Books written by Gertrude Himmelfarb
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One Nation, Two Cultures
The renowned historian and cultural critic provides an eye-opening study of the dichotomy in American society--one a conservative, Puritan influence and the other based in the counterculture of the 1960s--examining their influence on family ...
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Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
"A thorough and masterly book punctuated with a delicate sense of humor.... Until he has read, marked, learnt and inwardly digested this authoritative volume, no one should presume henceforth to speak on Darwin and Darwinism.
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The People of the Book: Philosemitism in England, from Cromwell to Churchill
A recent history of antisemitism in England regretfully observes that English philosemitism is "a past glory." This book may recall England – and not only England – to that past glory and inspire other countries to emulate it.
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Victorian Minds: A Study of Intellectuals in Crisis and Ideologies in Transition
THE VICTORIAN ETHOS: BEFORE AND AFTER VICTORIA ' ' 7mm ONCE it was the fashion to vilify “Victorianism,” today one might be ... the most eminent Victorian worthies were also the most notorious flouters of convention: John Stuart Mill, ...
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The Spirit of the Age: Victorian Essays
W. E. GLADSTONE (1809–98) ''Robert Elsmere'': The Battle of Belief (1888) Q In 1888, when he was not occupied with parliamentary a√airs (he was leader of his party although not then prime minister), making speeches at home, ...
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The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot
In this integrated book-and-CD learning program, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche gives you the tools to access wisdom and compassion and use the vibration of sacred sound to cultivate the healing power within your body s subtle channels.
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The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments
The Roads to Modernity is a remarkable and illuminating contribution to the history of ideas.
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The Moral Imagination: From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling
The second edition includes a revised introduction and three new essays on Adam Smith, Lord Acton, and Alfred Marshall.
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The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot
It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew - a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual ...
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On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society
In these perceptive essays, the highly regarded historian Gertrude Himmelfarb critically examines the cultural and ideological fashions of contemporary America. She analyzes the intellectual arrogance and spiritual impoverishment at the...
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The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals
For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and historiography, Himmelfarb adds four new essays.
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The People of the Book: Philosemitism in England, From Cromwell to Churchill
The history of Judaism has for too long been dominated by the theme of antisemitism, reducing Judaism to the recurrent saga of persecution and the struggle for survival.
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Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians
In a provocative study that bristles with contemporary relevance, Himmelfarb demonstrates that the material and moral dimensions of poverty were inseparable in the minds of late Victorians, be they radical or conservative.
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Victorian Minds
"Few works that I know convey the excitement of the intellectual life of 19th-century England as immediately....The essays are remarkable no less for the cogency of their wit than for the range and precision of their scholarship.
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The De-moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values
Gertrude Himmelfarb, like so many Americans, is appalled by crime, drug addiction, illiteracy, juvenile delinquency, illegitimacy and welfare dependency. The solution she proposes, in this follow-up to her much-praised On...
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Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians
In a provocative study that bristles with contemporary relevance, Himmelfarb demonstrates that the material and moral dimensions of poverty were inseparable in the minds of late Victorians, be they radical...
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The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age
The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age