A revised and expanded version of the 1989 BBC Reith lectures. Other work by the author includes "Arpentage de la poesie contemporaine", and "Conrad and the West". Other work by the editor includes "America since 1920" and "Kissing cousins: an interpretation of British and American culture".
##Cantos## chinois, américains, pisans, siennois, toscans, etc. Le chef-d'oeuvre d'un des écrivains les plus controversés du 20e siècle, sans doute d'un des plus grands poètes américains du 20e siècle. "Un résumé-collage, très personnel, de l'histoire de l'humanité" pour N. Zand. Pour A. Velter, l'oeuvre est plus proche de la "vindicte torrentielle" que du "message prophétique" (in ##Le Monde## du 20 juin 1980, p. 20). Accès difficile, très difficile.
A comprehensive and systematic introduction to the key political issues in Britain today and their impact on the electoral and policy process. The author shows how the agenda of debate has evolved from the period of postwar consensus through the rise and fall of the New Right to the impact of New Labour today. Particular attention is devoted to the role of the media and to recent experiences such as the BSE crisis, sleaze and Britain's position in relation to Europe.
A revised and expanded version of the 1989 BBC Reith lectures. Other work by the author includes "Arpentage de la poesie contemporaine", and "Conrad and the West". Other work by the editor includes "America since 1920" and "Kissing cousins: an interpretation of British and American culture".
A comprehensive and systematic introduction to the key political issues in Britain today and their impact on the electoral and policy process. The author shows how the agenda of debate has evolved from the period of postwar consensus through the rise and fall of the New Right to the impact of New Labour today. Particular attention is devoted to the role of the media and to recent experiences such as the BSE crisis, sleaze and Britain's position in relation to Europe.
When I studied these manuals, a source then little exploited, I noticed that the academic, like the merchant, was justified by reference to the labor he accomplished. The novelty of the academics thus ultimately appeared to lie in their role as intellectual workers. My attention was therefore drawn to two notions whose ideological avatars I attempted to trace through the concrete social conditions in which they developed. These notions were labor and time. Under these two heads I maintain two open files, from which some of the articles collected here are drawn. I am still persuaded that attitudes toward work and time are essential aspects of social structure and function, and that the study of such attitudes offers a useful tool for the historian who wishes to examine the societies in which they develop."--Preface, page xii
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