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India’s Nonviolent Freedom Struggle The Thomas Christians (1599–1799)

India’s Nonviolent Freedom Struggle The Thomas Christians (1599–1799)

India’s Nonviolent Freedom Struggle is a groundbreaking book that offers a fresh perspective on the Indian freedom struggle. It focuses on the Thomas Christians a group of Christians in South India who waged a nonviolent struggle against European colonization during the politically volatile period of 1599–1799. The book has three related objectives and unique characteristics. First it offers a comprehensive study of primary sources that scholars have referenced but rarely studied in depth. Second it argues that the Thomas Christian narratives provide a unique position to challenge prevalent estimations found in canonical and postcolonial critical discourse on the nation. Third the book considers how an account of a nonviolent struggle by Thomas Christians further complicates received ideas of the postcolonial nation. The book sheds light on the often-overlooked contributions of the Thomas Christians in India’s nonviolent freedom struggle and challenges readers to reimagine the complex and often contentious relationship between colonizers and colonized. A unique contribution to the study of Indian history this book is an essential read for scholars of colonialism anticolonial movements and the history of India. | India’s Nonviolent Freedom Struggle The Thomas Christians (1599–1799)

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Resurrection Songs The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Resurrection Songs The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

This title was first published in 2001. Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-49) was a powerful poet of the English Romantic period who has been and is still strangely neglected by critics. His macabre blank verse dramatic writings and his delicately balanced lyrics have both won ardent admirers such as Browning Gosse Pound and Christopher Ricks. Yet there are formal and generic problems in Beddoes's writings which continue to marginalize him as merely an eccentric and the canon of Romanticism seems to have found no place for him. | Resurrection Songs The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

GBP 31.99
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Thomas Hardy's Short Stories New Perspectives

Thomas Hardy's Short Stories New Perspectives

Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories but in spite of this impressive number his contributions to the genre have been relatively understudied. Bringing together an international group of scholars this is the first edited collection devoted solely to Hardy's works of short fiction. The contributors take up topics related to their publication in periodicals gender and community relationships and narrative techniques. Taken together the essays show that Hardy's short stories are important not only for what they tell us about Hardy as a writer who straddles the divide between the traditionalist and the modernist but also for how they reflect and inform the period in which he wrote. | Thomas Hardy's Short Stories New Perspectives

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The Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas The Genesis of a Wisdom Tradition

The Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas The Genesis of a Wisdom Tradition

This book offers a detailed analysis of the Gospel of Thomas in its historic and literary context providing a new understanding of the genesis of the Jesus tradition. Discovered in the twentieth century the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas is an important early text whose origins and place in the history of Christianity continue to be subjects of debate. Aiming to relocate the Thomasine community in the wider context of early Christianity this study considers the Gospel of Thomas as a bridge between the oral and literary phases of the Christian movement. It will therefore be useful for Religion scholars working on Biblical studies Coptic codices gnosticism and early Christianity. | The Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas The Genesis of a Wisdom Tradition

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Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin

Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin

Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) is today a largely unknown figure sometimes considered to be a forerunner of Karl Marx. Yet a closer look at Hodgskin’s works reveals that he was actually a committed advocate of laissez-faire economics and enthusiastic about labor-saving machinery and the Industrial Revolution with a genuine interest in the well-being of the working classes. This book places him in the tradition of classical liberalism where he belongs—as a disciple of Adam Smith but even less tolerant of government power than Smith was. Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class: The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in the history of economic thought economic history and the history of political thought. | Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin

GBP 38.99
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Thomas S. Szasz The Man and His Ideas

Thomas S. Szasz The Man and His Ideas

As it entered the 1960s American institutional psychiatry was thriving with a high percentage of medical students choosing the field. But after Thomas S. Szasz published his masterwork in 1961 The Myth of Mental Illness the psychiatric world was thrown into chaos. Szasz enlightened the world about what he called the “myth of mental illness. ” His point was not that no one is mentally ill or that people labeled as mentally ill do not exist. Instead he believed that diagnosing people as mentally ill was inconsistent with the rules governing pathology and the classification of disease. He asserted that the diagnosis of mental illness is a type of social control not medical science. The editors were uniquely close to Szasz and here they gather for the first time a group of their peers—experts on psychiatry psychology rhetoric and semiotics—to elucidate Szasz’s body of work. Thomas S. Szasz: The Man and His Ideas examines his work and legacy including new material on the man himself and the seeds he planted. They discuss Szasz’s impact on their thinking about the distinction between physical and mental illness addiction the insanity plea schizophrenia and implications for individual freedom and responsibility. This important volume offers insight into and understanding of a man whose ideas were far beyond his time. | Thomas S. Szasz The Man and His Ideas

