Alessandra Petrina: Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-Century England: The Case of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (2004)

This volume is an analysis of the development of cultural politics in Lancastrian England. It focusses on Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, brother of Henry V and Protector of England during Henry VI’s minority. Humphrey’s intellectual activity conformed itself to the Duke’s own position in the kingdom: the book explores Humphrey’s commission of biographies, translations of Latin texts, political pamphlets and poems, as well as his collection of manuscripts acquired both in England and from Italian humanists. Particular attention is dedicated to Humphrey’s donations to the University of Oxford and to his relations with English poets and translators, such as John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, highlighting his contribution towards the making of the nation’s cultural autonomy.

Publisher BRILL, 2004
ISBN 9004137130, 9789004137134
381 pages

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David Harvey: Paris, Capital of Modernity (2003)

Collecting David Harvey’s finest work on Paris during the second empire, Paris, Capital of Modernity offers insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer. The book is heavily illustrated and includes a number drawings, portraits and cartoons by Daumier, one of the greatest political caricaturists of the nineteenth century.

Publisher Routledge, 2003
ISBN 041594421X, 9780415944212
372 pages

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Karl Polanyi: The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (1944–) [EN, IT, CR, ES, BR-PT, LT, GR, PT, CN]

“In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the “great transformation” of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New introductory material reveals the renewed importance of Polanyi’s seminal analysis in an era of globalization and free trade.”

Keywords and phrases: fascism, gold standard, Concert of Europe, economic liberalism, market economy, protectionism, laissez-faire, Industrial Revolution, Statute of Artificers, nomic, commodity money, Chartist, trade unions, token money, Adam Smith, Robert Owen, labor power, economic system, outdoor relief.

English, 2nd edition
Foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz.
With a New Introduction by Fred Block
Publisher Beacon Press, 2001
ISBN 080705643X, 9780807056431
317 pages

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The Great Transformation (English, 2nd ed., 1944/2001, 21 MB, updated on 2021-10-30)
La grande trasformazione (Italian, trans. Roberto Vigevani, 1974, added on 2021-10-30)
Velika preobrazba (Croatian, trans. Luka Marković, 1999, added on 2021-10-30)
La gran transformación (Spanish, trans. Julia Várela and Fernando Álvarez-Uría, 2000, added on 2021-10-30)
A Grande Transformação (BR-Portuguese, trans. Fanny Wrabel, 2nd ed., 2000, added on 2021-10-30)
Didžioji transformacija (Lithuanian, trans. Jūratė Musteikytėir and Rimantas Grikienis, 2002, added on 2021-10-30)
Ο μεγάλος μετασχηματισμός (Greek, trans. Κώστας Γαγανάκης, 2007, added on 2021-10-30)
A Grande Transformação (Portuguese, trans. Miguel Serras Pereira, 2012, EPUB, added on 2021-10-30)
Ju bian (Chinese, trans. Shumin Huang, 2013, added on 2021-10-30)