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Cambridge University Press Against Throne and Altar
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Cambridge University Press Local Remedies in International Law 31 Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series Number 31
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Cambridge University Press The Feminist AvantGarde Transatlantic Encounters of the Early Twentieth Century 84 Ideas in Context Series Number 84
Book SynopsisIn the early twentieth century the term 'feminist' was used by self-consciously 'modern' men and women, to distinguish their ideas from those of 'the women's movement', and even to adopt anti-suffrage positions. In the first major study of twentieth-century feminism as an Anglo-American phenomenon, Lucy Delap offers a unique perspective on the politics of gender during this period. Delap explores the intellectual history and cultural politics of Anglo-American feminism in a way that challenges the reader to rethink the nature of both the 'avant-garde' and 'feminism'. Focusing on the development of transnational feminisms within Edwardian and interwar print culture, feminist political argument is placed at the centre of an account of modernism, highlighting some unexpected and often uncomfortable components, including the feminist fascination with individualism and egoism; ambivalence over World War One; utopian thinking and captivation by the idea of 'the simple life'; anti-Semitism; sTrade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'Lucy Delap's elegant book reveals so much that is new about the multiple resonances of early twentieth century feminism, as a generation of young women tried with great boldness to fashion a new place for themselves in the promising modern era. Delap opens up entirely new areas of research in her probings of the feminist avant-garde's association with the political Right as well as the Left. Most importantly, she gives us a sense of the intensity and brilliance of ideas that surged back and forth across the Atlantic, as the newest of New Women in London and New York vied to make their city the 'storm center' of feminist politics and culture. This is a wonderful book, and a model of how to write history.' Christine Stansell, Princeton UniversityReview of the hardback: '… [an] identity in opposition to the mainstream women's movement has recently been plucked out of obscurity and is presented wonderfully in Lucy Delap's The Feminist Avant-Garde. … Meticulously researched and beautifully written …' Contemporary British HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. 'Fastidious, difficult, different': Anglo-American feminists; 2. Transatlantic interchanges and rival storm-centres; 3. Individualism in feminist political argument; 4. The state, the home and nurturing citizenship; 5. The endowment of motherhood controversy; 6. The modern and the pre-modern: feminist utopian thinking; 7. The genius and the superwoman: feminist appropriations; 8. Feminists and the impact of world war; 9. 'Ephemeral vanguardism': conclusions and post-war developments.
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Cambridge University Press Philosophical Anarchism and Political Disobedience
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Cambridge University Press The Dynamics of Workingclass Politics The Labour Movement in Preston 18801940
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great
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Cambridge University Press British Political Thought in History Literature and Theory 1500 1800
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Cambridge University Press Settlers Liberty and Empire
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Cambridge University Press Contending Visions of the Middle East The History and Politics of Orientalism 3 The Contemporary Middle East Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press Rationality in Economics Constructivist and Ecological Forms
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Cambridge University Press Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary Max Weber Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt
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Cambridge University Press Gandhi in the West
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Cambridge University Press Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism
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Cambridge University Press Encyclopaedic Visions
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Cambridge University Press Machiavellis Liberal Republican Legacy
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Cambridge University Press Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution
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Cambridge University Press Rethinking Revolutions Through Ancient Greece
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Cambridge University Press The Damned and the Elect
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Cambridge University Press Political Thought in SeventeenthCentury Ireland
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Cambridge University Press howwelldofactstravel
