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Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt
35.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
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
32.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
'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
34.99 NZD
39.99 (12% off)
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
79.99 NZD
85.00 (5% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
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
Postwar - A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
85.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Reappraisals : Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
37.99 NZD
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
64.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
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
Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
36.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Two explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Both travellers are professional historians still tormented by their own unanswered questions. Th ...Show more
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