Автор: Christopher Clark Название: The Sleepwalkers ISBN: 0141027827 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141027821 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 2507.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (3 шт.) Описание: The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought...
Автор: Christopher Clark Название: Iron Kingdom ISBN: 0140293345 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140293340 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 2507.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: With great flair and authority, the author describes Prussia`s great battles, dynastic marriages and astonishing reversals of fortune, its brilliant and charismatic leaders from the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg to Bismarck and Frederick the Great, the military machine and the progressive, enlightened values on which it was built.
Автор: Clark Christopher Название: The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 ISBN: 0061146668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061146664 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 2298.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.
Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and relationships that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict.
Clark traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts between the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914 and details the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward in a few short weeks.
Meticulously researched and masterfully written, Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers is a dramatic and authoritative chronicle of Europe's descent into a war that tore the world apart.
Автор: Clark Christopher Название: Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 ISBN: 0801496934 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801496936 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 5320.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Between the late colonial period and the Civil War, the countryside of the American northeast was largely transformed. Rural New England changed from a society of independent farmers relatively isolated from international markets into a capitalist economy closely linked to the national market, an economy in which much farming and manufacturing output was produced by wage labor. Using the Connecticut Valley as an example, The Roots of Rural Capitalism demonstrates how this important change came about.
Christopher Clark joins the active debate on the transition to capitalism with a fresh interpretation that integrates the insights of previous studies with the results of his detailed research. Largely rejecting the assumption of recent scholars that economic change can be explained principally in terms of markets, he constructs a broader social history of the rural economy and traces the complex interactions of social structure, household strategies, gender relations, and cultural values that propelled the countryside from one economic system to another. Above all, he shows that people of rural Massachusetts were not passive victims of changes forced upon them, but actively created a new economic world as they tried to secure their livelihoods under changing demographic and economic circumstances.
The emergence of rural capitalism, Clark maintains, was not the result of a single transition; rather, it was an accretion of new institutions and practices that occurred over two generations, and in two broad chronological phases. It is his singular contribution to demonstrate the coexistence of a family-based household economy (persisting well into the nineteenth century) and the market-oriented system of production and exchange that is generally held to have emerged full-blown by the eighteenth century. He is adept at describing the clash of values sustaining both economies, and the ways in which the rural household-based economy, through a process he calls involution, ultimately gave way to a new order. His analysis of the distinctive role of rural women in this transition constitutes a strong new element in the study of gender as a factor in the economic, social, and cultural shifts of the period.
Sophisticated in argument and engaging in presentation, this book will be recognized as a major contribution to the history of capitalism and society in nineteenth-century America.
-- "William and Mary Quarterly"
Автор: Christopher B. Barnett, Clark J. Elliston Название: Scorsese and Religion ISBN: 9004411372 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004411371 Издательство: Brill Цена: 29686.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Scorsese and Religion concerns the religious vision of the great American filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Not only will this volume explore the foundation of Scorsese’s interest in religion—namely, his relation to the Catholic Church—but it will also highlight the religious breadth of Scorsese’s corpus. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that Scorsese’s cinematic “re-presentation” of reality brings together various religious influences (Catholicism, existentialism, Buddhism, etc.) and topics such as violence, morality, nihilism, and so on. The overarching claim is that Scorsese, who indeed once claimed that his “whole life” had been “movies and religion,” cannot be properly understood without reflecting on the ways in which his religious interests are expressed in and through his art.
