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Edinburgh University Press Ensemblance
Book SynopsisThrough several historical case studies from the last 300 years, Luis de Miranda shows how the phrase 'esprit de corps' acts as a combat concept with a clear societal impact. He also reveals how interconnected, yet distinct, French, English and American modern intellectual and political thought is.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Reappraisals of British Colonisation in Atlantic
Book SynopsisThis collection offers new perspectives on the legacy of British colonisation by concentrating on Atlantic Canada, a region that was pivotal to safeguarding Britain's imperial ambitions, between 1750 and 1930.
£85.50
Black Rose Books The German Historians – Hitler′s Willing
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Rowman & Littlefield Boudica and Her Stories: Narrative
Book SynopsisThis book begins with a study of the few ancient texts which provide the source material for all subsequent accounts of the seventh-century British queen Boudica and her ferocious yet ultimately unsuccessful rebellion against the Romans. It shows how their information was assembled over centuries to create the entity we know as Boudica as an individual, including her appearance, personal ties and home life. It follows by discussing their opinions on the atrocities she suffered and committed, their assessment of her fitness for command and chances of victory, and the spiritual, political and national implications of her rebellion, concluding with a brief examination of ways in which writers have invited others to share her story. Are her metamorphoses without limits, governed solely by the requirements of individual authors, or variations on a distinctive theme, generated by a flexible yet enduring narrative pattern?
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Tacitus
Book SynopsisThe greatest of Roman historians, Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56-117 CE) studied rhetoric in Rome. His rhetorical and oratorical gifts are evident throughout his most substantial works, the incomplete but still remarkable Annals and Histories. In concise and concentrated prose, marked by sometimes bitter and ironic reflections on the human capacity to misuse power, Tacitus charts the violent trajectory of the Roman Empire from Augustus' death in 14 CE to the end of Domitian's rule in 96. Victoria Emma Pagan looks at Tacitus from a range of perspectives: as a literary stylist, perhaps influenced by Sallust; his notion of time; his modes of discourse; his place in the historiography of the era; and the later reception of Tacitus in the Renaissance and early modern periods. Tacitus remains of major interest to students of the Bible, as well as classicists, by virtue of his reference to 'Christus' and Nero's persecution of the Christians after the great fire of Rome in 64 CE. This lively survey enables its readers fully to appreciate why, in holding a mirror up to venality and greed, the work of Tacitus remains eternal.Trade ReviewThis compact, refreshing, and ambitious study is an accomplished addition to the growing ‘stable’ of volumes in the Understanding Classics series ... A stimulating synthesis of Tacitus’ writings which will have much to offer to specialists and general readers alike. * Exemplaria Classica *
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AK Press The Five Hundred Year Rebellion
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526
Book SynopsisNow recognised as the standard work on the subject, Realm of St Stephen is a comprehensive history of medieval Eastern and Central Europe. Pal Engel traces the establishment of the medieval kingdom of Hungary from its conquest by the Magyar tribes in 895 until defeat by the Ottomans at the Battle of Mohacs in 1526. He shows the development of the dominant Magyars who, upon inheriting an almost empty land, absorbed the remaining Slavic peoples into their culture after the original communities had largely disappeared.Trade Review"A lively and highly readable narrative. - Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona"
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Rivers Oram Press Socialist History Journal: Contested Legacies:
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern
