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This comprehensive history of classical learning from the sixth century BCE to 1900 was first published between 1903 and 1908.
This classic Pulitzer Prize-winning book depicts the various ways the Old and the New Worlds responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity to the early 1770s, and considers the religious, literary, and philosophical justifications and condemnations current in the abolition controversy.
Charles Wallon (1875-1958), architecte diplômé en 1901, a été formé aux Beaux-Arts de Paris. Il fut élève de Pascal puis de son père Paul Wallon. Ce dernier, architecte et aquarelliste lui-même, a constamment incité son fils à perfectionner sa pratique du dessin et de l’aquarelle. Charles Wallon qui a côtoyé un grand nombre d’artistes, saura devenir, par ses nombreux dessins toujours très précis et ses remarquables aquarelles, un appréciable témoin de son environnement et de son époque. Il nous livrera ainsi ses impressions face aux paysages français et étrangers parcourus, face aux monuments témoins du génie des bâtisseurs mais aussi, hélas, face aux paysages mar...
In a book that challenges modernist ideas about the value and role of music in Western society, Composing the Citizen demonstrates how music can help forge a nation. Deftly exploring the history of Third Republic France, Jann Pasler shows how French people from all classes and political persuasions looked to music to revitalize the country after the turbulent crises of 1871. Embraced not as a luxury but for its "public utility," music became an object of public policy as integral to modern life as power and water, a way to teach critical judgment and inspire national pride. It helped people to forget the past, voice conflicting aspirations, and imagine a shared future. Based on a dazzling su...
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In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism, genocide, racism and snobbery. Narrating an intellectual history running from the eighteenth through to the twentieth centuries, Losurdo examines the thought of preeminent liberal writers such as Locke, Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, and Sieys, revealing the inner contradictions of an intellectual position that has exercised a formative influence on today's politics. Among the dominant strains of liberalism, he discerns the counter-currents of more radical positions, lost in the constitution of the modern world order.
"The volumes are handsomely produced and carefully edited, . . . For the first time we have available in an intelligible form the writings of one of the greatest philosophers of the past hundred years . . . " —The Times Literary Supplement " . . . an extremely handsome and impressive book; it is an equally impressive piece of scholarship and editing." —Man and World
University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between universities and pro-slavery thought. Proslavery faculty wrote about the economic and historical importance of slavery and helped shape a proslavery jurisprudence that made it harder to free slaves and pushed the South towards Civil War.