The Breakdown of Capitalism : A History of the Idea in Western Marxism, 1883-1983 9781315387499, 9781138229938

Western Capitalism in China: A History of the Shanghai Stock Exchange 075460246X, 9780754602460

Emerging stock markets have attracted considerable academic interest over the last ten years. The growth of these emergi

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In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea 9781400889211

A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should be Many Zionists who advocated the crea

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Development of the Idea of History in Antiquity 9780773563971

An extensive scholarly literature, written in the past century holds that in ancient Greek and Roman thought history is

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Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought 9780824864484

Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents,

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Thucydides and the Idea of History 9780755610716

From the eighteenth century onwards, the ancient Greek writer Thucydides (c.460 c.395 bc) was viewed as the most importa

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Antiques: The History of an Idea 9780801463822

The notion of retrieving a bit of the past-by owning a material piece of it-has always appealed to humans. Often our mos

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The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism 9781612031064

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The Idea of Progress: History and Society

Whether progress is an illusion or a reality, this recent concept of mankind's is certainly the most universal reli

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Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea 0268106975, 9780268106973

At its core this book is intellectual history, tracing the work of progressive historians as they in turn wrote the hist

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History and the Idea of Progress 9781501744679

Additional essays examine the historical and philosophical origins of the idea of history that lies behind today's

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