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In 500 superbly crafted pages (miraculously succinct for the task in hand), Burrow's chapters treat of almost every imporant historian of the last two-and-a-half thousand years' - John Adamson,  Sunday Telegraph","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732354085207,"sku":"9780140283792","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140283792.jpg?v=1719996534"},{"product_id":"on-politics-9780140285185","title":"On Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA magisterial, one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Ancient Athens to modern democracy - from author and professor Alan Ryan\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have given to one question: how should human beings best govern themselves? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlmost every modern government claims to be democratic; but is democracy really the best way of organising our political life? 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It provides a strong statement for our time of both the limits and the value of the historical enterprise.\"--Alan Brinkley, New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"Never before have I come across a book that so illuminated the craft of the historian.... Gaddis has a delightful command of language--and a delight in it. He draws on Gertrude Stein, Mark Twain, contemporary movies, Thucydides, Tom Stoppard, Woody Allen and lots more.... He is a distinguished scholar who writes with a clarity and a lack of pedantry that is quite marvelous. Equally impressive, he's not afraid of a rip-roaring fight with his fellow academics.\"--Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun\u003cbr\u003e\"In 'The Landscape of History,' Mr. Gaddis, the author of several distinguished books on the cold war, both pays homage to Bloch (and with more conditional admiration, to the British historian E.H. Carr) and addresses the challenge of postmodernism. 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Besides providing invaluable insights into how the historian goes about his business, it teaches--like all really good books--of life beyond its boundaries.\"--Colin Walters, Washington Times\u003cbr\u003e\"A technical but provocative inquiry for sophisticated history readers.\"--Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\"Entertaining, masterful disquisition on the aims, limitations, design, and methods of historiography.... Employing a wide range of metaphors (from Cleopatra's nose to Napoleon's underwear), displaying an extensive knowledge of current thinking in mathematics, physics, and evolutionary biology, alluding frequently to figures as disparate as Lee Harvey Oswald, Gwyneth Paltrow, John Lennon, and John Malkovich, Gaddis guides us on a genial trip into the historical method and the imagination that informs it.... Provocative, polymathic, and pleasurable.\"--Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\"The Landscape of History explores recent, surprising convergences of natural science and human history and does so with clarity, charm and easy erudition. Gaddis's book is a real tour de force: a delight to read, and a light-hearted celebration of the odd, 'fractal' patterns that intellectual and other forms of human and natural history exhibit.\"--William H. 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His history, in forty volumes, was intended to range from mythological times to 60 BCE, and fifteen of The Library''s forty books survive. This new translation by Robin Waterfield of books 16-20 covers a vital period in European history. Book 16 is devoted to Philip, and without it the career of this great king would be far more obscure to us. Book 17 is the earliest surviving account by over a hundred years of the world-changing eastern conquests of Alexander the Great, Philip''s son. Books 18-20 constitute virtually our sole source of information on the twenty turbulent years following Alexander''s death and on the violent path followed by Agathocles of Syracuse. 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A landmark contribution to Irish historiography, it is essential reading for anybody interested in how Irish history has been remembered and used to serve present purposes down through the centuries. * Marian Lyons, The Irish Times  *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1: The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Writing of Ireland's History in the Sixteenth Century 2: Composing counter-narratives in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 3: New Histories for a New Ireland 4: The 1641 Rebellion and Ireland's Contested Pasts 5: Eighteenth-Century Aristocratic Histories of Ireland During the Sixteenth and Seventeeth Centuries 6: Enlightenment Historians of Ireland and Their Critics 7: The Vernacular Alternative: Catholic and Protestant Popular Reconsiderations of Ireland's Early Modern History During the Age of Revolutions 8: Re-imagining Ireland's Early Modern Past: The Young Ireland Agenda, Dissident Views, and the Catholic Alternative 9: Re-imagining Ireland's Early Modern Past During the Later Nineteenth Century 10: Fresh Unionist Reappraisals of Ireland's History During the Early Modern Centuries 11: The Birth and Early Demise of a Liberal View of Ireland's Early Modern Past 12: The Failure of the Imagination Concerning Ireland's Past","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732791505239,"sku":"9780198808961","price":105.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"the-history-of-emotions-9780198818298","title":"The History of Emotions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVery Short Introductions\u003cb\u003e: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring \u003c\/b\u003eEmotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances. They are intimate and private and yet gain their substance and significance only from interpersonal and social frameworks. And just as our emotions in any given moment display this complex structure, so their history is plural rather than singular. The history of emotions is where the history of ideas meets the history of the body, and where the history of subjectivity meets social and cultural history.In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Dixon traces the historical ancestries of feelings ranging from sorrow, melancholy, rage, and terror to cheerfulness, enthusiasm, sympathy, and love. 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What's the matter with history? For decades, critics of the discipline have argued that the historical profession is dominated by scholars unable, or perhaps even unwilling, to write for the public. In Popularizing the Past, Nick Witham challenges this interpretation by telling the stories of five historiansRichard Hofstadter, Daniel Boorstin, John Hope Franklin, Howard Zinn, and Gerda Lernerwho, in the decades after World War II, published widely read books of national history.     Witham compellingly argues that we should understand historians' efforts to engage with the reading public as a vital part of their postwar identity and mission. He shows how the lives and writings of these five authors were fundamentally shaped by their desire to write histories that captivated both scholars and the elusive general reader. He also reveals how t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Astute, informative, and skillfully researched, Witham’s thought-provoking analysis will appeal to historians (and aspiring historians) who want a better grasp on the challenges and opportunities of history as a profession and the business of popular-history books.\" * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"In his new book \u003ci\u003ePopularizing the Past\u003c\/i\u003e, historian Nick Witham sheds light on five particularly interesting historians’ writing and publishing strategies during the mid-to-late twentieth century . . . Witham’s readings of these five figures offer sensitive analysis and point to the key questions about politics and publishing.\" * Boston Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"I am very taken with Nick Witham’s illuminating book and hope that all practicing and aspiring US historians read it. Drawing on careful research and writing in sparkling prose that rivals his subjects', Witham examines how five prominent postwar historians navigated the challenges and rewards of scripting national narratives for audiences beyond the academy. For anyone interested in crafting intellectually robust, readable, and relevant scholarship, \u003ci\u003ePopularizing the Past\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e   -- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, author of American Nietzsche\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating exploration of American historians searching for their publics and seeking to balance empirical depth and literary flair, scholarship and fame, objectivity and activism. Nick Witham's book is the most probing examination of these matters that I have read. Essential for understanding the importance and perils of writing popular history.\" -- Gary Gerstle, author of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order\u003cbr\u003e\"Those dispirited by today's skirmishes over the American past should seek out Nick Witham’s wonderful book on postwar history writing. His portrait of prominent scholars who wrote for the public offers a fresh take on popularization, presentism, and politicization—even as it underscores the essential work of histories that educate \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e engross readers.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Sarah E. Igo, author of The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America\u003cbr\u003e\"The argument of Witham’s book is that the audience for popular historical nonfiction that explains America to itself has always been a diverse one, made up of various types of readers. The imagined past, when an idealised American reader relaxed by the fireside with a sturdy tome written by a credentialed academic, is, largely speaking, a fiction…The best parts of \u003ci\u003ePopularizing the Past \u003c\/i\u003eare the archival discoveries of letters from readers, and between editors and writers, showing the nitty-gritty of how this sausage got made – and eaten.\" * History Today *\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] engaging, instructive account of the efforts by five postwar American academic historians – and, importantly, their editors and publishers – to reach a broader, non-scholarly audience with their work . . . . If historians wish to produce work that resonates with ordinary readers while being taken seriously by fellow specialists, it can be done. And for guidance on how to do it they could do worse than look to those who, three-quarters of a century ago, set about ‘popularizing the past.'\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Fredrik Logevall * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction What’s the Matter with History? The Problem of Popularity in Postwar American Historical Writing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I Popular History and General Readers\u003cbr\u003e 1 Richard Hofstadter: Popular History and the Contradictions of Consensus\u003cbr\u003e 2 Daniel Boorstin: Popular History between Liberalism and Conservatism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Popular History and Activist Readers\u003cbr\u003e 3 John Hope Franklin: The Racial Politics of Popular History\u003cbr\u003e 4 Howard Zinn: Popular History as Controversy\u003cbr\u003e 5 Gerda Lerner: The Struggle for a Popular Women’s History\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion The Legacies of Postwar Popular History\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Archival Abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732931227991,"sku":"9780226826998","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226826998.jpg?v=1719999000"},{"product_id":"the-frontiers-of-knowledge-9780241304570","title":"The Frontiers of Knowledge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects'' Steven Pinker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5 per cent of the universe; pre-history is still being revealed, with thousands of historical sites yet to be explored; and the new neurosciences of mind and brain are just beginning. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat \u003ci\u003edo\u003c\/i\u003e we know, and how do we know it? What do we now know that we \u003ci\u003edon''t\u003c\/i\u003e know? And what have we learnt about the obstacles to knowing more? In a time of deepening battles over what knowledge and truth mean, these questions matter more than ever. Bestselling polymath and philosopher A. C. Grayling seeks to answer them in three crucial areas at the frontiers of knowledge: science, history and psychology. A remark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects -- Steven Pinker\u003cbr\u003eRemarkable, readable and authoritative. How he has mastered so much, so thoroughly, is nothing short of amazing -- Lawrence M. Krauss, author of A Universe from Nothing\u003cbr\u003eThis book hums with the excitement of the great human project of discovery -- Adam Zeman, author of Aphantasia\u003cbr\u003eProf. Grayling interweaves the recent scientific and archaeological advances into a compelling narrative of how much progress humans have made in the understanding of their place in the natural, social and cognitive worlds. And how ignorant we still remain providing strong motivation to further this understanding by new empirical evidence -- Tejidner Virdee FRS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAC Grayling \u003cb\u003etackles the questions science can't answer\u003c\/b\u003e... a \u003cb\u003ebreathtaking \u003c\/b\u003ebook... \u003cb\u003eScholarly, lucid and accessible without being patronising or diluting\u003c\/b\u003e, Grayling offers a \u003cb\u003emasterly exegesis of current knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e in three disciplines, as well as an analysis of what both opens and obstructs our access to such knowledge - in effect, \u003cb\u003efour books in one\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jane O'Grady * The Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eAn enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and lucidity * Independent *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732993618263,"sku":"9780241304570","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241304570.jpg?v=1719999193"},{"product_id":"the-whig-interpretation-of-history-9780393003185","title":"The Whig Interpretation of History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA classic essay on the distortions of history that occur when historians impose a rigid point of view on the study of the past.","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733728506199,"sku":"9780393003185","price":18.