From the bestselling author of Chernobyl
Plokhy, Serhii
From the bestselling author of Chernobyl
Plokhy, Serhii
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In this monumental study of the Enlightenment in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and the United States from c. 1650 to the present, J. C. D. Clark shows that the Enlightenment was not a thing, but rather a historiographical concept.
Based on seventy-five oral history interviews, Dreaming the New Woman uncovers the voices of Chinese women who attended Protestant missionary schools for girls in China in the early twentieth century.
Draws on unused archival material to demonstrate that weak central authority and pronounced regionalism was Ukraine's Soviet legacy, and that the established power of these regional clans made (post-Soviet) Ukrainian politics resistant to Russian?style authoritarianism, even when the Soviet centralised party-state system collapsed.