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Book SynopsisPublished in 1974, Marshall Hodgson's The Venture of Islam was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the development of Islamic studies and provided an alternative approach to world history. Edited by Edmund Burke III and Robert Mankin, Islam and World History explores the complexity of Hodgson's thought, the daring of his ideas, and the global context of his world historical insights into, among other themes, Islam and world history, gender in Islam, and the problem of Muslim universality. In our post-9/11 world, Hodgson's historical vision and moral engagement have never been more relevant. A towering achievement, Islam and World History will prove to be the definitive statement on Hodgson's relevance in the twenty-first century and will introduce his influential work to a new generation of readers.

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Book SynopsisThe Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of lasting importance. They paved the way for many of our modern disciplines, discovered the primeval monsters we now call the dinosaurs, and built many of Britain's most important national museums and galleries. To a large degree, they created the perceptual frameworks through which we continue to understand the past. Out of their discoveries, new histories emerged, giving rise to new debates, while seemingly well-known pasts were thrown into confusion by new tools and methods of scrutiny. If in the eighteenth century the study of the past had been the province of a handful of elites, new technologies and economic development in the nineteenth century meant that the past, in all its brilliant detail, was for the first time the property of t

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Serving as an investigation of "Latin America" in the abstract, historian Tenorio-Trillo's work reframes the understanding of not only where this abstract concept originated but also why it endures. . .Rooted in deep, thorough interdisciplinary research and analysis and written in witty prose, the book promises to open rich dialogues, not only within graduate seminar classrooms but also in the field as a whole."--Choice "This is a book that fully delivers on its title. [Tenorio-Trillo] provides a history of the idea of Latin America, rather than of the place itself, and he does so with plenty of wit and brio."--Current History "A great example of what skillful history writing can achieve: to combine deep historical knowledge with sharp political analysis. Add the ability to write engagingly and a refreshing sense of humor and you have the essence of this book: a must-read for every scholar of Latin America but also a prime example of critical engagement with the fundamental concepts underlying scholarly work."--H-Soz-Kult "An engaging and lucidly argued book. . .Passionate, impressively erudite, and occasionally playful."--Hispanic American Historical Review "Tenorio-Trillo examines a powerful paradox defining the study of 'Latin America' with particular focus on the US academy, exposing what appears, at first, as a logical impossibility. He demonstrates that the very notion of Latin America as conventionally articulated in this academic milieu should have ceased to carry any weight some time ago, on account of various developments in our fields of study. At the same time, he shows us that the term itself and all the debates that it is bound up with--the legitimate ones as well as the not-so-legitimate ones--continue to carry the highest degree of urgency in our time. Hence, this is less a book about abstract ideas and theories, and more an ethical call to arms for everyone that the problematic term concerns: a call, made with at times disarming clarity and honesty, to more effectively position our collective habits, priorities, and strategies to deal with the many, multi-faceted problems at hand. To call this essential reading for those concerned with the field would be a powerful under-statement."--Luis M. Castaneda, author of Spectacular Mexico "Latin America is one of those rare books that can fundamentally alter your understanding of a whole field. The basic idea is simple enough: under the deceptive clarity of geography there is a thick cultural history, a host of conflicts that crystalize in the name of Latin America--and we reveal much about ourselves, unknowingly, when we use it. All the excitement, and the pleasure, is in the details. Latin America is a major work by a mature scholar: deep, moving, passionate, nuanced, and erudite, but also lighthearted and truly funny at times. Only a handful of historians, and none in his generation, command the massive amount of knowledge about the continent that Tenorio does--in six languages. Add to it a sparkling, smiling prose, and a warm sense of humor. It is what every history book should aspire to be."--Fernando Escalante, El Colegio de Mexico "While some still write nine hundred page tomes that can be used as blunt instruments, others can get a lot done in a far shorter space. By turns playful, provocative, aphoristic, and unfailingly idiosyncratic, Tenorio-Trillo's Latin America showcases for the English-reading public the special talents of this intellectual contrabandista. How to cope with the very idea of 'Latin America, ' especially from within the US academy (but also from its fringes)? This short work is ostensibly a manifesto of 'defeat' but it is actually an act of subversion at many levels. Necessary reading for 'Latin Americanists' of all stripes, it should equally be read by all those who, like myself, have a love-hate relationship with 'area studies.'"--Sanjay Subrahmanyam, author of Europe's India "Like many ideas invented with the rise of racial thinking, the category of 'Latin America' lives on. And yet, few agree on what it means. Tenorio-Trillo's brilliant essays reveal the extent to which the endless search for understanding and coherence has led to confusion and contradiction. Latin America mutated from anti-yanqui slogan to cornerstone of North American universities. And yet, it has always carried the anti-liberal, anti-individualist traits with which it was born. Tenorio-Trillo's skeptical voyage should provoke a much-needed debate about what Latin America has meant--and whether or how we should let it go, finally."--Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University

