Society And History
Download Society And History full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Society And History ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Mary Evans |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2006-12-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0335229727 |
"A brilliant inquiry into culture and society over some seven centuries, Mary Evans explores the origins and trajectories of modernity from the Reformation through the Enlightenment to the contemporary period. Her intellectual control of complex ideas and diverse forms of evidence is consistently impressive. Exploring various pessimistic, dystopian strands in European perspectives on modernity by Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber and Theodor Adorno, she defends a balanced view of both the negative and positive consequences of modernization. This is historical sociology at its best: judicious, theoretically informed, carefully crafted, grounded in empirical research, and above all intellectually clever. A Short History of Society will prove to be a valuable companion to the student who needs a concise scholarly and sociological overview of modernity." Bryan Turner, National University of Singapore A Short History of Society is a concise account of the emergence of modern western society. It looks at how successive generations have understood and explained the world in which they lived, and examines significant events since the Enlightenment that have led to the development of society as we know it today. The book spans the period 1500 to the present day and discusses the social world in terms of both its politics and its culture. This book is ideal for undergraduate students in the social sciences who are perplexed by the myriad of events and theories with which their courses are concerned, and who need a historical perspective on the changes that shaped the contemporary world.
Author | : Lesley Cormack |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 842 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442604484 |
A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Andrew Ede and Lesley B. Cormack trace the history of science through its continually changing place in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful. In this edition, the authors examine the robust intellectual exchange between East and West and provide new discussions of two women in science: Maria Merian and Maria Winkelmann. A chapter on the relationship between science and war has been added as well as a section on climate change. The further readings section has been updated to reflect recent contributions to the field. Other new features include timelines at the end of each chapter, 70 upgraded illustrations, and new maps of Renaissance Europe, Captain James Cook's voyages, the 2nd voyage of the Beagle, and the main war front during World War I.
Author | : Adam Ferguson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1767 |
Genre | : Civil society |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas L. Howard |
Publisher | : William R. Kenan Jr Endowment |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780813939810 |
"The Jefferson Society is the University of VIrginia's oldest student organization. Founded in 1825, the Society has counted the likes of Woodrow Wilson and Edgar Allan Poe among its members and remains one of the largest and most active student organizations on the Grounds. Society Ties tells the Society's story and gives a history of student life at the University of Virginia, exploring what motivated students and how they experienced the ineffable place that is Jefferson's Academical Village." -- Front dust jacket flap.
Author | : Robert W. Gordon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-10-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781107459496 |
This book assembles essays on legal sociology and legal history by an international group of distinguished scholars. All of them have been influenced by the eminent and prolific legal historian, legal sociologist, and scholar of comparative law, Lawrence M. Friedman. Not just a Festschrift of essays by colleagues and disciples, this volume presents a sustained examination and application of Friedman's ideas and methods. Some of the writers directly assess and comment on Friedman's vast body of work, while others examine his conclusions to see how well they have stood up over time. Various contributors apply concepts and insights derived from Friedman's work to the study of similar problems in different periods and societies. And others use Friedman's concepts and insights as a foil or contrast to their own approaches to studying law and society from theoretical perspectives very different from his. Together, the essays in this volume show the powerful ripple effects of Friedman's work on American and comparative legal sociology, American and comparative legal history, and the general sociology of law and legal change.
Author | : John Morgan-Guy |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786838117 |
The book includes previously unpublished material, which cover broad spectrum of subject areas such as church history, medical history, and the visual arts. It consists of five papers selected from a corpus of material researched over the past quarter of a century. It will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as University lecturers.
Author | : Lawrence B. Glickman |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780801484865 |
This volume offers the most comprehensive and incisive exploration of American consumer history to date, spanning the four centuries from the colonial era to the present.
Author | : Andrew Ede |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2019-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108425607 |
Celebrates the creativity of humanity by examining the history of technology as a strategy to solve real-world problems.
Author | : Mary Poovey |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2009-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226675181 |
How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences? Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact, ranging across an astonishing array of texts and ideas from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. She shows how the production of systematic knowledge from descriptions of observed particulars influenced government, how numerical representation became the privileged vehicle for generating useful facts, and how belief—whether figured as credit, credibility, or credulity—remained essential to the production of knowledge. Illuminating the epistemological conditions that have made modern social and economic knowledge possible, A History of the Modern Fact provides important contributions to the history of political thought, economics, science, and philosophy, as well as to literary and cultural criticism.
Author | : Warren Susman |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2012-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307826147 |
Bringing together for the first time the best of twenty-five years of unique critical work, Warren Susman takes us on a startling tour through the conflicts and events which have transformed the social, political, and cultural face of America in this century. Probing a rich panoply of images from the mass media and advertising, testing prevalent intellectual and economic theories, linking the revolutions in communications and technology to the rise of a new pantheon of popular heroes. Susman documents and analyzes the process through which the older, Puritan-republican, producer-capitalist culture has given way to the leisure-oriented, consumer society we now inhabit: the culture of abundance.