Автор: Haas Michael, Neher Clark D., Lingle Christopher Название: The Singapore Puzzle ISBN: 0983962642 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780983962649 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3449.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Political scientist Michael Haas brings together essays by six distinguished authors with different ideas about how Singapore might become a full-fledged democracy and has stumbled over the years, exaggerating threats to the government. Book presents a comprehensive history of Singapore, emphasizing why Singapore is an economic success, but leaders took wrong turns that led away from democracy while rationalizating authoritarian rule by claiming that a small city-state was too vulnerable to leave key decisions to chance. An early chapter presents the case for Singapore-wherein the country has been an economic success. Later chapters analyze the following aspects of the political and social life of Singapore to explain how and why the leaders, especially Lee Kuan Yew, abandoned the original goal of a democratic government: - Political history - from colonial times to the present, highlighting elections - Political economy - the imperatives of a city-state account for the successful economic policies - The press - change from a call for press freedom as a colony to press censorship as an independent state - The judiciary - the abolition of juries and other ways to prevent judicial independence - Foreign policy - vulnerable as a small state, Singapore usually relies on the United States as a protector In addition, the final chapter describes Singapore's mass society (the deliberately constructed gap between the people and the government) and assesses prospects for the future. Heavily footnoted, with a section of References and an Index. xiii + 252 pages. The book presents several unique observations: - Data indisputably support Singapore as an economic success but only for foreign corporations. - Singapore began as a welfare state in the early years of independence, entitlements were later cut, but now are being gradually reintroduced. - Lee Kuan Yew holds the record for the amount of awards collected from successful libel lawsuits. - During the 1990s, the government stressed "Asian Values" during conflicts with the United States, but now has dropped the idea. - Prime Minister's Goh Chok Tong's desire for a "kindler, gentler" country ended when the son of Lee Kuan Yew was installed as his successor in 2004. - Singapore's per capita income is higher than its former colonial power, Britain. - Singapore Muslims must take military training but cannot be used in battle with the closest states. - Trial by jury was abolished in Singapore in 1969. Judges are way of government leaders. - The Singapore press is less free than the press in China. - Department heads and judges are paid more than anywhere else in the world. - Singapore scores 90 out of 100 on the Human Development Index, measuring quality of life. - Torture is routinely used to provoke confessions, even when those charged may be innocent. - American policy toward international terrorism has become Singaporeanized. - Sijori is the growth triangle involving adjacent parts of Indonesia and Malaysia with Singapore. - The Singapore government has created a mass society on the Soviet model. - Due to careful planning, there are few traffic jams in highly urbanized Singapore. - Singapore has one of the largest percentages of foreign workers in the world, annoying residents. - Most Singapore's foreign investment abroad goes to their own firms, especially in China. - Many Singaporeans would prefer to leave the country, and many do. - Singapore's economic policy is a function of being a trade entrep t, not elitist decision making. - Most contributors have been maligned by the Singapore government, but only one was tortured. Table of Contents Preface 1 Introduction (Michael Haas) 2 Political History (Michael Haas) 3 The Case for Singapore (Clark D. Neher) 4 Political Economy (Christopher Lingle & Kurt Wickman) 5 The Press (Derek Davies) 6 The Judiciary (Francis T. Seow) 7 Foreign Policy (Richard A. Deck) 8 M
Автор: Clark, Christopher (st Catherine`s College, University Of Cambridge) Название: Social change in america ISBN: 1566637546 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781566637541 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4139.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Explores the processes of social change in the late colonial period and early years of the new republic that made a dramatic imprint on the character of American society.
Автор: Wallace Robert Keith, Marcus Jay B., Clark Christopher S. Название: The Coherence Effect ISBN: 1735465046 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781735465043 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3267.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Coherence Effect describes how to tap into the laws of nature to improve health, higher brain functioning and well-being.
In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia--a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development--ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German militarism, had to be abolished.
But as Christopher Clark reveals in this pioneering history, Prussia's legacy is far more complex. Though now a fading memory in Europe's heartland, the true story of Prussia offers a remarkable glimpse into the dynamic rise of modern Europe.
What we find is a kingdom that existed nearly half a millennium ago as a patchwork of territorial fragments, with neither significant resources nor a coherent culture. With its capital in Berlin, Prussia grew from being a small, poor, disregarded medieval state into one of the most vigorous and powerful nations in Europe. Iron Kingdom traces Prussia's involvement in the continent's foundational religious and political conflagrations: from the devastations of the Thirty Years War through centuries of political machinations to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, from the enlightenment of Frederick the Great to the destructive conquests of Napoleon, and from the "iron and blood" policies of Bismarck to the creation of the German Empire in 1871, and all that implied for the tumultuous twentieth century.
By 1947, Prussia was deemed an intolerable threat to the safety of Europe; what is often forgotten, Clark argues, is that it had also been an exemplar of the European humanistic tradition, boasting a formidable government administration, an incorruptible civil service, and religious tolerance. Clark demonstrates how a state deemed the bane of twentieth-century Europe has played an incalculable role in Western civilization's fortunes. Iron Kingdom is a definitive, gripping account of Prussia's fascinating, influential, and critical role in modern times.
Автор: Clark, Christopher Название: Oxford Activity Books for Children: Book 1 ISBN: 0194218309 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194218306 Издательство: Oxford University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 667.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Provides drawing, coloring, matching and other creative tasks to help young students learn English. All the activities have been designed to practice English grammar and vocabulary, and to develop important reading and writing skills. These Activity Books are accompanied by two sets of Language Learning Cards.
Автор: Clark, Christopher Название: Oxford Activity Books for Children: Book 6 ISBN: 019421835X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194218351 Издательство: Oxford University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 131.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Provides drawing, coloring, matching and other creative tasks to help young students learn English. All the activities have been designed to practice English grammar and vocabulary, and to develop important reading and writing skills. These Activity Books are accompanied by two sets of Language Learning Cards.
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