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Originální výklad Velké francouzské revoluce známé americké historičky, která navazuje na francouzskou interpretační tradici, ale současně přináší zcela nový a svérázný pohled. Zabývá se rétorikou významných revolučních osobností, symbolickými formami politické praxe, politickým zeměpisem revoluce, novými politickými subjekty a lidmi na okraji. V centru jejího zájmu je tudíž to, co sama autorka nazývá "poetikou moci" a "sociologií politiky". Publikace je brilantním historickým esejem, který se pohybuje na rozmezí politických, sociálních a kulturních dějin a ukazuje novou podobu politiky, která vznikla na konci 18. století a je určující dodnes.

A guide to children's literature about alternative worlds, focusing on the work of Ursula Le Guin, Terry Pratchett and Philip Pulman.

Reprezentativní sborník příspěvků ze dvou konferencí pořádaných Historickým ústavem FF MU, Historickým ústavem AV ČR a CDK. Publikace shrnuje vývoj poznání o fenoménu revoluce v západní i východní Evropě prostřednictvím rozboru děl významných autorů (E. Burke, J. Michelet, A. Tocqueville, F. Furet, M. Ozouf, L. Hunt a další), ale také prostřednictvím rozboru základních výkladových paradigmat (romantismus, pozitivismus, marxismus, „nová historie“ aj.). Autoři příspěvků jsou předními odborníky na danou problematiku (D. Tinková, R. Slabáková, J. Válka, R. Vlček, M. Hlavačka, F. Holeček, M. Řepa a další) a přinášejí do českého prostředí nové interpretační akcenty.

Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer's The French Revolution and Napoleon provides a globally-oriented narrative history of events from 1789 until the fall of Napoleon. It emphasizes the global origins and consequences of the French Revolution and explains why it is the formative event for modern politics. The book integrates global competition, fiscal crisis, slavery and the beginnings of nationalism with the more traditional emphases on human rights and constitutions, terror and violence, and the rise of authoritarianism. This global approach then enables the authors – two world-renowned scholars in the field – to clearly illustrate how the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire changed all the political givens for Europe, the Americas, North Africa and parts of Asia as well. Including numerous illustrations and maps, end-of-chapter questions, timelines and primary source document extracts for analysis in each chapter, this book is essential reading for all students of modern European history who want to understand the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire in a truly global context.

We justify our actions in the present through our understanding of the past. But we live in a time when politicians lie brazenly about historical facts and meddle with the content of history books, while media differ wildly in their reporting of the same event. Frequently, new discoveries force us to re-evaluate everything we thought we knew about the past. So how can any certainty about history be established, and why does it matter? Lynn Hunt shows why the search for truth about the past, as a continual process of discovery, is vital for our societies. History has an essential role to play in ensuring honest presentation of evidence. In this way, it can foster humility about our present-day concerns, a critical attitude toward chauvinism, and an openness to other peoples and cultures. History, Hunt argues, is our best defense against tyranny. Introducing Polity's Why It Matters series; in these short and lively books, world-leading thinkers make the case for the importance of their subjects and aim to inspire a new generation of students.

In eighteenth-century Amsterdam, two French Protestant refugees created a remarkable work that captivated and provoked readers throughout Europe. This account by Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt delves into the vibrant Dutch Republic and its thriving book trade, focusing on a publication that proposed the radical notion of religious equality. Engraver Bernard Picart and author Jean Frederic Bernard produced The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, which began its release in 1723 with seven folio volumes. The work provided a comparative perspective on various religions, including Jews, Catholics, Muslims, and Protestants, along with diverse sects from the Orient and the Americas. Despite facing condemnation from the Catholic Church, it achieved remarkable success and was widely copied and adapted over the next century, often losing its original radical context and connections to clandestine literature and Spinoza's philosophy. This influential publication laid the groundwork for religious toleration during a time of persistent conflict and highlighted the global influences on Western thought. The authors illuminate the profound insights within this beautifully illustrated work, showcasing its role in shaping a modern, secular understanding of religion.

In this groundbreaking collection of essays, historians and literary theorists examine how, between 1500 and 1800, pornography emerged as a literary practice and a category of knowledge intimately linked to the formative moments of Western modernity and the democratization of culture. The first modern writers and engravers of pornography were part of the demimonde of heretics, freethinkers, and libertines who constituted the dark underside of the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. From the start, early modern European pornography used the shock of sex to test the boundaries and regulation of obscene behavior and expression in the public and private sphere. As such, pornography criticized and even subverted political authorities as well as social and sexual relations.

Reframes the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes to its central political significance.

A collection of essays which offer insight into the development of modern conceptions of time, from the Christian dating system (BC/AD or BCE/CE) to the idea of modernity as an epoch in human history.

A tour de force.-Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review