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University of Pennsylvania Press Writing Early American History
Book SynopsisHow is American history written? Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alan Taylor answers this question in this collection of his essays from The New Republic, where he explores the writing of early American history.Trade Review"Trained in the new social history, Taylor is especially attuned to diversity and conflict in early American society. . . . Writing Early American History is a provocative and very well written collection." * History *"Taylor is not only a trenchant critic; he is a skilled and able practitioner, surely one of the best of the current generation of historians." * New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century *"Taylor is the leading historian of early America. . . . This collection reprints his often quite lengthy review articles . . . in a thematically organized anthology. It is an absolute joy to dip into and will confirm Taylor's reputation as a historians' historian." * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsForeword, by Christopher Clark Introduction PART I. BODIES AND MINDS 1. The Voyage In 2. Blood and Soil 3. Germ Colonies 4. 4. Martyrs to Venus 5. Sex and the City PART II. SOULS 6. In a Strange Way 7. Crucibles 8. A Seeking People 9. Midnight Ramblers 10. Worlds within Words PART III. EMPIRE 11. The Virginians 12. Devil in a Blue Dress 13. The Bad Birds 14. The Forgotten War 15. Power Shopping PART IV. FOUNDERS 16. For the Benefit of Mr. Kite 17. The Good Father 18. The Founding Swindlers 19. Pluribus 20. Clintonism PART V. HISTORIANS 21. The Exceptionalist 22. Poor Richard, Rich Ben 23. Threads of History 24. Transformer Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Citizenship and the Origins of Womens History in
Book SynopsisCitizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States challenges twenty-first-century assumptions of nineteenth-century women's history by tracing the ways women's history was politicized, particularly in light of the growing activism of women and the first woman's rights movement.Trade Review"Teresa Anne Murphy's fascinating and important book not only reshapes our understanding of the field of women's history but is a valuable contribution to the historical literature on the political, civil, and intellectual status of women in the revolution and early republic." * Carol Faulkner, Syracuse University *"This thoughtful and stimulating intellectual history takes a fresh look at history writing by and about women between the American Revolution and Civil War. It makes an original and distinctive contribution by connecting changing narratives about women's history to larger debates about the nature of women's citizenship." * Anne M. Boylan, University of Delaware *Table of ContentsIntroduction I. Chapter 1. Domestic Citizenship and National Progress Chapter 2. Revolutionary Responses Chapter 3. The Challenges of Radical Reform II. Chapter 4. Women's History and Woman's Rights Chapter 5. Domestic Histories Chapter 6. Caroline Dall's Usable Past: Women and Equal Citizenship Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments
£35.10
University of Pennsylvania Press The Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia
Book SynopsisThe structures of the late ancient Visigothic kingdom of Iberia were rooted in those of Roman Hispania, Santiago Castellanos argues, but Catholic bishops subsequently produced a narrative of process and power from the episcopal point of view that became the official record and primary documentation for all later historians. The delineation of these two discrete projectsof construction and inventionform the core of The Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia. Castellanos reads documents of the period that are little known to many Anglophone scholars, including records of church councils, sermons, and letters, and utilizes archaeological findings to determine how the political system of elites related to local communities, and how the documentation they created promoted an ideological agenda. Looking particularly at the archaeological record, he finds that rural communities in the region were complex worlds unto themselves, with clear internal social stratification little recognized by the literaTrade Review[T]his volume is a valuable work in two senses: first, as a contempo-rary snapshot of the field of Visigothic Studies; second, it is the development of an interesting thesis about the ‘invention’ of the Visigothic kingdom...the book will be very useful for readers who need an introduction to the Visigothic kingdom and specialists who wish to establish a critical dialogue with Castellanos on the kingdom’s invention. * Plekos *Santiago Castellanos is one of the most significant figures in early medieval Spanish historiography, and one of the few experts on the Visigoths with a wide enough range to be able to write such a sophisticated general study. * Chris Wickham, University of Oxford *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. The Collapse of the Roman Empire in Hispania: Between the Texts and the Archaeological Revolution Chapter 2. Political Overview: The Beginnings of the Gothic Kingdom in Iberia Chapter 3. Structures of Power: Magnates and Dependents Chapter 4. Negotiating and Imposing: Kings and Local Worlds Chapter 5. Inventing a Kingdom: Projecting Messages Conclusion Chronology Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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Rutgers University Press Zionism
Book SynopsisThis volume reconsiders the history of Zionism through the lens of emotion. By highlighting the series of emotional states that are key to any national or social movement, including the Zionist project, Penslar shows how Zionism is distinct for the breadth and depth of feeling of those engaged in it, of outside observers, and of its opponents.Trade Review"[W]ith great care and clarity...Derek Penslar’s Zionism: An Emotional State, zero[es] in on those emotions, like love and fear, which are so seldom acknowledged for what they are but play an outsize role in shaping politics." -- Robert Zaretsky * The Atlantic *“Derek Penslar has written a brave and thought-provoking book that seeks to understand the well-springs of hope and belief in Zionism. Yet he does not shy away from less attractive passions, especially hatred in the name of Zionism and hatred of Zionism itself. Anyone keen to understand the way such deep emotions animate and shape history must read this compelling book.” -- Ruth Harris * author of Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century *“Derek Penslar’s masterfully written history of emotions adds a whole new dimension to our understanding of both Zionism and the State of Israel and is crucial reading for anyone interested in grasping the nature of modern nationalism.” -- Michael Brenner * author of In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea *“Derek Penslar introduces a ‘new key’ to the history of Zionism with his examination of the emotions involved, helping us understand the passionate dynamics of both Zionist and anti-Zionist sensibilities as they have emerged and developed over time. This is a must read.” -- Ute Frevert * author of Emotions in History—Lost and Found *"For a topic as contentious and complex as Zionism, Penslar’s expertise, sober voice, and informed critique shine through as he provides a much-needed addition to ongoing debates that touch at the heart of Jewish identity today." -- Shaul Magid * author of Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical *"Perhaps the finest book on Zionism written in recent memory. This slim, brilliant volume probes with rare equanimity every volatile corner of this topic with its focus squarely on why it generates such promiscuous, even universal heat. Derek Penslar is an outstanding historian who knows so well how to marshal knowledge of the past to illuminate the aching complexities of the present." -- Steven J. Zipperstein * author of Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History *“If you think you understand Zionism, read this book and think again. Carefully, elegantly and with tremendous erudition, Derek Penslar takes an ideology many think they understand and illuminates it in a fascinating new way.” -- Peter Beinart * author of The Crisis of Zionism *"Why does Zionism evoke such intense passions? Because as much as it is a political and ideological movement, it is also an emotional movement. Penslar has outdone himself with this intriguing history of the emotions of Zionism's champions and its adversaries." -- Susannah Heschel * author of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Part I: Terms of Debate Chapter One: Staging Zionism Part II: State of the Question Chapter Two: Zionism as Colonialism Part III: In a New Key Chapter Three: Zionism to 1948: Passion and Solidarity Chapter Four: Zionism since 1948: A Great Romance Chapter Five: Zionism and the International Community: From Gratitude to Betrayal Chapter Six: Hating Zionism Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes For Further Reading Index
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Market Revolution in America Social
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays aims to respond to Charles Sellers's ""The Market Revolution"", reflecting upon the historiographic accomplishments initiated by his work, while advancing the argument across a range of fields. It explores the impact of the market on social and economic institutions.