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Book SynopsisIncreasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a reengagement with the natural sciences. Taking their cues from recent breakthroughs in genetics and the neurosciences, advocates of big history are reassessing long-held assumptions about the very definition of history, its methods, and its evidentiary base. In Scientific History, Elena Aronova maps out historians' continuous engagement with the methods, tools, values, and scale of the natural sciences by examining several waves of their experimentation that surged highest at perceived times of trouble, from the crisis-ridden decades of the early twentieth century to the ruptures of the Cold War. The book explores the intertwined trajectories of six intellectuals and the larger programs they set in motion: Henri Berr (18631954), Nikolai Bukharin (18881938), Lucien Febvre (18781956), Nikolai Vavilov (18871943), Julian Huxley (18871975), and John Desmond Bernal (19011971). Though they held different political views, spoke differeTrade Review"Aronova illuminates intellectual cross-fertilizations of science and historiography by zooming in on the practices of scientists and scientist historians. . . . Aronova's thoroughly researched book uncovers largely submerged historiographical approaches that have emphasized the shared features of all modern knowledge-seeking endeavors ranging from the natural sciences to the humanities. It is a significant contribution to our understanding of both the natural sciences and the humanities. Its originality and sometimes surprising comparisons are thought-provoking for historians of all fields of study, and it is to be hoped that they will stimulate especially the much-needed methodological reflection in the historiography of science." * Journal of the History of Economic Thought *“With extensive source material and broad geographical range, Aronova gives us a tight and interwoven sense of trajectories of past big historical and big data ambitions and practices, relating these to shifting cultural and political contexts and observing the striking historical ironies these trajectories reveal. The book is significant in canvassing so much diverse material so efficiently and expertly, uncovering unexpected and disregarded historical connections while presenting the material engagingly and accessibly. It is a satisfying, impressive piece of scholarship that provides an explicit, extended, transnational historicization of big history." -- Nasser Zakariya, author of A Final Story: Science, Myth, and Beginnings"Where do today's dreams of writing history scientifically come from? Not from David Christian and Bill Gates, Anthropocene scholars, apostles of digital humanities, apologists for big data, amateur neuroscientists, or latterday cliometricians. Aronova provides a deeper genealogy of today's data-driven obsessions, rooted instead in twentieth-century Russian ambitions for a scientific Marxism. Using 'Russia-as-method' to examine Soviet visions of history as a materialist science, Aronova's sparklingly subversive narrative excavates foundational fights over how to write the history of science, how to practice the science of history, and how to tell the story of mankind. A work of wit, grace, and profundity." -- James Delbourgo, James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Professor of History, Rutgers University"A captivating tale of Clio becoming a scientist! Animated by a commanding multinational cast of characters, Scientific History offers the first broad-ranging analysis of why and how the methods, approaches, values, and frameworks advanced within the natural sciences—ranging from biogeography to mathematics to genetics—became part of historians’ armamentarium and profoundly influenced twentieth-century historical thought and practice. This engaging account ventures with enviable ease from the editorial offices of the Annales to the sessions of international history congresses, through the corridors of UNESCO to computer rooms at the ‘scientific information’ institutes in Philadelphia and Moscow. Aronova uncovers the forgotten and sometimes deliberately obscured but deep and thoroughly transnational roots of present-day historians’ fascination with ‘big data,’ quantification, and ‘big history.’ Meticulously researched and refreshingly free from Cold War–era polarizing biases, this book is a must read for anyone interested in history, science, and their intricate connections." -- Nikolai Krementsov, author of Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in Bolshevik Science and Fiction“[Aronova] demonstrates the complex interactions between science and history. Vivid passages describe the Soviet government's corruption of academic disciplines: social sciences, biology, and agronomy. A demanding but highly informative read.” * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Russia as Method 1 The Quest for Scientific History Two Unity of Science Movements Positivism, History, and Henri Berr’s Historical Synthesis Historical Synthesis and the History of Science The Internationalist Politics of Synthesis 2 Scientific History and the Russian Locale Russia and the West Russian Historiography on the World Stage Marxism and History The Great Break Bukharin and the History of Science London 1931 3 Nikolai Vavilov, Genogeography, and History’s Past Future The Geographies of History and the Genetic Archive The Mendeleev of Biology Vavilov’s Genogeography and the Bolsheviks’ Geopolitics A “New Kind of History” The Politics of History 4 Julian Huxley’s Cold Wars Julian Huxley’s Two Careers A Journey to a Utopian Future The Crisis in Soviet Genetics and Julian Huxley’s Cold Wars Huxley’s Evolutionary History 5 The UNESCO “History of Mankind: Cultural and Scientific Development” Project History by Committee Febvre’s Cahiers: Historical Journals and the Making of Historical Knowledge Cold War Internationalism and the Writing of History 6 Information Socialism, Historical Informatics, and the Markets Bernal’s Information Socialism: From London 1931 to Cold War America, via Russia Envisioning History as Data Science Historians and Computers The Socialist Markets for a Capitalist Data Product Epilogue Past Futures of the History of Science List of Archive Abbreviations Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Astute, informative, and skillfully researched, Witham’s thought-provoking analysis will appeal to historians (and aspiring historians) who want a better grasp on the challenges and opportunities of history as a profession and the business of popular-history books." * Library Journal *"In his new book Popularizing the Past, historian Nick Witham sheds light on five particularly interesting historians’ writing and publishing strategies during the mid-to-late twentieth century . . . Witham’s readings of these five figures offer sensitive analysis and point to the key questions about politics and publishing." * Boston Review *"I am very taken with Nick Witham’s illuminating book and hope that all practicing and aspiring US historians read it. Drawing on careful research and writing in sparkling prose that rivals his subjects', Witham examines how five prominent postwar historians navigated the challenges and rewards of scripting national narratives for audiences beyond the academy. For anyone interested in crafting intellectually robust, readable, and relevant scholarship, Popularizing the Past is essential reading." -- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, author of American Nietzsche"A fascinating exploration of American historians searching for their publics and seeking to balance empirical depth and literary flair, scholarship and fame, objectivity and activism. Nick Witham's book is the most probing examination of these matters that I have read. Essential for understanding the importance and perils of writing popular history." -- Gary Gerstle, author of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order"Those dispirited by today's skirmishes over the American past should seek out Nick Witham’s wonderful book on postwar history writing. His portrait of prominent scholars who wrote for the public offers a fresh take on popularization, presentism, and politicization—even as it underscores the essential work of histories that educate and engross readers." -- Sarah E. Igo, author of The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America"The argument of Witham’s book is that the audience for popular historical nonfiction that explains America to itself has always been a diverse one, made up of various types of readers. The imagined past, when an idealised American reader relaxed by the fireside with a sturdy tome written by a credentialed academic, is, largely speaking, a fiction…The best parts of Popularizing the Past are the archival discoveries of letters from readers, and between editors and writers, showing the nitty-gritty of how this sausage got made – and eaten." * History Today *"[An] engaging, instructive account of the efforts by five postwar American academic historians – and, importantly, their editors and publishers – to reach a broader, non-scholarly audience with their work . . . . If historians wish to produce work that resonates with ordinary readers while being taken seriously by fellow specialists, it can be done. And for guidance on how to do it they could do worse than look to those who, three-quarters of a century ago, set about ‘popularizing the past.'" -- Fredrik Logevall * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction What’s the Matter with History? The Problem of Popularity in Postwar American Historical Writing Part I Popular History and General Readers 1 Richard Hofstadter: Popular History and the Contradictions of Consensus 2 Daniel Boorstin: Popular History between Liberalism and Conservatism Part II: Popular History and Activist Readers 3 John Hope Franklin: The Racial Politics of Popular History 4 Howard Zinn: Popular History as Controversy 5 Gerda Lerner: The Struggle for a Popular Women’s History Conclusion The Legacies of Postwar Popular History Acknowledgments Archival Abbreviations  Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn this extraordinary work, Donald J. Wilcox seeks to discover an approach to narrative and history consistent with the discontinuous, relative time of the twentieth century. He shows how our B.C./A.D. system, intimately connected to Newtonian concepts of continuous, objective, and absolute time, has affected our conception and experience of the past. He demonstrates absolute time's centrality to modern historical methodologies and the problems it has created in the selection and interpretation of facts. Inspired by contemporary fiction and Einsteinian concepts of relativity, he concludes his analysis with a comparison of our system with earlier, pre-Newtonian time schemes to create a radical new critique of historical objectivity.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive research among the records of the American Historical Association and a multitude of other sources, the author traces the slow fragmentation of the field from 1880 to the divisions of the 1940s manifest today in the diverse professions of academia, teaching, and public history.Trade Review"In this impressively researched study, Robert B. Townsend conveys the intellectual energy and the distinctly American unified vision among particular historians of the time who sought a professional identity for the historical enterprise. This is an important study of the evolution of the infrastructure of the intellectual life of the nation." (Francis X. Blouin, Jr., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)"

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Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive research among the records of the American Historical Association and a multitude of other sources, the author traces the slow fragmentation of the field from 1880 to the divisions of the 1940s manifest today in the diverse professions of academia, teaching, and public history.Trade Review"In this impressively researched study, Robert B. Townsend conveys the intellectual energy and the distinctly American unified vision among particular historians of the time who sought a professional identity for the historical enterprise. This is an important study of the evolution of the infrastructure of the intellectual life of the nation." (Francis X. Blouin, Jr., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)"

