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Manchester University Press How to be a Historian: Scholarly Personae in
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a stimulating new perspective on the history of historical studies. Through the prism of ‘scholarly personae’, it explores why historians care about attitudes or dispositions that they consider necessary for studying the past, yet often disagree about what virtues, skills, or competencies are most important. More specifically, the volume explains why models of virtue known as ‘personae’ have always been contested, yet also can prove remarkably stable, especially with regard to their race, class, and gender assumptions. Covering historical studies across Europe, North America, Africa, and East Asia, How to be a historian will appeal not only to historians of historiography, but to all historians who occasionally wonder: What kind of a historian do I want to be?Trade Review'Historians’ identities form the subject matter of this geographically wide-ranging, well-researched and theoretically framed collection of essays.'R. C. Richardson, University of Winchester, Times Higher Education, July 2019 -- .Table of ContentsNotes on contributorsIntroduction. Scholarly personae: what they are and why theymatter – Herman Paul1 The contested persona of the historian: on the origins of apermanent conflict – Ian Hunter2 Ranke vs Schlosser: pairs of personae in nineteenth-centuryGerman historiography – Herman Paul3 Fixing genius: the Romantic man of letters in the universityera – Travis E. Ross4 Generational continuities and composite personae: Frenchhistoriography from the 1870s to the 1950s – Camille Creyghton5 Pasha and his historic harem: Edward A. Freeman, EdithThompson and the gendered personae of late-Victorianhistorians – Elise Garritzen6 Interpretative and investigative: the emergence andcharacteristics of modern scholarly personae in China,1900–30 – Q. Edward Wang7 Coalescence and conflict: historians and their personae in thePortuguese New State – António da Silva Rêgo8 The emergence of the English Marxist historian’s scholarlypersona: the English Revolution debate of 1940–41 – SinaTalachian9 Of communism, compromise and Central Europe: the scholarlypersona under authoritarianism – Monika Baár10 What is an African historian? Negotiating scholarly personae inUNESCO’s General History of Africa – Larissa Schulte Nordholt11 The finitude of personae: Bryce Lyon, François Louis Ganshofand the biography of Pirenne – Henning TrüperIndex
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Manchester University Press The Common Writer in Modern History
Book SynopsisThis book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of uses to which it was put. In eleven new studies by thirteen leading historians of scribal culture, it foregrounds the ‘common writer’ and contributes to a ‘New History from Below’. The book presents pauper letters, ego-documents, life-writing of various kinds, soldiers’ and emigrants’ correspondence, handwritten newspapers and graffiti in streets and prisons, analysing the major genres of ‘ordinary writings’. The studies draw on different disciplines, including cultural history, sociology and ethnography, folklore studies, palaeography and socio-historical linguistics. They range from the early modern Hispanic Empire to twentieth-century Australia, including studies of modern Britain, Iceland, Finland, Italy, Germany, South Africa and the USA. The book demonstrates the importance of studying manuscript culture to give a voice, a presence and dignity to the ordinary protagonists of history.Table of ContentsNotes on contributors1 The common writer in history – Martyn Lyons2 Writings on the walls: approaches to graffiti in the early modern Hispanic world – Antonio Castillo Gómez3 ‘No more for Now or Praps Never’: the meaning and function of pauper writing in Britain, 1750s to early 1900s – Steven King4 Common writers in German-speaking countries from the eighteenth to the twentieth century as agents of a language history from below – Stephan Elspaß5 Narrating injuries and injustices: life stories in the struggle for working-class rights in Britain, 1820-1945 – T. G. Ashplant6 Music and affective signalling in an immigrant letter from 1844 – David A. Gerber7 Pen, paper and peasants: the rise of vernacular literacy practices in nineteenth-century Iceland – Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon and Davíð Ólafsson8 Questioning ‘the common writer’: ordinary writings from the Emagusheni trading station, Pondoland, 1880-84 – Liz Stanley9 Madlands: Vincenzo Rabito as a writer – David Moss10 Copying, citing and creative rewriting: the transmission of texts and ideas in Finnish handwritten newspapers – Kirsti Salmi-Niklander and Risto Turunen11 Choreographing correspondences: how the state shaped soldiers’ mail in the US and Red Armies during the Second World War – Brandon Schechter12 ‘Dear Prime Minister’: the rhetoric of apology and affiliation in letters to Robert Menzies, Australian Prime Minister, 1949-66 – Martyn LyonsSelect bibliography
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Wipf & Stock Publishers A Lecture on the Study of History
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Collective Ink How to Read a History Book – The Hidden History
Book SynopsisA deconstruction of the modern history book as artifact, How to Read a History Book explains who writes history books, how the writers are trained, and why they write them. It also discusses genre, bias (political and otherwise) and how to read history books between the lines. Written for undergraduates, intro graduate students and anyone with an informed interest in the subject, How to Read a History Book demonstrates that, rather than being objects that fall from the sky, history books are actually socially-constructed artifacts reflecting all the contradictions of modern meritocratic capitalism.
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Berghahn Books Empathy and History: Historical Understanding in
Book Synopsis Empathy and History offers a comprehensive and dual account of empathy’s intellectual and educational history. Beginning in an influential educational movement that implanted the concept in R.G. Collingwood’s re-enactment doctrine, the book goes back to reveal the fundamental role that empathy played in the foundation of the history discipline before tracing its reception and development in twentieth-century hermeneutics and philosophy of history. Attentive to matters of practice, it illuminates the distinct character of the historical context that empathetic understanding seeks to capture and sets out a new approach to empathy as a special variety of historical questioning.Trade Review “Tyson Retz’s Empathy and History is an ambitious and well-researched book, which sheds light on the complex origins and development of empathy in the discipline of history, history education and the philosophy of history. The author delivers a compelling exploration of the philosophical context, from which the concept of empathy emerged and argues for a return to metaphysics in philosophical reflection on empathy that focuses on the object of knowledge into which the empathetic inquirer investigates, as much as on the process of knowing itself.” • European Journal of Cultural & Political Sociology “This book might appeal most to those who want to learn more about philosophical approaches to history, especially those with a metaphysical orientation. The argument that Retz has constructed with this text is complex, thoroughly sourced, fluidly constructed, compelling, and thought provoking for the intellectually curious mind.” • Theory & Research in Social Education “Retz’s invaluable project of disciplinary distillation combines his knack for pedagogy and philosophy as he successfully historicises the concept of empathy and the relevant currents of thought which are attached to it. In this comprehensive account he carefully builds the contextual foundations of empathy’s place in historical thinking and pedagogy and marries these seemingly disparate constituents to demonstrate how they have influenced one another.” • Rethinking History “…a significant contribution to the literature on understanding the role of empathy in history education. [The author] should be congratulated for providing a comprehensive view of human empathy and education through a historical lens. Overall, this book is recommended as a critical reference for scholars and anyone paying attention to history and education, and it might be a worthy, challenging read for students in this field.” • History of Education “Empathy and History, Retz’s first book, is a significant and timely contribution to the long-standing and divisive debate about the understanding and role of empathy in the human sciences.” • History of Education Review “It is truly fascinating to accompany Retz as he examines international perceptions, transfers and combinations of empathy-related concepts across the world.” • Juliane Brauer, Max Planck Institute for Human DevelopmentTable of Contents Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Introduction PART I: EDUCATION Chapter 1. Reforming the Past Chapter 2. The Influence of the Philosophy of History Chapter 3. A Conceptual Portmanteau PART II: ORIGINS Chapter 4. Empathy and Historicism Chapter 5. Historicism, Neo-Kantianism and Hermeneutics Chapter 6. Collingwood and the Continent Chapter 7. Questions, Answers and Presuppositions Chapter 8. Horizons of Context PART III: CONSEQUENCES Chapter 9. Competing Conceptions Chapter 10. Historical Thinking and Historical Consciousness Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Archaeopress New Advances in the History of Archaeology:
Book SynopsisNew Advances in the History of Archaeology presents the papers from three sessions organised by the History of Archaeology Scientific Commission at the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris, June 2018). The first session, From stratigraphy to stratigraphic excavation in pre- and protohistoric archaeology organised by Massimo Tarantini and Alessandro Guidi, reviews the development of stratigraphical methods in archaeology in many European countries. The second session, Epistemology, History and Philosophy of Science: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the History of Archaeology, organised by Sophie A. de Beaune and Oscar Moro Abadia, is characterised by different examples of intersections between archaeology and other disciplines like history and the philosophy of science. Finally, four papers discuss the development of different types of interdisciplinarity in Europe and South America. These were presented in the third session, Archaeology and interdisciplinarity, from the 19th century to present-day research, organized by Laura Coltofean, Géraldine. Delley, Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Marc-Antoine Kaeser.Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII Uispp Congress Proceedings Series Edition – Marta Azarello ; Foreword to the volume – Alessandro Guidi ; Part I: From stratigraphy to stratigraphic excavation in pre- and protohistoric archaeology ; Introduction – Alessandro Guidi, Massimo Tarantini ; Démarche d’historien et de préhistorien ou comment pallier les manques dans l’étude de collections anciennes ? Exemples des Balzi Rossi (Ligurie, Italie) et de la grotte de l’Observatoire (Monaco) – Elena Rossoni-Notter, Olivier Notter, Patrick Simon, Suzanne Simone ; Santa Verna in 1911 and 2015: re-examining pioneering stratigraphic excavation methods in Malta – T. Rowan McLaughlin, Eóin Parkinson, Catriona Brogan, Simon Stoddart, Caroline Malone ; The multiple roots of an innovative excavation: G.A. Blanc at the Romanelli Cave, Italy (1914-1938) – Massimo Tarantini ; Paul Vouga à La Tène et à Auvernier : la stratigraphie à l’épreuve de la typologie – Gianna Reginelli Servais ; Pioneers of archaeological stratigraphical techniques: Luigi Bernabò Brea (1910-1999) and Giorgio Buchner (1914-2005) – Federico Nomi, Massimo Cultraro, Alessandro Guidi, Sebastiano Tusa ; Abstraction in Archaeological Stratigraphy: a Pyrenean Lineage of Innovation (late 19th–early 21th century) – Sébastien Plutniak ; Part II: Epistemology, History and Philosophy of Science: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the History of Archaeology ; Introduction – Sophie A. de Beaune, Oscar Moro Abadía ; Three career itineraries that linked prehistory, archaeology, and technology: Augustus Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900), André Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986) and François Sigaut (1940-2012) – Sophie A. de Beaune ; The tragic fate of heroic precursors in the history of archaeology: the case of Boucher de Perthes – Oscar Moro Abadía ; Primitif, précurseur, contemporain. Approches de l’art paléolithique au fondement de la pensée moderne – Rémi Labrusse ; Antiquity all over the place: evolutions and revolutions in early prehistoric research in Greece during the 1960s – Giorgos Vavouranakis, Georgia Kourtessi-Philippakis ; Compelling image-worlds: a pictorial perspective on the epistemology of stone artefact analysis in Palaeolithic archaeology – Shumon T. Hussain ; Part III: Archaeology and interdisciplinarity, from the 19th century to present-day research ; Luján, l’Abbeville des pampas. Amateurs, traders, and scholars behind the search of the pampean fossil man (1865-1884) – Marcelo J. Toledo ; From mining to archaeology. An Austrian experiment in Transylvania at the beginning of the 19th century – Aurora Pețan ; Interdisciplinary research of the caves conducted by the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cracow at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries – Marzena Woźny ; Interdisciplinarity and institutions. The case of Italian prehistoric archaeology (1875-1954) – Massimo Tarantini
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Archaeopress Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the
Book SynopsisWalter Benjamin observed that it is precisely the modern which conjures up prehistory. From Yanagita’s ‘mountain people’ to Umehara’s ‘Jōmon civilisation’, Japan has been an especially resonant site of prehistories imagined in response to modernity. Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism looks at how archaeology and landscapes of the archaic have been used in Japanese nationalism since the early twentieth century, focusing on the writings of cultural historian Tetsurō Watsuji, philosopher Takeshi Umehara and environmental archaeologist Yoshinori Yasuda. It is argued that the Japanese nationalist project has been mirrored by the continuing influence of broader Romantic ideas in Japanese archaeology, especially in Jōmon studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Modernity, the archaic and Japanese Nature ; Chapter 1: Huddle together, warm bodies pressing: the community of Japanese eco-nationalism ; Chapter 2: I had not seen this kind of mountain or forest before: fūdo as Gothic landscape ; Chapter 3: Deep Japan: the spectre of strata ; Chapter 4: Romantic nationalism and the new Jōmonology ; Chapter 5: Conclusions: the violence of Japanese world-shaping
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Archaeopress Historiographie de préhistoriens et de
Book SynopsisIn France, the post-World War II period corresponds to a second golden age of prehistory and protohistory, thanks to the development of the CNRS and the creation of the first university chairs. Historiographie de préhistoriens et de protohistoriens français du XX° siècle presents the biographies of a wide selection of French archaeologists whose scientific work has particularly marked this period.Table of ContentsIntroduction au volume ; Victor Commont (1866-1918), « l’homme des alluvions » – Pascal Depaepe ; Camille Arambourg (1885-1969), paléontologue et préhistorien – Djillali Hadjouis ; Georges Laplace (1918-2004). Typologie Analytique et Synthétotype – Robert Sala-Ramos, François Djindjian, Xosé Pedro Rodríguez, Eudald Carbonell ; Francis Hours (1921-1987) – Olivier Aurenche ; Michel Brézillon (1924-1993) – Philippe Soulier ; Itinéraire de Jacques Tixier (1925-2018), fondateur de l’approche technologique des industries lithiques – Latifa Sari ; Annette Laming-Emperaire (1917-1977) et l’art préhistorique européen – Lioudmila Iakovleva ; Max Escalon de Fonton (1920-2013) et le Néolithique – Jean Guilaine ; Max Escalon de Fonton (1920-2013) et le paléolithique – François Djindjian ; Jean Arnal (1907-1987) – Jean Guilaine ; Jacques Cauvin (1930-2001) – Olivier Aurenche ; Bohumil Soudský et l’archéologie française – Jean-Paul Demoule ; Pierre-Roland Giot, Jacques Briard et Jean L’Helgouac’h – Par Jean-Laurent Monnier, Charles-Tanguy Le Roux et Catherine Gorlini ; De Roi Mata aux Marae polynésiens : José Garanger, océaniste de la diversité archéologique – Christophe Sand et Frédérique Valentin ; Loïc Langouet (1941-2018) – Jean-Laurent Monnier ; Les archéologues ingénieurs de formation – François Djindjian
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Archaeopress Do I Really Want to Be an Archaeologist?: Letters
Book SynopsisDo I Really Want to Be an Archaeologist? is an edited collection of letters that Karen D. Vitelli wrote from pre-EU Greece and Turkey to family during her later years of graduate school and early field work (at Franchthi Cave, Gordion, and a training session at Corinth) through to the completion of writing her dissertation in Athens during a coup (1968-1974). An introductory chapter provides background information to clarify references in the letters, additional new comments within the letters amplify points and events, and a final chapter sums up her post-dissertation years. The letters were written during lively times politically and socially, as well as archaeologically, in Greece and around the world. The author was often torn between immersing herself in the past and being involved in the upheavals of that present. The letters show her frequent questioning about whether to remain in archaeology or become an ‘activist,’ and how she eventually found ways to do both.Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Background to the Letters Chapter 2. Getting to Greece. Off to my First Dig, 1968 Chapter 3. My First Dig, Porto Cheli, 1968 Chapter 4. Fall Term at the American School, 1968 Chapter 5. Winter Term at the American School, 1969 Chapter 6. More Digs: Turkey and Back to Greece, 1969 Chapter 7. Beginning Dissertation Research, 1969-70 Chapter 8. Wrapping up the Dissertation Research. Nafplion 1970: April-August Chapter 9. Avoiding, and Finally Starting the Dissertation, Athens 1973 Chapter 10. Finishing the Dissertation, during a Revolution Bibliography
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Collective Ink Now Is Not the Time
Book SynopsisWhat?s so special about now? To maintain perspective, we need to be aware of our past and alert to the future.
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Verso Books Only a Voice: Essays
Book SynopsisIn Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity's promise of progress and the sobering reality of our present day through studies of the most influential public intellectuals of our time. In Scialabba's hands, literary criticism becomes a powerful tool for expressing political passion and demonstrating the generative power of argument and an inquisitive mind. Drawing together a diverse group of thinkers, artists, activists, and philosophers-including Edward Said, D. H. Lawrence, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ellen Willis, and Noam Chomsky-Scialabba tours western intellectual history to find that no matter the stakes, critical thought remains a necessary precondition for politics.Every writer, Scialabba writes, faces the choice of whether "to tilt at the state and capital or ignore them" - and the world now is too dire not to choose the former.Trade ReviewEssays from across the storied career of 'critic's critic' George Scialabba. Forthright yet charitable, Scialabba gleans his greatest insights from those he disagrees with and is a model for the practice of independent criticism. -- Ryan Ruby * The Millions *Never has a writer of such enviable talents displayed such evident and unpretentious pleasure in good prose. -- Sam Adler-Bell * Commonweal *Scialabba is as lively as ever...Only a Voice is filled with provocative arguments that make the reader want to argue right back. -- Daniel Lazare * Arts Fuse *A celebrated critic and essayist * New York Times *
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Berghahn Books The Force of Comparison
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Anthem Press The Peterborough Chronicle, Volume 2:
Book SynopsisThe book consists of three parts: I. Introduction, including the history of research, detailed paleographical and codicological analysis, and discussion of the other Anglo-Saxon Chronicle manuscripts, and their textual relations; II. The Critical Edition, presenting the text in its immediate seventeenth-century manuscript context, with notes; III. The Modern English Translation, including detailed historical and philological notes. A bibliography, indexes and extensive comparanda complete the book. This edition, translation and commentary greatly enhance the accessibility and research potential of one of the most important primary sources for the history, language and culture of Anglo-Saxon England.Trade Review"This book is not just the first edition with a translation of the Peterborough Chronicle, it is a magnificently produced work of scholarship. Lavishly illustrated, it will become the basis for all future work, not just on the Chronicle, but on the worlds that produced it and the history that it records" — David Bates, Emeritus Professor in Medieval History, University of East Anglia."This welcome edition of The Peterborough Chronicle presents a wealth of information and analysis, opening up an important text for the study of early English history, language, and culture" — Susan E. Deskis, Professor of English, emerita, Northern Illinois University."Muir is a generous and careful editor who has always paid equal attention to text, manuscript, language, and history; he and Sparks present the Peterborough Chronicle in its many contexts, crafting a bountiful resource that will serve readers for many years to come" — R. M. Liuzza, University of Tennessee–Knoxville.Table of ContentsTranslation; Indexes; Personal Names; Place names, People Names and Events; Plate Captions; Plates
