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A must-read for those seeking to understand the intersection of politics and art in a pivotal moment of European history.This is a study of royal absolutism in a most extreme form in modern European history, and of the nature of Louis XIV's concept of personal glory and of the embodiment of France as a new superpower. It is a study of political ideas expressed in architecture to establish Versailles as the center of French world power and roya...

The Routledge Handbook of Social Change provides an interdisciplinary primer to the intellectual approaches that hold the key to understanding the complexity of social change in the twenty-first century.

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The socio-economic transformation of South Africa is necessary for the consolidation of its democracy. This can be fully realized only when poor people's voices are heard in the corridors of power. Voices of Protest documents the first post-apartheid initiatives of poor people to mobilize and organize themselves. The book analyzes social struggles and movements in a variety of arenas. It illuminates poor peoples demands, leadership, organizati...

The French Revolution was a huge, brutal yet inspiring phenomenon that changed global political thinking and action, and its echoes resound even in the twenty-first century. A New Dictionary is an invaluable aid to unravelling its complications, and an essential companion for students and general readers alike.

A comprehensive reference for students of the French Revolution.

The Subject-Matter of Philosophy.- Philosophic Disagreement and the Study of Philosophy.- An Explanation of Philosophy.- Philosophy and the Categories of Experience.- The Nature of Analytic Philosophy.- Wilmon H. Sheldon¿s Philosophy of Philosophy.- Is The Study of Aesthetics a Philosophic Enterprise?.- Philosophy as Comparative Cosmology.

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HE past does not change, it cannot, for what has happened T cannot be undone. Yet how are we to understand what has happened? Our perspective on it lies in the present, and is subject to continual change. These changes, made in the light of our new knowledge and new experience, call for fresh evaluations and constant reconsideration. It is now one hundred fifty years since the death of Immanuel Kant, and this, the third volume of Tulane Studie...

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Portrays the impact of revolution in the French provinces. This book explores the course of the Revolution outside the palaces and prisons of the capital, reclaiming the pivotal but long-neglected stories of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary tensions in the French countryside.