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Book SynopsisExamines the making and meaning of history for everyday viewersTrade ReviewAlison Landsberg skillfully penetrates one of the most interesting yet elusive questions about popular representations of the past. What kinds of knowledge of the past do they offer? In elegant and precise analyses of selected texts, she demonstrates how they engage affect and emotion through experiential modes of communication. Contrary to many assumptions about such forms, Landsberg brilliantly argues that these reenactments have the potential to provoke self-conscious historical thinking much sought after by more conventional historical modes of communication. -- Ann Gray, emerita professor of cultural studies, University of Lincoln The book is carefully structured, sensitively expressed, and the analysis of thevarious media a contribution to thinking differently about cinematic uses ofpast. Critical InquiryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Theorizing Affective Engagement in the Historical Film 2. Waking the Past: The Historically Conscious Television Drama 3. Encountering Contradiction: Reality History TV 4. Digital Translations of the Past: Virtual History Exhibits Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the making and meaning of history for everyday viewersTrade ReviewAlison Landsberg skillfully penetrates one of the most interesting yet elusive questions about popular representations of the past. What kinds of knowledge of the past do they offer? In elegant and precise analyses of selected texts, she demonstrates how they engage affect and emotion through experiential modes of communication. Contrary to many assumptions about such forms, Landsberg brilliantly argues that these reenactments have the potential to provoke self-conscious historical thinking much sought after by more conventional historical modes of communication. -- Ann Gray, emerita professor of cultural studies, University of Lincoln The book is carefully structured, sensitively expressed, and the analysis of thevarious media a contribution to thinking differently about cinematic uses ofpast. Critical InquiryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Theorizing Affective Engagement in the Historical Film 2. Waking the Past: The Historically Conscious Television Drama 3. Encountering Contradiction: Reality History TV 4. Digital Translations of the Past: Virtual History Exhibits Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJapanese memories of World War II exert a powerful influence over the nation’s society and culture. Michael Lucken explores how the war manifested in literature, art, film, funerary practices, and education reform, creating an idea of Japanese identity that still resonates from soap operas to the response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.Trade ReviewIn this highly readable book, Michael Lucken combines an encyclopedic overview of Japan's diverse conflicts over the memory of WWII with a razor-sharp dissection of their historical origins. At the core of this, Lucken argues, lies the fateful interplay between wartime ideologies and Japan's American-brokered entry into the postwar world. -- Franziska Seraphim, Boston College Michael Lucken's The Japanese and the War provides, in the form of a wonderfully curated collection of insightful and instructive vignettes, both a comprehensive overview and an intimate portrayal of trans-war Japanese society. The work skillfully ties together the disparate fields of visual and material culture, the experience of all-out war, and the politics of war memory. Deftly translated, the book is a pleasure to read. -- Akiko Takenaka, University of Kentucky Michael Lucken skillfully combines a cultural history of wartime Japan with an account of how narratives and memories of the conflict emerged during the occupation and beyond. For those seeking to understand the roots of Japan's "memory wars" and the "history issue" in Asia, this book is an excellent place to start. -- Philip Seaton, Hokkaido UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Names Introduction 1. The Nation Out to Conquer 2. A Totalitarian Dynamic, 1940-1945 3. The Meaning of the War 4. Heroes and the Dead 5. Fear and Destruction 6. Postwar Complexities 7. The American Occupation, or the Present Versus the Past 8. The Plurality of History 9. Individual Conscience and Collective Inertia 10. Memory and Religion 11. From Monument to Museum: The Difficult Path to Healing Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWilliam Guynn reads seven films depicting atrocities, exploring the emotional resonance that still adheres to traumatic events and the dimensions of experience that historiography leaves untouched. Unspeakable Histories argues that the film medium triggers moments of heightened awareness in which the reality of the past may be recovered.Trade ReviewGuynn's interpretive readings are insightful and downright brilliant. He is just the scholar to write this book, arguing for a kind of history that is an art rather than a social science, providing us with examples of moments in films during which the spectator can actually be made to confront the emotional impact of the past. -- Robert A. Rosenstone, author of History on Film/Film on History Unspeakable Histories decisively advances the state of the discipline in historical film studies. Film is shown to be a particularly subtle and challenging medium for articulating the historical traumas of the twentieth century. The writing is nuanced, vivid, and at times, passionate. -- Robert Burgoyne, author of The Hollywood Historical Film Through a close analysis of movies dealing with catastrophes, this book proposes a new theoretical approach: to study how film, under certain conditions at some moments (through intense flashes), can lead us to experience the past as a direct phenomenological perception and how it can change our understanding of history. Provocative, but also clear and didactical. A significant contribution to the relations between film and history. -- Roger Odin, Professor of Sciences of Information and Communication, University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle. An eloquent meditation on cinema's capacity to put us in touch, in every sense of the word, with the presence of the past. Guynn's study makes a sustained argument for the place of affect, sensation, experience, and myth in our historical imagination. -- Debarati Sanyal, author of Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance In this thought-provoking book, Guynn argues for the power of historical films about catastrophic events of the twentieth century to suspend, albeit fleetingly, the distance between present and past, enabling viewers to grasp a fragment of that past. At once attuned to the affective dimension of spectatorship and the medium's power to reanimate traces of the historical past, this book argues for the crucial role of film in understanding historical disasters. -- Alison Landsberg, author of Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture Guynn does a superb job of examining these often-harrowing works. CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: Making Experience Speak 1. Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished 2. Andrzej Wajda's Katyn 3. Andrei Konchalovsky's Siberiade 4. Larisa Shepitko's The Ascent 5. Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light 6. Rithy Panh's S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine 7. Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWilliam Guynn reads seven films depicting atrocities, exploring the emotional resonance that still adheres to traumatic events and the dimensions of experience that historiography leaves untouched. Unspeakable Histories argues that the film medium triggers moments of heightened awareness in which the reality of the past may be recovered.Trade ReviewGuynn's interpretive readings are insightful and downright brilliant. He is just the scholar to write this book, arguing for a kind of history that is an art rather than a social science, providing us with examples of moments in films during which the spectator can actually be made to confront the emotional impact of the past. -- Robert A. Rosenstone, author of History on Film/Film on History Unspeakable Histories decisively advances the state of the discipline in historical film studies. Film is shown to be a particularly subtle and challenging medium for articulating the historical traumas of the twentieth century. The writing is nuanced, vivid, and at times, passionate. -- Robert Burgoyne, author of The Hollywood Historical Film Through a close analysis of movies dealing with catastrophes, this book proposes a new theoretical approach: to study how film, under certain conditions at some moments (through intense flashes), can lead us to experience the past as a direct phenomenological perception and how it can change our understanding of history. Provocative, but also clear and didactical. A significant contribution to the relations between film and history. -- Roger Odin, Professor of Sciences of Information and Communication, University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle. An eloquent meditation on cinema's capacity to put us in touch, in every sense of the word, with the presence of the past. Guynn's study makes a sustained argument for the place of affect, sensation, experience, and myth in our historical imagination. -- Debarati Sanyal, author of Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance In this thought-provoking book, Guynn argues for the power of historical films about catastrophic events of the twentieth century to suspend, albeit fleetingly, the distance between present and past, enabling viewers to grasp a fragment of that past. At once attuned to the affective dimension of spectatorship and the medium's power to reanimate traces of the historical past, this book argues for the crucial role of film in understanding historical disasters. -- Alison Landsberg, author of Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture Guynn does a superb job of examining these often-harrowing works. CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: Making Experience Speak 1. Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished 2. Andrzej Wajda's Katyn 3. Andrei Konchalovsky's Siberiade 4. Larisa Shepitko's The Ascent 5. Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light 6. Rithy Panh's S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine 7. Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. In this anniversary edition, Scott reflects on the book’s legacy and implications for contemporary politics as well as her engagement with psychoanalytic theory.Trade ReviewA real tour de force . . . evidence of the value of Scott’s project to rethink gender and history simultaneously. * New York Times *Thoughtful and pioneering. * Nation *Scott has given us an intelligent, sensitive reflection on the nature of events, of thought, of judgment, of history. * New Republic *At once a ‘how-to’ manual . . . and a broad assessment of the state of women’s history in the 1980s. It will clearly become a classic volume for both feminist theory and women’s history. * Gender and Society *Scott’s book makes a powerful case not only for a historical scholarship that recognizes the depth of gender difference in human experience but also for a renewed self-consciousness about the role of the historian in constructing the meanings of our past. * American Historical Review *A radical book, provocative, exciting, and very satisfying. * Journal of Social History *Table of ContentsPreface to the Thirtieth Anniversary EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Toward a Feminist History1. Women’s History2. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical AnalysisPart II: Gender and Class3. On Language, Gender, and Working-Class History4. Women in The Making of the English Working ClassPart III: Gender in History5. Work Identities for Men and Women: The Politics of Work and Family in the Parisian Garment Trades in 18486. A Statistical Representation of Work: La Statistique de l’industrie à Paris, 1847–18487. “L’ouvriere! Mot impie, sordide . . .”: Women Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840–1860Part IV: Equality and Difference8. The Sears Case9. American Women Historians, 1884–198410. The Conundrum of EqualityNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisJohn Kieschnick provides an innovative, expansive account of how Chinese Buddhists have sought to understand their history through a Buddhist lens. Exploring a series of themes in mainstream Buddhist historiographical works from the fifth to the twentieth century, he looks for what they tell us about their compilers’ understanding of history.Trade ReviewThis book tells us a great deal about a genre of Buddhist writing that we have not understood well so far because of its massive and chronological nature. The patterns of Chinese Buddhist histories are hard to see unless one has read all of them. Buddhist Historiography in China is an excellent critical orientation to this material, written in a lively and engaging way that makes it really enjoyable and informative to read. -- James A. Benn, author of Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural HistorySomewhat surprisingly, Buddhist historiography has not received much sustained attention before, at least in the West, despite voluminous studies of Chinese historical writing. Kieschnick introduces this subject, delineates its major contours, and argues for its significance. This book will change the way that future studies of Chinese historiography will be written. -- Grant Hardy, author of Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo: Sima Qian's Conquest of HistoryKieschnick presents us with new perspectives to consider in the study of Chinese history and religion. * International Journal of Asian Studies *Demonstrates why careful consideration of historiography is necessary and important, and he doesso in a lively and thought-provoking way. * History of Religions *For the general history-interested reader, the volume can serve as a splendid introduction to Chinese Buddhism. * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. India2. Sources3. Karma4. Prophecy5. Genealogy6. ModernityConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendix 1. Chronological List of Major WorksAppendix 2. Lineage ChartsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisJohn Kieschnick provides an innovative, expansive account of how Chinese Buddhists have sought to understand their history through a Buddhist lens. Exploring a series of themes in mainstream Buddhist historiographical works from the fifth to the twentieth century, he looks for what they tell us about their compilers' understanding of history.Trade ReviewThis book tells us a great deal about a genre of Buddhist writing that we have not understood well so far because of its massive and chronological nature. The patterns of Chinese Buddhist histories are hard to see unless one has read all of them. Buddhist Historiography in China is an excellent critical orientation to this material, written in a lively and engaging way that makes it really enjoyable and informative to read. -- James A. Benn, author of Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural HistorySomewhat surprisingly, Buddhist historiography has not received much sustained attention before, at least in the West, despite voluminous studies of Chinese historical writing. Kieschnick introduces this subject, delineates its major contours, and argues for its significance. This book will change the way that future studies of Chinese historiography will be written. -- Grant Hardy, author of Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo: Sima Qian's Conquest of HistoryKieschnick presents us with new perspectives to consider in the study of Chinese history and religion. * International Journal of Asian Studies *Demonstrates why careful consideration of historiography is necessary and important, and he doesso in a lively and thought-provoking way. * History of Religions *For the general history-interested reader, the volume can serve as a splendid introduction to Chinese Buddhism. * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. India2. Sources3. Karma4. Prophecy5. Genealogy6. ModernityConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendix 1. Chronological List of Major WorksAppendix 2. Lineage ChartsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Spring and Autumn is an annals text composed of brief records covering the period 722–479 BCE. Newell Ann Van Auken argues that record-keepers from the ancient Chinese state of Lu—not a later editor—produced the formally regular core of the text.Trade ReviewNewell Ann Van Auken’s pathbreaking scholarship demolishes the old conventional view of the Spring and Autumn as a dull and uninteresting chronicle. Her elegant analysis of how the text’s rule-based formulaic language served the interests of the lords of Lu opens the way to an exciting new view of the political dynamics of early China. -- John S. Major, cotranslator of Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and AutumnLucid and rigorous, this analysis of the Spring and Autumn is the most valuable study we have of this important early Chinese chronicle. Van Auken’s careful reconstruction of the formal requirements for event notations in the chronicle dramatically advances our understanding of this crucial type of historiographical activity, calling into doubt the traditional association of the chronicle with Confucius and revealing its function in displaying the hierarchical claims and ambitions of the state of Lu. -- David Schaberg, author of A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese HistoriographyThis book-length study of Chunqiu (Spring and Autumn), the first in a Western language, is clearly written and impeccably argued. Through careful analysis, Van Auken convincingly demonstrates that ancient Lu annalists created a rigid verbal form through which they present an idealized and blatantly biased picture of their home state. A brilliant study certain to become a foundation for all subsequent Chunqiu scholarship. -- Stephen Durrant, professor emeritus, University of OregonThis book is an eye-opener. Combining philological acumen with theoretical understanding, Van Auken uncovers the regular patterns that underlie the Spring and Autumn. Her analysis of how the text arranges—or omits—information provides unprecedented insight into the history and function of this seemingly enigmatic classic. -- Kai Vogelsang, Universität HamburgVan Auken has resolved two millennia of scholarly speculation and partial interpretations...Spring andAutumn Historiography is a remarkable academic achievement. -- Grant Hardy, University of North Carolina at Asheville * Journal of Chinese History *Table of ContentsList of TablesList of SetsAcknowledgmentsScholarly ConventionsChronology: Lu Rulers of the Spring and AutumnIntroduction1. Orientations: Approaches to Spring and Autumn Historiography2. Recording the Day3. Encoding Individual Rank4. An Idealized Interstate Order5.Registering Judgments6. Concealing SubmissionConclusions: Spring and Autumn Historiography and the Formally Regular CoreAppendix 1: Defining a “Record”Appendix 2: Event Types in the Spring and AutumnAppendix 3: