Political Thought In Portugal And Its Empire C1500 1800

Author : Pedro Cardim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108418279
Total Pages : 361 pages
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Download or read book Political Thought in Portugal and its Empire, c.1500–1800 written by Pedro Cardim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the wealth of political thought from early modern Portugal and its empire through a selection of writings by Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian authors.

Author : David A. J. Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107037956
Total Pages : 283 pages
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Download or read book The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire written by David A. J. Richards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that there is an important connection between ethical resistance to British imperialism and the ethical discovery of gay rights. By closely examining the roots of liberal resistance in Britain and resistance to patriarchy in the United States, this book shows that fighting the demands of patriarchal manhood and womanhood plays an important role in countering imperialism. Advocates of feminism and gay rights (in particular, the Bloomsbury Group in Britain) play an important public function in the criticism of imperialism because they resist the gender binary's role in rationalizing sexism and homophobia in both public and private life. The connection between the rise of gay rights and the fall of empire illuminates larger questions of the meaning of democracy and of universal human rights as shared human values that have appeared since World War II. The book also casts doubt on the thesis that arguments for gay rights must be extrinsic to democracy, and that they must reflect Western, as opposed to "African" or "Asian," values. To the contrary, gay rights arise from within liberal democracy, and its critics polemically use such opposition to cover and rationalize their own failures of democracy.

Author : Philip T. Hoffman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691175845
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Did Europe Conquer the World? written by Philip T. Hoffman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The startling economic and political answers behind Europe's historical dominance Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations—such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution—fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if certain variables had been different, Europe would have been eclipsed, and another power could have become master of the world. Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development, military rivalry, and war. This resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize. Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy.

Author : F T Energy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781860672125
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Research in Britain written by F T Energy and published by . This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1018 pages
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Author : Grzegorz Moroz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004429611
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature written by Grzegorz Moroz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature offers a comprehensive, comparative and generic analysis of developments of travel writing in Anglophone and Polish literature from the Late Medieval Period to the twenty-first century. These developments are depicted in a wider context of travel narratives written in other European languages.

Author : David A. J. Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107067995
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire written by David A. J. Richards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that there is an important connection between ethical resistance to British imperialism and the ethical discovery of gay rights. It examines the roots of liberal resistance in Britain and resistance to patriarchy in the USA, showing the importance of fighting the demands of patriarchal manhood and womanhood to countering imperialism. Advocates of feminism and gay rights are key because they resist the gender binary's role in rationalizing sexism and homophobia. The connection between the rise of gay rights and the fall of empire illuminates questions of the meaning of democracy and universal human rights as shared human values that have appeared since World War II. The book casts doubt on the thesis that arguments for gay rights must be extrinsic to democracy and reflect Western values. To the contrary, gay rights arise from within liberal democracy, and its critics polemically use such opposition to cover and rationalize their own failures of democracy.

Author : Wilson Wall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319990888
Total Pages : 173 pages
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Download or read book A History of Optical Telescopes in Astronomy written by Wilson Wall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is uniquely about the relationship between the optical telescope and astronomy as they developed together. It covers the time between the telescope's pivotal invention in the 1600's up to the modern era of space-based telescopes. Over the intervening centuries, there were huge improvements in the optical resolution of telescopes, along with changes in their positioning and nature of application that forever altered the course of astronomy. For a long time, the field was an exclusive club for self-motivated stargazers who could afford to build their own telescopes. Many of these leisure-time scholars left their mark by virtue of their meticulous observations and record keeping. Although they would now be considered amateurs, these figures and their contributions were pivotal and are covered in this book alongside professionals, for the first time giving a complete picture of the history of telescopic science.

Author : G. Campbell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230609902
Total Pages : 277 pages
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Download or read book Wine, Society, and Globalization written by G. Campbell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays comprises a number of case studies from key wine-growing regions and countries around the world. Contributors focus on the development of the wine business and its overall importance and impact in terms of the regional and domestic economy and the international economy