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Pub. Date
2005
Description
Examines the roles played in the American Romanticism movement by the three Peabody sisters of Salem, Massachusetts: Elizabeth, a publisher who influenced the thought of author-philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau; Mary, the reformer who married educator Horace Mann; and Sophia, the artist who married author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First American edition.
Description
"From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels-poets, novelists, philosophers-who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of the greatest thinkers of the time. When did we begin to be as self-centered as we are today? At what point did we expect to have the right...
3) The prince
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"The Prince" is the most controversial book about winning power - and holding on to it - ever written. Machiavelli's tough-minded, pragmatic argument that sometimes it is necessary to abandon ethics to succeed made his name notorious. Yet his book has been read by strategists, politicians and business people ever since as the ultimate guide to realpolitik. How can a leader be strong and decisive, yet still inspire loyalty in his followers? How do...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
First American edition
Description
"The history of the German idealist oasis where discussions of revolution, literature, beliefs, romance, and concepts gave birth to the modern world"--
"Around the turn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of young German poets and thinkers coursed to the town of Jena to make history. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had dealt a one-two punch to the dynastic system. Confidence in traditional social, political, and religious norms...
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