Diachronic Changes in Frequency and Form in the Spring and AutumnNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWhat did it feel like to be a child in France during World War II? Feeling Memory is an affective exploration of children’s lives in wartime France and the ways they are remembered.Trade ReviewA sensitive and imaginative exploration of the connections among war, childhood, and memory that demonstrates the meaning of emotions and feelings as historical forces. -- Alessandro Portelli, author of The Text and the Voice: Writing, Speaking, Democracy, and American LiteratureFeeling Memory deftly weaves together 'memory stories' and the latest scholarship to provide an entirely fresh approach to World War II in France. The result is a richly textured, nuanced study of the emotions of history that offers us new ways to think about children’s experiences and the places and events that shape our memory of the past. -- Shannon L. Fogg, author of Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947Feeling Memory theorizes a history of a present where events matter, memories stick and accrete, time ruptures, experiences generate, and little worlds proliferate around sounds, rhythms, and things. It experiments, listening for the intensities and unknown potential of an affective history from the inside out where the things of the world speak differently to one another. -- Kathleen C. Stewart, author of Ordinary AffectsIn a compelling mixture of theory, reflections on method, and vivid vignettes, Feeling Memory explores the emotions that animate and bind memory in oral history. Its insights extend well beyond the interview, however: Dodd shows what a history of emotions can achieve once affect is seen not just in terms of social prescriptions but as the glue that binds memory and relationships past and present. -- Michael Roper, author of Afterlives of War: A Descendants' HistoryFeeling Memory provides a nuanced and sophisticated explication of how the emotional content of memory shapes the remembered past into the present. Dodd contends that all historians—not just oral historians—need to take affective forms of knowledge more seriously and to search for the traces of feelings in their sources and analyses. The memory stories that are at the heart of the book are truly engaging and often moving. They make the book come alive. -- Ellen R. Boucher, author of Empire's Children: Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869-1967Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChronologyA Note on Transcription and TranslationIntroductionPause—Anne-Marie and Her FatherPositioningPart I. Memories Felt1. Articulated FeelingPause—Daniel: Fear on the Road2. Affects and IntensitiesPause—Nicole: Inside DrancyPart II. Memories LocatedPause—Nancette: Happy Places, Happy Times3. The Weirdness of Memory Time4. Places in Traumatic Memory5. Spaces in Traumatic MemoryPause—Hélène: Persecution and SpacePart III. Memories ToldPause—Filming Marie-Madeleine6. Regimes of Memory, Regimes of Feeling7. Communities of Memory, Communities of FeelingPause—Édith and Jean CompetePart IV. Memories Lived8. Materialities of the EverydayPause—Henri Plays at War9. Affective OthersPause—Danièle: The Strain of UncertaintyPause—Robert: The Contingency of Moral Meaning10. Contingency and RuptureConclusion: A Palette of HaecceitiesAppendix: The IntervieweesNotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisWhat did it feel like to be a child in France during World War II? Feeling Memory is an affective exploration of children’s lives in wartime France and the ways they are remembered.Trade ReviewA sensitive and imaginative exploration of the connections among war, childhood, and memory that demonstrates the meaning of emotions and feelings as historical forces. -- Alessandro Portelli, author of The Text and the Voice: Writing, Speaking, Democracy, and American LiteratureFeeling Memory deftly weaves together 'memory stories' and the latest scholarship to provide an entirely fresh approach to World War II in France. The result is a richly textured, nuanced study of the emotions of history that offers us new ways to think about children’s experiences and the places and events that shape our memory of the past. -- Shannon L. Fogg, author of Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947Feeling Memory theorizes a history of a present where events matter, memories stick and accrete, time ruptures, experiences generate, and little worlds proliferate around sounds, rhythms, and things. It experiments, listening for the intensities and unknown potential of an affective history from the inside out where the things of the world speak differently to one another. -- Kathleen C. Stewart, author of Ordinary AffectsIn a compelling mixture of theory, reflections on method, and vivid vignettes, Feeling Memory explores the emotions that animate and bind memory in oral history. Its insights extend well beyond the interview, however: Dodd shows what a history of emotions can achieve once affect is seen not just in terms of social prescriptions but as the glue that binds memory and relationships past and present. -- Michael Roper, author of Afterlives of War: A Descendants' HistoryFeeling Memory provides a nuanced and sophisticated explication of how the emotional content of memory shapes the remembered past into the present. Dodd contends that all historians—not just oral historians—need to take affective forms of knowledge more seriously and to search for the traces of feelings in their sources and analyses. The memory stories that are at the heart of the book are truly engaging and often moving. They make the book come alive. -- Ellen R. Boucher, author of Empire's Children: Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869-1967Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChronologyA Note on Transcription and TranslationIntroductionPause—Anne-Marie and Her FatherPositioningPart I. Memories Felt1. Articulated FeelingPause—Daniel: Fear on the Road2. Affects and IntensitiesPause—Nicole: Inside DrancyPart II. Memories LocatedPause—Nancette: Happy Places, Happy Times3. The Weirdness of Memory Time4. Places in Traumatic Memory5. Spaces in Traumatic MemoryPause—Hélène: Persecution and SpacePart III. Memories ToldPause—Filming Marie-Madeleine6. Regimes of Memory, Regimes of Feeling7. Communities of Memory, Communities of FeelingPause—Édith and Jean CompetePart IV. Memories Lived8. Materialities of the EverydayPause—Henri Plays at War9. Affective OthersPause—Danièle: The Strain of UncertaintyPause—Robert: The Contingency of Moral Meaning10. Contingency and RuptureConclusion: A Palette of HaecceitiesAppendix: The IntervieweesNotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives sets out to describe 'deep mapping,' an enhanced environment of data from widely distributed sources used to create a contextual view of a place, a network of social aspects, and environment, as the next step forward in the use of geo-referenced information. It spells out the state-of-the art in the use of new technology in mapping and geo-registration and its ramifications for history, geography, social sciences, cultural studies, environment research, and the humanities. The articles are filled with suggestions and viewpoints that are stimulating [and] the questions raised numerous and complex." -Lewis Lancaster, University of California BerkeleyTable of ContentsIntroduction. Between Matter and Meaning: Deep Maps and the Spatial Humanities1. Narrating Space and Place / David J. Bodenhamer2. Deep Geography—Deep Mapping: Spatial Storytelling and a Sense of Place / Trevor M. Harris3. Genealogies of Emplacement / John Corrigan4. Inscribing the Past: Depth as Narrative in Historical Spacetime / Philip Ethington and Nobuko Toyosawa5. Quelling Imperious Urges: Deep Emotional Mappings and the Ethnopoetics of Space / Stuart C. Aitken6. Deep Mapping and Neogeography / Barney Warf7. Spatializing and Analysing Digital Texts: Corpora, GIS and Places / Ian Gregory, David Cooper, Andrew Hardie, and Paul Rayson8. GIS as a Narrative Generation Platform / May Yuan, Grant DeLozier, and John McIntosh9. Warp and Weft on the Loom of Lat/Long / Worthy Martin Conclusion: Engaging Deep MapsNotesContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRevising the Revolution is an interesting contribution to specifics of history and politics in the Soviet Union supporting the claim that the province did not follow the centre. It was a sort of specific mimicry: The local conflict over biographies and involvement in the 1917 revolution resembled the discussion sparked by Trotsky's article "The lessons of October". In other words, the writing on the October Revolution in the USSR in the 1920s and 1930s was about one's own biography. That does not bode well for a historian, as overcoming the temptation to attack the contemporary political opponent and embellish one's own involvement is very hard if not impossible. Time and distance are needed, as well as a lack of political pressure. This is the lesson of Holmes' book. -- Bartlomiej Gajos * H-Soz-Kult *The author examines the stuttering rise and quick demise of Istpart, the commission set up by the fledgling Soviet government in 1920 for the Collection, Study, and Publication of Materials on the October Revolution and the History of the Communist Party. The book focuses on the branch set up in Viatka province (Kirov post-1934), providing an intriguing portrait of the state of the localities during the 1920s, of their isolation from the center, as well as the harsh conditions endured by local party officials during these years as they sought to fulfil their party duties. -- Frederick Corney * Russian Review *Holmes's study highlights the importance of carrying out further work on the study of revolutionary history in the provinces and how local Istparts attempted to strike a delicate balance between following instructions from the central Istpart, adhering to standards of historical scholarship, and engaging local readers' interests. His book is a story of optimism by early Istpart participants that the narrative of party history could be written both according to the standards of historical scholarship and to show that the Bolshevik Party acted correctly. But this goal foundered when it became clear that local narratives did not support the central one and that party leaders and most of those who administered Istpart, having been trained as party propagandists, did not care about scholarship. -- Barbara C. Allen * Historical Materialism *Holmes offers insightful arguments on the history of Istpart, its regional branches, and the ultimate subordination of historical scholarship to communist ideology. Although likely not his intent, Holmes also offers a warning about the manipulation of history and academia for political purposes, which appears increasingly relevant given the current state of the world. -- Jonathon Dreeze * H-Russia *Soviet historians did not always agree—during the regime's early years, local historians tried to construct their own interpretations of the 1917 revolution on the basis of documents housed in local archives and memoir literature. These efforts were terminated at the end of the 1920s by a government that insisted on a centralized narrative that suited its political needs. Joining the existing literature on the sometimes-strained relationship between the center (Moscow) and the Soviet periphery, this book focuses on the discussions that took place between Moscow and the Viatka region over how to present its distinctive past. Though historians in Russia's many regions wished to impart a local character to their narratives of 1917, the center sought to impose a new orthodoxy that culminated in the publication of Joseph Stalin's History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course in 1938. Holmes (emer., Univ. of South Alabama) reminds readers that the Communist Party's leadership viewed history entirely in political terms: it wanted to show that Vladimir Lenin was correct and that Stalin fully supported him. Specialists are the target audience for this slender volume. Summing Up: Recommended. Faculty. -- K. C. O'Connor * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationAbbreviationsTimelineIntroduction1. Istpart's Origins and Mission2. At the Periphery3. Multiple Scripts for 1905 and 19174. Viatka's 1917 Revolution in the Past and the Present5. Fractured Finances6. Moscow's Embrace of the Political7. The Passing of Istpart and Professional Civility8. Methodology Ex Cathedra: Stalin Speaks and Istpart's Legacy9. Their FateConclusionGlossary of Prominent IndividualsSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRevising the Revolution is an interesting contribution to specifics of history and politics in the Soviet Union supporting the claim that the province did not follow the centre. It was a sort of specific mimicry: The local conflict over biographies and involvement in the 1917 revolution resembled the discussion sparked by Trotsky's article "The lessons of October". In other words, the writing on the October Revolution in the USSR in the 1920s and 1930s was about one's own biography. That does not bode well for a historian, as overcoming the temptation to attack the contemporary political opponent and embellish one's own involvement is very hard if not impossible. Time and distance are needed, as well as a lack of political pressure. This is the lesson of Holmes' book. -- Bartlomiej Gajos * H-Soz-Kult *The author examines the stuttering rise and quick demise of Istpart, the commission set up by the fledgling Soviet government in 1920 for the Collection, Study, and Publication of Materials on the October Revolution and the History of the Communist Party. The book focuses on the branch set up in Viatka province (Kirov post-1934), providing an intriguing portrait of the state of the localities during the 1920s, of their isolation from the center, as well as the harsh conditions endured by local party officials during these years as they sought to fulfil their party duties. -- Frederick Corney * Russian Review *Holmes's study highlights the importance of carrying out further work on the study of revolutionary history in the provinces and how local Istparts attempted to strike a delicate balance between following instructions from the central Istpart, adhering to standards of historical scholarship, and engaging local readers' interests. His book is a story of optimism by early Istpart participants that the narrative of party history could be written both according to the standards of historical scholarship and to show that the Bolshevik Party acted correctly. But this goal foundered when it became clear that local narratives did not support the central one and that party leaders and most of those who administered Istpart, having been trained as party propagandists, did not care about scholarship. -- Barbara C. Allen * Historical Materialism *Holmes offers insightful arguments on the history of Istpart, its regional branches, and the ultimate subordination of historical scholarship to communist ideology. Although likely not his intent, Holmes also offers a warning about the manipulation of history and academia for political purposes, which appears increasingly relevant given the current state of the world. -- Jonathon Dreeze * H-Russia *Soviet historians did not always agree—during the regime's early years, local historians tried to construct their own interpretations of the 1917 revolution on the basis of documents housed in local archives and memoir literature. These efforts were terminated at the end of the 1920s by a government that insisted on a centralized narrative that suited its political needs. Joining the existing literature on the sometimes-strained relationship between the center (Moscow) and the Soviet periphery, this book focuses on the discussions that took place between Moscow and the Viatka region over how to present its distinctive past. Though historians in Russia's many regions wished to impart a local character to their narratives of 1917, the center sought to impose a new orthodoxy that culminated in the publication of Joseph Stalin's History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course in 1938. Holmes (emer., Univ. of South Alabama) reminds readers that the Communist Party's leadership viewed history entirely in political terms: it wanted to show that Vladimir Lenin was correct and that Stalin fully supported him. Specialists are the target audience for this slender volume. Summing Up: Recommended. Faculty. -- K. C. O'Connor * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationAbbreviationsTimelineIntroduction1. Istpart's Origins and Mission2. At the Periphery3. Multiple Scripts for 1905 and 19174. Viatka's 1917 Revolution in the Past and the Present5. Fractured Finances6. Moscow's Embrace of the Political7. The Passing of Istpart and Professional Civility8. Methodology Ex Cathedra: Stalin Speaks and Istpart's Legacy9. Their FateConclusionGlossary of Prominent IndividualsSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Why are things as they are? Why do things change? How and by whom should that process of change be explained? In A Brief History of History, one of the world's leading historians shows how globalizing perspectives are transforming the meaning of 'progress.' This powerfully argued account of historical thinking shows Jeremy Black at his spiky and brilliant best."—Crawford Gribben, Queen's University Belfast"In A Brief History of History, world leading historian Jeremy Black shares decades of research and thinking to show how the subject has developed and how it is written. Perceptive, insightful, and packed with ideas, it addresses the central problem of today's 'culture wars'. Above all, it shows with great clarity how interconnected human experience is; and how dangerous it is to undermine those connections. It is an essential guide for those concerned about misinformation and false truths today."—William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University"Understanding historical episodes and their importance requires looking at how historians presented them at different periods. Jeremy Black's deeply informed study introduces readers to that task by presenting historians influential during their own time and how they used the past to explain their own present. Instead of reading back current trends and debates, he brings history's different roles to the forefront in a guide of the genre's long tradition."—William Anthony Hay, Mississippi State University"A sense of the past is inherent to all cultures. But that sense is not only fragile, it is also prone to manipulation for political, ideological or cultural ends. A Brief History of History shows how thinking about the past evolved inside academia and, more importantly, outside it and what the future may hold. It deftly combines scholarship with contemporary observations, fizzing with ideas that stimulate and challenge many cherished notions about the study of history. It is the perfect book for our perplexing times."—T.G. Otte, University of East AngliaTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Controversy of History2. Origin Accounts and Sacred Time3. Printing and New Universal Histories4. Rejecting the Past5. New Pasts6. Contesting the Nations7. History in the Long Cold War, 1917-898. Methods for a Modern Age9. The Many Means of History10. Into the FutureSelected Further Reading