Book Synopsis'Mario Liverani's work is among the most original and penetrating in the discipline of ancient Near Eastern studies. I recommend this brilliant and fascinating book with high enthusiasm.' Benjamin R. Foster, Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and Curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection, Yale University 'This collection of his classic essays, selected by Liverani himself, and presented in English for the first time, displays Liverani's brilliance in dissecting a variety of myths, treaties, royal inscriptions, letters and Biblical narratives. Liverani's influence on the interpretation of history is generously acknowledged by professional historians of the Ancient Near East and by the Italian reading public. This collection will bring his substantive contributions and his method to a wider audience of historians, anthropologists, and literary critics. The editors have done a splendid job introducing the essays, revising Liverani's own translations and providing handy references to studies that have appeared since Liverani's original work.' Norman Yoffee, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan The essays collected in this volume represent a selection of studies, previously published mainly in Italian, that make explicit use of anthropological and semiological tools in order to analyze important texts of historical nature from various regions of the Ancient Near East. They suggest that these historiographical texts were of a 'true' historical nature, and that the literary forms and mental models employed were very apt at accomplishing the intended results. Two different aspects are especially emphasized: myth and politics.Trade Review'The availability of these essays now in English is a truly invaluable service to the wider scholarly audience of the ancient Near East.' Bryn Mawr College Review Mario Liverani's work is among the most original and penetrating in the discipline of ancient Near Eastern studies. I recommend this brilliant and fascinating book with high enthusiasm.' Professor Benjamin R. Foster, Yale University 'This collection of his classic essays, selected by Liverani himself, and presented in English for the first time, displays Liverani's brilliance in dissecting a variety of myths, treaties, royal inscriptions, letters and Biblical narratives. Liverani's influence on the interpretation of history is generously acknowledged by professional historians of the Ancient Near East and by the Italian reading public. This collection will bring his substantive contributions and his method to a wider audience of historians, anthropologists, and literary critics. The editors have done a splendid job introducing the essays, revising Liverani's own translations and providing handy references to studies that have appeared since Liverani's original work.' Proessor Norman Yoffee, University of MichiganTable of ContentsEditors' Introduction; Abbreviations; Part One: Mesopotamia; 1. Adapa, Guest of the Gods; Part Two: Hittite Anatolia; 2. Telipinu, or: on Solidarity; 3. Shunashura, or: on Reciprocity; Part Three: Syria; 4. Leaving by Chariot for the Desert; 5. Rob-Adda, Righteous Sufferer; 6. Aziru, Servant of Two Masters; Part Four: Hebrew Bible; 7. The Story of Joash; 8. Messages, Women, and Hospitality. Inter-tribal Communication in Judges 19-21
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Konfuzianisches Ethos und westliche Wissenschaft:
Book SynopsisThis study in German offers profound insights into the life and thoughts of Wang Guowei (1877-1927). Like many intellectuals who strongly perceived the necessity of reforms in the waning years of the Late Qing dynasty, i.e. after the Opium wars, Wang sought to strengthen China's position against foreign, in particular Western, powers. Contrary to earlier approaches, which either advocated a close adherence to Confucian traditions or tried to adapt only elements of Western material culture, mainly industrial and military technology, Wang Guowei aimed at reviving traditional Chinese culture by analysing its source texts using a modern scientific approach (and thereby started the discipline of guoxue [national studies]) and simultaneously adapting compatible elements of Western immaterial culture. Thus, Wang became known as an authority on Chinese paleography as well as on German philosophy, especially Kantian epistomology.Table of ContentsKapitel I: Wang Guowei und die neue chinesische Wissenschaftskultur Die Entstehung des guoxue 國學 -KonzeptsKapitel II: Wang Guowei als Pionier der neuen chinesischen Altertumswissenschaft Kapitel III: China, Deutschland und die Altertumswissenschaft Chen Yinque als Fortsetzer des Geschichtsdenkens Wang GuoweisKapitel IV: Die Wirkungsgeschichte von Wang Guoweis Schaffen Kapitel V: Wang Guowei, Hsu Cho-yun und die Frage nach einer chinesischen Modernisierung
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Palgrave Macmillan Balkan Historiographical Wars. The Middle Age.
Book SynopsisLegacy, Tradition, Heritage and the History Writing in the Balkans - Diana Mishkov.- 2. The Wars over Samuel’s Kingdom - Roumen Daskalov.- 3. Art Wars: The Creation of Bulgarian Art History and the Balkan Controversies Regarding the Medieval Heritage of Macedonia - Tchavdar Marinov.- 4. Skanderbeg. Figures of Paper, Figures of Stone - Nathalie Clayer.- 5. Defending our Lands in Ancient and Medieval Studies: the Albanian Case - Alexander Vezenkov.- 6. In Search of an Acceptable Past: Bosnian Middle Ages and National Ideologies - Nedim Rabic.
