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Book SynopsisA thought-provoking collection that explores the process of perceiving and writing about history, nationalism, and identity.Trade ReviewClio’s Laws constitutes a fresh depiction of the way history is now conceived and written, far removed from the rigid canons established by its historicist founders...A whole gallery of historical figures, professional historians and literary authors file past over the course of the book, hugely enriching what could have been reduced to a general survey of the most important ideas on the relationship between history and language....Clio’s Laws is undoubtedly a valuable and original contribution to the field of historiography and historical-literary criticism, as well as to Latin American studies. * Journal of the Philosophy of History *An eccentric assortment of writings that play, mostly in an ironic and irreverent mode, with the transnational topoi of Latin Americanist historiography as the author has lived and performed them over his notable career trajectory from Mexico to Barcelona and Chicago...the torsions of living, translating, and publishing between one or another manner of Spanish and English...animates the entire collection and may be taken to be its primary insight. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Tenorio-Trillo’s book will delight any so-called history buff...Clio’s Laws includes so many references across Europe and the Americas that it can be both enticing and dizzying for the reader...Tenorio-Trillo shows a respect for the tradition of historiography but has the mindfulness to discuss its current transformations. Readers convinced by Tenorio-Trillo’s playful attitude toward historical imagination will enjoy this book in two ways: they will learn a lot about historiography and history writing, and they will see imaginative history writing being practiced. The pleasure of reading Tenorio-Trillo is worth the price of the book. * Chiricú Journal *Expansive and provocative...Clio’s Laws provokes deep thoughts about history: not just the standard reflections on objectivity and knowledge, but rather takes the reader through a range of often idiosyncratic topics spanning from the laws of history to personal narratives, historical imagination, memory, and language...Clio’s Laws both reminded me of—and exposed me again to—the love of being a historian, reveling in imagination and the very human stories we share and contemplate...This is a book that deserves wide readership, both among graduate students as well as practicing historians needing a reconnection with what makes our calling unique...This is an excellent book. * American Historical Review *Table of Contents Preamble I. On History Chapter 1. The Laws of History Chapter 2. Poetry and History Chapter 3. The Historical Imagination Chapter 4. Reading History Today Chapter 5. Celebrating History: Between Ser and Estar Chapter 6. Self-History and Autobiography Chapter 7. Six Life Stories by Heart II. On Language Chapter 8. Polyglotism and Monolingualism Chapter 9. Amar queriendo como en otro tiempo: Language, Memory, and Boleros Chapter 10. Wicked Tongue (Extracts) Notes Bibliography

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Book Synopsis During the first centuries of the Roman Empire, Greek intellectuals wrote a great many texts modeled on the dialect and literature of Classical Athens, some 500 years prior. Among the most successful of these literary figures were sophists, whose highly influential display oratory has been the prevailing focus of scholarship on Roman Greece over the past fifty years. Often overlooked are the period's historians, who spurned sophistic oral performance in favor of written accounts. One such author is Arrian of Nicomedia. Daniel W. Leon examines the works of Arrian to show how the era''s historians responded to their sophistic peers' claims of authority and played a crucial role in theorizing the past at a time when knowledge of history was central to defining Greek cultural identity. Best known for his history of Alexander the Great, Arrian articulated a methodical approach to the study of the past and a notion of historical progress that established a continuous line of huTrade Review[Leon] notes from the outset that previous scholars have tended to focus more on Arrian's body of work rather than the man himself, often overlooking his literary outputs. [Leon] seeks to remedy that, comparing Arrian's work to that of his predecessors, such as Thucydides and Plutarch, to argue that literary criticism was part of Arrian's aim...Throughout the text, the author provides ample examples of ancient authors' writings in the original Greek alongside translations...Recommended. * CHOICE *[Arrian the Historian] is a welcome addition to a growing number of works examining the intellectualism of previously neglected ancient historians, offering a clear and concise analysis of Arrian’s historical thought and historiographical purpose. * Ancient History Bulletin *Leon’s book is a welcome contribution to the field of Arrianic studies, as it constitutes an original, thorough and successful effort to contextualise Arrian’s compositional strategies ...within the prism of literary and intellectual trends of the Second Sophistic...[Arrian the Historian is] cohesively argued and attractively produced. Leon vigorously and in an unprecedented way invites us to speculate on the ways in which imperial readership could have read Arrian’s oeuvre...as part of Arrian’s dialogue with current intellectual and literary trends. In this way he unearths an abundance of facets of the relationship between Arrian and the Second Sophistic. * The Classical Review *[A] brief but excellent book…Leon has produced an important contribution to the study of Arrian, of Greek historiography, and of the intellectual culture of the second century CE. The book is well written and enjoyable to read. * Histos *[Leon's] focus on how Arrian operated as a historian in the context of Greek historiography is one of [Arrian the Historian's] most significant contributions, not least because Leon’s detection of hitherto unnoticed patterns enriches our understanding of Arrian and the genre...[Arrian the Historian] raises important questions about the nature of historiography and historical education in the imperial period...Arrian the Historian should assist in stimulating further discussion about the intellectual climate of the second century AD. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Texts and Translations Introduction Chapter 1. Amateurs, Experts, and History Chapter 2. Novelty and Revision in the Works of Arrian Chapter 3. Alexander among the Kings of History Chapter 4. Sickness, Death, and Virtue Conclusion Appendix: The Date of the Anabasis Abbreviations in the Notes and Bibliography Notes Bibliography Index Locorum General Index

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Book SynopsisHow the notion of unique eras influenced the Roman view of time and the narration of history from various perspectives. The Victorian Era. The Age of Enlightenment. The post-9/11 years. We are accustomed to demarcating history, fencing off one period from the next. But societies have not always operated in this way. Paul Hay returns to Rome in the first century BCE to glimpse the beginnings of periodization as it is still commonly practiced, exploring how the ancient Romans developed a novel sense of time and used it to construct their views of the past and of the possibilities of the future. It was the Roman general Sulla who first sought to portray himself as the inaugurator of a new age of prosperity, and through him Romans adopted the Etruscan term saeculum to refer to a unique era of history. Romans went on to deepen their investment in periodization by linking notions of time to moments of catastrophe, allowing them to conceptualize their own Trade ReviewThere is much more in the book that cannot be covered in this review . . . It is well written with a clear argument that temporal periodisation mattered to the Romans in the first century BCE, prefiguring the ‘Augustan Age’ (on which there is much discussion) . . . The book is worth reading to open your mind to the concept of the Romans taking action with a view to a future that would last beyond their own lifetime. * The Classical Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: A New Order of the Ages 1. Omen History: Sulla and the Etruscans on Periodization 2. Eternal Returns: Cataclysmic Destruction in Greek and Roman Thought 3. Inflection Points: Progress and Decline Narratives with Periodization 4. Beyond the Metallic Ages: Technical Histories and Culture Heroes 5. Acting Your Age: Periodization in Roman Politics after Sulla 6. Pyramids and Fish Wrappers: Roman Literary Periodization Conclusion: Spaces after Periods Notes Bibliography Index Locorum General Index

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Book Synopsis A Primer for Teaching Women, Gender, and Sexuality in World History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching women, gender, and sexuality in history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for teachers who want to incorporate these issues into their world history classes. Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Urmi Engineer Willoughby present possible course topics, themes, concepts, and approaches while offering practical advice on materials and strategies helpful for teaching courses from a global perspective in today''s teaching environment for today''s students. In their discussions of pedagogy, syllabus organization, fostering students'' historical empathy, and connecting students with their community, Wiesner-Hanks and Willoughby draw readers into the process of strategically designing courses that will enable students to analyze genderTrade Review"As world historians, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Urmi Engineer Willoughby present effective discussions of the opportunities and problems associated with this most comprehensive field. Brimming with stimulating ideas and resources. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- T. P. Johnson * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: This Book and How to Use It vii Part I. Starting from Scratch 1. Setting Goals: Why Teach Women's, Gender, or Sexuality History? 3 2. Choosing a Focus and a Title: Women, Gender, or Sexuality? 17 3. Organizing Material: Chronological and Thematic Approaches 27 4. Incorporating Key Issues: Theory and Concepts from Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 41 Part II. Modifying Existing Courses 5. Integrating Gender More Fully as a Category of Analysis: Beyond "Add Men and Stir" 55 6. Globalizing a Regionally Based Course: Teaching What You Do Not Know 67 7. Incorporating Feminist Pedagogy as You Move Online: Feminist Principles in a Virtual World 77 Part III. Common Challenges and Opportunities 8. Fostering Historical Empathy: Ethical Frameworks and Contextualization 91 9. Developing Assessments That Fit Your Course Goals: Test, Papers, and Assignments 101 10. Connecting with the Community: Opportunities for Local Research and Civic Engagement 113 Notes 125 Selected Bibliography 141 Index 147

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Book Synopsis A Primer for Teaching Women, Gender, and Sexuality in World History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching women, gender, and sexuality in history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for teachers who want to incorporate these issues into their world history classes. Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Urmi Engineer Willoughby present possible course topics, themes, concepts, and approaches while offering practical advice on materials and strategies helpful for teaching courses from a global perspective in today''s teaching environment for today''s students. In their discussions of pedagogy, syllabus organization, fostering students'' historical empathy, and connecting students with their community, Wiesner-Hanks and Willoughby draw readers into the process of strategically designing courses that will enable students to analyze genderTrade Review"As world historians, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Urmi Engineer Willoughby present effective discussions of the opportunities and problems associated with this most comprehensive field. Brimming with stimulating ideas and resources. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- T. P. Johnson * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: This Book and How to Use It vii Part I. Starting from Scratch 1. Setting Goals: Why Teach Women's, Gender, or Sexuality History? 3 2. Choosing a Focus and a Title: Women, Gender, or Sexuality? 17 3. Organizing Material: Chronological and Thematic Approaches 27 4. Incorporating Key Issues: Theory and Concepts from Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 41 Part II. Modifying Existing Courses 5. Integrating Gender More Fully as a Category of Analysis: Beyond "Add Men and Stir" 55 6. Globalizing a Regionally Based Course: Teaching What You Do Not Know 67 7. Incorporating Feminist Pedagogy as You Move Online: Feminist Principles in a Virtual World 77 Part III. Common Challenges and Opportunities 8. Fostering Historical Empathy: Ethical Frameworks and Contextualization 91 9. Developing Assessments That Fit Your Course Goals: Test, Papers, and Assignments 101 10. Connecting with the Community: Opportunities for Local Research and Civic Engagement 113 Notes 125 Selected Bibliography 141 Index 147

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Book SynopsisIn this concise volume, historian David Bebbington offers a summary of various theories of history from ancient times down to the present. Patterns in History provides Christian students of history with a trusted guide in what Mark Noll has described as “the best evangelical introduction to the history of history writing.”Trade Review"The book is a valuable contributionto the philosophy of history and the theory of historiography." C.T. McIntire, Church HistoryIn an age of trivial, superspecialized scholarship, this is Christian thinking of a high, broad order. Those interested in Christian ideas in the modern world, in comparative religion, and in the study of history all ought to invest in this unusually useful handbook." John G. Stackhouse, Jr., Christianity Today"A masterly summary of the major developments in the interpretation of history." Alastair Redfern, The Modern Churchman"A trusted guide for Christian students of history." Jacob P. Ellens, Calvin Theological JournalTable of ContentsPreface 1. What Is History? 2. Cyclical History 3. Christian History 4. The Idea of Progress 5. Historicism 6. Marxist History 7. Postmodern History 8. The Philosophy of Historiography 9. The Meaning of History Booklist Index