Book SynopsisThis book discusses how facts travel, and when and why they sometimes travel well enough to acquire a life of their own. Whether or not facts travel in this manner depends not only on their character and ability to play useful roles elsewhere, but also on the labels, packaging, vehicles and company that take them across difficult terrains and over disciplinary boundaries. These diverse stories of travelling facts, ranging from architecture to nanotechnology and from romance fiction to climate science, change the way we see the nature of facts. Facts are far from the bland and rather boring but useful objects that scientists and humanists produce and fit together to make narratives, arguments and evidence. Rather, their extraordinary abilities to travel well shows when, how and why facts can be used to build further knowledge beyond and away from their sites of original production and intended use.Trade Review'This fascinating interdisciplinary collection arising from an extraordinary international collaboration is a significant and innovative contribution to a crucial question in science and technology studies: what do we mean by a 'fact'? New light is thrown on this old question by a fresh focus on the transmission and transformation of facts between different contexts, with very welcome attention to neglected subject areas, too. It is an intellectual feast of a volume, with plenty of food for thought for historians, philosophers, and natural and social scientists, especially those who are uncomfortable sitting in conventional disciplinary pigeonholes.' Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge'This is a lively and diverse collection of essays about the lives of facts: 'shared pieces of knowledge that hold the qualities of being autonomous, short, specific and reliable.' The book is not so much about what facts are, but about what makes them travel - across space, time, and social worlds - and what gives them character. Focusing on the engaging question, what makes some facts travel well, that is, with integrity, yet with the ability to be put fruitfully to new uses, the book provides such a rich survey of curious, prosaic, profound, and false - as well as true - facts that readers will want to try their hand at grand theorizing, which the authors have politely and wisely refrained from doing. It will be an interesting experiment to see how well these facts about facts travel, and where.' James Griesemer, University of California, Davis'How Well Do Facts Travel? accomplishes the uncommon feat of bringing fresh thinking to a most common phenomenon. Far more than merely contextualizing the use of 'facts' in myriad fields, this eye-opening and deeply thoughtful collection of essays sets facts in motion, models their dynamics, and maps their travels. Adventurous yet grounded, the group of scholars engages and challenges assumptions in disciplines ranging from history and archaeology to economics and policy to biology and design.' Randall Mason, University of Pennsylvania'Stemming from a five-year group multidisciplinary research project, How Well Do Facts Travel? is a welcome and insightful contribution to the growing bodies of scholarship on comparative and historical epistemology, cultural and technological transfer, social networking, and the philosophies of the social and physical sciences. As with the work of Daston, Poovey, and Latour, this diverse and compelling collection of essays will be as usefully provocative to scholars in the arts and humanities as it will to those in the sciences.' Mark A. Meadow, University of California, Santa Barbara and Leiden University, the Netherlands'How Well Do Facts Travel? provides an usual perspective on science and its communication by dealing with the 'lives of facts' and their constitution, development, and circulation, in disciplines as diverse as architecture and social psychology, climate science, and gerontology.' Staffan Mueller-Wille, University of Exeter'How Well Do Facts Travel? edited by Peter Howlett and Mary S. Morgan is an impressive exploration - interdisciplinary in character - of the circulation of 'facts' in a number of areas spanning both the natural and social sciences and the humanities as well. Science studies abound in work on the vagaries of metaphors, models, and images. Curiously, so far, facts have hardly been included in this list. Peter Howlett and Mary Morgan's assessment of less the production of facts but what makes them travel and how traveling transforms them opens a new horizon. The authors of the volume address the topic with subtleness and sovereignty, covering a broad range of carefully chosen case studies.' Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin'Philosophers of science have long talked about fruitfulness as a criteria of scientific merit. This collection asks how ideas - or facts - actually get to be recognized and used; it is a major contribution that greatly deepens this important problem.' Stephen P. Turner, University of South FloridaTable of Contents1. Travelling facts Mary S. Morgan; Part I. Matters of Fact: 2. Facts and building artefacts: what travels in material objects? Simona Valeriani; 3. A journey through times and cultures? Ancient Greek forms in American nineteenth-century architecture: an archaeological view Lambert Schneider; 4. Manning's N: putting roughness to work Sarah J. Whatmore and Catharina Landström; 5. My facts are better than your facts: spreading good news about global warming Naomi Oreskes; 6. Real problems with fictional cases Jon Adams; Part II. Integrity and Fruitfulness: 7. Ethology's travelling facts Richard Burkhardt; 8. Travelling facts about crowded rats: rodent experimentation and the human sciences Ed Ramsden; 9. Using cases to establish novel diagnoses: creating generic facts by making particular facts travel together Rachel Ankeny; 10. Technology transfer and travelling facts: a perspective from Indian agriculture Peter Howlett and Aashish Velkar; 11. Archaeological facts in transit: the eminent mounds of central North America Alison Wylie; Part III. Companionship and Character: 12. Packaging small facts for re-use: databases in model organism biology Sabina Leonelli; 13. Designed for travel: communicating facts through images Martina Merz; 14. Using models to keep us healthy: the productive journeys of facts across public health research networks Erika Mansnerus; 15. The facts of life and death: a case of exceptional longevity David Haycock; 16. Love life of a fact Heather Schell.
