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• Includes index.
• 1. Realms of discovery: The age of negative discovery — The cultures of pride and awe — An odd couple: discoverers and inventors — 2. Trials of conscience: The writer as conscience of the world — Our conscience-wracked nation — 3. New-world opportunities: Printing and the Constitution — Roles of the president’s house — The making of a capitol — An un-American capital — 4. The cautionary science: Tocqueville’s America — Custine’s Russia — 4. The fourth kingdom: Darwinian expectations — Statistical expectations — Artificial selection — The great separation — 6. A personal postscript: My father, lawyer Sam Boorstin — Land of the unexpected.
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• This provocative new collection of essays by a Pulitzer Prize winner deals with the challenging themes of discovery and surprise in history. Cleopatra’s Nose is not a miscellany but rather a selection of recent essays illustrating specific subjects that have preoccupied Boorstin for several decades. Tantalizing themes all: How sometimes discovery only increases our ignorance. What were the specific historical opportunities in the New World? How has the fourth kingdom – the kingdom of machines – contradicted Darwinian expectations, contributed to a confusion of statistics, created the need for the unnecessary, and highlighted the paradoxes of science and the politics of common sense? In a personal postscript, Boorstin gives us a memorable and affectionate portrait of his father and optimistically celebrates the United States as the Land of the Unexpected.

Subjects:

• Civilization, Modern — History.
• Science — History.
• Science and civilization.
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages [661]-706) and index.
• Taking to the water — The river and seas of ancient Egypt — Bronze Age seafaring — Phoenicians, Greeks, and the Mediterranean — Carthage, Rome, and the Mediterranean — Chasing the monsoons — Continent and archipelagoes in the East — The Christian and Muslim Mediterranean — Northern Europe through the Viking Age — The Silk Road of the seas — China looks seaward — The medieval Mediterranean and Europe — The golden age of maritime Asia — The world encompassed — The birth of global trade — State and sea in the age of European expansion — Northern Europe ascendant — Annihilation of space and time — Naval power in steam and steel — The maritime world since the 1950s.
• A retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be linked to the sea.

Subjects:

• Ocean and civilization.
• Naval history.
• Naval art and science — History.
• Navigation — History.
• Sea-power — History.

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Part of the series Routledge worlds
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• This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval across all walks of life, and is truly innovative in examining the Fin de Siècle from a global perspective. The volume includes pathbreaking essays on how the period was experienced not only in Europe and North America, but also in China, Japan, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, India, and elsewhere across the globe. Thematic topics covered include new concepts of time and space, globalization, the city, and new political movements including nationalism, the ‘New Liberalism’, and socialism and communism. The volume also looks at the development of mass media over this period and emerging trends in culture, such as advertising and consumption, film and publishing, as well as the technological and scientific changes that shaped the world at the turn of the nineteenth century, such as the invention of the telephone, new transport systems, eugenics and physics. The Fin-de-Siècle World also considers issues such as selfhood through chapters looking at gender, sexuality, adolescence, race and class, and considers the importance of different religions, both old and new, at the turn of the century. Finally the volume examines significant and emerging trends in art, music and literature alongside movements such as realism and aestheticism. This volume conveys a vivid picture of how politics, religion, popular and artistic culture, social practices and scientific endeavours fitted together in an exciting world of change. It will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the Fin-de-Siècle period — Provided by publisher.
• Introduction / Michael Saler — PART I. OVERVIEWS — Global literatures of decadence / Regenia Gagnier — The city and urban life / Peter Fritzsche — The second Industrial Revolution / Andreas Killen — The modernity of the fin de siècle / John Jervis — Changing concepts and experiences of time and space / Stephen Kern — PART II. PLACES — EUROPE — France / Mark S. Micale — Britain / Nicholas Daly — Central Europe / Suzanne Marchand — Russia / Olga Matich — Italy / Walter Adamson — Spain / Lara Anderson — United States / Richard Cándida Smith — Canada / D.M.R. Bentley — Latin America / Adela Pineda Franco — Did China have a fin de siècle? / Maura Dykstra and Jeffrey Wasserstrom — Japan / Selcuk Esenbel — The Middle East / Jens Hanssen — India / Ruth Vanita — Africa / Rebecca J. Saunders — PART III. POLITICS IN A NEW KEY — The new nationalism / T.P. Baycroft — The new imperialism / Sascha Auerbach — The new politics of higher individualism / Chris Nottingham — PART IV. MASS CULTURE — Publishing / Chris Hilliard — Transports of speed / Andrew Denning — Consumer culture and advertising / H. Hazel Hahn — PART V. KNOWLEDGES — The universities and the human sciences / Peter Mandler — Philosophy / Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen — The new physics / Helge Kragh — Biology and eugenics / Marius Turda — Psychology and psychiatry / Eric Shiraev — Medicine / Andrew Smith — PART VI. SELFHOOD — Gender and sexuality / Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn — Race and ethnicity / Laura Tabili — PART VII. RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY — Secularism, atheism, agnosticism / Vincent P. Pecora — The Jewish fin de siècle / Olga Litvak — Christianity / Vincent Lloyd — Islam / Mawra Elshakry — 2444 A.N. : Buddhism / Donald S. Lopez, Jr. — New Age fin de siècle / Gary Lachman — PART VIII. AESTHETICS — Music and the Gesamtkunstwerk / Mark Berry — The visual arts / Michelle Facos — The cinema / Tom Gunning — Scientific romance, fantasy, and the supernatural / Roger Luckhurst -
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects:

