Historiography Books
Palgrave MacMillan UK Ordinary People as Mass Murderers Perpetrators in Comparative Perspectives The Holocaust and its Contexts
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s scholars have focused heavily on the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and have presented a complex and diverse picture of perpetrators. This book provides a unique overview of the current state of research on perpetrators. The overall focus is on the key question that it still disputed: How do ordinary people become mass murderers?Trade Review'Ordinary People as Mass Murderers is an extraordinarily felicitous book which ought to be regarded as an important enrichment to the academic and even to the political discussion. It offers complex, detailed and sophisticated analyses in every single one of its difficult subjects, and at the same time it is inspiring and well readable. The editors doubtlessly succeeded in offering a supremely objective and factual contribution on this urgent, extremely challenging and delicate theme.' - Wolfgang Benz, Center for Research on Anti-Semitism, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Taterforschung (perpetrator research) is dominated by German scholars, and much of the sophisticated, detailed and empirically rich work has yet to find its way into English. This short collection of essays is thus very welcome as a contribution to the English-language scholarship on perpetrators...the book ranges widely, and the quality of the chapters is uniformly high, combining readabilty and up-to-date research. The book will be ideal for teaching at higher undergraduate or postgraduate levels...' - Dan Stone, Journal of Genocide ResearchTable of ContentsList of Photographs List of Tables and Figures Preface Notes on Contributors Glossary Introductory Thoughts and Chapter Overview; O.Jensen PART I: PERPETRATORS OF THE HOLOCAUST Perpetrators of the Holocaust: A Historiography; C-C W.Szejnmann Male Bonding and Shame Culture: Hitler's Soldiers and the Moral Basis of Genocidal Warfare; T.Kühne The Men of Einsatzgruppe D.: An Inside View of a State-Sanctioned Killing Unit in the Third Reich; A.Angrick PART II: FEMALE PERPETRATORS OF THE HOLOCAUST Women under National Socialism: Women's Scope for Action and the Issue of Gender; C.Herkommer Female Concentration Camp Guards as Perpetrators: Three Case Studies; I.Heike PART III: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES The Ordinariness of Extraordinary Evil: The Making of Perpetrators of Genocide and Mass Killing; J.E.Waller On Killing and Morality: How Normal People Become Mass Murderers; H.Welzer PART IV: PERPETRATORS AND GENOCIDE The Organisation of Genocide: Perpetration in Comparative Perspective; D.Bloxham International Law after the Nuremberg Trials and Rwanda: How Do Perpetrators Justify Themselves?; G.Hankel Index
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Palgrave Macmillan The Past as History National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Modern Europe Writing the Nation
Book Synopsis1. Introduction Constructing the Nation Through History 2. National History Before the Nation State from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment 3. The Invention of European National Traditions During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 4. Scientificity and Historiographical Nationalism, 1850 1914 5. National Histories in and between the World Wars 6. National Histories from post-Second World War to post-Cold War 7. Conclusion What Balance Sheet and What Future for National Histories?Table of Contents1. Introduction Constructing the Nation Through History 2. National History Before the Nation State from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment 3. The Invention of European National Traditions During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 4. Scientificity and Historiographical Nationalism, 1850 1914 5. National Histories in and between the World Wars 6. National Histories from post-Second World War to post-Cold War 7. Conclusion What Balance Sheet and What Future for National Histories?
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Palgrave MacMillan UK How Generations Remember Conflicting Histories and Shared Memories in PostWar Bosnia and Herzegovina Global Diversities
Book SynopsisThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city.Trade Review“Palmberger applies methodological creativity to capture people’s narratives on contentious and sensitive topics, while striving to avoid exposure to bias … The result is a robust example of a well-executed qualitative multimethod study.” (Tamara Trošt, Südosteuropa, Vol. 67 (1), March, 2019)Table of ContentsIntroduction. Researching Memory and Generation.- Chapter 1. Fragments of Communicative Memory: WWII, Tito and the 1992-95 War.- Chapter 2. Divided Education: Divergent Historiographies and Shared Discursive Strategies.- Chapter 3. Two Wars and Tito In-Between: The First Yugoslavs.- Chapter 4. Ruptured Biographies: The Last Yugoslavs.- Chapter 5. The (Un)spoilt Generation: The Post-Yugoslavs.- Conclusion.