GBP 145.00
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Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer’s place in English history is firmly established yet the complexities of his character have remained obscure and he continues to be one of the most problematic figures of the Tudor period. Susan Wabuda’s biography sheds fresh light not only on the private Cranmer but also on the qualities that enabled him to master a shifting political landscape and to build a new English Church. Athletic by nature Cranmer enjoyed hunting and he was a keen collector of books. He was blessed with several lifelong friendships and twice risked his career by marrying the women he loved. A skilled debater and a deft politician Cranmer sought to balance his long-term plans for the Church against the immediate demands of survival at court. Obedient at all times yet never entirely trustworthy he had to reconcile the will of his God with the will of the monarch he served. For too long Cranmer’s legacy has overshadowed the life of the man himself but this new biography enriches and extends our understanding of both. Accessible and informative it will be essential reading for students and scholars of the English Reformation and the Tudor age.

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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be compared in its complexity linguistic playfulness and experimentation and wealth of allusion to the work of James Joyce. Aspects of history psychology technology and science cultural and political movements problems of identity and society and the status and function of fiction and narrative in the modern world are all dramatized with extraordinary wit and power. Tony Tanner provides a brief comprehensive introduction to his work. Against the background of Pynchon the man this book originally published in 1982 examines in detail his early short stories (some of which are not easily accessible) and offers a guide to the reading of his novels V. The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity’s Rainbow. Many of Pynchon’s recurrent themes from entropy and information theory to his interest in the operations and divisions of power in the world since the Second World War are considered. Finally Tony Tanner places Pynchon and his work in a broader cultural and literary context.

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Thomas Tallis

Thomas Tallis

John Harley’s Thomas Tallis is the first full-length book to deal comprehensively with the composer’s life and works. Tallis entered the Chapel Royal in the middle of a long life and remained there for over 40 years. During a colourful period of English history he famously served King Henry VIII and the three of Henry’s children who followed him to the throne. His importance for English music during the second half of the sixteenth century is equalled only by that of his pupil colleague and friend William Byrd. In a series of chronological chapters Harley describes Tallis’s career before and after he entered the Chapel. The fully considered biography is placed in the context of larger political and cultural changes of the period. Each monarch’s reign is treated with an examination of the ways in which Tallis met its particular musical needs. Consideration is given to all of Tallis’s surviving compositions including those probably intended for patrons and amateurs beyond the court and attention is paid to the context within which they were written. Tallis emerges as a composer whose music displays his special ability in setting words and creating ingenious musical patterns. A table places most of Tallis’s compositions in a broad chronological order.

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An Analysis of Thomas Paine's Common Sense

An Analysis of Thomas Paine's Common Sense

Thomas Paine’s 1776 Common Sense has secured an unshakeable place as one of history’s most explosive and revolutionary books. A slim pamphlet published at the beginning of the American Revolution it was so widely read that it remains the all-time best selling book in US history. An impassioned argument for American independence and for democratic government Common Sense can claim to have helped change the face of the world more than almost any other book. But Paine’s pamphlet is also a masterclass in critical thinking demonstrating how the reasoned construction of arguments can be reinforced by literary skill and passion. Paine is perhaps more famous as a stylist than as a constructor of arguments but Common Sense marries the best elements of good reasoning to its polemic. Moving systematically from the origins of government through a criticism of monarchy and on to the possibilities for future democratic government in an independent America Paine neatly lays out a series of persuasive reasons to fight for independence and a new form of government. Indeed as the pamphlet’s title suggested to do so was nothing more than ‘common sense. ’ | An Analysis of Thomas Paine's Common Sense

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Thomas Aquinas and the Civil Economy Tradition The Mediterranean Spirit of Capitalism

Thomas Aquinas and the Civil Economy Tradition The Mediterranean Spirit of Capitalism

