Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between "absolute" and "relative" time. Jesse Molesworth argues that most experienced this encounter not firsthand, through direct exposure to Newton's ......
In his final work, one that distills decades of research and thought, a distinguished economic thinker turned social scientist and philosopher confronts three crucial questions facing the world at the end of the century: How and in what form can a harmonious and stable post-cold war world order be created? How can the world maintain the economic ......
This collection of essays includes some of the most recent work of a master critic at the height of his powers. Of the fourteen essays, written from the late 1970's to the present, three have never before been published; the essays appearance in a single volume makes available for the first time the full scope of Berger's unique approach to ......
Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatan, 1876-1915
This book addresses a central problem often ignored by students of twentieth-century Mexico: the breakdown of the old order during the first years of the revolutionary era. That process was more contested and gradual in Yucatan than in any other Mexican region, and this close examination of the Yucatan experience sheds light on an issue of ......
Jack London has long been recognized as one of the most colorful figures in American literature. He is America s most widely translated author (into more than eighty languages), and although his works have been neglected until recently by academic critics in the United States, he is finally winning recognition as a major figure in American ......
When people who have not been in China for ten or more years return, they are usually astounded by the wealth, liveliness, and even chaos that characterises contemporary urban life, particularly in the southern coastal cities. This introduction to contemporary Chinese urban life examines how reforms have changed not only the material circumstances ......
The countries of Southeast Asia, most of which won their independence after World War II, have had varying degrees of success in establishing governments and political systems that have achieved political legitimacy in the eyes of their citizens. Because these countries have much in common and at the same time differ in important ways - with their ......
This book focuses on the interpenetration of culture and personality in the work of Alexander Pushkin, during Russia's Golden Age under Alexander I. The author argues that the fashionable genres of Romanticism offered Pushkin fresh opportunities for self-articulation where no native tradition of individualism existed. She reveals Pushkin's use of ......
This book examines the history of one of America's most famous railroads, the Erie, and its successor after 1960, the Erie Lackawanna. It covers the period between the Erie's fourth bankruptcy in the late 1930s, and its final liquidation in 1976. The story of this innovative transport company mirrors much of what was happening in American ......
