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Johns Hopkins University Press The Birth of the Past
Book SynopsisFeaturing a foreword by the eminent historian Anthony Grafton, this fascinating book draws upon a diverse range of sources-ancient histories, medieval theology, Renaissance art, literature, legal thought, and early modern mathematics and social science-to uncover the meaning of the past and its relationship to the present.Trade ReviewComplex and erudite, confident and controversial. As Schiffman's brilliant argument suggests, anachronism not only helps define the past but becomes its doppelganger. Times Literary Supplement Lively, brilliant, and erudite. [Schiffman's] learned and engaging style [and] fresh, stimulating ideas provide a intellectual feast not only for students of Western civilization, but for those of us seeking to understand other traditions. Essential. Choice This ambitious, lucid book chronicles European methods of imagining and representing the past from the ancient Greeks to the French Enlightenment. Schiffman provides a masterful account of the emergence of modern notions of historical causation that begins with Thucydides and ends more than two thousand years later with Montesquieu and Herder. Sixteenth Century Journal Anyone with an interest in the history of ideas, or the history of historiography for that matter, will find that this book repays close attention. Reviews in History Thought-provoking. History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive This is an important book, and deserves to be widely read. The Sun News Network Schiffman has given us a 'historiographical essay' by his own admission, and an excellent one at that: not the whole truth, but, more valuably, a new foothold for serious engagement. -- Anthony Ossa-Richardson Intellectual History Review It is refreshing to read a book with a clear, even bold, thesis that forces readers to reexamine the authority and applicability of basic historical concepts... The strength of this engaging study is not simply that it historicizes and thus defamiliarizes what passes for common sense in the present but also that it reconstructs what had been regarded as common sense in previous epochs in the Western tradition, from antiquity to the Christian era, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment. Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsForeword, by Anthony GraftonGestationIntroduction The Past Definedpart oneAntiquityFlatlandPasts PresentThe Herodotean AchievementThucydides and the RefashioningsLinear TimeHellenistic Innovationspart twoChristianityCan't Get Here from ThereThe Power of PrayerBreakthrough to the NowThe Idea of the SæculumThe Sæculum ReconfiguredGregory of Tours and the SæculumBack from the Futurepart threeRenaissanceThe Living PastThe Birth of AnachronismPetrarch's "Copernican Leap"The Commonplace View of the WorldJean Bodin and the Unity of Historypart fourEnlightenmentPresence and DistanceBiography as a Form of HistoryThe Politics of HistoryThe Relations of Truth / The Truth of RelationsMontesquieu and the Relations of ThingsThe Past EmergesEpilogue The Past HistoricizedNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£52.20
Johns Hopkins University Press The Birth of the Past
Book SynopsisFeaturing a foreword by the eminent historian Anthony Grafton, this fascinating book draws upon a diverse range of sources-ancient histories, medieval theology, Renaissance art, literature, legal thought, and early modern mathematics and social science-to uncover the meaning of the past and its relationship to the present.Trade ReviewComplex and erudite, confident and controversial. As Schiffman's brilliant argument suggests, anachronism not only helps define the past but becomes its doppelganger. Times Literary Supplement Lively, brilliant, and erudite. [Schiffman's] learned and engaging style [and] fresh, stimulating ideas provide a intellectual feast not only for students of Western civilization, but for those of us seeking to understand other traditions. Essential. Choice This ambitious, lucid book chronicles European methods of imagining and representing the past from the ancient Greeks to the French Enlightenment. Schiffman provides a masterful account of the emergence of modern notions of historical causation that begins with Thucydides and ends more than two thousand years later with Montesquieu and Herder. Sixteenth Century Journal Anyone with an interest in the history of ideas, or the history of historiography for that matter, will find that this book repays close attention. Reviews in History Thought-provoking. History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive This is an important book, and deserves to be widely read. The Sun News Network Schiffman has given us a 'historiographical essay' by his own admission, and an excellent one at that: not the whole truth, but, more valuably, a new foothold for serious engagement. -- Anthony Ossa-Richardson Intellectual History Review It is refreshing to read a book with a clear, even bold, thesis that forces readers to reexamine the authority and applicability of basic historical concepts... The strength of this engaging study is not simply that it historicizes and thus defamiliarizes what passes for common sense in the present but also that it reconstructs what had been regarded as common sense in previous epochs in the Western tradition, from antiquity to the Christian era, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment. Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsForeword, by Anthony GraftonGestationIntroduction The Past Definedpart oneAntiquityFlatlandPasts PresentThe Herodotean AchievementThucydides and the RefashioningsLinear TimeHellenistic Innovationspart twoChristianityCan't Get Here from ThereThe Power of PrayerBreakthrough to the NowThe Idea of the SæculumThe Sæculum ReconfiguredGregory of Tours and the SæculumBack from the Futurepart threeRenaissanceThe Living PastThe Birth of AnachronismPetrarch's "Copernican Leap"The Commonplace View of the WorldJean Bodin and the Unity of Historypart fourEnlightenmentPresence and DistanceBiography as a Form of HistoryThe Politics of HistoryThe Relations of Truth / The Truth of RelationsMontesquieu and the Relations of ThingsThe Past EmergesEpilogue The Past HistoricizedNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£27.45