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Palgrave Macmillan Thinking History Globally
Book SynopsisThe book brings together many recent trends in writing history under a common framework: thinking history globally. By thinking history globally, the book explains, applies, and exemplifies the four basic strategies of analysis, the big C's: comparing, connecting, conceptualizing, and contextualizing, using twelve different branches of history.Trade Review“This is one of many volumes devoted to the search for a proper historiography fitting the human life that is now being lived globally and thus must be understood accordingly. … Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries.” (A. Breisach, Choice, Vol. 53 (1), September, 2015)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Theory in Practice 2. Twelve Branches in their Singularities, Overlaps, and Clusters 3. Comparing or Connecting 4. Comparing and Connecting 5. Varieties of Connections 6. Conceptualizing through Social Sciences 7. Thinking Globalization Historically 8. Contextualizing in Bigger Scales 9. All Together Now, a Last Rehearsal: Thinking Globally on Border Crossing Phenomena, the First World War Analytical Bibliography
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Palgrave Pivot History Policy and Public Purpose Historians and Historical Thinking in Government
Book SynopsisIntroduction. - 1. Integrity, advocacy and the public purpose of scholarship. - 2. Historians on the inside: thinking with history in policy. - 3. The historian's toolkit. - 4. Disciplinary training and public purpose in university history teaching. - Conclusions: Towards a history with public purposeTable of ContentsIntroduction. - 1. Integrity, advocacy and the public purpose of scholarship. - 2. Historians on the inside: thinking with history in policy. - 3. The historian’s toolkit. - 4. Disciplinary training and public purpose in university history teaching. - Conclusions: Towards a history with public purpose
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St Martin's Press Robert E. Lee and Me
Book SynopsisTy Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency. --Ron ChernowIn a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule''s Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacyand explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed.Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. Now, as a retired brigadier general and Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, his view has radically changed. From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, Ty Seidule believes that American history demands a reckoning.In a unique blend of history and reflection, Seidule deconstructs the truth about t
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Antarctica and the Humanities Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Book SynopsisThe continent for science is also a continent for the humanities. As this book shows, the tools of literary studies, history, archaeology, and more, can likewise produce important insights into the nature of the modern world and humanity more broadly.Trade Review“The 13 contributing authors provide not only an impressive overview of humanities and social science approaches toward the study of Antarctica, but also clearly demonstrate that Antarctic research is relevant to more than the natural sciences. … Antarctica and the Humanities is recommended for any historian interested in Antarctica, but it would also appeal to a maritime historian interested in more than just ships and maritime technology or trade.” (Ingo Heidbrink, The Northern Mariner, Vol. 27 (1), 2017)“Congratulations to Peder Roberts and his team for developing the concept of representing the humanities in Antarctica with a collection of essays … . This hardcover first edition of Antarctica and the humanities is beautifully presented, with endnotes following each chapter, with maps and illustrations, and an index for the diverse subject matter. It has been deservedly well-received. It is a book which invites further discussion. It is, and will continue to be, a valuable reference.” (Anna Lucas, Polar Record, 2017)Table of ContentsIntroduction - Antarctica: A Continent for the Humanities by Peder Roberts, Lize-Marié van der Watt and Adrian Howkins. - PART I: THE HEROIC AND THE MUNDANE. - 1. Changing the Subject: Antarctic Diaries and Heroic Reputations by Elizabeth Leane. - 2. Beriberi at Kerguelen: A case study of international Antarctic co-operation 1901-1903 by Cornelia Lüdecke. - PART II: ALTERNATIVE ANTARCTICS. - 3. So far, so close. Approaching experience in the study of the encounter between sealers and the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica, 19th century) by Andrés Zarankin and Melisa A. Salerno. - 4. The white (supremacist) continent: Antarctica and fantasies of Nazi survival by Peder Roberts. - 5. The whiteness of Antarctica: race and South Africa’s Antarctic history by Lize-Marié van der Watt and Sandra Swart. - PART III: WHOSE ANTARCTIC?. - 6. Acting artefacts: on the meanings of material culture in Antarctica by Dag Avango. - 7. Finding Place in Antarctica by Alessandro Antonello. - 8. Scott's Shadow: “Proto Territory” in Contemporary Antarctica by Elena Glasberg. - PART IV: VALUING ANTARCTIC SCIENCE. - 9. SCAR as a healing process? Reflections on science and polar politics in the Cold War and beyond. The Case of Norway by Stian Bones. - 10. Emerging from the shadow of science: some thoughts on the challenges and opportunities for Antarctic history by Adrian Howkins. - Concluding Reflections by Aant Elzinga
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Short History of Western Ideology
