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Liberal individualism, or 'classical liberalism' as it is often called, refers to a political philosophy in which liberty…

Originally published in 1937, this book contains the text of the Thirlwall Prize-winning essay for that year on the subject…

An extensive collection of first-hand testimony and narratives by slaveholders describing the facts and highlighting the…

Originally published in 1923 as part of the Cambridge Modern French Series, this book contains the French text of Henry…

This book, first published in 1936, tells the history of Pembroke College, Cambridge from its foundation in 1347 to the…

• Rok vydání 1898

A pioneering Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of…

The second volume of studies based on the work of Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935), now recognised as the twenty-first…

Originally published in 1919, this book contains the French text of five memoirs written by authors who served in the armed…

Kathryn Bailey presents a fascinating and highly accessible biography of Anton Webern, focusing on several aspects of…

• Čeština

This book examines the economic and political impact of foreign investment in the United States and of American investment…

This memoir by one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated engravers, with observations of fellow artists and public…

This book discusses the 'marginal' people of late medieval Paris, the large and shifting group of men and women who existed…

This book explores definitions and understandings of the relations between migration and cultural processes, calling into…

This book explores public opinion about being and becoming American, and its implications for contemporary immigration…

First published in 1787, this bold work by Ottobah Cugoano, an emancipated slave living in England, was one of the first…

• Čeština

Gamson asks, how is it that so many people become active in movements if they are so uninterested and badly informed about…

Florence Kelley (1859-1932) was a committed socialist who campaigned against child labour in the United States. This volume,…

First published in 1958, this book aims to describe 'the main features of government in Great Britain, the Empire and the…

Contested elections became a fact of political life for the first time in early-17th-century England as the gentry pressed…

Originally published in 1936 as the second instalment of McKenzie's School Certificate series, this book explains the…

This book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of tropical Africa. It analyzes the demography,…

• Rok vydání 1892

This 1892 biography of Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) does not attempt to gloss over the notorious difficulties of Carlyle's…

• Rok vydání 1909

This edition of a manuscript history in Latin, written by the monk John Flete (c. 1420-1465) and edited by the historian and…

The influence of the state on human lives is more comprehensive and sustained than that of any other organizational…

This provocative study challenges the concept of rights, arguing that they jeopardize liberty and undermine democratic…

• Angličtina

Originally published in 1933, this book contains the Latin text of Milton's Epitaphium Damonis, alongside a rhyming English…

This book presents a critical study of citizenship, state and globalization in societies that have been historically…

First published in 1890, this was one of a series of domestic advice guides by the author and journalist Jane Ellen Panton…

Born in Sudbury, Suffolk, in 1727, Thomas Gainsborough was perhaps the best-known portrait painter of the eighteenth…

Originally published 1900, this book contains the German text of Gustav Freytag's comedy of life in a newspaper editorial…

Professor Meek traces the prehistory of the four stages theory, an eighteenth-century theory of socio-economic development,…

Shaul Mishal and Ori Goldberg explore the ways in which Shiite leaderships in Iran and Lebanon approach themselves and their…

A thorough critique of a wide range of theories of institutional change followed by the development of a new theory that…

This work by Thomas Hope (1769-1831), first published in 1835, traces the evolution of architecture from antiquity to the…

• Rok vydání 1860

An influential Cambridge botanist, John Henslow (1796-1861) revived his department, initiated the study of individual…

• Čeština

Originally published in 1911, this book contains a list of the books in the collection of St Catharine's College, Cambridge,…

• Rok vydání 1812

Written principally for farmers, this 1812 work by the naturalist Joseph Taylor (c.1761-1844) trawls the English countryside…

William Smith (1769-1839) was considered to be the 'father of English geology'. These Memoirs, edited by his nephew John…

First published in 1916, this book presents an examination of the role and methodology of education. The text is notable for…

First published in 1952, this volume represents an important stage in the development of cosmology. With detailed…

Hansson has developed a unified formal representation of values and norms that reflects both their static and their dynamic…

This book charts the relationship between Australians and places of significance. Read examines peoples' attachment to…

Watkin Tench (c.1758-1833) was a member of the crew of the Charlotte, which was one of the eleven First Fleet ships of…

Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863-1940) was a British mathematician most well known for his work on elasticity and wave…

This up-to-date account of the novel's composition, structure, and achievement provides readers with the literary and…

• Rok vydání 1881

Published in 1881, Masson's biography of the self-confessed opium eater reveals a man whose life oscillated between…

• Rok vydání 1886

Biblical scholar and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, James Rendel Harris (1852-1941) collected the fragmentary…

This illustrated introduction explores the characteristics of different philosophers in Chinese history. Employing Western…