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The Translatability of Revolution
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ISBN: 1684175917 9781684175918 0674987187 Year: 2018 Publisher: Boston Leiden Boston

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"The first comprehensive study of the writer, politician, and Marxist historian Guo Moruo, this book explores the dynamics of translation, revolution, and historical imagination in twentieth-century Chinese culture. Leaping between different genres of Guo's works, it interrogates the linkage between translation and historical imagination"--Provided by the publisher.


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Christian : the politics of a word in America
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ISBN: 9780674985759 0674985753 9780674737631 0674737636 0674985737 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge London Harvard University Press

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Religious diversity has long been a defining feature of the United States. But what may be even more remarkable than the sheer range of faiths is the diversity of political visions embedded in those religious traditions. Matthew Bowman delves into the ongoing struggle over the potent word "Christian," not merely to settle theological disputes but to discover its centrality to American politics. As Christian: The Politics of a Word in America shows, for many American Christians, concepts like liberty and equality are rooted in the transcendent claims about human nature that Christianity offers. Democracy, equality under the law, and other basic principles of American government are seen to depend upon the Christian faith's sustenance and support. Yet despite this presumed consensus, differing Christian beliefs have led to dispute and disagreement about what American society and government should look like. While many white American Protestants associate Christianity with Western Euro-American civilization, individual liberty, and an affirmation of capitalism, other American Christians have long rejected those assumptions. They maintain that Christian principles demand political programs as wide-ranging as economic communalism, international cooperation, racial egalitarianism, and social justice. The varieties of American Christian experience speak to an essentially contested concept of political rights and wrongs. Though diverse Christian faiths espouse political visions, Christian politics defy clear definition, Bowman writes. Rather, they can be seen as a rich and varied collection of beliefs about the interrelationships of divinity, human nature, and civic life that engage and divide the nation's Christian communities and politics alike.--


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Coins from the excavations at Sardis : their archaeological and economic contexts : coins from the 1973 to 2013 excavations
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ISBN: 9780674987258 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts London Harvard University Press

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Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. ; London Harvard University Press

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Holy humanitarians : american evangelicals and global aid
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ISBN: 9780674737365 0674737369 0674985907 9780674985902 0674985885 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, MA London Harvard University Press

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Latin poetry
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ISBN: 9780674977174 0674977173 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, London Harvard University Press

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Arguably the most important Italian poet of the Renaissance and perhaps the most important European writer before Shakespeare, Ariosto's fame deservedly rests on his narrative poem, Orlando Furioso. In it Charlemagne's war against the Saracens serves as a backdrop to explore typical Renaissance themes such as love, madness, and fidelity, with an elaborate subplot that dramatizes how these themes affect the dynastic fortunes of Ariosto's patrons in the House of Este. The poem was published in over one hundred editions by 1600, so great was its popularity. The additional works that Ariosto composed have inevitably come to be viewed as minor in comparison to the magnitude and renown of his big poem. They include 214 letters, five plays, seven satires in verse, and dozens of lyric poems in Italian and Latin.--


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On human worth and excellence
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ISBN: 9780674984585 0674984587 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge London Harvard University Press

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Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459) was a celebrated diplomat, historian, philosopher, and humanist scholar of the early Renaissance who mastered ancient Greek and Hebrew as well as classical Latin. In this treatise, dedicated to Alfonso of Aragon, King of Naples, Manetti addresses a question central to the anthropology of the Renaissance: what are the moral, intellectual, and spiritual capabilities of the unique amalgam of body and soul that constitutes human nature? The treatise takes issue with a popular work of medieval asceticism, On the Misery of the Human Condition, written by none other than Innocent III, one of the greatest of medieval popes. The pope’s diatribe expresses a revulsion against human nature and argues for the futility of ambition, the emptiness of pleasures, and the ultimate worthlessness of human achievements. Manetti’s treatise presents a comprehensive refutation of the pope’s pessimism, sometimes citing the achievements of the Renaissance as evidence for the potential divinity of human nature and its extraordinary capabilities. This edition contains the first complete translation into English.


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Gulf sustainable urbanism. : the past
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ISBN: 9789927118951 Year: 2018 Publisher: Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press

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Harvard University Graduate School of Design was the leader of this research project, which took place in 2011-2015, entitled Gulf Sustainable Urbanism (GSU). Scholars from Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq and Iran (in geographic order) contributed to the research. The focus of this first part of the research is the past of urbanism in the coastal region, aiming to propose a future sustainable urbanization, both environmentally and socio- economically. A study of urbanization patterns of the past was conducted for eight coastal cities and two associated hinterland cities in eight countries surrounding the Gulf. Urban and regional histories were summarized to understand the complex relationships that generated long-lasting urban forms and efficient building designs.


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Gulf Sustainable Urbanism. : the past
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ISBN: 9789927118968 Year: 2018 Publisher: Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press

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Harvard University Graduate School of Design was the leader of this research project, which took place in 2011-2015, entitled Gulf Sustainable Urbanism (GSU). Scholars from Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq and Iran (in geographic order) contributed to the research. A study of urbanization patterns of the past was conducted for eight coastal cities and two associated hinterland cities in eight countries surrounding the Gulf. Urban and regional histories were summarized to understand the complex relationships that generated long-lasting urban forms and efficient building designs.

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