Historiography Books
Harvard University Press AfroLatin America
Book SynopsisTwo-thirds of Africans, both free and enslaved, who came to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Spanish America and Brazil. Yet Afro-Latin Americans have been excluded from narratives of their hemisphere’s history. George Reid Andrews redresses this omission by making visible the lives and labors of black Latin Americans in the New World.Trade ReviewBlack lives matter in Latin American history. Reid Andrews gives us the state of the art, and then probes beyond it. This is classic Andrews, hands on the evidence, head around the big picture, a lover of paradox. Both a masterful introduction for the newly curious and a master class for old hands like me. -- John Charles Chasteen, author of Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin AmericaBeautifully written by an eminent scholar, Afro-Latin America provides readers with new approaches to understanding the African diaspora in the Americas. George Reid Andrews masterfully shows that there is no area of the hemisphere that has not been touched by people of African descent. -- Jeffrey Lesser, author of Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil
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Harvard University Press Visions of the Past
Book SynopsisRosenstone investigates how a visual medium, subject to conventions of drama and fiction, might be used as a serious vehicle for thinking about our relationship with the past. Employing such films as Reds, JFK, and Sans Soleil, he considers issues like the rapport between fact and film and the documentary as visionary truth.Trade ReviewIf you're in search of a thoughtful overview of film and history as rival routes to the past, check out the essays collected in Visions of the Past...Rosenstone nicely reverses the assumption that history exists only on paper, approved and stamped by historians. -- Carlin Romano * Chicago Tribune *[A] fascinating analysis of the traditional and nontraditional historical film...This is solid scholarship written in a manner that makes it accessible for a wide range of readers. * Choice *The pieces represent work over a wide time span and demonstrate Rosenstone's evolving attitude toward the historical movie...The author knows of his subject from various perspectives...[and] presents his arguments simply and clearly, without drowning the reader in jargon or obtuse references. Well recommended. * Library Journal *In these essays, Rosenstone writes with the fervor of the convert...urging historians to admit that film can often do what books can't...Rosenstone is really rooting for modernist or post-modern cinema--the likes of Alex Cox, Chris Marker and Trinh T. Minh-ha--as the only adequate chroniclers of our fractured sense of the past. * Sight and Sound *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Personal, Professional, and (a Little) Theoretical PART 1: HISTORY IN IMAGES 1. History in Images / History in Words: Reflections on the Possibility of Really Putting History onto Film 2. The Historical Film: Looking at the Past in a Postliterate Age PART 2: THE HISTORICAL FILM 3. Reds as History 4.The Good Fight: History, Memory, Documentary 5. JFK: Historical Fact / Historical Film 6.Walker: The Dramatic Film as (Postmodern) History 7.Sans Soleil: The Documentary as (Visionary) Truth PART 3: THE FUTURE OF THE PAST 8. Re-visioning History: Contemporary Filmmakers and the Construction of the Past 9.Film and the Beginnings of Postmodern History 10. What You Think about When You Think about Writing a Book on History and Film Notes Sources Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press The Classical Debt
Book Synopsis“Greek debt” means one thing to the country’s creditors. But for millions who prize culture over capital, it means the symbolic debt we owe Greece for democracy, philosophy, mathematics, and fine art. Johanna Hanink shows that our idealized image of ancient Greece dangerously shapes our view of the country’s economic hardship and refugee crisis.Trade ReviewThe Classical Debt is a fascinating foray into the process by which Europeans molded their own and modern Greek identity on the basis of ancient Greek ideals, and this shared culture helps explain the antagonism towards the Greeks when their path seems to veer away from that of the rest of Europe. -- John Psaropoulos * Times Literary Supplement *Cleverly connects Western Europe’s investment in ancient Greek origins with the decade-old Greek debt crisis. -- A. E. Stallings * Wall Street Journal *One of the most striking new books about the legacy of Greco-Roman antiquity. -- Emily Wilson * New Statesman *This book certainly succeeds in reminding or making the reader aware of the invention of Greek antiquity, and our role in the ongoing survival of that invention. It is lucidly written, with rigorous but not overwhelming detail…It is bold and uncompromising…Hanink has written an important contribution to the ongoing debate about why Classics matters, which is also a wake-up call to encourage us to do Classics in a more critical, thoughtful way, and to hold to account those who use the imagery of an idealized Greek antiquity in a way which does a disservice both to the complexity of the ancient world, and to the modern Greek nation. -- Catherine Rozier * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Hanink shows how long-standing ideas about Greece’s idealized past have explosive implications for how Greece’s current crisis is conceived…Hanink provides a penetrating and valuable analysis of how our perceptions of the ancient past can become explosively mixed with politics…Even if Hanink’s book can’t cure Greece of its current woes, it can (and does) offer a stimulating take on a situation that too often has been the recipient of hardened ways of thinking. May it be read vigorously and with an open mind. -- Brett Miller * PopMatters *Hanink demonstrates enviable skill in harnessing complicated knowledge in a way that makes it accessible to all readers. Her book, while being valuable to specialists, is written so that it could be read and enjoyed by a wider audience. -- Myrto Malouta * Journal of Greek Media and Culture *The Classical Debt is valuable book that traces the history of the concept of ancient Greece as the cradle of western civilization, ranging from its origins of this notion to the impact that it has had on contemporary perceptions of Greece…It deserves to be read by anyone who may have once questioned or marveled at the alleged wonder that was Greece. -- Charlotte Van Regenmortel * Economic History Review *An immensely well-written and provocative book, Johanna Hanink’s The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity tightly weaves together the threads of past and present like an ancient Greek warp-weighted loom. * EuropeNow *Hanink helps us see modern Greece through the eyes of a classicist, and ancient Greece through the eyes of a keen observer of modern Greece—a wonderful and winning combination. The Classical Debt is a clever meditation on if, and why, antiquity still matters. -- Mary Beard, author of the New York Times bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient RomeHanink’s new book depicts the pernicious intertwining of Classics with Orientalism during the worst of the Greek economic crisis. Antigone’s determination to violate unjust laws suddenly acquires a fresh interpretation in our post-Brexit Europe. -- Yanis Varoufakis, author of And the Weak Suffer What They Must? and former Greek Minister of Finance[A] fascinating study. -- Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. * Arion *
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Princeton University Press Shattered Past
Book SynopsisExplores the staggering gap between the country's role in the terrors of war and its subsequent success as a democracy. Comprising original essays, this book begins by reexamining the nationalist, socialist, and liberal master narratives that have dominated the presentation of German history but are losing their hold.Trade Review"An excellent introduction to newly emerging views on the study of contemporary German history."--Cecil Trice, History: Reviews of New Books "A compelling, challenging analysis."--Choice "Shattered Past is the most important book in German history to appear in recent years... [It] will surely provoke discussion and debate for many years to come."--Eric D. Weitz, Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsPreface ii INTORDUCTION: Twentieth-Century Germany: Rethinking a Shattered Past 1 PART I: THE ECLIPSE OF THE MASTER NARRATIVES 1. A Return to National History? The Master Narrative and Beyond 37 2. The Collapse of the Counternarrative: Coping with the Remains of Socialism 61 3. Modernization, German Exceptionalism, and Post-Modernity: Transcending the Critical History of Society 85 PART II: RECONSTITUTING GERMAN HISTORIES 4. War, Genocide, Extermination: The War against the Jews in an Era of World Wars 111 5. The Totalitarian Temptation: Ordinary Germans, Dictatorship, and Democracy 149 6. From Empire to Europe: The Taming of German Power 173 7. Unsettling German Society: Mobility and Migration 197 8. A Struggle for Unity: Redefining National Identities 221 9. Defining Womanhood: The Politics of the Private 245 10. In Pursuit of Happiness: Consumption, Mass Culture, and Consumerism 269 PART III: LOOKING BACK AT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 11. Survival in Catastrophe: Mending Broken Memories 317 12. The Century as History: Between Cataclysm and Civility 342 Index 371
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Princeton University Press The Poverty of Clio
Book SynopsisChallenges the hold that cliometrics - an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists - has exerted on the study of our economic past. This book calls for the reconstruction of economic history, one in which history and the social sciences are brought to bear on economics, and not the other way around.Trade Review"Most of Boldizzoni's examples of bad economic history are also examples of bad economics. There are no shortcuts to good work. The merit of this book is to remind us of that sad truth."--George Grantham, Journal of Economic History "[Boldizzoni's] sensible guidelines--which do not negate the importance of either theory or quantification--should become standard practice for historians who want to venture beyond their own discipline into the world of social science."--Michael B. Katz, Journal of American History "The Poverty of Clio is a vigorous polemic that convincingly points out the deficiencies of current economic history. It is an extremely learned book that draws on a wide array of research from different fields... [T]he book makes an important contribution to rethinking the state of the art and to--hopefully--realigning economic history more closely with general history."--Justus Nipperdey, European Review of History "I ... found The Poverty of Clio an interesting and stimulating read, recommendable for anyone interested in economic history."--Erik Bengtsson, Economic SociologyTable of ContentsPreface ix Chapter 1: Truth on the Cross Science and Ideology 1 Chapter 2: Economics with a Human Face? 18 Chapter 3: The Fanciful World of Clio 54 Chapter 4: The World We Have Lost Microeconomic History 87 Chapter 5: The World We Have Lost Macroeconomic Perspectives 120 Chapter 6: Building on the Past The Creative Power of History 138 References 173 Index 209
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Princeton University Press Rethinking the Other in Antiquity
