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Harry Liebersohn
In this lucid historical introduction to a major tradition in Western thought, Harry Liebersohn discusses five scholars–Ferdinand Tonnies, Ernst Troeltsch, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Georg Lukacs–who were responsible for…
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Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of a mouse. While contemporary globalized musical culture has become…
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An unforgettable voyage filled with delightful characters, dramatic encounters, and rich cultural details, this book heralds a moment of intellectual preparation for the modern global era. Harry Liebersohn examines the…
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Harry Liebersohn (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century; it demonstrates how European intellectual history can gain fresh significance from…
Relates how an aristocratic discourse on American Indians took shape in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
European aristocrats visiting North America developed an affinity with the warrior elites of Indian societies.