Book SynopsisWe are arguably living in a postideological' era. However, when we tune into the TV news we can hear political leaders talk about advanced' societies, geopolitical experts suggest humanitarian' interventions, and sober events presenters qualify a murder as barbaric'. What does this mean? In this comprehensive book, Rolf Petri reveals how our everyday political language is full of ideological representations of the world, and places them in an accessible historical narration.From the secularization of Europe and the Enlightenment project of ''civilization'' to the contemporary preoccupation with ecological catastrophes or the end of history, A Short History of Western Ideology carves out the central elements of western ideology. It focuses on a wide variety of issues including religion, colonialism, race and gender, which are essential for how we conceive of the modern world. By creating an awareness of the ideological character of the western worldview, its limits and its flaws,Trade ReviewIn a lengthy and highly sophisticated introduction, Petri (Ca' Foscari Univ. Italy) justifies the kind of intellectual history he is doing. In conceptual history, the author ranges freely among great philosophers, their epigones, and historical events to tell a story. * CHOICE *In this fascinating and important book Rolf Petri has created a concise history of Western ideology, each of the chapters a brilliant essay on its own terms, coming together to form a major historical statement that sums up what it has meant to think "Western" over the course of the last three centuries. This book compels us to rethink the most fundamental aspects of how we understand the role of ideology in the making of the modern world. * Larry Wolff, Professor of History, New York University, USA *A brilliant account of core elements of Western ideology, explaining how they emerged from eschatological thinking to inform our modern experience of the world. Instead of running his readers through a schematic list of authors and their thought, Petri takes a holistic approach, looking at the presumptions they share. It is a tour de force which leads us from Herodotus to the Abrahamic religions, from Enlightenment and colonisation to global warming. * Axel Körner, Professor of Modern History, University College London, UK *What might western ideology mean after decades of postcolonial criticism and deconstruction? What’s left of Eurocentrism and Westernness? Rolf Petri dives deep into this immense cultural tradition, scrutinizing it with intellectual devices that localize it in a concrete geographical and historical context and, at the same time, delocalize it, viewing it within a non-hierarchical global context. Present-day preoccupations with civic bonds and the environment, temporality and making sense of history set the stage for rediscovering, rereading (and reshaping) the western intellectual tradition. * Antonis Liakos, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Athens, Greece *Petri’s discussion of the nature and history of western ideology discusses the writings of philosophers and historians from Locke to Hobbes, and from Adam Smith to Marx and Engels. In the process, the reader is exposed to a critical and often innovative interpretation of these writers’ works; their commonalities and their differences. * Counterpunch *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Europe and History 2. Freedom and Sovereignty 3. Hierarchy among Equals 4. A Craving for Goodness 5. Ecology and Apocalypse Afterword References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Readings on the Russian Revolution Debates Aspirations Outcomes
Book SynopsisMelissa K. Stockdale is Brian and Sandra O'Brien Presidential Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma, USA. She is the author of Mobilizing the Russian Nation: Patriotism and Citizenship in the First World War (2016) and Paul Miliukov and the Quest for a Liberal Russia, 1880-1918 (1997). She is also the co-editor, along with Murray Frame, Steven Marks and Boris Kolonitskii, of the two-volume Russian Culture in War and Revolution, 1914-1922 (2014) and Space, Place, and Power in Russia (2010), along with Mark Bassin and Christopher Ely.Trade ReviewThe concentration on recent studies means the volume remains distinct from existing compilations ... Stockdale’s book, then, could usefully work in tandem with these earlier compilations for readers interested in the longer historiography of the revolution. In that regard, the volume’s essays are welcome introductions to the most influential recent analyses and debates for anyone eager to learn or teach about the Russian Revolution. * Michigan War Studies Review *This cleverly chosen selection of recent scholarship on the Russian Revolution will provide college students with a comprehensive sense of the different perspectives on the Revolution that have emerged since the opening of the Soviet archives. It provides an excellent introduction to innovative research on topics such as the non-Russian minorities, war and violence, language and culture. * Stephen Smith, Professor of History, University of Oxford, UK *A hundred years after Red October, scholars continue to debate the meaning of those revolutionary events. Melissa Stockdale has assembled here some of the last thirty years' most dynamic work on the subject—a diverse collection of key articles from across the political spectrum. * David Brandenberger, Professor of History and Global Studies, University of Richmond, USA *Melissa Stockdale has performed an enormous service for students and teachers of the Russian Revolution. These selected readings will orient students through the key themes and interpretative controversies that have characterized scholarship on the Revolution since the collapse of the USSR. Framed by a clear and insightful introduction, this will quickly become a required text. * James Ryan, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, Cardiff University, UK *Table of ContentsList of Contributors Map: European Russia, 1914 Introduction: 100 Years Later, Scholarship on the Russian Revolution after the Cold War, Melissa K. Stockdale Part I. 1917: Languages, Symbols, and Agency Chapter 1. Reflections on the Russian Revolution, Richard Pipes Excerpt from A Concise History of the Russian Revolution (Knopf, 1995) Chapter 2. Languages of Citizenship, Languages of Class: Workers and the Social Order, Orlando Figes and Boris I. Kolonitskii Excerpt from Interpreting the Russian Revolution (Yale University Press, 1999) Chapter 3.‘Water is Yours, Light is Yours, the Land is Yours, the Wood is Yours’, Sarah Badcock Excerpt from Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History (Cambridge University Press, 2007) Chapter 4.Kerenskii: Popular Brand and Revolutionary Symbol, Boris I. Kolonitskii Excerpt from “Tovarishch Kerenskii”: Antimonarkhicheskaia revoliutsiia I formirovanie kul’ta “vozhdia naroda”[“Comrade Kerenskii”: The Anti-Monarchic Revolution and Formation of the Cult of the “Leader of the People”] (Novoe literaturenoe obozrenie, 2017) Part II. War, Revolution, the State Chapter 5.Rise of the Warlords, Joshua Sanborn Excerpt from Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire (Oxford University Press, 2002) Chapter 6.Psychological Consolidation, Peter Holquist Excerpt from Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia’s Continuum of Crisis, 1914 – 1922 (Harvard University Press, 2002) Chapter 7.Social Disintegration, Igor Narskii Excerpt from Zhizn’ v katastrofe. Budni naselenie Urala v 1917-1922 gg.