Search Results: Intellectual History

Gainesville, FL:: University of Flordia Press,, 1962.. Paperback. Used; Like New. Discussion of continentalism of Latin American Nationalism and its positive and humane aspects. Author concludes that despite the problems it raises Latin American nationalism is "an assest to the United States and the free world at large, for it is the most effective of all barriers against penetration of the area by the Sino-Soviet bloc." Includes notes.

Caracas:: Teléfonos de Venezuela,, 1974.. Paperback. Used; Good. With brief biographies of the artists in Spanish, French and English

New Haven:: Yale University Press,, 1974.. Paperback. Good. These graceful and witty essays by a distinguished American historian disclose the fallacy of believing that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. Carl Becker brilliantly demonstrates that the period commonly described as The Age of Reason was, in fact, very far from that; that Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, and Locke were living in a medieval world, and that the philosophers "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials."

Cambridge, Massachusetts:: Harvard University Press,, 1961.. Hardcover. Good. A brief study of thirty-five outstanding thinkers of Latin America since independence, valuable as an introduction to the subject." Humphreys 1162. "...a valuable collection of essays which opens up the realm of ideas.

Berkeley:: University of California Press,, 1970.. Paperback. Good. By a careful selection from the writings and speeches of the politically active Hindu and Moslem leaders- men such as Rande, Gohale, Tilak, Lajpat Rai, Gandhi, Nehru, Radhakrishnan, Narayan, and Bahve- Mr. Brown illuminates the events in nineteenth-century India flowing from the first strongly defined nationalistic movement, which aimed first for reform and later at independence from Britain.

Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ...; ...; . . Hardcover. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Light shelf wear to Jacket. Light scratches on DJ back. Overall, a clean and tight copy. . Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. .

Cleveland, OH: World Publishing, 1963. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Leonard Vosbugh (Illustrator). First Edition, 2nd Printing. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated beige linen boards/Fine. DJ/Good; w/chips, tears to edges, loss to upper back edge, & coffee (?) ring to center front. Americana. Jewish-American humorist, writer & publisher Harry Golden (1902-1981) writes an appreciation of peddlers that followed the advance of American frontiersman, all the while seeding the mercantile & industrial complex to bloom. The book recounts the lives of a Connecticut Yankee, a Scandinavian, and Levi Strauss (1829 - 1902) whose denim jeans are still worn worldwide. Strong copy in lesser dust jacket.

Mexico:: Fondo de Cultura Economica,, 1994.. Paperback. Used; Like New. Revisión de los debates ideológicos y políticos que durante los últimos 180 años han definido nuestra visión de la historia, de los diversos aportes culturales de diferentes civilizaciones y doctrinas y de la particular conciencia o identidad nacional que de allí se derivan.

México:: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,, 1987.. Paperback. Good. Juan A. Ortega y Medina nos muestra, en la parte primera de su penetrate estudio, como ha acogido la conciencia mexicana critica la figura de Cristobal Colon, comenzando en 1836 con la vision de inquieto don Carlos Maria de Bustamante. La segunda parte del libro esta dedicada al analisis critico de la controversia que se ha suscitado la tesis sobre el "Encuentro de dos mundos.

Xalapa, Mexico:: Universidad Veracruzana,, 2010.. Paperback. New. Contenidos: Woody Allen: la saga de los mundos concentricos, Zelig (1983); Ingmar Bergman: el silencio de una antigua catastrofe, Las mejores intenciones (1991); Authur Penn: a traves de un espejo oscuro, Ana de los milagros (1962); Andreiu Tarkovski: el espejo en el centro de la mirada, El espejo (1975); Francois Truffant: el desafio de lo transparente, El niño salvaje (1969); Orson Welles: el viaje absorto, Ciudadano Kane (1940); Wim Wenders: el multiple retorno a Itaca, Paris, Texis (1984)

Kingston:: The University of the West Indies Press,, 2020.. Boards. New. A pioneer in the field of cultural studies, Stuart Hall produced an impressive body of work on the relationship between culture and power. His contributions to critical theory and the study of politics, culture, communication, media, race, diaspora and postcolonialism made him one of the great public intellectuals of the late twentieth century.

