"From the 1750s to the 1770s, the Paris salon of Baron Paul Thiry Holbach was an epicenter of debate, intellectual daring, and revolutionary ideas ... Brilliant minds full of wit, courage, and humanity in their thinking created a different and radical French Enlightenment based …
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Defining the radical right in France, past and present -- The class-cultural roots of the radical right : structures and expressions of independance -- The age of contentment : petits independants during the Belle Epoque -- The fateful transition : petits independants in the int…
The present state of the old world is running up like parchment in the fire.' So declaimed Gerrard Winstanley, charismatic leader of radical religious group the Diggers, in mid-seventeenth century England: one of the most turbulent periods in that country's history. As three civ…
This collection of twelve essays explores the role of women and gender in a range of 'radical' religious movements of the post-Reformation. Organized into three themed divisions, the first examines the activism of female Quakers in their public performances as preachers and peti…
This collection of essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of 'radical' religious movements of the post-Reformation.
This collection of essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of 'radical' religious movements of the post-Reformation.
In A Fiction of the Past, Dominick Cavallo pushes past the contemporary fog of myth, cold disdain and warm nostalgia that shrouds the radical youth culture of the sixties. He explores how the furiously chaotic sixties sprang from the comparatively placid forties and fifties. The…