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Book SynopsisConfessing History expands the discussion about religion’s role in education and culture and examines what the relationship between faith and learning means for the academy today.Trade Review“Confessing History fills a large gap in the literature on Christian and especially evangelical historiography. I know of no other book or anthology of scholarly articles that so carefully analyzes how believing historians should work within the intellectual expectations of the guild. And it does so with pristine prose, impressive erudition, and charity of spirit. After reading Confessing History, I find myself compelled to take the prescriptions and proscriptions of the secular academy less seriously and my identity as a Christian historian more seriously.” —Grant Wacker, Duke University“How to reconcile religious commitment with the practices of the guild is one of the really big questions for believing historians. Confessing History is essential reading not only for them, but also for any wishing to understand the important issues at stake. In its pages we witness the concerns, questions, and yearnings of a new generation of believing historians—and perhaps even the contours of a new approach to Christian historical scholarship.” —Donald Yerxa, Director, The Historical Society“This collection of essays represents serious, sustained, multivalent, and cogent reflection on challenges for Christian historians as experienced by a mostly younger set of scholars. The volume acknowledges foundational work on such subjects carried out by a collection of older evangelical and Reformed scholars—including Ronald Wells, Darryl Hart, and George Marsden—but also moves well beyond these earlier voices, sometimes critiquing what they have written, but also sometimes venturing off into new directions.” —Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame"The editors dedicate this excellent collection to 'John D. Woodbridge, a Christian scholar and teacher who has inspired us to think about our careers as historians in terms of the Christian understanding of "calling."' How that might play out is the burden of these essays, and—as befits a highly contested subject—the answers range widely. The contributors speak from a variety of denominational and confessional traditions; they differ in their politics and their affiliations among the academic tribes. But they are united by their conviction that the 'Christian mind' matters." —Christianity Today“Comprised of more than a dozen essays, Confessing History aims to develop a deeper understanding of history as a vocation from a Christian point of view.” —Chattanooga Free Press“This book will resonate with any scholar of faith. Quite simply, the questions posed and the challenges addressed are relevant, indeed, thought provoking; the authors challenge readers to consider how they might take their callings as Christian historians more seriously than the training they received to become secular historians. Therefore, they encourage readers to think differently than graduate school trained them to think, while also acknowledging how difficult it is to make this transition. For those who study Latter-day Saint history and other related topics, this book may ring particularly familiar and should become a springboard into similar conversations of their own.” —BYU Studies“The topics addressed and the tone taken range from homiletic to the nicely delimited, but all speak to the vocation of the Christian historian . . . . There is much that is useful in the essays.” —Catholic Historical Review“Confessing History suggests that there is a Christian version of Ambrose’s Law, which the editors would probably call Marsden’s Law. Their objects of concern are historians such as George Marsden and Mark Noll, who have won the respect of their profession. The worry is that by seeking success with that audience, Christian historians have failed to be sufficiently Christian.” —Books and Culture“How . . . might one live, teach and write, in the contemporary academic world as a Christian historian but not be simply of that ever more secular academic world? That is the basic question that concerns this collection of fifteen essays, three-quarters of them written by historians who teach at smaller, self-consciously Protestant colleges in the United States . . . .The current volume testifies, in its excellent and even provocative essays, but also witnesses to what might be described as an identity crisis of sorts.” —Catholic Southwest“Green and his fellow editors are to be commended for building upon the work of the older generation of Reformed and evangelical scholars, who since the 1960s have been asking hard questions about the Christian historian’s vocation in the present age.” —Anglican and Episcopal History

