 | Focus. The University of Hong Kong Libraries New Series. Vol. 5, No. 1, Jul 2005 Content Typically I use this space to tell you about what we are doing to meet your needs, or otherwise touting our achievements. In this issue I would like to share a list of issues of concern to our staff and what we are or are not doing to address 208.15 Kb. 1 | read |
 | New Political Ideas and Revolutions China, or divine right as European kings declared. Between 1750 and 1914, absolute rulers almost everywhere lost power, and the rule of law became a much more important political principle 30.3 Kb. 1 | read |
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 | The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success Presents the author's view of how Christianity shaped the development of the Western world, suggesting that Christianity--with rational thought and its related institutions--was directly responsible for the important intellectual 344.25 Kb. 5 | read |
 | Ecological Imperialism: The Curse of Capitalism It is no wonder, then, that the last few years have seen a growth of concern about ecological imperialism, which in many eyes has become as significant as the more familiar political 95.97 Kb. 1 | read |
 | Name Core Date Workers benefited eventually, but at first they suffered bad working and living conditions. Other nations followed Britain’s example and industrialized. Thinkers reacted to these changes by developing new views of society 18.93 Kb. 1 | read |
 | Joel Schalit Press Clippings/Reviews and Interviews Anti-Capitalism Reader Clippings, October 2002-January 2003 They reminded me of my favourite Black Sabbath records. If only the newest generation of heavy metal fans could be persuaded that heavyweight Marxist discourse is as compelling and insurrectionary as Slipknot's last record 202.13 Kb. 6 | read |
 | Class Conflict, Social Democracy, and Regulation in Australia Since 1890 and in a Global Capitalist Context Christopher Lloyd More particularly, it is argued here that the connections between social democracy, capitalism, welfare states, and welfare societies is a matter of the complex history of systemic regulation of capitalism both in its North Atlantic heartland 97.11 Kb. 3 | read |
 | - Renaissance: “rebirth”; following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome; 1300 – 1650 ce 98.65 Kb. 2 | read |
 | Ch. 29 Guided Reading Questions Monopolies, Trusts, Cartels What were difference forms of birth control after the start of the industrial revolution? What were their effects? 3.08 Kb. 1 | read |
 | Collapse of Communism Collapse of Communism, the disintegration of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (ussr) between 1989 and 1991 82.39 Kb. 1 | read |
 | V. I. Lenin Economic and Philosophic Science Review Only he is a Marxist who extends the recognition of the class struggle to the recognition of the dictatorship of the proletariat. This is touchstone on which the real understanding and recognition of Marxism is to be tested. V. I. Lenin 146.89 Kb. 1 | read |
 | Some reflections on violence, reconciliation and the “feudal revolution.” Fredric L. Cheyette Conflict in Medieval Europe, ed. Piotr Gorecki and Warren Brown 117.7 Kb. 2 | read |
 | Ap chapter 21 test bank It subjected workers and their families to low wages, long working days, and oppressive 133.96 Kb. 1 | read |
 | Requiem For a Dream? Three Books on Communism The Red Flag. Communism and the Making of the Modern World. David Priestland. Allen Lane 2009. The Rise and Fall of Communism. Archie Brown. The Bodley Head. 2009. The New Civilisation? Understanding Stalin’s Soviet Union 30.6 Kb. 1 | read |