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Palgrave Macmillan Archiving the Referendum
Book SynopsisChapter 1 : Introduction.- Chapter 2 : Making Memories: Key concepts around memory, the archive, and history on television.- Chapter 3 : Milestones on the Road to Referendum.- Chapter 4 : The BBC in Scotland.- Chapter 5 : Creating connections with the past in Scotland’s Smoking Gun (BBC Two Scotland, 2014).- Chapter 6 : You’re always scripting to the pictures’: production practices for How the Campaign Was Won (BBC One Scotland, 2014).- Chapter 7 : A pact with the future’: archival practices at BBC Scotland .- Chapter 8 : Conclusion.
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Kohlhammer Werkzeug Des Historikers: Eine Einfuhrung in Die
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Kohlhammer W. Denken in großen Bildern
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Bohlau Verlag Die Habsburgermonarchie (1526-1918) ALS
Book SynopsisDie Habsburgermonarchie in der Geschichtsschreibung
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Bohlau Verlag Koln Aneignungen Der Geschichte: Narrative
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Duncker & Humblot GmbH Vom Nutzen Der Historie
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Duncker & Humblot GmbH Freiheit in Gebundenheit
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Harrassowitz Hochmittelalterliche Herrschaftspraxis Im Spiegel
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Harrassowitz Verlag Weißrussland oder Belarus
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Brill U Schoningh Monumenta: Erinnerungsorte Zwischen Weser Und
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Steiner Franz Verlag Grundungsphasen Zwischen Erfolg Und Scheitern
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Steiner Franz Verlag Emotionen im Krieg Krieg der Emotionen
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Springer-Verlag GmbH Denn in der Zeit lebt immer auch eine andere Zeit
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Hirzel S. Verlag Der Orient in mittelalterlicher Literatur. Bd. 1
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Brill U Schoningh Geschichtswissenschaft: Eine Einfuhrung
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Tectum Verlag Romische Geschichtsschreibung
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Schiler & Mücke GbR Die Entstehung Einer Weltreligion VII
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Springer Bruno Bauer and Karl Marx: The Influence of Bruno
Book SynopsisThe present work is aimed at filling a hiatus in the literature dealing with the Young Hegelians and the early thought of Karl Marx. Despite the prevalent view in the past few decades that Bruno Bauer played an important part in the radical activity of Hegel's young disciples in the eighteen forties in Germany, no comprehensive work has so far been published on the relations between Bauer and Marx. In 1927 Ernst Bar nikol promised to write a monograph on the subject, but he never did. For the purpose of this study I perused material in numerous library collections and I would like to express my gratitude to the staff of the following institutions: Tel Aviv University Library, the Library and Archive of the International Institute of Social History in Am sterdam, the Heidelberg University Library, the Library of Gottingen University, the Tiibingen University Library, Frankfurt University Library, the State Library at Marburg, the Manuscript Department of the State Archives in Berlin.Table of ContentsOne Bruno Bauer as a Young Hegelian.- I. The problem.- II. Literature on Bruno Bauer.- III. Bauer’s life until the publication of Strauss’ Leben Jesu.- IV. The split in the Hegelian school — emergence of the Young Hegelians.- V. Bruno Bauer as a theologian and critic of Strauss.- VI. Bauerian Critique of the Gospels.- VII. Bruno Bauer as commentator on Hegel.- VIII. Bauer’s conception of religion and history.- IX. Bauer’s political conception.- Two Karl Marx and Bruno Bauer.- I. The personal relations and literary collaboration between Bauer and Marx.- II. Bauerian motifs in Marx’s conception of religion.- III. Bauer’s influence on Marx’s dissertation.- IV. Bauerian motifs in Marx’s conception of alienation.- V. The impact of Bauerian ideas on Marx’s conception of ideology.- VI. Marx, Feuerbach, Bauer.- VII. The polemic between Marx and Bauer.
