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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Century of Psychology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Arabic Thought and its Place in History
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Language Desire and Theology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Imagination A Study in the History of Ideas
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Taylor & Francis Rene Girard and Myth An Introduction Theorists of Myth
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Age of Melancholy
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Taylor & Francis French Hegel From Surrealism to Postmodernism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Rise and Fall of British Liberalism 17761988
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Japanese Images of Nature Cultural Perspectives NIAS Man and Nature in Asia
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Taylor & Francis Targeting Schools Drill Militarism and Imperialism Woburn Education S
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Targeting Schools Drill Militarism and Imperialism Woburn Education S
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Educational Ideas of Charles Fourier 17721837 Zeldin
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Taylor & Francis The Intersections of the Public and Private Spheres in Early Modern England
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Critical Point A Historical Introduction To The Modern Theory Of Critical Phenomena
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease Case Histories The History of Medicine in Context
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Property and Prophets The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Science and Society Historical Essays on the Relations of Science Technology and Medicine 434 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cycles of Time and Scientific Learning in Medieval Europe 482 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Galen and Galenism Theory and Medical Practice from Antiquity to the European Renaissance Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Naturalists and Society
Book SynopsisThe author''s aim in these essays, which complement his pioneering books on natural history, has been to find out more about the different categories of people who engaged in this field in the past, and to piece together how the subject has been shaped by changes in society as a whole. For long the historical study of natural history was neglected, being questionably science as historians of science chose to define that word; David Allen's work has done much to remedy this. One group of the essays included here seeks to reinterpret and document more fully topics covered in The Naturalist in Britain; others look at crazes that swept society, notably the Victorian mania for fern collecting, and at the biographies of some of the leading naturalists in 18th- and 19th-century Britain.Trade Review' ...anyone interested in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century natural history in Britain will find this volume well worth examining.' Archives of Natural History '... a delightful prose style... will interest anyone seeking to learn more about the culture and practice of natural history...' Journal of the History of Biology '... an excellent selection.' History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 'In these papers, (...) we see David Allen wrestling with fascinating material, posing (and often answering) excellent questions that those of us involved in history of any science can ponder with profit... a fascinating book by an important historian, from which everyone can expect to get some benefit.' Archives Internationales de l'Histoire des Sciences 'Allen was one of the pioneers of the social history of natural history and of science more generally... Ashgate are to be congratulated for making so many of these essays more readily available to a wider audience.' British Journal for the History of ScienceTable of ContentsContents: Preface; The culture of natural history: Walking the swards: medical education and the rise and spread of the botanical field class; Natural history in Britain in the 18th century; James Edward Smith and the Natural History Society of Edinburgh; Shells, collecting and the Victorians; Tastes and crazes; The Victorian fern craze: pteridomania revisited; Bricks without straw: reconstructing the Botanical Society of London, 1836-1856; The women members of the Botanical Society of London, 1836-1856; The struggle for specialist journals: natural history in the British periodicals market in the first half of the 19th century; The early professionals in British natural history; On parallel lines: natural history and biology from the late Victorian period; The biological societies of London, 1870-1914: their interrelations and their responses to change; Changing attitudes to nature conservation: the botanical perspective; The lost limb: geology and natural history; The natural history society in Britain through the years; Naturalists in Britain: some tasks for the historian; Biography: J.F.M. Dovaston, an overlooked pioneer of field ornithology; The plagiarisms of Thomas Henry Cooper; The botanical family of Samuel Butler; C.C. Babington, Cambridge botany and the taxonomy of British flowering plants; The discoveries of Druce; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Pragamatic Approach To Group Psychotherapy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mummies Cannibals and Vampires
