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The Humanity of Thucydides

By: Clifford Orwin

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Thucydides has long been celebrated for the unflinching realism of his presentation of political life. And yet, as some scholars have asserted, his work also displays a profound humanity. In the first thorough exploration of the relation between these two traits, Clifford Orwin argues that Thucydides' humanity is not a reflection of the author's temperament but an aspect of his thought, above all of his articulation of the central problem of political life, the tension between right and compulsion. This book provides the most complete treatment to date of Thucydides' handling of the problem of injustice, as well as the most extensive interpretations yet of the speeches in which it comes to light. Thucydides does not merely display the weakness of justice in the world, but joins his characters in exploring the implications of this weakness for our understanding of what justice is. Orwin pursues this question through Thucydides' work and relates it to the historian's other leading concerns, such as the contrast between the Athenian way and the Spartan way, the role of piety in political life, the interaction of foreign and domestic politics, and the role of statesmanship in a world dominated by frenzies of hope, fear, and indignation. Above all, Orwin demonstrates the richness, complexity, and daring of Thucydides' articulation of these issues.

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Princeton University Press

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0691219400

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The Relations of History and Geography

Studies in England, France and the United States

By: Henry Clifford Darby

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The Relations of History and Geography

Studies in England, France and the United States

By: Henry Clifford Darby

This set of twelve previously unpublished essays on historical geography written by Darby in the 1960s explains the basis of his ideas. The essays are divided into three quartets of studies relating to England, France and the United States.

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328

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University of Exeter Press

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0859896994

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9780859896993

Medieval Warfare: Technology, Military Revolutions, and Strategy

By: Clifford J. Rogers

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Medieval Warfare: Technology, Military Revolutions, and Strategy

By: Clifford J. Rogers

This volume explores the topics of military revolutions, strategy, and tactics both separately and as they relate to each other. It makes important contributions to understanding European warfare in the Early, High, and especially the Late Middle Ages, as well the military transition to the Early Modern Period. Readers will find detailed analysis of how technological and non-technological developments interacted to effect major changes in how wars were fought across the period. The evolution and capabilities of the English longbow and of early gunpowder artillery are examined in depth. Changes in the tools of war naturally affected plans to employ those tools to achieve political ends – military strategy – but strategy was never dictated by technology. That point is illustrated by examinations of English efforts to conquer Wales; the Anglo-Burgundian alliance of the late Hundred Years War; and the economic factors shaping medieval conquests in general. The nine studies in the volume have all been published previously, but a new introduction shows how they fit together, particularly explaining how they collectively rebut common critiques of Rogers’s controversial thesis that European warfare was reshaped by the Infantry and Artillery Revolutions during the era of the Hundred Years War. Two of the chapters have been substantially expanded, so that the versions printed here should be the ones consulted and cited in the future by scholars of medieval warfare and military revolutions.

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392

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Taylor & Francis

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1040099548

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9781040099544

Media Ethics and Global Justice in the Digital Age

By: Clifford G. Christians

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Media Ethics and Global Justice in the Digital Age

By: Clifford G. Christians

Presents a new theory of media ethics that is explicitly international.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107152143

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9781107152144

The Humanity of Thucydides

By: Clifford Orwin

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Instilling Ethics

By: Norma Thompson

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Instilling Ethics

By: Norma Thompson

Instilling Ethics casts a fresh light on both the historical sources and the contemporary issues of a major preoccupation of our time: ethics. Norma Thompson has compiled essays from prominent scholars in a wide-range of disciplines to address the problems, pretensions, and positive potentialities of ethical practices today. Instilling Ethics offers a new way of connecting today's ethics to the great ethical sources of the past— classical, medieval, and early modern—and presents a wise and witty critique of the current practice of 'professional ethics.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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146160205X

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The Humanity of Thucydides

The Humanity of Thucydides

The Relations of History and Geography

The Relations of History and Geography

Medieval Warfare: Technology, Military Revolutions, and Strategy

Medieval Warfare: Technology, Military Revolutions, and Strategy

Media Ethics and Global Justice in the Digital Age

Media Ethics and Global Justice in the Digital Age

The Humanity of Thucydides

The Humanity of Thucydides

Instilling Ethics

Instilling Ethics

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