Book SynopsisPrevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other - Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners. This book demonstrates how the ancients found connections rather than contrasts.Trade ReviewShortlisted for the 2012 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League "[T]he range of research, and the depth of thought, are extraordinary. Gruen has taken on a massively important subject, and he has brought a genuinely new perspective to the scholarly conversation."--Emily Wilson, New Republic "[Gruen] is at his best when he dissects Greco-Roman perceptions of the Jews and the Jewish reception of Greco-Roman culture and accommodation with the world of the goyim."--Choice "Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, by Erich S. Gruen, out this month from Princeton University Press, like all excellent scholarship massages the mind in useful new directions... Gruen's mission ... is to unpack the contrary story, far less told: 'that Greeks, Romans, and Jews (who provide us with almost all the relevant extant texts) had far more mixed, nuanced, and complex opinions about other peoples.' In the main text and many useful footnotes of this info-packed but never boring study, Gruen accomplishes that."--Carlin Romano, Chronicle Review "Anthropologists should seriously consider Gruen's case, and it would be wonderful if this appreciation of and openness to different peoples and cultures could somehow enter into contemporary politics and culture."--Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database "Rethinking the Other is an extremely valuable departure from a scholarly viewpoint that has threatened to become ossified of late, and as such is very worthwhile to everyone involved in the study of ancient conceptions of foreignness and belonging."--Antti Lampinen, ARCTOS "Erich Gruen's Rethinking the Other in Antiquity is a book that, for one reason or another, desperately needed to be written, ideally by someone possessing G.'s authoritative command of the vast array of sources indicative of ancient knowledge of, and interest in, foreign peoples... The result is a provocative, wide-ranging and thoroughly engaging volume that is both beautifully produced--with copious footnotes, helpful indices and handsome book-jacket featuring a (highly apposite) janiform vase--and (very) reasonably priced. The latter is fortuitous since it will automatically become a set text for courses touching on ancient self-conception and relations with foreign peoples and mandatory reading for anyone researching these and cognate fields."--Joseph Skinner, Journal of Roman Studies "Rethinking the Other in Antiquity amounts to a major reassessment of an important topic. In light of the voluminous evidence Gruen assembles, it seems untenable to contend that Greek, Roman, and Jewish views of other cultures can be reduced to self-serving stereotypes and denigrations. Hopefully his book will help usher in more nuanced and charitable perspectives."--Eric Adler, European LegacyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 PART I. IMPRESSIONS OF THE "OTHER" CHAPTER ONE: Persia in the Greek Perception: Aeschylus and Herodotus 09 Aeschylus' Persae 09 Herodotus 21 Some Visual Representations 40 CHAPTER TWO: Persia in the Greek Perception: Xenophon and Alexander 53 Xenophon's Cyropaedia 53 Alexander and the Persians 65 CHAPTER THREE: Egypt in the Classical Imagination 76 Herodotus 76 Diodorus 90 Assorted Assessments 99 Plutarch 111 CHAPTER FOUR: Punica Fides 115 The Hellenic Backdrop 116 In the Shadow of the Punic Wars 122 The Manipulation of the Image 132 The Enhancement of the Image 137 CHAPTER FIVE: Caesar on the Gauls 141 Prior Portraits 141 The Caesarian Rendering 147 CHAPTER SIX: Tacitus on the Germans 159 Germans and Romans 159 Interpretatio Romana? 169 CHAPTER SEVEN: Tacitus and the Defamation of the Jews 179 The Question 180 Tacitean Irony 187 CHAPTER EIGHT: People of Color 197 Textual Images 197 Visual Images 211 PART II. CONNECTIONS WITH THE "OTHER" CHAPTER NINE: Foundation Legends 223 Foundation Tales as Cultural Thievery 224 Pelops 227 Danaus 229 Cadmus 233 Athenians and Pelasgians 236 Rome, Troy, and Arcadia 243 Israel's Fictive Founders 250 CHAPTER TEN: Fictitious Kinships: Greeks and Others 253 Perseus as Multiculturalist 253 Athens and Egypt 265 The Legend of Nectanebos 267 Numidians and the Near East 272 CHAPTER ELEVEN: Fictitious Kinships: Jews and Others 277 The Separatist Impression 277 The Bible's Other Side 287 Ishmaelites and Arabs 299 Jews and Greeks as Kinsmen 302 CHAPTER TWELVE: Cultural Interlockings and Overlappings 308 Jews and Greeks as Philosophers 308 Jewish Presentations of Gentiles 325 Phoenicians and Greeks 341 Roman Adaptation and Appropriation 343 Conclusion 352 Bibliography 359 Index of Citations 385 Subject Index 403
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Princeton University Press Wilhelm Dilthey Selected Works Volume IV
Book SynopsisThe philosopher and historian of culture Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) has had a significant and continuing influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of scholarly disciplines. This title presents some of his most important works.Table of ContentsPreface to All VolumesEditorial Note to Volume IVIntroduction to Volume IV31Schleiermacher's Hermeneutical System in Relation to Earlier Protestant Hermeneutics (1860)332On Understanding and Hermeneutics: Student Lecture Notes (1867-68)2293The Rise of Hermeneutics (1900)2354History and Science (1962); On H. T. Buckle's, History of Civilization in England2615On Jacob Burckhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1862)2716Friedrich Christoph Schlosser and the Problem of Universal History (1862)2797The Eighteenth Century and the Historical World (1901)3258Reminiscences on Historical Studies at the University of Berlin (1903)387Glossary391Index399
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Princeton University Press Wilhelm Dilthey Selected Works Volume III
Book SynopsisPresents Dilthey's most mature and best formulation of his "Critique of Historical Reason".Trade Review"The first complete English translation of Wilhelm Dilthey's most important mature work ... is to be greatly welcomed. This excellent translation conveys the subtlety and richness of Dilthey's German. Its innovative translations of key terms will provide renewed stimulus to interpreting Dilthey's works."--Eric Sean Nelson, Journal of the History of Philosophy "The third volume of his Selected Works affords us the opportunity to consider anew whether, post existentialist and post-humanist avant l'heure, Dilthey and his system-theoretic vitalism may have done Heidegger's own radicalism one better."--James D. Faubion, Review of MetaphysicsTable of ContentsPREFACE TO ALL VOLUMES xi EDITORIAL NOTE TO VOLUME iii xv INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME iii 1 PART I STUDIES TOWARD THE FOUNDATION OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES Translated by Rudolf A. Makkreel and John Scanlon FIRST STUDY The Psychic Structural Nexus 23 I. Task, Method, and Outline of the Foundation 24 1. The Task 24 2. The Task of the Theory of Knowledge 27 3. The Foundational Method Used Here 28 4. Point of Departure for a Description of the Processes in which Knowledge Originates 29 5. The Place of this Description in the System of the Foundation 32 II. Descriptive Preliminary Concepts 34 1. Psychic Structure 34 2. The Apprehension of Psychic Structure 38 3. Structural Units 40 4. The Structural Nexus 42 5. The Kinds of Structural Relation 43 SECOND STUDY The Structural Nexus of Knowledge 45 I. Objective Apprehension 45 1. Delimitation of Objective Apprehension 45 2. The Relation between Lived Experience and Psychic Object 46 3. The Relation between Intuition and Sensory Objects 54 4. The Structure of the Lived Experiences of Apprehension 57 5. Lived Experiences of Apprehension as Structural Unities and Their Inner Relations to One Another 57 II. Objective Having 66 1. Feeling 66 1. Delimiting Lived Experiences of Feeling 67 2. The General Nature of the Attitude in the Lived Experience of Feeling 69 3. The Structural Unity of the Lived Experience of Feeling 71 4. Structural Relations between Feelings 75 5. The System of the Relations between Feelings as Delimited from the Systems of Objective Apprehension and of Willing 77 Supplement: Completion of the Inner Teleology of the Structural Nexus of Feelings in Objective Formations 79 2. Willing 82 First Fragment 82 1. The Scope of Its Lived Experiences 82 2. Analysis of Willing 84 Second Fragment 87 1. The Foundation of Willing in Objective Apprehension and in Feeling 87 2. Delimiting Willing from Feeling 87 3. The Structural Unity of the Volitional Attitude 89 4. The Levels of Structural Unity in Lived Experience and the Relations between Lived Experiences 89 5. The System of Lived Experiences in the Volitional Attitude 90 THIRD STUDY The Delimitation of the Human Sciences (Third Draft) 91 PART II THE FORMATION OF THE HISTORICAL WORLD IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES Translated by Rudolf A. Makkreel and John Scanlon I. Delimitation of the Human Sciences 101 II. Different Modes of Formation in the Natural Sciences and in the Human Sciences 109 Historical Orientation 109 III. General Theses about the System of the Human Sciences 142 Section One: Objective Apprehension 143 Section Two: The Structure of the Human Sciences 152 Chapter I: Life and the Human Sciences 152 Chapter II: The Procedural Modes in Which the World of the Human Spirit Is Given 160 Chapter III: The Objectifications of Life 168 Chapter IV: The World of Human Spirit as a Productive Nexus 174 PART III PLAN FOR THE CONTINUATION OF THE FORMATION OF THE HISTORICAL WORLD IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES Translated by Rudolf A. Makkreel and William H. Oman Drafts for a Critique of Historical Reason 213 Section One: Lived Experience, Expression, and Understanding 213 I. Lived Experience and Autobiography 213 1. The Task of a Critique of Historical Reason 213 2. Reflexive Awareness, Reality: Time 214 3. The Life-Nexus 218 4. Autobiography 221 Supplement to 3: The Life-Nexus 223 II. The Understanding of Other Persons and Their Manifestations of Life 226 1. Manifestations of Life 226 2. Elementary Forms of Understanding 228 3. Objective Spirit and Elementary Understanding 229 4. The Higher Forms of Understanding 231 5. Transposition, Re-Creating and Re-Experiencing 234 6. Exegesis or Interpretation 237 Addenda 241 1. Musical Understanding 241 2. Lived Experience and Understanding 245 3. Methods of Understanding 245 4. The Limits of Understanding 246 III. The Categories of Life 248 Life 248 Lived Experience 249 Duration Apprehended in Understanding 251 Meaning 252 Meaning and Structure 256 Meaning, Significance, Value 258 Values 260 Whole and Parts 263 Development, Essence, and Other Categories 263 IV. Biography 265 1. The Scientific Character of Biography 265 2. Biography as a Work of Art 267 Section Two: Conceptual Cognition of the Nexus of Universal History 271 Introduction 271 1. History 271 2. The New Task 272 A First Projection of a Continuation of the Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences 273 1. Fundamental Relationship: The Structure of Historical Formations 273 2. The Structure of Every Historical Nexus or System 281 3. The Subjects of Historical Assertions 283 4. Race, People, etc. as Concrete-Historical Subjects 283 5. Cultural Systems 283 6. Economic Life 284 7. The Legal System and Its Organization in the Community 284 8. The Articulation of Society 284 9. Custom, Ethos, and the Ideals of Life 284 10. Religion and Its Organization 284 11. Art 286 12. The Sciences 286 13. World-View and Philosophy 286 14. The System of Organizations in the State 288 15. Nations as the Carriers of Power, Culture, Etc. 288 16. Humanity and Universal History 288 17. The Nature of System. The Goal of this Book 294 A Second Projection of a Continuation of the Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences 296 1. The Problem of History 296 2. Nations 302 3. Ages 305 4. Progress 306 5. The Nexus of Universal History 307 6. Conclusion of this Work 310 PART IV APPENDIX Translated by Rudolf A. Makkreel and William H. Oman I. Supplements to the Studies on the Foundation of the Human Sciences 315 On the Theory of Knowledge 315 The Task 315 The Delimitation of the Human Sciences 324 First Draft of Third Study 324 The Task 324 Second Draft of Third Study 330 First Chapter 330 The Task 330 Second Chapter 337 (How Is Conceptual Cognition in the Human Sciences Possible?) 337 Supplements to and Continuation of First Chapter 342 II. Additions to the Formation of the Historical World 344 1. The Logical System in the Human Sciences 344 Psychic Structure 344 2. Fragments toward a Theory of Structure 351 Psychic Life 351 Structure 352 External World 352 3. The Epistemological Problem 352 The Epistemological Problem of the Human Sciences 352 Kant and Fichte 353 Overcoming the Transcendence of Subjectivity 354 4. The Enlightenment as an Example 355 The Structure of the Age of Enlightenment 355 Political Life in the Age of Enlightenment 358 The Music of the Enlightenment 361 Pietism 362 5. Historical Development 365 GLOSSARY 369 INDEX 383
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Princeton University Press A History of Art History
