Invention Of West
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The American West
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Author : David Hamilton Murdoch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The American West written by David Hamilton Murdoch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
The Wild West of Hollywood and American folklore is nothing more than a functional myth asserts D.H. Murdoch in this study, which presents a sustained analysis of how the myth originated and why.
Invention Of West
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Author : A. GREENBERG
language : en
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date : 1925-01-21
Invention Of West written by A. GREENBERG and has been published by Harper Perennial this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925-01-21 with Fiction categories.
The Invention Of Law In The West
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Author : Aldo Schiavone
language : en
Publisher: Belknap Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
The Invention Of Law In The West written by Aldo Schiavone and has been published by Belknap Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with History categories.
Law is a specific form of social regulation distinct from religion, ethics, and even politics, and endowed with a strong and autonomous rationality. Its invention, a crucial aspect of Western history, took place in ancient Rome. Aldo Schiavone, a world-renowned classicist, reconstructs this development with clear-eyed passion, following its course over the centuries, setting out from the earliest origins and moving up to the threshold of Late Antiquity. The invention of Western law occurred against the backdrop of the Roman Empire's gradual consolidationâe"an age of unprecedented accumulation of power which transformed an archaic predisposition to ritual into an unrivaled technology for the control of human dealings. Schiavone offers us a closely reasoned interpretation that returns us to the primal origins of Western legal machinery and the discourse that was constructed around itâe"formalism, the pretense of neutrality, the relationship with political power. This is a landmark work of scholarship whose influence will be felt by classicists, historians, and legal scholars for decades.
The Invention Of The West
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Author : Christopher Lloyd GoGwilt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Invention Of The West written by Christopher Lloyd GoGwilt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.
By placing Joseph Conrad's fiction at the center of an examination of the term "the West", this study reconceives the major contours of Conrad's work to show how the contemporary commonplace idea of the West emerged around the turn of the century from the combined and related phenomena of European imperial expansion and a crisis of democratic politics. The author argues that twentieth-century ideas of the West can be traced to the convergence of two distinct discursive contexts: the "new imperialism" of the 1890's that gave wider currency to oppositions between East and West, and the influence of nineteenth-century Russian debates on Western European ideas of Europe. The work of Conrad is shown to be uniquely suited to studying the relation between these two cultural and political contexts, since they provided Conrad with his two great themes - colonialism and revolution.
A History Of Western Civilization
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Author : Roland N. Stromberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
A History Of Western Civilization written by Roland N. Stromberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Civilization, Western categories.
Invention Of The Western Film A Cultural History Of The Genre S First Half Century
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Author : SCOTT. SIMMON
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Invention Of The Western Film A Cultural History Of The Genre S First Half Century written by SCOTT. SIMMON and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
The Rise Of The West
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Author : William H. McNeill
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-07-30
The Rise Of The West written by William H. McNeill and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-30 with History categories.
The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that from the Neolithic beginnings of grain agriculture to the present major social changes in all parts of the world were triggered by new or newly important foreign stimuli, and he presents a persuasive narrative of world history to support this claim. In a retrospective essay titled "The Rise of the West after Twenty-five Years," McNeill shows how his book was shaped by the time and place in which it was written (1954-63). He discusses how historiography subsequently developed and suggests how his portrait of the world's past in The Rise of the West should be revised to reflect these changes. "This is not only the most learned and the most intelligent, it is also the most stimulating and fascinating book that has ever set out to recount and explain the whole history of mankind. . . . To read it is a great experience. It leaves echoes to reverberate, and seeds to germinate in the mind."—H. R. Trevor-Roper, New York Times Book Review
A Brief History Of Western Man
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Author : Thomas H. Greer
language : en
Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
Release Date : 1972
A Brief History Of Western Man written by Thomas H. Greer and has been published by Harcourt Brace College Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with History categories.
A Short History Of Western Civilization
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Author : John Baugham Harrison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
A Short History Of Western Civilization written by John Baugham Harrison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.
Civilizing The Enemy
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Author : Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2006-06-26
Civilizing The Enemy written by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-26 with Political Science categories.
For the past century, politicians have claimed that "Western Civilization" epitomizes democratic values and international stability. But who is a member of "Western Civilization"? Germany, for example, was a sworn enemy of the United States and much of Western Europe in the first part of the twentieth century, but emerged as a staunch Western ally after World War II. By examining German reconstruction under the Marshall Plan, author Patrick Jackson shows how the rhetorical invention of a West that included Germany was critical to the emergence of the postwar world order. Civilizing the Enemy convincingly describes how concepts are strategically shaped and given weight in modern international relations, by expertly dissecting the history of "the West" and demonstrating its puzzling persistence in the face of contradictory realities. "By revisiting the early Cold War by means of some carefully conducted intellectual history, Patrick Jackson expertly dissects the post-1945 meanings of "the West" for Europe's emergent political imaginary. West German reconstruction, the foundation of NATO, and the idealizing of 'Western civilization' all appear in fascinating new light." --Geoff Eley, University of Michigan "Western civilization is not given but politically made. In this theoretically sophisticated and politically nuanced book, Patrick Jackson argues that Germany's reintegration into a Western community of nations was greatly facilitated by civilizational discourse. It established a compelling political logic that guided the victorious Allies in their occupation policy. This book is very topical as it engages critically very different, and less successful, contemporary theoretical constructions and political deployments of civilizational discourse." --Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University "What sets Patrick Jackson's book apart is his attention, on the one hand, to philosophical issues behind the kinds of theoretical claims he makes and, on the other hand, to the methodological implications that follow from those claims. Few scholars are willing and able to do both, and even fewer are as successful as he is in carrying it off. Patrick Jackson is a systematic thinker in a field where theory is all the rage but systematic thinking is in short supply." --Nicholas Onuf, Florida International University Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is Assistant Professor of International Relations in American University's School of International Service.