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Paths International Ltd Chinese Historiography of the Last Forty Years (1978-2018) I
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Open Book Publishers On History
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Epistemology, Ethics, and Meaning in Unusually Personal Scholarship
Book SynopsisThis book uses Viktor Frankl’s Existential Psychology (logotherapy) to explore the ways some professors use unusually personal scholarship to discover meaning in personal adversity. A psychiatrist imprisoned for three years in Nazi concentration camps, Frankl believed the search for meaning is a powerful motivator, and that its discovery can be profoundly therapeutic. Part I begins with four stories of professors finding meaning. Using the case studies as a foundation, Part II investigates issues of epistemology and ethics in unusually personal research from an existential perspective. The book offers advice for graduate students and faculty who want to live and work more meaningfully in the academy.Table of Contents1. Introduction to Mesearch2. Mesearch in the Social and Behavioral Sciences3. Mesearch in the Hard Sciences4. Mesearch in the Arts and Humanities5. Autoethnography6. Mesearch in Graduate School7. Mesearch and Motivation8. To Disclose or Not?9. Getting a Job and Getting Tenure10. Mesearch as Therapeutic Practice11. Mesearch and Activism12. The Case for a New Epistemology13. The Future of Mesearch
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Galileo Galilei, The Tuscan Artist
Book SynopsisThis book is a distinctively original biography of Galileo Galilei, probably the last eclectic genius of the Italian Renaissance, who was not only one of the greatest scientists ever, but also a philosopher, a theologian, and a man of great literary, musical, and artistic talent – “The Tuscan Artist”, as the poet John Milton referred to him. Galileo was exceptional in simultaneously excelling in the Arts, Science, Philosophy, and Theology. These diverse aspects of his life were closely intertwined; indeed, it may be said that he personally demonstrated that human culture is not divisible, but rather one, with a thousand shades. Galileo also represented the bridge between two historical epochs. As the philosopher Tommaso Campanella, a contemporary of Galileo, recognized at the time, Galileo was responsible for ushering in a new age, the Modern Age. This book, which is exceptional in the completeness of its coverage, explores all aspects of the life of Galileo, as a Tuscan artist and giant of the Renaissance, in a stimulating and reader-friendly way.Trade Review“This new biography by Pietro Greco, an influential, well-known Italian science journalist and writer, emphasizes Galileo’s literary, musical, artistic, and poetic side, attributes that are usually bypassed. The result is a most enjoyable book, extremely thought-provoking and revealing, and offering a refreshingly new insight into Galileo’s character.” (David W. Hughes, The Observatory, Vol. 139 (1268), February, 2019)“The book covers his whole life in comprehensive detail, starting from his birth in February 1564 (the same year as Shakespeare’s birth), and ending with his death in January 1642 just a few weeks short of his 78th birthday. … If you feel as I did, that there is a gap in your knowledge about the full life of Galileo, then this book is recommended to you.” (Odyssey The e-Magazine of the British Interplanetary Society, 2018)Table of ContentsGalileo’s birth.- Music at the time of Vincenzio Galilei.- Vincenzio in Florence.- Galileo in Pisa.- A Novice in Monastery.- Challenging Zarlino.- Return to Pisa.- Galileo meeting Ostilio Ricci.- A young unemployed Mathematician.- Galileo as a literary critic.- Galileo’s first approach to a new method.- Teaching in Pisa.- Galileo as a literary critic and writer.- The best eighteen years of his age.- A Tuscan artist in Padua.- The Nova Star.- A Sidereus Nuncius.- An artists’ warning.- New projects.- Galileo superstar.- Vicisti Galilaee!.- Galileo as a mathematician and philosopher in Florence.- Galileo’s triumph in Rome.- Converting the Church.- A theory of culture.- You cannot prevent humankind from looking at the stars: the Copernican Letters.- They silence him.- Three comets and an Assayer.- The censored masterpiece.- Will to live.- Galileo’s Dialogues and music.- Galileo’s last years.- The Enigma.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG European Integration Beyond Brussels: Unity in
Book SynopsisEurope is a continent whose history has, in one form or another, long been dominated by integration. And yet the European integration process is often treated as synonymous with the evolution of just one particular, and until recently geographically quite limited, Western-centred organisation: the European Union (EU). This trend obscures the multitude of ways European states have acted collectively on both sides of the Iron Curtain – and continue to do so throughout the continent today. With contributors drawn from history and political science, this book explores some of these diverse integration efforts ‘beyond Brussels’. We shine a light on international organisations, trade frameworks, and various political, social, scientific and cultural forms of unity in both Eastern and Western Europe. In so doing, the book seeks to redefine the history of the European integration process not only as a less purely EU-centric phenomenon but as a less strictly Western European one too.Trade Review“Providing new insights on a range of understudied actors, structures and for a of cooperation, this book contributes indeed to a broader understanding of the manifold strands that together constitute the larger context of European integration. … the book constitutes through its case studies, conceptualisation approaches, and suggestions for further studies a nonetheless important and valuable addition to the literature in the wider and increasingly diverse field of European integration historiography.” (Mechthild Roos, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, April 14, 2022)“The book does a much better job than most edited volumes in drawing out links and connections between the various contributions. … Overall, this book is an excellent contribution to the literature: it summarizes the discussion, challenges established notions, provides a string of contributions with fresh findings, and prepares the ground for further debate.” (Kiran Klaus Patel, Connections, April 8, 2022)Table of Contents1 Recasting the History and Politics of European Integration ‘Beyond Brussels’ - Matthew Broad and Suvi KansikasPart I: Pan-European Ideas, Structures and Interactions2 ‘Integration, Nobody Knows What It Means’: European Cooperation and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), 1946–56 - Daniel Stinsky3 Inventing a ‘European Space of Discussion’: The UEFA-EBU Relationship, c.1950s–1970s - Philippe Vonnard4 Mediating in the Cold War: How the Socialist Group of MEPs became a Driver of Brussels-Moscow Rapprochement - Alexandra Athanasopoulou Köpping5 Environmental Security for the Promotion of Pan-European Integration: The OSCE as a Europeanising Actor in the Balkans - Emma HakalaPart II: Imagining, Negotiating and Building Regional Integration6 Not Giving Up Sovereignty: The British Labour Party’s Alternative Vision of European Cooperation, 1933–1951 - Ettore Costa7 Less Than Membership but More Than Association: Establishing the European Economic Area (EEA), 1989–1993- Juhana Aunesluoma8 Regional Integration in the Eastern Bloc: Energy Cooperation between CMEA Countries, c.1950s–80s - Falk Flade9 Industrial Policy and Technological Cooperation in the EAEU: The Case of Eurasian Technology Platforms - Anna Lowry Part III: European Integration At and Around the Subregional Level10 Uniting Europe From Afar: Exile Plans for a Central European Federation in the Early Cold War - Pauli Heikkilä11 Remain or Leave? Britain and the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO) in the Context of Brexit - John Krige12 Subregional Integration in East Central Europe: Strategies in the In-Between Sphere - Katalin Miklóssy 13 Subregional Groupings in Post-Communist Europe: More Than Just ‘Cooperation’? - Martin DangerfieldPart IV: Conclusions 14 European Integration: Past and Future, East and West, Brussels and Beyond - Anne Deighton
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Reformation Reputations: The Power of the
Book SynopsisThis book highlights the pivotal roles of individuals in England’s complex sixteenth-century reformations. While many historians study broad themes, such as religious moderation, this volume is centred on the perspective that great changes are instigated not by themes, or ‘isms’, but rather by people – a point recently underlined in the 2017 quincentenary commemorations of Martin Luther’s protest in Germany. That sovereigns from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I largely drove religious policy in Tudor England is well known. Instead, the essays collected in this volume, inspired by the quincentenary and based upon original research, take a novel approach, emphasizing the agency of some of their most interesting subjects: Protestant and Roman Catholic, clerical and lay, men and women. With an introduction that establishes why the commemorative impulse was so powerful in this period and explores how reputations were constructed, perpetuated and manipulated, the authors of the nine succeeding chapters examine the reputations of three archbishops of Canterbury (Thomas Cranmer, Matthew Parker and John Whitgift), three pioneering bishops’ wives (Elizabeth Coverdale, Margaret Cranmer and Anne Hooper), two Roman Catholic martyrs (John Fisher and Thomas More), one evangelical martyr other than Cranmer (Anne Askew), two Jesuits (John Gerard and Robert Persons) and one author whose confessional identity remains contested (Anthony Munday). Partly biographical, though mainly historiographical, these essays offer refreshing new perspectives on why the selected figures are famed (or should be famed) and discuss what their reformation reputations tell us today.Trade Review“This appears to be the first book, featuring