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Book SynopsisIn this important new book, Paul T. Phillips argues that most professional historians aside from a relatively small number devoted to theory and methodology have concerned themselves with particular, specialized areas of research, thereby ignoring the fundamental questions of truth, morality, and meaning. This is less so in the thriving general community of history enthusiasts beyond academia, and may explain, in part at least, history’s sharp decline as a subject of choice by students in recent years. Phillips sees great dangers resulting from the thinking of extreme relativists and postmodernists on the futility of attaining historical truth, especially in the age of post-truth. He also believes that moral judgment and the search for meaning in history should be considered part of the discipline’s mandate. In each section of this study, Phillips outlines the nature of individual issues and past efforts to address them, including approaches derived from otherTrade Review"Phillips's book is not a thundering polemic but, rather, a quiet, reasoned meditation. [...] The author is generally an erudite guide, and he packs a great many observations as to the history and philosophy of history into 134 pages of text." -- Alan MacHeachern, Western University * University of Toronto Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Truth 2. Morality 3. Meaning 4. History Beyond the Academy Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe cartulary-chronicle of the Burgundian monastery of Bèze reveals how a twelfth-century monk viewed the 500-year-long history of his house.Trade Review"This edition presents the chronicle and its added documents in a clear and easily readable format, with enough description to invite interpretation and further research. For academics teaching their students to read and understand Latin chronicles, there is much of use in this volume." -- Lesley Coote, University of Hull * Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching *Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction List of Abbots Chronological List of Documents The Cartulary-Chronicle of Bèze Appendix Works Cited Index of People Index of Places Index of Topics

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Book SynopsisIn the mid- to late-1930s, while he was a student at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan wrote a series of eight essays on the philosophy and theology of history. These essays foreshadow a number of the major themes in his life’s work. The significance of these essays is enormous, not only for an understanding of the later trajectory of Lonergan’s own work but also for the development of a contemporary systematic theology. In an important entry from 1965 in his archival papers, Lonergan wrote that the mediated object of systematics is Geschichte or the history that is lived and written about. In the same entry, he stated that the doctrines that this systematic theology would attempt to understand are focused on redemption. The seeds of such a theology are planted in the current volume, where the formulae that are so pronounced in his later work first appear. Students of Lonergan’s work will find their understanding of his philosophy Table of ContentsGeneral Editors’ Preface Robert M. Doran 1. Essay in Fundamental Sociology: Philosophy of History 2. Pantōn Anakephalaiōsis: A Theory of Human Solidarity 3. Pantōn Anakephalaiōsis (2) 4. Sketch for a Metaphysic of Human Solidarity 5. A Theory of History 6. Outline of an Analytic Concept of History 7. Analytic Concept of History, in Blurred Outline 8. Analytic Concept of History Latin and Greek Words and Phrases

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Book SynopsisIn this important new book, Paul T. Phillips argues that most professional historians aside from a relatively small number devoted to theory and methodology have concerned themselves with particular, specialized areas of research, thereby ignoring the fundamental questions of truth, morality, and meaning. This is less so in the thriving general community of history enthusiasts beyond academia, and may explain, in part at least, history’s sharp decline as a subject of choice by students in recent years. Phillips sees great dangers resulting from the thinking of extreme relativists and postmodernists on the futility of attaining historical truth, especially in the age of post-truth. He also believes that moral judgment and the search for meaning in history should be considered part of the discipline’s mandate. In each section of this study, Phillips outlines the nature of individual issues and past efforts to address them, including approaches derived from otherTrade Review"Phillips's book is not a thundering polemic but, rather, a quiet, reasoned meditation. [...] The author is generally an erudite guide, and he packs a great many observations as to the history and philosophy of history into 134 pages of text." -- Alan MacHeachern, Western University * University of Toronto Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Truth 2. Morality 3. Meaning 4. History Beyond the Academy Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn the mid- to late-1930s, while he was a student at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan wrote a series of eight essays on the philosophy and theology of history. These essays foreshadow a number of the major themes in his life’s work. The significance of these essays is enormous, not only for an understanding of the later trajectory of Lonergan’s own work but also for the development of a contemporary systematic theology. In an important entry from 1965 in his archival papers, Lonergan wrote that the mediated object of systematics is Geschichte or the history that is lived and written about. In the same entry, he stated that the doctrines that this systematic theology would attempt to understand are focused on redemption. The seeds of such a theology are planted in the current volume, where the formulae that are so pronounced in his later work first appear. Students of Lonergan’s work will find their understanding of his philosophy Table of ContentsGeneral Editors’ Preface Robert M. Doran 1. Essay in Fundamental Sociology: Philosophy of History 2. Pantōn Anakephalaiōsis: A Theory of Human Solidarity 3. Pantōn Anakephalaiōsis (2) 4. Sketch for a Metaphysic of Human Solidarity 5. A Theory of History 6. Outline of an Analytic Concept of History 7. Analytic Concept of History, in Blurred Outline 8. Analytic Concept of History Latin and Greek Words and Phrases

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Book SynopsisThe Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom investigates how the first royal divorce scandal led to the collapse of a kingdom, changing the fate of medieval Europe. Through a set of annotated translations of key contemporary sources, the book presents the downfall of the Frankish kingdom of Lotharingia as a case study in early medieval politics, equipping readers to develop their own independent interpretations. The book tracks the twists and turns of the scandal as it unfolded over a crucial decade and a half in the ninth century. Drawing on primary sources such as letters, material culture, and secret treaties, The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom offers readers a sharply defined window into one of the most dramatic episodes in Carolingian history, rich with insights on the workings of early medieval society.Table of ContentsList of Figures Abbreviations Key Individuals Introduction 1. King Lothar II Grants Winebert an Immunity, November 856 2. A Coin of King Lothar II (Undated) 3. The Quierzy Letter, November 858 4. The Remiremont Liber Memorialis “Royal Entry,” December 861 5. The Council of Aachen, 29 April 862 6. The Summit at Savonnières, November 862 7. Bishop Adventius Writes to Archbishop Theutgaud, Early 863 8. King Lothar II Grants a Church to the Convent of St-Pierre in Lyon, 18 May 863 9. Bishop Adventius Reforms the Monastery of Gorze, June 863 10. Eberhard and Gisela Make a Will, c. 863 11. Bishop Adventius Writes to Pope Nicholas, Early 864 12. The Bishops of Lotharingia Write to the West Frankish Bishops, c. 865 13. King Lothar II Grants Queen Theutberga Lands, 17 January 866 14. Pope Nicholas Writes about Waldrada to the Bishops of Gaul, Germany, and Italy, 13 June 866 15. Queen Ermentrude’s Coronation, 25 August 866 16. Pope Nicholas I Writes to King Charles the Bald, 25 January 867 17. Bishop Adventius Organizes Prayers against the Northmen, Summer 867 18. The Metz Oath, c. 868 19. King Lothar II Writes to Archbishop Ado of Vienne, July 869 20. Pope Hadrian II Writes to the Lotharingian Aristocracy, 5 September 869 21. The Sacramentary of Metz, 869 22. Emperor Louis II Writes to Emperor Basil I of Byzantium, Early 871 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe power of imagination to construct those mythos which alone, according to Barres, give sense and value to our absurd existence and by which, above all, men are moved to believe and act, was at the centre of his life-long preoccupation with the art of arousing and directing spiritual energy in individuals and groups. This preoccupation appears in every context of his varied career—as novelist, essayist, journalist, orator, self-conscious Egotist, Romantic traveller, anti-Dreyfusard, religious syncretist and pragmatist, and, with Charles Maurras, one of the most influential founders and exponents of modern French nationalism. His great originality among French political writers of the twentieth century is to have consciously applied Baudelaire’s ‘Queen of Faculties’ and the insights of post-Baudelairian Symbolism to the enterprise of committed literature, using a ‘picturesque and musical’ language of persuasion, ‘without logic-chopping,

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains two important works by Roger North (1651?—1734): his General Preface and Life of Dr John North. The General Preface is a remarkable discussion of the theory of life writing, in which North works towards a revolutionary new kind of biography that combines practical, ethical, and scientific uses. It is a plea for a personal biography that will entertain its readers, teach them valuable moral and practical lessons, and at the same time add to the store of data available on human nature. North is led to consider such matters as the use of subject’s own works, the separation of the private life from the public, the unreliability of memory, and the unlikely combination of qualities needed in a biographer; he goes on to discuss the ethical responsibilities of the ‘historiographer’ and meditates on the folly of devoting oneself to public service. The General Preface is a landmark in the history of biographical theor

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Book SynopsisThis book closes an obvious gap in nineteenth-century historiography by carefully analysing British policy and public opinion with regard to the Schleswig-Holstein problem from 1848 to 1864. Solidly based on a study of private and public correspondence, memoirs, biographies, newspapers, periodicals, sessional papers, foreign office documents, and parliamentary debates, it argues that the failure of British policy was due to division and uncertainty of opinion. Britain vacillated between a pliant and a defiant course and eventually chose to worst features of both. Professor Sandiford demonstrates that the failure of Russell's Schleswig-Holstein diplomacy in 1864 was largely the result of a long sequence of British miscalculations dating back at least to 1848. He also shows that the general bewilderment, both within and outside the British Parliament, permitted the queen and a handful of her ministers to exert more influence on Britain's policy in 1863-4 than has previously been suppo