• Nineteenth century.
• Civilization, Modern — 19th century.
• History, Modern — 19th century.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• The same language, the same hymns, the same ideals — Anglo-Saxon liberties — Rediscovering England — Liberty and property — The first Anglosphere Civil War — The second Anglosphere Civil War — Anglobalization — From empire to Anglosphere — Consider what nation it is whereof ye are — Conclusion: Anglosphere twilight?
• Why does the world speak English? Why does every country at least pretend to aspire to representative government, personal freedom, and an independent judiciary? This book is an ambitious account of the historical origin and spread of those principles, and their role in creating a sphere of economic and political liberty that is as crucial as it is imperiled. According to author Daniel Hannan, the ideas and institutions we consider essential to maintaining and preserving our freedoms–individual rights, private property, the rule of law, and the institutions of representative government–are not broadly Western in the usual sense of the term. Rather, they are the legacy of a very specific tradition, one that was born in England and that the Americans, along with other former British colonies, inherited. By the tenth century, a thousand years before most modern countries, England was a nation-state whose people were already starting to define themselves with reference to common-law rights. Inventing Freedom explains why the extraordinary idea that the state was the servant, not the ruler, of the individual evolved uniquely in the English-speaking world. It is a chronicle of the success of Anglosphere exceptionalism.–From publisher description.

Subjects:

• Civilization — British influences.
• Civilization — Anglo-Saxon influences.
• Liberty.
• Rule of law.
• Representative government and representation.

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• Bibliographical references included in Notes (p. 93-100)

Subjects:

• Humanism.
• Renaissance.

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• Conference sponsored by the Graduate School of Ohio State University.
• Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects:

• Renaissance.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-293) and index.
• The rise of the rest — The cup runneth over — A non-western world? — The challenger — The ally — American power — American purpose.
• Describes the surging growth of the economies of China, India, and Brazil while the United States and other advanced economies have stalled.

Subjects:

• Twenty-first century — Forecasts.
• International relations — Forecasting.
• International economic relations — Forecasting.
• United States — Foreign relations — 21st century — Forecasting.
• World politics — 21st century — Forecasting.
• East and West.
• Globalization — Forecasting.

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Part of the series European problem studies
Notes:

• Suggested additional readings : p. 113-116.

Subjects:

• Civilization, Medieval — 12th century.
• Twelfth century.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-452) and index.

Subjects:

• Renaissance.
• Economic history — 15th century.
• Economic history — 16th century.

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Part of the series History of European society;History of European society.
Notes:

• Translation of: L’Uomo medievale.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 373) and index.
• Introduction: medieval man / Jacques Le Goff — Monks / Giovanni Miccoli — The warrior and the knight / Franco Cardini — The peasant and agriculture / Giovanni Cherubini — The city-dweller and life in cities and towns / Jacques Rossiaud — The intellectual / Mariateresa Fumagalli Beonio Brocchieri — The artist / Enrico Castelnuovo — The merchant / Aron Ja. Gurevich — Women and the family / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber — The saint / André Vauchez — The marginal man / Bronislaw Geremek.
• Translation of: L’Uomo medievale. Published: Roma : Laterza, 1987.

Subjects:

• Civilization, Medieval.

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