interdisciplinarity, dedicated to exploring the rich history of the Reformations by investigating the topic with reference to reputations. … This well-appointed volume features two dozen figures and tables, along with a twenty-six–page index. Each of the ten chapters is lavishly documented, and there are plenty of provocative suggestions for additional research. The editors and the publisher should be congratulated on a handsome volume that is certain to stimulate considerable discussion.” (Thomas A. Fudge, Journal of Religious History, Vol. 46 (2), June, 2022)“This wide-ranging volume opens with an expansive introductory chapter by the editors that, at 157 pages, is the length of a short book. … The introduction and the essays that follow offer valuable analyses of the ways in which the reputations of English Reformation figures were forged, reworked, and contested in shifting contexts, all the way down to the present day.” (Karl Gunther, Church History, Vol. 91 (1), March, 2022)“Each article and the splendid introduction are first-rate. … Women are not overlooked in the collection. Susan Wabuda reexamines Anne Askew, burned at the stake for heresy by King Henry VIII in 1546, and immortalized in Foxe’s Actes and Monuments. … In an especially intriguing contribution, Rachel Basch considers Margaret Cranmer, Anne Hooper, and Elizabeth Coverdale … .” (Thomas M. McCoog, S.J., Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 9, 2022)“Crankshaw and Gross are writing neither Reformation history nor memory study. They are considering lives remembered across time. Noting that remembering required print, and that printed reputations could provoke printed responses, they provide a very useful table of autobiographical and biographical works through 1718. … This fine collection gives historians of religion much to ponder. As we watch the heroes of the English Reformation swing … we must ask what our parts are in this process of reputation building.” (Norm Jones, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 73 (1), January, 2022)“Each of the essays in this volume offers new understandings of the men and women who shaped England’s religious politics in the sixteenth century. The volume as a whole is a timely reminder of the historical significance of ‘the power of individual agency’ … .” (Mary Morrissey, Renaissance and Reformation, Vol. 43 (4), 2021)Table of Contents1. Introduction: Reformation, Life-Writing and the Commemorative Impulse: The Power of the Individual- David J. Crankshaw and George W. C. Gross2. 1535 in 1935: Catholic Saints and English Identity: The Canonization of Thomas More and John Fisher- William Sheils3. Thomas Cranmer’s Reputation Reconsidered- Ashley Null4. ‘Agents of the Reformation’: Margaret Cranmer, Anne Hooper and Elizabeth Coverdale- Rachel Basch5. Anne Askew- Susan Wabuda6. ‘A Man of Stomach’: Matthew Parker’s Reputation- David J. Crankshaw7. John Whitgift Redivivus: Reconsidering the Reputation of Elizabeth’s Last Archbishop of Canterbury- Felicity Heal8. Anthony Munday: Eloquent Equivocator or Contemptible Turncoat?- Elizabeth Evenden-Kenyon9. Polemic, Memory and Emotion: John Gerard and the Writing of the Counter-Reformation in England- Peter Lake and Michael Questier10. Rehabilitating Robert Persons: Then and Now- Victor Houliston
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Cinematic Histospheres: On the Theory and Practice of Historical Films
Book SynopsisIn this Open Access book, film scholar Rasmus Greiner develops a theoretical model for the concept of the histosphere to refer to the “sphere” of a cinematically modelled, physically experienceable historical world. His analysis of practices of modelling and perceiving, immersion and empathy, experience and remembering, appropriation and refiguration, combine approaches from film studies, such as Vivian Sobchack’s phenomenology of film experience, with historiographic theories, such as Frank R. Ankersmit’s concept of historical experience. Building on this analysis, Greiner examines the spatial and temporal organization of historical films and presents discussions of mood and atmosphere, body and memory, and genre and historical consciousness. The analysis is based around three historical films, spanning six decades, that depict 1950s Germany: Helmut Käutner’s Sky Without Stars (1955), Jutta Brückner’s Years of Hunger (1980), and Sven Bohse’s three-part TV series Ku’damm 56 (2016). Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Fiction film and history.- Audiovisual history.- Film/history/experience.- Modeling and perceiving.- Immersion and empathy.- Experience and remembering.- Appropriation and refiguration.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG How to Make a Database in Historical Studies
Book SynopsisThis book is a greatly supplemented translation from Portuguese, originally published in 2015. It discusses the most appropriate ways to create databases for research on history and other humanities, including an extensive debate about the usages that historians have made of computing since the 1950s. It has four chapters: the first is dedicated to theoretical and methodical questions about the usage of databases in history; the second is about technical issues; the third presents the concept of research engineering (how to improve research in groups); the last is about the construction of databases. The author states that the use of technology in research in history and humanities should be preceded and mediated by theories and methods which deal with these disciplines and not by technical issues. The historian must know how to think “correctly” in order to use the technological tools in an autonomous way. The book provides a background, demonstrating how theory, methodology, and technique are always articulated in historical research, and will appeal to history students and researchers.Table of ContentsIntroductionSome theoretical and methodical questions One craftsman, one operationDismantling things in a organized way On the shoulders of giants Some computer issues Data structureRelational databasesConceptual, logical and physical modelsPhysical model Visual aspects concerning databases Colors Technique and theory: everyday problems and practical decisions Update, standardize or maintain the original? Fuzzy informationResearch Engineering Initial surveyCollection Strategies Manual filling of the database Importing data (digital) Database administration Constructing databases: some concrete examples Source-centered databases Method-centered databases Conclusion Bibliografia
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research
Book SynopsisThis book explores the diverse range of practical and theoretical challenges and possibilities that digital technologies and platforms pose for Holocaust memory, education and research. From social media to virtual reality, 360-degree imaging to machine learning, there can be no doubt that digital media penetrate practice in these fields. As the Holocaust moves beyond living memory towards solely mediated memory, it is imperative that we pay critical attention to the way digital technologies are shaping public memory and education and research. Bringing together the voices of heritage and educational professionals, and academics from the arts and humanities and the social sciences, this interdisciplinary collection explores the practicalities of creating digital Holocaust projects, the educational value of such initiatives, and considers the extent to which digital technologies change the way we remember, learn about and research the Holocaust, thinking through issues such as ethics, embodiment, agency, community, and immersion. At its core, this volume interrogates the extent to which digital interventions in these fields mark an epochal shift in Holocaust memory, education and research, or whether they continue to be shaped by long-standing debates and guidelines developed in the broadcast era.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Defining the Digital in Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research.- SECTION I: (NEW) DIMENSIONS IN TESTIMONY.- Chapter 2: Virtually Part of the Family: The Last Goodbye and Digital Holocaust Witnessing.- Chapter 3: Realms of Digital Memory: Methodological Approaches to 360° Testimony on Location.- Chapter 4: The Production of German and Russian-Language Interactive Biographies: (Trans)National Holocaust Memory between the Broadcast and Hyperconnective Ages.- SECTION II: (WEB)SITES OF MEMORY.- Chapter 5: MEMOZE: Memory Places, Memory Spaces: ‘Glocal’ Holocaust Education through an Online Research Portal.- Chapter 6: Visualising Evidence and Landscapes of Atrocities: An Ethical Perspective.- Chapter 7: Active Learning in Digital Heritage: Introducing Geolocalisation, VR and AR at Holocaust Historical Sites.- SECTION III (VIRTUAL) MEMORY COMMUNITIES.- Chapter 8 Becoming the ‘Holocaust Police’? The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’s Authority on Social Media.- Chapter 9 i-Memory: Selfies and Self-Witnessing in #Uploading_Holocaust (2016).- Chapter 10 Playing Pretend on Social Media.- Chapter 11 AFTERWORD: Digital Holocaust Memory Futures: Through Paradigms of Immersion and Interactivity and Beyond.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Ancient Textile Production from an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Humanities and Natural Sciences Interwoven for our Understanding of Textiles
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Communist Manifesto in the Revolutionary
Book SynopsisThis book examines why, on the eve of the pamphlet’s 175th anniversary, the Communist Manifesto left so faint an imprint on Europe’s most revolutionary year of 1848, when it has had such a huge impact on posterity. The Manifesto that year misread bourgeois intentions, put too much faith in the industrial proletariat, too little in peasants, too much emphasis on the German states, and none on England. Marx and Engels preferred in 1848–9 to focus on the middle-class Neue Rheinische Zeitung, declining to galvanise working-class groups whose leadership they had actively sought. They neglected to return swiftly to the German states in their crucial 1848 ‘March days’. The Manifesto’s programme barely overlapped with contemporary campaigners or comparative pamphleteers, or the replacement Demands of the Communist Party in Germany. The book considers the consequences of Marx opting to write the Manifesto alone in January 1848. It also questions the source and significance of the pamphlet’s most memorialised phrase, ‘the spectre of Communism’, whether it was written for the ‘working men of all countries’ addressed in its finale, and whether Marx and Engels regarded the Manifesto as highly in 1848, as they undoubtedly did in later life.Table of Contents1. Manifesto Style and Communism Substance2. Solo Marx, the NRZ as Emerging 1848–49 Focus3. Actual Measures and Missing Levers4. Revolutionary Roles: Classes and ‘Countries’.5. Lingering in Paris, Brussels Preludes6. Engaging with Workers: Mainz, the Communist League, Stephan Born, and the CWA7. Conclusions: Targeting and Priorities