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Book SynopsisRichard Drake presents a new interpretation of Charles Austin Beard''s life and work. The foremost American historian and a leading public intellectual in the first half of the twentieth century, Beard participated actively in the debates about American politics and foreign policy surrounding the two world wars. In a radical change of critical focus, Charles Austin Beard places the European dimension of Beard''s thought at the center, correcting previous biographers'' oversights and presenting a far more nuanced appreciation for Beard''s life.Drake analyzes the stages of Beard''s development as a historian and critic: his role as an intellectual leader in the Progressive movement, the support that he gave to the cause of American intervention in World War I, and his subsequent revisionist repudiation of Wilsonian ideals and embrace of non-interventionism in the lead-up to World War II. Charles Austin Beard shows that, as Americans tally the ruinous costsbTrade ReviewAn incisive view of the power of Beard, and a sense of his intellectual origins. Drake's worthy volume seeks to take full measure of Charles Beard's contribution to the scholarship of American history. * The Progressive *An estimable study. Drake's fine book performs an important service. It invites readers to do what Beard himself strove to do as he kept close watch on events during the 1930s and 1940s: to remain alert to hypocrisy and contradiction contributing to the misuse of American power. In an era awash with fake news, the handiwork not only of policymakers but of the media itself, this task becomes more important than ever. * The American Conservative *An unfolding account of [Charles Austin Beard's] ideas and arguments. The cold, hard face of Charles Austin Beard peers from the front cover of Mr. Drake's biography, as if from the other side of a tinted glass. His is a strong, hard visage, that of a man who long ago had made up his own mind about the world and America's limited place in it. * Wall Street Journal *Drake's book is to be recommended for historians of the interwar period in the United States, the 1930s, and the intellectual history of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as anyone interested in the range of historiographical thought in American history. Drake breaks new ground in showing Beard's relationship to European social thought, as well as Beard's friendship with Herbert Hoover in the later 1930s it will likely remain a standard work for many years to come, one that anyone interested in Charles Beard should not pass over. * H-Net *Drake has written a straightforward account of Beard's rise and fall. The book excels at showing how Beard's understanding of American history. * The Journal of American History *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Beardian Interpretation of American History 1. Discovering the Economic Taproot of Imperialism 2. Two Contrasting Progressive Views of the Great War 3. Becoming a Revisionist 4. Washington and Wall Street Working Together for War 5. Isolationism versus Internationalism 6. A Wartime Trilogy 7. Waging War for the Four Freedoms 8. Beard Finds an Ally in Herbert Hoover 9. Attacking "the Saint" 10. Defending Beard after the Fall 11. Beard's Philosophy of History and American Imperialism Conclusion: The Sad Historian of the Pensive Plain Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAmerican Labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole, the book convinces the reader that the field of intellectual history is enjoying a renaissance. The book will be especially prized by intellectual historians, but historians of many different persuasions will find these essays rewarding too.?ChoiceIntellectual history has never been more relevant and more important to public life in the United States. In complicated and confounding times, people look for the principles that drive action and the foundations that support national ideals. American Labyrinth demonstrates the power of intellectual history to illuminate our public life and examine our ideological assumptions.This volume of essays brings together 19 influential intellectual historians to contribute original thoughts on topics of widespread interest. Raymond Haberski Jr. and Trade ReviewAmerican labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole, the book convinces the reader that the field of intellectual history is enjoying a renaissance. The book will be especially prized by intellectual historians, but historians of many different persuasions will find these essays rewarding too. * Choice *In American Labyrinth, the ever combative and often funny James Livingston presents a tour-de-force biographical meditation. American Labyrinth, ultimately, is about refusing to see ideas as just a one-way discourse. * Society for US Intellectual History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Intellectual History for Complicated Times Section I MAPPING AMERICAN IDEAS 1. Wingspread: So What? James Livingston 2. On Legal Fundamentalism: David Sehat 3. Freedom's Just Another Word? The Intellectual Trajectories of the 1960s: Kevin M. Schultz Section II IDEAS AND AMERICAN IDENTITIES 4. Philosophy vs. Philosophers: A Problem in American Intellectual History: Amy Kittelstrom 5. The Price of Recognition: Race and the Making of the Modern University: Jonathan Holloway 6. Thanks, Gender! An Intellectual History of the Gym: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela 7. Parallel Empires: Transnationalism and Intellectual History in the Western Hemisphere: Ruben Flores Section III DANGEROUS IDEAS 8. Toward a New, Old Liberal Imagination: From Obama to Niebuhr and Back Again: Kevin Mattson 9. Against the Liberal Tradition: An Intellectual History of the American Left: Andrew Hartman 10. From "Tall Ideas Dancing" to Trump's Twitter Ranting: Reckoning the Intellectual History of Conservatism: Lisa Szefel 11. The Reinvention of Entrepreneurship: Angus Burgin Section IV CONTESTED IDEAS 12. War and American Thought: Finding a Nation through Killing and Dying: Raymond Haberski Jr. 13. United States in the World: The Significance of an Isolationist Tradition: Christopher McKnight Nichols 14. Reinscribing Religious Authenticity: Religion, Secularism, and the Perspectival Character of Intellectual History: K. Healan Gaston 15. "The Entire Thing Was a Fraud": Christianity, Free thought, and African American Culture: Christopher Cameron Section V IDEAS AND CONSEQUENCES 16. Against and beyond Hofstadter: Revising the Study of Anti-intellectualism: Tim Lacy 17. Culture as Intellectual History: Broadening a Field of Study in the Wake of the Cultural Turn: Benjamin L. Alpers 18. On the Politics of Knowledge: Science, Conflict, Power: Andrew Jewett Conclusion: The Idea of Historical Context and the Intellectual Historian: Andrew Jewett Contributors Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisAmerican Labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole, the book convinces the reader that the field of intellectual history is enjoying a renaissance. The book will be especially prized by intellectual historians, but historians of many different persuasions will find these essays rewarding too.?ChoiceIntellectual history has never been more relevant and more important to public life in the United States. In complicated and confounding times, people look for the principles that drive action and the foundations that support national ideals. American Labyrinth demonstrates the power of intellectual history to illuminate our public life and examine our ideological assumptions.This volume of essays brings together 19 influential intellectual historians to contribute original thoughts on topics of widespread interest. Raymond Haberski Jr. and Trade ReviewAmerican labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole, the book convinces the reader that the field of intellectual history is enjoying a renaissance. The book will be especially prized by intellectual historians, but historians of many different persuasions will find these essays rewarding too. * Choice *In American Labyrinth, the ever combative and often funny James Livingston presents a tour-de-force biographical meditation. American Labyrinth, ultimately, is about refusing to see ideas as just a one-way discourse. * Society for US Intellectual History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Intellectual History for Complicated Times Section I MAPPING AMERICAN IDEAS 1. Wingspread: So What? James Livingston 2. On Legal Fundamentalism: David Sehat 3. Freedom's Just Another Word? The Intellectual Trajectories of the 1960s: Kevin M. Schultz Section II IDEAS AND AMERICAN IDENTITIES 4. Philosophy vs. Philosophers: A Problem in American Intellectual History: Amy Kittelstrom 5. The Price of Recognition: Race and the Making of the Modern University: Jonathan Holloway 6. Thanks, Gender! An Intellectual History of the Gym: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela 7. Parallel Empires: Transnationalism and Intellectual History in the Western Hemisphere: Ruben Flores Section III DANGEROUS IDEAS 8. Toward a New, Old Liberal Imagination: From Obama to Niebuhr and Back Again: Kevin Mattson 9. Against the Liberal Tradition: An Intellectual History of the American Left: Andrew Hartman 10. From "Tall Ideas Dancing" to Trump's Twitter Ranting: Reckoning the Intellectual History of Conservatism: Lisa Szefel 11. The Reinvention of Entrepreneurship: Angus Burgin Section IV CONTESTED IDEAS 12. War and American Thought: Finding a Nation through Killing and Dying: Raymond Haberski Jr. 13. United States in the World: The Significance of an Isolationist Tradition: Christopher McKnight Nichols 14. Reinscribing Religious Authenticity: Religion, Secularism, and the Perspectival Character of Intellectual History: K. Healan Gaston 15. "The Entire Thing Was a Fraud": Christianity, Free thought, and African American Culture: Christopher Cameron Section V IDEAS AND CONSEQUENCES 16. Against and beyond Hofstadter: Revising the Study of Anti-intellectualism: Tim Lacy 17. Culture as Intellectual History: Broadening a Field of Study in the Wake of the Cultural Turn: Benjamin L. Alpers 18. On the Politics of Knowledge: Science, Conflict, Power: Andrew Jewett Conclusion: The Idea of Historical Context and the Intellectual Historian: Andrew Jewett Contributors Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisEmpire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands engages with the evolving historiography around the concept of belonging in the Russian and Ottoman empires. The contributors to this book argue that the popular notion that empires do not care about belonging is simplistic and wrong.Chapters address numerous and varied dimensions of belonging in multiethnic territories of the Ottoman Empire, Imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union, from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. They illustrate both the mutability and the durability of imperial belonging in Eurasian borderlands.Contributors to this volume pay attention to state authorities but also to the voices and experiences of teachers, linguists, humanitarian officials, refugees, deportees, soldiers, nomads, and those left behind. Through those voices the authors interrogate the mutual shaping of empire and nation, noting the persistence and frequency of coercive measures that imposed belonging or denTrade ReviewEmpire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands is an edited volume of thematically and regionally similar papers that resulted from a conference held at the University of Michigan in October 2016. Ronald Suny sums the book up concisely with a brilliant discussion of empire and nation that ties together the book's themes and demonstrates the insight and breadth of vision that he has gained over his re-markable career. Given the geopolitical events of today, the lessons learned from this body of research draw our attention to some of the more insidious things that oft en result for people living in the border-lands of great empires. * Historical Geography *Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands is a very strong collection and a fitting tribute to Suny, its essays steeped in broad historical and theoretical knowledge, and full of surprising and revelatory detail about those spaces, peoples and states in Eurasia's borderlands. * Eurasian Geography and Economics *The book's structure and the clarity of the essays make it a worthy addition to any course for undergraduate and graduate students learning about nationalities and identities in Imperial Russia or the Soviet Union. * Europe-Asia Studies *Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands showcases a vibrant new historical literature that focuses on the entanglements of the Russian/Soviet and Ottoman/Turkish states along their margins. This is an excellent volume with uniformly high-quality contributions. Taken together, the editors and authors of Empire and Belonging make significant contributions to the study of nation and empire in Eurasia.Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands showcases a vibrant new historical literature that focuses on the entanglements of the Russian/Soviet and Ottoman/Turkish states along their margins, where identities and allegiances were continually shifting. This is an excellent volume with uniformly high-quality contributions. [T]he editors and authors [...] make significant contributions to the study of nation and empire in Eurasia[.] * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Introduction: Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands 1. Making Minorities in the Eurasian Borderlands: A Comparative Perspective from the Russian and Ottoman Empires Part One: Negations of Belonging 2. Bloody Belonging: Writing Transcaspia into the Russian Empire 3. The Armenian Genocide of 1915: Lineaments of a Comparative History 4. "Do you want me to exterminate all of them or just the ones who oppose us?": The 1916 Revolt in Semirech'e 5. "What Are They Doing? After All, We're Not Germans": Expulsion, Belonging, and Postwar Experience Part Two: Belonging via Standardization 6. Developing a Soviet Armenian Nation: Refugees and Resettlement in the Early Soviet South Caucasus 7. Reforming the Language of Our Nation: Dictionaries, Identity, and the Tatar Lexical Revolution, 1900–1970 8. Speaking Soviet with an Armenian Accent: Literacy, Language Ideology, and Belonging in Early Soviet Armenia Part Three: Belonging and Mythmaking 9. Making a Home for the Soviet People: World War II and the Origins of the Sovetskii Narod 10. Dismantling "Georgia's Spiritual Mission": Sacral Ethnocentrism, Cosmopolitan Nationalism, and Primordial Awakenings at the Soviet Collapse 11. New Borders, New Belongings in Central Asia: Competing Visions and the Decoupling of the Soviet Union Conclusion Notes Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe Afterlives of the Terror explores how those who experienced the mass violence of the French Revolution struggled to come to terms with it. Focusing on the Reign of Terror, Ronen Steinberg challenges the presumption that its aftermath was characterized by silence and enforced collective amnesia. Instead, he shows that there were painful, complex, and sometimes surprisingly honest debates about how to deal with its legacies. As The Afterlives of the Terror shows, revolutionary leaders, victims'' families, and ordinary citizens argued about accountability, retribution, redress, and commemoration. Drawing on the concept of transitional justice and the scholarship on the major traumas of the twentieth century, Steinberg explores how the French tried, but ultimately failed, to leave this difficult past behind. He argues that it was the same democratizing, radicalizing dynamic that led to the violence of the Terror, which also gave rise to an unprecedented interrogTrade ReviewSteinberg's excellent new book looks at the aftermath of the Reign of Terror in France through the modern lens of transitional justice. * Choice *Steinberg's engaging history will profitably engage French Revolutionists and scholars of trauma and mass violence. * American Historical Review *Steinberg's book imaginatively brings together different themes and sources, from property disputes to ghost stories, public trials to medical disputes. It also engages with multiple historiographies, including those on secularization, the centrality of violence to the revolution, the history of emotion, and the dynamics of transitional justice. The book as a whole is particularly effective in unsettling any sense of neat divisions between the Revolution and the historical moments that preceded and followed it. * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Approaching the Aftermath of the Terror 1. Nomenclature: Naming a Difficult Past after 9 Thermidor 2. Accountability: The Case of Joseph Le Bon 3. Redress: Les Biens des Condamnés 4. Remembrance: he Mass Graves of the Terror 5. Haunting: The Ghostly Presence of the Terror Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIs, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the futureand their relationship to the presentbeen reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has lost its utopian glamor, with the belief in progress and hope for a better future eroded by fears of ecological collapse.In this provocative book, Aleida Assmann argues that the apparently solid moorings of our temporal orientation have collapsed within the span of a generation. To understand this profound cultural crisis, she reconstructs the rise and fall of what she calls time regime of modernity that underpins notions of modernization and progress, a shared understanding that is now under threat. Is Time Out of Joint? assesses the deep change in the temporality of modern Western culture as it relates to our historical experienceTrade ReviewSuperbly translated by Sarah Clift, Is Time out of Joint? produces an evocative picture of the temptations and vices of modern historical time, assembled from an intriguingly wide and eclectic range of cultural sources. * Cambridge University Press *Assmann's book stands not only as a forensic examination of the emergence and demise of the 'Modern Time Regime', but also as a thorough survey and critique of theorizations of time predominantly in Germanophone philosophy and literature * Journal of European Studies *Aleida Assmann's study tells an expansive story of the shifting forms of time consciousness since the eighteenth century, representing both a culmination of her previous work on cultural memory and a bold intervention into contemporary debates on modern temporality. In doing so, Is Time Out of Joint? combines pithiness with creativity. * International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society *Aleida Assmann's Is Time out of Joint? has already become a classic in its national academic environment (and in segments of global humanities that can access German speaking scholarship). There is little doubt that the book will now quickly become a standard reference point in a far broader conversation about the temporal constitution of present societies. * Memory Studies *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Time and the Modern Baudelaire's Discovery of the Present How Long Does the Present Last? 2. Work on the Modern Myth of History Transformations in the Idea of Progress The Theory of Time Underlying Modern Historiography Modernization Theory and Theories of Modernity When Does the Modern Begin? Phases of Modernization in Western History The Golden Door of the Future: Modernization as Culture (Using the Example of the United States) 3. Five Aspects of the Modern Temporal Regime Temporal Rupture The Fiction of Beginning Creative Destruction Destroying and Preserving: The Invention of the Historical Acceleration 4. Concepts of Time in Late Modernity Compensation Theory Compensation Theory and Memory Theory: Two Different Approaches to the Past 5. Is Time out of Joint? Total Recall: The Rhetoric of Catastrophe and the Broad Present Connections between the Past, Present, and Future 6. The Past Is Not Past; or, On Repairing the Modern Time Regime Three New Categories: Culture, Identity, Memory The Past Is Not Past: Historical Wounds and the Idea of Reversible Time Identity Politics: Intersections between History and Memory Two Trends in the Politics of History Conclusion Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisRichard Drake presents a new interpretation of Charles Austin Beard''s life and work. The foremost American historian and a leading public intellectual in the first half of the twentieth century, Beard participated actively in the debates about American politics and foreign policy surrounding the two world wars. In a radical change of critical focus, Charles Austin Beard places the European dimension of Beard''s thought at the center, correcting previous biographers'' oversights and presenting a far more nuanced appreciation for Beard''s life.Drake analyzes the stages of Beard''s development as a historian and critic: his role as an intellectual leader in the Progressive movement, the support that he gave to the cause of American intervention in World War I, and his subsequent revisionist repudiation of Wilsonian ideals and embrace of non-interventionism in the lead-up to World War II. Charles Austin Beard shows that, as Americans tally the ruinous costsbTrade ReviewAn incisive view of the power of Beard, and a sense of his intellectual origins. Drake's worthy volume seeks to take full measure of Charles Beard's contribution to the scholarship of American history. * The Progressive *An estimable study. Drake's fine book performs an important service. It invites readers to do what Beard himself strove to do as he kept close watch on events during the 1930s and 1940s: to remain alert to hypocrisy and contradiction contributing to the misuse of American power. In an era awash with fake news, the handiwork not only of policymakers but of the media itself, this task becomes more important than ever. * The American Conservative *An unfolding account of [Charles Austin Beard's] ideas and arguments. The cold, hard face of Charles Austin Beard peers from the front cover of Mr. Drake's biography, as if from the other side of a tinted glass. His is a strong, hard visage, that of a man who long ago had made up his own mind about the world and America's limited place in it. * Wall Street Journal *Drake's book is to be recommended for historians of the interwar period in the United States, the 1930s, and the intellectual history of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as anyone interested in the range of historiographical thought in American history. Drake breaks new ground in showing Beard's relationship to European social thought, as well as Beard's friendship with Herbert Hoover in the later 1930s it will likely remain a standard work for many years to come, one that anyone interested in Charles Beard should not pass over. * H-Net *Drake has written a straightforward account of Beard's rise and fall. The book excels at showing how Beard's understanding of American history. * The Journal of American History *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Beardian Interpretation of American History 1. Discovering the Economic Taproot of Imperialism 2. Two Contrasting Progressive Views of the Great War 3. Becoming a Revisionist 4. Washington and Wall Street Working Together for War 5. Isolationism versus Internationalism 6. A Wartime Trilogy 7. Waging War for the Four Freedoms 8. Beard Finds an Ally in Herbert Hoover 9. Attacking "the Saint" 10. Defending Beard after the Fall 11. Beard's Philosophy of History and American Imperialism Conclusion: The Sad Historian of the Pensive Plain Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWriting Time shows how serial literature based in journals and anthologies shaped the awareness of time at a transformative moment in the European literary and political landscapes. Sean Franzel explores how German-speaking authors and editors write time both by writing about time and by mapping time itself through specific literary formats.Through case studies of such writers as F. J. Bertuch, K. A. Böttinger, J. W. Goethe, Ludwig Börne, and Heinrich Heine, Franzel analyzes how serial writing predicated on open-ended continuation becomes a privileged mode of social commentary and literary entertainment and provides readers with an ongoing history of the present, or Zeitgeschichte. Drawing from media theory and periodical studies as well as from Reinhart Koselleck''s work on processes of temporalization and untimely models of historical time, Writing Time presents smaller literary formsthe urban tableau, cultural reportage, and caricatureas