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Apollo Awards Book of the Year, Apollo Magazine""Wood’s history is one of only a handful of book-length attempts to offer a synthetic treatment of the history of art history. . . . Owing to its extraordinary range and original insights, it is destined to become the standard work for many years to come."---Sam Rose, Apollo Magazine"This substantial volume is more than just a chronicle of half-forgotten scholarship or a thrashing out of methodological issues of little import. In fact, A History of Art History will be eye-opening for anyone who cares about art."---Barry Schwabsky, Hyperallergic"Wood’s account of what art historians do – and how they have done it over the centuries – is a typically learned and polemical work that challenges the reader with its many approaches and arguments." * Apollo Magazine *"The research compiled here does not stumbled into abstractions that the topic invites, but really delivers an accuratehistory of the changes in this culture-defining field . . . this book is really needed."---Anna Faktorovich, Pennsylvania Literary Review"Well informed and extremely personal, this is a brilliant overview of writings on art, from responses to the recovery of art representing ancient gods c. 800 CE through to the anti-formalist revolution of the present day. The amount of carefully considered information packed into this compact volume is breathtaking. Wood (NYU) takes on not only professional writers on art but also practitioners such as Piranesi and William Blake—whose emotional critiques of the past made them, in effect, historians of art. Writing in a rather leisurely narrative style, Wood places selected authors within a precise historical moment. Original perceptions are scattered like bonbons—for example, an analysis of Aby Warburg and Alois Riegl locates them as very different but very much related classifiers of the image within late 19th and early 20th century devotion to formalism. There is a fascinating chapter on the foundation of the Louvre in the context of the French Revolution. . . . The book stands as a much-needed contribution at a time when the discipline badly needs an appreciative, even-handed view of the past."---Debra Pincus, Choice"Wood’s intimacy with the material is self-evident. He offers any number of remarkably lucid exegeses of complex and easily misunderstood concepts (Riegl’s Kunstwollen) and texts (Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics), and brings in numerous lesser-known thinkers."---Rachel Wetzler, Art in America"[A History of Art History] by Christopher Wood will live constantly on my priority bookshelf. Wood’s welcome synthesis of the essential sources from which art history created itself as a discipline is revelatory on many levels, not least because it clarifies the extent to which such a historiography can never be totally comprehensive nor totally consensual. . . . Every informed reader will come away from the book with some startling new coalescence of insight."---Sally Hickson, Renaissance and Reformation"Magisterial . . . [A History of Art History] includes little-known factual gems, eloquent witticisms, or unexpected insights. . . . Undoubtedly, Wood has set the bar high for any future overview in terms of the diversity of his interests and analytic depth."---Thijs Weststeijn, History of Humanities"Christopher Wood cares for the idea that art history could consist in what he calls a ‘biography of form’. This is one of the chief sympathies underpinning his huge and hugely impressive chronological narrative A History of Art History."---Julian Bell, London Review of Books"Christopher S. Wood’s A History of Art History is a robust volume that traces and critically examines the evolution of art history as a discipline, beginning with the late middle ages and leading up to the emergence of contemporary art history. . . . It is . . . [the] close re-examination of the role of the art historian, of individuals and their writing, that Wood offers a rethinking of art’s history."---Jenna Dufour, ARLIS/NA"A History of Art History is the obvious result of considerable labour and learning. It offers innumerable individual observations of interest. . . . [I]t is of inestimable value in prompting renewed reflection on what might be gained from exploring the past of the discipline and how one might define it."---Matthew Rampley, Estetika"[A History of Art History is] an accessible and timely book on art history’s history is a gap that needed to be filled…Wood reforms various aspects of art history as we know it."---Sjoukje van der Meulen, CAA Reviews"This is a project made possible only by years, perhaps decades, of reading. The depth of Wood’s accumulated knowledge means this is a book that will appeal as much to veteran art historians as it will a more general audience."---Surya Bowyer, MAKE: Literary Magazine"Refreshing and encouraging. . . . A History of Art History is an erudite, if very personal, tour of a discipline forever redefining its central tasks. . . . Wood’s chronological collection of approaches to thinking about art’s history is an illuminating juxtaposition of rival, often mutually incompatible claims to what art history is and might be."---Lisa DeBoer, Fides Historia Review
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Princeton University Press The Story of America
Book SynopsisOffers an account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address - to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Part civics primer, part cultural history, this title excavates the origins of everything from the paper ballot and the Constitution to the I O U and the dictionary.Trade ReviewRunner-up for the 2013 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, PEN American Center "In this collection of essays (most of which previously appeared in The New Yorker), Lepore illuminates the various ways in which the story of our nation has been formulated as a narrative. From John Smith's largely fictionalized account of the founding of Jamestown, in 1607, to Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration address, these pieces comprise an examination of the nature of history and an exploration of how the way we tell our story has shaped the story itself."--NewYorker.com's Page-Turner blog "The Story of America, like A is for American, serves up a delightful smorgasbord of synecdoches and allegories of the evolution of American democracy... [A] deeply satisfying book."--Amanda Foreman, Times Literary Supplement "Anyone who has not yet had the pleasure of reading Jill Lepore might begin with The Story of America: Essays on Origins. Ms. Lepore is a gifted historian and a contributor to the New Yorker, where most of these essays appeared. Her subjects range from John Smith and the founding of Jamestown to the murder of a Connecticut family in 2007 by a pair of drug-addled drifters. She drops in on, among others, Andrew Jackson, Noah Webster, Edgar Allen Poe and Charlie Chan (the real one). Her voice is always fresh, her prose engaging and her insights original."--Fergus M. Bordewich, Wall Street Journal "Ranging from colonial times to the present, the essays are liberally sprinkled with fascinating facts--etymologies of 'ballot' and 'booze,' or that Davy Crockett was the first presidential candidate to write a campaign autobiography. Even the footnotes contain buried treasures; history buffs and general readers alike will savor this collection."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "She trains the literary equivalent of wide-angle and zoom lenses on seminal American documents, examining their subjects and their creators... [E]legant."--Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Lepore, who teaches history at Harvard and writes for The New Yorker, brings to the task a keen eye for the often-competing claims of history, politics, and literature... [T]errifically readable, intellectually engaging, and thoroughly entertaining... Lepore's subjects mostly range from the 17th to the 19th centuries, but the essays feel remarkably relevant, grappling with ideas about race, equality, voting rights, taxes, poverty, the role of America in the world."--Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe "In this collection of her essays from the magazine, she paints portraits of George Washington, Thomas Paine, Longfellow, and many forgotten figures in America's founding, rescuing them from dogmatic myth to show that they are as human and as able to surprise as your best friend is able to inspire and infuriate you... Lepore knocks you out of your comfort zone. You thought you knew America?"--The Daily Beast "Tackling a wide variety of subjects--e.g., the Founding Fathers, Charles Dickens, Clarence Darrow, Charlie Chan, voting regulations, the decline of inaugural speeches--the author proves to be a funny, slightly punky literary critic, reading between the lines of American history... As smart, lively, and assured as modern debunker gets."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "If the definition of a good book is one that makes a reader think, then Lepore has written a good book. If the definition of a very good book is one that makes a reader question prevailing thought, then Lepore has written a very good book indeed... The stories behind stories are more revelatory than the so-called facts they are ostensibly built upon. And while to have read the U.S. Constitution is one thing, to understand what it says is an altogether different matter, since its meaning seems to shift with the times and the reader's intent. This book ought to be intentional reading for every American history wonk."--Booklist "Lepore's elegant account of America's genesis is alert to discrepancies and exaggerations of all kinds. It's characteristic of her genial style that while examining the sticky history of Captain John Smith (he of Pocahontas fame), she observes that while he probably wasn't a liar, his pantaloons did on one notable occasion literally burst into flames."--Olivia Laing, Prospect "[L]ively, funny, argumentative, and plain-spoken... Lepore is trying to hear America through its stories, and there are a lot of voices in that choir."--Chris Barsanti, PopMatters "Lepore's strength as a popular historian is her ability to make her target audience ... take a second look at the political culture we have long taken for granted, and realize that our system was not preordained, not historically inevitable, not even, always, very well planned... [S]urprising and enlightening."--Brooke Allen, WilsonQuarterly.com "Jill Lepore's fascinating, provocative and wide-ranging essays explore the 'origin stories' Americans have told themselves, from the 17th-century English settlers in Jamestown and Plymouth to the Founding Fathers to Barack Obama's origin story today. Lepore offers at once a history of American origin stories and a meditation on storytelling."--Minneapolis Star-Tribune "In an engaging and entertaining style, Lepore questions and exposes the political motives underlying commonly accepted versions of history. Each enlightening essay reveals that what most of us think of as history is often a tangle of prejudice, speculation, and imagination. An enjoyable and thought-provoking read for history buffs at all levels and for anyone seeking to understand how history is written."--Library Journal "Elegant, enlightening, and engaging, [Lepore's] essays give the lie to the proposition that contemporary America lacks public intellectuals... Most important, Lepore's analysis is smart, sharp, and sassy."--Tulsa World "The appropriate audience for these stories will surely be the literate citizen, if not the student of history or American Studies... Lepore's ability to bring characters and subjects to life might well persuade such readers to delve more deeply into the biographies of the famous as well as the less famous Americans she engages."--James Gilbert, H-Net Reviews "[C]opiously researched, deftly written and anecdotally instructive."--John Cussen, Erie Times-News "Simple, short and appealing, Jill has told the story of America well."--R. Balashankar, Organiser "In this thoughtful and provocative book, Lepore offers at once a history of origin stories and a meditation on storytelling itself."--World Book Industry "The Story of America is a must-read for anyone interested in American history and the history of American publishing and writing. A fascinating, engaging, and expertly written book. I cannot recommend it highly enough."--Politics Reader "The author's fecundity is matched by the breadth of her reading and wit...Lepore makes a great deal of sense, here and elsewhere. First rate sense."--Michael Kammen, European LegacyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Here He Lyes 17 2. A Pilgrim Passed I 31 3. The Way to Wealth 44 4. The Age of Paine 59 5. We the Parchment 72 6. I.O.U. 91 7. A Nue Merrykin Dikshunary 111 8. His Highness 130 9. Man of the People 146 10. Pickwick in America 159 11. The Humbug 178 12. President Tom's Cabin 197 13. Pride of the Prairie 209 14. Longfellow's Ride 220 15. Rock, Paper, Scissors 240 16. Objection 254 17. Chan the Man 268 18. The Uprooted 279 19. Rap Sheet 291 20. To Wit 304 Notes 319 Index 399
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Princeton University Press Time and Power