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Springer International Publishing AG Traitors, Collaborators and Deserters in Contemporary European Politics of Memory: Formulas of Betrayal
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to shaping and imposition of “formulas for betrayal” as a result of changing memory politics in post-war Europe. The contributors, who specialize in history, sociology, anthropology, memory studies, media studies and cultural studies, discuss the exertion of political control over memory (including the selection, imposition, silencing or ideological “twisting” of facts), the usage of “formulas for betrayal” in various cultural-political contexts, and the discursive framing of the betraying subject for the purpose of legitimizing various memory regimes and ideologies.Table of Contents1. Introduction; Eleonora Narvselius and Gelinada Grinchenko.- I. Military formations and combatants in “formulas of betrayal”.- 2. Monuments for deserters!? The changing image of Wehrmacht deserters in Germany and their gradual entry into Germany’s memory culture; Marco DRÄGER.- 3. From Traitors to Role Models: Rehabilitation and Memorialization of Wehrmacht Deserters in Austria; Peter PIRKER and Johannes KRAMER.- 4. Reinventing Collaboration: The Vlasov Movement in the Postwar Russian Emigration; Benjamin TROMLY.- II. Intellectuals elites as betrayers, the betrayed and masterminds behind “formulas of betrayal”.- 5. Taking an Intellectual Stance between Communist Resistance and Fascist Collaboration: Jean Paulhan and the Épuration Process in France at the end of WWII; Caroline PERRET.- 6. Intellectuals in Times of Troubles: Between Empowerment and Disenchantment during the Orange Revolution and Euromaidan; Yuliya YURCHUK and Alla MARCHENKO.- 7. Discussing wartime collaboration in a transnational digital space: Framing of the UPA and Latvian Legion on Wikipedia; Mārtiņš KAPRĀNS and Mykola MAKHORTYKH.- 8. In the Ninth Circle: Intellectuals as Traitors in the Russo-Ukrainian War; Tanya ZAHARCHENKO.- III. Collaboration in the conditions of WWII: crime, punishment, memory.- 9. Collaboration and the Genocide of Roma in Poland; Slawomir KAPRALSKI.- 10. The Soviet punishment of an all-European crime, “horizontal collaboration”; Vanessa VOISIN.- 11. “Organized bestial gangs”– The Second World War and Images of Betrayal in Yugoslav Socialist Cinema; Tea SINDBÆK ANDERSEN.- 12. Collaboration and Collaborators in Ukraine during the Second World War: Between Myth and Memory; Mykola BOROVYK.- IV. “Formulas of betrayal” as a political ascription and public response.- 13. “…And upon my silken braids a German’s iron boot will trample...”: Creating images of female Soviet Ostarbeiter as a betrayer and the betrayed; Gelinada GRINCHENKO and Eleonora NARVSELIUS.- 14. Betrayal of memory in Hungarian public memorials of the 20th century; Melinda HARLOV.- 15. Betrayal and Public Memory: ‘Myroslav Irchan Affair’ in Diaspora-Homeland Disjuncture; Natalia KHANENKO FRIESEN.- 16. Post-war and post-communist Poland and European knightly myths of loyalty and betrayal: Pasikowski’s acquis mythologique communautaire; Piotr TOCZYSKI.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG The Development of Prime Number Theory: From
Book Synopsis1. People were already interested in prime numbers in ancient times, and the first result concerning the distribution of primes appears in Euclid's Elemen ta, where we find a proof of their infinitude, now regarded as canonical. One feels that Euclid's argument has its place in The Book, often quoted by the late Paul ErdOs, where the ultimate forms of mathematical arguments are preserved. Proofs of most other results on prime number distribution seem to be still far away from their optimal form and the aim of this book is to present the development of methods with which such problems were attacked in the course of time. This is not a historical book since we refrain from giving biographical details of the people who have played a role in this development and we do not discuss the questions concerning why each particular person became in terested in primes, because, usually, exact answers to them are impossible to obtain. Our idea is to present the development of the theory of the distribu tion of prime numbers in the period starting in antiquity and concluding at the end of the first decade of the 20th century. We shall also present some later developments, mostly in short comments, although the reader will find certain exceptions to that rule. The period of the last 80 years was full of new ideas (we mention only the applications of trigonometrical sums or the advent of various sieve methods) and certainly demands a separate book.Trade Review“This is a most welcome addition to the literature on prime numbers, zeta and L-functions and arithmetical functions. … The style is clear, with just the right amount of details. Each chapter closes with carefully chosen Exercises. Novices and experts alike will find that this a book of highest quality, which sets a standard for future works dealing with the history of Mathematics.” (A.Ivić, zbMATH 0942.11002, 2021)Table of Contents1. Early Times.- 2. Dirichlet’s Theorem on Primes in Arithmetic Progressions.- 3. ?ebysev’s Theorem.- 4. Riemann’s Zeta-function and Dirichlet Series.- 5. The Prime Number Theorem.- 6. The Turn of the Century.- References.- Author Index.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Text & Voice: The Rhetoric of Authority in the
Book SynopsisText in English and French. This book addresses the medieval text as carrier of cu1tural authority. Ideas of textuality are in many ways the key to understanding medieval culture, in which the world was conceptualised as a text, or even a book, a second book to supplement his first, the Bible. The notion influenced views of, as well as the production and organisation of, written texts, and even determined the construction of each aspect of medieval life, as time, space, or the human body were viewed as parts of the overall cultural text. Medieval textuality may thus be investigated from a wide range of approaches, and Text and Voice has gathered together contributions on various of this great topic''s ramifications from a number of the most outstanding scholars in the field. The book covers both Latin and vernacular texts and, in assessing medieval textuality, or more properly, textualities, it moves from questions of the Production, disposition, and illumination of texts over varying implications of the use of Latin auctoritas, of generic experiment, and surprising absences to a consideration of various medieval textualities existing alongside one another.
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Springer Britain and The Netherlands: Volume VII Church
Book SynopsisThe theme chosen for the seventh conference of Dutch and British historians - relations between Church and State in the two countries since the Reformation - cannot pretend to any originality. A subject so germane to the history of Europe, and indeed of those parts of the world colonized by Europeans and evangelized by the Christian churches, has naturally attracted the attention of numerous scholars. The particular attraction of this study of the action and reaction of Church and State in Britain and the Netherlands lies in the scope it offers historians and political scientists for making comparisons be tween two states, both of which endorsed the Protestant Reformation while rejecting absolutism. But the dissimilarities are quite as striking. In the Netherlands the Reformed Church came to hold a curiously equivocal position, being neither an established Church in the English sense nor an independent sect. Yet even after the formal separation of Church and State in 1796 and the rise to political prominence of Dutch Catholicism, ties of sentiment continued to link the Dutch nation and the Reformed Church for some time to come. Within England the Anglican Church maintained its constitutional standing as the established Church and its social position as the Church of the 'Establishment', though it had to recognize a non-episcopal estab lished Church of Scotland and accept its disestablishment in Ireland and Wales.Table of ContentsRelations between Church and State in Britain and the Netherlands: an Introductory Essay.- 1 The State and Development of Protestantism in English Towns, 1520–1603.- 2 Building Heaven in Hell’s Despite: The Early History of the Reformation in the Towns of the Low Countries by.- 3 The Family of Love (Huis der Liefde) and the Dutch Revolt.- 4 Arminianism and English Culture.- 5 Calvinism and National Consciousness: the Dutch Republic as the New Israel.- 6 Contrasting and Converging Patterns: Relations between Church and State in Western Europe, 1660–1715 by.- 7 The Authority of the Dutch State over the Churches, 1795–1853.- 8 ‘Bridled Emotion’: English Free Churchmen, Culture and Catholic Values, c. 1870 to c. 1945.- 9 ‘Verzuiling’: A Confessional Road to Secularization. Emancipation and the Decline of Political Catholicism, 1920–1970.- 10 ‘A Protestant Parliament and a Protestant State’: Regional Government and Religious Discrimination in Northern Ireland, 1921–1939.
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Double 9 Booksllp The Life and Death of King Richard the Third
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Springer Companies and Trade: Essays on Overseas Trading
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsI: Introduction.- 1. Companies and Trade: Some Reflections on a Workshop and a Concept.- II: Companies as Instruments of Trade and Expansion.- 2. The Origins of Trading Companies.- 3. The English East India Company in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Pre-modern Multinational Organization.- 4. The Shifting Balance of Trade of the Dutch East India Company.- 5. The West India Company, 1621–1791: Dutch or Atlantic?.- 6. French Mercantilism, Commercial Companies and Colonial Profitability.- 7. Two Lusitanian Variations on a Dutch Theme: Portuguese Companies in Times of Crisis, 1628–1662.- 8. The Organization and Structure of the Danish East India, West India and Guinea Companies in the 17th and 18th Centuries.- 9. The Brandenburg Overseas Trading Companies in the 17th Century.- III: Companies in the Trading World of Asia.- 10. Questions on the Contact between European Companies and Asian Societies.- 11. European Trade and South Asian Economies: Some Regional Contrasts, 1600–1800.- 12. Unification and Adaptation, the Early Shogunate and Dutch Trade Policies.- 13. The Organization of Western European Trade in the Levant, 1500–1800.- IV: Epilogue.- 14. The Companies as a Specific Institution in the History of European Expansion.- Notes on the Contributors.
