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Marc Bloch : a life in history.
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ISBN: 0521406714 9780521406710 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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La chapelle de Vence : journal d'une création
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ISBN: 9782204045513 2204045519 Year: 1993 Publisher: Paris: Cerf,

On Leon Battista Alberti: his literary and aesthetic theories
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ISBN: 0262100428 0262367890 9780262367899 9780262100427 Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press,

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A penetrating study of Alberti's writings on philosophy, ethics, aesthetics architecture, and literature.Listen to Alberti's voice. This is what Mark Jarzombek has done in studying virtually all of Alberti's writings on philosophy, ethics, aesthetics architecture, and literature. Jarzombek's thorough grasp of Alberti's thought and painstaking analysis of his elusive identity transform our image of this remarkable man carving out a new place for Alberti in literary theory, art history, and Renaissance scholarship.Instead of warming over the stereotypes of Alberti as a ""universal man"" or as a proponent of ""civic Humanism,"" Jarzombek explores Alberti's views on the relationship between the writer and society. He asserts that, while Alberti was indeed an architect, an art theorist and a man of letters, he was above all a theoretician of writing: ""Everywhere one turns, the problems of writing, authorship and textuality seem to appear, from his first writings... to his last."" Jarzombek, opening the possibilities for a different type of discussion of Alberti and of such major works as De pictura and De re aedificatora, places Alberti more accurately within the context of his times and clarifies the intertextual relationship among his works. Jarzombek's investigation brings to light themes that have remained hidden in the complex world of Alberti's speculations. The Alberti of Jarzombeks book is an outsider struggling to resolve conflicting impulses of pessimism and hope. He is also a profound and willful thinker who, while amalgamating contemporary trends, did not endorse them but countered with a cosmological philosophy of his own.

Lyndon Johnson confronts the world : American foreign policy, 1963-1968
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ISBN: 0521424798 0521414288 113917391X 9780521414289 9780521424790 Year: 1994 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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This is the most comprehensive, perceptive, and nuanced review to date of the foreign policy of the Lyndon Johnson era. It demonstrates US concern not just with the Soviet Union, Europe, and nuclear weapons issues, but the overwhelming preoccupation with Vietnam which shaped policy throughout the world. During this period, Johnson also faced a series of emergencies ranging from turmoil in the Congo, to war in the Middle East, to a perceived communist challenge in the Caribbean, to a lingering hostage crisis in Asia. Using the most recently declassified documents, it explains in thoroughly readable prose the intricacies of the foreign policy dilemmas that forced Johnson's Great Society domestic agenda into retreat.

Marc Bloch aujourd'hui : histoire comparée et sciences sociales : colloque international organisé à Paris les 16, 17 et 18 juin 1986
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ISBN: 2713209447 9782713209444 Year: 1990 Volume: 41 Publisher: Paris: École des hautes études en sciences sociales,

Gerard van Swieten und seine Zeit: : internationales Symposium veranstaltet von der Universität Wien im Institut für Geschichte der Medizin 8.-10. Mai 1972
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ISBN: 3205022084 9783205022084 Year: 1973 Volume: 8 Publisher: Wien: Böhlau,


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Spiritualisme et matérialisme au XIXe siècle : l'Université libre de Bruxelles et la religion
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ISBN: 2800411953 9782800411958 Year: 1998 Volume: [8] Publisher: Bruxelles : Ed. de l'Université de Bruxelles,

Infinity and perspective
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ISBN: 0262082926 9780262082921 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : MIT press,

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Laïcité et franc-maçonnerie
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ISBN: 2800407492 2800407514 9782800407517 9782800407494 9782800407500 2800407506 Year: 1981 Volume: 78 Publisher: Bruxelles : ULB,

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