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Times Higher Education's Best Books of 2018""One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: History""[An] impressive book . . . . [Clark] deserves praise for presenting familiar fields of German history from unusual and always rewarding angles."---Tony Barber, Financial Times"A stimulating and entertaining book."---Tim Blanning, Literary Review"[Time and Power] looks at history with a particular emphasis on the concept of time and should therefore offer a new and thought-provoking way to examine the past."---Hester Vaizey, Times Higher Education"Clark's book, with its provocative and useful theoretical command of the concepts of time and history and its mastery of the details of German history over four centuries, is an erudite, challenging, and thought-provoking work."---Michael Curtis, American Thinker"[A] stirring read that gathers momentum with every chapter."---Oliver Moody, The Times"An original and rewarding approach to modern German history."---Tony Barber, Financial Times, Summer Books of 2019"To read this book is to be constantly stimulated to think new thoughts and to be exhilarated by the grandeur and subtlety of Clark’s argument."---Lucy Hughes-Hallett, New Statesman"[Clark’s] breadth of knowledge is impressive and his conclusions are carefully considered."---Hester Vaizey, Times Higher Education"There is much to be learned from these erudite studies of ‘the warping of temporality by power.’"---Daniel Johnson, Standpoint"Whatever it lacks in grace, it amply makes up for in intellectual vigour." * New Statesman *"Time and Power . . . [shows] that, in history, periods orienting towards the future have always been succeeded by periods focusing on the past."---Jilt Jorritsma, Nexus Review
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Princeton University Press Dissident Rabbi The Life of Jacob Sasportas
Book SynopsisIn 1665, as Jews abandoned reason for the ecstasy of enthusiasm for self-proclaimed Messiah Sabbetai Zevi, Jacob Sasportas watched in horror. Dweck tells the story of the Sephardic rabbi who challenged Sabbetai Zevi's improbable claims and warned his fellow Jews that their Messiah was not the answer to their prayers..Trade Review"Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture""Dweck’s new book is not merely another study of the Sabbatian affair; it canvasses seventeenth-century Sephardic diaspora, rabbinic epistemology and the crises between them, a crisis of which Sasportas’ anti-Sabbatian campaign was only an external manifestation."---Zvi Kunshtat, Studia Rosenthaliana
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Princeton University Press An Infinite History
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award""Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University""Winner of the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers""Winner of the Leo Gershoy Award, American Historical Association""Rothschild rightly rejects what she describes as an ‘ideological’ division of the dead by historians between ‘important’—the people with substantial records—and ‘the unimportant . . . who can be counted, but cannot be understood.' Rather, as this book demonstrates, a focus on the ‘ordinary’ can offer new perspectives on periods of extraordinary change."---Laura O’Brien, Times Literary Supplement "[An Infinite History] is a family history unlike any other because of the way Rothschild tells it. . . . By starting with the names and tracing them over space and especially time, Rothschild not only upends the usual methods of study but also compels a rethinking of many prevailing views about the politics, economy, and society of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France."---Lynn Hunt, New York Review of Books"Captivating. . . . One of the most successful attempts to put Ginzburg and Poni’s ‘science of the lived’ into action."---David A. Bell, The Nation"[A] remarkable inquiry into the town of Angoulême, in southwestern France, beginning with the story of 'an inquisitive, illiterate woman, Marie Aymard,' and five generations of her extended family in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the sort of history that has been exceedingly hard to tell, and therefore not often told." * Harvard Magazine *"Emma Rothschild leaves no stone unturned in her quest to trace one family through centuries and five generations... this is an inspiring and enjoyable demonstration of what can be achieved by skill, perseverance and a bit of luck." * Family Tree Magazine *"This innovative study of ordinary people in a French provincial town is a remarkable achievement of both painstaking research and historical imagination . . . . the result is a fascinating exercise in history from below, a history of chance encounters and social networks, of ambition and opportunity."---Alan Forrest, Family and Community History"This is a tremendously engaging book which reads, paradoxically, like a capacious nineteenth-century novel. And not least because of its elusive dénouements and the absence of an authorial omniscience straining our suspension of disbelief, it is enriched by the certainty, validated by scholarship of the highest quality, that none of it is invented."---Robert Lethbridge, Journal of European Studies
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Princeton University Press The Dimensions of Quantitative Research in
Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Contents, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*I. Country Houses and Their Owners in Hertfordshire, 1540-1879, pg. 56*II. Religion and Occupational Mobility in Boston, 1880-1963, pg. 124*III. Social Mobility and Political Radicalism: The Case of the French Revolution of 1789, pg. 159*IV. How Protest Modernized in France, 1845-1855, pg. 192*V. Congressional Elections, pg. 256*VI. Some Dimensions of Power in the Thirty-Seventh Senate, pg. 285*VII. The Disintegration of the Conservative Party in the 1840s: A Study of Political Attitudes, pg. 319*VIII. Expenditures in American Cities, pg. 347*IX. The EiBciency EjOFeets of Federal Land Policy, 1850-1900: A Report of Some Provisional Findings, pg. 390*Appendix, pg. 419*The Contributors, pg. 424*Index, pg. 427
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation The Anatomy of Superstition Study of the Historical Theory and Practice of Pierre Bayle
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Voltaire A sense of history
Book SynopsisIt was not only in his histories that Voltaire thought, worried and wrote about history.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Voltaire’s holocaust: the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre2. The malaise of the historian3. In search of a philosophy of history4. Epic history: La Henriade5. Mock-epic history: La Pucelle d’Orléans6. The satellites of the histories7. Historical talesConclusion List of works citedIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Voltaire Historiographer Narrative Paradigms
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The French Historical Revolution
Book SynopsisThis book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the present. This movement has been the single most important force in the development of what is sometimes called the new history'. Renowned cultural historian, Peter Burke, distinguishes between four main generations in the development of the Annales School. The first generation included Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, who fought against the old historical establishment and founded the journal Annales to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration. The second generation was dominated by Fernand Braudel, whose magnificent work on the Mediterranean has become a modern classic. The third generation, deeply associated with the cultural turn' in historical scholarship, includes recently well-known historians such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Jacques Le Goff and Georges Duby. This new edition brings us right up to the present, and contemplates the work of a fTrade ReviewNo one has had a greater collective impact on modern historiography than the historians of the Annales school, and no one has appraised their aims and achievements with more sympathetic insight than Peter Burke. His concise, inclusive, and authoritative survey of the transformations they brought about is itself a powerful incentive to think reflectively about the idea of history. Stuart Clark, University of Swansea [and editor of The Annales School: Critical Assessments, 1999.] Eminent historian of modern France, Peter Burke is also a great connoisseur of French historians, and especially of the Annales School. This new and expanded edition of The French Historical Revolution brings out the contribution of a 4th generation of the Annales open to the diversity of the world, its hybridity and cultural encounters through the work of its most original and productive representatives, such as Serge Gruzinski, Lucette Valensi and Nathan Wachtel. André Burguière, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes on Sciences SocialesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface to the Second Edition Introduction 1 The Old Historiographical Regime and its Critics 2 The Founders: Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch i The Early Years ii Strasbourg iii The Foundation of Annales iv The Institutionalization of Annales 3 The Age of Braudel i The Mediterranean ii The Later Braudel iii The Rise of Quantitative History 4 The Third Generation i From the Cellar to the Attic ii The ‘Third Level’ of Serial History iii Reactions: Anthropology, Politics, Narrative 5 New Directions (1989-2014) 6 The Annales in Global Perspective i Reception and Resistance ii Striking a Balance Glossary: The Language of Annales Chronology Bibliography Index
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University of British Columbia Press The Hero and the Historians
Book SynopsisThis unique exploration of commemoration and memory traces Jacque Cartier’s evolving image over five centuries to show how changing notions of the past have shaped identity formation and nationalism in English- and French-speaking Canada.Trade ReviewGordon has succeeded in offering a very astute and nuanced empirical study that situates history writing in its larger social and political contexts. -- Daryl Leroux, University of Ottawa * H-Canada *L’analyse des sources visuelles concernant les sports et la culture associative de Montréal que présente Poulter ouvre une nouvelle perspective sur le rôle identitaire des élites anglo-montréalaises dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle ... Son analyse détaillée et équilibrée intègre avec succès des sources visuelles et textuelles. Le sujet est développé de manière logique et claire, et l’auteur fait montre de rigueur. Il s’agit là d’une importante contribution à l’historiographie concernant le discours identitaire au Canada, qui élargit ce champ d’étude au-delà de la division souvent trop rigide posée entre le Québec et le reste du pays. -- Gillian I. Leitch, CDCI Research Inc. * Mens *This book will greatly interest those who wish to better understand the historiographic traditions of nineteenth and twentieth century Canada, particularly Quebec. -- Peter E. Pope, Memorial University * Journal of Historical Biography, Autumn 2010 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 The Sixteenth-Century World and Jacques Cartier2 Forgetting and Remembering3 The Invention of a Hero4 Cartiermania5 Common Sense6 The Many Meanings of Jacques Cartier7 Decline and Dispersal8 Failure and ForgettingNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Contesting White Supremacy
Book SynopsisBy drawing on Chinese sources and perspectives, this book offers an anti-racist history of the 1922-23 Chinese students’ strike in Victoria and Asian exclusion and racism in British Columbia.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Questioning the Existence of the World1 The 1922-23 Students’ StrikePart 1: Racism2 Anti-Chinese Racism and the Colonial Project of British Columbia3 Racializing ‘the Chinese,’ Racializing ‘the Canadian’4 Schooling and the Organization of Racist State Formation5 The Chinese Archipelago in Canada and the Consequences of Racialized ExclusionPart 2: Anti-Racism6 Resisting Racialization and the Invention of Chinese Canadians7 Making Inclusions and Chinese Nationalist State Formation in Canada8 Mitigating Racism through Chinese Nationalist Schooling9 Anti-Essentialist Anti-Racisms and the Resistances of Odd PlacesConclusion: Anti-Racism, History, and the Significance of Chinese CanadiansAppendixNotesSelect BibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press New Possibilities for the Past
