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    Beyond States

    Anthony Pagden

    Today, the majority of the peoples of the planet live in nation-states, based upon the idea, if never the reality, of a single people, a single culture, a single rule…

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    Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West

    Anthony Pagden

    In the tradition of Jared Diamond and Jacques Barzun, prize-winning historian Anthony Pagden presents a sweeping history of the long struggle between East and West, from the Greeks to the…

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    Facing Each Other (2 Volumes): The World’s Perception of Europe and Europe’s Perception of the World

    An exploration of the world’s perception of Europe, and, in return, of Europe’s perception of the world. It provides a number of articles on the difficulties faced by modern historians…

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    Peoples and Empires: A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present

    Anthony Pagden

    Written by a man deemed the world’s foremost historian of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires and how conquerors justified conquest, and how…

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    Beyond States

    Anthony Pagden

    Today, the majority of the peoples of the planet live in nation-states, based upon the idea, if never the reality, of a single people, a single culture, a single rule…

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    Lords of all the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France c.1500-c.1800

    Anthony Pagden

    The rise and fall of modern colonial empires have had a lasting impact on the development of European political theory and notions of national identity. This book compares theories of…

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    Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination: Studies in European and Spanish-American Social and Political Theory 1513-1830

    Anthony Pagden

    This is an analysis of the lasting influence of the Spanish Empire in the history of early-modern Europe and of its place in the European and Spanish-American political imagination.

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    The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology

    Anthony Pagden

    This is a study of the pre-Enlightenment methods by which Europeans attempted to describe and classify the American Indians and their society. Between 1512 and 1724 a simple deterministic view…

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    The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe

    This volume studies the concept of a political ‘language’, of a discourse composed of shared vocabularies, idioms and rhetorical strategies, which has been widely influential on recent work in the…

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    The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union

    This collection discusses what it means to be ‘European’, covering the period from Antiquity to the end of the twentieth century. Addressing politics, law, religion, culture, literature and affectivity, this…

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    The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union

    This collection discusses what it means to be ‘European’, covering the period from Antiquity to the end of the twentieth century. Addressing politics, law, religion, culture, literature and affectivity, this…

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    European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism

    Mr. Anthony Pagden,A R Pagden

    After Columbus discovered America Europeans wondered how the discovery of the New World would affect them. In this book the author examines some of the varied ways in which Europeans…

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    The Pursuit of Europe: A History

    Anthony Pagden (The University of California Los Angeles)

    The story of the evolution of the "European project", from the end of the Napoleonic Wars through to Brexit, this is also the story of how, and why, it became…

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    The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present

    Anthony Pagden (University of California, Los Angeles)

    The entire course of modern Western history has been shaped by the rise and fall of the great European empires. The Burdens of Empire examines different aspects of this long…

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    The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present

    Anthony Pagden (University of California, Los Angeles)

    The entire course of modern Western history has been shaped by the rise and fall of the great European empires. The Burdens of Empire examines different aspects of this long…

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    Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800

    The description for this book, Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, will be forthcoming.

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    Letters from Mexico

    Hernan Cortes

    Written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, Hernan Cortes’s letters provide a narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of…

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    The Pursuit of Europe: A History

    Anthony Pagden (Professor of Political Science and History, Professor of Political Science and History, UCLA)

    The story of the evolution of the ‘European project’, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars through to Brexit, this is also the story of how, and why, it become…

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    A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

    Bartolome Las Casas

    A catalogue of mass slaughter, torture and slavery, which showed that the evangelizing vision of Columbus had descended under later conquistadors into genocide. It demands that the Indians be entitled…

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    Vitoria: Political Writings

    Francisco de Vitoria

    Francisco Vitoria work has been translated here into English. For the first time, these texts comprise the core of Vitoria’s thought, and are accompanied by a comprehensive introduction, a chronology…

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    The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters

    Anthony Pagden (Professor of Political Science and History, Professor of Political Science and History, University of California, Los Angeles)

    The story of how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment…

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