Santo Domingo:: Editora Mediabyte,, 2012.. Paperback. New. Biography of Juan Pablo Duarte as a leader of liberal thinkers and champion of democratization in the Dominican Republic

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 2001. First published in 1987, this is a classic work in the history of science and French intellectual and cultural history; more than a narrative history of the rise of psychiatry in 19th century France, it explains why French psychiatry assumed the form that it did (maroon & white pictorial covers with very small crease on front; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from an independent bookstore). Second Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. This volume presents the author's original interpretation of the revolution that marked the beginnings of modern science; it shows that the essence of the Newtonian revolution is the relation between abstract mathematical constructs and the physical systems we observe in the world by means of experiment and observation; building on the analysis of Newton's methodology, it explores the structure of scientific change as a series of transformations (blue, orange & black cover with very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, unmarked copy). Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Vol 128 of the Memoirs. First edition.Moderate tanning of spine and slight tanning mark on front cover, very small imperfection on head of spine; otherwise unmarked, undamaged, and virtually as new, apparently never been opened.Prof. Jones's introduction and notes provide excellent context to this fascinating series of letters from pioneering American physician Jonathan Warren, probably the first to administer anesthetic during pediatric surgery and a leader in reconstructive surgery techniques. He studied in Paris with the leading medical practitioners of the day, and his letters provide valuable information on the state of medicine at the time and on the development of American medicine in the years leading up to the American Civil War.

One corner bumped, front hinge a little weak, some scuffing, but all pages tight, bright, clean and intact, with a few neat penciled notes. Bears bookplate of Prof. K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. Translation of: Wirtschaftliche und soziale Grundlagen der europäishchen Kulturentwicklung. The first American edition of Dopsch's second edition (1923-24) of Die Wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Grundlagen der Europäischen Kulturentwicklung. Somewhat condensed by Prof. Erna Patzelt from the original.Dopsch's ambitious and magisterial account of the foundations of European civilization from the the so-called "earliest" period (Caesar to Tacitus), the division of the soil and agrarian economy in the late Roman and early medieval periods, the development of political structure and the organization of society, the influence of the church, the rise of feudalism, town life, industry and trade, the development of currency and a money economy, and more. A… Read More

Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.: Princeton University Press, 2003. This is a study of the rise and fall of philhellenism, the love of Greek culture, in Germany that focuses on the cultural history of classical archaeology; includes photographs and other illustrations (pictorial cover with photo of the Acropolis on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. As New.

Buenos Aires:: Zurbarán Ediciones,, 1993.. Hardcover. Used; Good. Includes color portrait photos and professional biographies of 23 Argentine artist with examples of their work

A little corner bumping, small chip and fraying at head of spine, Front hinge starting, some age-darkening, all pages clean, unmarked and intact. Some light pencil writing on front pastedown. Gilding on spine worn.
Printed on heavy stock with 25 illustrations. Tissue-protected frontispiece. Full blindstamped pictorial cover showing armored and visored St. George slaying the dragon, with sun, castle, distressed damsel and SCUS GEORGIUS in lower panel, bordered by stag and hound, lions, gryphons, castle walls, suns, florals.
Elizabeth Oke Buckland Gordon (born c. 1825) was a writer and the biographer of her father, distinguished geologist, paleontologist, theologian and Dean of Westminster William Buckland.
This a careful and considered account of the saint as an historical figure as well as a history of the knights of St. George, the Order of the Garter, and St. George's powerful military and symbolic influence on Christianity. The widespread commemoration of him in liturgy, customs, traditions, art… Read More

In Catalan.
Cardboard boards, tanned spine, some corner-bumping and light soling of boards, external hinges cracked, internal sound; a little age-darkening, but all pages intact, clean and unmarked. Backstrip is beginning to separate, but the binding is sound. Numerous black and white photographic tissue-protected illustrations.
Founded in 1907 by the eminent Catalan nationalist, politician, author and lawyer Enric Prat de la Riba i Sarrà (1870 – 1917), the prestigious Institute for Catalan Studies publishes and fosters research in a number of fields, such as linguistics, history, sociology, philology, etc., primarily in the humanities and social sciences. It promotes all aspects of Catalan language, culture and identity.
This hard-to-find volume details the first 25 years of the Institute and the contributions of prominent Catalan nationalists, writers and scholars.