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Lincoln - Bok av Allen C. Guelzo - Häftad

Lincoln - Bok av Allen C. Guelzo - Häftad

The award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers here a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents. The author takes us on a wide-ranging exploration of seven problems that confronted Lincoln, setting these problems and Lincoln's responses against the larger world of trans-Atlantic liberal democracy in the 19th century, comparing Lincoln not just to Andrew Jackson or John Calhoun, but to British thinkers such as Cobden, Bentham, and Bright, and to French observers..

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The Strange Career of Jim Crow - A Commemorative Edition with a new afterword by William S. McFeely - Bok av C. Vann Woodward - Häftad

The Strange Career of Jim Crow - A Commemorative Edition with a new afterword by William S. McFeely - Bok av C. Vann Woodward - Häftad

This is a commemorative edition for C. Vann Woodward, who died in December 1999, of his classic work on the history of segregation and American race relations. Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer and former Woodward student, William McFeely contributes a special afterword to discuss how Strange Career achieved its own significance as part of history.

SEK 170.00
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Reconstruction: A Concise History - Bok av Allen C. (Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies Guelzo - Inbun

Reconstruction: A Concise History - Bok av Allen C. (Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies Guelzo - Inbun

Allen C. Guelzo's Reconstruction: A Concise History is a gracefully-written interpretation of Reconstruction as a spirited struggle to re-integrate the defeated Southern Confederacy into the American Union after the Civil War, to bring African Americans into the political mainstream of American life, and to recreate the Southern economy after a Northern, free-labor model.

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Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction - Bok av Allen C. (Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies Guelzo

Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction - Bok av Allen C. (Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies Guelzo

Allen C. Guelzo's Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction is a gracefully-written interpretation of Reconstruction as a spirited struggle to re-integrate the defeated Southern Confederacy into the American Union after the Civil War, to bring African Americans into the political mainstream of American life, and to recreate the Southern economy after a Northern, free-labor model.

SEK 136.00
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Questions of Taste - The Philosophy of Wine - Bok av Barry C (Professor of Philosophy Smith - Häftad

Questions of Taste - The Philosophy of Wine - Bok av Barry C (Professor of Philosophy Smith - Häftad

Is the taste of a wine in our minds or in the glass? Can knowledge make a difference to the pleasure a wine gives us? Do the elaborate descriptions of wines in terms of fruits or spices, their \suppleness\ or \brawniness,\ really mean anything? Questions of Taste is the first book to examine the philosophical issues surrounding our experience and enjoyment of wine. Featuring lucid essays from philosophers, a linguist, a biochemist, a wine producer and a winecritic, these leading thinkers use..

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Ludwig van Beethoven - Bok av Mark Evan (Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music Bonds - Häftad

Ludwig van Beethoven - Bok av Mark Evan (Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music Bonds - Häftad

Proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by understanding his music as an expression of his entire self, not just the iconic scowl Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career - even in the face of deafness - Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, writes the music historian Mark Evan Bonds, provides the key to understanding the composer''s life and works. Beethoven approached music as he approached..

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American Politics - Bok av Richard M. (Claude C. Smith '14 Professor of Political Science Valelly - Häftad

American Politics - Bok av Richard M. (Claude C. Smith '14 Professor of Political Science Valelly - Häftad

This concise volume fills a long-standing need for a sophisticated, brief primer on American national politics. A major theme of the book is the interplay between constitutional and extra-constitutional institutions and political processes. It provides engaging and exceptionally instructive treatments of the nuts-and-bolts of how American politics works and of the strengths of American democracy, while candidly considering gaps in representation and the issue of increasing income inequality.

SEK 136.00
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Privacy - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Leslie P. (Distinguished Alfred C. Emery Professor of Law and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy

Privacy - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Leslie P. (Distinguished Alfred C. Emery Professor of Law and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy

We live more and more of our lives online; we rely on the internet as we work, correspond with friends and loved ones, and go through a multitude of mundane activities like paying bills, streaming videos, reading the news, and listening to music. Without thinking twice, we operate with the understanding that the data that traces these activities will not be abused now or in the future. There is an abstract idea of privacy that we invoke, and, concrete rules about our privacy that we can point to..

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