Book SynopsisMummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin in an attempt to heal themselves of epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression. In this comprehensive and accessible text, Richard Sugg shows that, far from being a medieval therapy, corpse medicine was at its height during the social and scientific revolutions of early-modern Britain, surviving well into the eighteenth century and, amongst the poor, lingering stubbornly on into the time of Queen Victoria. Ranging from the execution scaffolds of Germany and Scandinavia, through the courts and laboratories of Italy, France and Britain, to the battlefields of Holland and Ireland, and on to the tribal man-eating of the Americas, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires argues that the real cannibals were in fTrade ReviewPraise of this edition: "Richard Sugg’s excellent book opens up a lost world of magic and medicine. This rich and authoritative account of beliefs about the medical efficacy of dead bodies is a fascinating, if gruesome, eye-opener."John Henry, University of Edinburgh, UK"Richard Sugg has written a thorough and engaging examination of pre-modern corpse medicine, paying special attention to literary and cultural history. The new edition with its expanded online content makes this book equally appealing to advanced scholars and students of history, medicine, and literature. It is an excellent edition for graduate and undergraduate classroom use."Miriam Jacobson, University of Georgia, USA"Richard Sugg’s book Mummies, Cannibals, and Vampires is valuable to both survey student and specialist alike. The book’s breadth, from Renaissance to Victorian society, is impressive but it is the work’s macabre details which rivets readers to recorded medical uses of the human body."Charles Levine, Mesa Community College, USAPraise of the previous edition: 'This book is full of rich detail, making you both recoil and yet read on, fascinated by our ancestors’ imaginative ways to try and heal the sick. ' – Cotswold History Blog"I do not write this lightly - Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: the History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians is one of the most eye-opening and phenomenal books I have ever read. It is incredibly well researched, well written and states the case of medicinal cannibalism throughout the ages with great detail and reference. There is no other book like it and I feel so fortunate to have it upon my shelf...It would be a fantastic book to accompany a college class of the same subject." - Amazon.com Customer Review, 5 Stars"Sugg's book offers itself as a 'history' of corpse medicine. Though it is the work of a well-known literary scholar, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires invokes imaginative writing only to augment the evidence it draws from medical and scientific texts... Sugg's interest in corpse medicine reaches well beyond mumia to inspect all those strange concoctions of human tissue and waste favoured by early modern pharmacology"– Michael Neill, London Review of Books.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: The Middle Ages to the Civil War Chapter Two: The Civil War to the Eighteenth Century Chapter Three: The Bloody Harvest: Sources of Human Body Parts Chapter Four: The Other Cannibals: Man-eaters of the New World Chapter Five: Dirty History, Filthy Medicine Chapter Six: Eating the Soul Chapter Seven: Opposition and Ambivalence: pre-Eighteenth Century Chapter Eight: The Eighteenth Century Conclusion: Afterlives
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Oxford University Press The Invention of Prose
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Cambridge University Press Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant
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Cambridge University Press God and Reason in the Middle Ages
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Cambridge University Press The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya
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Cambridge University Press Hilary Putnam
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Cambridge University Press Ancient and Medieval Memories
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Cambridge University Press Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance
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Cambridge University Press Fabianism and Culture
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Cambridge University Press Individual Choice and History Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsche Biology and Metaphor
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Cambridge University Press More
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Cambridge University Press The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism
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Cambridge University Press The Duel in Early Modern England
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Cambridge University Press Rival Enlightenments Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany 60 Ideas in Context Series Number 60
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Cambridge University Press Auguste Comte
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Cambridge University Press Measuring the Mind Education and Psychology in England c1860c1990
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Cambridge University Press Scots and Britons
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Cambridge University Press Early Modern Liberalism 48 Ideas in Context Series Number 48
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Cambridge University Press From Passions to Emotions