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Verso Books History Made Conscious: Politics of Knowledge,
Book SynopsisDuring the last fifty years, the writing of history underwent two massive transformations. First, powered by Marxism and other materialist sociologies, the great social history wave instated the value of social explanation. Then, responding to new theoretical debates, the cultural turn upset many of those freshly earned certainties. Each challenge was profoundly informed by politics - from issues of class, gender, and race to those of identity, empire, and the postcolonial. The resulting controversies brought historians radically changed possibilities - expanding subject matters, unfamiliar approaches, greater openness to theory and other disciplines, a new place in the public culture. History Made Conscious offers snapshots of a discipline continuously rethinking its charge. How might we understand "the social" and "the cultural" together? How do we collaborate most fruitfully across disciplines? If we take theory seriously, how does that change what historians do? How should we think differently about politics?Trade ReviewThere is no better guide to the debates over politics and history writing in our times than Geoff Eley. His deep knowledge of US, British and German historiography enables him to make a compelling case that different questions demand different theories. -- Catherine HallIn History Made Conscious, Geoff Eley covers great sweeps of the history of history since the 1960s. His work is marked by insightful observations on the circumstance which have sparked shifts in emphasis and a stimulating openness to influences from myriad intellectual currents, including the Marxist new left, feminism, cultural studies and ant-imperialism. -- Sheila RowbothamHistory cannot but benefit from entering into dialogue with other disciplines and confronting the challenges of politics. Permanently putting itself into question is the key to its renewal and vibrancy. Nearly two decades since A Crooked Line, Geoff Eley unveils the complex relationship between historical studies and politics. Global in scope, critical and nuanced in spirit, and illuminating from one end to the other, History Made Conscious is indispensable reading for anyone interested not only in the past, but also in the way history is written and interpreted in our time. -- Enzo TraversoSo, this is where we've been, historians and history, over the past fifty years. Geoff Eley is an informed, good-tempered and unfailingly courteous-sometimes very funny-guide to the vast landscape of post-colonial and Atlantic world-historiography, showing us the distressing wranglings of scholars, the aggressive battles of the books, all over the desolate terrain of Theory. He steers us to the future, so that by seeing what has been we may become better writers and readers of history. -- Carolyn Steedman
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Columbia University Press Creative Pasts
Book SynopsisThe "Maratha period" of the 17th and 18th centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. This book highlights shifts in history writing in early modern and modern India and the connections between historical and literary narratives.Trade Reviewrecommended for readers interested in Indian historiography as well as those who are interested in the negotiation of modernity and the politics of identity in the Indian context. -- Srikanth Mallavarapu Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Bakhar Historiography 2. Representing Maratha Power 3. History, Print, and Education 4. Historiography and Nationalism 5. Region, Nation, and Maratha History 6. Maratha History and Historical Fiction 7. Caste, Identity, and Difference Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Pennsylvania State University Press Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline
Book SynopsisA volume of essays by scholars of Byzantine art, history, and literature addressing the entanglements between the academic discipline of Byzantine studies and the practice and legacies of European colonialism.Trade Review“With this slim yet rich and thoughtful volume, the field of Byzantine studies has finally joined the project of excavating the colonialist, imperialist, and white supremacist foundations of modern academia. This collection of essays does more than merely remedy a scholarly lacuna; it sounds an urgent call to action that is bound to reverberate in years to come, generating further self-reflection, debate, and dialogue.”—Ivan Drpić,author of Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium “This dynamic, multivocal volume has the potential to reshape not only the field of Byzantine studies but also larger movements within the humanities, with outstanding contributions by Aschenbrenner and Ransohoff, Achi, and Williams. Anderson and Ivanova’s work—particularly its willingness to engage with critical race and decolonial studies—will appeal to Byzantinists as well as those engaged in global medieval studies and adjacent fields, especially Ethiopian and Islamic studies.”—Suzanne Conklin Akbari,author of Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface: The Historical ConjunctureIntroduction: For a Critical Historiography of Byzantine StudiesBenjamin Anderson and Mirela IvanovaPart 1: How Is Byzantine Studies (Re)Produced?1. Hieronymus Wolf’s Silver Tongue: Early Byzantine Scholarship at the Intersection of Slavery, Colonialism, and the CrusadesNathanael Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff2. Byzantine Archaeology: Teaching the Tenth and the Twentieth CenturiesHugh G. Jeffery3. Byzantium in ExileŞebnem Dönbekci, Bahattin Bayram, and Zeynep OlgunPart 2: How Is Byzantium (Re)Produced?4. Methodological ImperialismNicholas S. M. Matheou5. The Price of AdmissionAnthony Kaldellis6. Byzantine Studies: A Field Ripe for DisruptionAveril Cameron7. Subaltern ByzantinismMaria MavroudiPart 3: How Are Byzantine Texts (Re)Produced?8. Byzantine and Western Narratives: A Dialogue of EmpiresArietta Papaconstantinou9. The Ethnic ProcessAlexandra Vukovich10. Publication and Citation Practices: Enclosure, Extractivism, and Gatekeeping in Byzantine StudiesMatthew KinlochPart 4: How Is Byzantine Art (Re)Produced?11. The South Kensington Museum, Byzantine Egyptian Textiles, and Art-Historical ImperialismArielle Winnik12. From Ethnographic Illustration to Aphrodisian Magistrate: Changing Perceptions of an Early Byzantine PortraitStephanie R. Caruso13. Expanding and Decentering Byzantium: The Acquisition of an Ethiopian Double-Sided Gospel LeafAndrea Myers Achi14. Equity, Accessibility, and New Narratives for Byzantine Art in the MuseumElizabeth Dospěl WilliamsA Collective Bibliography Toward a Critical Historiography of Byzantine StudiesList of ContributorsIndex
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Princeton University Press The Craft of International History
Book SynopsisA practical guide to the historical study of international politics, this book focuses on the basics of historical research on how to use original sources, analyze and interpret historical works, and actually write a work of history. It includes two appendixes that provide important sources and examples relevant to this area.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006 "A useful and invaluable handbook of international studies... [Guides] the readers into the basic techniques of historical research: how to design a scholarly project, build an essential bibliography, read historical texts, analyze primary sources and how to write the research conclusions... Especially recommended."--Maria Ines Tato, International RelationsTable of ContentsPREFACE vii CHAPTER ONE: The Theory of Historical Inquiry 1 CHAPTER TWO: Diplomatic History and International Relations Theory 30 CHAPTER THREE: The Critical Analysis of Historical Texts 51 CHAPTER FOUR: Developing an Interpretation through Textual Analysis: The 1941 Case 79 CHAPTER FIVE: Working with Documents 140 CHAPTER SIX: Starting a Project 169 CHAPTER SEVEN: Writing It Up 183 APPENDIX I: Identifying the Scholarly Literature 199 APPENDIX II: Working with Primary Sources 217 BIBLIOGRAPHY 257 INDEX 263
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Princeton University Press Rethinking the Other in Antiquity
Book SynopsisPrevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. In this provocative book, Erich Gruen demonstratesTrade ReviewShortlisted for the 2012 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League "[T]he range of research, and the depth of thought, are extraordinary. Gruen has taken on a massively important subject, and he has brought a genuinely new perspective to the scholarly conversation."--Emily Wilson, New Republic "[Gruen] is at his best when he dissects Greco-Roman perceptions of the Jews and the Jewish reception of Greco-Roman culture and accommodation with the world of the goyim."--Choice "Rethinking the Other in Antiquity, by Erich S. Gruen, out this month from Princeton University Press, like all excellent scholarship massages the mind in useful new directions... Gruen's mission ... is to unpack the contrary story, far less told: 'that Greeks, Romans, and Jews (who provide us with almost all the relevant extant texts) had far more mixed, nuanced, and complex opinions about other peoples.' In the main text and many useful footnotes of this info-packed but never boring study, Gruen accomplishes that."--Carlin Romano, Chronicle Review "Anthropologists should seriously consider Gruen's case, and it would be wonderful if this appreciation of and openness to different peoples and cultures could somehow enter into contemporary politics and culture."--Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database "Rethinking the Other is an extremely valuable departure from a scholarly viewpoint that has threatened to become ossified of late, and as such is very worthwhile to everyone involved in the study of ancient conceptions of foreignness and belonging."--Antti Lampinen, ARCTOS "Erich Gruen's Rethinking the Other in Antiquity is a book that, for one reason or another, desperately needed to be written, ideally by someone possessing G.'s authoritative command of the vast array of sources indicative of ancient knowledge of, and interest in, foreign peoples... The result is a provocative, wide-ranging and thoroughly engaging volume that is both beautifully produced--with copious footnotes, helpful indices and handsome book-jacket featuring a (highly apposite) janiform vase--and (very) reasonably priced. The latter is fortuitous since it will automatically become a set text for courses touching on ancient self-conception and relations with foreign peoples and mandatory reading for anyone researching these and cognate fields."--Joseph Skinner, Journal of Roman Studies "Rethinking the Other in Antiquity amounts to a major reassessment of an important topic. In light of the voluminous evidence Gruen assembles, it seems untenable to contend that Greek, Roman, and Jewish views of other cultures can be reduced to self-serving stereotypes and denigrations. Hopefully his book will help usher in more nuanced and charitable perspectives."--Eric Adler, European LegacyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 PART I. IMPRESSIONS OF THE "OTHER" CHAPTER ONE: Persia in the Greek Perception: Aeschylus and Herodotus 09 Aeschylus' Persae 09 Herodotus 21 Some Visual Representations 40 CHAPTER TWO: Persia in the Greek Perception: Xenophon and Alexander 53 Xenophon's Cyropaedia 53 Alexander and the Persians 65 CHAPTER THREE: Egypt in the Classical Imagination 76 Herodotus 76 Diodorus 90 Assorted Assessments 99 Plutarch 111 CHAPTER FOUR: Punica Fides 115 The Hellenic Backdrop 116 In the Shadow of the Punic Wars 122 The Manipulation of the Image 132 The Enhancement of the Image 137 CHAPTER FIVE: Caesar on the Gauls 141 Prior Portraits 141 The Caesarian Rendering 147 CHAPTER SIX: Tacitus on the Germans 159 Germans and Romans 159 Interpretatio Romana? 169 CHAPTER SEVEN: Tacitus and the Defamation of the Jews 179 The Question 180 Tacitean Irony 187 CHAPTER EIGHT: People of Color 197 Textual Images 197 Visual Images 211 PART II. CONNECTIONS WITH THE "OTHER" CHAPTER NINE: Foundation Legends 223 Foundation Tales as Cultural Thievery 224 Pelops 227 Danaus 229 Cadmus 233 Athenians and Pelasgians 236 Rome, Troy, and Arcadia 243 Israel's Fictive Founders 250 CHAPTER TEN: Fictitious Kinships: Greeks and Others 253 Perseus as Multiculturalist 253 Athens and Egypt 265 The Legend of Nectanebos 267 Numidians and the Near East 272 CHAPTER ELEVEN: Fictitious Kinships: Jews and Others 277 The Separatist Impression 277 The Bible's Other Side 287 Ishmaelites and Arabs 299 Jews and Greeks as Kinsmen 302 CHAPTER TWELVE: Cultural Interlockings and Overlappings 308 Jews and Greeks as Philosophers 308 Jewish Presentations of Gentiles 325 Phoenicians and Greeks 341 Roman Adaptation and Appropriation 343 Conclusion 352 Bibliography 359 Index of Citations 385 Subject Index 403