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Book SynopsisSediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns, including his theory of sediments of time; his theory of historical repetition, duration, and acceleration; his encounters with philosophical hermeneutics and political and legal thought; his concern with the limits of historical meaning; and his views on historical commemoration, including that of the Second World War and the Holocaust. A critical introduction addresses some of the challenges and potentials of Koselleck's reception in the Anglophone world.Trade Review"The definitive collection in English of Reinhart Koselleck's major essays on time, the history of concepts, and memory, Sediments of Time reaches well beyond the scope of existing anthologies, substantiating the immense achievement of his work. The volume also serves as a brilliant introduction to the celebrated historian's thought at a time when interest in temporality, political iconology, and the relationship between concepts and society continues to grow." —Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University"In the Anglophone world, Reinhart Koselleck's story is that of an unfulfilled reception. Remarkably put together, this collection is a rectification that promises him a new career. Having trained as a historian in post-1945 Germany, Koselleck put the concepts of experience, waiting, and repetition at the center of his thought. In the midst of today's intellectual confusion, his work presents a major benchmark."—François Hartog, author of Regimes of Historicity"[I]t is the ambition to deconstruct, and not to underpin, the foundations of historical philosophy that runs like a red thread through the essays, which all display an immense erudition, an intellectual curiosity, and a remarkably wide range of thematic concerns that can be taken in many different directions...Sediments of Time provides an excellent (re)introduction to Koselleck, which can hopefully spur a more nuanced and comprehensive discussion and reception of his work in this part of the world."––Niklas Olsen, American Historical Review"Franzel and Hoffmann have created a volume that reads with both clarity and elegance in English....This volume will be [a] valuable resource for both practitioners and theorists of history who wish to undertake a deeper excavation of Koselleck's thought. It also promises to embed Koselleck more firmly among the layers of Anglophone historiography."—Jennifer Allen, German History"[These] texts address a wide range of philosophers and scientists alike, offering highly innovative 'food for thought.' One also finds therein signs of the important influence these Essays have already exerted, in new concepts such as 'mapping' and in the necessity for studies of History as Time to combine with geopolitics."—Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard, Kronoscope"Sediments of Time, in short, offers literary historians the opportunity to reconsider the relation between history and fiction, bodily and linguistic experience, preverbal knowledge and discourse, singularity and repetition. With scholars across the humanities currently recovering ontological and materialist perspectives in order to move beyond the limitations of the linguistic turn, Koselleck's emphasis on the pre- and extralinguistic ought to become newly relevant at the present intellectual juncture."—Johannes Voelz, American Literary HistoryTable of Contents1. Sediments of Time 2. Fiction and Historical Reality 3. Space and History 4. Historik and Hermeneutics 5. Goethe's Untimely History 6. Does History Accelerate? 7. Constancy and Change of All Contemporary Histories 8. History, Law, and Justice 9. Linguistic Change and the History of Events 10. Structures of Repetition in Language and History 11. On the Meaning and Absurdity in History 12. Concepts of the Enemy 13. Sluices of Memory and Sediments of Experiences 14. Behind the Deadly Line: The Age of Totality 15. Some Forms and Traditions of Negative Memory 16. Histories in the Plural and the Theory of History. An Interview with Carsten Dutt

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Book SynopsisThis book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing history are undergoing radical transformation. To do so, it explores the legacy and impact of deconstruction on American historical work; the current fetishization of lived experience, materialism, and the "real;" new trends in philosophy of history; and the persistence of ontological realism as the dominant mode of thought for conventional historians. Arguing that this ontological realist mode of thinking is reinforced by current analog publishing practices, Ethan Kleinberg advocates for a hauntological approach to history that follows the work of Jacques Derrida and embraces a past that is at once present and absent, available and restricted, rather than a fixed and static snapshot of a moment in time. This polysemic understanding of the past as multiple and conflicting, he maintains, is what makes the deconstructive approach to the past particularly well suited to new digital forms of historical writing and presentation.Trade Review"Ethan Kleinberg's book is the first deconstructive treatment of the recent debate over the nature of historical time, the presence of the past in the present, and the nature of historicity characteristic of modernity. It's also a healthy response to all of those critics of deconstruction who never bothered reading Derrida sufficiently deeply. It is serious. It is stimulating. It is original."—Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz"In this eagerly awaited and important book, Ethan Kleinberg makes an impassioned and convincing plea for historians to reflect on the theory and practice of their discipline. Inspired by Derrida and deeply immersed in the traditions of historical scholarship, he argues that a rigorous understanding of the past shows why it is necessarily open to continual revision."—Edward Baring, Drew University"[I]f we want to continue engaging in the project of history, then we need to appreciate how, beyond the enlightenment project of knowing it, the nineteenth century project of progressively realizing it, and the twentieth century's fragmentation of it, we are in effect haunted by the past....It is to the young historian that this book will be of most value, the historian in the making, preparing to devote herself to exploring the past with intelligence and imagination, a decision she made very likely out of this sense of a haunting past"—Réal Fillion, INTH Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Haunting History 2. Presence in Absentia 3. Chladenius, Droysen, Dilthey: Back to Where We've Never Been 4. The Analog Ceiling 5. Past Possible and Possible Pasts

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Book SynopsisThis book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing history are undergoing radical transformation. To do so, it explores the legacy and impact of deconstruction on American historical work; the current fetishization of lived experience, materialism, and the "real;" new trends in philosophy of history; and the persistence of ontological realism as the dominant mode of thought for conventional historians. Arguing that this ontological realist mode of thinking is reinforced by current analog publishing practices, Ethan Kleinberg advocates for a hauntological approach to history that follows the work of Jacques Derrida and embraces a past that is at once present and absent, available and restricted, rather than a fixed and static snapshot of a moment in time. This polysemic understanding of the past as multiple and conflicting, he maintains, is what makes the deconstructive approach to the past particularly well suited to new digital forms of historical writing and presentation.Trade Review"Ethan Kleinberg's book is the first deconstructive treatment of the recent debate over the nature of historical time, the presence of the past in the present, and the nature of historicity characteristic of modernity. It's also a healthy response to all of those critics of deconstruction who never bothered reading Derrida sufficiently deeply. It is serious. It is stimulating. It is original."—Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz"In this eagerly awaited and important book, Ethan Kleinberg makes an impassioned and convincing plea for historians to reflect on the theory and practice of their discipline. Inspired by Derrida and deeply immersed in the traditions of historical scholarship, he argues that a rigorous understanding of the past shows why it is necessarily open to continual revision."—Edward Baring, Drew University"[I]f we want to continue engaging in the project of history, then we need to appreciate how, beyond the enlightenment project of knowing it, the nineteenth century project of progressively realizing it, and the twentieth century's fragmentation of it, we are in effect haunted by the past....It is to the young historian that this book will be of most value, the historian in the making, preparing to devote herself to exploring the past with intelligence and imagination, a decision she made very likely out of this sense of a haunting past"—Réal Fillion, INTH Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Haunting History 2. Presence in Absentia 3. Chladenius, Droysen, Dilthey: Back to Where We've Never Been 4. The Analog Ceiling 5. Past Possible and Possible Pasts