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393003185.jpg?v=1720001412"},{"product_id":"conservative-revolutionary-the-lives-of-lewis-namier-9780719086038","title":"Conservative revolutionary The lives of Lewis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA biography of the historian and public intellectual Sir Lewis Namier from his origins in a secular Jewish family in Poland to recognition as the most important historian of his day, whose  ‘revolutionary’ method was enshrined in the verb to Namierise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Judicious, balanced, thorough … David Hayton’s book will be accepted as the definitive biography of a fascinating man.' \u003cbr\u003eAdam Sisman, author of \u003ci\u003eA.J.P. 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A masterpiece.'\u003cbr\u003eColin Kidd, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Forging of Races\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eRace and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600–2000\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An important and compelling study.  The product of many years of research, this scholarly and well-written biography goes beyond a familiar English environment to expand  Namier's significance as a major figure in European and Jewish historiography.'   Michael Bentley, author of The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield: History, Science and God  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Lewis Namier (1888-1960), has long held a legendary status among historians. When I was an undergraduate, my teachers told me he had revolutionised the study of our subject. 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Hayton’s conclusion makes it apparent that he came to like Namier, a difficult man; but not even Namier’s most devoted pupils and friends were blind to his faults and this is an even-handed biography. It is not the sort of cosy study recently produced for Hobsbawm. Instead, this is a psychologically grittier work and one that asks tougher questions of a man who struggled to provide a consistency to his life and work.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistory Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'Until now the standard version of Namier’s life was the biography by his widow, whose inclinations were mystical rather than historiographical. 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Hayton’s biography – scrupulous, humane and leavened with dry wit – does its subject justice.’\u003cbr\u003eRichard Viven, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eBooks are often described as definitive when they are nothing of the sort. This magnificent biography truly deserves the accolade.'\u003cbr\u003eLord Lexden, \u003ci\u003eConservative History\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue: In search of Namier\u003cbr\u003e1 Avenues of history: the child and the man, 1888–1913\u003cbr\u003e2 Personalities and powers, 1913–1917\u003cbr\u003e3 Facing east, 1917–1920  \u003cbr\u003e4 In the margin of history,1920–1928\u003cbr\u003e5 Skyscrapers, 1928–32\u003cbr\u003e6 Europe in decay, 1932–8\u003cbr\u003e7 In the Nazi era, 1938–47\u003cbr\u003e8 Crossroads of power, 1947–56\u003cbr\u003e9 Conflicts, 1956–60\u003cbr\u003e10 Vanished supremacies: Namier in retrospect\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48736162644311,"sku":"9780719086038","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719086038.jpg?v=1723810541"},{"product_id":"the-2020-commission-report-on-the-north-korean-nuclear-attacks-against-the-united-states-9780753553169","title":"The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Lewis PhD\u003c\/b\u003e is a scholar at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and a research affiliate at the Stanford University Center for Security and International Cooperation. 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Harper has caught the spirit and tone of Dick Leopold's life and career in this graceful, admiring biography which aptly describes the stunning qualities of instruction, academic citizenship, and professional scholarship that Leopold exemplified in his distinguished career.\"\" - John Morton Blum, Sterling Professor of History (emeritus) at Yale University and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Republican Roosevelt\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e V was for Victory\u003c\/i\u003e and other books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"We Americans today live too much in historical bubbles, protected from the cleansing knowledge of time and man's history. And so, how greatly we need this well-written and evocative book about one of our greatest twentieth century teachers! Here, in the amazing and inspiring life of Richard Leopold, a man impassioned by excellence, we can see and feel one of the great and searching historic minds of our time-and grapple with our past anew. 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A dazzling volume in every respect – bravo! -- Wheeler Winston Dixon, James Ryan Professor of Film Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA\u003cbr\u003eIt is not well-known today that in the aftermath of World War II, emerging trends in media and international alliances, ideas about mass communication and the democratization of culture, and representation of national identity converged to produce a \"golden age\" of films about art and artists in Europe and the U.S. \u003ci\u003eArt in Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable resource on the mid-century heyday of the art documentary. -- Susan Felleman, Professor, Art History \u0026amp; Film and Media Studies, University of South Carolina, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements Introduction: The Mid-Century Celluloid Museum, \u003ci\u003eSteven Jacobs (Ghent University \u0026amp; Antwerp University, Belgium) \u0026amp; Dimitrios Latsis (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eToronto Metropolitan University, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 1. 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Neoplasticism and Cinema: Ilya Bolotowsky’s Experimental Films on Art, \u003ci\u003eHenning Engelke (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoethe University Frankfurt, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e Mid-Twentieth-Century Art Documentaries: A Selected Bibliography About the Authors Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738623816023,"sku":"9781350357518","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350357518.jpg?v=1720049689"},{"product_id":"writing-history-9781474255882","title":"Writing History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe third edition of \u003ci\u003eWriting History \u003c\/i\u003e provides students and teachers with a comprehensive overview of how the study of history is informed by a broader intellectual and analytical framework, exploring the emergence and development of history as a discipline and the major theoretical developments that have informed historical writing. 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Students and scholars alike will draw enlightenment and inspiration from it. * Jeremy Adelman, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eA valuable resource for students seeking a solid historical framework for their own historical inquiries, the updated edition features vital trends in historiography, from animal history and cultural history to the social biographies of material culture objects.  Integrating the history of the discipline into assessments of its diverse practices, the authors succeed in making both methodology and theory accessible. * Susan A. Crane, Associate Professor of History, University of Arizona, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting History: Theory and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e takes a broad view, attempting to say something about most areas of historiography. It shows the imaginative ways in which different historians use various theoretical tools. * John H. 