(ROSSPEN, 2001) [Life in Catastrophe: The Daily Experience of the Population of the Urals, 1917-1922] Chapter 8. Nationalizing the Revolution, Adeeb Khalid Excerpt from Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR (Cornell University Press, 2015) Part III. Revolutionary Dreams and Identities Chapter 9.Bolshevik Ritual Buildings in the 1920s, Richard Stites Excerpt from Russia in the Era of NEP: Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture (Indiana University Press, 1991) Chapter 10. Connecting, Emma Widdis Excerpt from Visions of a New Land: Soviet Film from the Revolution to the Second World War (Yale University Press, 2003) Chapter 11. Daily Life and Gender Transformation, Elizabeth A. Wood Excerpt from The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (Indiana University Press, 1997) Chapter 12. Forging the Revolutionary Self, Jochen Hellbeck Excerpt from Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin (Harvard University Press, 2006) Part IV. Outcomes and Impacts Chapter 13. Ending the Revolution, Sheila Fitzpatrick Excerpt from The Russian Revolution, 3rd Edition (Oxford University Press, 2008) Chapter 14. Telling October, Frederick C. Corney Excerpt from Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Russian Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2008) Chapter 15. Communism and the New Forms of Dictatorship, Steven G. Marks Excerpt from How Russia Shaped the Modern World (Princeton University Press, 2003) Chronology of the Revolutionary Era Glossary Further Reading Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Rethinking Historical Time New Approaches to Presentism
Trade ReviewIn the last generation, we have seen a major shift in attitudes to time - past, present and future - both among historians and in the wider world. Rethinking Historical Time offers an indispensable guide to this shift and to its different contexts: cultural, social and ecological. * Peter Burke, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge, UK *At a time of great uncertainty, these essays on how societies have reflected on past, present and future, and on the duties those alive have to those who have been and those to come, is particularly welcome. Rethinking Historical Time is both global in its reach and human in scale. It is a lucid contribution that all those thinking and learning in the humanities will appreciate. * Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History, Queen Mary, University of London, UK *Time in history is undoubtedly an intellectual impertinence – but, as Tamm’s and Olivier’s effort with the topic shows convincingly, it is worthy of note and deeper discussion as time ever was. * European History Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Introduction: Rethinking Historical Time, Marek Tamm (Tallinn University, Estonia) and Laurent Olivier (French National Museum of Archaeology, France) Part I: Presentism and New Temporalities 1. Out of Time? Some Critical Reflections on François Hartog’s Presentism, Chris Lorenz (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 2. Return to Chronology, Helge Jordheim (University of Oslo, Norway) 3. Coming to Terms with the Present: Exploring the Chrononormativity of Historical Time, Victoria Fareld (Stockholm University, Sweden) 4. The Transformation of Historical Time: Processual and Evental Temporalities, Zoltán Boldizsár Simon (Bielefeld University, Germany) Part II: Multiple Temporalities 5. Revolutionary Presence: Historicism and the Temporal Politics of the Moment, Hans Ruin (Södertörn University, Sweden) 6. Time Outside History: Politics and Ontology in Franz Rosenzweig’s and Mircea Eliade’s Reimagined Temporalities, Liisi Keedus (Tallinn University, Estonia) 7. Pictorial Times and the Times of History: On Seeing Images and Experiencing Time, Johannes Grave (Bielefeld University, Germany) 8. Time as History in Twentieth-Century Photography, Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin, Ireland) Part III: Material Temporalities 9. Heritage and the Untimely, Torgeir Rinke Bangstad (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway) 10. ‘Let’s Get Rid of That Old Stuff!’ Family Heritage Objects in France at the Age of Presentism, Jean-Pierre Legendre (French Ministry of Culture, France) and Laurence Ollivier (French Ministry of Culture, France) 11. Death and Archaeology in the Present, Tense, Shannon Lee Dawdy (University of Chicago, USA) 12. Rewilding Time in the Vale do Côa, Caitlin DeSilvey (University of Exeter, UK) Conclusion: A Creed That Has Lost its Believers? Reconfiguring the Concepts of Time and History, Aleida Assmann (University of Constance, Germany) Index
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Bloomsbury Academic The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History
Book SynopsisAviezer Tucker is the Director of the Centre for the Philosophy of Historiography at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. His publications include Historiographic Reasoning (2024) and Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography (2004), as well as numerous articles and reviews about the philosophy of historiography and the philosophy of science. He also edited A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography (2009). He taught or held research positions at the Central European University, Palacky University, Columbia University, New York University, Trinity College, Long Island University, the Australian National University, Queens University, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the University of Cologne, the University of Texas in Austin, and Harvard University.David Cernín is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic and a member of the university's Centre for the Philosophy of Historiography. He has published on topics including historical realism and anti-realism, intellectual history, and history education. His most recent co-authored book, History Education between Science and Narration (published in Czech as Dejepis mezi vedou a vyprávením), was published in 2023 and partly explored the educational potential of Big History.
