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The Responsibility of Intellectuals
With the publication of ‘The Responsibility of Intellectuals’ half a century ago, Noam Chomsky burst onto the US political scene as a leading critic of the war in Vietnam. Privilege, he argues, brings with it the responsibility to tell the truth and expose lies, but our intellectual culture only pays lip-service to this ideal. The essay has been described as ‘the single most influential p…
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Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia
What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people’s conventional values is losing its effective power, opening new opportunities for repair and revaluation of the past. Francisco Martinez brings together a number …
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- 9781787353534
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- 940.3 MAR r
The Influence of George III on the Development of the Constitution
This brief but interesting work investigates the influence King George III had on the development on the English Constitution.
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- 320 DAV i
The Impact of Migration on Poland
How has the international mobility of Polish citizens intertwined with other influences to shape society, culture, politics and economics in contemporary Poland? The Impact of Migration on Poland offers a new approach for understanding how migration affects sending countries, and provides a wide-ranging analysis of how Poland has changed, and continues to change, since EU accession in 2004. The…
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- 9781787350687
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Being Modern
In the early decades of the twentieth century, engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of modernity. This phenomenon is now attracting increasing attention in different historical specialties. Being Modern builds on this recent scholarly interest to explore engagement with science across culture from the end of the nineteenth century to approximately 1940. Addressing the breadth …
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- 9781787353930
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Ancient Greece: A Study
This book lends a wonderful insight into the cultural legacy that the world of ancient Greece has handed down to mankind through the prevailing centuries. Author Stanley Casson delves into the writings of Plato and others to examine the great leaders and minds that influenced both ancient Greek culture as well as our own.
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Rhetorics of Nordic democracy
Democracy is today a concept that is overwhelmingly positively evaluated almost everywhere. A lot has been written about socio-economic and cultural backgrounds of democratic regimes as well as their institutional settings. By contrast, not much is known about the political manoeuvres and speech acts by which 'democracy' has been tied to particular regions and cultures in concrete historical si…
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- 9789522222282
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The Limits of Patriarchy: How Female Networks of Pilfering and Gossip Sparked…
In the mid-19th century, letters to newspapers in Finland began to condemn a practice known as home thievery, in which farm mistresses pilfered goods from their farms to sell behind the farm master’s back. Why did farm mistresses engage home thievery and why were writers so harsh in their disapproval of it? Why did many men in their letters nonetheless sympathize with women’s pilfering? Wha…
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The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970: History, Ideology, Methodology
Between 1935 and 1970 the Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann), under-funded and at great personal cost to its staff, assembled one of the world’s largest folklore collections. This study draws on the extensive government files on the Commission in the National Archives of Ireland and on a wide variety of other primary and secondary sources, in order to recount and ass…
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