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Cambridge University Press Ricardos Macroeconomics Money Trade Cycles and Growth Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
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Cambridge University Press Individuals and Identity in Economics
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Cambridge University Press Marxism and the Good Society
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Cambridge University Press Proclus
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume in this translation of Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, drawing on significant recent advances in scholarship on Neoplatonic commentators. It provides an invaluable record of early interpretations of Plato's dialogue, while also presenting Proclus' own views on the meaning and significance of Platonic philosophy.Trade Review"...crisp translation... accessible and useful to a wide audience.... Highly recommended." --ChoiceTable of ContentsGeneral introduction to the commentary; Introduction to Book I; Translation.
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Cambridge University Press The Logical Foundations of Bradleys Metaphysics
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Cambridge University Press Weber Passion and Profits The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in Context
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Cambridge University Press Gandhi as Disciple and Mentor
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Cambridge University Press The History of Political Thought in National Context 61 Ideas in Context Series Number 61
Book SynopsisIn this 2001 volume a distinguished international team of contributors characterises the nature of, and developments in, the history of political thought in their respective countries. The essays scrutinise not only the different academic histories and methodological traditions on which the study of the history of political thought has drawn, but also its relationship to cultural and political debates within nations. This collection represents a major contribution to the history of ideas, in which political thought has always been central, whilst reflecting the disciplinary tensions - and national differences - of what remains a 'borderline' subject, located at the intersection of history, politics and philosophy. The different national characteristics taken on by political discourse, and the complex relationship these characteristics have to the aspirations of the discipline itself, are considered in these wide-ranging essays, which cover the history of political thought in the UK, thTrade Review"The History of Political Thought in National Context is an unfailingly illuminating and piquant collection... " Journal of Modern History"Valuable" Perspectives on Political ScienceTable of Contents1. The history of political thought and the national discourses of politics Dario Castiglione and Iain Hampsher-Monk; 2. The voice of the 'Greeks' in the Conversation of Mankind Janet Coleman; 3. History of political theory in the Federal Republic of Germany: strange death and slow recovery Wolfgang Mommsen; 4. A German version of the 'Linguistic Turn': Reinhart Koselleck and the history of political and social concepts (Begriffsgeschichte) Melvin Richter; 5. One hundred years of history of political thought in Italy Angelo D'Orsi; 6. Discordant voices: American histories of political thought Terry Ball; 7. The Professoriate of Political Thought in England since 1914: a tale of three chairs Robert Wokler; 8. The history of political thought and the political history of thought Iain Hampsher-Monk; 9. The rise of, challenge to, and prospects of a Collingwoodian approach to the history of political thought Quentin Skinner; 10. Towards a philosophical history of the political Pierre Rosanvallon; 11. 'Le Retour des Emigrés'?: The study of the history of political ideas in contemporary France Jeremy Jennings; 12. National political cultures and regime changes in Eastern and Central Europe Victor Neumann; 13. The limits of the national paradigm in the study of political thought: the case of Karl Popper and Central European Cosmopolitanism Malachi Hacohen; 14. Postscript: Disciplines, canons, and publics: the history of the 'History of Political Thought' in comparative perspective Stefan Collini.