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Book SynopsisCritical theorists of economy tend to understand the history of market society as a succession of distinct stages. This vision of history rests on a chronological conception of time whereby each present slips into the past so that a future might take its place. This book argues that the linear mode of thinking misses something crucial about the dynamics of contemporary capitalism. Rather than each present leaving a set past behind it, the past continually circulates through and shapes the present, such that historical change emerges through a shifting panorama of historical associations, names, and dates. The result is a strange feedback loop between now and then, real and imaginary. Demonstrating how this idea can give us a better purchase on financial capitalism in the post-crisis era, History in Financial Times traces the diverse modes of history production at work in the spheres of financial journalism, policymaking, and popular culture. Paying particular attention to narrative and to notions of crisis, recurrence, and revelation, Amin Samman gives us a novel take on the relation between historical thinking and critique. Trade Review"In History in Financial Times, Amin Samman brilliantly exposes the intricate workings of the historical imagination in our present financialized times. Effortlessly weaving together political economy, philosophy, historiography, and cultural studies, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding financial life today."—Jacqueline Best, University of Ottawa"Amin Samman has written a strikingly original book that brings the theory of history to issues of finance and economics in ways that I have not seen. His approach pushes both disciplines into new and productive territory. It is exciting, fresh, and strange in the most provocative and productive way."—Ethan Kleinberg, Wesleyan University"Samman argues that the inescapable recursiveness of historical reasoning requires a new politics that eschews metahistorical cul-de-sacs for a more honest and flexible reckoning with the conditions of life. An interesting and provocative application of poststructural theory to a field that is normally the province of materialists, this book is best suited to scholars of historiography and theory. Recommended."—S. P. Harshner, CHOICE"History in Financial Times draws on and synthesizes an impressive array of concepts, theories, and disciplines only gestured at here. The book shows a great deal of range in its method....[The] insistence on history in financial times serves as a necessary corrective to narrow-minded theories of economic or financial subjectivity and the self-serving significations of economic elites."—John Macintosh, Los Angeles Review of Books"[History in Financial Times] offers means to analyse the minutiae of how historical narratives (for instance, analogies between the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Depression) become a shorthand to help explain what is happening in the present....Samman's emphasis on narrative throughout the book is hugely important at a moment of widespread narrative dysfunctionality in which the distinction between fact and fiction comes to be widely contested."—Emily Rosamond, Finance and Society"History in Financial Timesis a deeply original and impressive contribution to critical studies of finance, the history of capitalism, and historical theory."—Joel Isaac, The American Historical Review"In its many luminous moments, Samman's text pushes the reader to rethink history itself (as a field, as a discourse, as an imaginary) as embedded in and impacting the dynamics of late financial capitalism. In particular, he helps us see the intricate interweaving of immaterial financial operations and the factual and fictional representations of those phenomena."—C. N. Biltoft, History & TheoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: "We Live in Financial Times" 1. Crisis Thinking 2. Historical Imagination 3. Return and Recurrence 4. Repetition and Revelation 5. Names of History Afterword: Exits to the Future

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Book SynopsisWe justify our actions in the present through our understanding of the past. But we live in a time when politicians lie brazenly about historical facts and meddle with the content of history books, while media differ wildly in their reporting of the same event. Frequently, new discoveries force us to re-evaluate everything we thought we knew about the past. So how can any certainty about history be established, and why does it matter? Lynn Hunt shows why the search for truth about the past, as a continual process of discovery, is vital for our societies. History has an essential role to play in ensuring honest presentation of evidence. In this way, it can foster humility about our present-day concerns, a critical attitude toward chauvinism, and an openness to other peoples and cultures. History, Hunt argues, is our best defense against tyranny. Introducing Polity's Why It Matters series; in these short and lively books, world-leading thinkers make the case for the importance of their subjects and aim to inspire a new generation of students.Trade Review"A smart, pithy, and frankly essential statement of the origins, aims, and methods of historical study. E.H. Carr's What is History—for the twenty-first century."—Jill Lepore, Harvard University and author of These Truths: A History of the United States "What is history now, why does it matter now, who are the people writing it, and who are they writing for? In this bracing and timely book, Lynn Hunt not only shows why these questions matter, but also answers them brilliantly and provocatively."—Sir David Cannadine, President of the British Academy "Confronted by the thickening miasma of lies seeping from the White House and Fox News, what's a historian to do? In fact, given the present circumstances, does it matter that we do anything at all? According to Lynn Hunt, it does. As the Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA, Hunt has, over a long and brilliant career, earned the right to make that claim."—Los Angeles Review of Books "A timely reconsideration of the value of History... A brief and lively call to arms"—Amy Murrell Taylor, Times Literary SupplementTable of Contents1. Now More Than Ever 2. Truth in History 3. History's Politics 4. History's Future Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisA look at a critical period in American Studies

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Book SynopsisNo matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead bodies—rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields, publicly displayed in marketplaces, exhumed and transported for political uses. A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean proposes an approach to understanding how dead bodies anchored the construction of knowledge within early modern Mediterranean historiography. A Grammar of the Corpse argues that the presence of the corpse in historical narrative is not incidental. It fills a central gap in testimonial narrative: providing tangible evidence of the narrator’s reliability while provoking an affective response in the audience. The use of corpses as a source of narrative authority mobilizes what cultural historians, philosophers, and social anthropologists have pointed to as the latent power of the dead for generating social and political meaning and knowledge. A Grammar of the Corpse analyzes the literary, semiotic, and epistemological function these bodies serve within text and through language. It finds that corpses are indexically present and yet disturbingly absent, a tension that informs their fraught relationship to their narrators’ own bodies and makes them useful but subversive tools of communication and knowledge. A Grammar of the Corpse complements recent work in medieval and early modern Iberian and Mediterranean studies to account for the confessional, ethnic, linguistic, and political diversity of the region. By reading Arabic texts alongside Portuguese and Spanish accounts of this key event, the book responds to the fundamental provocation of Mediterranean studies to work beyond the linguistic limitations of modern national boundaries.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Introduction: Necroepistemology | 1 1 Presence: Here Are the Dead | 25 2 Absence: Disappearing the Royal Dead | 45 3 Vitality: Wounded Narrators and the Living Dead | 69 4 Assemblage: Recovering Diplomatic Power with Corpses | 89 5 Erasure: Corpse Desecration for Narrative Control | 110 Epilogue | 135 Acknowledgments | 141 Notes | 145 Bibliography | 195 Index | 215

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Book SynopsisNo matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead bodies—rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields, publicly displayed in marketplaces, exhumed and transported for political uses. A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean proposes an approach to understanding how dead bodies anchored the construction of knowledge within early modern Mediterranean historiography. A Grammar of the Corpse argues that the presence of the corpse in historical narrative is not incidental. It fills a central gap in testimonial narrative: providing tangible evidence of the narrator’s reliability while provoking an affective response in the audience. The use of corpses as a source of narrative authority mobilizes what cultural historians, philosophers, and social anthropologists have pointed to as the latent power of the dead for generating social and political meaning and knowledge. A Grammar of the Corpse analyzes the literary, semiotic, and epistemological function these bodies serve within text and through language. It finds that corpses are indexically present and yet disturbingly absent, a tension that informs their fraught relationship to their narrators’ own bodies and makes them useful but subversive tools of communication and knowledge. A Grammar of the Corpse complements recent work in medieval and early modern Iberian and Mediterranean studies to account for the confessional, ethnic, linguistic, and political diversity of the region. By reading Arabic texts alongside Portuguese and Spanish accounts of this key event, the book responds to the fundamental provocation of Mediterranean studies to work beyond the linguistic limitations of modern national boundaries.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Introduction: Necroepistemology | 1 1 Presence: Here Are the Dead | 25 2 Absence: Disappearing the Royal Dead | 45 3 Vitality: Wounded Narrators and the Living Dead | 69 4 Assemblage: Recovering Diplomatic Power with Corpses | 89 5 Erasure: Corpse Desecration for Narrative Control | 110 Epilogue | 135 Acknowledgments | 141 Notes | 145 Bibliography | 195 Index | 215

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Book SynopsisIn 1906, the Sugar Maple Tree Song was just one example of the rhapsodic pieces that touted the Prairie West as the ""promised land"". In the formative years of agricultural settlement from the late nineteenth century to the First World War, the Canadian government, along with the railways and other Prairie boosters, further developed and propagated this image within the widely distributed promotional literature that was used to attract millions of immigrants to the Canadian West from all corners of the world.Some saw the Prairies as an ideal place to create a Utopian society; others seized the chance to take control of their own destinies in a new and exciting place. The image of the West as a place of unbridled prosperity and opportunity became the dominant perception of the region at that time. During the interwar and post-World War II eras, this image was questioned and challenged, although not entirely replaced, thus showing its pervasive influence.The Prairie West as Promised Land is group of essays, which includes contributions from some of the best-known Prairie historians as well as some of the most promising new scholars in the field, explores this persistent theme in Prairie history and makes an important contribution to the historiography of the Canadian West.Table of ContentsThe Promise of the West as Settlement Frontier. Adventurers in the Promised Land: British Writers in the Canadian North West, 1841-1913. Canada's Rocky Mountain Parks: Rationality, Romanticism, & a Modern Canada. Clifford Sifton's Vision of the Prairie. "We Must Farm to Enable Us to Live": The Plains Cree & Agriculture to 1900. Utopian Ideals & Community Settlements in Western Canada, 1880-1914. "Land I Can Own": Settling in the Promised Land. The City Yes, The City No: Perfection by Design in the Western City. Land of the Second Chance: Nellie McClung's Vision of the Prairie West as Promised Land. The Kingdom of God on the Prairies: J.S. Woodsworth's Vision of the Prairie West as Promised Land. "A Far Green Country Unto a Swift Sunrise": The Utopianism of the Alberta Farm Movement, 1909-1923. "No Place for a Woman": Engendering Western Canadian Settlement. Preaching Purity in the Promised Land: Bishop Lloyd & the Immigration Debate. Policing the Promised Land: The RCMP & Negative Nation-Building in Alberta & Saskatchewan in the Interwar Period. Uncertain Promise: The Prairie Farmer & the Post-War Era. The Artist's Eye: Modernist & Postmodern Visualizations of the Prairie West. The Dream Still Lives: Promised Land Narratives during the Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee. From Farm to Community: Co-operatives in Alberta & Saskatchewan, 1905-2005.

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Book SynopsisMobility - the movements of people, things, and ideas, as well as their associated cultural meanings - has been a key factor in shaping Canadians' perceptions of and interactions with their country. Approaching the burgeoning field of environmental history in Canada through the lens of mobility reveals some of the distinctive ways in which Canadians have come to terms with the country's climate and landscape.Spanning Canada's diverse regions, throughout its history, from the closing of the age of sail to the contemporary era of just-on-time delivery, Moving Natures examines a wide range of topics, from the impact of seasonal climactic conditions on different transportation modes, to the environmental consequences of building mobility corridors and pathways, to the relationship between changing forms of mobility with tourism and other recreational activities. Contributors make use of traditional archival sources, as well as historical geographic information systems (HGIS), qualitative and quantitative analysis, and critical theory.This thought-provoking collection divides the intersection of environmental and mobility history into two approaches. The chapters in the first section deal primarily with the construction and productive use of mobility technologies and infrastructure, as well as their environmental constraints and consequences. The chapters in the second section focus on consumers' uses of those vehicles and pathways: on pleasure travel, tourism, and recreational mobility. Together, they highlight three quintessentially Canadian themes: seasonality, links between mobility and natural resource development, and urbanites' experiences of the environment through mobility.Trade ReviewThis excellent collection should be seen as an initial step towards the refinement of mobility as a historical concept and a greater unpacking of mobility histories. - Alan Gordan, The Journal of Transport HistoryMoving Natures is a welcome intervention in several fields that engage with Canadaâs size, including environmental history, mobility studies, science and technology studies, and Canadian social and cultural history. Here, dominant narratives of transportation networks as annihilators of Canadian distances are complicated and decentralized by prying open the black boxes of mobility studies and environmental history with the crowbars of the other... The result is a well-rounded set of twelve interdisciplinary stories that address both the impact of mobility networks on the environment as well as changing perceptions of the environment when viewed from different transportation platforms. - Blair Stein, Scientia CanadensisMoving Natures presents an engaging and thought-provoking introduction to the potential of reimagining the interconnected roles of mobility and the environment in Canadian History - J.L. Weller, BC StudiesThis collection puts older themes in a new light, works outside of a nationalist perspective, and offers close readings of cases to make larger observations... Many historical geographers and environmental historians will find a great deal of interest within these pages, and the basis for fruitful comparisons with other cases and places. - Matthew Evenden, Journal of Historical Geography