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Springer Bismarck and the Guelph Problem 1866–1890: A Study in Particularist Opposition to National Unity
Book SynopsisMany historians have concerned themselves with the founding of the German Empire in 1871 and the means used to unite the disparate sections of Germany, many of which had older traditions than did Bismarck's Prussia. Understandably writers have given more attention to the victor than to the vanquished. Except for polemicists who seek to prove the wrong done or to vindicate the action taken, scholars have been interested in writing about trends which were to become significant in the new Reich, about the new governmental structure itself, and about the diplomacy and statesmanship which were used to form the new German nation-state. But the consolidation of many diverging strands of political, economic, and social traditions in the new state left many issues unsolved and in fact seemed to create new ones. Many of these problems, while not overtly affecting the basic outline of German history, have nonetheless influenced it and have become at times serious matters of concern for the Reich Chancellor. One of the problems was the threat of particularist sentiment to the national unity which Bismarck was trying to create. Although there was an awareness among some nineteenth century Ger mans of a specific German nationality, the majority of people did not think in terms of a German unity but regarded themselves as Bavarians, Saxons, or belonging to some other Stamm, or tribal subdivision of the Germans.Table of ContentsI. The Kingdom of Hanover and the Guelphs.- II. 1866.- III. Prussian Negotiations with King George 1866–1871.- IV. Guelph Subversive Activities.- V. Guelph Parliamentary Activities.- VI. Bismarck and the Guelph Dynasty 1871–1890.- VII. Bismarck and the New Province.- VIII. Bismarck and the Secret Uses of the Guelph Fund.- Conclusions.- Map 1 — Historical Development of the Kingdom of Hanover.- Map 2 — Electoral Districts in the Province of Hanover 1867–1918.- Map 3 — Administrative Divisions in the Province of Hanover 1867–1884.- Map 4 — Administrative Divisions in the Province of Hanover 1884–1890.
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Holo Books The Arbitration Press Chinese Footprints: Exploring Women's History in
Book SynopsisThe writing of history used to concentrate on narrative, analysis or theory. The historian stayed out of sight. This book is part of a more recent trend. Here, Susanna Hoe discusses her relationship to her material, the processes of research and writing, and her characters. She does so by exploring and sometimes comparing, the lives of Chinese and western women who have lived in China, Hong Kong and Macau, and links them not only to herself but also to contemporary women's issues, human rights and colonialism. "Chinese Footprints" is about the practice of history. The approach and style make it both accessible and teachable. The characters include 1930's civil and women rights campaigners Shi Liang, China's Minister of Justice 1949 to 1959, Agnes Smedley and Stella Benson, autobiographical writer Xiao Hong, revolutionary Soong Ching Ling, traveller Ella Maillart, philanthropist Clara Ho Tung, and Clara Elliot, who was part of the story of Hong Kong's cession to Britain in 1841.
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Oxford University Press History and Historians in the Twentieth Century
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Oxford University Press Servants Abroad
Book SynopsisServants Abroad presents manuscript journals by four British domestic servants who travelled to continental Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century, a period that tends to be seen as the golden age of a quintessentially aristocratic form of travel, the ''Grand Tour''. Yet if each wealthy traveller brought at least one employee, as seems a safe estimate, then more people knew this kind of travel as a period of work than as a gentlemanly rite of passage or an early form of tourism. For the first time, this volume makes first-hand accounts by members of this majority available for research and teaching. With a full introduction and extensive annotations, these texts upend the standard view of eighteenth-century travel from Britain to continental Europe, casting the ''Grand Tour'' as an important episode in transnational labour history, and taking the study of working-class life writing in an exciting new direction.