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Princeton University Press A History of Art History
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Apollo Awards Book of the Year, Apollo Magazine""In a complex and overall highly original and learned set of narratives unfolding chronologically (1400–1960), Wood weaves together a series of subplots: relativism versus presentism, form versus content, chronologies of forms versus shapes of time, idealism versus realism, and the de- and re-enchantment of art. . . . As Wood’s rewriting of the discipline’s history according to the categories of relativism and presentism indicate, he is laying out a philosophy of history. Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche, Hayden White, and Michel Foucault’s categories of history writing, he also traces a history of art history’s historical models, starting with the annalistic, or 'roll-call art history'. . . . A robust discussion of the substantive issues he raises is both merited and called for."---Evonne Levy, Art Bulletin
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Rutgers University Press Zionism
Book SynopsisThis volume reconsiders the history of Zionism through the lens of emotion. By highlighting the series of emotional states that are key to any national or social movement, including the Zionist project, Penslar shows how Zionism is distinct for the breadth and depth of feeling of those engaged in it, of outside observers, and of its opponents.Trade Review"[W]ith great care and clarity...Derek Penslar’s Zionism: An Emotional State, zero[es] in on those emotions, like love and fear, which are so seldom acknowledged for what they are but play an outsize role in shaping politics." -- Robert Zaretsky * The Atlantic *“Derek Penslar has written a brave and thought-provoking book that seeks to understand the well-springs of hope and belief in Zionism. Yet he does not shy away from less attractive passions, especially hatred in the name of Zionism and hatred of Zionism itself. Anyone keen to understand the way such deep emotions animate and shape history must read this compelling book.” -- Ruth Harris * author of Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century *“Derek Penslar’s masterfully written history of emotions adds a whole new dimension to our understanding of both Zionism and the State of Israel and is crucial reading for anyone interested in grasping the nature of modern nationalism.” -- Michael Brenner * author of In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea *“Derek Penslar introduces a ‘new key’ to the history of Zionism with his examination of the emotions involved, helping us understand the passionate dynamics of both Zionist and anti-Zionist sensibilities as they have emerged and developed over time. This is a must read.” -- Ute Frevert * author of Emotions in History—Lost and Found *"For a topic as contentious and complex as Zionism, Penslar’s expertise, sober voice, and informed critique shine through as he provides a much-needed addition to ongoing debates that touch at the heart of Jewish identity today." -- Shaul Magid * author of Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical *"Perhaps the finest book on Zionism written in recent memory. This slim, brilliant volume probes with rare equanimity every volatile corner of this topic with its focus squarely on why it generates such promiscuous, even universal heat. Derek Penslar is an outstanding historian who knows so well how to marshal knowledge of the past to illuminate the aching complexities of the present." -- Steven J. Zipperstein * author of Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History *“If you think you understand Zionism, read this book and think again. Carefully, elegantly and with tremendous erudition, Derek Penslar takes an ideology many think they understand and illuminates it in a fascinating new way.” -- Peter Beinart * author of The Crisis of Zionism *"Why does Zionism evoke such intense passions? Because as much as it is a political and ideological movement, it is also an emotional movement. Penslar has outdone himself with this intriguing history of the emotions of Zionism's champions and its adversaries." -- Susannah Heschel * author of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Part I: Terms of Debate Chapter One: Staging Zionism Part II: State of the Question Chapter Two: Zionism as Colonialism Part III: In a New Key Chapter Three: Zionism to 1948: Passion and Solidarity Chapter Four: Zionism since 1948: A Great Romance Chapter Five: Zionism and the International Community: From Gratitude to Betrayal Chapter Six: Hating Zionism Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes For Further Reading Index
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Cornell University Press The Mind of Thucydides
Book SynopsisFirst published in France in 1956 and now available in English for the first time, this narratological analysis of Thucydides's "History of the Peloponnesian War" highlights the power and sophistication of the Greek historian's rhetoric.Trade ReviewRawlings has done a great favor to students of Thucydides by making Romilly's work available to an English-speaking audience. With this work Romilly revolutionized how scholars approached and studied Thucydides. Instead of analyzing the accuracy of his narrative on the Peloponnesian War, Romilly examines how Thucydides thought. She treats the history like a piece of intellectual art and Thucydides like an artist. -- Nikolaus Overtoom, Louisiana State University * H-War *Table of ContentsEditors' and Translator’s PrefaceEditors’ IntroductionAuthor’s DedicationIntroduction1. Narrative Methods2. Battle Accounts: Analysis and Narration3. The Antithetical Speeches4. Investigating the Past: The "Archaeology"ConclusionWorks CitedIndex of Thucydidean Passages DiscussedGeneral Index
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Stanford University Press 1368: China and the Making of the Modern World
Book SynopsisA new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the way for China's first modern global era. 1368 maps China's ascendance from the embassies of Admiral Zheng He to the arrival of European mariners and the shock of the Opium Wars. In Ali Humayun Akhtar's new picture of world history, China's current rise evokes an earlier epoch, one that sheds light on where Beijing is heading today. Spectacular accounts in Persian and Ottoman Turkish describe palaces of silk and jade in Beijing's Forbidden City. Malay legends recount stories of Chinese princesses arriving in Melaka with gifts of porcelain and gold. During Europe's Age of Exploration, Iberian mariners charted new passages to China, which the Dutch and British East India Companies transformed into lucrative tea routes. But during the British Industrial Revolution, the rise of steam engines and factories allowed the export of the very commodities once imported from China. By the end of the Opium Wars and the arrival of Commodore Perry in Japan, Chinese and Japanese reformers called for their own industrial revolutions to propel them into the twentieth century. What has the world learned from China since the Ming, and how did China reemerge in the 1970s as a manufacturing superpower? Akhtar's book provides much-needed context for understanding China's rise today and the future of its connections with both the West and a resurgent Asia.Trade Review"An original global history that tells a compelling story of the interconnectedness of the world in premodern times."—Fabio Rambelli, UC Santa Barbara"This book provides us with a valuable historical understanding of one of the big questions of our time: how and why has China become a 21st -century global superpower?"—Roger Crowley, author of Conquerors"1368 is an exciting and important book that broadens our understanding of the Ming and Qing centuries, two momentous eras in Chinese and world history."—Hyunhee Park, author of Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds"A brilliant reorientation of 600 years of history. Its global perspective explores afresh a number of multifaceted encounters with high points in China's civilization and successfully avoids both Sinocentric and Eurocentric narratives. A remarkable story succinctly told."—Wang Gungwu, author of The Eurasian Core and its Edges"Akhtar's smooth and rich narrative, grounded in extant scholarship, archival sources, literary texts and material culture, makes 1368 accessible and thought-provoking for readers of different backgrounds."—Chiara Formichi, author of Islam and Asia"Ali Akhtar writes a longue durée history from an Asian perspective. His masterly exploration of global-Asian interaction leaves readers mulling over an important question: How are we to understand Asia's and specifically also China's role in the evolving global order? The light of history offers some answers."—Peter Borschberg, author of The Singapore and Melaka Straits"A wide-ranging and very thought-provoking book. 1368 presents a vision of how the world became knitted together by the seams."—Eric Tagliacozzo, author of The Longest Journey"A remarkably concise and well-illustrated volume that commands attention for its Asia-centered approach to global history as well as its erudite and original coverage of a broad range of subjects, from the history of the Silk Road, the Spice Trade, the European overseas empires, to modern Japan and global China in the 21st century, and more."—André Wink, author of The Making of the Indo-Islamic world c.700–1800 CE"This exciting study reveals the place of global China in the modern world's economic system and its layered history. From the book's long-duration understanding of history, we can learn many perspectives on our relationship with China as a new global power."—Eiji Nagasawa, The University of Tokyo"Ali Akhtar's 1368 reveals the Indian Ocean, the Silk Road, and China's relations with the Persianate World to be significant strands in the weaving of global modernity."—Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, author of The Dao Of Muhammad"Ali Humayun Akhtar's book offers an important intervention in scholarly considerations of the transitions to the global modern age. Akhtar builds upon the recent turn to the study of social networks while at the same time challenging us to think more creatively about the dynamic nature of such networks. The work highlights elements such as the prominent role of Muslims in the renewed promotions of network ties based on premodern relations between China, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Chinese governments and related networks, including Japanese governments, were international and, arguably, globalizing influences, long before their appearance as global players in the 20th century."—Brian Ruppert, Kanagawa University, author of Jewel in the Ashes"With deep research and engaging prose, 1368 upends orthodox trajectories of research that have long inquired about the impact of 'the west' upon 'the rest' through a vivid exploration of how travelers and wanderers became conduits of Chinese culture to the rest of the world. 1368 is a timely book and positively engrossing read."—William Noseworthy, Cornell University"[1368] is an enlightening look into a vital historical era that has been understudied in the West"—Publisher's Weekly"Today's China is a manufacturing powerhouse producing much of the world's trade goods. Akhtar makes the case that this phenomenon is a reoccurrence of China's manufacturing dominance in international trade before the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, which tipped the balance to Western Europe and the United States."—Joshua Wallace, Library Journal"Akhtar synthesizes more than 500 years of global history with style and economy. He fluidly construes Zen Buddhism, Timurid travel accounts, Islam in Korea, so-called "peace marriages" with Malay vassals, Vermeer's "The Milkmaid" (ca. 1660), Thomas Paine and Voltaire on Confucius, and the rise and fall of the Tokugawa shogunate—and contrasts the divergent strategies and legacies of the Europeans on one hand, and those of the Chinese and Japanese on the other."—Maxwell Carter, The Wall Street JournalTable of Contents2. Global Beijing under the Great Ming 3. Picturing China in Persian along the Silk Routes 4. Trading with China in Malay along the Spice Routes 5. Europe's Search for the Spice Islands 6. A Sino-Jesuit Tradition of Science and Mapmaking 7. Porcelain across the Dutch Empire 8. Tea across the British Empire 9. China's Eclipse and Japan's Modernization
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University of Pennsylvania Press Claiming Land Claiming Water
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Oxford University Press Inc From Herodotus to HNet