Book SynopsisCanadian historians and educators discuss current debates about history education and historical knowledge to develop an innovative agenda for research and practice in the new millennium.Trade ReviewThis excellent book contains outstanding contributions on history education, relating not only to Canadian issues but also to educational debates taking place in different continents. Its chapters are without doubt insightful tools for developing a reflective point of view about the role of historical contents in our increasingly globalized and multicultural societies. -- Mario Carretero, Professor of Psychology, Autonoma University, MadridTable of ContentsIntroduction / Penney ClarkPart 1: History Education: Contested Terrain1 A Brief Survey of Canadian Historiography / Margaret Conrad2 Teaching Canadian History: A Century of Debate / Ken Osborne3 The Debate on History Education in Quebec / Jocelyn Létourneau4 Teaching History from an Indigenous Perspective: Four Winding Paths up the Mountain / Michael MarkerPart 2: Orientations Toward Historical Thinking5 What it Means to Think Historically / Stéphane Lévesque6 Assessment of Historical Thinking / Peter Seixas7 History Education as a Disciplined “Ethic of Truths” / Kent den HeyerPart 3: Classroom Contexts for Historical Thinking8 Historical Thinking in Elementary Education: A Review of Research / Amy von Heyking9 Historical Thinking in Secondary Schools: Zones and Gardens / Tom Morton10 The Shape of Historical Thinking in a Canadian History Survey Course in University / Gerald Friesen11 History Iis a Verb: Teaching Historical Practice toTeacher Education Students / Ruth SandwellPart 4: Other Contexts for Historical Thinking12 Historical thinking in the Museum: Open to Interpretation / Viviane Gosselin13 Creating and Using Virtual Environments to Promote Historical Thinking / Kevin Kee and Nicki Darbyson14 Obsolete Icons and the Teaching of History / Peter Seixas and Penney ClarkPart 5: Perspectives on Historical Thinking15 Ethnicity and Students’ Historical Understandings / Carla Peck16 Learning and Teaching History in Quebec: Assessment, Context, Outlook / Marc André Ethier and David Lefrançois17 Historical Thinking and Citizenship Education: It Is Time to End the War / Alan SearsContributorsIndex
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Cornell University Press The Republic of Letters A Cultural History of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFascinating... Rarely does one encounter such a persuasive and startling exposition of the ways inattention to gender and assumptions about women have shaped history. * Journal of Women's History *
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Cornell University Press Past Looking
Book SynopsisMichael Ann Holly asserts that historical interpretation of the pictorial arts is always the intellectual product of a dynamic exchange between past and present. recent theory emphasizes the subjectivity of the historian and the ways in which any...Trade ReviewA strangely moving book to read.... Surely our desire to experience a kind of privileged timelessness before images—or our satisfaction with signification of any kind—has something to do with the consciousness of our own historicity; surely the challenge of art history, the challenge posed by the deep fascination of old art—or those faces from the past, so similar to our own, yet not our own—is like an encounter with the uncanny, with that otherness in which we discern our own end. A critical art history—like philosophy, like psychoanalysis—ought to take implications of that encounter seriously. * Oxford Art Journal *
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Cornell University Press Hiding from History
Book SynopsisIn Hiding from History, Meili Steele challenges an assumption at the heart of current debates in political, literary, historical, and cultural theory: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of...Trade Review"Hiding from History is an excellent book on a very important issue. It concerns the nature of practical reason, how we deliberate about good and bad, right and wrong. Of course, we deliberate as individuals too, but the issue here is how we deliberate in common. Meili Steele addresses the nature of public reason, highlighting the way in which literature can contribute to rational debate, sometimes in ways that philosophical argument cannot match." -- Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University"Meili Steele has written a great book, tightly argued, but expansive in scope. He shows how contemporary political thought and action have been handcuffed by the persistent attempt to transcend historical and cultural specificity. His compelling alternative of 'public imagination' avoids multiculturalism's identity fetishism by understanding culture as a process through which selves can reflect upon, reason about, and revise their lives with others." -- John McGowan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of Democracy's Children
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MB - Cornell University Press Why France American Historians Reflect on an
Book SynopsisA diverse array of historians provide autobiographical essays in which they explore their intellectual, political, and personal engagements with France and its past.Trade ReviewWhy France? is a mirror of intelligence in which France may see itself reflected. -- Jean-Frederic Schaub * Rue 89 *An entertaining and thought-provoking series of meditations... The tales from the archive become new ways to understand how individual scholarship is shaped by and can in turn shape intellectual trends. -- Jeffrey Jackson * Modern and Contemporary France *France, eternal and changing, is examined without concessions, especially in its relationship with the U.S. A beautiful, two-way history lesson. -- Laurent Theis * Le Point *These historians are not afraid to open up and reveal their sensibility, even their sensuality. They express the richness of their historical vocation and the gains of a self-discovery that is made possible or intensified by distance and alterity. Their confidences, sometimes colored by tenderness, express candidly an attachment to France that changes form across time. -- Alain Corbin * Le Monde *These lively, funny, insightful essays, caught between the objective approach of historical reality and a fuzzier, unstable sentimental perspective, make up a photo album of postwar France. -- Rogert Maggiori * Liberation *This eminently readable book is a must-read for all teachers of French civilization. -- Tom Conner * French Review *
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Cornell University Press Terror and Greatness
Book SynopsisIn this ambitious book, Kevin M. F. Platt focuses on a cruel paradox central to Russian history: that the price of progress has so often been the traumatic suffering of society at the hands of the state. The reigns of Ivan IV (the Terrible) and Peter the Great are the most vivid exemplars of this phenomenon in the pre-Soviet period. Both rulers have been alternately lionized for great achievements and despised for the extraordinary violence of their reigns. In many accounts, the balance of praise and condemnation remains unresolved; often the violence is simply repressed. Platt explores historical and cultural representations of the two rulers from the early nineteenth century to the present, as they shaped and served the changing dictates of Russian political life. Throughout, he shows how past representations exerted pressure on subsequent attempts to evaluate these liminal figures. In ever-changing and often counterposed treatments of the two, Russians have debated the relTrade ReviewTerror and Greatness integrates Kevin M. F. Platt's interest in memory and trauma with sharp, detailed analysis of classical images and texts in all their fragile materiality, which does not always survive the daggers of theory. This is a rare combination, but it should be definitive for the newest wave of cultural history. * Times Literary Supplement *"All countries spin their national myths around heroes. Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great, however, echo in Russian society less as heroes than as avatars, reflecting the outer limits of Russia's traumas. Platt treats the way Russian historians, writers, and artists since the early nineteenth century have tried to come to terms with the legacy of these overpowering figures—sometimes merging Peter's 'greatness' and Ivan’s 'terror' into a single, reinforcing unity and sometimes treating those qualities as polar opposites. Their struggle, as Platt traces it—from Nikolai Karamzin’s seminal early-nineteenth-century history of Russia, through Ilya Repin’s portrait of a horror-stricken Ivan holding the son he just murdered, to Stalin’s remaking of the two tsars into founders of Russian great power, to the use of Peter’s image to sell chocolates, cigarettes, and vodka in the 1990s—reflects the ambivalent, at times tortured, standing Ivan and Peter have in the country’s collective identity. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *Platt examines how the evolving historical myths of Ivan and Peter illustrate and illuminate the unresolved and unresolvable tension in Russian culture created by the use of terror to achieve greatness. Platt shows that neither ruler had a monopoly on the quality usually attributed to him: Ivan the Terrible was also seen as great, Peter the Great was also seen as employing terror. Studying Ivan and Peter in tandem sheds unexpected light on the perception of Ivan and Peter in modern Russia. This superbly written book is ambitious, challenging, imaginative, original, erudite, and multidisciplinary.... It is an outstanding contribution to the study of Russian culture with implications for all disciplines of Russian studies. -- Charles J. Halperin * H-Russia, H-Net Reviews *This book is much more than a historiographical study of Ivan IV and Peter I as related Russian myths, although it succeeds on that level. Terror and Greatness raises the stakes to consider the larger parameters of their cultural images in a variety of media.... The book works extremely well on its own terms, and is very tightly written. The illustrative material is excellent.... Platt has given us much to consider in this ground-breaking analysis of modern Russian collective identity. -- Marcus C. Levitt * Slavic and East European Journal *This meticulously researched, highly original book... enhances our understanding of Ivan and Peter as Russian cultural myths and instruments of state control.... This is an outstanding work of scholarship that will benefit all specialists of modern Russia and, more broadly, readers with previous knowledge of the historiography and cultural artifacts covered in this book. They will better appreciate why Russia's leaders, in eschewing more liberal democratic directions, will continue to emphasize the cultural myths of Peter and Ivan to validate Russia’ need for strong central rule. -- Thomas S. Pearson * The Historian *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward a Cultural Historiography of Russia Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great Materials and Methods Terror and Greatness1. Liminality Liminal Heroes History and Identity: Nikolai Karamzin and Nikolai G. Ustrialov The Historical Novel as Ritual: Ivan Lazhechnikov's The Last Novice and Aleksei K. Tolstoi's Prince Serebrianyi2. Trauma Terror as Greatness Aleksandr Pushkin’s Petrine Project Slavophiles and Westernizers3. Filicide Page versus Stage Bloody Fathers and Dead Children: Tsarevich Aleksei and Tsarevich Ivan ... and Canvas: The Murdered Tsareviches in Historical Painting4. Prognostication History as Myth Divination: Dmitrii Merezhkovskii’s Antichrist (Peter and Aleksei) Dialectic: Pavel Miliukov’s The Outlines of Russian Cultural History Irony’s Reprise: Ilia Repin’s Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan5. Rehabilitation Stalinist Revisionism The 1920s: History without Actors, Historiography without the State Last Words: Andrei Shestakov’s Short Course in the History of the USSR5. Repetition Analogy and Allegory Afterimages: Aleksei N. Tolstoi’s Many Returns to Peter the Great Allegory of Historiography: Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan the TerribleConclusion: ReduxSelected Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press The French Idea of History