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New York University Press The Historians Paradox
Book SynopsisProposes a practical, workable philosophy of history for our times, one that is robust and realisticTrade Review"Hoffer expands the theory of history beyond its usual narrow confines. A readable and instructive book on a complex topic." * Choice *"A rattlingly good read….[S]trongly recommend[ed]…in any teaching context where students of history are being asked to reflect philosophically upon the nature of their subject." * American Historical Review *"Hoffer has a knack for using contemporary situations that will eventually be topics for historical writing." -- Claire Potter,Wesleyan University"[C]onsistently amusing and edifying throughout. [Hoffer] demonstrates an extraordinary mastery of a wide variety of materials. Hes a mature historian at peak form." -- Peter Onuf,author of The Mind of Thomas Jefferson"The Historians’ Paradox can be read with profit by practitioners and graduate students because it is more insightful, better balanced, and more concise then most recent books on the nature of the historical enterprise." * The Journal of American History *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Why History Is Impossible, Yet Necessary All the Same 1 It Would Be Logical to Assume 2 What's Wrong with This Argument? 3 Historians and the Loaded Question 4 Cause for Alarm 5 One of Us Is Lying 6 The Politics of History and History in Politics 7 Historians in the Marketplace 8 Uncertainties 9 Historians Confront the Problem of Evil ConclusionA Bridge to the Past Glossary A Very Brief Bibliographical Essay Index About the Author
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas
Book SynopsisOffers an overview of the Sephardic presence in North and South America through eleven essays discussing culture, history, literature, language, religion and music.
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The University of Alabama Press Old Mobile Fort Louis De La Louisiane 170211 Library of Alabama Classics Series
Book SynopsisOffers to American historiography a microcosmic view of an early French colonial settlement in the United States, recreating the lives of the fort occupants in minute detail. Higginbotham has made extensive use of Spanish archives in the research of early American history.
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University of Alabama Press Through a Glass Darkly Contested Notions of
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The University of Alabama Press Pattons Shadow
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre History Studies 2015 Volume 34
Book SynopsisRevisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography. The five essays are arranged chronologically. This fascinating collection is rounded out by an expanded selection of insightful reviews of recent literature in the area.
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Duke University Press The Spectacle of History
Book SynopsisHow is history produced? How do individuals write or rewrite their parts while engaged in the production of history? This book takes the example of the Iran-contra hearings to explore these questions.
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Duke University Press The Shock of Medievalism
Book SynopsisExplores the nineteenth-century foundations of medieval studies as an academic discipline as well as certain unexamined contemporary consequences of these origins. This title exposes the presuppositions of the field of medieval studies and significantly shifts the objects of its historical inquiry.Trade Review“Biddick injects the reflexivity of postmodern critics into a field that clings to traditional notions of historiography and history, demonstrating that it is possible to read differently and with wonderful results: these essays are original and imaginative readings that open up whole new ways of understanding how history might be written.”—Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study“Deeply researched, imaginative, nimble, and energetic. . . . The Shock of Medievalism is an innovative project that cuts across several disciplines whose borders are not usually breached, and does so in sophisticated and profound ways.”—Carolyn Dinshaw, University of California at Berkeley
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Duke University Press Archive Stories
Book SynopsisThis anthology compares scholarly findings from around the world to comment on the creation, definition, and use of archival evidence in the writing of historyTrade Review“Archive Stories is path-breaking in its subject matter, methodology, and up-to-date reflection on the status of historical knowledge. It is hard to see how anyone can avoid using this important anthology in methodology and historiography courses.”—Bonnie G. Smith, author of The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice“Important and timely, this fascinating collection of tales from a multitude of repositories and record offices removes all sorts of archives from the historian’s grasp (though there are many extraordinary and brave historians writing here) and restores their meaning to politics and society, to the telling of individual and collective pasts.”—Carolyn Steedman, author of Dust: The Archive and Cultural HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Archive Fever, Archive Stories / Antoinette Burton 1 Part I. Close Encounters: The Archive as Contact Zone 25 National Narratives and the Politics of Miscegenation: Britain and India / Durba Ghosh 27 “Without the Past There is No Future”: Archives, History, and Authority in Uzbekistan / Jeff Sahadeo 45 Mechanisms of Exclusion: Historicizing the Archive and the Passport / Craig Roberston 68 Mr. Peal’s Archive: Mobility and Exchange in Histories of Empire / Tony Ballantyne 87 A Living Archive of Desire: Teresita la Campesina and the Embodient of Queer Latino Community Histories / Horacio N. Roque Ramirez 111 Toiling in the Archives of Cyberspace / Renee M. Sentilles 136 Part II. States of Art: “Official” Archives and Counter-Histories 157 “What Is an Archive?” in the History of Modern France / Jennifer S. Milligan 159 The Archive and the Case of the German Nation / Peter Fritzsche 184 On the Biography of the Bakunin Family Archive / John Randolph 209 Creating the “Suffragette Spirit”: British Feminism and the Historical Imagination / Laura Mayhall 232 Archives of the Unbuilt Environment: Documents and Discourses of Imagined Space in Twentieth-Century Kohler, Wisconsin / Kathryn J. Oberdeck 251 Fiction’s Imaginative Archive and the Newspaper’s Local Scandals: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Marilyn Booth 274 Part III. Archive Matters: The Past in the Present 297 In Good Hands: Researching the 1976 Soweto Uprising in the State Archives of South Africa / Helena Pohlandt-McCormick 299 The Colonial Archive on Trial: Possession, Dispossession, and History in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia / Adele Perry 325 The History of Killing and the Killing of History / Ann Curthoys 351 Selected Bibliography 375 Contributors 381 Index 385
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University of Pittsburgh Press City at the Center of the World
Book SynopsisBy the early twentieth century, elites envisioned the city as the heart of a modern, advanced society—poised at the physical and metaphysical centers of the world.In this original cultural history, Ernesto Capello analyzes the formation of memory, myth, and modernity through the eyes of QuitoÆs diverse populations.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Unintended Affinities
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Fordham University Press Critique of Journalistic Reason Philosophy and
Book SynopsisThis book examines philosophy’s recurrent preoccupation with journalism. It shows how modern European philosophy's preoccupation with the news inflects theories of history, time, and language.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations | vii Morning News: Kant, Hegel | 1 1 Talking Machines: Kierkegaard | 19 2 Idolatry of Facts: Nietzsche | 72 3 Last Days: Benjamin | 121 Afterword: “Today” | 175 Acknowledgements | 183 Notes | 185 Bibliography 223 Index | 237
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Fordham University Press Critique of Journalistic Reason Philosophy and
Book SynopsisThis book examines philosophy’s recurrent preoccupation with journalism. It shows how modern European philosophy's preoccupation with the news inflects theories of history, time, and language.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations | vii Morning News: Kant, Hegel | 1 1 Talking Machines: Kierkegaard | 19 2 Idolatry of Facts: Nietzsche | 72 3 Last Days: Benjamin | 121 Afterword: “Today” | 175 Acknowledgements | 183 Notes | 185 Bibliography 223 Index | 237
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University of Hawai'i Press Texts and Contexts Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography
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University of Hawai'i Press Seoul
Book SynopsisInterrogates the contested history and physical remnants of Seoul, tacking between the city's historiography and architecture, with attention to monuments, streets, and other urban spaces. The book's structuring device is the dichotomy of erasure and memory as necessary preconditions for reinvention.
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University of Hawai'i Press Epistemology of the Past
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University of Missouri Press Anamnesis On the Theory of History and Politics
Book SynopsisThis translation of Voegelin's ""Anamnesis"" gives equal weight to the empirical and philosophical aspects of the work. This work is both a recollection of his own development and a demonstration of the anamnetic method as applied to historically remembered materials.
