The esteemed and critically acclaimed historian Garrett Mattingly explores all dimensions of the naval campaign, which captured the attention of the European world and played a deciding role in the settlement of the New World. “So skillfully constructed it reads like a novel” (New York Times), The Armada is sure to appeal to the scholar and amateur historian alike.

    This first English translation of Koselleck's tour de force demonstrates a chronological breadth, a philosophical depth, and an originality which are hardly equalled in any scholarly domain. It is a history of the Enlightenment in miniature, fundamental to our understanding of that period and its consequences. Like Tocqueville, Koselleck views Enlightenment intellectuals as an uprooted, unrealistic group of onlookers who sowed the seeds of the modern political tensions that first flowered in the French Revolution. He argues that it was the split that developed between state and society during the Enlightenment that fostered the emergence of this intellectual elite divorced from the realities of politics. Koselleck describes how this disjunction between political authority proper and its subjects led to private spheres that later became centers of moral authority and, eventually, models for political society that took little or no notice of the constraints under which politicians must inevitably work. In this way progressive bourgeois philosophy, which seemed to offer the promise of a unified and peaceful world, in fact produced just the opposite. The book provides a wealth of examples drawn from all of Europe to illustrate the still relevant message that we evade the constraints and the necessities of the political realm at our own risk.Critique and Crisis is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.

    

    John Papa 'I'i, one of the leading citizens of the Hawaiian kingdom during the 19th century, left a unique and invaluable record in "Fragments of Hawaiian History." Brought up for a life of service to the high chiefs, John Papa 'I'i (1800-1870) describes life under the Kamehameha's with the authority of a first-hand witness, presenting personal experiences and revealing the pattern of Hawaiian culture as it actually functioned.

    Edmund Wilson examines the plight, life, history, and culture of the Iroquois in New York State.

    As its effects now ripple out into time, the need grows to understand this experience in its many-sided and many-tierd simplicity. Who needs to understand it? Not only, as with the wars of former centuries, an elite of power and brains-but all men, the millions upon millions who have become movers and shakers in a democratic age. in this way is set a problem of communications more challenging than other in man's long story of imperfect comprehension of himself. From 1948-1953, in six volumes entitled The second World war, Churchill first set down his story. Life is proud to have published in its weekly pages a series of memorable excerps that 1,750,000-word chronicle. Now, in this book, Life presents a new and longer abridgement in a new and meaningful form. Here is the essence of Churchills full story of war, together with an epilogue containing his verdict on what has happened since. Here, too, as visual counterpart to Churchill's prose, are mor than 300 photographs and paintings of World War II,, a harvest from the millions made by Allies and enemies. Churchills luninous prose needs no illumination, and the pictures, just as poignantly, can speak for themselves. But the two are joined with this thought: the light that beat upon Churchill's high place of decision could not reach-as camera brush reached-into the actual struggle on the roiled ground. The pictorial essays are glimpses of enduring meaning snatched from the confussion of the world-wide clash, and they form a compliment to the statesman's narrative.

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    When France fell to the Germans in 1940, a slight, scholarly 28-year-old captain of engineers and professor escaped to England, and with general Charles De Gaulle and Andre Dewavrin, he organized an intelligence service with one goal - to secure a blueprint for Germany's Atlantic wall and place it in the hands of the allies.