Author: Robert J. Donia
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472115570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Sheds new light on Sarajevo as a cosmopolitan gem deserving of a central role in the world's cultural, social, and political history
Sarajevo
Author: Robert J. Donia
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472115570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Sheds new light on Sarajevo as a cosmopolitan gem deserving of a central role in the world's cultural, social, and political history
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472115570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Sheds new light on Sarajevo as a cosmopolitan gem deserving of a central role in the world's cultural, social, and political history
Dreams of Peace and Freedom
Author: Jay Winter
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300127510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the “major utopians” who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disparate groups of people trying in their own separate ways to imagine a radically better world. This original book focuses on some of the twentieth-century’s “minor utopias” whose stories, overshadowed by the horrors of the Holocaust and the Gulag, suggest that the future need not be as catastrophic as the past. The book is organized around six key moments when utopian ideas and projects flourished in Europe: 1900 (the Paris World's Fair), 1919 (the Paris Peace Conference), 1937 (the Paris exhibition celebrating science and light), 1948 (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), 1968 (moral indictments and student revolt), and 1992 (the emergence of visions of global citizenship). Winter considers the dreamers and the nature of their dreams as well as their connections to one another and to the history of utopian thought. By restoring minor utopias to their rightful place in the recent past, Winter fills an important gap in the history of social thought and action in the twentieth century.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300127510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the “major utopians” who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disparate groups of people trying in their own separate ways to imagine a radically better world. This original book focuses on some of the twentieth-century’s “minor utopias” whose stories, overshadowed by the horrors of the Holocaust and the Gulag, suggest that the future need not be as catastrophic as the past. The book is organized around six key moments when utopian ideas and projects flourished in Europe: 1900 (the Paris World's Fair), 1919 (the Paris Peace Conference), 1937 (the Paris exhibition celebrating science and light), 1948 (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), 1968 (moral indictments and student revolt), and 1992 (the emergence of visions of global citizenship). Winter considers the dreamers and the nature of their dreams as well as their connections to one another and to the history of utopian thought. By restoring minor utopias to their rightful place in the recent past, Winter fills an important gap in the history of social thought and action in the twentieth century.
An Idea and Its Servants
Author: Richard Hoggart
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781412842136
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Originally pub.: New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781412842136
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Originally pub.: New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Bosnia and Hercegovina
Author: Robert J. Donia
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9781850652113
Category : Bosnia and Hercegovina
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This concise history of Bosnia-Hercegovina is designed for the non-specialist reader who seeks to understand the historical background of the Bosnian conflict that erupted in 1992 in the wake of Serbian and Croatian agression. It covers the principal developments in Bosnian History, from the early medieval period until the end of 1993, focusing on the creation of religious communities and their evolution into ethnic groups and distinct nationalities.
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9781850652113
Category : Bosnia and Hercegovina
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This concise history of Bosnia-Hercegovina is designed for the non-specialist reader who seeks to understand the historical background of the Bosnian conflict that erupted in 1992 in the wake of Serbian and Croatian agression. It covers the principal developments in Bosnian History, from the early medieval period until the end of 1993, focusing on the creation of religious communities and their evolution into ethnic groups and distinct nationalities.
A History of UNESCO
Author: Fernando Valderrama Martínez
Publisher: Unesco
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
This history of UNESCO retraces almost 50 years in the life of the international organization, whose action in fields such as education, science, culture and communication have been at the heart of changes since World War II.
Publisher: Unesco
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
This history of UNESCO retraces almost 50 years in the life of the international organization, whose action in fields such as education, science, culture and communication have been at the heart of changes since World War II.
The Conflict of Generations in Ancient Greece and Rome
Author: Stephen Bertman
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789060320334
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789060320334
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The School of History
Author: Mark H. Munn
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520236858
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
In this substantial volume Munn examines Athens during the period between 510 and 395 BC, in which period the city rose and fell and the likes of Thucydides, Socrates, Herodotus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes lived.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520236858
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
In this substantial volume Munn examines Athens during the period between 510 and 395 BC, in which period the city rose and fell and the likes of Thucydides, Socrates, Herodotus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes lived.
The New Politicians of Fifth-century Athens
Author: W. Robert Connor
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872201422
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A reprint of the Princeton University Press edition of 1972, with new Preface by the author. In this powerful contribution to our understanding of politics in fifth-century Athens, Connor constructs models of Athenian political groupings to explain the rise of the "new politicians," young men who launched a new kind of democracy by appealing to the citizenry at large. With Pericles as prototype and Cleon as exemplar of the new politician, this engaging work provides an important insight into the politics of Athens at the height of its power.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872201422
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A reprint of the Princeton University Press edition of 1972, with new Preface by the author. In this powerful contribution to our understanding of politics in fifth-century Athens, Connor constructs models of Athenian political groupings to explain the rise of the "new politicians," young men who launched a new kind of democracy by appealing to the citizenry at large. With Pericles as prototype and Cleon as exemplar of the new politician, this engaging work provides an important insight into the politics of Athens at the height of its power.
Greek Comedy and Ideology
Author: David Konstan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195357698
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In comedy, happy endings resolve real-world conflicts. These conflicts, in turn, leave their mark on the texts in the form of gaps in plot and inconsistencies of characterization. Greek Comedy and Ideology analyzes how the structure of ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state. It explores the utopian vision of Aristophanes' comedies--for example, an all-powerful city inhabited by birds, or a world of limitless wealth presided over by the god of wealth himself--as interventions in the political issues of his time. David Konstan goes on to examine the more private world of Menandrean comedy (including two adaptations of Menander by the Roman playwright Terence), in which problems of social status, citizenship, and gender are negotiated by means of elaborately contrived plots. In conclusion, Konstan looks at an imitation of ancient comedy by Moliére, and the way in which the ideology of emerging capitalism transforms the premises of the classical genre.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195357698
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In comedy, happy endings resolve real-world conflicts. These conflicts, in turn, leave their mark on the texts in the form of gaps in plot and inconsistencies of characterization. Greek Comedy and Ideology analyzes how the structure of ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state. It explores the utopian vision of Aristophanes' comedies--for example, an all-powerful city inhabited by birds, or a world of limitless wealth presided over by the god of wealth himself--as interventions in the political issues of his time. David Konstan goes on to examine the more private world of Menandrean comedy (including two adaptations of Menander by the Roman playwright Terence), in which problems of social status, citizenship, and gender are negotiated by means of elaborately contrived plots. In conclusion, Konstan looks at an imitation of ancient comedy by Moliére, and the way in which the ideology of emerging capitalism transforms the premises of the classical genre.
The Conflict of Generations
Author: Lewis Samuel Feuer
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Monograph analysing the social and political problems involved in youth unrest and related social movements of students in various countries - gives historical background and covers sociological aspects, psychological aspects, political aspects, social structures, the role of political parties, political systems (incl. Socialist, capitalist, communist, etc.), etc., and includes case studies. References.
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Monograph analysing the social and political problems involved in youth unrest and related social movements of students in various countries - gives historical background and covers sociological aspects, psychological aspects, political aspects, social structures, the role of political parties, political systems (incl. Socialist, capitalist, communist, etc.), etc., and includes case studies. References.