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Material History, \u003ci\u003eGiorgio Riello and Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e Conclusion - \u003ci\u003eStefan Berger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany), Heiko Feldner (Cardiff University, UK) and Kevin Passmore (Cardiff University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e Glossary Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739590504791,"sku":"9781474255882","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474255882.jpg?v=1720052677"},{"product_id":"writing-the-history-of-slavery-9781474285575","title":"Writing the History of Slavery","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring the major historiographical, theoretical, and methodological approaches that have shaped studies on slavery, this addition to the \u003ci\u003eWriting History \u003c\/i\u003eseries highlights the varied ways that historians have approached the fluid and complex systems of human bondage, domination, and exploitation that have developed in societies across the world. The first part examines more recent attempts to place slavery in a global context, touching on contexts such as religion, empire, and capitalism. In its second part, the book looks closely at the key themes and methods that emerge as historians reckon with the dynamics of historical slavery. These range from politics, economics and quantitative analyses, to race and gender, to pyschohistory, history from below, and many more. Throughout, examples of slavery and its impact are considered across time and place: in Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval Europe, colonial Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and trades throughout the Atlantic and Ind\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a fascinating volume on the historiography of slavery. It has interesting chapters on how historians have approached the global history of slavery and concepts such as empire, capitalism and antislavery. The book also deals with the methods and perspectives historians have used to explore slavery, including race, gender and memory. A valuable and important collection. * Prof. Gad Heuman, Emeritus University of Warwick, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThis is the best collection of studies on the historiography, methodologies and theoretical approaches to the comparative and transnational histories of slavery.  The approaches are discussed in general terms followed by excellent illustrative studies. Doddington and Dal Lago deserve high praise for the expertise and thoroughness of their selection, organization and editing of chapters that are all very informative. The authors cover their assigned areas thoroughly and accessibly, offering clear views of their specialties in styles that are often lively and inviting. The work will be indispensable for both specialists interested in alternate approaches, researchers new to the study of slavery, and teachers and students seeking context and greater depth in their study of the many cutting edge histories of the world’s slaveries. * Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eImportant reading for anyone interested in writing about slavery and its historiographical traditions, this is a hugely ambitious and multifaceted book featuring interpretations of slavery by a number of historians writing from diverse historiographical, intellectual and analytical perspectives. Deliberately spanning wide chronological and geographical contexts, the authors included reflect upon a variety of theoretical, thematic and methodological approaches for exploring slavery. * Emily West, Professor of American History, University of Reading, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting the History of Slavery is a must-read\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e for students and specialists of the history of slavery.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThis important book provides an \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eaccessible examination of the \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003emethodological challenges \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehistorians of slavery have been and are still \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003econfront\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eed to and how the multifarious methods implemented to overcome them have influenced the historiography of slavery.\u003c\/i\u003e * Lawrence Aje, Associate Professor of American History, Paul Valéry University of Montpellier, France *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Global approaches 1            Defining slavery in global perspective (David Lewis, University of Edinburgh, UK) 2            Writing global histories of slavery (Michael Zeuske, University of Cologne, Germany, University of Bonn, Germany, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba) 3            Slavery and empire (Trevor Burnard, University of Hull, UK) 4            The ‘Great Divergence’: Slavery, capitalism and world-economy, (Dale Tomich, Binghamton University, USA) 5            Approaches to global antislavery (Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh, USA) 6            Comparative and transnational histories of slavery (Enrico Dal Lago, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland)   Part II: Themes and methods              7            Political and legal histories of slavery (Sue Peabody, Washington State University, USA) 8            Writing national histories of slavery    (Lewis Eliot, University of Oklahoma, USA) 9            Writing the religious history of the enslaved in the Atlantic World (Matt D. Childs, University of South Carolina, USA) 10          What historians of slavery write about when we write about race, (Jacqueline Jones, University of Texas at Austin, USA) 11          Gender history and slavery (David Stefan Doddington, Cardiff University, UK) 12          Dispossessed lives: Enslaved women, violence, and the archive, (Marisa J. Fuentes, Rutgers University, USA with an introduction from Elizabeth Maeve Barnes, University of Reading, UK) 13          Slavery, postcolonialism and the colonial archive, (Andrea Major, University of Leeds, UK) 14          Imagining slavery in Roman antiquity (K.R. Bradley, University of Notre Dame, USA) 15          Quantitative histories of slavery, (Andrea Livesey, Liverpool John Moores University, UK) 16          Psychohistory and slavery, (Patrick H. Breen, Providence College, USA) 17          Material culture, archaeology and slavery, (Lydia Wilson Marshall, DePauw University, USA) 18          Slavery and the cultural turn, (Raquel Kennon, California State University, Northridge, USA) 19          Re-tooling memory and memory tools: America’s ongoing re-memory of slavery, (Marcus Wood, University of Sussex, UK)","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739593716055,"sku":"9781474285575","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474285575.jpg?v=1720052683"},{"product_id":"approaches-to-global-history-9781474286633","title":"Approaches to Global History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2023This volume brings together 25 defining texts in global history. These pieces cover approaches to the subject from antiquity to the present century and, taken together, show the development of the discipline, providing a solid historiographical, theoretical and methodological overview that will be invaluable for students. The collection gives a unique sense of how, at different times, in different cultural circumstances, students of the past have approached the problems of encompassing the world in a single narrative or theory.    