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Book SynopsisHerbert Marcuse called the preface to Hegel''s Phenomenology one of the greatest philosophical undertakings of all times. This summary of Hegel''s system of philosophy is now available in English translation with commentary on facing pages. While remaining faithful to the author''s meaning, Walter Kaufmann has removed many encumbrances inherent in Hegel''s style.Trade Review"[Kaufmann's] lengthy commentary is a minor masterpiece of concise and erudite interpretation. This is a welcome departure from the lazy habit of pretending that Hegel was an obscure pedant who left some quite readable lectures on the philosophy of history. . . . To grasp what Hegel was really trying to do, one has to confront his metaphysics, and thanks to Kaufmann this an now be done even by the philosophical novice." —The New York Review of Books

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Book SynopsisKnud Ejler Løgstrup's The Ethical Demand is the most original influential Danish contribution to moral philosophy in this century. This is the first time that the complete text has been available in English translation. Originally published in 1956, it has again become the subject of widespread interest in Europe, now read in the context of the whole of Løgstrup's work. The Ethical Demand marks a break not only with utilitarianism and with Kantianism but also with Kierkegaard's Christian existentialism and with all forms of subjectivism. Yet Løgstrup's project is not destructive. Rather, it is a presentation of an alternative understanding of interpersonal life. The ethical demand presupposes that all interaction between human beings involves a basic trust. Its content cannot be derived from any rule. For Løgstrup, there is not Christian morality and secular morality. There is only human morality.Trade Review“Løgstrup's The Ethical Demand is a challenging and valuable addition to the growing ethical literature meeting the desperate needs of our own time. The book is a particularly valuable addition because of its attempt to meet the difficulties implicit in the Kantian and Kierkegaardian moral traditions which have been so influential in Europe in the past one hundred years." —The Canadian Catholic Review“[T]his book presents an interesting new way of looking at ethics, and its account of the various ways we rationalize our failures to live up to the demand had me examining how far I fell short. It would prove interesting to compare it to accounts of ‘particularist’ ethics, and of the ethics of care.” —Comptes rendus philosophiques (Philosophy in Review)“This is highly original and rewarding, if difficult, treatise on moral philosophy. Løgstrup, in the same general tradition as Kant whom he criticizes severely, gives a philosophical account of the commandment to love the neighbor as the basis of ethics. Løgstrup's version of the moral imperative, or ‘ethical demand,’ is ontological: it is the silent, radical, one-sided, impossible, unarticulated, and anonymous demand that ‘we take care of the life which trust has placed into our hands.’ . . . A revised and expanded version, with a helpful introduction, of a 1971 edition, this edition includes both the final chapter, a polemic against Kierkegaard’s Works of Love, and an article attacking teleology and deontology. The critique of Kierkegaard is particularly incisive. . . .” —Religious Studies Review“. . . The volume is a useful introduction to the work of a very insightful heart and mind. Indeed, The Ethical Demand is one of those rare books that can inspire readers to moral virtue. . . . English readers are in the considerable debt of Fink, MacIntyre, Hauerwas, and Notre Dame Press for making Løgstrup's magisterial work again available in translation. It is an exercise in attention, a schooling of empathy, that deserves to be much more widely read and responded to.” —Modern Theology“This collection of essays by the late Danish philosopher and theologian Løgstrup presents his theory of using phenomenology in understanding our ethical decisions. According to Løgstrup, phenomenology not only provides an understanding of human existence but also of ethics, through examination of phenomena of ethical concepts. . . . Løgstrup combines detailed writing with an excellent critique of competing ethical theories to explain his own ethical theory, which stresses the moral experience over ethical principals. These essays will be valuable to scholars and students in philosophy and ethics.” —Library Journal