Book SynopsisA fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat... the champion of the hardest, narrowest, and most inflexible dogmatism... part learned doctor, part inquisitor, part executioner. Thus did Émile Faguet describe Joseph-Marie de Maistre (17531821) in his 1899 history of nineteenth-century thought. This view of the influential thinker as a reactionary has, with little variation, held sway ever since. In The French Idea of History, Carolina Armenteros recovers a very different figure, one with a far more subtle understanding of, and response to, the events of his day. Maistre emerges from this deeply learned book as the crucial bridge between the Enlightenment and the historicized thought of the nineteenth century. Armenteros demonstrates that Maistre inaugurated a specifically French way of thinking about past, present, and future that held sway not only among conservative political theorists but also among intellectuals generally considered to belong to the left, particularly the Utopian SociTrade ReviewA rich, learned, and ambitious book. * History of European Ideas *Armenteros marries meticulous scholarship with provocative and original arguments to produce a work that will become required reading for any scholars interested in Joseph de Maistre, counter-revolutionary thought, or nineteenth century philosophies of history. * French History *Carolina Armenteros attempts to demonstrate in this book that Maistre was more... moderate than has been alleged, that he drew on some of the leading Enlightenment thinkers, and that his influence on a variety of approaches to the philosophy of history was enormous, at least until the mid-nineteenth century... this study, a rather old-fashioned history of ideas and of 'great' men, is well worth the attention of a broad range of intellectual, political, cultural, and religious historians. * Canadian Journal of History *Carolina Armenteros has written a superb work on a writer many of us either dismissed or thought we knew well enough already. * European History Quarterly *Carolina Armenteros's innovative and provocative study of Joseph de Maistre goes beyond previous attempts to reclaim the complexity of counterrevolutionary thinking for intellectual history.... Armenteros's close reading of Maistre leaves no doubt that he is closely connected to the key conceptual turn marking postrevolutionary historical thought in Europe. * The Journal of Modern History *The French Idea of History is immensely rich in insights and suggestions... a marvelous piece of original research. What the author has achieved is to enable us to look beyond the Ultramontanist dimension of his thought which has so often led to Maistre being relegated to the sidelines of history, and to see the crucial influences of his work in later historical thinking. * Intellectual History Review *"This book represents the fullest articulation of her own distinctive positionfollowing on from her recent spate of excellent articles.... Anyone interested in studying Maistre on his own terms should start with this excellentlucideruditeand highly original bookbut also bear in mind that the Maistre it reveals would probably have proved unrecognizable to most of his contemporaries"—Francesco Manzini * Modern Language Review *Though Maistre neither practised the craft of history nor produced a comprehensive philosophy of history, he exercised such an influence over early nineteenth-century historical reasoning that echoes of his thought are still felt into our own time. Yet until this work, Maistre's lasting impact has rarely been acknowledged. Carolina Armenteros’s book is of critical importance, and should be studied by anyone interested in issues related to the modern Christian appropriations of historical reasoning. * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *With an impressively deep and extensive knowledge of her subject, Armenteros writes in a refreshingly clear and lucid style and her book contains original, thought-provoking interpretations of many of Maistre's most important and controversial works, such as Les Soirees de Saint-Petersbourg and Du pape. Armenteros has also situated these texts in their historical contexts in ways that are both revealing and often highly insightful. * French Studies *With impressive energy and erudition, Armenteros has overcome... difficulties to recover Maistre's formative role in the articulation of a distinctively French idea of history. * Common Knowledge *One of the strengths of this book is the importance it places on Maistre's intellectual context. Armenteros goes to considerable lengths to describe the intellectual and historical backdrop against which Maistre's ideas emerged and developed. The account she gives is detailed and illuminating. In particular, she should be complimented for the way she shows how Maistre's famous 1819 Du pape (a work he composed when in Saint Petersburg) must be read in the context of religious and political developments in Russia,and the schism between the Eastern churches and Rome. * English Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Editions, Translations, and References List of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Conservatism and HistoryA Brief Intellectual BiographyPart One: Joseph de Maistre and the Idea of History, 1794–18201. The Statistical Beginnings of Historical Thought: Joseph de Maistre against Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1794–962. Maistrian Epistemology and Pedagogy in Historical Perspective3. A Europeanist Theory of History: Du pape4. Redemption by Suffering: Social Violence and Historical Development in the Éclaircissement sur les sacrifices5. Returning the Universe to God: Time, Will, and Reason in Les soirées de Saint-PétersbourgPart Two: Historical Thought in France, 1798–18546. The New Truth of Historical Knowledge: Liberty, Order, and the Rise of the Social Fact, 1797–18487. Historical Progress and the Logic of Sacrifice, 1822–548. The Metapolitics of History: Socialism, Positivism, and Tradition, 1820–48Conclusion: History and ParadoxBibliography Index
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Cornell University Press The Familiar Made Strange
Book SynopsisIn this volume, twelve distinguished historians offer original readings of American icons and artifacts that model new interpretive, transnational approaches to studying American history.Trade ReviewReading The Familiar Made Strange feels like taking a walk through a well-signposted museum with halls that twist through different eras, types of archives and source material, and analytic approaches.... Students and scholars alike will be inspired by its lively prose, experimental tone, and frequent reminder that there remain 'different paths to blaze and more icons to reimagine from other angles and scales' (p. 8). -- Shanon Fitzpatrick * Journal of American History *Warmly recommended to both skeptics and avid practitioners of transnational American Studies who will inevitably catch themselves pondering which other American icons and artifacts might lend themselves for a rereading in a transnational framework. * Amerikastudien *Table of ContentsIntroduction by Brooke L. Blower and Mark Philip Bradley1. Watson and the Shark by Brian DeLay2. "Oh! Susanna" by Brian Rouleau3. "Mary Lyon, Massachusetts" by Mary A. Renda4. William Howard Taft's Drawers by Andrew J. Rotter5. Josephine Baker's Banana Skirt by Matthew Pratt Guterl6. V-J Day, 1945, Times Square by Brooke L. Blower7. The Kinsey Reports by Naoko Shibusawa8. The Quiet American by Fredrik Logevall9. That Touch of Mink by Nick Cullather10. The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof11. President Jimmy Carter’s Inaugural Address by Mark Philip BradleyConclusion by Daniel T. RodgersNotes Contributors Index
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Cornell University Press Honor Vengeance and Social Trouble
Book SynopsisAn example of microhistory at its best, this book offers a new perspective on the socal history of medieval and early modern Europe and on historiography more broadly.Trade Review"The merit of Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble: Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries lies in its attempt, wherever possible, to corroborate the cases it examines by unearthing supplementary archival data from a variety of sources, and to vividly and amusingly illuminate the social world in the towns and villages of the fifteenth-century Burgundian lands." -- Thierry Boucquey * Comitatus 47 *The novelty of this book lies in chapters 3 and 4, where the focus shifts from homicide to a set of pardon letters—statistically, a tiny minority—involving the abduction, real or alleged, of a woman. Here we get an illuminating glimpse of marriage law, interpersonal violence, the interaction between these two, and fifteenth-century life generally. -- Pieter Spierenburg * Renaissance Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Forgiving Prince: Pardons and Their Origins1. Social Discord: Disputes, Vendettas, and Political Clients2. Violence, Honor, and Sexuality3. Marital Conflict4. Actress, Wife, or Lover? Maria van der Hoeven Accused and DefendedConclusion. People and Their StoriesBibliographical Note Index
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Cornell University Press Why France
Book SynopsisA diverse array of historians provide autobiographical essays in which they explore their intellectual, political, and personal engagements with France and its past.Trade ReviewWhy France? is a mirror of intelligence in which France may see itself reflected. -- Jean-Frederic Schaub * Rue 89 *An entertaining and thought-provoking series of meditations... The tales from the archive become new ways to understand how individual scholarship is shaped by and can in turn shape intellectual trends. -- Jeffrey Jackson * Modern and Contemporary France *France, eternal and changing, is examined without concessions, especially in its relationship with the U.S. A beautiful, two-way history lesson. -- Laurent Theis * Le Point *These historians are not afraid to open up and reveal their sensibility, even their sensuality. They express the richness of their historical vocation and the gains of a self-discovery that is made possible or intensified by distance and alterity. Their confidences, sometimes colored by tenderness, express candidly an attachment to France that changes form across time. -- Alain Corbin * Le Monde *These lively, funny, insightful essays, caught between the objective approach of historical reality and a fuzzier, unstable sentimental perspective, make up a photo album of postwar France. -- Rogert Maggiori * Liberation *This eminently readable book is a must-read for all teachers of French civilization. -- Tom Conner * French Review *
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Cornell University Press Faithful Narratives
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together twelve eminent scholars whose research has exemplified compelling strategies for negotiating the difficulties inherent in the history of religion.Trade Review"Faithful Narratives features an all-star lineup of historians, the best of the best, and all deliver. They contend that religion cannot be explained away, ignored as a factor in human agency, reduced to a by-product of other factors, or treated as a category separate from society." -- David Kling, University of Miami, author of The Bible in History"Traversing the boundaries of the religious and the secular, the premodern and modern, and the disciplines of history and religious studies, this collection of illuminating and compelling essays offers new insights into the significance of religion in the study of history. It is an important and interdisciplinary intervention in modern historiography, for the contributors remind us that religion belongs alongside politics, economics, and culture as an integral dimension of individual and communal identity." -- Kim Haines-Eitzen, Cornell University, author of The Gendered PalimpsestTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Challenge of Religion in History ANDREA STERK AND NINA CAPUTO Part One: Late Antique and Medieval Religious Debates and Their Modern Implications 1. Pagan Challenge, Christian Response: Emperor Julian and Gregory of Nazianzus as Paradigms of Interreligious Discourse SUSANNA ELM 2. Between Syria and Egypt: Alms, Work, and the "Holy Poor" PETER BROWN 3. Medieval Monks on Labor and Leisure JOHN VAN ENGEN 4. Sibling Rivalries, Scriptural Communities: What Medieval History Can and Cannot Teach Us about Relations between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam DAVID NIRENBERG Part Two: Early Modern Perspectives on Spirituality, Culture, and Religious Boundaries 5. The People and the Book: Print and the Transformation of Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe DAVID B. RUDERMAN 6. The Jewish Book in Christian Europe: Material Texts and Religious Encounters ANTHONY GRAFTON 7. Mission and Narrative in the Early Modern Spanish World: Diego de Ocaña's Desert in Passing KENNETH MILLS 8. Incombustible Weber: How the Protestant Reformation Really Disenchanted the World CARLOS EIRE Part Three: From the Premodern to the Modern World: Sacred Texts, Individual Agency, and Religious Identity 9. Religion and Gender in Enlightenment England: The Problem of Agency PHYLLIS MACK 10. Constructions of Jewish Identity through Reflections on Islam SUSANNAH HESCHEL 11. Bible, Translation, and Culture: From the KJV to the Christian Resurgence in Africa LAMIN SANNEH 12. Reflections on the Bible and American Public Life MARK A. NOLL Notes
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Cornell University Press The Familiar Made Strange