This is a reader with an implicit story to unfold. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tracks how a global understanding of history originated in prophetic writings, how the Renaissance discovery of the world multiplied the opportunities for historians to think about history globally, how scientific investigations of change came to exert influence and inspire new thinking among global historians, how culture wars ensued between advo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn spirit, global history is an age-old endeavour. At the same time, each manifestation is highly specific to its moment, with its own particular set of constraints and possibilities. Prof. Fernández-Armesto shows this with aplomb for the Western tradition, not just through the essays, which are judiciously chosen, but also through his introductory remarks, which are written with flare and a telling eye, highlighting the import of their subject for both students and scholars. * Gagandeep S. Sood, Associate Professor, International History Department, London School of Economics, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  \u003cb\u003ePart I: Prophecy and Providentialism\u003c\/b\u003e   1. The Book of Daniel, Chapters 7-12 2. Paulus Orosius, \u003ci\u003eSeven Books Against the Pagans, \u003c\/i\u003eDedication, From Book I, Section 1 and from Books II (Section 1), V (Sections 1-2) and VII (Sections 1-3) 3. M. Reeves, \u003ci\u003eJoachim of Fiore and the Prophetic Future, \u003c\/i\u003eFrom Chapter 1, “Joachim and the Meaning of History” 4. From Ibn Khaldun, \u003ci\u003eThe Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart II: From Providence to Progress\u003c\/b\u003e   5. Johann Gottfried Herder, \u003ci\u003eOutlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man, \u003c\/i\u003eBook XV, Chapters 1-5 6. Immanuel Kant, \u003ci\u003eIdea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View, On History\u003c\/i\u003e [1784] 7. G.W.F. Hegel, \u003ci\u003eLectures on the Philosophy of World History, \u003c\/i\u003e“The Course of the World’s History,” vol. iii, sections 60-99. 8. Karl  Marx and Friedrich Engels, \u003ci\u003eManifesto of the Communist Party \u003c\/i\u003e[1848], Chapter 1 9. Leopold von Ranke, \u003ci\u003eUniversal History: The Oldest Historical Group of Nations and the Greeks \u003c\/i\u003e[1884], Preface   \u003cb\u003ePart III: The Scientific Temptation\u003c\/b\u003e   10. Herbert Spencer, “Progress: Its Law and Consequences” [1886], Chapter 1 11. Christopher Dawson, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e [1928], “Introduction” 12. David Christian, “World History in Context”  [2003] 13. Richard Lewontin and Joseph Fraccia, “Does Culture Evolve?” [1994] 14. Felipe Fernández-Armesto, “How to be Human: A Historical Approach” [2010] 15. Daniel Lord Smail, “Neuroscience and the Dialectics of History” [2012]   \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Comparative and Contextual Approaches\u003c\/b\u003e   16. Ian G. Simmons, ‘“To Civility and Man´s Use”: History, Culture, and Nature’ [1998] 17. Jared M.Diamond, “Colonization Cycles in Man and Beast” [1977] 18. Kenneth Pomeranz, “Social History and World History from Daily Life to Patterns of Change” [2007] 19. Bruce Mazlish, “Comparing Global History to World History” [1998]   \u003cb\u003ePart V: The Eurocentrism Controversies\u003c\/b\u003e   20. Arnold J. Toynbee, “My View of History” [1948] 21. Samuel Huntington,. “The Clash of Civilizations” [1993] 22. J.C. van Leur, \u003ci\u003eIndonesian Trade and Society: Essays in Asian Social and Economic History\u003c\/i\u003e [1967], Chapter 1: “On Methodology and Theory” 23. W.H. McNeill, “A Defence of World History” [1982]   \u003cb\u003eEnvoi: The New Narratives\u003c\/b\u003e   24. David Christian, “The Return of Universal History” [2010] 25. 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The new edition features: - A new chapter on history in the digital age, covering the use of information technology in historical practice - Extended coverage of the relationships between history and other disciplines - Fresh material on current trends in the practice of history - Over 35 new illustrations spread throughout the book drawn from around the world  This book is essential reading for all students seeking an understanding of history as a discipline.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the last half-century's most insightful, level-headed, and humane reflections on the practice of history and its cultural significance. * History Journal *\u003cbr\u003eA major, deeply reflective work upon the nature of studying and writing history. No other author has treated the subject in the same way. 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Wide-ranging and erudite in her range of reference, Jordanova sets History in the context of other academic disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, psychology and literature, and explores its interrelation with these disciplines. She provides an authoritative map of the variant forms of historical practice, examines the kinds of knowledge produced by historians, surveys trends and fashions, and considers the opportunities and challenges posed by the twenty first-century ‘digital age’. Reading (and re-reading) History in Practice reminds me why I became an historian; but it also reminds me why History matters. It is an inspirational book. * Paul Readman, Professor of History, King’s College, London, UK and author of Storied Ground: Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity *\u003cbr\u003eHistory is the most slippery of disciplines, hard to grasp and harder still to pin down. Ludmilla Jordanova makes it look easy. 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He contrasts America's relatively brief period of hegemony with the Netherlands' similarly short primacy and Britain's far longer era of leadership.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDecline in all those cases was not inevitable and did not respond to global capitalist cycles. Rather, decline is the product of elites' success in grabbing control of resources and governmental powers. Not only are ordinary people harmed, but also capitalists become increasingly unable to coordinate their interests and adopt policies and make investments necessary to counter economic and geopolitical competitors elsewhere in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConflicts among elites and challenges by non-elites determine the timing and mould the contours of decline. Lachmann traces the transformation of US politics from an era of elite consensus to present-day paralysis combined with neoliberal plunder, explains the paradox of an American military with an unprecedented technological edge unable to subdue even the weakest enemies, and the consequences of finance's cannibalisation of the US economy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCapitalists In Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe \u003c\/i\u003e(Oxford, 2000):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReceived 2003 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award (i.e. best book of the year) of the American Sociological Association. * American Sociological Association *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCapitalists In Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe \u003c\/i\u003e(Oxford, 2000):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume is an exemplar of comparative analysis. Lachmann's work is an excellent recent treatment of the transition to