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ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
The Nation and Athenaeum
Author: The Nation and the Athenaeum
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
The Nation and Athenaeum
Author: The Nation and the Athenaeum
Author: Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
Author: Merriam-Webster, IncPublisher: Merriam-Webster
ISBN: 9780877790426
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
Book Description
Describes authors, works, and literary terms from all eras and all parts of the world.
The Athenaeum
Author: Michael WheelerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300256337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
A compelling history of the famous London club and its members’ impact on Britain’s scientific, creative, and official life When it was founded in 1824, the Athenæum broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on the basis of their achievements rather than on their background or political affiliation. Public rather than private life dominated the agenda. The club, with its tradition of hospitality to conflicting views, has attracted leading scientists, writers, artists, and intellectuals throughout its history, including Charles Darwin and Matthew Arnold, Edward Burne-Jones and Yehudi Menuhin, Winston Churchill and Gore Vidal. This book is not presented in the traditional, insular style of club histories, but devotes attention to the influence of Athenians on the scientific, creative, and official life of the nation. From the unwitting recruitment of a Cold War spy to the welcome admittance of women, this lively and original account explores the corridors and characters of the club; its wider political, intellectual, and cultural influence; and its recent reinvention.
Virginia Woolf and the World of Books
Author: Nicola WilsonPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1942954573
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A celebration of the centenary of the founding of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press.
John Maynard Keynes
Author: Joseph R. CammarosanoPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739189522
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
John Maynard Keynes: Free Trader or Protectionist? sheds light on Keynes’ position on the issue of free versus protected international trade. Over his lifetime, Keynes’ position altered from free to restricted trade, and quite possibly back to his original position by the end of his career. Ultimately this book demonstrates that he did not return to the tenets of classical free trade, but favored instead some form of managed trade—a position consistent with his views on the domestic economy.
The Nation and the Athenaeum
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Keynes and His Battles
Author: The late Gilles DostalerPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 178100837X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This fascinating book is the first to bring together and examine all aspects of the life and work of one of the most influential thinkers of the last century, John Maynard Keynes, whose theses are still hotly debated. It combines, in an accessible, unique and cohesive manner, analytical, biographical and contextual elements from a variety of perspectives. Gilles Dostaler studies in detail the battles that Keynes led on various fronts - politics, philosophy, art, and of course economics - in the pursuit of a single and lifelong goal: to radically transform society to create a better world, a world pacified and freed from the neurotic pursuit of financial wealth and economic rentability, with art at its pinnacle. Containing detailed presentations of the Bloomsbury group and the political history of Great Britain, Keynes and his Battles is an essential reference to this most important of 20th century figures whose central message remains as topical today as it ever was. The study also contains a unique chronology of Keynes¿s life and historical events, portraits of Keynes by his friends and contemporaries, as well as a full bibliography of all his books, chapters contributed to books, journal articles and reviews. Scholars, students and researchers of economics - the history of economic thought in particular - political science, sociology, history, philosophy and the history of arts will find this an absorbing and revealing work. The book should also interest journalists, decision makers in society and all those who are preoccupied by the problems of our time.
