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Between 1870 and 1960, national boundaries became more evident on the demographic map of Western Europe. In most of the fifteen countries examined here, differences in marital fertility, illegitimacy, and marriage from one province (counties, cantons, arrondissements) to another diminished considerably. From Provinces into Nations describes this sh

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Shows that the remarkable burst of abstract speculation among pre-Socratic thinkers of the sixth century BC emerged directly from the religious thought of the preceding era in Greece. This book provides connections between critical scientific thought and social and emotional experience.

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With the transformation and expansion of the nineteenth-century American literary canon in the past two decades, the work of the era's American women poets has come to be widely anthologized. But scant scholarship has arisen to make full sense of it. From School to Salon responds to this glaring gap. Mary Loeffelholz presents the work of nineteenth

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Here is the first social history devoted to the common soldier in the Russian army during the first half of the 19th-century--an examination of soldiers as a social class and the army as a social institution. By providing a comprehensive view of one of the most important groups in Russian society on the eve of the great reforms of the mid-1800s, El

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A companion volume to his Critique of Religion and Philosophy, this book offers Walter Kaufmann's critical interpretations of some of the great minds in Western philosophy, religion, and literature.

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From Subject to Citizen offers an original account of the Second Empire (1852-1870) as a turning point in modern French political culture: a period in which thinkers of all political persuasions combined forces to create the participatory democracy alive in France today. Here Sudhir Hazareesingh probes beyond well-known features of the Second Empir

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Shows the impact of people's conduct, their cultural institutions, and the policies of their governments on economic progress. This book includes the process that transforms a subsistence economy into an exchange economy, the correlation between poverty and population density, and the alleged responsibility of the West for Third World poverty.

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Traces the development of the calculus from the early seventeenth century through its expansion into mathematical analysis to the developments in set theory and the foundations of mathematics in the early twentieth century. This book chronicles the work of mathematicians from Descartes and Newton to Russell and Hilbert and many others.

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Where do neighborhoods come from and why do certain resources and effects such as social capital and collective efficacy bundle together in some neighborhoods and not in others This title argues that neighborhood communities emerge from neighbor networks, and shows that these social relations are unique because of particular geographic qualities.

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From the Outside In examines the profound impact of World War II on American government. The book argues that the wartime and immediate postwar experiences of the 1940s transformed and redirected the policies and government institutions of the New Deal. In a work that makes significant contributions to the study of U.S. politics and history, Bartho

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This study offers a new interpretation of how nobility was viewed in sixteenth-century France and the changes that occurred in that view as France moved into the period of religious wars and popular rebellions and the appearance of the absolutist state. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand tec

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What turns rich nations into great powers How do wealthy countries begin extending their influence abroad In From Wealth to Power, Fareed Zakaria seeks to answer these questions by examining the case of a rising power in modern history-that of the United States.

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Looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change. It explores and documents a range of aspects of modern citizenship in Iran.

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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the effort of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change.

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Contents: Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper; Chapter 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne; Sketches of Western Adventure; The Scarlet Letter; Neutral Territory; Chapter 3: Edgar Allan Poe; South and West; Narratives of Exploration and Discovery; Chapter 4: Henry David Thoreau; The Essential West; Walden: The Pioneer

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Provides modern business cycle theory that starts with the view that growth and fluctuations are not distinct phenomena to be studied separately - and that business cycles result from shocks (such as the availability of new technologies), which regularly affect most economies.

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This book considers problems arising the theory of differential equations. This book is not only intended for mathematicians specializing in the theory of differential equations or in probability theory but also for specialists in asymptotic methods and functional analysis.

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Geometry of orthogonal spaces.

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Measures and integrals