Book SynopsisFrom Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography, Second Edition, offers a concise but comprehensive and up-to-date account of the many ways history has been studied and recounted, from the ancient world to the new universe of the Internet. Clearly written and organized, it shows how the same issues that historians debate today were already recognized in past centuries, and how the efforts of historians in the past remain relevant today. Balanced and fair-minded, the book covers the development of modern academic scholarship, but also helps students appreciate the contributions of popular historians and of the many forms of publichistory. Often drawing on what historians from Edward Gibbon to Natalie Zemon Davis have written about their own careers, From Herodotus to H-Net, Second Edition, brings the discipline of history alive for students and general readers.Trade Review"Characterized by scholarly command of the most relevant literature, thorough and clear discussion of those sources, and an impassioned endorsement of the contributions of the field of history, From Herodotus to H-Net is resoundingly successful in achieving Popkin's stated aims."--H-Net Reviews "This is a wonderful book; it clearly explains the development of the study of history from ancient times to the present. Also, unlike other books on the subject, it introduces students to the world of academia and how it functions. The book not only clearly explains the history of history in a clear and accessible manner, it also includes a section on what it takes to earn a PhD in history and pursue an academic career."--Patricia Kollander, Florida Atlantic University "From Herodotus to H-Net offers a superb introduction to historiography on a global scale, with up-to-date analyses of the most recent approaches, a thoughtful discussion of the process of becoming a historian, and a judicious overview of the rapid changes occurring within the profession even now."--David S. Karr, Columbia College, MissouriTable of ContentsPreface About the Author PART ONE. HISTORIOGRAPHY FROM HERODOTUS TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Chapter 1. What Is Historiography? The Concerns of Historiography This Book and Its Author Justifying the Study of the Past A Short Field Guide to the Varieties of History Chapter 2. History in Ancient and Medieval Times Herodotus and Thucydides History-Writing in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds The Origins of Chinese Historiography History, Judaism, and Christianity History in an Age of Belief History in the Chinese and Islamic Worlds The Late Middle Ages in Europe Chapter 3. The Historiographical Revolution of the Early Modern Era The Renaissance Revolution in Historiography Historians in a New World The Age of Print History in the Age of the Enlightenment Chapter 4. The Rise of Academic Scholarship and National History The Revolutionary Era and the Development of Historical Consciousness Ranke and His "Revolution" Nationalism and Historical Scholarship History and the Sciences of Society A Historical Civilization Chapter 5. Scientific History in an Era of Conflict Critiques of Scientific History World War I and the Understanding of History The Founding of the "Annales" School History and World War II Social History in the Postwar Period History in the Cold War World PART TWO. HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD Chapter 6. From Objectivity to the "Culture Wars": Historiography from the 1960s to the End of the Millennium The Challenges of the 1960s Searching for a New History New Paradigms for History Women's History and the History of Gender Relations Contesting Eurocentrism The History of Memory "History Wars" Chapter 7. History and Historians in a New Millennium A Historical Controversy to End the Millennium History in the Internet Era History beyond the Printed Page New Directions in Historical Scholarship Chapter 8. Historians at Work The Graduate School Experience Searching for a Job in History The Quest for Tenure Professors' Work Is There Life after Tenure? History Careers beyond Academia Chapter 9. Conclusion Suggestions for Further Reading Index
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Yale University Press The New Science
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This translation is more consistent in its terminology, is more faithful to the textual features of the 1744 text, and provides significantly greater (and clearer) annotation than previous translations."—Charles Sullivan, University of Dallas“The footnotes acquaint the Anglophone reader with perhaps the very best of contemporary Vico scholars.”—Nancy Struever, Johns Hopkins University"This third translation of the main work of Italian philosophy into English presents important advantages with regard to the earlier ones. It is philologically faithful, philosophically competent, and eminently readable."—Vittorio Hosle, author of Vico’s New Science of the Intersubjective World"Finally, the barrier posed by Vico’s formidably difficult baroque prose is overcome. He can now be understood and recognized as indispensably key to the perennial future of the humanities."—William Franke, author of The Revelation of Imagination"This translation is agilely faithful to Vico’s idiosyncratic prose; and while prior translations provide scant resources to aid the reader, this one contains copious annotations as well as a magisterial introduction."—Stuart D. Warner, Roosevelt University
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Basic Books Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest
Book SynopsisThe United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making constructive dialogue impossible and imperilling our democracy. In Myth America, Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of fellow historians to push back against this misinformation. The contributors debunk narratives that portray the New Deal and Great Society as failures, immigrants as hostile invaders, and feminists as anti-family warriors-among numerous other partisan lies. Based on a firm foundation of historical scholarship, their findings revitalize our understanding of American history. Replacing myths with research and reality, Myth America is essential reading amid today's heated debates about our nation's past. With Essays ByAkhil Reed Amar Kathleen Belew Carol Anderson Kevin Kruse Erika Lee Daniel Immerwahr Elizabeth Hinton Naomi Oreskes Erik M. Conway Ari Kelman Geraldo Cadava David A. Bell Joshua Zeitz Sarah Churchwell Michael Kazin Karen L. Cox Eric Rauchway Glenda Gilmore Natalia Mehlman Petrzela Lawrence B. Glickman Julian E. Zelizer
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Soul and Intellect Studies in Plotinus and Later Neoplatonism 426 Variorum Collected Studies
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon
Book SynopsisEdward Gibbon''s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in three instalments from 1776 to 1788, is widely regarded as the greatest work of history in the English language. Starting with the accession of the Roman Emperor Commodus in the late second century CE, Gibbon''s work traverses thirteen centuries, encompassing the rise of Christianity and of Islam, the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, and the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the intellectual roots, contemporary European contexts, literary style and thematic scale of Gibbon''s achievement. Alongside the History, it gives an introduction to Gibbon''s other works, including the Memoirs he left unfinished at his death and previously unpublished material. Leading international scholars in the fields of classics, geography, history and literature provide a comprehensive account of Gibbon''s monumental account of decline, fall and global historicaTable of ContentsChronology; Introduction Karen O'Brien; 1. An overview of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire J. G. A. Pocock; 2. Gibbon's geographies Robert Mayhew; 3. Gibbon and the city of Rome Catharine Edwards; 4. Do Byzantine historians sill read Gibbon? Mark Whittow; 5. Gibbon among the Barbarians George Woudhuysen; 6. Gibbon and enlightenment history in eighteenth-century Britain Tim Stuart-Buttle; 7. Gibbon and republicanism Béla Kapossy and Richard Whatmore; 8. Gibbon and Catholicism B. W. Young; 9. Gibbon's Style in The Decline and Fall Fred Parker; 10. Gibbon's mind and libraries Robert Mankin; 11. The Memoirs and Character of the Historian Charlotte Roberts; 12. Afterword: a new Gibbon manuscript David Womersley.
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Columbia University Press Realms of Memory
Book SynopsisOffers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself.Trade ReviewThis is an indispensable guide to understanding France and the French. As usual, Arthur Goldhammer's translation is superb. Foreign Affairs This unusual book deals fascinatingly with everything from the creation of the rousing anthem "La Marseillaise" to the changing role of Joan of Arc in France's collective memory. Even the Eiffel Tower shines forth in surprising new facets. Chicago Tribune Provides arresting genealogies of a number of the major cleavages in French history, with chapters on the embattled relationship of Jews to the French republic, the peculiar affinities of Gaulism and Communism, and... Paris' haughty condescension toward la province... Without resorting to polemics, the volume reminds us that the image of the French past is confected as much out of amnesia as out of memory. Lingua Franca A magisterial attempt to define what it is to be French. Times Literary Supplement A magnificent achievement... [The essays included] are the high-carat jewels of the project. The New RepublicTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Pierre Nora Part I: Emblems 1. The Three Colors: Neither White nor Red, by Raoul Girardet 2. La Marseillaise: War or Peace, by Michel Vovelle 3. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, by Mona Ozouf 4. Bastille Day: From Dies Irae to Holiday, by Christian Almavi Part II: Major Sites 1. Lascaux, by Jean-Paul Demoule 2. Reims, City of Coronation, by Jacques Le Goff 3. The Louvre, Royal Residence and Temple of the Arts, by Jean-Pierre Babelon 4. Versailles, the Image of the Sovereign, by Edouard Pommier 5. The Pantheon, The Ecole Normale of the Dead, by Mona Ozouf 6. The Eiffel Tower, by Henry Loyette 7. Verdun, by Antoine Prost Part III: Identifications 1. The Gallic Cock, by Michael Pastoureau 2. Joan of Arc, by Michael Winock 3. Descartes, by Francois Azouvi 4. Paris, A Traversal from East to West, by Maurice Agulhon 5. The Genius of the French Language, by Marc Fumaroli 6. The Era of Commemoration, by Pierre Nora Notes Index of Names Index of Subjects
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Taylor & Francis Aquinas on God The Divine Science of the Summa Theologiae Ashgate Studies in the History of Philosophical Theology
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Harvard University Press The First European
Book SynopsisEnlightenment thinkers, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexander the Great's achievements. As Pierre Briant shows, in their minds Alexander was the first European: an empire builder who welcomed trade with the Orient and brought Western civilization to its oppressed peoples.Trade ReviewIn this important work, a great historian of classical antiquity returns to the European ‘long eighteenth century’ and its reconsideration of the crucial figure of Alexander as a forerunner of its own imperial ambitions and projects. With its vast erudition, and careful attention to minor as well as major figures from Montesquieu to Droysen and beyond, Pierre Briant’s book is nothing less than a tour de force, both as a contribution to the intellectual history of the Enlightenment in its global dimensions, as well as to the complex dialogue between ‘Moderns’ and ‘Ancients.’ It confirms once more that the life-trajectory of the Macedonian conqueror remains an inexhaustible cultural resource, whether in the Christian or indeed the Islamic world, from the Atlantic and Mediterranean to Bengal and the Malay Peninsula. This is a significant and weighty contribution to a real global intellectual history. -- Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los AngelesThe First European is a work of exceptional quality and interest. Briant’s patient disentanglement of the relationship between Alexander the Great, Enlightenment historical thought and European imperialism in India and the Middle East sheds dramatic new light on all three fields…This is a truly remarkable forgotten chapter of European intellectual history, laid out with passion and integrity. Neither Alexander nor Napoleon will ever look quite the same again. -- Peter Thonemann * Wall Street Journal *
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