capitalism. -- Rebecca Emigh * American Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCapitalists In Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe \u003c\/i\u003e(Oxford, 2000):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLachmann's analysis of historical economic change is astute and pathbreaking. Empirically, this is comparative historical sociology at its best. An important book that is essential reading for those interested in understanding social change. -- Rosemary Hopcroft * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCapitalists In Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe \u003c\/i\u003e(Oxford, 2000):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCapitalists in Spite of Themselves \u003c\/i\u003esynthesizes and extends elite theory and Marxian class analysis in a remarkably inventive way. \u003ci\u003eCapitalists in Spite of Themselves \u003c\/i\u003eis historically rich, theoretically rigorous and architecturally elegant. -- Julia Adams * Trajectories *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCapitalists In Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe \u003c\/i\u003e(Oxford, 2000):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCapitalists in Spite of Themselves \u003c\/i\u003eis a major tour de force, which will lead scholars to think very differently than they have until now about the making of modern Europe. -- Samuel Clark * Trajectories *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eStates and Power \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity 2010):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an excellent book. It is all the more remarkable because in spite of its relative brevity (little more than 200 pp. of text) it addresses its theme in a manner characterized among other things by its scope. Lachmann's substantial and original book is also characterized by an exacting methodological approach. -- Gianfranco Poggi * Sociologica *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eStates and Power \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity 2010):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStates and Power \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a wonderful starting point for someone seeking to understand the development of states and political power. An entertaining and informative read. * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eStates and Power \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity 2010):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Lachmann provides the reader with a comprehensive sociological analysis of state formation from antiquity to modernity. This text is an excellent read and would certainly be of interest to individuals studying power, state formation, political sociology and nationalism. -- James Baker * Nations and Nationalism *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eStates and Power \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity 2010):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA mini-classic, indispensible for those who are interested in the history and future of the nation-state and the international system. Essential. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eStates and Power \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity 2010):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this highly readable and informative book, Richard Lachmann provides a wide-ranging survey over 500 years of state formation and transformation. He covers many epochs and five continents, addresses many theorists and numerous forms of state and regime, and explores multiple aspects of state capacities from war-making and taxation through public works and social benefits to changing forms of political legitimacy. Beginning with the distant origins of states, \u003ci\u003eStates and Power\u003c\/i\u003e ends with informed speculation on the likely future of states and the state system. In short, this is an excellent introduction to a complex topic in historical sociology. -- Bob Jessop, Lancaster University\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eStates and Power \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity 2010):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is concise, marvelously erudite and clearly written. Lachmann succeeds in presenting both the diverse theoretical constructs regarding state power and the analytically organized historical narratives which flesh out his own synthetic understanding of state power. To the best of my knowledge, Lachmann's achievement has no peer - \u003ci\u003eStates and Power\u003c\/i\u003e has all the elements of an intellectual bestseller. -- Georgi Derluguian, Northwestern University\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Historical Sociology? \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity, 2013):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePetitions for a sociology that takes social change as its central object. * Revue française de science politique *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Historical Sociology? \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity, 2013):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Lachmann's excellent, readable short survey of historical sociology gets to the heart of the enterprise: understanding the ongoing transformations that have created the world in which we live. Lachmann provides incisive reviews of the major fields of research to which historical sociologists have contributed. The book will be a very useful text for those who would bring the concerns and approaches of historical sociology to the larger discipline - who want to historicize sociology in order to render it more vital and more grounded. -- Ann Shola Orloff, Northwestern University\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Historical Sociology? \u003c\/i\u003e(Polity, 2013):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the major contributors to the 'historical turn' in late twentieth-century social sciences guides us through a fascinating journey in a discipline. By examining exemplary works in different sociological domains, Lachmann skillfully sketches the varied concerns of historical sociology. Written in a readable and engaging style, \u003ci\u003eWhat is Historical Sociology?\u003c\/i\u003e is a must read, and not just for those interested in (historical) sociology. -- Roberto Franzosi, Emory University\u003cbr\u003e'Hegemonic decline,' to borrow a phrase from one of Trump's ancestors, makes one want to release the safety catch on one's Browning. A petrified debate whose time had come and gone.... or so I believed until I opened Lachmann. This is a highly original synthesis that blends world systems theory and comparative history with an astute analysis of contemporary US politics to draw powerful and uncomfortable conclusions. -- Mike Davis\u003cbr\u003eIn this historically deep and richly cross-national study of empires and hegemons, Richard Lachmann brings forth new information and a highly original analysis to cast a bright light on the United States and its likely future. Whether social scientists and historians are inclined to agree with him or not, they will have to deal with the fact that his analysis shows that all of them are at least partially wrong about empires and hegemons in one way or another. -- G. William Domhoff, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz\u003cbr\u003eWorking on a strikingly broad comparative canvass Lachmann bridges two genres that are usually widely separate: serious comparative historical sociology, and public engagement. His book asks \"what is the connection between the structure of elite relations and the durability of hegemony, understood as a form of power in which the leadership of the dominant group is 'perceived by subordinate groups as serving a more general interest'?