“Professionalism” and the Publishing Boom in British History - The Concept of Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution. By John Phillip Reid. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. viii + 224. $25.95. - Citizen of the World: Essays on Thomas Paine. Edited by Ian Dyck. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Pp. viii + 152. $29.95. - Paine and Cobbett: The Transatlantic Connection. By David A. Wilson. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988. Pp. ix + 218. $27.95. - The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England. By Seamus Deane. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988. Pp. 212. $25.00. - The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 1795–1865. By Boyd Hilton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 407. $69.00.

Few scholars can claim to have shaped the historical study of the long eighteenth century more profoundly than Professor H. T. Dickinson, who, until his retirement in 2006, held the Sir Richard Lodge Chair of British History at the University of Edinburgh. This volume, based on contributions from Dickinson's students, friends and colleagues from around the world, offers a range of perspectives on eighteenth-century Britain and provides a tribute to a remarkable scholarly career. Dickinson's work and career provides the ideal lens through which to take a detailed snapshot of current research in a number of areas. The book includes contributions from scholars working in intellectual history, political and parliamentary history, ecclesiastical and naval history; discussions of major themes such as Jacobitism, the French Revolution, popular radicalism and conservatism; and essays on prominent individuals in English and Scottish history, including Edmund Burke, Thomas Muir, Thomas Paine and Thomas Spence. The result is a uniquely rich and detailed collection with an impressive breadth of coverage.

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Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776, edited by Bernard BailynPamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776, edited by Bernard Bailyn with the assistance of Jane Garrett. Vol. I: 1750-1765, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1965, 771 pp. The British Empire Before the American Revolution. Vol. XI: The Triumphant Empire: The Rumbling of the Coming Storm, 1766-1770. Vol. XII: The Triumphant Empire: Britain sails into the Storm, 1770-1776, by Lawrence Henry Gipson. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1965, 2 vols., 579 and 372 pp. In Canada: Random House of Canada Ltd., Rexdale.

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.3.1.95 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 95-99

Author(s):

L. F. S. Upton

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

British Empire ◽

American Revolution ◽

Harvard University

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Twentieth-Century Communism — The Rise and Fall of an IllusionThe Black Book of Communism. Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panné, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartošek and Jean-Louis Margolin. Translated by Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Harvard University Press, 1999. xx, 858 pp. $37.50.The Passing of an Illusion. The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century by François Furet. Translated by Deborah Furet. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiii, 596 pp. $35.00.The Revolutions of 1989 (Re-Writing Histories) edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu. London and New York: Routledge. 1999. x, 270 pp. $Can HB. 135.00

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.36.2.311 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 311-316

Author(s):

Jolanta T. Pekacz

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Harvard University ◽

University Of Chicago ◽

Black Book ◽

The University ◽

University Of Chicago Press

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The History of the Province of New York, by William Smith, JrThe History of the Province of New York, by William Smith, Jr. Edited by Michael Kammen. The Belknap Press: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1972. 2 vols. 366 pp. and 331 pp.

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.8.1.86 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 86-87

Author(s):

Julian Gwyn

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Harvard University ◽

History Of

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Stanisław Swianiewicz wobec mniejszości narodowych i wielokulturowości Kresów Wschodnich Rzeczypospolitej

Acta Polono-Ruthenica ◽

10.31648/apr.1234 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (XXII) ◽

pp. 7-20

Author(s):

Benon Gaziński ◽

Maria Swianiewicz-Nagięć

Keyword(s):

Economic Thought ◽

History Of Ideas ◽

Religious Minorities ◽

Mass Graves ◽

History Of

In his article, authors deals with Stanisław Swianiewicz heritage. They point-out that it cannot be reduced to the famous episode of the Katyń massacre while he avoided death being sent to the Gwiezdowo station in the neighbourhood of the mass graves – the only one such a case. While settled in Vilnius, after the Bolshevik’s revolution, he became a Professor of the Stefan Batory University, dealing with the Soviet studies, history of ideas and economic thought. In the article – very little known – journalistic essays are overviewed as published by Swianiewicz in pre-war Vilnius press and dealing with the issue of the national and religious minorities of the Polish Eastern Borderlands.

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Theoria ◽

10.3167/th.2020.6716206 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 67 (162) ◽

pp. 117-126

Author(s):

David James ◽

Bahareh Ebne Alian ◽

Jean Terrier

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Harvard University ◽

Columbia University ◽

University Of Chicago ◽

Ernst Bloch ◽

Forms Of Life ◽

University Of Chicago Press

The Actual and the Rational: Hegel and Objective Spirit, by Jean-François Kervégan. Translated by Daniela Ginsburg and Martin Shuster. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. xxiii + 384 pp.Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left, by Ernst Bloch. Translated by Loren Goldman and Peter Thompson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xxvi +109 pp.Critique of Forms of Life, by Rahel Jaeggi. Translated by Ciaran Cronin. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. xx + 395 pp.

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Louis Menand: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America. 2001. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 546 pp.

Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad ◽

10.36366/frontiers.v9i1.123 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 201-204

Author(s):

Lance Kenney

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Cold War ◽

William James ◽

The United States ◽

History Of Ideas ◽

Cultural Impact ◽

Oliver Wendell Holmes ◽

History Of ◽

Charles Peirce ◽

The Cold War

Louis Menand’s The Metaphysical Club, daunting in its choice of subject matter, closely aligns itself with the ancient sense of the word ‘history’ as a fluid, almost epic narrative. The Metaphysical Club of the title was a conversation group that met in Cambridge for a few months in 1872. Its membership roster listed some of the greatest intellectuals of the day: Charles Peirce, William James, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Chauncey Wright, amongst others. There is no record of the Club’s discussions or debates—in fact, the only direct reference to the Club is made by Peirce in a letter written thirty-five years later. Menand utilizes the Club as a jumping-off point for a sweeping analysis of the beliefs of the day. The subtitle of the book belies its true mission: ‘a story of ideas in America.’ Menand discusses the intellectual and social conditions that helped shape these men by the time they were members of the Club. He then shows the philosophical, political, and cultural impact that these men went on to have. In doing so, Menand traces a history of ideas in the United States from immediately prior to the Civil War to the beginning of the Cold War.

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