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Springer The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 19
Book SynopsisIt was the desire to probe the underlying causes of the shift from the early modern ‘nature-knowledge’ to modern science that was one of the stimuli for the ‘Origins of Modernity: Early Modern Thought 1543–1789’ conference held in Sydney in July 2002.Trade ReviewAus den Rezensionen: "… Es gehört nun zur hohen Qualität dieses Bandes, dass alle Beiträge dem zugrundeliegenden methodischen Ansatz und der thematischen Intention gerecht werden … Der Band wird seinem Anspruch, die ‘patterns of change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy‘ zu beschreiben und zu analysieren, in hohem Maße gerecht. Die Beiträge sind ausgesprochen konstruktiv und nehmen erfreulicherweise vielfach Bezug aufeinander, so dass eine für einen Sammelband selten anzutreffende Kohärenz entsteht …" (http://www.sehepunkte.de)Table of ContentsThe Onset of the Scientific Revolution.- ‘Waterworld’: Descartes’ Vortical Celestial Mechanics.- Circular Argument.- From Mechanics to Mechanism.- The Autonomy of Natural Philosophy.- Physico-Theology and the Mixed Sciences.- The Saturn Problem.- Experimental Versus Speculative Natural Philosophy.
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Palgrave Macmillan Humanism and Democratic Criticism
Book SynopsisForeword Preface Humanism's Sphere The Changing Bases of Humanistic Study and Practice The Return to Philology Introductions to Erich Auerbach's Mimesis The Public Role of Writer's and Intellectuals IndexTrade ReviewPraise for the author: 'One of the leading thinkers of the age.' - The New York Observer 'Edward Said is the most distinguished and cultural critic now writing in America.' - Cornel West 'Said is a brilliant and unique amalgam of scholar, aesthete, and political activist...[He] challenges and stimulates our thinking in every area.' - Washington Post Book World 'Edward Said helps us to understand who we are and what we must do if we aspire to be moral agents, not servants of power.' - Noam Chomsky 'Future work about or influenced by Said will no doubt be more grandiose and heavyweight than this collection of lectures and essays from the last years of his life. But no other work can be as inspiring as this.' - New HumanistTable of ContentsForeword Preface Humanism's Sphere The Changing Bases of Humanistic Study and Practice The Return to Philology Introductions to Erich Auerbach's Mimesis The Public Role of Writer's and Intellectuals Index
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia Palgrave Concise Historical Atlases
Book SynopsisThis atlas graphically illuminates the region's history tracing back to the 8th-7th century B.C. From the spread of Islam to the invasion of the Mongols, the area has been at the crossroads of some of the world's most important developments, all succinctly explained in this book.Trade Review'The atlas serves as a useful reference, valuable for its clarity and wealth of information.' - www.museo-on.com '...as a cheap, up to date, nearly pocket-sized guide to a little-known area of enormous geopolitical importance, this book is unrivalled. It seems to me that most public reference libraries, and academic libraries catering for courses in geography, history, politics or international relations, ought to consider it for acquisition.' - Martin Guha, Reference Reviews '...contains a wealth of clear and easily accessible information; it is a bold attempt to describe and graphically illustrate the history of a complex region and the author is to be warmly congratulated for it. The paperback atlas is an affordable and worthy addition to any library.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic SocietyTable of ContentsIntroductory Maps * Early History, 6th Century B.C.-6th Century A.D. * Islamic Golden Age * Mongols and Decline of Central Asia * Era of Colonialism and Nation State Building * Post-Communism and Independence
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Greek Historiography
Book SynopsisThis volume provides an accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date survey of the ancient Greek genre of historical writing from its origins before Herodotus to the Greek historians of the Roman imperial era, seven centuries later.Trade Review"...certainly merits to be considered as a textbook for notably undergraduate students of the subject. To its value adds the fact that it is well written, well produced, that it provides...a concise guide for further reading..., an elaborate "index locorum", and an efficient and comprehensive general index. In providing these assets, the book...offers an excellent value for its price." - Classical JournalTable of ContentsPreface vi Abbreviations ix Chapter 1: Origins and Early Forms of Greek Historiography 1 Chapter 2: Herodotus and the Limits of Happiness: Beyond Epic, Lyric, and Logography 26 Chapter 3: Thucydides on the Ends of Power 69 Chapter 4: Xenophon on Leadership and Moral Authority 126 Chapter 5: History and Rhetoric in Fourth]Century Historians 160 Chapter 6: Diversity and Innovation in the Hellenistic Era 190 Chapter 7: Polybius on the Supremacy of a Balanced State 202 Chapter 8: Greek Historians in the Roman Era 237 Chapter 9: Concluding Observations on Greek Historical Writing 276 Further Reading 291 Index Locorum 300 Index 317
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BAR Publishing Antiquarians and Archaeology in NineteenthCentury Cork 454 British Archaeological Reports British Series
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Ancient Historians
Book SynopsisSusan Sorek is a research affiliate at the Open University, UK. Her volume The Jews Against Rome was published by Continuum in 2008.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Early Historians - Greece Fifth and Fourth Century BC; 2. Herodotus, Father of History; 3. Thucydides; 4. Xenophon; 5. Minor Greek Historians; 6. The Roman Republic; 7. Polybius; 8. Caesar; 9. Sallust; 10. Livy; 11. The Imperial period to the fall of Rome; 12. Josephus; 13. Tacitus; 14. Dio Cassius; 15. Ammianus Marcellinus; 16. Early Church Historians; 17. Minor Roman Historians; 18. Biography as History - Suetonius and Plutarch; 19. Men of Letters - the historical value of Cicero and Pliny the Younger; 20. Literature as History; 21. Other Sources; 22. Alexander the Great - a Case Study; 23. Summary and Conclusions.