Book SynopsisIn The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation's borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the transnational turn pause to consider such famous icons as John Singleton Copley's painting Watson and the Shark, Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph V-J Day, 1945, Times Square, and Alfred Kinsey's reports on sexual behavior, as well as more surprising but revealing artifacts like Josephine Baker's banana skirt and William Howard Taft's underpants. Together, they present a road map to the varying scales, angles and methods of transnational analysis that shed light on American politics, empire, gender, and the operation of power in everyday life.Trade ReviewReading The Familiar Made Strange feels like taking a walk through a well-signposted museum with halls that twist through different eras, types of archives and source material, and analytic approaches.... Students and scholars alike will be inspired by its lively prose, experimental tone, and frequent reminder that there remain 'different paths to blaze and more icons to reimagine from other angles and scales' (p. 8). -- Shanon Fitzpatrick * Journal of American History *Warmly recommended to both skeptics and avid practitioners of transnational American Studies who will inevitably catch themselves pondering which other American icons and artifacts might lend themselves for a rereading in a transnational framework. * Amerikastudien *Table of ContentsIntroduction by Brooke L. Blower and Mark Philip Bradley1. Watson and the Shark by Brian DeLay2. "Oh! Susanna" by Brian Rouleau3. "Mary Lyon, Massachusetts" by Mary A. Renda4. William Howard Taft's Drawers by Andrew J. Rotter5. Josephine Baker's Banana Skirt by Matthew Pratt Guterl6. V-J Day, 1945, Times Square by Brooke L. Blower7. The Kinsey Reports by Naoko Shibusawa8. The Quiet American by Fredrik Logevall9. That Touch of Mink by Nick Cullather10. The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof11. President Jimmy Carter’s Inaugural Address by Mark Philip BradleyConclusion by Daniel T. RodgersNotes Contributors Index
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Cornell University Press Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History
Book SynopsisThis book is the first to consider the presence of history and the question of historical practice in Walter Benjamin's work.Trade Review"The essays offer an important range of views from an international array of historians and literary and cultural critics. These essays investigate Benjamin's engagement with the 'materiality of the past and the epistemology and ethics of its recuperation' the world made available 'in language but also beyond language.'"—Len Findlay, The Structuralist, 1997/1998"The focus on Benjamin and the question of history is extremely welcome. Because Benjamin has been and remains so influential in a variety of academic disciplines, this important scholarly counterweight to the outpouring of more specialized monographic studies is a highly useful contribution."—Richard Wolin, Rice University
£24.80
Cornell University Press Past Looking Historical Imagination and the
Book SynopsisMichael Ann Holly asserts that historical interpretation of the pictorial arts is always the intellectual product of a dynamic exchange between past and present. recent theory emphasizes the subjectivity of the historian and the ways in which any...Trade ReviewA strangely moving book to read.... Surely our desire to experience a kind of privileged timelessness before images—or our satisfaction with signification of any kind—has something to do with the consciousness of our own historicity; surely the challenge of art history, the challenge posed by the deep fascination of old art—or those faces from the past, so similar to our own, yet not our own—is like an encounter with the uncanny, with that otherness in which we discern our own end. A critical art history—like philosophy, like psychoanalysis—ought to take implications of that encounter seriously. * Oxford Art Journal *
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Cornell University Press Gender History in Practice
Book SynopsisThe eight essays collected in this volume examine the practice of gender history and its impact on our understanding of European history. Each essay takes up a major methodological or theoretical issue in feminist history and illustrates the necessity of critiquing and redefining the concepts of body, citizenship, class, and experience through historical case studies. Kathleen Canning opens the book with a new overview of the state of the art in European gender history. She considers how gender history has revised the master narratives in some fields within modern European history (such as the French Revolution) but has had a lesser impact in others (Weimar and Nazi Germany).Gender History in Practice includes two essays now regarded as classics?Feminist History after the ''Linguistic Turn'' and The Body as Methodas well as new chapters on experience, citizenship, and subjectivity. Other essays in the book draw on Canning''s work at the intersection of labor history, the history of Trade Review"Gender History in Practice conveys the richness of Kathleen Canning's thought and the depth of her knowledge of German history. It shows a stunning breadth of knowledge and reading, an admirable refusal to accept simple dichotomies, and an insistence that if theory and history are to engage fruitfully, they must be as complex and flexible as the issues and evidence they seek to explain."—Mary Nolan, New York University"Gender History in Practice is a serious, probing collection of essays by a leading historian of gender history. The essays are broad in scope, and range over the most controversial issues in the field of gender history, among them, the relationship between discourse and experience, the politics of the body, and the construction of political subjectivity for women. Kathleen Canning's exhaustive analysis of the historiographical literature in these areas, as well as her own provocative insights, in particular about the body, will make Gender History in Practice required reading for all historians of gender and sexuality."—Mary Louise Roberts, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Cornell University Press Rethinking Intellectual History
Book SynopsisDominick LaCapra calls for a new view of intellectual history—one that will revitalize the importance of reading and interpreting significant texts. In ten essays, he reformulates the problem of the relation between the "great" texts of the Western...Trade Review"It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of this work for the intellectual historian, philosopher, or literary theorist—in short for anyone concerned with texts."—Larry Shiner, Sangamon State University, Clio, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1984"This brilliant collection of essays provides a guide to a remarkable range of figures and issues in current critical debate."—David Jobling, St. Andrew's College, Religious Studies Review, July 1985
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Johns Hopkins University Press A History of the Guyanese Working People 18811905
Book SynopsisAnyone interested in the problems of underdeveloped nations, labor control, and the after-effects of colonialism and imperialism will appreciate the significance of this work.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsEditors' NoteAckowledgmentsForeword1. Internal and External Contraints on the Development of the Working People2. The Evolution of the Plantation Labor Force in the Nineteenth Century3. Crisis and Creativity in the Small-Farming Sectors4. Socioeconomic Differentiation: On the Coast and in the Hinterland5. The Politics of the Middle Classes and the Masses, 1880-18926. Resistance and Accommodation7. Race as a Contradiction among the Working People8. The 1905 RiotsConclusionAppendix: TablesNotesBibliographyIndex List of IllustrationsPlatesMapsFigures
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Johns Hopkins University Press In the Spirit of the Earth
Book SynopsisLet us re-learn, as hunter-gatherers knew to the core of their being, that this place and itsprocesses (even in our death) always takes care of us-that Homo's citizenship,and errand, rest not with any creed or state, but with 'that star's substancefrom which he had arisen.'"-from In the Spirit of the EarthTrade ReviewIt just may be a sign that the wind is turning when a Rutgersprofessor of history writes a book (and gets it published)debunking historical time and civilization... Martin finds, inneolithic time consciousness, a key ingredient in the control ofthe natural world, and locates the 'ideological origins of humanbondage' in animal domestication. Alternative Press Review Martin has given us a new map for imagining the world around us and our place in it. Hungry Mind Review
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Johns Hopkins University Press History Out of Joint Essays on the Use and Abuse
Book SynopsisConsiders the ways in which historical narratives summon up a past and lay down a future in the ever-multiplying intellectual debates of contemporary public culture. This book looks at some struggles to control public history, examining popular newspaper accounts of events - misrepresentation from the bottom up - in geopolitics and art.Trade ReviewCohen has established himself as one of the harshest critics of the academy in general, and the historical discipline in particular... Worth reading. -- Phillippe Carrard Clio 2006 Even the book's most contestable critical interventions produce valuable insights that might have been missed in a less ambitious book... The interest of the book consequently far exceeds the specific disciplinary frame professional historians would likely bring to it. -- Michael Mirabile Postmodern Culture 2006 Elegant and eloquent on the topic of how French theorists help us to understand the limitations of neopositivist constructions' temporality. -- Carolyn J. Dean Journal of Modern History 2008Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Philosophical Prelude: On the Difference between an Event and a NarrativePart I: On Reading HistoryChapter 1. Nietzsche and Us: Last ReadersChapter 2. How to Make an Ahistorical People: The Island TaiwanChapter 3. Art Criticism and Intellectuals in Los Angeles: Desperate NarrationsChapter 4. Figuring Forth the Historian Today: On Images and GoalsChapter 5. A Critical Analysis of the Historiographic AnecdotePart II: Affirmation and the Philosophy of HistoryChapter 6. Derrida's "New Scholar": Between Philosophy and HistoryChapter 7. The Use and Abuse of History according to Jean-François LyotardChapter 8. The Genealogy of History according to Deleuze and GuattariChapter 9. Nothing Affirmative Ever Dies: Deleuze's Notion of Time and History in Difference and RepetitionConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Fiction of Narrative Essays on History
Book SynopsisThe Fiction of Narrative traces the arc and evolution of White's field-defining thought and will become standard reading for students and scholars of historiography, the theory of history, and literary studies.Trade ReviewThe book will interest scholars from an array of disciplines... Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsEditor's NotePrefaceEditor's IntroductionAcknowledgments1. Collingwood and Toynbee: Transitions in English Historical Thought2. Religion, Culture, and Western Civilization in Christopher Dawson's Idea of History3. The Abiding Relevance of Croce's Idea of History4. Romanticism, Historicism, and Realism: Toward a Period Concept for Early Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History5. The Tasks of Intellectual History6. The Culture of Criticism: Gombrich, Auerbach, Popper7. The Structure of Historical Narrative8. What Is a Historical System?9. The Politics of Contemporary Philosophy of History10. The Problem of Change in Literary History11. The Problem of Style in Realistic Representation: Marx and Flaubert12. The Discourse of History13. Vico and Structuralist/Poststructuralist Thought14. The Interpretation of Texts15. Historical Pluralism and Pantextualism16. The "Nineteenth Century" as Chronotope17. Ideology and Counterideology in Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism18. Writing in the Middle Voice19. Northrop Frye's Place in Contemporary Cultural Studies20. Storytelling: Historical and Ideological21. The Suppression of Rhetoric in the Nineteenth Century22. Postmodernism and Textual Anxieties23. Guilty of History? The longue durée of Paul RicoeurNotesIndex
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University of Toronto Press Viola Florence Barnes 18851979 A Historians
Book SynopsisIn this probing biography, John G. Reid examines Barnes's life as a female historian, providing a revealing glimpse into the gendered experience of professional academia in that era.
