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  • Radical Reactionaries : The political Thought of the French catholic League

    Series series Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Alors que la majorité des membres de la Ligue étaient fondamentalement réactionnaires - leur but étant de rétablir la société française selon le modèle existant avant l'expansion du Protestantisme - quelques-uns des membres étaient de vrais révolutionnaires désireux d'obtenir, par la force, des changements radicaux du gouvernement et de la société. L'étude de la Ligue dans ses contradictions ... Leer más

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  • An Accidental Pope

    Essays on Frederick Rolfe’s Hadrian the Seventh

    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    The novel Hadrian the Seventh has received critical attention in the past, there remain significant gaps in the scholarship regarding Frederick Rolfe's novel which this collection of essays aims to fill, particularly in terms of its political, religious, philosophical, and literary aspects. The topics discussed include the novel's place in literary history, both in terms of bridging Decadence with ... Leer más

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  • Communicator-in-Chief

    How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    Communicator-in-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House examines the fascinating and precedent-setting role new media technologies and the Internet played in the 2008 presidential campaign that allowed for the historic election of the nation's first African American president. It was the first presidential campaign in which the Internet, the electorate, and ... Leer más

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  • Twelve Caesars

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    From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of today’s “sculpture ... Leer más

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  • Humanly Possible

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  • History

    A Very Short Introduction

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    There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ... Leer más

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    de Frances Gies ...
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  • Social History of Knowledge

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