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico The American West and Its Interpreters Essays on
Book SynopsisDistinguished historian Richard Etulain brings together a selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary history and historiography, revealing summaries of regional literature, and discussions of western stories yet to be told.Trade ReviewRichard Etulain is one of the most significant interpreters of Western history, and especially its literary and cultural history, of the past half-century. To gather his essays, old and new, in one volume is a great contribution." —Michael S. Green, author of Nevada: A History of the Silver State "An important topic masterfully executed by the leading authority in the dual fields of literary history and historiography." —David V. Holtby, author of Lest We Forget: World War I and New MexicoTable of Contents Preface Chapter One. Transitions in Western Historiography Chapter Two. The American Literary West and Its Interpreters: The Rise of a New Historiography Chapter Three. Shifting Interpretations of Western American Cultural History Chapter Four. The Twentieth-Century American West: A New Historiographical Frontier Chapter Five. Research Opportunities in Twentieth-Century Western Cultural History Chapter Six. After Turner: The Western Historiography of Frederic Logan Paxson Chapter Seven. Earl Pomeroy: Reorienting Western History Chapter Eight. Inventing the Pacific Northwest: Novelists and the Region's History Chapter Nine. Western Stories for the Next Generation Chapter Ten. Beyond Conflict, Toward Complexity: New Views of the American West Chapter Eleven. Research Opportunities in Western History Poll: The Most Influential Western Historians Notes American West Historiography: Books and Essays
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James Currey General History of Africa volume 1 pbk abridged
Book SynopsisSPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs.Assesses the importance attached by African societies to their past and the growth and development of African historiography. This is followed by accounts of the primary literary sources, the oral and living traditions and Africanarchaeology and its techniques. There are further chapters on linguistics, migrations and historical geography before the second part of the book which deals specifically with earliest man and the prehistory of Africa according to geographical area. Specific chapters are also devoted to prehistoric art, agricultural techniques and the development of metallurgy. The series is co-published in Africa with seven publishers, in the United States and Canada by the University of California Press, and in association with the UNESCO Press.Trade ReviewReviews of the Series: * . *... a real contribution to scholarship. - -- Roland Oliver * TLS *The General History of Africa was launched in 1970, when an International Scientific Committee of 39 scholars was formed to oversee the writing and publication of a complete survey of the African past, from pre-history to the present. The laudable aim of the project was to break free from the straightjacket of Eurocentrism, and to provide a history that reflected a range of African views without imposing any set historical interpretation. - -- David M. Anderson * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Samuel Rawson Gardiner and the Idea of History
Book SynopsisA study of an eminent historian of seventeenth-century Britain and his work, showing its continued importance for all those working on the period.Samuel Rawson Gardiner [1829-1902] is the colossus of seventeenth-century historiography. His twenty-volume history of Britain from 1603 to 1656 and his many editions of key texts still serve to underpin almost all study of the Civil Wars and of the Commonwealth and Protectorate. Yet, despite his importance, his work has often been reduced by historians of historiography to simple caricature, in which his personal politics and his denominational allegiances got the better of his worthy empiricism. This book seeks to challenge the inadequate view of him and his work, offering a rich contextualisation by locating his writings within a wide range of literary and philosophical milieux,British and continental European. In so doing it not only suggests new ways of looking at Victorian historiography in general, but also proposes a new approach to the growing history of historical writing. Mark Nixon is an independent scholar and museum curator.Trade ReviewA lively and interesting discussion. . [It] is a valuable contribution not only to the study of Gardiner and of nineteenth-century historiography, but also to Gardiner's period, the age of the early Stuarts and of the Puritan Revolution. * INTELLECTUAL HISTORY REVIEW *A significant reappraisal of Gardiner [and] a much more subtle and complex portrait than that conventionally offered. [...] This is a compelling first book based squarely on impressive research. * CLIO *Table of ContentsIntroduction Theory Practice Religion Politics Writing Conclusion Appendix: The published writings of S. R. Gardiner Bibliography
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Cornell University Press A Sarong for Clio
Book SynopsisConceived as a tribute to an innovative scholar, dedicated teacher, and generous colleague, it is this volume's ambition to make a concerted intervention on Thai historiography and Thai studies.Trade Review"A Sarong for Clio offers bold explorations into several critical areas of Thai studies. Its essays will certainly reshape our understanding of Thailand in the modern era. Audacious and uncompromising—and splendidly engrossing—it is a worthy tribute to Craig Reynolds, the scholar whose work it honors." -- Richard A. Ruth, U.S. Naval AcademyTable of ContentsIntroduction. On History, Thailand, and the Scholarship of Craig J. Reynolds by Maurizio PeleggiPart I. Historiography, Knowledge, and Power1. The Revolt of Khun Phaen: Contesting Power in Early Modern Siam by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit2. Fabrication, Stealth, and Copying of Historical Writings: The Historiographical Misconducts of Mr. Kulap of Siam by Thongchai Winichakul3. Renegade Royalist: Autobiography and Siam's Disavowed Prince Prisdang by Tamara Loos4. The Plot of Thai Art History: Buddhist Sculpture and the Myth of National Origins by Maurizio PeleggiPart II. Political and Business Culture5. Republicanism in Thai History by Patrick Jory6. Madness, Authoritarianism, and Political Participation: The Curious Case of Cham Jamratnet by James Ockey7. Big Is Good: The Banharn-Jaemsai Observatory Tower in Suphanburi by Yoshinori Nishizaki8. Marketing Business Knowledge and Consumer Culture before the Boom: The Case of Khoo Khaeng Magazine by Villa Vilaithong9. "Governance" in Thailand by Kasian TejapiraAppendix. Publications by Craig J. ReynoldsContributors
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch
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MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press The Book of Settlements Landnamabok
Book SynopsisThe laws of Mediaeval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.
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Reaktion Books New Philosophy of History Pb Critical Views S
Book Synopsis'What is history'? From Thucydides to Toynbee, historians and non-historians alike have wondered how to answer this question. This book focuses on developments over the years in historical writing, not least the renewed interest in the status of narrative itself and the presence of the authorial 'voice'.Table of ContentsPhotographic Acknowledgements Notes on the Editors and Contributors Introduction: Describing Redescriptions by Hans Kellner 1: Historicity in an age of Reality-Fictions by Nancy F. Partner 2: Turning Linguistic: History and Theory and History and Theory, 1960-1975 by Richard T. Vann 3: The Decline and Fall of the Analytical Philosophy of History by Arthur C. Danto 4: Intimate Images: Subjectivity and History - Stael, Michelet and Tocqueville by Linda Orr 5: Theory of a Practice: Historical Enunciation and the Annales School by Philippe Carrard 6: Relevance, Revision and the Fear of Long Books by Ann Rigney 7: 'Grand Narrative' and the Discipline of History by Allan Megill 8: A Point of View on Viewpoints in Historical Practice by Robert F. Berkhofer 9: History as Competence and Performance: Notes on the Ironic Museum by Stephen Bann 10: Statements, Texts and Pictures by Frank Ankersmit References Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Thinking Recording and Writing History in the