\" Hegemons, unlike simple empires, set the global rules of the game. Their power \"thus...extends beyond their formal and informal territorial possessions to encompass the entire world\". Lachmann's answer to this question is that hegemony is possible where there exist plural elites combined with a low level of elite conflict. Where, in contrast, elites are singular (as in the Nazi or Napoleonic empires) or where there is a high level of conflict (as in the Absolutist cases), hegemony is impossible. In the first sort of case elites simply dominate the lands that they conquer in order to extract resources without gaining any local allies. In the second case elites entrench their own interests at the expense of the general interest; they thus become \"autarkic\" and their own interests split apart from the general interest. This brilliant book, written in the venerable tradition of C. Wright Mills, will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and to the educated public at large. Lachmann shows that comparative and historical sociology is alive and kicking. Bravo! -- Dylan Riley\u003cbr\u003eThis is a powerful, often brilliant, comparative account of the rise and especially the decline of hegemonic powers, focusing most on the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States. Emphasis is placed on the way in which competing elites within the hegemon pursue their own narrow interests to block effective coping with decline. Particularly sobering and convincing is the bleak outlook presented for the future of the United States. -- Michael Mann, Author of The Sources of Social Power, Distinguisher Research Professor, UCLA\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most important developments in recent times is the American elites' loss of influence in global affairs, concurrent with its consolidation of power at home. In this brilliant, sweeping analysis, Richard Lachmann connects the dots and explains how the two processes are related. 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He contrasts their unilinear and exclusive time with the interweaving of temporalities at play in modern processes of emancipation and artistic revolutions, showing how this plurality itself refers to the double dimension of time. Time is more than a line drawn from the past to the future. It is a form of life, marked by the ancient hierarchy between those who have time and those who do not. This hierarchy, continued in the Marxist notion of the vanguard and nakedly exhibited in Clement Greenberg's modernism, still governs a present which clings to the fable of historical necessity and its experts. In opposition to this, Rancière shows how the break with the hierarchical conception of time, formulated by Emerson in his vision of the new poet, implies a completely different idea of the modern. He sees the fulfilment of this in the two arts of movement, cinema and dance, which at the beginning of the twentieth century abolished the opposition between free and mechanical people, at the price of exposing the rift between the revolution of artists and that of strategists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of our most stimulating thinkers * Paris Match *\u003cbr\u003eRanciere's writings offer one of the few conceptualizations of how we are to continue to resist. -- Slavoj Zizek\u003cbr\u003eIt's clear that Jacques Rancière is relighting the flame that was extinguished for many-that is why he serves as such a signal reference today. -- Thomas Hirschhorn\u003cbr\u003eHis art lies in the rigor of his argument-its careful, precise unfolding -and at the same time not treating his reader, whether university professor or unemployed actress, as an imbecile. -- Kristin Ross\u003cbr\u003eFrench philosopher Jacques Ranciere is a refreshing read for anyone concerned with what art has to do with politics and society. * Art Review *","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742010749271,"sku":"9781839763199","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781839763199.jpg?v=1720059668"},{"product_id":"revolution-an-intellectual-history-9781839763335","title":"Revolution: An Intellectual History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of \"dialectical images\": Marx's \"locomotives of history,\" Alexandra Kollontai's sexually liberated bodies, Lenin's mummified body, Auguste Blanqui's barricades and red flags, the Paris Commune's demolition of the Vendome Column, among several others. It connects theories with the existential trajectories of the thinkers who elaborated them, by sketching the diverse profiles of revolutionary intellectuals-from Marx and Bakunin to Luxemburg and the Bolsheviks, from Mao and Ho Chi Minh to José Carlos Mariátegui, C.L.R. James, and other rebellious spirits from the South-as outcasts and pariahs. And finally, it analyzes the entanglement between revolution and communism that so deeply shaped the history of the twentieth century. This book thus merges ideas and representations by devoting an equal importance to theoretical and iconographic sources, offering for our troubled present a new intellectual history of the revolutionary past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffering one of the most unsentimental yet non-reactionary meditations on revolution ever written, Traverso comes not to bury or praise the earthly drive to \"take heaven by storm\" but to understand it anew. Enriched by a lifelong study of historiography and politics, immense historical knowledge, theoretical polyamory, and a compelling artistic eye, this book also features splendid humility in exploring its slippery, complex and important subject. For those who long to craft a different order of things, Traverso's account is essential. For those who want to ponder what spirits revolutions or makes shipwrecks of them, this rare work roams the globe and the library, reflecting on Phnom Penh and Havana, not only Paris and Moscow, and thinking with Weber, Arendt, Fanon and Constant, not only Trotsky, Lenin and Mao. -- Wendy Brown, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Ruins of Neoliberalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis brilliant essay on the images of revolutions is a unique experiment, which has no equivalent in the vast historiographic literature on the subject. Inspired by Marx, Trotsky ,and Walter Benjamin, it is built as a montage of dialectical images, which function as lamps that illuminate the past. Enzo Traverso, probably the most gifted historian of his generation, does not hide his hostility to what he calls the \"octopus of universal commodity reification\"; without idealizing the past revolutions , he wants to preserve, in this fascinating and heterodox piece of research, the memory of historical experience. Quoting Benjamin: we cannot ignore the claim that the past has on us. * Michael Löwy *\u003cbr\u003eA perfect partnering of author and subject! Enzo Traverso is the Marxist scholar most gifted to present us with a masterfully articulated appraisal of the perplexing presence of concepts and images of revolutions in the political imagination. His astonishing scholarly expertise is on display with stunning elegance to reveal a rich tapestry of material from the 19th and 20th centuries, along with a multitude of riveting actors and thinkers. Revolution is a monumental advance in its sophisticated and supple interpretations; it is also a virtuoso performance in the art of refreshingly precise, rigorously compact exposition, complemented by a novelist's flair for narrative power and dramatic verve. -- Alan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant and beautiful. 