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Malthus : the life and legacies of an untimely prophet
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ISBN: 9780674728714 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, MA ; London The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

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Thomas Robert Malthus’s An Essay on the Principle of Population was an immediate succès de scandale when it appeared in 1798. Arguing that nature is niggardly and that societies, both human and animal, tend to overstep the limits of natural resources in “perpetual oscillation between happiness and misery,” he found himself attacked on all sides—by Romantic poets, utopian thinkers, and the religious establishment. Though Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. This book is at once a major reassessment of Malthus’s ideas and an intellectual history of the origins of modern debates about demography, resources, and the environment.Against the ferment of Enlightenment ideals about the perfectibility of mankind and the grim realities of life in the eighteenth century, Robert Mayhew explains the genesis of the Essay and Malthus’s preoccupation with birth and death rates. He traces Malthus’s collision course with the Lake poets, his important revisions to the Essay, and composition of his other great work, Principles of Political Economy. Mayhew suggests we see the author in his later writings as an environmental economist for his persistent concern with natural resources, land, and the conditions of their use. Mayhew then pursues Malthus’s many afterlives in the Victorian world and beyond.Today, the Malthusian dilemma makes itself felt once again, as demography and climate change come together on the same environmental agenda. By opening a new door onto Malthus’s arguments and their transmission to the present day, Robert Mayhew gives historical depth to our current planetary concerns.

Jealousy of trade : international competition and the nation-state in historical perspective
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ISBN: 0674010388 9780674010383 Year: 2005

Blackett : physics, war, and politics in the twentieth century
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ISBN: 0674015487 Year: 2004

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Palaces of time : Jewish calendar and culture in early modern Europe
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ISBN: 9780674052543 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, MA ; London The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press


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The invention of law in the West
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ISBN: 9780674047334 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge, MA ; London The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

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Roman law --- Droit romain --- History. --- Histoire


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Islam and Nazi Germany's war
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ISBN: 9780674724600 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, MA ; London The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

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Philosophy the day after tomorrow
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ISBN: 0674022327 9780674022324 0674017048 9780674017047 Year: 2005

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The unintended reformation : how a religious revolution secularized society
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ISBN: 9780674088054 9780674045637 0674088050 0674045637 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge, MA ; London The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

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In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries

The scandal of empire : India and the creation of imperial Britain
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ISBN: 0674021665 0674034260 9780674021662 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

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The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England's development in the eighteenth century and beyond. In this powerfully written critique, Nicholas Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable, we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.

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Hastings, Warren, --- Burke, Edmund, --- Hastings, Warren --- Political corruption --- Boss rule --- Corruption (in politics) --- Graft in politics --- Malversation --- Political scandals --- Politics, Practical --- Corruption --- Misconduct in office --- History --- Corrupt practices --- Berḳ, Edmand, --- Berk, Ėdmund, --- Bŏŏkʻŭ, Edŭmŏndŭ, --- Late noble writer, --- ברק, אדמנד --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- East India Company --- Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading into the East Indies --- United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East Indies --- English East India Company --- East India Company (English) --- East India Tea Company --- East-India Companie --- United East India Company --- Compagnie des Indes orientales d'Angleterre --- Compagnie unie de marchands d'Angleterre commerçans aux Indes orientales --- Tung Yin-tu kung ssu --- Honourable East-India Company --- Sharikat al-Hind al-Sharqīyah al-Barīṭānīyah --- Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy --- Kumpanī-i Hind-i Sharqī --- کمپنى هند شرقى --- English Company Trading to the East-Indies --- India --- Indland --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Republic of India --- Bhārata --- Indii︠a︡ --- Inde --- Indië --- Indien --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- Bharat --- Government of India --- インド --- Indo --- Colonization --- History of Asia --- Burke, Edmund --- Corruption (Politique) --- Histoire --- Colonisation --- هند --- Индия --- Īsṭa Iṇḍiyā Kampanī


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The Nazi-Fascist new order for european culture
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ISBN: 9780674545748 0674545745 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. ; London The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

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During World War II, Nazi-fascist cultural organizations brought writers, filmmakers, and composers together at international conferences where intellectuals celebrated a nationalist and anti-Semitic vision of European culture and pursued the continent-wide reform of the legal and economic bases of European culture. The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture charts the origins, successes, and collapse of the Axis's pan-European cultural institutions. It analyzes their core ideas, charts their internal rivalries, and reveals the complex dynamic of cooperation and competition between the Germans and the Italians that stood at the heart of the project.--

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