Book SynopsisThinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the past and recorded their own histories, featuring contributions by an international group of scholars working in many disciplines. .Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface vii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Kurt A. Raaflaub 1 On Being Historical 6 David Carr 2 The Task and Ritual of Historical Writing in Early China 19 Stephen W. Durrant 3 History and Primordium in Ancient Indian Historical Writing: Itihāsa and Purānòa in the Mahābhārata and Beyond 41 James L. Fitzgerald 4 Historical Consciousness and Historical Traditions in Early North India 61 Romila Thapar 5 Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in Ancient Japan: The Nihon shoki as a Text of Transition 79 Christian Oberländer 6 As the Dharmacakra Turns: Buddhist and Jain Macrohistorical Narratives of the Past, Present, and Future 97 Jason Neelis 7 History as Festival? A Reassessment of the Use of the Past and the Place of Historiography in Ancient Egyptian Thought 117 Thomas Schneider 8 The Presence of the Past in Early Mesopotamian Writings 144 Piotr Michalowski 9 “Two Old Tablets”: Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in Hittite Society 169 Theo van den Hout 10 Thinking and Writing about History in Teispid and Achaemenid Persia 187 Robert Rollinger 11 Historical Texts in the Hebrew Bible? 213 Marc Zvi Brettler 12 The Many Faces of the Past in Archaic and Classical Greece 234 Jonas Grethlein 13 How the Romans Remembered, Recorded, Thought About, and Used Their Past 256 Andreas Mehl 14 Patterns of Early Christian Thinking and Writing of History: Paul – Mark – Acts 276 Eve-Marie Becker 15 Byzantine historia 297 Stratis Papaioannou 16 The Past in the Early and Medieval Islamic Middle East (circa 750–circa 1250) 314 Andrew Marsham 17 Sources and Scales of Classic Maya History 340 Nicholas P. Carter 18 The Poetics and Politics of Aztec History 372 Lori Boornazian Diel 19 Corn and Her Story Traveled: Reading North American Graphic Texts in Relation to Oral Traditions 391 Lisa Brooks Index 417
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Roman Historiography An Introduction to its Basic
Book SynopsisRoman Historiography presents a comprehensive introduction to the development of Roman historical writings in the ancient world. Rooting his survey in the context of its Greek predecessors, and within the broader framework of Roman literature and society, Mehl discusses every historical writer of significance in the ancient Roman era.Trade ReviewNamed CHOICE Outstanding Title for 2012"Appropriate for advanced undergraduate students, this work provides a foundation for further study of classical historical writing." (Book News, Inc., 1 August 2011)"Roman Historiography by Andreas Mehl is a book that I would highly recommend to anyone interested in reading the original histories or even any sort of ancient roman text. I enjoyed reading Roman Historiography and I know those of you who do read this book will also." (Ancient History, 2016)Table of ContentsTranslator’s Preface ix Introduction: The Importance of Ancient Historiography and the Purpose of this Book 1 Chapter 1: Ancient Literature and Roman Historiography 9 1.1 Roman Literature and its Relation to Greek Literature 9 1.2 Roman Historiography and the City of Rome 12 1.3 The Claims of Artistry and Truth in Ancient, especially Roman, Historiography 17 1.3.1 Literary Artistry and Moral Preoccupations in Ancient Historiography 18 1.3.2 “History is what Actually Happened” – Ancient Historiography and the Modern Science of History 26 Chapter 2: The Formation and Establishment of Tradition in the Ruling Class of the Early and Middle Roman Republic 33 2.1 Family Histories and Clan Traditions 34 2.2 The Annales Maximi and the Almanacs of Publius Mucius Scaevola 37 Chapter 3: Early Roman Historiography: Self-Justification and Memory in Earlier Annalistic Writing 41 3.1 Early Annalistic Writing (I) 43 3.1.1 Quintus Fabius Pictor 43 3.1.2 Later Authors (From Cincius Alimentus to Postumius Albinus) 48 3.2 Early Annalistic Writing (II) 49 3.2.1 Marcus Porcius Cato 51 3.2.2 Other Authors (from Cassius Hemina to Sempronius Asellio) 55 3.3 Early Historical Epic in Rome (Naevius and Ennius) 60 Chapter 4: The Historiography of Rome between the Fronts of the Civil Wars 63 4.1 Later Annalistic Writing: Optimates vs. Populares and Traditional Annalistic Writing vs. Contemporary History 66 4.2 Autobiographies, Memoirs, Hypomnemata, Commentarii, and their Influence on the Historiography of Current Events 69 4.2.1 Self-Representations until Cicero 71 4.2.2 Caesar’s Commentarii 72 4.3 The History of Current Events Made to Order and Contemporary Concepts of Historiography (Cicero) 77 4.4 Biography (Cornelius Nepos) 81 4.5 The Experience of the Collapsing and Ruined Republic 84 4.5.1 Gaius Sallustius Crispus 84 4.5.2 Gaius Asinius Pollio 94 4.6 Antiquarian Writings 96 Chapter 5: Augustan Rome, Roman Empire, and other Peoples and Kingdoms 98 5.1 Titus Livius: Roman History from Romulus to Augustus in its Entirety 100 5.2 World History, the History of the World beyond Rome, and Roman History by Non-Romans and New Romans 110 5.2.1 World History and Roman History (from Diodorus to Juba) 111 5.2.2 Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Early Rome and the Greeks 114 5.2.3 Pompeius Trogus: World History round about Rome 116 5.2.4 Universal Chronology (Castor and Dionysius) 119 Chapter 6: Imperial History and the History of Emperors – Imperial History as the History of Emperors 121 6.1 Empire and “Republic”: Senatorial Historiography 127 6.1.1 Gaius (?) Velleius Paterculus 130 6.1.2 Authors of the Julio-Claudian and Flavian Period (from Cremutius Cordus to Pliny the Younger) 133 6.1.3 Publius (?) Cornelius Tacitus 136 6.1.4 Lucius Cl(audius) Cassius Dio Cocceianus 151 6.2 Rome and Foreign Peoples 156 6.2.1 Josephus / Flavius Josephus: Jews and Others 157 6.2.2 Appian of Alexandria: A Retrospective View of the Establishment of Rome’s World Domination 162 6.3 Imperial History as Imperial Biography 165 6.3.1 Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus 166 6.3.2 Marius Maximus and Herodian 170 6.3.3 Historia Augusta / Scriptores Historiae Augustae 171 6.4 Personal History and Biography in the High Empire Beyond Roman Emperors 178 6.4.1 Curtius Rufus and Arrian of Nicomedia: Histories of Alexander 178 6.4.2 Plutarch of Chaeronea: Parallel Lives 183 6.5 History in “Pocket-Size” 186 6.5.1 From the Epitome of Livy, the Epitome of Trogus, and Florus to Lucius Ampelius 187 6.5.2 The Historical Epitomes of the Fourth Century A.D. (Aurelius Victor, Eutropius, Festus) 191 6.6 Exempla-Literature and Historical Understanding 197 Chapter 7: Roman History and Universal History between Classical Religion (“Paganism”) and Christianity 199 7.1 Zosimus and his Predecessors: Classically Religious Historiography and Historical Interpretation in a Christian Age 203 7.2 Ammianus Marcellinus: Indifferent to Religion? 207 7.3 Christian Historiography 216 7.3.1 Church History (Eusebius and Rufinus) 219 7.3.2 From Classically Religious Chronography to Christian Universal Chronicle (Eusebius, Jerome, Sulpicius) 223 7.3.3 Orosius: Universal History through the Lens of Theology 229 7.3.4 Procopius of Caesarea: The History of Current Events in Transition from Rome to Byzantium 237 Chapter 8: Some Basic Principles of Ancient Historical Thought 243 Chronological Table 252 Notes 255 Select Bibliography 264 1. General Bibliography 264 1.1 Editions, Translations, and Commentaries for the Historiographical and Biographical Works Treated in this Book 264 1.2 Editions of Historiographical Works and Historical Epics in Greek and Latin that Survive only in Fragments 270 1.3 Histories of Greek and Latin Literature, especially Historiography: Recent Surveys and Collections 271 1.4 Ancient Historiography, especially Roman: its Basic Literary, Social, and Intellectual Contexts 272 2. The Formation and Establishment of Tradition in the Ruling Class of the Early and Middle Roman Republic 275 3. Early Roman Historiography: Self-Justification and Memory in Early Annalistic Writing 276 4. The Historiography of Rome between the Fronts of the Civil Wars 277 5. Augustan Rome, Roman Empire, and other Peoples and Kingdoms 279 6. Imperial History and the History of Emperors – Imperial History as the History of Emperors 280 7. Roman History and Universal History between Classical Religion (“Paganism”) and Christianity 284 Index 287
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Essaying the Past
Book SynopsisLearn to craft the perfect historical research paper with this approachable and practical guide Essaying the Past: How to Read, Write, and Think about History, 4th Edition continues the tradition of excellence established by the previous editions. Equal parts research manual, study guide, and introduction to the study of history, this book teaches readers how to write excellent historical prose with approachable strategies and actionable tips. Noted teacher and writer Jim Cullen has created an invaluable resource for novices and experts in the field of historical study, offering practical insights into determining how questions should be framed, developing strong introduction and topic sentences, choosing evidence, and properly revising your work. Essaying the Past includes six appendices covering the major issues facing students today, including the pitfalls and temptations of plagiarism and the role of the internet. It also contains an annTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition vii Preface to the Third Edition xi Preface to the Fourth Edition xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction to the Student: Why Would You Look at a Book Like This? 1 Part I Thinking and Reading about History 5 1 History: It's about Time 7 2 What's the Story with History? 15 3 The Sources of History 21 4 Good Answers Begin with Good Questions 31 5 Search Engines, Research Ingenuity 37 6 How to Read a Book without Ever Getting to Chapter One 47 Part II Writing about History 61 7 Analysis: The Intersection of Reading and Writing 63 8 Making a Case: An Argument in Three Parts 73 9 Defining Introductions 81 10 Strong Bodies (I): The Work of Topic Sentences 95 11 Strong Bodies (II): Exposition and Evidence 103 12 Strong Bodies (III): Counterargument and Counterevidence 115 13 Surprising Conclusions 123 14 Scaling the Summit: Crystallizing Your Argument 131 15 Writing is Rewriting: The Art of Revision 137 16 Putting It All Together: The Research Essay (A Case Study) 145 Conclusion: The Love of History 165 Appendices A Writing an Essay: Ten Easy Steps in Review 169 B Essay Varieties: DBQs, Reviews, and Comparison Assignments 171 C Let's Give a Hand: Bibliographies and Footnotes 177 D Credit Scams: The Dangers of Plagiarism 187 E Web of Lies? Weighing the Internet 191 F A Glossary of Key Terms 195 G More Reading about Writing 201 Index 203
