Among the first written accounts of the concentration camps—a major literary and historical discovery. While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was subsequently forgotten and remained unknown to a wider public. Dating from the weeks and months immediately after the war, Auschwitz Reportdetails the author ...
Who – and what – are the Bourgeois? “The bourgeois … Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. ‘I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals,’ wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words toda ...
How the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages. In the course of this study, Anderson vindicates and refines the explanatory power of historical materialism, while casting a fasci ...
Situating the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the background of European feudalism. Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up from where its companion volume, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, left off, Lineages traces the development of Absolutist states in the early modern period from their roots in European feudalism ...
Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain. In an iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation agreements. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel's evident strength brought it into line with US foreign ...
Память о прошло имеет большое значение в человеческой истории. Она была и есть одним из «цементов», превращающих отдельных индивидов в сообщество: род, племя, народ, нацию, государство. История объединяет людей в сознательных членов общества. В данном сборнике авторы представляют заметки самой разной тематики. Но большая часть из них связана с историей России прежде всего революцией 1917 г. и гражданской войной. Интерес представляют зарисовки о ...
Рим и Карфаген были двумя полюсами древней цивилизации, претендующими на универсальность, на то, чтобы стать мерилом общечеловеческой этики. Один из них неизбежно должен был погибнуть. Но кто же: Рим или Карфаген? Испанский филолог и лингвист Хуана Хименес не согласна с общепринятой исторической концепцией, считая ее идеологически мотивированной, и предлагает собственную версию.
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Общенациональная ежедневная газета, которая пользуется заслуженным доверием и уважением читателей. Круг интересов газеты – политика, экономика, культура и спорт, общественная жизнь и будни армии, городские новости и светская хроника. В каждом номере публикуются эксклюзивные репортажи, аналитика и комментарии высокопрофессиональных журналистов. ...
No country has worked harder to coerce others to adopt liberal institutions than the United States. This book examines the promotion of democracy during U.S. military interventions in the twentieth century, showing it to be one of the central ways in which the United States attempts to reconcile the potential contradictions involved in being a liberal great power. Examining interventions from the Spanish-American War through recent actions in ...