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University of Chicago Press Richard Hofstadter An Intellectual Biography
Book SynopsisRichard Hofstadter (1916-70) was America's most distinguished historian of the twentieth century. The author of several books, including The American Political Tradition, he was a champion of the liberal politics that emerged from the New Deal. This biography explores his life within the context of the rise and fall of American liberalism.Trade Review"Intelligent and stimulating... Brown admirably balances respect for his subject with critical distance and persuasively makes the case that the ambiguousness of Hofstadter's legacy is inseparable from his continuing interest.... At his best, Hofstadter remains vitally alive and endlessly instructive." - Sam Tanenhaus, New York Times Book Review "In this illuminating biography... [Brown] freshens the worn-out chronicle of postwar Upper West Side intelligentsia by retelling it from Hofstadter's playful, eternally skeptical, oddly uninflammatory point of view.... Above all, Brown helps readers assess Hofstadter as a member of a generation of American historians every bit as important as (and in some respects more so than) the well-known Progressive generation of Charles Beard, Frederick Jackson Turner, and Vernon Parrington." - Sean Wilentz, New Republic"
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The University of Chicago Press The Mystic Fable Volume One The Sixteenth and
Book SynopsisThis volume provides an analysis of Christian mysticism during the 16th and 17th centuries, along with an application of the author's transdisciplinary historiography. It aims to reveal the "mystical" aspect of postmodernism's movement of perpetual departure.
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The University of Chicago Press The Combing of History
Book SynopsisHow is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? This exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of history, revealing the economic, social and political forces at play in history's production.
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The University of Chicago Press Walter Raleghs History of the World and the
Book SynopsisImprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive History of the World. The author uses Ralegh's History as a touchstone to explore the culture of history writing and historical thinking in the late Renaissance.Trade Review"In this learned, lively, and original book, Popper offers a detailed and penetrating analysis of Walter Ralegh's historical ideas and practices. At the same time, he recreates the larger world of Renaissance historical culture, and he sets Ralegh's work into its context in a way that brilliantly illuminates both." (Anthony Grafton, author of Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West)"
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The University of Chicago Press Practicing New Historicism
Book SynopsisThis work focuses on five aspects of new historicism: recurrent use of anecdotes, preoccupation with the nature of representations, fascination with the history of the body, sharp focus on neglected details, and skeptical analysis of ideology.
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The University of Chicago Press Hegel Heidegger and the Ground of History
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The University of Chicago Press Purity and Exile Violence Memory and National
Book SynopsisThis study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile after their 1972 insurrection against the Tutsi was suppressed, shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how this process helps to construct identities such as Hutu and Tutsi.
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University of Chicago Press Telling It Like It Wasnt
Book SynopsisIn Telling It Like It Wasn't, Catherine Gallagher takes the history of counterfactual history seriously, pinning it down as an object of dispassionate study.Trade Review"Gallagher's new book is a genuinely original contribution to both the theory (and history) of the novel and the theory of history. Philosophers and historians have been debating the cognitive status of historical narratives for over half a century without taking into account the contributions to theory of narrative made by modern literary scholars. Based on a trove of 'counterfactualist' writings that have been little studied until of late, Gallagher's book sheds new light on the differences between history, myth, fiction, hypotheticals, the historical romance, and fantasy writing. Moreover, her book is mercifully free of jargon, her discussion of 'counterfactual' history is subtle and sophisticated, and her analysis of the relation between fiction and hypothesis convincing."--Hayden White "University Professor of the History of Consciousness, Emeritus, University of California " "At a time when fact itself is under siege, why tarry with thought experiments about pasts that didn't happen? Gallagher's answer is a historicist one: although counterfactual narratives have been with us in many forms since antiquity, their full story has remained untold. Fortunately, we no longer have to live in a timeline where Telling It Like It Wasn't has yet to be written. To read this engrossing book is to be haunted not by lives unled but by previously undermapped regions of history, philosophy, theology, legal reasoning, and literature." --Paul K. Saint-Amour, author of Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form
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The University of Chicago Press Living in the Stone Age Reflections on the
Book SynopsisRutherford explains how and why the idea of New Guinea as a stone age leftover came to be so common in discourse about the country, and why it has persisted even as other similarly racially imperialist language has fallen away.Trade Review"Living in the Stone Age is a deeply thoughtful and refreshingly programmatic book about the experience of empire and its fantasies and sympathies. Rutherford offers a subtle, close-up sense of the everyday experience, imperial fantasies, and agonistic assertions of sovereignty during the Dutch colony's closing decades. Extremely well crafted and written in an accessible, engaging style, this book makes for a fascinating and essential read for anyone interested in sovereignty, colonialism, anthropology, or Southeast Asian studies."--Patricia Spyer, The Graduate Institute, Geneva "In this eloquent book, Rutherford brings big questions and big historical contexts to a neglected archive of early interactions in western New Guinea at the end of the Dutch Empire. Living in the Stone Age conveys complex arguments through lively, conversational, and succinct writing. This book is a major contribution to West Papuan studies, and to understanding the enduring, pernicious historical constraints that the category 'Stone Age' imposes on any people associated with it."--Rupert Stasch, University of Cambridge
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The University of Chicago Press Islam and World History
Book SynopsisPublished in 1974, Marshall Hodgson's The Venture of Islam was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the development of Islamic studies and provided an alternative approach to world history. Edited by Edmund Burke III and Robert Mankin, Islam and World History explores the complexity of Hodgson's thought, the daring of his ideas, and the global context of his world historical insights into, among other themes, Islam and world history, gender in Islam, and the problem of Muslim universality. In our post-9/11 world, Hodgson's historical vision and moral engagement have never been more relevant. A towering achievement, Islam and World History will prove to be the definitive statement on Hodgson's relevance in the twenty-first century and will introduce his influential work to a new generation of readers.
