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Nicholas and Alexandra. [Introduction by the Author. Maps drawn by Reginald Piggott.] NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE

by Lawrence Harrison (Editor), Eugene Yasin (Editor), Evgeny Yasin (Editor)MareMagnum

Culture Matters in Russia and Everywhere: Backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

8vo, hardcover èè.582. This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can happen through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions. This is a superb compendium for anyone wanting to understand the vital role cultural values play in the achievements and failures of any tribe, society, or nation. Only Lawrence Harrison could have brought together thirty-nine of the world's preeminent experts in human culture to present their work at this historic Moscow Conference. Thanks to Harrison, these are all now captured in this book. Among presenters, Russia's former Minister of Economic Development, Eygeny Yasin, now Academic Supervisor at the Higher School of Economics, led a group of eight prominent Russians. Their excellent papers (chapters in the book) cover: the role of the Orthodox church; the status of Russia's market economy; Russians' views on work; entrepreneurship; private property; security; stability; and other cultural values important in that country-and in all the others as well. -- Steven Pease, author of The Golden Age of Jewish Achievement and co-chair of the US-Russia Foundation Lawrence Harrison has been a pioneer in applying a cultural perspective to intractable questions of economic and political development. His most famous early work was on Latin America, and now he asks similarly penetrating questions about Russia's present and future. It is a topic of enormous significance, and the chapters in this volume are clarifying and stimulating. -- James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly About the Author Lawrence Harrison is visiting scholar, retired, at Tufts University's Fletcher School and author of Jews, Confucians, and Protestants: Cultural Capital and the End of Multiculturalism. Evgeny Yasin is academic supervisor at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics and author of Will Democracy Survive in Russia?

Pali s.r.l. · Roma, IT130,00 €

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An Original Document Delineating Public Discontent with the Progress of the Crimean War, in Particular with "The Times Newspaper" for a False Report on the Fall of Sebastopol.

Spoof decree titled "Bill for the More effectual Prosecution of the War with Russia, and for securing the Liberty of the Press, and for other Purposes." In reality, an attack on "The Times" for erroeous reporting, and attributed to Sir George Hayes (1805-1869) who would later become Justice of the Queen's Bench. Folio. 6 pages, printed document made in likeness to a Parliamentary Bill. Blue leafs measuring approximately 21 x 34 cm. Very slight age-toning to verso, otherwise in very good and original condition, an amusing document. Sir George Hayes (1805-1869), was a Judge and Justice of the Queen's Bench. At the time of this document he was a junior barrister, and the following year, in 1856, he was made serjeant-at-law. In 1868 he was named a justice of the court of queen's bench and knighted by the queen at Windsor Castle. Indeed, he had a sense of humour and liked to put his wit to paper. As well as the present document, Hayes was the author in 1854 of an elegy in which he humorously lamented the extinction of John Doe and Richard Roe from the pleadings in ejectment. A Temple Elegy (a parody on Gray's Elegy) was edited and illustrated by H. B. i.e. Hans Busk the younger and published around 1870. His song on the celebrated case of the 'Dog and the Cock' was set to music, and occasionally sung by himself. Edmund Macrory's "Hayesiana," privately printed in 1892, provided an extended biography of Hayes' life and a reprinting of some of his private publications, including the present document. Regarding the present spoof "Bill for the more effectual Prosecution of the War with Russia," Macrory describes it as "printed on blue foolscap paper, in the form of a Bill introduced into the House of Lords, and was printed (as the date on it proves) in February 1855, just at the time when the War in the Crimea was progressing not entirely in a satisfactory manner, and shortly after a second false report of the fall of Sebastopol had found its way into some of the daily newspapers, including The Times."

Voyager Press Rare Books & Manuscripts · West Vancouver BC, CA128,88 €

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