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Book SynopsisExplores representations of Joan of Arc in English culture from 1429 until the early nineteenth century, examining the factors that shaped retellings of her military successes and execution. Trade Review“Orgelfinger’s work is a thoroughly researched and welcome addition to the scholarship on the post-medieval reception of Joan of Arc. She offers valuable new insights by focusing on British views of Joan before the performance of Shaw’s Saint Joan, and by challenging over-simplified narratives of England’s rehabilitation of her former adversary.”—Michael Evans Medievally Speaking“A work of panoramic scope that touches an array of perspectives, from that of an unidentified soldier present at her burning all the way up to Shakespeare.”—Scott Manning Philadelphia Inquirer“Well researched and vibrantly composed, Gail Orgelfinger’s Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429–1829 traces the translations over time of the French heroine into a figure reviled and then embraced across the Channel. Through careful attention to an impressive array of sources, Orgelfinger offers to medieval studies and medievalism alike a not-to-be-missed book about how gender, national rivalries, temporal distance, fantasy, and historical fact enmesh over the centuries to keep the past alive in surprising new forms.”—Jeffrey J. Cohen,author of Medieval Identity Machines“Most often the English perspective on Joan has been simply dismissed as resentment for her influential role in their ultimate defeat in the Hundred Years’ War. In this book, Orgelfinger shows that the English afterlife of Joan is far more complex and interesting.... This is an excellent book that will appeal to scholars, students, and the large number of Joan of Arc fans outside of academia.”—Kelly DeVries,author of Joan of Arc: A Military Leader“A vibrant, original, and important contribution to both the historical interpretation of Joan and the changing tastes and interests in historical and literary cultures in England from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.”—Anne Curry Journal of British Studies“Orgelfinger spiritedly gives George Bernard Shaw’s Joan the last word after such a profusion of attempts to capture who she was. Looking at a vision of her statue in Winchester Cathedral, Joan declares: ‘Is that meant to be me? I was stiffer on my feet.’”—Deborah Fraioli Mediaevistik“Orgel!nger’s study of Joan’s legacy in England stands out in its considerable erudition and its fine close readings of the sources.”—Karen Sullivan Speculum“Joan has continued to fascinate from her first appearance in the early fifteenth century. Thanks to Professor Orgelfinger’s study, we now have a definitive study of that fascination among her natural enemies, the English who sought to defeat her in life, engineered her death, and have had to contend with her legacy ever since.”—Kevin J. Harty Arthuriana“Orgelfinger’s study of Joan’s legacy in England stands out in its considerable erudition and its fine close readings of the sources.”—Karen Sullivan Speculum“Orgelfinger’s engagement with issues of gender, time, and English-French relations over the centuries is to be commended. The speed at which centuries of historiography is covered is almost breathtaking, yet the material is well handled. Overall, this is an excellent book.”—Sally Fisher Parergon“A valuable addition to scholarship both on the afterlives of Joan herself, and on issues of medievalism in general.”—Lesley Coote English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextIntroduction: “Those Cursed Breeches”1 “We Have Burned a Saint”: Joan of Arc and the English in France 2 “The Martiall Maide”: Joan of Arc and the French in England 3 “Penthesilea Did It. Why Not She?”: An English Virago4 “A Pievish Painted Puzel”: Joan of Arc and Mary Queen of Scots in 1 Henry VI5 “Tom Paine in Petticoats”: Domesticating Joan of ArcAfterword: “Is That Meant to Be Me?”NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisLuminaries in Texas history pay tribute to an all-star cast of thirteen historians—from J. Frank Dobie to Américo Paredes—who preserved Texas’s past, and who were often as colorful as the historical figures they studied.Trade ReviewAs a personal reminder that historians can have a political voice, can transform lives, and can change the world around them— all while struggling with the daily grind of life— this book approaches the realm of inspirational . * Great Plains Quarterly *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Charles W. Ramsdell by Light Townsend Cummins Eugene C. Barker by Patrick L. Cox Walter Prescott Webb by Michael L. Collins Ernest W. Winkler by Dan Utley Llerena Friend by Kenneth E. Hendrickson Jr. J. Frank Dobie by Don Graham J. Evetts Haley by B. Byron Price Robert Maxwell by Archie P. McDonald Carlos Castañeda by Félix D. Almaráz Jr. Robert Cotner by Mary Lou Kelley-Scheer Américo Paredes by Carolina Castillo Crimm Joe B. Frantz by David G. McComb Ruthe Winegarten by Nancy Baker Jones David J. Weber by Jesús F. de la Teja Contributors Photo Credits Index

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Book SynopsisThis work deals with the history of anthropology, setting out to define the historiographer as a composer, responsive to his own lived experience and to those whom he encounters. The essays address the work and influence of Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski.

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Book SynopsisThis work examines the relationship between European and indigenous Andean ways of understanding the past. Following field work in Bolivia, the author argues that complex Andean rituals have hybridized European and indigenous traditions and are evidence of a keen social memory in the community.

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Book SynopsisExamining Mosses's historiographical legacy, this book looks at it from the context of his own life and the internal development of his work, as well as by tracing the ways Mosse influenced the subsequent study of contemporary history, European cultural history and modern Jewish history.

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Book SynopsisThe author of this book sets out to investigate two fundamental issues: how was the remote past of Britain imagined in the 18th and 19th centuries and what part did visual arts play in the process?Table of ContentsThe domain of prehistory; the past and its meanings; Northern heroes and national identity; the bards of Britain; the Druids; ancestors and others - the origins of England; the image of the Briton; the megalithic landscape; garden design and the prehistoric past.

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Book SynopsisA.J.P. Taylor was arguably the most influential and popular British historian of the 20th century. This biography explores Taylor's activities as historian, Oxford don, broadcast journalist, husband and friend during a brilliant life punctuated by success, failure and frequent controversy.Trade Review"This book is a remarkable portrait of a remarkable man... No future historian can hope to explain Taylor's impact on his times better than Kathleen Burk has done." Raymond Carr, Literary Review "Taylor's contribution to the intellectual history of this century makes this account fascinating and valuable." Kirkus Reviews "This worthy book, with its balanced emphases on the professional and the personal, will please historians of every stripe." Publishers Weekly "This is a big book (in both senses of the term) and deserves a wide readership." Chris Wrigley, History Today "Burk... has managed to produce a biography that is fair and well judged. She comprehends both Taylor's resentments and the attitudes of his enemies... Above all, she conveys Taylor's distinction as a historian." Martin Walker, Wilson Quarterly

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Book SynopsisAn illuminating collection of essays from the preeminent scholar of architectural history and theoryTrade Review"As he approaches his century - he was born in 1919 - it is a pleasure to welcome Jame Ackerman's collection of eight essays and to note that he is as inquisitive, as lively and as wide-ranging as he ever was."-Joseph Rkywert, Art Newspaper -- Joseph Rkywert Art Newspaper

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Book SynopsisWith an emphasis on paleographic reconstructions, site formation processes, chronological studies, and integrated faunal analyses, the work will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working in shell middens, hunter-gatherer ecology, geoarchaeology, and coatal or aquatic adaptations.Table of ContentsCalifornia's Coastal HunterGatherers: A Theoretical Perspective. Environmental Setting. Culture History. Research Procedures. Investigations at SBA-1807. Investigations at SBA-2061. Investigations at SBA-2057. Early Holocene Adaptations of the Santa Barbara Channel. Early Holocene Cultural Ecology on the California Coast. Summary and Conclusions. Index.