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Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Flight Physics
Book SynopsisHowever, the very rst useful results of this research became ava- able a considerable length of time after the aviation pioneers had made their rst ights. Only after the rst motorized ights had been successfully made did researchers become more interested in the science of aviation, which from then on began to take shape.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: “This book was translated from the Dutch textbook Aeronautiek (2002) and then edited by the translators, one of whom is the senior author of the current work. It is an expansion of lecture material used by both Torenbeek and Wittenberg to instruct freshmen aerospace engineers at the Technical University of Delft from 1970 to 2000. … The work is useful to aeronautical engineering students as a good reference and as an adjunct to their course textbooks. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students.” (A. M. Strauss, Choice, Vol. 47 (5), January, 2010)Table of ContentsPreface; 1 History of Aviation; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Early history and the invention of ballooning; 1.3 The period between 1799 and 1870; 1.4 The decades between 1870 and 1890; 1.5 From 1890 until the Wright Flyer III; 1.6 European aviation between 1906 and 1918; 1.7 Aviation between the world wars; 1.8 Development after 1940; Bibliography; 2 Introduction to Atmospheric Flight; 2.1 Flying – How is that possible?; 2.2 Static and dynamic aviation; 2.3 Forces on the aeroplane; 2.4 Lift, drag and thrust; 2.5 Properties of air; 2.6 The earth’s atmosphere; 2.7 The standard atmosphere; 2.8 Atmospheric flight; Bibliography ; 3 Low-Speed Aerodynamics ; 3.1 Speed domains and compressibility; 3.2 Basic concepts; 3.3 Equations for steady flow; 3.4 Viscous flows; 3.5 The boundary layer; 3.6 Flow separation and drag; 3.7 Shape and scale effects on drag ; Bibliography; 4 Lift and Drag at Low Speeds; 4.1 Function and shape of aeroplane wings; 4.2 Aerofoil sections; 4.3 Circulation and lift; 4.4 Aerofoil section properties; 4.5 Wing geometry; 4.6 High-aspect ratio straight wings; 4.7 Low-aspect ratio wings ; 4.8 The whole aircraft; Bibliography; 5 Aircraft Engines and Propulsion; 5.1 History of engine development; 5.2 Fundamentals of reaction propulsion; 5.3 Engine efficiency and fuel consumption; 5.4 Piston engines in aviation; 5.5 Gas turbine engine components ; 5.6 Non-reheated turbojet and turbofan engines ; 5.7 Turboprop and turboshaft engines; 5.8 Gas turbine engine operation ; 5.9 Propeller performance; Bibliography; 6 Aeroplane Performance; 6.1 Introduction ; 6.2 Airspeed and altitude; 6.3 Equations of motion for symmetric flight; 6.4 Steady straight and level flight; 6.5 Climb and descent ; 6.6 Gliding flight; 6.7 Cruising flight; 6.8 Take-off and landing; 6.9 Horizontal steady turn; 6.10 Manoeuvre and gust loads; Bibliography; 7 Stability and Control; 7.1 Flying qualities; 7.2 Elementary concepts and definitions; 7.3 Tail surfaces and flight control; 7.4 Pitchingmoment of aerofoils; 7.5 Static longitudinal stability; 7.6 Dynamic longitudinal stability; 7.7 Longitudinal control; 7.8 Static lateral stability; 7.9 Dynamic lateral stability; 7.10 Lateral control; 7.11 Stalling and spinning ; Bibliography ; 8 Helicopter Flight Mechanics; 8.1 Helicopter general arrangements; 8.2 Hovering flight ; 8.3 The rotor in level flight; 8.4 Flight performance; 8.5 Stability and control; Bibliography; 9 High-Speed Flight; 9.1 Complications due to the compressibility of air; 9.2 Compressible flow relationships; 9.3 Speed of sound and Mach number; 9.4 Flow in a channel; 9.5 Shock waves and expansion flows; 9.6 High-subsonic speed; 9.7 Transonic speed; 9.8 Supersonic speed; 9.9 Supersonic propulsion; 9.10 Performance and operation; Bibliography; A Units and Dimensions; B Principles of Aerostatics; Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Tacitus
Book SynopsisA Companion to Tacitus brings much needed clarity and accessibility to the notoriously difficult language and yet indispensable historical accounts of Tacitus. The companion provides both a broad introduction and showcases new theoretical approaches that enrich our understanding of this complex author.Trade Review“In sum, this volume is highly recommended – to the novice or the expert alike – in its multiple forms and functions: as an effective introduction to the works of Tacitus; as a refresher on Tacitus’ formative role in shaping Latin historiographical practice and the reception of Latin historical writing by contemporary and modern readerships; as a collection of critically nuanced responses to the literary sophistication of Tacitus’ approaches to producing meaning in its many guises; and as a curative for critiques of Tacitus’ writing which fail to recognize the richness of his intellectual palette.” (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 31 February 2014) “With its sensible blend of traditional philology and theoretical innovation, this companion makes, overall, a significant contribution to Tacitean scholarship...The editorial quality of this companion is excellent…The book is well organized and user-friendly…More than enough to guide the kind of readership for which this companion is intended, especially in English.” (The Classical Review, 1 September 2013) “Here is a work that indicates clearly why Tacitus and his works still matter.” (Reference Reviews, 1 May 2013) “Even so, the whole remains more than the sum of its excellent parts. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (Choice, 1 August 2012)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 Victoria Emma Pagán PART I Texts 13 1 The Textual Transmission 15 Charles E. Murgia 2 The Agricola 23 Dylan Sailor 3 Germania 45 James B. Rives 4 Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus: A Socio-Cultural History 62 Steven H. Rutledge 5 The Histories 84 Jonathan Master 6 The Annals 101 Herbert W. Benario PART II Historiography 123 7 Tacitus' Sources 125 David S. Potter 8 Tacitus and Roman Historiography 141 Arthur Pomeroy 9 The Concentration of Power and Writing History: Forms of Historical Persuasion in the Histories (1.1-49) 162 Olivier Devillers PART III Interpretations 187 10 Deliberative Oratory in the Annals and the Dialogus 189 Christopher S. van den Berg 11 Tacitus' Senatorial Embassies of 69 CE 212 Kathryn Williams 12 Deuotio, Disease, and Remedia in the Histories 237 Rebecca Edwards 13 Tacitus in the Twenty-First Century: The Struggle for Truth in Annals 1-6 260 Barbara Levick 14 Tacitus' History and Mine 282 Holly Haynes 15 Seneca in Tacitus 305 James Ker PART IV Intertextuality 331 16 Annum quiete et otio transiit: Tacitus (Ag. 6.3) and Sallust on Liberty, Tyranny, and Human Dignity 333 Christopher B. Krebs 17 "Let us tread our path together": Tacitus and the Younger Pliny 345 Christopher Whitton 18 Tacitus and Epic 369 Timothy A. Joseph 19 Silius Italicus and Tacitus on the Tragic Hero: The Case of Germanicus 386 Eleni Manolaraki and Antony Augoustakis 20 Historian and Satirist: Tacitus and Juvenal 403 Catherine Keane PART V Theoretical Approaches 429 21 Masculinity and Gender Performance in Tacitus 431 Thomas Späth 22 Women and Domesticity 458 Kristina Milnor 23 Postcolonial Approaches to Tacitus 476 Nancy Shumate 24 Tacitus and Political Thought 504 Daniel Kapust Bibliography 529 Index 565
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd British Politics in the Age of Holmes
