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  • Prague

    Crossroads of Europe

    de Derek Sayer ...
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    Thirty years ago Prague was a closed book to most Westerners. Today it is Europe’s fifth most-visited city, surpassed only by London, Paris, Istanbul and Rome. With a stunning natural location on the Vltava river and a spectacular potpourri of Romanesque rotundas, Gothic towers, Renaissance palaces, Baroque churches, Art Nouveau cafés, Cubist apartment buildings, Modernist villas and postmodern ... Leer más

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  • Postcards from Absurdistan

    Prague at the End of History

    de Derek Sayer ...
    A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy—with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorshipPostcards from Absurdistan is a cultural history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia’s artistically vibrant liberal democracy, to 1989, when the country’s socialist regime collapsed after more than four decades of ... Leer más

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  • The Coasts of Bohemia

    A Czech History

    de Derek Sayer ...
    In The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare gave the landlocked country of Bohemia a coastline—a famous and, to Czechs, typical example of foreigners' ignorance of the Czech homeland. Although the lands that were once the Kingdom of Bohemia lie at the heart of Europe, Czechs are usually encountered only in the margins of other people's stories. In The Coasts of Bohemia, Derek Sayer reverses this perspective ... Leer más

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  • Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century

    A Surrealist History

    de Derek Sayer ...
    The story of modernity told through a cultural history of twentieth-century PragueSetting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Derek Sayer argues that Prague could well be ... Leer más

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  • Capitalism and Modernity

    An Excursus on Marx and Weber

    de Derek Sayer ...
    First Published in 2004. The nature of modernity, and its connection with capitalism, are questions at the forefront of contemporary sociological debate. Derek Sayer re-examines the answers given by Karl Marx and Max Weber, authors of two of the most profound sociological critiques of modernity. His reassessment of Marx and Weber on capitalism and modernity provides a new reading which reveals the ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Postcards from Absurdistan

    Prague at the End of History

    de Derek Sayer ...
    Narrado por Daniel Henning ...

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    27 hora 59 minutos

    Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural and political history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia's artistically vibrant liberal democracy, to 1989, when the country's socialist regime collapsed after more than four decades of communist dictatorship. Derek Sayer shows that Prague's twentieth century, far from being a story of inexorable progress toward some "end of ... Leer más

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  • Going Down for Air

    A Memoir in Search of a Subject

    What is hidden in the taste of a madeleine - or in snatches of Bob Dylan songs, operatic arias, and the remembered sting of a rattan cane? An exploration of memory, Going Down for Air artfully combines two very different yet connected texts. A Memoir is richly evocative not only of times past, but also of a very English, imperial, queerly masculine subjectivity, caught on the cusp of the ... Leer más

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  • Liberalism

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  • The Real Stalin

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    Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with a combination of political savvy and cold-blooded brutality. He crushed the spirit of his own people while conquering half of Europe. What made the greatest murderer of the twentieth century tick? ... Leer más

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  • The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman

    "A definitive treatment of one of the Soviet Union's most significant writers."—The Russian ReviewVasily Grossman (1905–64), one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, served for over 1,000 days with the Red Army as a war correspondent on the Eastern front. He was present during the street-fighting at Stalingrad, and his 1944 report "The Hell of Treblinka," was the first eyewitness ... Leer más

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  • Marx, Durkheim, Weber

    Formations of Modern Social Thought

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