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Springer New York An Archaeology of Australia Since 1788 Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
Book SynopsisThis overview of Australian post-contact history uses material objects such as artefacts, buildings, and landscapes. The book offers broad geographic and temporal coverage, and social themes such as gender, status, ethnicity and identity inform every chapter.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“An Archaeology of Australia since 1788 succeeds in presenting the broad-range of Australian historical archaeology and its contribution to understanding Australia’s past. The authors are to be congratulated in undertaking such a task and setting the scene for the next decade of growth in the field. This is a work that all serious historical archaeologists need, especially those formulating research designs for projects whether they be salvage archaeology or research archaeology.” (Iain Stuart, Australian Archaeology, Issue 72, June, 2011)“The narrative writing style is accessible for most audiences as they need not be well-versed in Australian archaeology to benefit from this book. … is devoted to well-researched and influential themes of Australian archaeology and comprises figures, tables and numerous intriguing discussions that will precipitate and entice future research. The book was written to ‘present an overview of the material evidence … of Australian post contact history and the conclusions reached by historical archaeology’ (p2) and with much enthusiasm the authors have achieved this aim.” (Melissa Dunk, Eras Journal, November, 2011)This volume amply demonstrates that it is far too soon to talk of a single archaeology of the modern world...The Lawrence and Davis volume is the first book-length overview of Australian historical archaeology since Graham Connah's The Archaeology of Australia's History was published in 1988. The significant methodological and theoretical changes to this field over the last quarter of a century mean that a new overview of historical archaeology in Australia is long overdue...The comprehensive range of case studies, which are often explicitly and implicitly tied to research outside of Australia, is one of this volume's real strengths...Another strength of the volume lies in bringing this research to a broader audience. Lawrence and Davies are also generally excellent in explaining not just where some topics might be ripe for expansion, but also why they may have been under-studied in the past...It fully deserves to find a wide international audience, both as a quick reference to broad themes and as the definitive detailed guide to specific topics from Australian research. (Alasdair Brooks, Post-Medieval Archaeology, 46, 2, 2012)Table of Contents1. Introduction2..Convict origins3. Aboriginal dispossession and survival4. Shipwrecks and maritime trade5. Whaling, sealing and maritime industries6. Pastoralism and agriculture7. Gold rushes and precious metals8. Manufacturing and processing9. Migration and Ethnicity10. An urbanised nation11. Australians at Home12. Death13. The Twentieth Century and Beyond
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Lulu.com a ROMA sò tre scrocchi
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Thanksgiving Day
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Naval & Military Press THE WESTERN BATTLEFIELDS A Guide to the British Line Short Account of the Fighting The Trenches Positions
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Baylor University Press Christian Historiography
Book SynopsisServes as a basic introduction to the variety of ways contemporary historians have applied their Christian convictions to historical research and reconstruction. Christian teachers and students developing their own sense of the past will benefit from exploring the variety of Christian historiographical approaches described.Trade ReviewAn important contribution to evangelical reflection on writing history -- Ian Clary -- ThemeliosTable of ContentsIntroduction: How Faith Matters to Historical Study 1. Historical Study that Takes Religion Seriously 2. Historical Study through the Lens of Christian Faith Commitments 3. Historical Study as Applied Christian Ethics 4. Historical Study as Christian Apologetic 5. Historical Study as Search for God Conclusion: Historical Study as Christian Vocation
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Westholme Publishing The Lost Book of Alexander the Great
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The New Press The Unfinished Business of 1776
Book SynopsisA clarion call for taking back the American Revolution from the far right, published for the 250thanniversary of the Declaration of IndependenceWho gets to claim the legacy of the American Revolution and the mantle of patriotism that goes along with it? In a sharp, irreverent, deeply informed account of the nation's founding moment and its enduring legacies, historian Thomas Richards Jr. invites us to see the Revolution not just as a one-time fight for political freedom from Britain but as an ongoing struggle for equality, justice, and social and political independence for all Americans. A riveting work of narrative history, The Unfinished Business of 1776 shows that the Revolutionary struggle did not end in 1787, when the Constitution was ratified: across ten dramatic chapters, Richards introduces readers to the vividly drawn characters who kept the Revolution alive for the next century and beyond, including the women's rights advocate Judith Sargent Murray, the enslaved rebel Gabriel, the protosocialist Solomon Sharpe, and the utopian dreamer Joseph Smitheach pushing for freedoms that extended well beyond the traditional narrative of the Revolution, and each revealing how the unfinished work of 1776 fueled demands for economic, social, and legal equality that lasted well beyond the Revolution itself. A myth-busting book about the history we think we know, The Unfinished Business of 1776 is the perfect antidote to jingoistic celebrations of Americaoffering an inclusive vision of our common past.