Book SynopsisThe chapters in this volume celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the seminal work British Politics in the Age of Anne by looking at how Holmes's writing has influenced later historians in various fields, including ones not directly addresses by Holmes, such as gender, jacobite and urban history. This volume celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the seminal work British Politics in the Age of Anne by Geoffrey Holmes Demonstrates how Holmes's writing has influenced later generations of historians in various fields Investigates how this 1967 book was established as a masterpiece of historical research and writing and how it quickly became the accepted interpretation of the politics of the early eighteenth century, replacing previous work based on the methodology of Sir Lewis Namier This new book also shows how topics which Holmes's only touched upon, such as gender, jacobite and urban historyTrade Review"In addition to Holmes's gripping and beautifully crafted pen-portrait of Wharton, each of the eleven new essays that form the bulk of this present volume take his study of British Politics as both their inspiration and point of departure." (The Journal of the Historical Society, 2010) Table of Contents1. Foreword: Alan Marshall (University of Bath Spa) 2. Acknowledgments 3. Notes on Contributors 4. In No One’s Shadow: British Politics in the Age of Anne and the Writings of the History of the House of Commons: D.W.Hayton (Queen’s University, Belfast) 5. Geoffrey Holmes and the House of Lords Reconsidered: Robin Eagles (History of Parliament) 6. The Growth of Stability in the Age of Holmes: Richard Connors (University of Ottawa) 7. Jacobite Politics in the Age of Anne: Daniel Szechi (University of Manchester) 8. Uncovering a Jacobite Whig? The Commonwealth Principles of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington: Mark Knights (University of Warwick) 9. Rendering the Union More Complete: The Squadrone Volante and the Abolition of the Scottish Privy Council: Graham Townend (Formally University of Edinburgh) 10. Tom Wharton and the Whig Junto: Party Leadership in Late Stuart England: Geoffrey Holmes (Late of University of Lancaster) 11. The Clash of Interests: Commerce and Politics in the Age of Anne: Perry Gauci (University of Oxford) 12. Geoffrey Holmes and the Urban World of Augustan England: Peter Borsey (University of Aberystwyth) 13. ‘Last of All the Heavenly Birth’: Queen Anne and Sacral Queenship: Hannah Smith (University of Oxford) 14. ‘Ladies Are Often Very Good Scaffolding’: Women and Politics in the Age of Anne: Elaine Chalus (University of Bath Spa) 15. Geoffrey Holmes and the Public Sphere: Augustan Historiography from Post-Namierite to the Post-Habermasian: Brian Cowan (McGill University, Montreal) 16. Party Affiliation in the House of Lords in 1710: A Contemporary Assessment: Clyve Jones (University of London) 17. The Debate in the House of Lords on ‘No Peace Without Spain’, 7 December 1711: A New Source: Clyve Jones (University of London) Notes
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Birth of the Past
Book SynopsisFeaturing a foreword by the eminent historian Anthony Grafton, this fascinating book draws upon a diverse range of sources-ancient histories, medieval theology, Renaissance art, literature, legal thought, and early modern mathematics and social science-to uncover the meaning of the past and its relationship to the present.Trade ReviewComplex and erudite, confident and controversial. As Schiffman's brilliant argument suggests, anachronism not only helps define the past but becomes its doppelganger. Times Literary Supplement Lively, brilliant, and erudite. [Schiffman's] learned and engaging style [and] fresh, stimulating ideas provide a intellectual feast not only for students of Western civilization, but for those of us seeking to understand other traditions. Essential. Choice This ambitious, lucid book chronicles European methods of imagining and representing the past from the ancient Greeks to the French Enlightenment. Schiffman provides a masterful account of the emergence of modern notions of historical causation that begins with Thucydides and ends more than two thousand years later with Montesquieu and Herder. Sixteenth Century Journal Anyone with an interest in the history of ideas, or the history of historiography for that matter, will find that this book repays close attention. Reviews in History Thought-provoking. History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive This is an important book, and deserves to be widely read. The Sun News Network Schiffman has given us a 'historiographical essay' by his own admission, and an excellent one at that: not the whole truth, but, more valuably, a new foothold for serious engagement. -- Anthony Ossa-Richardson Intellectual History Review It is refreshing to read a book with a clear, even bold, thesis that forces readers to reexamine the authority and applicability of basic historical concepts... The strength of this engaging study is not simply that it historicizes and thus defamiliarizes what passes for common sense in the present but also that it reconstructs what had been regarded as common sense in previous epochs in the Western tradition, from antiquity to the Christian era, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment. Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsForeword, by Anthony GraftonGestationIntroduction The Past Definedpart oneAntiquityFlatlandPasts PresentThe Herodotean AchievementThucydides and the RefashioningsLinear TimeHellenistic Innovationspart twoChristianityCan't Get Here from ThereThe Power of PrayerBreakthrough to the NowThe Idea of the SæculumThe Sæculum ReconfiguredGregory of Tours and the SæculumBack from the Futurepart threeRenaissanceThe Living PastThe Birth of AnachronismPetrarch's "Copernican Leap"The Commonplace View of the WorldJean Bodin and the Unity of Historypart fourEnlightenmentPresence and DistanceBiography as a Form of HistoryThe Politics of HistoryThe Relations of Truth / The Truth of RelationsMontesquieu and the Relations of ThingsThe Past EmergesEpilogue The Past HistoricizedNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Birth of the Past
Book SynopsisFeaturing a foreword by the eminent historian Anthony Grafton, this fascinating book draws upon a diverse range of sources-ancient histories, medieval theology, Renaissance art, literature, legal thought, and early modern mathematics and social science-to uncover the meaning of the past and its relationship to the present.Trade ReviewComplex and erudite, confident and controversial. As Schiffman's brilliant argument suggests, anachronism not only helps define the past but becomes its doppelganger. Times Literary Supplement Lively, brilliant, and erudite. [Schiffman's] learned and engaging style [and] fresh, stimulating ideas provide a intellectual feast not only for students of Western civilization, but for those of us seeking to understand other traditions. Essential. Choice This ambitious, lucid book chronicles European methods of imagining and representing the past from the ancient Greeks to the French Enlightenment. Schiffman provides a masterful account of the emergence of modern notions of historical causation that begins with Thucydides and ends more than two thousand years later with Montesquieu and Herder. Sixteenth Century Journal Anyone with an interest in the history of ideas, or the history of historiography for that matter, will find that this book repays close attention. Reviews in History Thought-provoking. History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive This is an important book, and deserves to be widely read. The Sun News Network Schiffman has given us a 'historiographical essay' by his own admission, and an excellent one at that: not the whole truth, but, more valuably, a new foothold for serious engagement. -- Anthony Ossa-Richardson Intellectual History Review It is refreshing to read a book with a clear, even bold, thesis that forces readers to reexamine the authority and applicability of basic historical concepts... The strength of this engaging study is not simply that it historicizes and thus defamiliarizes what passes for common sense in the present but also that it reconstructs what had been regarded as common sense in previous epochs in the Western tradition, from antiquity to the Christian era, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment. Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsForeword, by Anthony GraftonGestationIntroduction The Past Definedpart oneAntiquityFlatlandPasts PresentThe Herodotean AchievementThucydides and the RefashioningsLinear TimeHellenistic Innovationspart twoChristianityCan't Get Here from ThereThe Power of PrayerBreakthrough to the NowThe Idea of the SæculumThe Sæculum ReconfiguredGregory of Tours and the SæculumBack from the Futurepart threeRenaissanceThe Living PastThe Birth of AnachronismPetrarch's "Copernican Leap"The Commonplace View of the WorldJean Bodin and the Unity of Historypart fourEnlightenmentPresence and DistanceBiography as a Form of HistoryThe Politics of HistoryThe Relations of Truth / The Truth of RelationsMontesquieu and the Relations of ThingsThe Past EmergesEpilogue The Past HistoricizedNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£27.45
Johns Hopkins University Press The Barristers of Toulouse in the Eighteenth