Delving into the history of economic thought this book presents a picture of the Mediterranean spirit of capitalism a tradition that has its protagonists in Thomas Aquinas and the eighteenth-century civil economy and seeks to understand its presence and relevance for contemporary societies. The book argues that it is reductive to attribute to the ‘Protestant ethic’ the different formations of capitalism in the Western world. Instead it is vital to acknowledge the differences in the ways in which the market is lived enterprises are created and conducted and civic life in general is understood in different regions. This thought-provoking study demonstrates that in Southern Europe the legacy of Aquinas and the civil economy adds different terms to those recurring in classical and neo-classical economy: common good reciprocity virtue public trust mutual assistance and public happiness. It is these ideas of a market as a place for mutual assistance which can be said to characterize the Mediterranean spirit of capitalism. Thomas Aquinas and the Civil Economy Tradition will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in the history of economic thought economic philosophy Christian ethics and moral theology. | Thomas Aquinas and the Civil Economy Tradition The Mediterranean Spirit of Capitalism

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Thomas Hardy Remembered

Thomas Hardy Remembered

Thomas Hardy Remembered assembles some 150 annotated interviews and recollections of Hardy most of which are being reprinted for the first time. They range from close personal reflections by old friends such as Sir George Douglas J. M. Barrie and Edmund Gosse to fleeting glimpses by strangers who saw Hardy at a London party or at his club. Martin Ray has selected items having the greatest literary or biographical significance and annotated them with meticulous accuracy and a keen eye for the telling detail. As a result the volume will be an invaluable resource to scholars who are interested not only in what concerned Hardy personally and professionally but also in how he was perceived by others. Having these items collected in one volume reveals Hardy's contemporaneous opinions about his own writings and also makes it possible to trace the marked recurrence over time of certain preoccupations: ancient families Hardy's hostility to reviewers architecture Roman relics Wessex folklore and dialect animal welfare Napoleon and hangings. With regard to his literary career a portrait emerges of Hardy as the scrupulous professional properly aware of his commercial rights while at the same time appearing to some who met him unconscious of his own genius.

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Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time

Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time

A systematic exploration of Thomas Hardy's imaginative assimilation of particular Victorian sciences this study draws on and swells the widening current of scholarly attention now being paid to the cultural meanings compacted and released by the nascent 'sciences of man' in the nineteenth century. Andrew Radford here situates Hardy's fiction and poetry in a context of the new sciences of humankind that evolved during the Victorian age to accommodate an immense range of literal and figurative 'excavations' then taking place. Combining literary close readings with broad historical analyses he explores Hardy's artistic response to geological archaeological and anthropological findings. In particular he analyzes Hardy's lifelong fascination with the doctrine of 'survivals ' a term coined by E. B. Tylor in Primitive Culture (1871) to denote customs beliefs and practices persisting in isolation from their original cultural context. Radford reveals how Hardy's subtle reworking of Tylor's doctrine offers a valuable insight into the inter-penetration of science and literature during this period. An important aspect of Radford's research focuses on lesser known periodical literature that grew out of a British amateur antiquarian tradition of the nineteenth century. His readings of Hardy's literary notebooks disclose the degree to which Hardy's own considerable scientific knowledge was shaped by the middlebrow periodical press. Thus Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time raises questions not only about the reception of scientific ideas but also the creation of nonspecialist forms of scientific discourse. This book represents a genuinely new perspective for Hardy studies.

GBP 38.99
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Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance

Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance

This volume sheds new light on one of the most remarkable polymaths of the English Renaissance. It offers original perspectives not only on Harriot’s personal achievements in mathematics and natural philosophy but also on the wider realms of exploration colonial ambition and philosophical debate in which he earned the attention and respect of contemporaries in and far beyond the socially elevated circles of his two great patrons first Walter Ralegh and then Henry Percy the ninth Earl of Northumberland. Harriot’s sixteenth-century world was one of unprecedented expansion in both scientific understanding and the discovery of new lands and peoples. The essays gathered here bring out forcefully the effect of this expanding vision encapsulated in Harriot’s Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1588) the first detailed description of America to be published in the English language. In addition to an essay by a recent biographer of Harriot the volume contains reworked versions of seven Thomas Harriot Lectures an annual lecture series inaugurated in 1990 in Oriel College Oxford. It follows two earlier volumes of Harriot Lectures also edited by Robert Fox that appeared in 2000 and 2012. | Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance