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University of Tennessee Press The American War in Viet Nam: Cultural Memories at the Turn of the Century
Book SynopsisAfter more than four decades, the Viet Nam War continues to haunt our national memory, culture, politics, and military actions. In this probing interdisciplinary study, Susan Lyn Eastman examines a range of cultural productions—from memorials and poetry to cinematic and fictional narratives—that have tried to grapple with the psychic afterlife of traumatic violence resulting from the ill-fated conflict in Southeast Asia.Underpinning the book is the notion of “prosthetic memory,” which involves memories acquired by those with no direct experience of the war, such as readers and filmgoers. Prosthetic memories, Eastman argues, refuse to relegate the war to the forgotten past and challenge the authenticity of experience, thus ensuring its continued relevance to debates over America’s self-conception, specifically her coinage of the “New Vietnam Syndrome,” and the country’s role in world affairs when it comes to contemporary military interventions.With the notable exception of the Veterans’ Memorial in Washington, Eastman’s focus is on works produced from the Persian Gulf War (1990–91) through the post-9/11 “War on Terror.” She looks not only at American representations of the war—from movies like Randall Wallace’s We Were Soldiers to poems by W. D. Ehrhart, Yusef Komunyakaa, and others—but also at novels by Vietnamese authors Bao Ninh and Huong Thu Duong. The experiences of women figure prominently in the book: Eastman devotes a chapter to the Vietnam Women’s Memorial and another to Sandie Frazier’s novel I Married Vietnam and Oliver Stone’s film Heaven and Earth, based on memoirs by Le Ly Hayslip. And by examining Jessica Hagedorn’s Dream Jungle, a novel inspired by the filming of Apocalypse Now, she considers how the war’s repercussions were felt in other countries, in this case the Philippines. Her investigation of Vietnamese American authors Lan Cao, Andrew Lam, and GB Tran adds a transnational dimension to the study.With its up-to-date perspective on recent works that have heretofore received scant critical notice, this book offers new ways of thinking about one of the most polemic chapters in U.S. history.SUSAN LYN EASTMAN teaches in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.Trade ReviewWe have been waiting for a book on war and memory about the American War in Vietnam - both about the Americans and the Vietnamese - in the new century of the Desert Wars of Afghanistan and Iraq. Susan Lyn Eastman has fulfilled that expectation, and she has done so with a study impressive in its range of topical issues, texts, and commentary."" - Philip D. Beidler, Margaret and William Going Professor of English, University of Alabama
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Bloomsbury Academic Philosophy of the History of Philosophy
Book SynopsisNathaniel Goldberg is professor of philosophy at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, USA.
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Mockingbird Press The Idea of History [1946 Edition]
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Global East-West (London) Breaking The Wall Of Silence
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Reclaiming Byzantium: Russia, Turkey and the Archaeological Claim to the Middle East in the 19th Century
Book SynopsisThere is a long-held feeling in Russia that Moscow is the true heir to the Christian Byzantine Empire. In 1894, Imperial Russia opened one of the world’s leading centres for Byzantine archaeology in Istanbul, the Russian Archaeological Institute – its purpose was to stake the claim that Russia was the correct heir to ‘Tsargrad’ (as Istanbul was referred to in Russian circles). This then is the history of that institute, and the history of Russia’s efforts to reclaim its Middle East – events since in the Crimea, Syria and Georgia are all, to some extent, wrapped up in this historical framework. Ure looks at the founding of the Russian Archaeological Institute, its aims, and its place in the ‘digging-race’ which characterised the late Imperial phase of modern history. Above all, she shows how the practise of history has been used as a political tool, a form of "soft power".Trade ReviewReclaiming Byzantium is a compelling and sophisticated book. Pinar Üre examines how both imperial Russia and the Ottoman empire approached the archaeological past, in an age of imperial competition and nationalist mobilization. This book is a model of entangled history, examining not only the relationship between the Russian and Ottoman empires over the Byzantine and Slavic past in Ottoman territories, but equally how both states and their scholarly communities had also to confront, on the one hand, the challenge of Western empires and knowledge projects (the British and French empires and their archaeological endeavors)—but also the growing claims of nationalizing states in the Balkans: Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece. It is a nuanced study of the relationships between power and knowledge, one conducted on several planes: inter-imperial competition; the relationship between the Russians and the Ottomans; and finally the role of emerging national states. Üre’s ability to tell this story from both the Russian and the Ottoman perspective provides unexpected and important insights into how both states sought to mobilize the past for political and scholarly ends—and how both had to contend with unexpected and unwelcome challenges. This well-written, well-argued book will be of interest to scholars of both late imperial Russia and the Ottoman empire, people interested in the political roles archaeology played in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and anyone interested in the interplay of power and knowledge. * Peter Holquist, Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, USA *The book offers a thoroughly researched, well organized, and highly readable examination of imperial Russia’s involvements in recovering the material culture of Byzantium during the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Thee ideological motivations and cultural biases that influenced and guided these scientific endeavors, especially evident in the mission of the RAIC in the Balkans, are treated as matters of fact, and there is no hint of interpretation or judgment on the part of the author. Thee book exemplifies the highest quality scholarship in carrying out exactly what it sets out to do. * Review of Ecumenical Studies, Sciendo *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Regenerating Distant Past: Nationalist