Gertrude Himmelfarb is professor emeritus of history in the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has written extensively on Victorian England, including
The De-Moralization of Society, Poverty and Compassion, The Idea of Poverty, and
On Liberty and Liberalism. She lives in Washington, D.C.
11 Ebooks par Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude Himmelfarb: Moral Imagination
In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of Americas most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of moder …
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Gertrude Himmelfarb: Victorian Minds
Where "Victorianism" once conjured up an image of smugness, hypocrisy, and mindlessness, it now suggests quite the reverse: an age of high intellectual, moral, and spiritual tension, in whi …
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Gertrude Himmelfarb: 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 Vict …
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Gertrude Himmelfarb: The People of the Book
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. The history of philosemitism …
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Gertrude Himmelfarb: Past and Present
Past and Present brings together almost two dozen newly collected essays by the distinguished American historian and cultural critic, Gertrude Himmelfarb. Their common theme is the intriguing, o …
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John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
‘Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.’ To this ‘one very simple principle’ the whole of Mill’s essay On Liberty is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessor …
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Gertrude Himmelfarb: Roads to Modernity
Gertrude Himmelfarb’s elegant and wonderfully readable work, The Roads to Modernity, reclaims the Enlightenment from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given pre …
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