Product Description: Translation is indispensible to transmissions of knowledge across time and place; to understanding how and what others think. There is a vast stock of theories about how to translate, deriving mainly from controversies about sacred and literary works...read more

Product Description: Bringing together the work of historians and political theorists to examine the complex relationships among nineteenth century democracy, nationalism, and authoritarianism, this study pays special attention to the careers of Napoleon I and III, and of Bismarck...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Few thinkers exerted a greater influence upon British thought and public policy between 1880 and 1914 than T. H. Green. Chapter headings include: Idealism and the Crisis of Evangelical Conscience; Metaphysical Foundations; the Principles of Political Obligation; From the Old Liberalism to the New; Private Property, Capitalism and State Intervention; the Life of Citizenship...read more