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The University of Chicago Press Time Travelers
Book SynopsisThe Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of lasting importance. They paved the way for many of our modern disciplines, discovered the primeval monsters we now call the dinosaurs, and built many of Britain's most important national museums and galleries. To a large degree, they created the perceptual frameworks through which we continue to understand the past. Out of their discoveries, new histories emerged, giving rise to new debates, while seemingly well-known pasts were thrown into confusion by new tools and methods of scrutiny. If in the eighteenth century the study of the past had been the province of a handful of elites, new technologies and economic development in the nineteenth century meant that the past, in all its brilliant detail, was for the first time the property of t
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The University of Chicago Press Latin America
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Serving as an investigation of "Latin America" in the abstract, historian Tenorio-Trillo's work reframes the understanding of not only where this abstract concept originated but also why it endures. . .Rooted in deep, thorough interdisciplinary research and analysis and written in witty prose, the book promises to open rich dialogues, not only within graduate seminar classrooms but also in the field as a whole."--Choice "This is a book that fully delivers on its title. [Tenorio-Trillo] provides a history of the idea of Latin America, rather than of the place itself, and he does so with plenty of wit and brio."--Current History "A great example of what skillful history writing can achieve: to combine deep historical knowledge with sharp political analysis. Add the ability to write engagingly and a refreshing sense of humor and you have the essence of this book: a must-read for every scholar of Latin America but also a prime example of critical engagement with the fundamental concepts underlying scholarly work."--H-Soz-Kult "An engaging and lucidly argued book. . .Passionate, impressively erudite, and occasionally playful."--Hispanic American Historical Review "Tenorio-Trillo examines a powerful paradox defining the study of 'Latin America' with particular focus on the US academy, exposing what appears, at first, as a logical impossibility. He demonstrates that the very notion of Latin America as conventionally articulated in this academic milieu should have ceased to carry any weight some time ago, on account of various developments in our fields of study. At the same time, he shows us that the term itself and all the debates that it is bound up with--the legitimate ones as well as the not-so-legitimate ones--continue to carry the highest degree of urgency in our time. Hence, this is less a book about abstract ideas and theories, and more an ethical call to arms for everyone that the problematic term concerns: a call, made with at times disarming clarity and honesty, to more effectively position our collective habits, priorities, and strategies to deal with the many, multi-faceted problems at hand. To call this essential reading for those concerned with the field would be a powerful under-statement."--Luis M. Castaneda, author of Spectacular Mexico "Latin America is one of those rare books that can fundamentally alter your understanding of a whole field. The basic idea is simple enough: under the deceptive clarity of geography there is a thick cultural history, a host of conflicts that crystalize in the name of Latin America--and we reveal much about ourselves, unknowingly, when we use it. All the excitement, and the pleasure, is in the details. Latin America is a major work by a mature scholar: deep, moving, passionate, nuanced, and erudite, but also lighthearted and truly funny at times. Only a handful of historians, and none in his generation, command the massive amount of knowledge about the continent that Tenorio does--in six languages. Add to it a sparkling, smiling prose, and a warm sense of humor. It is what every history book should aspire to be."--Fernando Escalante, El Colegio de Mexico "While some still write nine hundred page tomes that can be used as blunt instruments, others can get a lot done in a far shorter space. By turns playful, provocative, aphoristic, and unfailingly idiosyncratic, Tenorio-Trillo's Latin America showcases for the English-reading public the special talents of this intellectual contrabandista. How to cope with the very idea of 'Latin America, ' especially from within the US academy (but also from its fringes)? This short work is ostensibly a manifesto of 'defeat' but it is actually an act of subversion at many levels. Necessary reading for 'Latin Americanists' of all stripes, it should equally be read by all those who, like myself, have a love-hate relationship with 'area studies.'"