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1975. Following the vein of French historiography, many twentieth-century scholars of the French Revolution believed that the middle class of lawyers played a crucial role in the Revolution. In The Barristers of Toulouse, Lenard Berlanstein contends with that notion in a case study examining the response of the Toulousian legal community to the French Revolution. Using tax rolls, marriage contracts, and court records as primary sources, Professor Berlanstein argues that class interestssuch as a desire to preserve their status in the cultured, conservative urban eliteled many Toulousian judges and lawyers to reject the Revolution and to remain loyal to the aristocratic Parlement. In other words, those in the legal community of Toulouse conducted themselves in ways that were consistent with other members of their social and economic class. To supplement his argument, Berlanstein's integrates methods from the New Social History movement.Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. The Professional Life of the BarristersChapter 2. Social and Economic StatusChapter 3. Social and Economic AdvancementChapter 4. Ideas and Reforms in the Age of EnlightenmentChapter 5. The Barristers in Toulousan Society and PoliticsChapter 6. The Toulousan Barristers in the Revolution (1788-1793)Chapter 7. Concluding RemarksAppendixBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press History in the United States 18001860
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1970. Professor Callcott's analysis of the rise of historical consciousness in the United States from 1800 to 1860 offers a new dimension to American historiography. Other books have provided insight into the works of Bancroft, Parkman, and others, but Callcott goes beyond to explain the meaning of the past itself rather than the contributions of particular historians. As the anatomy of an idea, this is an important contribution to American intellectual history; and as a study of humans' need for the past and their use of it, it is an important contribution to American social history. The author begins by analyzing the European and Romantic background for American historical thought. He then explores the rise of historical themes in literature, education, the arts, and scholarship. By describing the type of historical subject matter, the methods of writing history, the interpretive themes historians used, and the standards by which critics judged history, CallcoTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. The Intellectual Origins of Romantic HistoryChapter 2. The People Discover the PastChapter 3. History Enters the Schools Chapter 4. The Writers of History Chapter 5. The Subject Matter of History Chapter 6. Antiquarianism in the Age of Literary History Chapter 7. Methods of Historical Writing Chapter 8. Interpreting the Past Chapter 9. The Social Uses of History Chapter 10. The Personal Uses of History Chapter 11. History as Ultimate Reality Chapter 12. The Decline of Romantic History Biographical Note Index
£35.10
Temple University Press,U.S. Unsettled Solidarities
Book SynopsisUnsettled Solidarities examines contemporary Asian and Indigenous cross-representations within different settler states in the Américas. Quynh Nhu Le looks at literary works by both groups alongside public apologies, interviews, and hemispheric race theories to trace cross-community tensions and possibilities for solidarities amidst the uneven imposition of racialization and settler colonization. Contrasting texts such as Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men with Gerald Vizenor's Hiroshima Bugi, and Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest with Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, among others, Le reveals how settler colonialism persists through the liberal ideological structuring or incorporation of critical and political resistance. She illuminates the tense collisions of Asian and Indigenous movements from the heroic/warrior traditions, reparations and redress, and transnational/cross-racial mobilization against global capital to mixed-race narratives.Reading the
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Temple University Press,U.S. Unsettled Solidarities
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MY - University of Toronto Press Donald Creighton A Life in History
Book SynopsisThrough his virtuoso research into Creighton's own voluminous papers, Donald Creighton captures the twentieth-century transformation of English Canada through the life and times of one of its leading intellectuals.Trade Review'Wright has not only written the definitive biography of one of Canada's most important historians but provided us with a model of how a biography ought to be done.' -- Phillip A. Buckner The Dorchester Review Autumn/Winter 2015 'Wright very self-consciously places his own biography within the romantic conventions of Creightonian history and romantic art, very appropriately joining together these two heroes. The great Canadian historian created the first hero; his biographer has created the second.' -- William Westfall Historical Studies in Education Spring 2016 'Donald Creighton is a beautifully written biography, easily the most ambitious biography I have read in a number of years. And its attention to the psychology of the man, to the whole personality and life of its subject, is commendable.' -- Christopher Dummitt Acadiensis , vol 45:01:2016 'Wright gives Creighton his due as an undeniably salient figure in Canada's intellectual history. In the process, he has created an invaluable guide for anyone who seeks to read and to understand Canada's preeminent historian.' -- Kevin Boatright Canada's History December 2016- January 2017 'Donald Wright has provided an admirably full and balanced account of the historian and the man... A powerful study of high art, flawed humanity, and the vicissitudes of reputation.' -- A.B. McKillop Canadian Historical Review vol 97:03:2016Table of ContentsIntroduction I: Spring 1. Family Tree 2. Childhood and Adolescence 3. Vic 4. Oxford and Paris II: Summer 5. Historian 6. Professor 7. Mid-Career 8. Macdonald III: Fall 9. Chairman 10. Decolonization 11. Confederation IV: Winter 12. Despair 13. Endings Appendix 1: Donald Creighton: Selected Bibliography Appendix 2: Donald Creighton's Doctoral Students
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University of Toronto Press Reading Canadian Womens and Gender History
Book SynopsisBy putting past and present scholarship into dialogue with each other, this book addresses accomplishments in Canadian women's and gender history, as well as ongoing silences and absences.Trade Review"Anyone engaging in women’s, gender, or feminist history in Canada today will benefit from the book’s thorough consideration of how the field of women’s history, understood broadly, was built, its historiographical trends, and the collaborative effort of historians to de-marginalize women and bring their experiences to the forefront of historical study. The excellent contributions in this book remind us yet again that though the field is rich and deep, much work remains to be done." -- Rebecca Beausaert, University of Guelph * Histoire sociale / Social History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Feminist Conversations Nancy Janovicek, University of Calgary and Carmen Nielson, Mount Royal University 2. Our Historiographical Moment: A Conversation about Indigenous Women’s History in Canada in the Early Twenty-First Century Mary Jane Logan McCallum, University of Winnipeg and Susan M. Hill, University of Toronto 3. Writing Black Canadian Women’s History: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going Karen Flynn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Funké Aladejebi, University of New Brunswick 4. Quebec Nationalism and the History of Women and Gender Denyse Baillargeon, Université de Montréal 5. Class, Race, and Gender Roles in Early British North America Katherine M.J. McKenna, Western University 6. Performative (Ir)rationality: Rethinking Agency in Canadian Histories of Gender, Religion, Reason, and Beyond Beth A. Robertson, Carleton University 7. Home Fronts and Front Lines: A Gendered History of War and Peace Tarah Brookfield, Wilfrid Laurier University and Sarah Glassford, University of Ottawa 8. Historical Feminisms in Canada to 1940: Further Reflections on the So-Called First Wave Nancy Forestell, St. Francis Xavier University 9. Never Done: Feminists Reinterpret Their Own History Joan Sangster, Trent University 10. Beyond Sisters or Strangers: Feminist Immigrant Women’s History and Rewriting Canadian History Marlene Epp, University of Waterloo and Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto 11. Primal Urge/National Force: Sex, Sexuality, and National History Heather Stanley, Vancouver Island University 12. Challenging Work: Feminist Scholarship on Women, Gender, and Work in Canadian History Lisa Pasolli, Queen’s University and Julia Smith, University of Alberta 13. Realizing Reproductive Justice in Canadian History Shannon Stettner, University of Waterloo, Kristin Burnett, Lakehead University, and Lori Chambers, Lakehead University List of Contributors Index
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University of Toronto Press Donald Creighton
