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    Postcards from Absurdistan

    Derek Sayer

    A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy-with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorship.

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    The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History

    Derek Sayer

    Presents a comprehensive history of the Czech people that is a remarkably original history of modern Europe. This book describes how Bohemia’s ambiguities and contradictions are those of Europe itself…

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    Rank Hypocrisies: The Insult of the REF

    Derek Sayer

    The author has been involved in a dispute with his employer, Lancaster University, about what he sees as irregularities in the REF process. In this title, he criticizes the REF…

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    Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History

    Derek Sayer

    A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy-with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorship

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    Prague

    Derek Sayer

    Derek Sayer provides an expert and very readable guide to the complexities of Prague’s colourful past, while reflecting upon sides of the present-day city tourists seldom see - from a…

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    Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History

    Derek Sayer

    Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the city of light, Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris the capital of the nineteenth century. In…

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    Capitalism and Modernity: An Excursus on Marx and Weber

    Derek Sayer

    First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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    Capitalism and Modernity: An Excursus on Marx and Weber

    Derek Sayer

    This book examines the links and differences between capitalism and modernity, drawing upon the arguments of Marx and Weber.

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    Making Trouble - Surrealism and the Human Sciences

    Derek Sayer

    Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an instrument of knowledge, an attempt to transform the way we see the world by unleashing the unconscious as…

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    Going Down for Air: A Memoir in Search of a Subject

    Derek Sayer,Charles C. Lemert

    What is hidden in the taste of a madeleine - or in snatches of Bob Dylan songs, operatic arias, and the remembered sting of a rattan cane? An exploration of…

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    Going Down for Air: A Memoir in Search of a Subject

    Derek Sayer,Charles C. Lemert

    What is hidden in the taste of a madeleine - or in snatches of Bob Dylan songs, operatic arias, and the remembered sting of a rattan cane? An exploration of…

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    For Mao: Essays in Historical Materialism

    Philip Corrigan,Harvie Ramsay,Derek Sayer

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    Twenty Years of the Journal of Historical Sociology

    Over the last twenty years the Journal of Historical Sociology has redefined what historical sociology can be. These essays by internationally distinguished historians, sociologists, anthropologists and geographers bring together the…

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    Twenty Years of the Journal of Historical Sociology

    Over the last twenty years the Journal of Historical Sociology has redefined what historical sociology can be. These essays by internationally distinguished historians, sociologists, anthropologists and geographers bring together the…

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