Language, History and Class - Couverture rigide

 
9780631167327: Language, History and Class
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0631167323 ISBN 13 : 9780631167327
Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1991

Synopsis

This book is an investigation of how societies have understood and described themselves. It is concerned both with the history of language and the language of history. The chapters include studies of societies in Germany, China, USA and India, pre-revolutionary France and 19th-century Britain and America. The author examines how political declarations and manifestos relate to the societies from which they emanated and for which they aimed to legislate. Words such as "liberty" and "equality" have to be understood in a limited sense in the French and American revolutions, but it would be impossible to understand these events without recourse to these resonant concepts. The essays in this book explore the difficulties and the possibilities in understanding language as historical evidence.

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Éditeur
Blackwell Publishers
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0631167323
ISBN 13 
9780631167327
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Éditeur
Corfield P.J.
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780631167334: Language, History and Class

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0631167331 ISBN 13 :  9780631167334
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 1991
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