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Book SynopsisLoretta Czernis applies her sociological training in document analysis to study one government prescription for what ails Canadians. The Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity rewrote Canada by reinventing patriotism, essentially inviting Canadians to imagine a new Canada. The Report itself is the product of what she calls the "federal writing machine" which exists to continually rewrite and thus reinvent Canada. Czernis' contextual reading of the Report occurs on two levels: reading technically, she examines the Report 's anonymous writing style that asks readers to imitate its own conclusions (be patriotic, buy a flag, shop at home). Gestural reading invites reading as performance. Canadians are invited to participate in reshaping Canada by reading Canada allegorically, as a social body, capable of changing its form. What a document may intend is not always the same as what is read into it. Mistakes can and do occur in the reading. Czernis suggests that these "mistakes" constitute a significant form of resistance to the anonymous writing machine. Weaving a Canadian Allegory will be of special interest to Canadianists, sociologists and to those involved in cultural, political and textual studies.Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Weaving a Canadian Allegory: Anonymous Writing, Personal Reading by Loretta Czernis Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Concerning Contexture 2. Reading and Projection 3. Confederation and the Body of Conflict 4. Writing a Body of Unity: Rewriting âCanada and the Search for Unityâ 5. Mytho-history to Allegory: Tomorrowâs Unity as Patriotâs Progress 6. Misreading Nietzche, Rewriting Bloom Afterword Appendix: Outlining The Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAutobiographical impostures, once they come to light, appear to us as outrageous, scandalous. They confuse lived and textual identity (the person in the world and the character in the text) and call into question what we believe, what we doubt, and how we receive information. In the process, they tell us a lot about cultural norms and anxieties. Burdens of Proof: Faith, Doubt, and Identity in Autobiography examines a broad range of impostures in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and asks about each one: Why this particular imposture? Why here and now? Susanna Egan's historical survey of texts from early Christendom to the nineteenth century provides an understanding of the author in relation to the text and shows how plagiarism and other false claims have not always been regarded as the frauds we consider them today. She then explores the role of the media in the creation of much contemporary imposture, examining in particular the cases of Jumana Hanna, Norma Khouri, and James Frey. The book also addresses ethnic imposture, deliberate fictions, plagiarism, and ghostwriting, all of which raise moral, legal, historical, and cultural issues. Egan concludes the volume with an examination of how historiography and law failed to support the identities of European Jews during World War II, creating sufficient instability in Jewish identity and doubt about Jewish wartime experience that the impostor could step in. This textual erasure of the Jews of Europe and the refashioning of their experiences in fraudulent texts are examples of imposture as an outcrop of extreme identity crisis. The first to examine these issues in North America and Europe, Burdens of Proof will be of interest to scholars of life writing and cultural studies.Trade Review``In her brilliant new book Burdens of Proof, Egan, recently retired from teaching English at the University of British Columbia and long one of our most astute and consistently engaging critics of autobiography, has addressed in a fascinating, comprehensive way just what is at stake historically--but especially for contemporary readers--in the prevalent dangers of literary imposture. Ranging from the Bible to the recent scandals of Benjamin Wilkomirski and James Frey, and anatomizing such variants of literary imposture or the appropriation of another's identity as ghost-writing, plagiarism, ethnic and racial fraud, and the fabrication of experiences to create a false self, Egan analyzes more fully and extensively than anyone else has the nature of literary deception and its reception, especially how impostors rely on cultural values endorsed by readers that make them particularly susceptible to these impostural practices.... Egan does not regard herself as someone who takes pleasure in exposing impostors; that is scarcely her task in this finely tuned book. Rather she reveals how the very equivocal nature of autobiography--the way textual and personal identity can become confused or can split apart from each other--opens up a space impostors readily occupy, utlizing the problematics of the genre to trade upon our trust and perhaps more insiduously believing in the chimerical truth of what they report even as they harbor secrets they must work to protect and defend.... For so carefully and elegantly setting out the terms and implications of all literary imposture, we are in Susanna Egan's debt. Knowing the value and necessity of truthful and authoritative personal stories, she has written a book of rare intelligence and moral perspicacity.'' -- Roger J. Porter, Reed College -- a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 201208``It is in these areas of autobiography where Egan's expertise in the field is apparent--discussing how imposture serves as a political weapon, and ultimately revealing the context from which it arises and grows within the culture. The reader gleans a clearer understanding of how imposture works to both create and destroy stereotypes, cultural blind spots, and our collective desires. The reader often sympathizes with the phony and the duped, as Egan taps into the common desire to test our identities, to play with our own stories. Whether she is discussing Andreas Karavais, the whimsical, albeit imaginary, Greek poet, or the unfortunate timeliness of Jumana Hanna and Norma Khouri's (real name Norma Toliopolous) stories of Muslim women needing Western rescue, the cultural acceptance and perpetuation of the dubious need to satisfy common desires and assuage common fears is well noted.... What kinds of cultures accept and celebrate what kinds of stories? And who gets to tell them? Through this lens, as Egan shows, a complex world of faith, doubt, and identity unravels.'' -- Meghan Rosatelli -- Biography, 34.4, Fall 2011, 201207``Why do we still believe in autobiography in this post-hoax era? Why do readers, en masse, continue to succumb to hoaxes, believing in fraudulent texts and authors? The hoax has fascinated many life-writing scholars in recent years with the publication of a plethora of articles, book chapters, and journal issues on autobiographical hoaxes, particularly in relation to legal, ethical, and moral standards. Susanna Egan's Burdens of Proof: Faith, Doubt, and Identity in Autobiography is, however, the first full-lenghth exploration on this subject.... Egans covers a lot of ground; however, her chosen foci are explored with great attention--offering a depth of discussion that is impressive for a single book.... Egan's arguments here are topical and consistently persuasive. The strength of this book lies in Egan's expansive knowledge of life-writing scholarship. As one of the pioneers of contemporary life-writing theory, Egan seamlessly integrates the theories of her life-writing peers with her own hypotheses to produce sophisticated and thoughtful inquiries.... Burdens of Proof is an intriguing study which will be of interest to scholars and students of life-writing and contemporary literary studies in particular. As always, Egan's prose is what academic writing should be: sophisticiated and challenging whilst clear and accessible. Egan writes about what is both topical and intellectually exigent. She reminds us of the continuing relevance of autobiography to our everyday lives and cultures.'' -- Kate Douglas -- Canadian Literature, 214, Autumn 2012, 201305``In this compelling study of the representation and reception of fraudulent identities, Susanna Egan offers a subtle and intelligent reading of the ways in which histories of faith and doubt inform autobiographical practices. Tracing the problematics of ascription, plagiarism, ghosting, invention, or theft in different historical and political climates and across a variety of material cultures, Burdens of Proof provocatively asks readers to extend autobiography's claims to self and truth to themselves. Egan's enthusiasm for her topic is contagious and, as usual, masterfully complemented with an acute understanding of the workings of autobiography as well as its very real impact on our lives.'' -- Nancy Pedri, Memorial University of Newfoundland``Egan writes eloquently of the faith that we necessarily invest in our reading, and of the doubt that potentially cripples our understanding of life writing. Her obviously well-researched study, laden with secondary resources and theoretical references, is an astute and concise insight into the literal nature of truth.... An unusually lively reading.... Her book fills a gap left by other life writing research which has been oddly reluctant to devote an entire study to this fascinating sub-genre. Burdens of Proof is essential reading for those studying life writing.'' -- Adam Quinlivan -- Literature in North Queensland, Volume 39, 2012Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Burdens of Proof: Faith, Doubt, and Identity in Autobiography by Susanna Egan Acknowledgements 1. Doubting Thomas: The Implications of Imposture in Autobiography 2. Faith, Doubt, and Textual Identity 3. Sensational Identities: Made in the Media 4. âThe Song My Paddle Singsâ: Grey Owl and Ethnic Imposture 5. âFrautobiography,â or, Discourses of Deception 6. In Search of the Subject: The Disappearance of the Jews In Conclusion: Textual Identities at Work in the World Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisIt was only at the onset of the Tokugawa period (1602-1868) that formal political thought emerged in Japan. Prior to that time Japanese scholars had concentrated, rather, on questions of legitimacy and authority in historical writing., producing a stream of works. Brownlee's illuminating study describes twenty of these important historical works commencing with Kojiki (712) and Nihon Shoki (720) and ending with Tokushi Yoron (1712) by Arai Hakuseki. Historical writing would cease to be the sole vehicle for political discussion in Japan in the eighteenth century as Chinese Confucian thought became dominant. The author illustrates how the first works conceptualized history as imperial history and that subsequent scholars were unable to devise alternative schemes or patterns for history until Arai Hakuseki. Following the first histories, the central concern became the question of the relation of the Emperors to the new powers that arose. Brownlee examines the genre of Historical Tales and how it treated the Fujiwara Regents, the War Tales dealing with warriors at large, and specific works of historical argument depicting the Bakufu in relation to the Emperors. By interposing the works of Gukanshø (1219) by Jien, Jinnø Shøtøki (1339) by Kitabatake Chikafusa and Tokushi Yoron by Arai Hakuseki a clear pattern, demonstrating the sequential development of complexity and sophistication in handling the question, is revealed. Japanese political thought thus developed independently towards rationalism and secularism in early modern times.

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Book SynopsisThe author of this work surveys the shifting boundaries between the personal, public, and professional uses of the past and explores their place in the broader cultural landscape. Each chapter investigates a specific encounter between Americans and their history.

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Book SynopsisIn the twentieth century, countless Americans claimed gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender identities, forming a movement to secure social as well as political equality. This collection of essays considers the history as well as the historiography of the queer identities and struggles that developed in the United States in the midst of widespread upheaval and change.Whether the subject is an individual life story, a community study, or an aspect of public policy, these essays illuminate the ways in which individuals in various locales understood the nature of their desires and the possibilities of resisting dominant views of normality and deviance. Theoretically informed, but accessible, the essays shed light too on the difficulties of writing history when documentary evidence is sparse or \u0022coded.\u0022 Taken together these essays suggest that while some individuals and social networks might never emerge from the shadows, the persistent exploration of the past for their traces is an integral part of the on-going struggle for queer rights.Trade Review"This important collection brings together classic essays with new scholarship in a bold effort to reconfigure the field of lesbian and gay history. Lucid and comprehensive, the book will appeal not just to scholars and students, but to a crossover audience of general readers."—Paula Martinac, author of The Queerest Places: A Guide to Gay and Lesbian Historic Sites"This book is recommended for the queer and unqueer alike. Not only comprehensive and engaging, it also marks an important step in the ongoing effort to define and illustrate the idea of queer scholarship."—Committee on Gay and Lesbian History"[T]his collection offers a more complicated portrayal of the middle of the century, the years between the depression of the 1930s and the social and political revolutions of the 1960s."—The Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Where Are We to Begin? – John Howard Part I: Categories of Sexuality2. Romantic Friendship – Leila J. Rupp 3. "Someone to Talk Our Language": Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson, and the Little Review in Chicago – Holly A. Baggett 4. The New Negro Renaissance, A Bisexual Renaissance: The Lives and Works of Angelina Weld Grimké and Richard Bruce Nugent – Brett Beemyn Part II: Evidence, Narrative, and Biography5. "The Burning of Letters Continues": Elusive Identities and the Historical Construction of Sexuality – Estelle B. Freedman 6. Paula Snelling: A Significant Other – Margaret Rose Gladney 7. Homophobia and the Trajectory of Postwar American Radicalism: The Career of Bayard Rustin – John D’Emilio Part III: Science, Fictions8. Perverting the Diagnosis: The Lesbian and the Scientific Basis of Stigma – Allida M. Black 9. "A Thought a Mother Can Hardly Face": Sissy Boys, Parents, and Professionals in Mid-Twentieth-Century America – Julia Grant 10. Something They Did in the Dark: Lesbian and Gay Novels in the United States, 1948-1973 – Chris Freeman Part IV: Community, Institutions11. Rizzo’s Raiders, Beaten Beats, and Coffeehouse Culture in 1950s Philadelphia – Marc Stein 12. Black Feminist Organizations and the Emergence of Interstitial Politics – Kimberly Springer 13. Protest and Protestantism: Early Lesbian and Gay Institution Building in Mississippi – John Howard Part V: Public Debates and Public Policy14. Health Care, the AIDS Crisis, and the Politics of Community: The North Carolina Lesbian and Gay Health Project, 1982-1996 – Ian K. Lekus 15. The Immigrant Infection: Images of Race, Nation, and Contagion in the Public Debates on AIDS and Immigration – Jennifer Brier 16. The Myth of Lesbian (In)Visibility: World War II and the Current "Gays in the Military" Debate – Leisa D. Meyer Conclusion17. Where Are We Now, Where Are We Going, and Who Gets to Say? – Vicki L. Eaklor About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisFew events in American history have been studied more closely than the Civil War, this book is an examination of the effort to chronicle it. Topics covered include battlefield operations and the impact of race and gender.