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Book SynopsisYou can't outrun it, but you can outsmart itTrade ReviewThroughout the work, Hoffer selects examples of history Zombies that have plagued the telling of American history. By selecting and exposing such history Zombies, Hoffer aims not only to show the danger of such misguided and prejudiced perversions of the past, but also to demonstrate why responsible, living (and not undead) history matters for the telling of the American story." —Richard A. Bailey, Canisius College

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Book SynopsisThe author of this text proposes a bold approach to writing local history in this exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that people of every place and time deserve a history, he explores such topics as the history of madness and the environment in southwestern Minnesota.Trade Review"Rethinking Home is pioneering scholarship at its best. Amato's eloquent plea for scholars to rethink the Intricate relationships between home, place, nation, and world is one that cannot be ignored." - Richard O. Davies, University Foundation Professor, University of Nevada; "Local history is the stepchild of our profession. Joseph Amato has emancipated Cinderella. Innovative and engaging, his passion for particulars brings life to people and places whose interest we have underrated far too long; and provides a good read beside."-Eugen Weber, Department of History, UCLA; "How pleasantly odd, how wonderful that a book on local history should be so rousing, so encouraging, so redemptive! Rethinking Home is a veritable call to arms for those of us who care deeply about the special, the distinctive character of our own home places, our own locales."-Bradley P. Dean, Thoreau Institute at Walden WoodsTable of ContentsMaps Foreword Introduction. The Concept and the Practitioners of Local History 1. A Place Called Home 2. Grasses, Waters, and Muskrats: A Region's Compasses 3. The Rule of Market and the Law of the Land 4. Writing History through the Senses: Sounds 5. Anger: Mapping the Emotional Landscape 6. The Clandestine 7. Madness 8. Madame Bovary and a Lilac Shirt: Literature and Local History 9. The Red Rock: Inventing Peoples and Towns 10. Business First and Always Conclusion: The Plight of the Local Historian Notes Acknowledgments and Sources Index

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Book SynopsisSir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust - whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian - in his social, political, and literary context. This is a foreword of Syme that delivers biographical essays of Sir Ronald Syme in English.

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Book SynopsisTakes a look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims. This work shows how we can be certain that the Holocaust happened and, for that matter, how we can confirm any historical event.Trade Review"Should be required reading for everyone!" Martyrdom & Resistance

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Book SynopsisFrom History to Theory describes major changes in the conceptual language of the humanities, particularly in the discourse of history. In seven beautifully written, closely related essays, Kerwin Lee Klein traces the development of academic vocabularies through the dynamically shifting cultural, political, and linguistic landscapes of the twentieth century. He considers the rise and fall of philosophy of history and discusses past attempts to imbue historical discourse with scientific precision. He explores the development of the meta-narrative and the post-Marxist view of history and shows how the present resurgence of old words--such as memory--in new contexts is providing a way to address marginalized peoples. In analyzing linguistic changes in the North American academy, From History to Theory innovatively ties semantic shifts in academic discourse to key trends in American society, culture, and politics.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Rise and Fall of Historiography 2. From Philosophy to Theory 3. Going Native: History, Language, and Culture 4. Postmodernism and the People without History 5. On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse 6. Remembrance and the Christian Right Afterword: History and Theory in Our Time Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Historians across Borders ... succeeds in raising methodological and professional questions that affect not only European scholars of the United States but also the American historical community." -- Raffaella Baritono The Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsPreface: Location and History Nicolas Barreyre, Michael Heale, Stephen Tuck, and Cecile Vidal Acknowledgments Part One. Historiography 1. Watersheds in Time and Place: Writing American History in Europe Michael Heale, Sylvia Hilton, Halina Parafianowicz, Paul Schor, and Maurizio Vaudagna Part Two. Structures and Context 2. Using the American Past for the Present: European Historians and the Relevance of Writing American History Tibor Frank, Martin Klimke, and Stephen Tuck 3. Institutions, Careers, and the Many Paths of U.S. History in Europe Max Edling, Vincent Michelot, Jorg Nagler, Sandra Scanlon, and Irmina Wawrzyczek 4. Straggling Intellectual Worlds: Positionality and the Writing of American History Nicolas Barreyre, Manfred Berg, and Simon Middleton Part Three. Internationalization(s) of U.S. History 5. Writing American History from Europe: The Elusive Substance of the Comparative Approach Susanna Delfino and Marcus Graser 6. American Foreign Relations in European Perspectives: Geopolitics and the Writing of History 7. Location and the Conceptualization of Historical Frameworks: Early American History and Its Multiple Reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe 00 Trevor Burnard and Cecile Vidal Part Four. Perspectives from Elsewhere 8. Positionality, Ambidexterity, and Global Frames Thomas Bender 9. Reflections from Russia Ivan Kurilla 10. Doing U.S. History in Australia: A Comparative Perspective Ian Tyrrell 11. Viewing American History from Japan: The Potential of Comparison Natsuki Aruga 12. Not Quite at Home: Writing American History in Denmark David E. Nye 13. American History in the Shadow of Empire: A Plea for Marginality Francois Furstenberg Notes Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship. It features forty-four articles that take stock of the history, evolving literature, and the trajectories of new world history.Trade Review"A valuable, sophisticated, and well-organized selection of papers written by many leading experts in the field... The New World History is a tour de force." World History ConnectedTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Further Reading CHAPTER 1 WORLD HISTORY OVER TIME: THE EVOLUTION OF AN INTELLECTUAL AND PEDAGOGICAL MOVEMENT Introduction The Rise of World History Scholarship * Craig A. Lockard World History * Marnie Hughes-Warrington Toward World History: American Historians and the Coming of the World History Course * Gilbert Allardyce Marshall G. S. Hodgson and the Hemispheric Interregional Approach to World History * Edmund Burke III Further Reading CHAPTER 2 DEFINING WORLD HISTORY: SOME KEY STATEMENTS Introduction Hemispheric Interregional History as an Approach to World History * Marshall G. S. Hodgson The Rise of the West after Twenty-Five Years * William H. McNeill Depth, Span, and Relevance * Philip D. Curtin A Plea for World System History * Andre Gunder Frank Myths, Wagers, and Some Moral Implications of World History * Jerry H. Bentley World History and the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality * Merry Wiesner-Hanks Further Reading CHAPTER 3 REGIONS IN WORLD-HISTORICAL CONTEXT Introduction The Middle East and North Africa in World History * Julia A. Clancy-Smith No Longer Odd Region Out: Repositioning Latin America in World History * Lauren Benton Southeast Asia in World History * Craig A. Lockard American History as if the World Mattered (and Vice Versa) * Carl Guarneri Further Reading CHAPTER 4 RETHINKING WORLD-HISTORICAL SPACE Introduction The Architecture of Continents: The Development of the Continental Scheme * Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen Southernization * Lynda Shaffer Oceans of World History: Delineating Aquacentric Notions in the Global Past * Rainer F. Buschmann Atlantic History: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities * Alison Games Further Reading CHAPTER 5 RETHINKING WORLD-HISTORICAL TIME Introduction Cross-Cultural Interaction and Periodization in World History * Jerry H. Bentley When Does World History Begin? (And Why Should We Care?) * David Northrup History and Science after the Chronometric Revolution * David Christian Worlding History * Daniel A. Segal Further Reading CHAPTER 6 WORLD HISTORY AS COMPARISON Introduction Global and Comparative History * Michael Adas Frameworks for Global Historical Analysis * Patrick Manning How to Write the History of the World * Lauren Benton What Is World History Good For? * Kenneth Pomeranz Further Reading CHAPTER 7 DEBATING THE QUESTION OF WESTERN POWER Introduction Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization: Europe, China, and the Global Conjuncture * Kenneth Pomeranz The West and the Rest Revisited: Debating Capitalist Origins, European Colonialism, and the Advent of Modernity * Joseph M. Bryant Capitalist Origins, the Advent of Modernity, and Coherent Explanation: A Response to Joseph M. Bryant * Jack A. Goldstone Comparison in Global History * Prasannan Parthasarathi Further Reading CHAPTER 8 WORLD HISTORY, BIG HISTORY, AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT Introduction The Columbian Exchange * Alfred W. Crosby Matter Matters: Towards a More "Substantial" Global History * Frank Uekotter The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature? * Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen, and John R. McNeill Big History: The Emergence of a Novel Interdisciplinary Approach * Fred Spier Further Reading CHAPTER 9 GLOBAL HISTORY AND GLOBALIZATION Introduction Global History: Approaches and New Directions * Maxine Berg Comparing Global History to World History * Bruce Mazlish Cycles of Silver: Globalization as Historical Process * Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giraldez What Is the Concept of Globalization Good For? An African Historian's Perspective * Frederick Cooper Further Reading CHAPTER 10 CRITIQUES AND QUESTIONS Introduction Global History and Critiques of Western Perspectives * Dominic Sachsenmaier Much Ado about Something: The New Malaise of World History * Vinay Lal Myths, Wagers, and Some Moral Implications of World History * Jerry H. Bentley Beyond Blacks, Bondage, and Blame: Why a Multicentric World History Needs Africa * Joseph C. Miller Women's and Men's World History? Not Yet * Judith P. Zinsser Histories for a Less National Age * Kenneth Pomeranz Further Reading Teaching World History, Further Reading Credits Index

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Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressâs mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

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