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Cambridge University Press The Enlightenment Past
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Cambridge University Press The World in the Model How Economists Work And Think
Book SynopsisDuring the last two centuries, the way economic science is done has changed radically: it has become a social science based on mathematical models in place of words. This book describes and analyses that change - both historically and philosophically - using a series of case studies to illuminate the nature and the implications of these changes. It is not a technical book; it is written for the intelligent person who wants to understand how economics works from the inside out. This book will be of interest to economists and science studies scholars (historians, sociologists and philosophers of science). But it also aims at a wider readership in the public intellectual sphere, building on the current interest in all things economic and on the recent failure of the so-called economic model, which has shaped our beliefs and the world we live in.Trade Review'This well-informed and beautifully written series of case studies offers the best analysis to date of how economists work with models. It should help all economists think more deeply about what they do and give others insights into the way economic reasoning works.' Roger Backhouse, University of Birmingham'Mary Morgan has developed a distinctive approach to economic methodology, relying on a great variety of examples – each one analysed and dissected in-depth like a careful entomologist. Her main message is that modelling should be kept distinct from formalism and mathematization: when we model, we use a specific entity both as an object of enquiry and as an instrument to study economic reality. Historians and philosophers of economics have been waiting for this book for years, and it will not fail to impress.' Francesco Guala, University of Milan'Modern economics is about models – they are the 'working objects' of economic science – and yet we have traditionally had so little understanding of exactly what models are and how they work. This book provides us with that understanding. It is the culmination of Mary Morgan's many years of research on economic models and as such it is the definitive treatment of the subject. She gives us a complex historical investigation – not 3-by-5 card economic methodology – and such a detailed case studies-based history is exactly what is needed to understand the diversity of ways that models work, and have worked, in economic science. It will be an instant classic in the history and philosophy of modern economics.' D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound'The Nobel laureate James Heckman has written that, just as the Jews are 'the people of the book', economists are 'the people of the model'. Mary Morgan in her The World in the Model provides an anthropological account of economists as model-makers and model-users – a mixture of their stories, their practices, and their languages. In Morgan's case studies, history provides an insightful window on methodology and philosophy, which, in turn, enlightens and enlivens a complex and previously untold history.' Kevin D. Hoover, Duke University'In this superb book, models appear as little, artificial worlds, and Mary Morgan is the perfect guide to their structures and mysteries. Never content with generalizations, she joins the reader in exploring a series of rich and intriguing cases and shows how much the modern role of economics depends on the ambiguous relationships of these models to real economic institutions and behaviors.' Ted Porter, University of California, Los Angeles'The World in the Model argues that economic models are not merely or mainly representations of phenomena; they are flexible tools that configure the domain, constitute its objects, and display salient features, thereby facilitating thinking about economics. Through a series of carefully crafted case studies, Mary S. Morgan shows how economic modeling and thinking about economic matters evolved in tandem. Anyone interested in scientific models or in economic understanding will find this book rewarding.' Catherine Z. Elgin, Harvard University'Morgan's book constitutes a substantial contribution to the history of economics and a crucial one on the practice of modelling. Nearly, all the chapters of the long book are adapted from papers published in journals and books in the previous years. They can be read independently of each other, although there are great benefits in going through the whole book to appraise all the evidence for the claims made in the first chapter. This book has been, since 2012, and will be, for some years, of interest to multiple audiences.' Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay, The European Journal of the History of Economic ThoughtTable of Contents1. Modelling as a method of enquiry; 2. Model building: new recipes, ingredients and integration; 3. Imagining and imaging: creating a new model world; 4. Character making: ideal types, idealization and the art of caricature; 5. Metaphors and analogies: choosing the world of the model; 6. Questions and stories: capturing the heart of matters; 7. Model experiments?; 8. Simulating: taking a microscope to economics; 9. Model situations, typical cases and exemplary narratives; 10. From the world in the model to the model in the world.
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Cambridge University Press Versions of Antihumanism
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America
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Cambridge University Press Royalists and Royalism During the English Civil Wars
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Cambridge University Press The Burdens of Empire
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Cambridge University Press Vico and the Transformation of Rhetoric in Early Modern Europe
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Cambridge University Press Idleness Contemplation and the Aesthetic 17501830 89 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 89
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Cambridge University Press Settlers Liberty and Empire
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Cambridge University Press The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity
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Cambridge University Press How Well Do Facts Travel The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge
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Cambridge University Press Counting the Many The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule 10 Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy
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Cambridge University Press The Burdens of Empire
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Cambridge University Press Aristotle Eudemian Ethics Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Spinoza on Human Freedom
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Cambridge University Press French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville Liberty in a Levelled Society 89 Ideas in Context Series Number 89
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