GBP 120.00
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An Analysis of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

An Analysis of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions can be seen without exaggeration as a landmark text in intellectual history. In his analysis of shifts in scientific thinking Kuhn questioned the prevailing view that science was an unbroken progression towards the truth. Progress was actually made he argued via paradigm shifts meaning that evidence that existing scientific models are flawed slowly accumulates – in the face at first of opposition and doubt – until it finally results in a crisis that forces the development of a new model. This development in turn produces a period of rapid change – extraordinary science Kuhn terms it – before an eventual return to normal science begins the process whereby the whole cycle eventually repeats itself. This portrayal of science as the product of successive revolutions was the product of rigorous but imaginative critical thinking. It was at odds with science’s self-image as a set of disciplines that constantly evolve and progress via the process of building on existing knowledge. Kuhn’s highly creative re-imagining of that image has proved enduringly influential – and is the direct product of the author’s ability to produce a novel explanation for existing evidence and to redefine issues so as to see them in new ways. | An Analysis of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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Jungian Analysis Depth Psychology and Soul The Selected Works of Thomas B. Kirsch

Jungian Analysis Depth Psychology and Soul The Selected Works of Thomas B. Kirsch

Thomas Kirsch is one of the foremost architects of the contemporary Jungian scene and has influenced the evolution and organization of analytical psychology worldwide. His works on the history of Jungian analysis and his memoir of a Jungian life have been widely appreciated and this book contains important examples of these interests. Gathered together in The Selected Works are Kirsch’s original and humane contributions to diverse areas such as: training and the dynamics of analytical institutions; clinical themes in Jungian analysis and how these differ from what typically happens in psychoanalytic treatment; as well as a continuation of his remarkable work into the personalities and prejudices that characterize the profession of Jungian analysis. As Andrew Samuels observes in his foreword In these chapters we see Tom’s humanity generosity and flexibility. Given the multifarious dynamics of the training community Kirsch accepts that things can sometimes go wrong and he is open about his experiences in this regard. For Kirsch rather than a simple question of psychologically damaged people becoming analysts the figure of the Wounded Healer is always present in depth psychology. Kirsch is an exceptionally gifted communicator and several of these chapters stem from lectures and conference presentations. However behind the appearance of informality emerges not only a formidable intellect at work but a warm and compassionate perspective on the human condition. The Selected Works will be of vital interest to analysts therapists trainees academics and students working in the areas of Jungian analysis and Jungian studies around the world. | Jungian Analysis Depth Psychology and Soul The Selected Works of Thomas B. Kirsch

GBP 39.99
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Hardy Deconstructing Hardy A Derridean Reading of Thomas Hardy s Poetry

Hardy Deconstructing Hardy A Derridean Reading of Thomas Hardy s Poetry

Hardy Deconstructing Hardy aims to add a new dimension of research which has been partly overlooked—a Derridean Deconstructive reading of Hardy‘s poetry. Analyzing thirty-four popular and less popular poems by Hardy this volume challenges current references to Derridean Deconstructionism. While Hardy is not conventionally considered a Modernist poet he shares with Modernists an element that can be referred to as the linguistic crisis by which they try to get over the sense of anxiety against the backdrop of a chaotic world and problematized language. The forerunner of Deconstructionism Derrida exposes a long established history of logocentric thinking which has continually been moving between binary oppositions and Platonic dualities. Derrida simply puts forward the idea that there is no logos no origin and no centre of truth. The centre is always somewhere else; he identifies this as a ―free play of signifiers. ‖ Consequently the anxiety of the poet with modern sensibility to find a point of reference inevitably results in a ―crisis of representation ‖ or in a problematic relation between language and truth the signifier and the signified. This crisis can be observed in Hardy‘s poetry too. For this purpose this research focuses on four key concepts in Hardy‘s poetry that expose this problematic relationship between language and truth: his agnosticism his concept of the self his language and concept of structure and his concept of time and temporality. These aspects are explored in the light of Derrida‘s Deconstructionism with reference to poems by Hardy which heralded the Modernist crisis of representation. This text will fulfill the function of reconciling theory with practice and become the manifestation of the importance of Poststructuralist criticism. | Hardy Deconstructing Hardy A Derridean Reading of Thomas Hardy�s Poetry