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Book SynopsisA long-overdue study of the East German view of the Holocaust over the years 1946-1989. Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust investigates communist Germany's attempt to explain the Holocaust within a framework that was at once German and Marxist. The book probes the contradictions and self-deceptionsarising from East Germany's official self-understanding as an enlightened, modern society in which Jewishness did not constitute "difference" or otherness. The study examines East German historiography of the Holocaust, includingits reflection in schoolbooks; analyzes East German concentration camp memorials; discusses the situation of Jews who remained in East Germany; and surveys East German cinematic and literary responses to the Nazi murder of the Jews. The book shows that regardless of the sincerity of the individuals involved in constructing these various forms of memory, the state attempted to orchestrate Holocaust discourse for its own purposes. Thomas C. Foxis professor of German at the University of Alabama. He has written extensively on East German literature and the Holocaust.Trade ReviewEspecially valuable to scholars and students of German studies, but intensely interesting to the educated public as well. -- Nancy A. Lauckner, Univ. of TennesseeShows how...the Holocaust, antisemitism, and Nazism always were viewed through the lens of communist theory....Inclusion of the treatment of the Holocaust in East German literature and film adds an important dimension to this work. * CHOICE *Fox writes with style and verve. [The study] should proivde new impetus for specialists in East German and Holocaust studies. * GERMANIC NOTES AND REVIEWS *Those familiar with the scholarly work on the role of the Holocaust within the GDR's foundling narrativeof antifascism will ... gain a more complex and historicized understanding of the East German Holocaust discourse. * JEGP *An excellently researched study, methodologically advanced and marked by good critical judgment. * FILMBLATT *Because of the richness of its documentation, this work constitutes ... an excellent reference work on the recent past of Germany. * ETUDES GERM. *Table of ContentsINtroduction: Stating German Holocaust Memory The State of Memory: The Holocaust in East German Historiography The Texture of Memory: East German Concentration Camp Memorials In the Melting Pot of Socialism: East German Jews Berlin, Moscow, and the Imagined Jerusalem: The Holocaust in East German Literature and Film Epilogue: Stated Memory Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together some of the most original and influential work in the field of medieval history in recent years.Trade Review"Rosenwein and Little have produced an extraordinarily broad and intelligent guide to the major debates in medieval history of the past decades. Not only are the selections well chosen, but their introductions are the best surveys of contemporary medieval historiography available in any language." Patrick J. Geary, Director, University of Notre Dame "Debating the Middle Ages will be a uniquely valuable book for beginning and advanced students, for teachers, and for scholars. By prefacing reprints or translations of important recent articles on four broad problems in medieval history with lucid, well-annotated analyses of how debates on each of the four problems has proceeded, Little and Rosenwein provide a superb introduction to the ways in which historians today are studying, arguing about, and reinventing medieval European history." Stephen D. White, Professor of Medieval History "Little and Rosenwein have assembled an impressive selection of essays, incorporating some of the most original and influential recent works in the field of medieval history." Economic History Review "Compilations such as this one will ensure that medieval studies remain intellectually vibrant by encouraging students of the subject to reflect critically upon the forces and ideas that have shaped, and continue to shape, the discipline ... I believe it will prove to be an indispensable tool for both teachers and students in the future." ComitatusTable of ContentsEditors' Acknowledgments. Acknowledgements of Sources. A Note on Format. List of Abbreviations. Introduction. Part I: The Fate of Rome's Western Provinces:. 1 Conceptions of Ethnicity in Early Medieval Studies: Walter Pohl. 2. The Barbarians in Late Antiquity and How They Were Accommodated in the West: Walter Goffart. 3. The Fall of Rome will not Take Place: Chris Wickham. 4. Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse, The Decline of the Western Empire: Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse. 5. Gregory of Tours and Clovis: Ian N. Wood. 6. Missionaries and Magic in Dark-Age Europe: Alexander Murray. Part II: Feudalism and Its Alternatives:. 7. The Banal Seigneurie and the "Reconditioning" of the Free Peasantry: Pierre Bonnassie. 8. The Year 1000 without Abrupt or Radical Transformation: Domnique Barthélemy. 9. The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe: Elizabeth A. R. Brown. 10. Giving Each his Due: Frederic L. Cheyette. 11. Strangers and Neighbours: Monique Bourin and Robert Durand. 12. Amicitiae [Friendships] as Relationships between States and People: Gerd Althoff. Part III: Gender:. 13. Queens as Jezebels: the careers of Brunhild and Balthild in Merovingian History: J. L. Nelson. 14. Women and the Norman Conquest: Pauline Stafford. 15. The "Cruel Mother": Maternity, Widowhood, and Dowry in Florence in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Christine Klapisch-Zuber. 16. Men's Use of Female Symbols: Caroline Walker Bynum. 17. Burdens of Matrimony: Husbanding and Gender in Medieval Italy: Susan Mosher Stuard. Part IV: Religion and Society:. 18. The Evangelical Awakening: Marie-Dominique Chenu. 19. The Use and Abuse of Miracles in Early Medieval Culture: Sofia Boesch Gajano. 20. The Dead in the Celestial Book-Keeping of the Cluniac Monks around the Year 1000: Dominiques Iogna-Prat. 21. Literacy and the Making of Heresy, c. 1000-c. 1150: Robert I. Moore. 22. Folklore and Society in the Medieval West: Jean-Claude Schmitt. Index of Persons and Places.

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Book SynopsisThe book traces the history of writing about Nigeria since the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the rise of nationalist historiography and the leading themes. The second half of the twentieth century saw the publication of massive amounts of literature on Nigeria by Nigerian and non-Nigerian historians. This volume reflects on that literature, focusing on those works by Nigerians in thecontext of the rise and decline of African nationalist historiography. Given the diminishing share in the global output of literature on Africa by African historians, it has become crucial to reintroduce Africans into historicalwriting about Africa. As the authors attempt here to rescue older voices, they also rehabilitate a stale historiography by revisiting the issues, ideas, and moments that produced it. This revivalism also challenges Nigerian historians of the twenty-first century to study the nation in new ways, to comprehend its modernity, and to frame a new set of questions on Nigeria's future and globalization. In spite of current problems in Nigeria and its universities, that historical scholarship on Nigeria (and by extension, Africa) has come of age is indisputable. From a country that struggled for Western academic recognition in the 1950s to one that by the 1980s had emerged as one of the most studied countries in Africa, Nigeria is not only one of the early birthplaces of modern African history, but has also produced members of the first generation of African historians whose contributions to the development and expansion of modern African history is undeniable. Like their counterparts working on other parts of the world, these scholars have been sensitive to the need to explore virtually all aspects of Nigerian history. The book highlights the careers of some of Nigeria's notable historians of the first and second generation. Toyin Falola is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Saheed Aderinto is Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina University.Trade ReviewA highly detailed and rich survey of the complex web of tradions that have played a hand in shaping how Nigerians think about and write about their past. * H-AFRICA *A must-read for students and teachers of Nigerian history and anyone who is interested in Nigerian, and indeed African historiography. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *Falola and Aderinto's work on the lives and works of these nationalist historians constitutes another chapter in the long history of cultural innovation in Nigeria, as African intellectuals continue to seek out and exploit new opportunities for empowering and enriching their communities. -- -- Lynn Schler, Ben Gurion University[A] successful attempt to map the Nigerian historical historiography since the middle of the twentieth century...for historians of Nigeria, this volume can be become an excellent tool as it can help them assess the political and historiographical debates underpinning the publication of Nigerian historical studies. -- -- Vincent Hiribarren, Leeds African Studies Bulletin

