City of the End of Things Lectures on Civilization and Empire |
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Editor:
| Hart, Jonathan |
Author:
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ISBN: | 978-0-19-543005-9 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2009 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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The surprising reflections on the human world, past and present, that are found here are drawn from a high-profile lectures series at McMaster University from 1956 to the present. Robert Oppenheimer helped to invent the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima; Northrop Frye changed Canada's vision of itself in the international world; and Edward Togo Salmon understood the rise and fall of empire like nobody else. Take a whirlwind tour of the Roman Empire, find out about physics...
More DescriptionThe surprising reflections on the human world, past and present, that are found here are drawn from a high-profile lectures series at McMaster University from 1956 to the present. Robert Oppenheimer helped to invent the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima; Northrop Frye changed Canada's vision of itself in the international world; and Edward Togo Salmon understood the rise and fall of empire like nobody else. Take a whirlwind tour of the Roman Empire, find out about physics from Isaac Newton to the splitting of the atom, and consider Canada's position as it stood poised to enter a new modern century. An engaging introduction by Professor Jonathan Hart gives all that background you need to enjoy these explorations of science, culture, and empire in a rapidly changing world as it looked some fifty years ago to three brilliant thinkers.