Book SynopsisThrough his virtuoso research into Creighton's own voluminous papers, Donald Creighton captures the twentieth-century transformation of English Canada through the life and times of one of its leading intellectuals.Trade Review'Wright has not only written the definitive biography of one of Canada's most important historians but provided us with a model of how a biography ought to be done.' -- Phillip A. Buckner The Dorchester Review Autumn/Winter 2015 'Wright very self-consciously places his own biography within the romantic conventions of Creightonian history and romantic art, very appropriately joining together these two heroes. The great Canadian historian created the first hero; his biographer has created the second.' -- William Westfall Historical Studies in Education Spring 2016 'Wright gives Creighton his due as an undeniably salient figure in Canada's intellectual history. In the process, he has created an invaluable guide for anyone who seeks to read and to understand Canada's preeminent historian.' -- Kevin Boatright Canada's History December 2016- January 2017 'Donald Wright has provided an admirably full and balanced account of the historian and the man... A powerful study of high art, flawed humanity, and the vicissitudes of reputation.' -- A.B. McKillop Canadian Historical Review vol 97:03:2016 'Donald Creighton is a beautifully written biography, easily the most ambitious biography I have read in a number of years. And its attention to the psychology of the man, to the whole personality and life of its subject, is commendable.' -- Christopher Dummitt Acadiensis , vol 45:01:2016Table of ContentsIntroduction I: Spring 1. Family Tree 2. Childhood and Adolescence 3. Vic 4. Oxford and Paris II: Summer 5. Historian 6. Professor 7. Mid-Career 8. Macdonald III: Fall 9. Chairman 10. Decolonization 11. Confederation IV: Winter 12. Despair 13. Endings Appendix 1: Donald Creighton: Selected Bibliography Appendix 2: Donald Creighton's Doctoral Students
£65.70
University of Toronto Press Le province de Quebec
Book SynopsisThere is no doubt that local and regional history, considered by many as a kind of minor historical study, has a pressing need for a systematic inventory of its resources. This collection shows the durability, the vividness, and the astonishing productivity of a sector of history which is the stronghold of the history-lover rather than the professional historian.The nature and content of each book determines its selection. For each book included, the compilers have weighed its contribution to local history and regional history rather than the style in which it is written—narrative, memoir, descriptive study, or novel. It is this criterion of selection that has permitted the retention of several general histories of a varied nature—Bouchette, Charlevoix, Nicholas Denys, La Potherie, Lescarbot, Hanotaux, Sulte, etc.— where local and regional life takes on a major importance for reasons of order in history, method, or quite simply because local life is the prin
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University of Toronto Press Studies in the Eighteenth Century III
Book SynopsisThis volume of essays, from the Third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, continues the valuable and lively tradition established in the two earlier seminars and volumes.The essays, by distinguished international scholars, range over many of the topics that make the eighteenth century a rich area of study: the burgeoning of ideas about man and his place in the world, social history, philosophy and literature, literary criticism and traditions, the poetry and prose of the giants of the age.For all students of eighteenth-century studies this book will be vital reading.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Philosophy of History and
Book SynopsisA COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY The philosophy of historiography examines our representations and knowledge of the past, the relation between evidence, inference, explanation and narrative. Do we possess knowledge of the past? Do we just have probable beliefs about the past, or is historiography a piece of convincing fiction? The philosophy of history is the direct philosophical examination of history, whether it is necessary or contingent, whether it has a direction or whether it is coincidental, and if it has a direction, what it is, and how and why it is unfolding? The fifty entries in this Companion cover the main issues in the philosophies of historiography and history, including natural history and the practices of historians. Written by an international and multi-disciplinary group of experts, these clearly written entries present a cutting-edge updated picture of current research in the philosophies of historiography and history. ThisTrade Review"Like the encompassing nature of the other volumes in the Blackwell Companion to Philosophy series, undergraduate students and scholars with a serious interest in philosophical problems related to history and historiography should benefit from the newest Companion." (Reviews in Religion & Theology, 2012) "This volume does a fine job of showing the field's connections to many of the central concerns of contemporary philosophy. Part Four offers essays addressing the traditional schools and issues of philosophy of history and historiography, as well as valuable essays on postmodernism, Muslim philosophy of history, and philosophy of history at the end of the Cold War, among other topics. Recommended." (Choice, June 2009) "Tucker is to be congratulated…for conceiving of this work, and for soliciting, selecting, organizing, and editing its essays—all of which were written especially for the volume. [E]ach essay presents a particular author's take on a subject, often ending with further questions and suggestions. In this way it resembles a conversational partner who accompanies one along the way, stimulating further reflection as well as providing interesting information and observations. A companion literally is someone who breaks bread with another (com: with; panis: bread), and it certainly is the case that these essays—so clearly written, so mercifully manageable in length, and so sharp in focus—collectively and individually provide a great deal of food for thought. [T]he range and scope of the volume…is impressive by any standard. The fact that the authors are world-class authorities in the areas in which they are writing, and that they have made a special effort (prodded, no doubt, by its editor), to write in clear, jargon-free prose, makes evident the appeal and usefulness of the book. Too, the book is handsomely produced and well copy-edited by Wiley-Blackwell." (Brian Fay, Journal of the Philosophy of History)Table of ContentsList of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xi Glossary of Terms xii 1 Introduction 1Aviezer Tucker Part I Major Fields 7 2 Philosophy of Historiography 9Peter Kosso 3 Philosophy of History 26ZdenFk VaSíCek 4 Philosophical Issues in Natural History and Its Historiography 44Carol E. Cleland 5 Historians and Philosophy of Historiography 63John Zammito Part II Basic Problems 85 6 Historiographic Evidence and Confirmation 87Mark Day and Gregory Radick 7 Causation in Historiography 98Aviezer Tucker 8 Historiographic Counterfactuals 109Elazar Weinryb 9 Historical Necessity and Contingency 120Yemima Ben-Menahem 10 Explanation in Historiography 131Graham Macdonald and Cynthia Macdonald 11 Historiographic Understanding 142Giuseppina D’Oro 12 Colligation 152C. Behan McCullagh 13 The Laws of History 162Stephan Berry 14 Historiographic Objectivity 172Paul Newall 15 Realism about the Past 181Murray Murphey 16 Anti-realism about the Past 190Fabrice Pataut 17 Narrative and Interpretation 199F. R. Ankersmit 18 The Ontology of the Objects of Historiography 209Lars Udehn 19 Origins: Common Causes in Historiographic Reasoning 220Aviezer Tucker 20 Phylogenetic Inference 231Matt Haber 21 Historicism 243Robert D’Amico 22 Ethics and the Writing of Historiography 253Jonathan Gorman 23 Logical Fallacies of Historians 262Paul Newall 24 Historical Fallacies of Historians 274Carlos Spoerhase and Colin G. King Part III Philosophy and Sub-fields of Historiography 285 25 Philosophy of History of Science 287Nicholas Jardine 26 Philosophies of Historiography and the Social Sciences 297Harold Kincaid 27 The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory 307Michael Ruse 28 The Philosophy of Geology 318Rob Inkpen 29 Philosophy of Archaeology 330Ben Jeffares 30 Reductionism: Historiography and Psychology 342Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald 31 Historiography and Myth 353Mary Lefkowitz 32 Historiography and Memory 362Marie-Claire Lavabre 33 Historiographic Schools 371Christopher Lloyd Part IV Classical Schools and Philosophers of Historiography and History 381 34 Leopold Ranke 383Thomas Gil 35 Scientific Historiography 393Chris Lorenz 36 Darwin 404John S. Wilkins 37 Logical Empiricism and Logical Positivism 416Krzysztof Brzechczyn 38 Jewish and Christian Philosophy of History 427Samuel Moyn 39 Muslim Philosophy of History 437Zaid Ahmad 40 Vico 446Joseph Mali 41 Kant and Herder 457Sharon Anderson-Gold 42 Hegel 468Tom Rockmore 43 Neo-Kantianism 477Charles Bambach 44 Marx 488Tom Rockmore 45 Collingwood and Croce 498Stein Helgeby 46 Phenomenology 508David Weberman 47 Jan Patocka 518Ivan Chvatík 48 Hermeneutics 529Rudolf A. Makkreel 49 Postmodernism 540Beverley Southgate 50 Philosophy of History at the End of the Cold War 550Krishan Kumar Index 561
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Builders of Empire Freemasons and British Imperialism 17171927
Book SynopsisStudy of the relationship between Freemasonry and British imperialism that takes readers on a journey across 2 centuries and 5 continents, demonstrating that from the moment it left Britain's shores, Freemasonry proved central to the building and cohesion of the British Empire.
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