[PDF] The Origins of the Modern World

• Author : Robert Marks
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Release Date : 2007
• ISBN : 0742554198

Robert B.

• Author : Philip V. Bohlman
• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• Release Date : 1988-06-22
• ISBN : 0253112605

"[This book] is a contribution of considerable substance because it takes a holistic view of the field of folk music and the scholarship that has dealt with it." -- Bruno Nettl "... a praiseworthy combination of solid scholarship, penetrating discussion, and global relevance." -- Asian Folklore Studies "... successfully ties the history and development of folk music scholarship with contemporary concepts, issues, and shifts, and which treats varied folk musics of the world cultures within the rubric of folklore and ethnomusicology with

• Author : Immanuel Wallerstein
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release Date : 2011-05-11
• ISBN : 9780520267572

"The Modern World System", Immanuel Wallerstein's influential multivolume reinterpretation of global history, traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. -- From publisher's description.

• Author : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein,Senior Researcher Immanuel Wallerstein
• Publisher : Duke University Press
• Release Date : 2004
• ISBN : 0822334429

A John Hope Franklin Center Book.

• Author : Paul R. Mendes-Flohr,Jehuda Reinharz
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 1995
• ISBN : 019507453X

The last two centuries have witnessed a radical transformation of Jewish life. Marked by such profound events as the Holocaust and the establishment of the state of Israel, Judaism's long journey through the modern age has been a complex and tumultuous one, leading many Jews to ask themselves not only where they have been and where they are going, but what it means to be a Jew in today's world. Tracing the Jewish experience in the modern period and illustrating

• Author : Theda Skocpol
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 1994-09-30
• ISBN : 0521409381

Theda Skocpol, author of the award-winning 1979 book States and Social Revolutions, updates her arguments about social revolutions.

• Author : Alfred North Whitehead
• Publisher : CUP Archive
• Release Date : 1959
• ISBN : 1001286332

• Author : Timothy Cooke
• Publisher : Marshall Cavendish Corporation
• Release Date : 2000
• ISBN : 0761471553

Contents include: V.1: Origins of the modern world; V.2: Religion and change in Europe; V.3: Old and new worlds; V.4: The Age of Enlightenment; V.5: Revolution and change; V.6: The changing balance of power; V.7: World War I and its consequences; V.8: World War II and the Cold War; V.9: The world today; V.10: Index.

• Author : Donald Phillip Verene
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release Date : 2016-09-02
• ISBN : 9781498238014

Metaphysics and the Modern World makes the abiding questions of the nature of the self, world, and God available for the modern reader. Donald Phillip Verene presents these questions in both their systematic and historical dimensions, beginning with Aristotle's claim in his Metaphysics that philosophy begins in wonder. The first three chapters concern the origin of metaphysics as the transformation of the conception of reality in ancient Greek mythology, the ontological argument as the basis of Christian metaphysics, and the

• Author : William Woodruff
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 1993-07-20
• ISBN : 9781349133338

In an ever-shrinking world, the need for a global perspective in dealing with the modern world has become acute. This book attempts to provide such a perspective by investigating the major changes in geopolitics and world economy during the past 500 years. However compact, it enables us to understand the present unravelling of Communism and the growing challenge from Asia to Western Superiority. It is shown that in so many ways the problems of the contemporary world spring from the unprecedented

• Author : Linda Reeder
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release Date : 2019-12-12
• ISBN : 9781350005204

Providing a comprehensive history of Italy from around 1800 to the present, Italy in the Modern World traces the social and cultural transformations that defined the lives of Italians during the 19th and 20th century. The book focuses on how social relations (class, gender and race), science and the arts shaped the political processes of unification, state building, fascism and the postwar world. Split up into four parts covering the making of Italy, the liberal state, war and fascism, and the

• Author : Rebecca E. Karl
• Publisher : Verso Books
• Release Date : 2020-01-28
• ISBN : 9781788735599

A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern world China’s emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation’s “great rejuvenation,” a story narrated as the return of China to its “rightful” place at the center of the world. In China’s Revolutions in the Modern World, historian Rebecca E. Karl argues that China’s contemporary

• Author : Julius Kirshner
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release Date : 1996-06-01
• ISBN : 9780226437705

The beginnings of the state in Europe is a central topic of contemporary historical research. The making of such early modern Italian regional states as Florence, the kingdom of Naples, Milan, and Venice exemplifies a decisive turn in the state tradition of Western Europe. The Origins of the State in Italy, 1300-1600 represents the best in American, British, and Italian scholarship and offers a valuable and critical overview of the key problems of the emergence of the state in Europe.

• Author : Hutton Webster
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1930
• ISBN : IND:30000045425877

• Author : Stewart J. Brown,George Newlands,G. M. Newlands,A. C. Cheyne
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release Date : 2000-01-01
• ISBN : 0567087654

A new and wide-ranging study of Christianity in Scotland, from the eighteenth century to the present.The contributors include D. W. D. Shaw, Ian Campbell, Kenneth Fielding, William Ferguson, Barbara MacHaffie, Peter Matheson, John McCaffrey, Owen Chadwick, David Thompson, Keith Robbins, Andrew Ross, Stewart J. Brown and George Newlands.Topics encompass varieties of unbelief, challenges to the Westminster confession, John Baillie, Queen Victoria and the Church of Scotland, the Scottish ecumenical movement, the disestablishment movement, and Presbyterian-Catholic relations.