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Stanford University Press Historical Representation
Book SynopsisThis book fully recognizes the aestheticism inherent in historical writing while acknowledging its claim to satisfy the demands of rational and scientific inquiry. Focusing on the notion of representation and on the necessity of distinguishing between representation and description, it argues that the traditional semantic apparatus of meaning, truth, and reference that we use for description must be redefined if we are to understand properly the nature of historical writing.The author shows that historical representation is essentially aesthetic, though its adequacy can be discussed rationally. He defines the criteria for representational adequacy, and examines the relationship between these criteria and value judgments. He also investigates the historicist conception of historical writing and the notions of identity and narrativity. This investigation takes place against the backdrop of the ideas of four of the most influential contemporary historical theorists: Erich Auerba
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Stanford University Press The Great Tradition
Book SynopsisThis book examines the prominent role played by constitutional history from 1870 to 1960 in the creation of a positive sense of identity for Britain and the United States.Trade Review"The authors masterfully construct a complex yet intriguing tale of an established nation's adaption to changing times."—M. J. C Taylor, Choice"The Great Tradition not only demonstrates the centrality of constitutional narratives in helping to define national identities during a crucial period for both Britain and the United States, but also makes a vital contribution to the history of history writing, the historical profession, and Anglo-American cultural links. There is also much here about contextual influences affecting historians, from patriotism to racism. In discussing the subsequent decline of constitutional history's pride of place among historians following the First World War, Brundage and Cosgrove nonetheless demonstrate its extraordinarily long shelf-life." —Paul T. Phillips, St. Francis Xavier University
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Stanford University Press Literary Historicity
Book SynopsisLiterary Historicity explores how eighteenth-century British writers considered the past as an aspect of experience.Trade Review"Ruth Mack's Literary Historicity is a must-read for those engaged in conversations about the boundaries of eighteenth-century history and literature. Tackling the knotty relations among representation, experience, and form, Mack deftly responds to and moves beyond poststructuralist and constructivist approaches. In her engaging readings of works by Fielding, Gibbon, Johnson, Lennox, Walpole, and others, she argues convincingly that eighteenth-century literary texts, broadly defined, are the most fruitful places to look to chart innovations in Enlightenment historiography. This provocative book offers a compelling call—to literary critics and historians alike—to shift the terrain on which we investigate the histories of history." -- Devoney Looser * University of Missouri-Columbia *"This intelligent brief study follows its genuinely original concerns into the densest and least expected contexts of comparison and emerges with an ingenious critical perspective. Its central interest in consciousness as a formative notion of historical selfhood places the study in potential dialogue with contemporary useful discussions of consciousness and cognition." -- Timothy Erwin * Scriblerian *"Literary Historicity is an ambitious study that offers stunningly original treatments of the changing understandings of consciousness and representation in eighteenth-century Britain. Its general historical and theoretical contributions have implications that should resonate far beyond its titular chronological and geographical loci." -- Martine Watson Brownley * Emory University *"... overall the book offers 18th-century specialists and historians of the novel much to ponder." -- CHOICE"The arrangement of the volume is skillful and balanced. The approach combines particularity and generality, theorization with close attention to a text, and is one of selective instantiation... This is a properly ambitious, well-planned, and potentially important book." -- Philip SmallwoodTable of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction: READING AND EXPERIENCING THE PAST 1 Chapter One: JOHNSON AND HISTORICAL AUTHORSHIP 46 Chapter Two: FIELDING AND HISTORICAL CHARACTER 82 Chapter Three: LENNOX AND HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS 122 Chapter Four: WALPOLE, STERNE AND HISTORICAL OBJECTS 151 Chapter Five: WARBURTON, GIBBON AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT 190 Afterword 233 Bibliography 304
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Stanford University Press Dada Presentism
Book SynopsisRather than exploring the Dada movement from the usual perspective of its strategies of shock and opposition, this book gives us a new picture of Dada art and writings as a lucid reflection on history and the role of art therein.Trade Review"With the potential to nudge Dada studies in another direction altogether, this book prizes apart the philosophical and political dimensions of time and history precisely at the moment where they come radically into question. Offering a rich perspective from which to assess not only Dada, but also other modernist enterprises, it is a brisk, revivifying breath of fresh air."—Sabine Kriebel, University College, Cork"Elegantly written, thorough, and unlike any other study of Dada, this essay manages to succinctly point out the uniqueness and importance of the movement. It will become a key text in twentieth-century history of art."—Rudolf Kuenzli, The University of Iowa"Maria Stavrinaki's lively and subtle investigation recaptures the radicalism of the Dada movement: its championing of the present and presentism at a time when Europe was in utter disarray, buffeted between regret for the past and appeals to a revolutionary future. This incisive book further serves as a useful incitement to thought, for behind the presentism of the 1920s lies that of our societies today."—François Hartog, author of Regimes of Historicity"A remarkable meditation on the meta-historical significance of Dada."—Maria Gough, Harvard University"According to a wise old saying, 'inside every fat book there is a thin article struggling to get out'. Its truth is confirmed by this remarkable and authoritative essay"—Richard Sheppard , Journal of European Studies"Stavrinaki presents a rather lucid reflection on Dada history and the role of art within it via the Berlin-based Dadaists' acute historical consciousness and their early modern experience of time...Insofar as the deliberate obtuseness of 'the present' is the whole point of the book, I was delighted to have uncovered some germane connective material here applicable to our present, our own now."—Joseph Nechvatal, HyperallergicTable of ContentsI: Posthistory and Prehistory II: The Present as Reproducible Time III: Art's Efficacy or Dada's Use-Value IV: The Moment of Decision: The Future-from-Now V: The Paradigm of Immaculate Conception: Between Fiction and History
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Stanford University Press Borderland Capitalism
Book SynopsisScholars have long been puzzled by why Muslim landowners in Central Asia, called begs, stayed loyal to the Qing empire when its political legitimacy and military power were routinely challenged. Borderland Capitalism argues that converging interests held them together: the local Qing administration needed the Turkic begs to develop resources and raise military revenue while the begs needed access to the Chinese market. Drawing upon multilingual sources and archival material, Kwangmin Kim shows how the begs aligned themselves with the Qing to strengthen their own plantation-like economic system. As controllers of food supplies, commercial goods, and human resources, the begs had the political power to dictate the fortunes of governments in the region. Their political choice to cooperate with the Qing promoted an expansion of the Qing's emerging international trade at the same time that Europe was developing global capitalism and imperialism. Borderland Capitalism shows the Qing empireTrade Review"Borderland Capitalism clearly illustrates how Qing power in Central Asia was bound to Beijing's ability to link the Muslim Begs of Xinjiang with the global economy. Kwangmin Kim's rigorous and valuable study will find an enthusiastic audience among readers interested in Qing, Central Asian, and world history." -- Scott Levi * Ohio State University *"The roots that nourished modern global capitalism extended deep into the interior of Central Eurasia. In this pioneering frontier history, Kwangmin Kim offers striking new perspectives on the economic power of the Qing state in the borderlands, with implications for comparative study of empires everywhere." -- Peter C. Perdue * Yale University *"Kwangmin Kim offers a pioneering analysis, based on prodigious research, of trade in Qing-era Xinjiang. He reveals the significant commercial relations between the Muslim leadership and China, and and indeed with the world economy. His study fosters understanding of the forces that produced conflicts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries." -- Morris Rossabi * Columbia University *"Borderland Capitalism is an illuminating investigation of the Qing Empire's remaking of Eastern Turkestan into Xinjiang. This study incorporates often untapped Turki and Manchu sources to examine tensions within the oasis society, and offers a refreshing approach that eschews focusing largely on religion and ethnicity—what in public discourse have often become the default explanation—for understanding borderland conflicts." -- Chia Yin Hsu * Journal of World History *"This book provides a distinctive perspective on Chinese history that delves deeply into the economic activities occurring on the Qing dynasty's frontiers, which Kim places within the changing global economy and relates to the status of Turkestan within the Qing polity. It offers a persuasive account of the different economic interests of Muslims in the region, moving beyond the conventional ethnic taxonomies that other historians have used to explain events there....[It] argues for the linked nature of the expansions of empire and of capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, thus integrating Qing history into global history in ways that both complement and qualify earlier scholarship." -- R. Bin Wong * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina State and Revolution in Cuba Mass Mobilization
Book SynopsisBetween 1920 and 1940, Cuba underwent a transition from oligarchic rule to a nominal constitutional democracy. This crucial stage of Cuba's political evolution, often overshadowed by the 1959 revolution, is addressed here, stressing the importance of the mass mobilization of the popular classes.
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Unsettling Archival Research Engaging Critical
Book SynopsisWhat would it mean to unsettle the archives? How can we better see the wounded and wounding places and histories that produce absence and silence in the name of progress and knowledge? Unsettling Archival Research sets out to answer these urgent questions and more, with essays that chart a more just path for archival work.Trade Review“This book brings together an exceptionally powerful collection of essays dedicated to revealing and amending the epistemic erasures of imperial archives. Chapters present alternatives to concepts often taken for granted in archival research, they reckon with archival methodologies, and they illustrate pluriversal archival efforts and pedagogies. Important and timely, Unsettling Archival Research promises to have lasting impact on rhetoric and writing studies.”—Ellen Cushman, author of The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People’s Perseverance “My approach to archival work is significantly changed after this invigorating read. This collection succeeds in unsettling archives and researchers in the best ways: sharing critiques and tough questions of the field while also providing a toolkit for navigating the disruption in archives and with archivists and students. Blending a range of theories with rich and varied archival examples and classroom practices, both emerging and experienced scholars upend disciplinary knowledge and Western assumptions of neutrality, memory, and history.”—Charlotte Hogg, coeditor of Persuasive Acts: Women’s Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century “This carefully constructed collection offers a welcome next step in complicating our understanding of what constitutes both archive and archival research through diverse case studies and theoretical contributions drawing on antiracist, decolonial, feminist, indigenous, and queer theories and methods. Unsettling Archival Research will assist both emerging and experienced researchers to develop more inclusive and self-reflective practices.”—David Gold, author of Rhetoric at the Margins: Revising the History of Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1873-1947 “Comprised of fifteen seminal contributions of original research and experiential insight/experience, Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives is especially recommended as a core addition for personal, professional, community, and academic library collections and studies lists for Library/Information Science, Library Management, and General Library Information Science collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.”— James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book Review's Library BookwatchTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction—Romeo GarcÍa, Gesa E. Kirsch, Walker P. Smith, and Caitlin Burns Allen Part One. Unsettling Key Concepts 1. Unsettling the “Archive Story”—Jean Bessette 2. Rescuing the Archive from What?—Wendy Hayden 3. Narratives of Triumph: A Case Study of the Polio Archive—Jackie M. James 4. Nostalgia in the Archives: Using Nostalgia as a Tool for Negotiating Ideological Tensions—Kalyn Prince 5. A Matter of Order: The Power of Provenance in the Mercury Collection of Marion Lamm—Kathryn Manis and Patty Wilde Part Two. Unsettling Research, Theory, and Methodology 6. Hidden in Plain Sight: Rescuing the Archives from Disciplinarity—LynÉe Lewis Gaillet and Jessica A. Rose 7. (En)Countering Archival Silences: Critical Lenses, Relationships, and Informal Archives—MarÍa P. Carvajal Regidor 8. Let Them Speak: Rhetorically Reimagining Prison Voices in the Archives of the Collective—Sally F. Benson 9. Bearing Witness to Transient Histories—Pamela Takayoshi 10. The Rhetorical (Im)possibilities of Recovering George Barr: Toward a Decolonial Queer Archival Methodology—Walker P. Smith Part Three. Unsettling Praxis and Pedagogy: Towards Pluriversality 11. Archival Imaginings of the Working-Class College Woman: The 1912-1913 Scrapbook of Josephine Gomon, University of Michigan College Student—Liz Rohan 12. Decolonizing the Transnational Collection: A Heuristic for Teaching Digital Archival Curation and Participation—Tarez Samra Graban 13. Archiving as Learning: Digital Archiving As Heuristic for Transformative Undergraduate Education—Jennifer Almjeld 14. Settling Emerging Scholars in Unsettling Territory: A Case Study—Rebecca Schneider and Deborah Hollis 15. Unsettling Archival Pedagogy—Amy J. Lueck and Nadia Nasr Contributors
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