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The American Commonwealth
James Bryce
Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.
In Democracy in America (1835) the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville interpreted American society through the lens of democratic political theory. A half-century later the Scotsman James Bryce examined "the institutions and the people of America as they are." Bryce presented his findings in The American Commonwealth, first published in London in
The Art of Not Being Governed
James C. Scott
Издател: Yale University Press
Winner of the 2010 Fukuoka Asian Academic Prize, given by the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize Committee
A finalist in the category of Nonfiction for the 2010 Connecticut Book Award, given by the Connecticut Center for the Book
Winner of the 2010 John K. Fairbank Book Prize, given by the American Historical Association
Winner of the 2010 Bernard
The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson
Издател: Penguin Group
Niall Ferguson makes a strong, compelling case for the development of money and banking as a catalyst for the advancement of civilization. Yet while some critics praised his clear, comprehensible writing, punctuated with anecdotes and historical details, others were nonplussed by his explanations and narrative detours. Several critics also
The Campaign That Won America
Burke Davis
Издател: The Dial Press
A Book of the Revolutionary War battle of Yorktown by master historian Burke Davis.
Describes the siege of Yorktown which caused Lord Cornwallis and his British troops to surrender to General Washington and his Continental Army.
The Coming of the New Deal: 1933-1935
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Издател: Houghton Mifflin Company
The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935, volume two of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, describes Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first tumultuous years in the White House. Coming into office at the bottom of the Great Depression, FDR told the American people that they have nothing
The Crisis of the Old Order: 1919-1933
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Издател: Houghton Mifflin Company
The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933, volume one of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr."s Age of Roosevelt series, is the first of three books that interpret the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of the early twentieth century in terms of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the spokesman and symbol
The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.
The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century collects nine essays by Trevor-Roper on the themes of religion, the Reformation, and social change. As Trevor-Roper explains in his preface, “the crisis in government, society, and ideas which occurred, both in Europe and in England, between the Reformation and the middle of the seventeenth century”
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
Издател: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject.
According to Gibbon, the Roman Empire succumbed to barbarian invasions in large part due to the gradual loss of civic virtue among its citizens. They had become
The Evolution of Civilizations
Carroll Quigley
Издател: Liberty Press
Carroll Quigley was a legendary teacher at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. His course on the history of civilization was extraordinary in its scope and in its impact on his students.
Like the course, The Evolution of Civilizations is a comprehensive and perceptive look at the factors behind the rise and fall of
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