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Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt
Category: History
Something is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. In Ill Fares the Land, Tony Judt reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment. As the economic collapse of 2008 made clear, the social contract that defined postwar life in Europe and America - ...Show more
Ill Fares the Land - A Treatise on Our Present Discontents by Tony Judt
Category: Philosophy and Religion
'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever re ...Show more
Postwar by Tony Judt
Category: History
Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as far ...Show more
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
Category: History
A magisterial and acclaimed history of Europe in our time, by one of our leading historians. Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another ...Show more
Postwar - A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
Category: History
Tracing the story of post-war Europe and its changing role in the world, Judt's magnificent history of the continent of our times investigates the political, social and cultural history of Europe from the wreckage of post-war Europe to the expansion of the EU into the former Soviet empire. Judt's stress ...Show more
Reappraisals : Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
Category: History
As Tony Judt argues persuasively in "Reappraisals", we have entered an 'age of forgetting'. Today's world is so utterly unlike the world of just twenty years ago that we have set aside our immediate past even before we could make sense of it. We literally don't know where we came from, and the results o ...Show more
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
Category: History
As Tony Judt argues persuasively in "Reappraisals", we have entered an "age of forgetting." Today's world is so utterly unlike the world of just twenty years ago that we have set aside our immediate past even before we could make sense of it. We literally don't know where we came from, and the results o ...Show more
Reappraisals : Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
Category: Fiction
Socialism in Provence, 1871-1914 by Tony Judt
Category: History
Departing from the usual emphasis on an urban and industrial context for the rise of socialism, Socialism in Provence 1871-1914 offers instead a reinterpretation of the early years of Marxist socialism in France among the peasantry. By focusing on a limited period and a particular region, Judt provides ...Show more
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
Category: Languages and Reference
"It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to ha ...Show more