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In \u003ci\u003eHistory by Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e Hudson and Ishizu guide the reader step by step into the world of quantities, and percentages, as well as the mysteries of sampling and causation. Without numerical literacy, it is impossible to tackle key issues such as migration, consumption, urbanisation and indeed cultural and political change. * Giorgio Riello, University of Warwick, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThis is\u003ci\u003e the\u003c\/i\u003e text book for the next generation of quantitative historians. The brilliantly crafted new edition is written for those who are knowledgeable in history but still skip over the graphs and tables. Chapters convey the evolving need for quantitative study, then lead readers smoothly through all the key quantitative principles. Early chapters show how to read and assess quantitative history; concluding chapters provide effective guidelines on conducting quantitative research. The images and tables, updated and beautifully documented, illustrate concretely the principles. Hudson and Ishizu have overcome the mechanical approaches of their competitors: at every step, a lively historiographical discussion accompanies their clear statement of quantitative principles, emphasizing the balance of technique and critical historical review of the past. Students will be elevated as well as informed; senior scholars will read this book with profit as a review of principles and as a guide to teaching. * Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburg, USA and President, American Historical Association *\u003cbr\u003eEver wondered about that Gini they talk about? If you have scratched your head over debates about income inequality, puzzled over long-run trends, or perhaps pondered on what son-preference in India did to men’s chances of marrying, then History by Numbers is for you. 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Instead of producing a more usual historical survey of antisemitism through the ages, the editors have solicited a rich and diverse collection of short essays from leading scholars in the field about various concepts associated with the study of antisemitism.” (Paul Hanebrink, Shofar - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 40 (3), 2022)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rigorous and wholly engaging, Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism is the volume I was missing during my postgraduate degree in Jewish studies. … From a student’s perspective too, the work will certainly be a welcome addition to university reading lists … . Key Concepts also makes a compelling intervention in the field. 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For schol­ars of both the past and of the present, this work presents insightful historical overviews as well as well-grounded explanations of concepts that yield a solid foundation for fur­ther research. … will be used by researchers and students alike to ori­entate the many concepts that circulate in the study of antisemitism(s).” (Jens Carlesson Magalhães, Nordisk Judaistik, Vol. 33 (1), 2022)\u003cbr\u003e“None of its twenty-two contributions runs more than fifteen pages, making each readily digestible. Moreover, there is no redundancy among them. Even someone long engaged in the study of antisemitism could certainly learn from it. … I can also think of numerous times in the past when I wish this book had been available. Admittedly, before opening Key Concepts one may wonder what is left to be said about anti‐ semitism. Quite a lot, it turns out.” (Robert E. 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Bergen\u003cbr\u003e15.\tOrientalism- Ivan Kalmar\u003cbr\u003e16.\tPhilosemitism- Maurice Samuels \u003cbr\u003e17.\tPogrom- Jeffrey Kopstein\u003cbr\u003e18.\tPost-colonialism- Bryan Cheyette\u003cbr\u003e19.\tRacism- Robert Bernasconi\u003cbr\u003e20.\tSecularism- Lena Salaymeh \u0026amp; Shai Lavi\u003cbr\u003e21.\tSinat Yisrael- Martin Lockshin\u003cbr\u003e22.\tZionism- Scott Ury\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48743038648663,"sku":"9783030516574","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"gender-and-education-in-england-since-1770-a-social-and-cultural-history-9783030797454","title":"Gender and Education in England since 1770: A","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book takes a novel approach to the topic, combining biographical approaches and local history, a synthesis of sociological and historical literature, with new research to address a variety of themes and provide a comprehensive, rounded history demonstrating the entanglement of educational experience and the influence of different modes of discrimination and prejudice. Using the lens of gender, Jane Martin reassesses the gendered nature of the modern history of education and provides an overview of intertwined aspects of education, society, politics and power. Its organisation is user friendly, providing accessible information with regard to chronologies of legislation and key events to reflect constancy and change, whilst ‘mapping’ the larger political, economic, social and cultural contexts, making it ideal for use as a textbook or a resource for teachers and students.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With Gender and Education in England since 1770. A Social and Cultural History, Jane Martin has provided the field of history of educa­tion with a valuable and inspiring contribution which places the histories of women, girls, and the working-class centre stage. 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Offering balanced coverage of the whole era, it takes a firmly global approach, showing how at various times the focus of East-West rivalry shifted to new and surprising venues, from Laos to Katanga, from Nicaragua to Angola. Throughout, Jenkins emphasises intelligence, technology and religion, as well as highlighting themes that are relevant to the present day. A rich array of popular culture examples is used to demonstrate how the crisis was understood and perceived by mainstream audiences across the world, and the book includes three ‘snapshot’ chapters, which offer an overview of the state of play at pivotal moments in the conflict – 1946, 1968 and 1980 – in order to illuminate the inter-relationship between apparently discrete situations. This is an essential introduction for students studying Cold War, twentieth century or Global history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. IntroductionPart One: Between Wars? 1945-19672. 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The \u003ci\u003eManifesto\u003c\/i\u003e that year misread bourgeois intentions, put too much faith in the industrial proletariat, too little in peasants, too much emphasis on the German states, and none on England. Marx and Engels preferred in 1848–9 to focus on the middle-class \u003ci\u003eNeue Rheinische Zeitung\u003c\/i\u003e, declining to galvanise working-class groups whose leadership they had actively sought. They neglected to return swiftly to the German states in their crucial 1848 ‘March days’. The \u003ci\u003eManifesto\u003c\/i\u003e’s programme barely overlapped with contemporary campaigners or comparative pamphleteers, or the replacement \u003ci\u003eDemands of the Communist Party in Germany\u003c\/i\u003e. The book considers the consequences of Marx opting to write the \u003ci\u003eManifesto\u003c\/i\u003e alone in January 1848. 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