Book SynopsisThomas Dixon shows how, during the nineteenth century, the emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category, displacing such concepts as appetites, passions, sentiments and affections. From Passions to Emotions is a significant contribution to that ongoing debate about emotion and rationality which has preoccupied thinkers across many disciplines.Trade Review'In sum, this is a deeply rewarding book, backed up by detailed scholarship; it deserves a place on the bookshelves of anyone concerned with the history both of passions and emotions.' History of Political Thought'From Passions to Emotions will be consulted for a long time … not least because it is an important contribution to the history of several fields … Dixon has reduced the main issues to their essences, and one cannot imagine the task having been better accomplished by others.' History of Psychiatry'In a series of closely argued and well-documented chapters, Dixon shows that this category had no equivalent in earlier discourse … Dixon clearly demonstrates that 'emotion' constitutes a specifically modern discursive construction rather than an analogue of some ancient psychological category …Dixon presents a superb analysis of the interrelationship between the historical fate of the will and the passions … Measured against the sharper, more differentiated analysis presented this book, the conventional understanding of 'emotion' begins to look like a very blunt instrument. Dixon's contribution is not 'merely' historical; it has considerable relevance for contemporary attempts to achieve a richer conceptualisation of affective life.' Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences'From Passions to Emotions offers a cogent, and I think, convincing argument on an issue of crucial public interest. It is a piece of good old-fashioned intellectual history …'. Galton Institute Newsletter'… a most significant and most interesting contribution both to the history of psychology and to the study of relations between the modern scientific world view and religion. … it will substantially alter how writers refer to the history of what we loosely call the 'feelings'. … There has been little systematic history of the 'emotions' before this book, and this book provides a new and firm reference point. … [there] is a much-needed seriousness about the centrality, complexity and subtlety of interrelations between religion and psychology. There is no doubt that ignorance, indifference or antagonism to religion has marked the history of this field. Here we now have a model study that shows what is involved in overcoming this limitation. … very valuable scholarship and persusasive clarity …' British Journal of the History of ScienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; 1. Introduction: from passions and affections to emotions; 2. Passions and affections in Augustine and Aquinas; 3. From movements to mechanisms: passions, sentiments and affections in the Age of Reason; 4. The Scottish creation of 'the emotions': David Hume, Thomas Brown, Thomas Chalmers; 5. The physicalist appropriation of Brownian emotions: Alexander Bain, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin; 6. Christian and theistic responses to the physicalist emotions paradigm; 7. What was an emotion in 1884? William James and his critics; 8. Conclusions: how history can help us think about 'the emotions'; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Hidden Balance Religion and the Social Theories of Charles Chauncy and Jonathan Mayhew
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Cambridge University Press Equal Freedom and Utility
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Cambridge University Press The Evolving Rationality of Rational Expectations
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Cambridge University Press Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment
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Cambridge University Press Dict State Plan Soc Thy Ger Dem Rep
Book SynopsisThis book examines the way communist East Germany worked from the point of view of its experts in law, economics, philosophy and cybernetics. The state-socialist countries aimed for a post-capitalist modernization, which they hoped to achieve by way of dictatorship. This failed combination of dictatorship and social transformation contains lessons that remain relevant today.Trade Review'This is an important book. It provides a rare, concise and penetrating analysis of East German theorists' reactions to the evolving problems of socialism in the GDR … a highly readable introduction to some of the major intellectual debates during the Ulbricht years … excellent book … Caldwell has written an important study which will reward its readers with a much more sophisticated understanding of the GDR and its intellectual climate. For this reason, the book is not just important reading for those interested in social and political theory, but also for those interested in the political, cultural and everyday history of the GDR.' German History'… engaging and thoroughly readable …' Totalitarianism and Democracy'… Peter C. Caldwell's present work superbly details how the GDR's own economists and intellectuals had clearly foreseen, already in the 1950s, the quagmire, and tyranny, that an 'economically planned' and 'consciously directed' society would lead to. In an engaging and thoroughly readable monograph, Caldwell examines the economy, law, and social philosophy in the GDR from 1949 to 1968 … Caldwell's project is ambitious, broad, and largely successful.' Totalitarismus und DemokratieTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: modernization, modernity and the plan; 1. The economics of state socialism: productivity and the law of value; 2. The legal theory of state socialism: socialist legality, the laws of historical development and the plan; 3. Philosophy and state socialism: consciousness, dialectical materialism and hope; 4. From planning metaphysics to cybernetics: planning, technique and politics after revisionism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Revolution Economics and Religion
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