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This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous "Gulag Archipelago" by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. Author Alan Barenberg's eye-opening study reveals Vorkuta as an active urban center with a substantial nonprisoner population where...

Niezwykła książka o ludzkich poszukujących odpowiedzi na pytanie o cel i sens naszej egzystencji. Boorstin wyodrębnia w dziejach kultury trzy style owych poszukiwań. Prorocy i filozofowie - Mojżesz, Sokrates, Platon, Arystoteles - oraz przedstawiciele reformacji szukali zbawienia, prawdy pochodzącej od Boga lub wyprowadzonej z rozumu. Machiavelli i...

In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico experienced the expansion of Europe. In the early 1520s, Magellan set sail for Asia by the Western route, Cortes seized Mexico and some Portuguese based in...

Who is a citizen? What is a person? Who is my neighbor? These fundamental questions about group membership and social formation have been posed repeatedly in political and religious discourses. Citizen-Saint uses keys works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Milton to examine the aims, limits, and legacies of classic and modern citizenship in Western...

This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlining the Church of England's key role in the increase of voluntary, charitable and religious societies,...

Jerzy Łojek był historykiem trzech stuleci, autorem niestroniącym od kontrowersyjnych poglądów, piszącym znakomitą literacką polszczyzną, poruszającym najbardziej sporne zagadnienia historii Polski, między innymi problemy polityki zagranicznej Sejmu Wielkiego (1788-1792), genezy i szans Powstania Listopadowego (1830-1831), czy też dylematy polityki...