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Catholic Shrines in Chennai India The politics of renewal and apostolic legacy

Catholic Shrines in Chennai India The politics of renewal and apostolic legacy

Though proportionally small India's Christians are a populous and significant minority. Focussing on various Roman Catholic churches and shrines located in Chennai a large city in South India where activities concerning saintal revival and shrinal development have taken place in the recent past this book investigates the phenomenon of Catholic renewal in India. The author tracks the changing local significance of St. Thomas the Apostle who according to local legend was martyred and buried in Chennai and details the efforts of the Church hierarchy in Chennai to bring about a revival of devotion to St. Thomas. Insodoing the book considers Indian Catholic identity Indian Christian indigeneity and Hindu nationalism as well as the marketing of St. Thomas and Catholicism within South India. | Catholic Shrines in Chennai India The politics of renewal and apostolic legacy

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An Analysis of Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic

An Analysis of Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic

Keith Thomas's classic study of all forms of popular belief has been influential for so long now that it is difficult to remember how revolutionary it seemed when it first appeared. By publishing Religion and the Decline of Magic Thomas became the first serious scholar to attempt to synthesize the full range of popular thought about the occult and the supernatural studying its influence across Europe over several centuries. At root his book can be seen as a superb exercise in problem-solving: one that actually established magic as a historical problem worthy of investigation. Thomas asked productive questions not least challenging the prevailing assumption that folk belief was unworthy of serious scholarly attention and his work usefully reframed the existing debate in much broader terms allowing for more extensive exploration of correlations not only between different sorts of popular belief but also between popular belief and state religion. It was this that allowed Thomas to reach his famous conclusion that the advent of Protestantism – which drove out much of the superstition that characterised the Catholicism of the period – created a vacuum filled by other forms of belief; for example Catholic priests had once blessed their crops but Protestants refused to do so. That left farmers looking for other ways of ensuring a good harvest. It was this Thomas argues that explains the survival of what we now think of as magic at a time such beliefs might have been expected to decline – at least until science arose to offer alternative paradigms. | An Analysis of Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic

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Politics Participation And Poverty Development Through Selfhelp In Kenya

Politics Participation And Poverty Development Through Selfhelp In Kenya

Focusing on the distribution of benefits in relation to class ethnicity and gender this book explores the methods to which the rural poor can organize themselves to participate in economic and social development and examines the roles that self-help organizations play in the political economy of Kenya. Dr. Thomas looks at the competition for pow | Politics Participation And Poverty Development Through Selfhelp In Kenya

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England Under the Tudors

England Under the Tudors

‘Anyone who writes about the Tudor century puts his head into a number of untamed lions’ mouths. ’ G. R. Elton Preface Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994) was one of the great historians of the Tudor period. England Under the Tudors is his major work and an outstanding history of a crucial and turbulent period in British and European history. Revised several times since its first publication in 1955 England Under the Tudors charts a historical period that witnessed monumental changes in religion monarchy and government – and one that continued to shape British history long after. Spanning the commencement of Henry VII's reign to the death of Elizabeth I Elton’s magisterial account is populated by many colourful and influential characters from Cardinal Wolsey Thomas Cranmer and Thomas Cromwell to Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scots. Elton also examines aspects of the Tudor period that had been previously overlooked such as empire and commonwealth agriculture and industry seapower and the role of the arts and literature. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Diarmaid MacCulloch.

GBP 19.99
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Medieval Logic and Metaphysics A Modern Introduction

Medieval Logic and Metaphysics A Modern Introduction

Originally published in 1972 Medieval Logic and Metaphysics shows how formal logic can be used in the clarification of philosophical problems. An elementary exposition of Leśniewski’s Onotology an important system of contemporary logic is followed by studies of central philosophical themes such as Negation and Non-being Essence and Existence Meaning and Reference Part and Whole. Philosophers and theologians discussed include St Anselm St Thomas Aquinas Abelard Ockham Scotus Hume and Russell. | Medieval Logic and Metaphysics A Modern Introduction

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