and Imperialist Uses of Ancient History in the 19th Century Chapter 1: Double-Headed Eagle Over Russia: Russian Appreciation of the Byzantine Heritage 1.1. Fyodor Ivanovich Uspenskii: The Making of a Russian Byzantinist 1.2. The Development of Archaeology and Byzantine Studies in the Russian Empire 1.3. From Russian to Ottoman Shores: The Attraction of the Black Sea as a Repository of Byzantine Monuments 1.4. The Image of Byzantium in Russian Thought in the Late 19th Century Chapter 2: Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire: Cultural Property as a Symbol of Sovereignty 2.1. Byzantine Studies in the Ottoman Empire Chapter 3: At the Intersection of Science and Politics: Russian Archaeological Institute in the Ottoman Empire 3.1. Russians in the Holy Land: Imperial Palestinian Orthodox Society (IPPO) 3.2. The Establishment of the Russian Archaeological Institute in Constantinople (RAIK) Chapter 4: Expeditions of the Russian Archaeological Institute and Contacts with Ottoman Authorities 4.1. Studies in Istanbul Chapter 5: On the Eve of the Balkan Wars: Archaeology in the Midst of Political Unrest 5.1. The Establishment of the Slavic Department within RAIK Chapter 6: The Doom of Empires: The Fate of the Russian Archaeological Institute After 1914 Conclusion Suggestions for Further Reading Bibliography Index
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UK Book Publishing The 18th Century Enslaving Industry
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UK Book Publishing The 18th Century Enslaving Industry
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Revive AI Ltd. Large Print The History of the Church Volume 1 of 2 Grand Type Collectors Edition Matte Hardcover with Dust Jacket
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Revive AI Ltd. Large Print The History of the Church Volume 2 of 2 Grand Type Collectors Edition Matte Hardcover with Dust Jacket
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Writing Ancient History: An Introduction to Classical Historiography
Book Synopsis'History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon', said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especially ancient history, is a practice that often prompts more discord than assent. In his new textbook, Luke Pitcher aims to overcome the hostility which exists between two rival camps in their study of classical historiography. The first camp looks at the classical historians with an eye to what data they can provide about the ancient world. The second camp examines the ancient writers as literary texts in their own right, employing the tools of literary criticism and engaging with such matters as narrative artistry.Attempting to fuse these two - mutually suspicious - approaches, Luke Pitcher's attractive introduction offers undergraduate students of classics the first comprehensive introduction to historiography in antiquity on the market. It unites the nitty-gritty of the historian's trade (the finding and managing of data) to an awareness of the importance of style, form, allusion and composition. The book also seeks to do justice to individual classical historians, and discusses such important figures as Livy, Tacitus, Herodotus, Cicero, Plutarch and Lucian. A comprehensive bibliography and glossary are included. "Writing Ancient History" at last does full justice to the mechanics of history-writing in the ancient world.Trade Review'This is a very good book indeed; general readers, students, and specialists alike will read it with profit and delight. Luke Pitcher ranges over ancient historical writers, both Greek and Roman, from Herodotus to Ammianus, with an impressive grasp of his material, and he has a gift for finding the telling example and making subtle and insightful points with lucidity and punch. He also has a wonderful eye for the modern parallel, and one is as likely to find here illumination drawn from a Patrick O'Brian novel or an episode of Doctor Who as from an extract from Xenophon or Velleius. Pitcher is unusually sensitive to the narrative strategies of the ancient historical writers, and also of all the health-warnings that the modern student needs to bear in mind when reading their works. Few writers about ancient historiography are so learned, and even fewer carry their learning so lightly: this is a book that anyone interested in ancient history just has to read - and they will thoroughly enjoy it.' - Christopher Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek, University of Oxford; 'Luke Pitcher has written an engaging, witty, and accessible study of the complicated relationship between theory and practice in the ancient historians, bringing to the task an impressive expertise in texts that range from archaic Greece to late antiquity. He resists simple contrasts between ancient and modern, presenting the reader instead with finely drawn, convincingly argued analyses of the spectrum of practices employed by ancient historiographers in their treatment of sources, self-presentation, and narrative modes of (re)presenting their pasts. Bearing in mind always that the modern student of the Greco-Roman world is also, in some way, 'writing ancient history', Pitcher brings us much closer to the methodologies and reception of these texts through which so much of our understanding of the ancient world derives.' - Christina S Kraus, Professor of Classics, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Writing About History in the Ancient World The Natures of History Using Sources Using Sources - II Writing Ancient History The Ends of History - I The Ends of History - II Texts and Translations: The Transmission of Ancient History Conclusion Suggestions for Further Reading Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Histories: v. 2
Book SynopsisAn account of Egyptian history and custom which includes anthropology, natural history and any antiquarian information of interest to Herodotus. This scholarly edition offers a thorough introduction to both Greek historiography and Egyptology.
£28.99
Clements Publishing Doing Church History: A User-Friendly Introduction to Researching the History of Christianity
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Praxis Press Dona Torr
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Deo Publishing Historical Knowledge in Biblical Antiquity
£44.46
Sophene History of the Armenians
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Sophene History of the Armenians
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Contraband Hearts
£18.21
Bulkington Books The Perils of Amateur Strategy
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Get Over It
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