • Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781848220430
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Renaissance to Revolution written by National Gallery of Art (U.S.) and published by Lund Humphries Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The outstanding collection of French old master drawings held in Washington's National Gallery of Art, represents in remarkable richness and breadth the history of French draftsmanship before 1800. Showcasing for the first time the heart of this outstanding body of work, Renaissance to Revolution celebrates the singular originality, elegance and spirit of French draftsmanship.

Book Revolution Or Renaissance

Download or read book Revolution Or Renaissance written by D. Paul Schafer and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Revolution or Renaissance, D. Paul Schafer subjects two of the most powerful forces in the world – economics and culture – to a detailed and historically sensitive analysis. He argues that the economic age has produced a great deal of wealth and unleashed tremendous productive power; however, it is not capable of coming to grips with the problems threatening human and non-human life on this planet. After tracing the evolution of the economic age from the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations in 1776 to the present, he turns his attention to culture, examining it both as a concept and as a reality. What emerges is a portrait of the world system of the future where culture is the central focus of development. According to Schafer, making the transition from an economic age to a cultural age is imperative if global harmony, environmental sustainability, economic viability, and human well-being are to be achieved.

Book Revolutions  a Very Short Introduction

Download or read book Revolutions a Very Short Introduction written by Jack A. Goldstone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the 20th and 21st century revolutions have become more urban, often less violent, but also more frequent and more transformative of the international order. Whether it is the revolutions against Communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR; the "color revolutions" across Asia, Europe and North Africa; or the religious revolutions in Iran, Afghanistan, and Syria; today's revolutions are quite different from those of the past. Modern theories of revolution have therefore replaced the older class-based theories with more varied, dynamic, and contingent models of social and political change. This new edition updates the history of revolutions, from Classical Greece and Rome to the Revolution of Dignity in the Ukraine, with attention to the changing types and outcomes of revolutionary struggles. It also presents the latest advances in the theory of revolutions, including the issues of revolutionary waves, revolutionary leadership, international influences, and the likelihood of revolutions to come. This volume provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the nature of revolutions and their role in global history"--

Book Renaissance and Revolution

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  • Author : Joseph Anthony Mazzeo
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2021-07
  • ISBN : 9780367272555
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Renaissance and Revolution written by Joseph Anthony Mazzeo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1967, this book discusses some key writers of the Renaissance: Machiavelli, Castiglione, Bacon and Hobbes and compares their work by relating it that of others in England and elsewhere. Chapters on Bacon contain references to Galileo and Descartes; the chapter on Castiglione also touches on Montaigne. The book also contrasts various currents of thought in the Renaissance with their medieval counterparts or forerunners. The volume isolates the great themes, or revolutionary shifts in as they manifest themselves in the work of important writers and thinkers.

Book Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution

Download or read book Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution written by Kenneth B. Moss and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1917 and 1921, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the Russian empire pursued a “Jewish renaissance.” Here is a revisionist argument about the nature of cultural nationalism, the relationship between nationalism and socialism, and culture itself—the pivot point for the encounter between Jews and European modernity over the past century.

Book European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance

Download or read book European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance written by Larry J. Reynolds and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political issues and events have always acted as a catalyst on thought and art. In this pioneering study, Larry J. Reynolds argues that the European revolutions of 1848-49 quickened the American literary imagination and shaped the characters, plots, and themes of the American renaissance. He traces the impact of the revolutions on Emerson, Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Thoreau, showing that the upheavals abroad both inspired and disturbed. Extraordinarily well informed and creative treatment of the influences of the 1848-49 European revolutions on writers of the American Renaissance...The book is especially effective in providing a historical context for reading major writings. It demonstrates influences at work at a number of levels and presents historical narrative and subtle readings of literary texts with equal clarity. Highly recommended.- Choice

Book The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

Download or read book The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment written by Gary D. Rosenberg and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Renaissance  Revolution and Reformation

Download or read book Renaissance Revolution and Reformation written by Aaron Wilkes and published by Folens Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Renaissance to Revolution

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  • Author : Lord Acton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011-10-01
  • ISBN : 9781258117412
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Renaissance to Revolution written by Lord Acton and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Princes of the Renaissance

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  • Author : Mary Hollingsworth
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2021-03-02
  • ISBN : 1643135473
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Princes of the Renaissance written by Mary Hollingsworth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid history of the lives and times of the aristocratic elite whose patronage created the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was an era of dramatic political, religious, and cultural change in the Italian peninsula, witnessing major innovations in the visual arts, literature, music, and science. Princes of the Renaissance charts these developments in a sequence of eleven chapters, each of which is devoted to two or three princely characters with a cast of minor ones—from Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, to Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence, and from Isabella d'Este of Mantua to Lucrezia Borgia. Many of these princes were related by blood or marriage, creating a web of alliances that held Renaissance society together—but whose tensions could spark feuds that threatened to tear it apart. A vivid depiction of the lives and times of the aristocratic elite whose patronage created the art and architecture of the Renaissance, Princes of the Renaissance is a narrative that is as rigorous and definitively researched as it is accessible and entertaining. Perhaps most importantly, Mary Hollingsworth sets the aesthetic achievements of these aristocratic patrons in the context of the volatile, ever-shifting politics of an age of change and innovation.

Book Renaissance and Revolution

Download or read book Renaissance and Revolution written by Joseph Anthony Mazzeo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1967, this book discusses some key writers of the Renaissance: Machiavelli, Castiglione, Bacon and Hobbes and compares their work by relating it that of others in England and elsewhere. Chapters on Bacon contain references to Galileo and Descartes; the chapter on Castiglione also touches on Montaigne. The book also contrasts various currents of thought in the Renaissance with their medieval counterparts or forerunners. The volume isolates the great themes, or revolutionary shifts in as they manifest themselves in the work of important writers and thinkers.

Book Emancipation

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  • Author : Michael Goldfarb
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2009-11-03
  • ISBN : 1439160481
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Emancipation written by Michael Goldfarb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first popular history of the Emancipation of Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a transformation that was startling to those who lived through it and continues to affect the world today. Freed from their ghettos, Jews ushered in a second renaissance. Within a century Marx, Freud, and Einstein created revolutions in politics, human science, and physics that continue to shape our world. Proust, Schoenberg, Mahler, and Kafka redefined artistic expression. Emancipation reformed the practice of Judaism, encouraged some to imagine a modern nation of their own, and within decades led to the dream of Zionism.

Book Renaissance to Revolution

Download or read book Renaissance to Revolution written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book European Weapons and Armour

Download or read book European Weapons and Armour written by Ewart Oakeshott and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. A treasury of information based on solid scholarship, anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial Revolution will welcome this book. The author chooses as his starting-point the invasion of Italy by France in 1494, which sowed the dragon's teeth of all the successive European wars; the French invasion was to accelerate the trend towards new armaments and new methods of warfare. The authordescribes the development of the handgun and the pike, the use and style of staff-weapons, mace and axe and war-hammer, dagger and dirk and bayonet. He shows how armour attained its full Renaissance splendour and then suffered itssorry and inevitable decline, culminating in the Industrial Revolution, with its far-reaching effects on military armaments. Above all, he follows the long history of the sword, queen of weapons, to the late eighteenth century, when it finally ceased to form a part of a gentleman's every-day wear. Lavishly illustrated. EWART OAKESHOTT was one of the world's leading authorities on the arms and armour of medieval Europe. His other works on the subject include Records of the Medieval Sword and The Sword in the Age of Chivalry.

Book Tradition and Revolution

Download or read book Tradition and Revolution written by Ruth Apter-Gabriel and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution

Download or read book History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution written by James MacCaffrey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-20 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.