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Cosmology?s Century - An Inside History of Our Modern Understanding of the Universe - Bok av P. J. E. Peebles - Häftad

Cosmology?s Century - An Inside History of Our Modern Understanding of the Universe - Bok av P. J. E. Peebles - Häftad

From Nobel Prize-winning physicist P. J. E. Peebles, the story of cosmology from Einstein to today Modern cosmology began a century ago with Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity and his notion of a homogenous, philosophically satisfying cosmos. Cosmology's Century is the story of how generations of scientists built on these thoughts and many new measurements to arrive at a well-tested physical theory of the structure and evolution of our expanding universe. In this landmark book, one of..

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Racisms - From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century - Bok av Francisco Bethencourt - Häftad

Racisms - From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century - Bok av Francisco Bethencourt - Häftad

Racisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed within the prism and context of social hierarchies and local conditions. In this richly illustrated book, Bethencourt argues that in its various aspects, all racism has been triggered by political projects monopolizing specific economic and social..

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A Velvet Empire - French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century - Bok av David Todd - Inbunden

A Velvet Empire - French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century - Bok av David Todd - Inbunden

\After Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a new global history of French imperialism in the nineteenth century, providing new insights into the mechanisms of imperial collaboration that extended France's power from the Middle East to Latin America and ushered in the modern age of globalization\--

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Foundations - How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain - Bok av Dr Sam Wetherell - Inbunden

Foundations - How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain - Bok av Dr Sam Wetherell - Inbunden

\This book is a history of the British built environment from the late nineteenth century to the present. Unlike other urban histories of Britain, the book shows how the city helped produce rather than merely reflect the major intellectual and ideological currents that transformed its recent history. Each chapter of the book tells the story of a different type of urban space in Britain. The first part of the book traces the emergence of the industrial trading estate, the shopping center and the..

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Rough Draft of History - A Century of US Social Movements in the News - Bok av Edwin Amenta - Häftad

Rough Draft of History - A Century of US Social Movements in the News - Bok av Edwin Amenta - Häftad

A comprehensive account of the media's coverage of social movements in the United States A new view of twentieth-century US social movements, Rough Draft of History examines how national newspapers covered social movements and the organizations driving them. Edwin Amenta and Neal Caren identify hundreds of movement organizations, from the Women's Christian Temperance Union to Occupy Wall Street, and document their treatment in the news. In doing so, Amenta and Caren provide an alternative account..

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The Church of Saint Thomas Paine - A Religious History of American Secularism - Bok av Leigh Eric Schmidt - Inbunden

The Church of Saint Thomas Paine - A Religious History of American Secularism - Bok av Leigh Eric Schmidt - Inbunden

\The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religion. In The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737-1809) and how their descendants eventually became embroiled in the culture wars of the late twentieth century. After Paine's..

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Agents of Reform - Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State - Bok av Elisabeth Anderson - Häftad

Agents of Reform - Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State - Bok av Elisabeth Anderson - Häftad

\An account of how the welfare state began with early nineteenth-century child labor laws, and how middle-class and elite reformers made it happen. The beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement and to policymakers' efforts to appeal to working-class voters. Elisabeth Anderson shows that the regulatory welfare state began a half century earlier, in the 1830s, with the passage of the first child labor laws. Middle-class and elite reformers..

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The Jewish Century, New Edition - Bok av Yuri Slezkine - Häftad

The Jewish Century, New Edition - Bok av Yuri Slezkine - Häftad

Slezkine argues that the Jews were, in effect, among the world's first free agents. They traditionally belonged to a social and anthropological category known as \service nomads,\ an outsider group specializing in the delivery of goods and services. Their role, Slezkine argues, was part of a broader division of human labor between what he calls Mercurians-entrepreneurial minorities--and Apollonians--food-producing majorities. Since the dawning of the Modern Age, Mercurians have taken center stage...

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The Confidence Trap - A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition - Bok av David Runciman - Häftad

The Confidence Trap - A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition - Bok av David Runciman - Häftad

\In this book, David Runciman emerges as the most original guide we have to democracy's global prospects in the twenty-first century.\--Melissa Lane, Princeton University\The Confidence Trap's engrossing analytical history illuminates democracy's deepening achievements and recurring crises during the charged past century. By incisively interpreting these moments of unsettled apprehension and by tracking patterns of coping and surviving, this rich, important book helps us understand, and perhaps..

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Land of Wondrous Cold - The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice - Bok av Gillen D?Arcy Wood - Häftad

Land of Wondrous Cold - The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice - Bok av Gillen D?Arcy Wood - Häftad

A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughsAntarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal climate and glacial shores notoriously resist human intrusion. Land of Wondrous Cold tells a gripping story of the pioneering nineteenth-century voyages, when British, French, and American commanders..

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The Doctrine of Triangles - A History of Modern Trigonometry - Bok av Glen Van Brummelen - Inbunden

The Doctrine of Triangles - A History of Modern Trigonometry - Bok av Glen Van Brummelen - Inbunden

\An interdisciplinary history of trigonometry from the mid-sixteenth century through to the early twentieth century The Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centuries, starting in 1550 and concluding in the 1900s. Glen Van Brummelen tells the story of trigonometry as it evolved from an instrument for understanding the heavens to a practical tool, used in fields such as surveying and navigation. In Europe, China, and America, trigonometry aided..

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Thoreau's Axe - Bok av Caleb Smith - Inbunden

Thoreau's Axe - Bok av Caleb Smith - Inbunden

How nineteenth-century \disciplines of attention\ anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being \spiritual but not religious\ Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it--most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices. This may seem like a decidedly twenty-first-century problem, but, as Caleb Smith shows in this elegantly written, meditative work, distraction was also a serious concern in American culture two..

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The Myth of Independence - How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve - Bok av Sarah Binder - Inbunden

The Myth of Independence - How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve - Bok av Sarah Binder - Inbunden

Born out of crisis a century ago, the Federal Reserve has become the most powerful macroeconomic policymaker and financial regulator in the world. The Myth of Independence traces the FedΓÇÖs transformation from a weak, secretive, and decentralized institution in 1913 to a remarkably transparent central bank a century later. Offering a unique account of CongressΓÇÖs role in steering this evolution, Sarah Binder and Mark Spindel explore the FedΓÇÖs past, present, and future and challenge the..

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Reading It Wrong - Bok av Abigail Williams - Inbunden

Reading It Wrong - Bok av Abigail Williams - Inbunden

\How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation--and how this still shapes the way we read. Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked about: the misunderstanding, muddle and confusion of readers of the past when they first met the uniquely elusive writings of the period. Abigail Williams uses the marginal marks and jottings of these readers to show that flawed interpretation has its..

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Calculus Reordered - A History of the Big Ideas - Bok av David M. Bressoud - Häftad

Calculus Reordered - A History of the Big Ideas - Bok av David M. Bressoud - Häftad

A look at how calculus has evolved over hundreds of years and why calculus pedagogy needs to change Calculus Reordered tells the remarkable story of how calculus grew over centuries into the subject we know today. David Bressoud explains why calculus is credited to seventeenth-century figures Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, how it was shaped by Italian philosophers such as Galileo Galilei, and how its current structure sprang from developments in the nineteenth century. Bressoud reveals problems..

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