--Sanjay Subrahmanyam, author of Europe's India "Like many ideas invented with the rise of racial thinking, the category of 'Latin America' lives on. And yet, few agree on what it means. Tenorio-Trillo's brilliant essays reveal the extent to which the endless search for understanding and coherence has led to confusion and contradiction. Latin America mutated from anti-yanqui slogan to cornerstone of North American universities. And yet, it has always carried the anti-liberal, anti-individualist traits with which it was born. Tenorio-Trillo's skeptical voyage should provoke a much-needed debate about what Latin America has meant--and whether or how we should let it go, finally."--Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University
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The University of Chicago Press Scientific History
Book SynopsisIncreasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a reengagement with the natural sciences. Taking their cues from recent breakthroughs in genetics and the neurosciences, advocates of big history are reassessing long-held assumptions about the very definition of history, its methods, and its evidentiary base. In Scientific History, Elena Aronova maps out historians' continuous engagement with the methods, tools, values, and scale of the natural sciences by examining several waves of their experimentation that surged highest at perceived times of trouble, from the crisis-ridden decades of the early twentieth century to the ruptures of the Cold War. The book explores the intertwined trajectories of six intellectuals and the larger programs they set in motion: Henri Berr (18631954), Nikolai Bukharin (18881938), Lucien Febvre (18781956), Nikolai Vavilov (18871943), Julian Huxley (18871975), and John Desmond Bernal (19011971). Though they held different political views, spoke differeTrade Review"Aronova illuminates intellectual cross-fertilizations of science and historiography by zooming in on the practices of scientists and scientist historians. . . . Aronova's thoroughly researched book uncovers largely submerged historiographical approaches that have emphasized the shared features of all modern knowledge-seeking endeavors ranging from the natural sciences to the humanities. It is a significant contribution to our understanding of both the natural sciences and the humanities. Its originality and sometimes surprising comparisons are thought-provoking for historians of all fields of study, and it is to be hoped that they will stimulate especially the much-needed methodological reflection in the historiography of science." * Journal of the History of Economic Thought *“With extensive source material and broad geographical range, Aronova gives us a tight and interwoven sense of trajectories of past big historical and big data ambitions and practices, relating these to shifting cultural and political contexts and observing the striking historical ironies these trajectories reveal. The book is significant in canvassing so much diverse material so efficiently and expertly, uncovering unexpected and disregarded historical connections while presenting the material engagingly and accessibly. It is a satisfying, impressive piece of scholarship that provides an explicit, extended, transnational historicization of big history." -- Nasser Zakariya, author of A Final Story: Science, Myth, and Beginnings"Where do today's dreams of writing history scientifically come from? Not from David Christian and Bill Gates, Anthropocene scholars, apostles of digital humanities, apologists for big data, amateur neuroscientists, or latterday cliometricians. Aronova provides a deeper genealogy of today's data-driven obsessions, rooted instead in twentieth-century Russian ambitions for a scientific Marxism. Using 'Russia-as-method' to examine Soviet visions of history as a materialist science, Aronova's sparklingly subversive narrative excavates foundational fights over how to write the history of science, how to practice the science of history, and how to tell the story of mankind. A work of wit, grace, and profundity." -- James Delbourgo, James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Professor of History, Rutgers University"A captivating tale of Clio becoming a scientist! Animated by a commanding multinational cast of characters, Scientific History offers the first broad-ranging analysis of why and how the methods, approaches, values, and frameworks advanced within the natural sciences—ranging from biogeography to mathematics to genetics—became part of historians’ armamentarium and profoundly influenced twentieth-century historical thought and practice. This engaging account ventures with enviable ease from the editorial offices of the Annales to the sessions of international history congresses, through the corridors of UNESCO to computer rooms at the ‘scientific information’ institutes in Philadelphia and Moscow. Aronova uncovers the forgotten and sometimes deliberately obscured but deep and thoroughly transnational roots of present-day historians’ fascination with ‘big data,’ quantification, and ‘big history.’ Meticulously researched and refreshingly free from Cold War–era polarizing biases, this book is a must read for anyone interested in history, science, and their intricate connections." -- Nikolai Krementsov, author of Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in Bolshevik Science and Fiction“[Aronova] demonstrates the complex interactions between science and history. Vivid passages describe the Soviet government's corruption of academic disciplines: social sciences, biology, and agronomy. A demanding but highly informative read.” * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Russia as Method 1 The Quest for Scientific History Two Unity of Science Movements Positivism, History, and Henri Berr’s Historical Synthesis Historical Synthesis and the History of Science The Internationalist Politics of Synthesis 2 Scientific History and the Russian Locale Russia and the West Russian Historiography on the World Stage Marxism and History The Great Break Bukharin and the History of Science London 1931 3 Nikolai Vavilov, Genogeography, and History’s Past Future The Geographies of History and the Genetic Archive The Mendeleev of Biology Vavilov’s Genogeography and the Bolsheviks’ Geopolitics A “New Kind of History” The Politics of History 4 Julian Huxley’s Cold Wars Julian Huxley’s Two Careers A Journey to a Utopian Future The Crisis in Soviet Genetics and Julian Huxley’s Cold Wars Huxley’s Evolutionary History 5 The UNESCO “History of Mankind: Cultural and Scientific Development” Project History by Committee Febvre’s Cahiers: Historical Journals and the Making of Historical Knowledge Cold War Internationalism and the Writing of History 6 Information Socialism, Historical Informatics, and the Markets Bernal’s Information Socialism: From London 1931 to Cold War America, via Russia Envisioning History as Data Science Historians and Computers The Socialist Markets for a Capitalist Data Product Epilogue Past Futures of the History of Science List of Archive Abbreviations Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Popularizing the Past Historians Publishers and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"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 *"In his new book Popularizing the Past, 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 *"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, Popularizing the Past is essential reading." -- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, author of American Nietzsche"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"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 and engross readers." -- Sarah E. Igo, author of The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America"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 Popularizing the Past are 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 *"[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.'" -- Fredrik Logevall * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction What’s the Matter with History? The Problem of Popularity in Postwar American Historical Writing Part I Popular History and General Readers 1 Richard Hofstadter: Popular History and the Contradictions of Consensus 2 Daniel Boorstin: Popular History between Liberalism and Conservatism Part II: Popular History and Activist Readers 3 John Hope Franklin: The Racial Politics of Popular History 4 Howard Zinn: Popular History as Controversy 5 Gerda Lerner: The Struggle for a Popular Women’s History Conclusion The Legacies of Postwar Popular History Acknowledgments Archival Abbreviations Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Measure of Times Past PreNewtonian
Book SynopsisIn this extraordinary work, Donald J. Wilcox seeks to discover an approach to narrative and history consistent with the discontinuous, relative time of the twentieth century. He shows how our B.C./A.D. system, intimately connected to Newtonian concepts of continuous, objective, and absolute time, has affected our conception and experience of the past. He demonstrates absolute time's centrality to modern historical methodologies and the problems it has created in the selection and interpretation of facts. Inspired by contemporary fiction and Einsteinian concepts of relativity, he concludes his analysis with a comparison of our system with earlier, pre-Newtonian time schemes to create a radical new critique of historical objectivity.
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