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Book SynopsisComprehensively surveys Ethiopia and Eritrea's rich and dynamic tradition of historical writing, from the ancient Aksumite era to the present day. Ethiopia and Eritrea are home to Africa's oldest written historical tradition, which began in the third century with the monuments and manuscripts of Aksum and has continued to the present day. This study explores the developmentof this rich tradition, focusing in particular on the dramatic lives and original thought of a group of early twentieth-century Ethiopian and Eritrean historians. James De Lorenzi examines how these scholars used historiography tonot only record the past but also grapple with the changes of the modern era. Through their history writings, they made provocative political claims, explored the nature of their communal ties, assessed their inherited institutions and ideas, and critically evaluated the people and cultures of the wider world. Opposing the view that historiography is a uniquely Western intellectual pursuit, Guardians of the Tradition provides new evidence of an African historical consciousness and the vibrancy of history writing outside the West. James De Lorenzi is associate professor of history at John Jay College, City University of New York.Trade ReviewAn admirable and surprising work, based on very original and thorough research...rich and thought-provoking. -- Jon Abbink Leiden University * HISTORY OF HUMANITIES *De Lorenzi has unearthed the hitherto unstudied works of important figures in the tiny literary space of the Horn of Africa at the turn of the twentieth century. His work is a unique contribution to Ethiopian historiography in particular and African historiography in general. -- Alemseged Abbay Frostburg State University * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *The century-long study of Ethio-Eritrean tradition has never been crowned with such an objective, scientific definition as in Guardians of the Tradition . . . [It] shows remarkable insight into a complicated and sensitive problem at the very basis of Ethio-Eritrean studies, for which contribution scholars will be grateful. -- Bairu Tafla University of Hamburg * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *'De Lorenzi has produced a book of admirable scholarship; it combines exhaustive archival research, attentiveness to the local and international contexts and currents, lively personal biography and historical theory. -- Alex de Waal Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation * AFRICA AT LSE BLOG *A crucial reference work for Ethiopian intellectual history . . . Guardians of the Tradition is argued clearly and convincingly, with evidence inferred from a wide array of primary sources. [A]n engaging and informative read. -- Fikru Gebrekidan St. Thomas University * CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES *The creativity and richness of Ethiopian historical writing forcefully challenge the argument that historiography is a product of Western modernity and a Western export -- a point rather obvious for Africanists, but not so obvious in the field of history at large, which De Lorenzi attacks for its 'parochialism' and 'latent Eurocentrism. -- Sara Marzagora School of Oriental and African Studies * AFRICA *Insightful, painstakingly researched, and innovative in its selection and sensitive to changing regional and international contexts . . . [De Lorenzi] has opened up new vistas to readers of the concerns, conventions, and analytical categories of public intellectuals who combined traditional and modern concepts in the construction of Ethiopian historiography. Ruth Iyob, University of Missouri, St. Louis * . *De Lorenzi is a remarkable scholar . . . This topic . . . is rarely treated in such a sweeping geographical-historical framework . . . An ongoing debate, a stimulating topic. (Irma Taddia, Università di Bologna) * AETHIOPICA *A major milestone in the growing field of Ethiopian intellectual history . . . This is one of the most important books written to date on the development of historical writing in Africa in the early twentieth century. -- Jacob Wiebel Durham University * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction The Inherited Tradition Gabra Krestos Takla Haymanot and the History of Progress Gabra Mika'el Germu and the History of Colonialism Heruy Walda Sellase and the New Queen of Sheba The Triumph of Historicism? Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used \u0022in public,\u0022 they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a variety of venues and media around the world. Readers will learn, for example, of oral history based efforts to reclaim community memory in post-apartheid Cape Town, South Africa; of the role of personal testimony in changing public understanding of Japanese American history in the American West; of oral history's value in mapping heritage sites important to Australia's Aboriginal population; and of the way an oral history project with homeless people in Cleveland, Ohio became a tool for popular education. Taken together, these original essays link the well established practice of oral history to the burgeoning field of memory studies.Trade Review"A fine, well-conceived book, refreshingly direct and engaged. A collection of sparkling essays that show oral history at work in a diverse array of contexts, levels, and engagements. They demonstrate powerfully its consequentiality for thinking clearly about meaningful intersections in public space, public life, community sensibility, and mobilized memory. This is no small accomplishment." -Michael Frisch, University at Buffalo, The State University of New YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction Section I: Creating Heritage Chapter 1: Parks Canada, the Commemoration of Canada, and Northern Aboriginal Oral History David Neufeld Chapter 2: History from Above: The Use of Oral History in Shaping Collective Memory in Singapore Kevin Blackburn Chapter 3: Mapping Memories: Oral History for Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in New South Wales, Australia Maria Nugent Chapter 4: Moving beyond the Walls: The Oral History of the Ottoman Fortress Villages of Seddulbahir and Kumkale Isil Cerem Cenker and Lucienne Thys-Senocak Chapter 5: Private Memory in a Public Space: Oral History and Museums Selma Thomas Section II: Recreating Identity and Community Chapter 6: Imagining Communities: Memory, Loss, and Resilience in Post-Apartheid Cape Town Sean Field Chapter 7: Contested Places in Public Memory: Reflections on Personal Testimony and Oral History in Japanese American Heritage Gail Lee Dubrow Chapter 8: "Scars in the Ground": Kauri Gum Stories Senka Bo ic-Vrbancic Chapter 9: Memory and Mourning: Living Oral History with Queer Latinos in San Francisco Horacio N. Roque Ramirez Chapter 10: Interfaced Memory: Black World War II Ex-GIs and Veterans Reunions of the late Twentieth Century Robert Jefferson Section III: Making Change Chapter 11: Public Memory as Arena of Contested Meanings: A Student Project on Migration Riki Van Boeschoten Chapter 12: Countering Corporate Narratives from the Streets: The Cleveland Homeless Oral History Project Daniel Kerr Chapter 13: Public Memory, Gender, and National Identity in Post-War Kosovo: The Albanian Community Silvia Salvatici Chapter 14: Seeing the Past, Visions of the Future: Memory Workshops with Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia Pilar Riano-Alcala Notes Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe Enlightenment has been blamed for some of the most deadly developments of modern life: racism and white supremacy, imperialist oppression, capitalist exploitation, neoliberal economics, scientific positivism, totalitarian rule. These developments are thought to have grown from principles that are rooted in the soil of the Enlightenment: abstraction, reduction, objectification, quantification, division, universalization. Michael McKeon’s new book corrects this defective view by historicizing the Enlightenment--by showing that the Enlightenment has been abstracted from its history. From its past: critics have ignored that Enlightenment thought is a reaction against deadly traditions that precede it. From its present: the Enlightenment extended its reactive analysis of the past to its own present through self-analysis and self-criticism. From its future: much of what’s been blamed amounts to the failure of its posterity to sustain Enlightenment principles. To historicize the Enlightenment requires that we conjure what it was like to live through the emergence of concepts and practices that are now commonplace—society, privacy, the public, the market, experiment, secularity, representative democracy, human rights, social class, sex and gender, fiction, the aesthetic attitude. McKeon’s book argues the continuity of Enlightenment thought, its consistency and integrity across this broad range of conceptual domains. It also shows how the Enlightenment has shaped our views of both tradition and modernity, and the revisionary work that needs to be done in order to understand our place in the future. In the process, Historicizing the Enlightenment exemplifies a distinctive historiography and historical method. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Unparalleled in its range and erudition, McKeon’s far-reaching and boldly synthetic intellectual history challenges critical accounts that abstract the conceptual and methodological innovations of Enlightenment from the moment of their emergence. Essential reading for anyone interested in ongoing debates over the role of the Enlightenment in global modernity."— Lynn Festa, author of Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Cult “Michael McKeon has written a deeply learned history of the English Enlightenment which draws on both literary sources and philosophical and political texts. He finds a series of repeated patterns of thought as he takes us through considerations of tradition, civil and religious liberty, secularization, the economy, and modern systems of gender and sexuality. It is an exhilarating and challenging book.”— Randolph Trumbach, coeditor of A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle AgesTable of ContentsIntroduction Periodizing the Enlightenment Understanding Enlightenment Thought Enlightenment Separation and Conflation Experimental Method Quantification Politics (Civil) Society The Public Sphere Capitalist and Enlightenment Universality Imperialism Macro-pastoralism Conjectural History Slavery 1 Tradition as Tacit Knowledge Tradition Ideology The Aesthetic 2 Civil and Religious Liberty: A Case Study in Secularization Accommodation Civil Society The Empirical Criterion The Sociology of Group Formation Accommodating God’s Will: Thoughts, Speech, Actions Defining Spheres of Discourse The Three Negative Liberties Secularization 3 Virtual Reality Religion Corporation Polity and Economy Capitalist Universality False Consciousness and Uneven Development The Commodity Form The Trope of the Fetish Parody The Trope of the Invisible Hand Conceptual Abstraction Capitalist and Enlightenment Universality Superstructure and Dialectics Conjectural History Polity and Society The Public Sphere The Two Publics Print Experimental Science Experience and Experiment Instruments: Experimental versus Artful Extending Experiment I: Political Philosophy Extending Experiment II: Beyond Observables The Imagination 4 Gender and Sex, Status and Class From Patriarchalism to Modern Patriarchy From Domestic Economy to Domestic Ideology Separate Spheres? Sex and Sex Consciousness The Two-Sex Model? The Three-Gender System: Conflation I Gender as Culture: Conflation II The Dialectic of Sexuality and Class The Common Labor of Sexuality and Class Sodomy and Aristocracy Types of Masculinity 5 Biography, Fiction, Personal Identity Biography, Fiction, and the Common Biography, Fiction, and the Actual Biography, Fiction, and the Virtual The Self behind Self-Fashioning From Secret History to Novel The Rise of Personal Identity 6 Historical Method Distance and Proximity Historicizing Empiricism Historical Method: Matching Particulars and Generals Dialectical Opposition I: History as Focalizations of Perspective Dialectical Opposition II: History as Moments of Temporality Dialectical Opposition III: History as Levels of Structure Acknowledgments Notes Source Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Enlightenment has been blamed for some of the most deadly developments of modern life: racism and white supremacy, imperialist oppression, capitalist exploitation, neoliberal economics, scientific positivism, totalitarian rule. These developments are thought to have grown from principles that are rooted in the soil of the Enlightenment: abstraction, reduction, objectification, quantification, division, universalization. Michael McKeon’s new book corrects this defective view by historicizing the Enlightenment--by showing that the Enlightenment has been abstracted from its history. From its past: critics have ignored that Enlightenment thought is a reaction against deadly traditions that precede it. From its present: the Enlightenment extended its reactive analysis of the past to its own present through self-analysis and self-criticism. From its future: much of what’s been blamed amounts to the failure of its posterity to sustain Enlightenment principles. To historicize the Enlightenment requires that we conjure what it was like to live through the emergence of concepts and practices that are now commonplace—society, privacy, the public, the market, experiment, secularity, representative democracy, human rights, social class, sex and gender, fiction, the aesthetic attitude. McKeon’s book argues the continuity of Enlightenment thought, its consistency and integrity across this broad range of conceptual domains. It also shows how the Enlightenment has shaped our views of both tradition and modernity, and the revisionary work that needs to be done in order to understand our place in the future. In the process, Historicizing the Enlightenment exemplifies a distinctive historiography and historical method. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Unparalleled in its range and erudition, McKeon’s far-reaching and boldly synthetic intellectual history challenges critical accounts that abstract the conceptual and methodological innovations of Enlightenment from the moment of their emergence. Essential reading for anyone interested in ongoing debates over the role of the Enlightenment in global modernity."— Lynn Festa, author of Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Cult “Michael McKeon has written a deeply learned history of the English Enlightenment which draws on both literary sources and philosophical and political texts. He finds a series of repeated patterns of thought as he takes us through considerations of tradition, civil and religious liberty, secularization, the economy, and modern systems of gender and sexuality. It is an exhilarating and challenging book.”— Randolph Trumbach, coeditor of A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle AgesTable of ContentsIntroduction Periodizing the Enlightenment Understanding Enlightenment Thought Enlightenment Separation and Conflation Experimental Method Quantification Politics (Civil) Society The Public Sphere Capitalist and Enlightenment Universality Imperialism Macro-pastoralism Conjectural History Slavery 1 Tradition as Tacit Knowledge Tradition Ideology The Aesthetic 2 Civil and Religious Liberty: A Case Study in Secularization Accommodation Civil Society The Empirical Criterion The Sociology of Group Formation Accommodating God’s Will: Thoughts, Speech, Actions Defining Spheres of Discourse The Three Negative Liberties Secularization 3 Virtual Reality Religion Corporation Polity and Economy Capitalist Universality False Consciousness and Uneven Development The Commodity Form The Trope of the Fetish Parody The Trope of the Invisible Hand Conceptual Abstraction Capitalist and Enlightenment Universality Superstructure and Dialectics Conjectural History Polity and Society The Public Sphere The Two Publics Print Experimental Science Experience and Experiment Instruments: Experimental versus Artful Extending Experiment I: Political Philosophy Extending Experiment II: Beyond Observables The Imagination 4 Gender and Sex, Status and Class From Patriarchalism to Modern Patriarchy From Domestic Economy to Domestic Ideology Separate Spheres? Sex and Sex Consciousness The Two-Sex Model? The Three-Gender System: Conflation I Gender as Culture: Conflation II The Dialectic of Sexuality and Class The Common Labor of Sexuality and Class Sodomy and Aristocracy Types of Masculinity 5 Biography, Fiction, Personal Identity Biography, Fiction, and the Common Biography, Fiction, and the Actual Biography, Fiction, and the Virtual The Self behind Self-Fashioning From Secret History to Novel The Rise of Personal Identity 6 Historical Method Distance and Proximity Historicizing Empiricism Historical Method: Matching Particulars and Generals Dialectical Opposition I: History as Focalizations of Perspective Dialectical Opposition II: History as Moments of Temporality Dialectical Opposition III: History as Levels of Structure Acknowledgments Notes Source Notes Index

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Book SynopsisEnlightenment critics from Dryden through Johnson and Wordsworth conceived the modern view that art and especially literature entails a double reflection: a reflection of the world, and a reflection on the process by which that reflection is accomplished. Instead “neoclassicism” and “Augustanism” have been falsely construed as involving a one-dimensional imitation of classical texts and an unselfconscious representation of the world. In fact these Enlightenment movements adopted an oblique perspective that registers the distance between past tradition and its present reenactment, between representation and presence. Two modern movements, Romanticism and modernism, have appropriated as their own these innovations, which derive from Enlightenment thought. Both of these movements ground their error in a misreading of “imitation” as understood by Aristotle and his Enlightenment proponents. Rightly understood, neoclassical imitation, constitutively aware of the difference between what it knows and how it knows it, is an experimental inquiry that generates a range of prefixes—“counter-,” “mock-,” “anti-,” “neo-”—that mark formal degrees of its epistemological detachment. Romantic ideology has denied the role of the imagination in Enlightenment imitation, imposing on the eighteenth century a dichotomous periodization: duplication versus imagination, the mirror versus the lamp. Structuralist ideology has dichotomized narration and description, form and content, structure and history. Poststructuralist ideology has propounded for the novel a contradictory “novel tradition”—realism, modernism, postmodernism, postcolonialism—whose stages both constitute a sequence and collapse it, each stage claiming the innovation of the stage that precedes it. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"The essays collected in these remarkable volumes offer a stirring defense of the revolutionary nature of early Enlightenment thought. McKeon reminds us—forcefully—just how much insight and reach can be achieved by an intellectual history as fearless and dialectical as his."— Wolfram Schmidgen, author of Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688-1730 "Michael McKeon’s signal achievement as an intellectual historian and literary scholar is to capture the force of concepts in the making. His account of the Enlightenment is unparalleled in its depth and breadth."— Frances Ferguson, author of Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action "With one party to the culture wars monumentalizing the dubious sides of imperialism and their opposition editing history to shame them, it is a welcome sign to see Michael McKeon returning to the history of the Enlightenment in order to use periodization ‘as a tool to think with.'"— Jonathan Lamb, author of Scurvy: The Disease of Recovery "Historicizing the Enlightenment adds to intellectual history’s customary mix of political, social, economic, and religious contexts a detailed analysis of literary works, period aesthetics, and cultural commentary. These two volumes will be essential reading for scholars across a number of fields."— April London, author of The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century NovelTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Sciences as a Model for the Arts: A Synchronic Inquiry 2 From Ancient Mimesis to Modern Realism: A Diachronic Inquiry 3 The Historicity of Literary Conventions: Family Romance 4 The Historicity of Literary Genres: Pastoral Poetry 5 Political Poetry: Comparative Historicizing, 1650-1700, 1930-1980 6 Paradise Lost as Parody: Period, Genre, and Conjectural Interpretation Acknowledgments Source Notes Notes Index

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