Johns Hopkins University Press The Barristers of Toulouse in the Eighteenth
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1975. Following the vein of French historiography, many twentieth-century scholars of the French Revolution believed that the middle class of lawyers played a crucial role in the Revolution. In The Barristers of Toulouse, Lenard Berlanstein contends with that notion in a case study examining the response of the Toulousian legal community to the French Revolution. Using tax rolls, marriage contracts, and court records as primary sources, Professor Berlanstein argues that class interestssuch as a desire to preserve their status in the cultured, conservative urban eliteled many Toulousian judges and lawyers to reject the Revolution and to remain loyal to the aristocratic Parlement. In other words, those in the legal community of Toulouse conducted themselves in ways that were consistent with other members of their social and economic class. To supplement his argument, Berlanstein's integrates methods from the New Social History movement.Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. The Professional Life of the BarristersChapter 2. Social and Economic StatusChapter 3. Social and Economic AdvancementChapter 4. Ideas and Reforms in the Age of EnlightenmentChapter 5. The Barristers in Toulousan Society and PoliticsChapter 6. The Toulousan Barristers in the Revolution (1788-1793)Chapter 7. Concluding RemarksAppendixBibliographyIndex
£25.17
Johns Hopkins University Press History in the United States 18001860
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1970. Professor Callcott's analysis of the rise of historical consciousness in the United States from 1800 to 1860 offers a new dimension to American historiography. Other books have provided insight into the works of Bancroft, Parkman, and others, but Callcott goes beyond to explain the meaning of the past itself rather than the contributions of particular historians. As the anatomy of an idea, this is an important contribution to American intellectual history; and as a study of humans' need for the past and their use of it, it is an important contribution to American social history. The author begins by analyzing the European and Romantic background for American historical thought. He then explores the rise of historical themes in literature, education, the arts, and scholarship. By describing the type of historical subject matter, the methods of writing history, the interpretive themes historians used, and the standards by which critics judged history, CallcoTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. The Intellectual Origins of Romantic HistoryChapter 2. The People Discover the PastChapter 3. History Enters the Schools Chapter 4. The Writers of History Chapter 5. The Subject Matter of History Chapter 6. Antiquarianism in the Age of Literary History Chapter 7. Methods of Historical Writing Chapter 8. Interpreting the Past Chapter 9. The Social Uses of History Chapter 10. The Personal Uses of History Chapter 11. History as Ultimate Reality Chapter 12. The Decline of Romantic History Biographical Note Index
£35.10
Temple University Press,U.S. Unsettled Solidarities
Book SynopsisUnsettled Solidarities examines contemporary Asian and Indigenous cross-representations within different settler states in the Américas. Quynh Nhu Le looks at literary works by both groups alongside public apologies, interviews, and hemispheric race theories to trace cross-community tensions and possibilities for solidarities amidst the uneven imposition of racialization and settler colonization. Contrasting texts such as Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men with Gerald Vizenor's Hiroshima Bugi, and Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest with Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, among others, Le reveals how settler colonialism persists through the liberal ideological structuring or incorporation of critical and political resistance. She illuminates the tense collisions of Asian and Indigenous movements from the heroic/warrior traditions, reparations and redress, and transnational/cross-racial mobilization against global capital to mixed-race narratives.Reading the
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Temple University Press,U.S. Unsettled Solidarities
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MY - University of Toronto Press Donald Creighton A Life in History
Book SynopsisThrough his virtuoso research into Creighton's own voluminous papers, Donald Creighton captures the twentieth-century transformation of English Canada through the life and times of one of its leading intellectuals.Trade Review'Wright has not only written the definitive biography of one of Canada's most important historians but provided us with a model of how a biography ought to be done.' -- Phillip A. Buckner The Dorchester Review Autumn/Winter 2015 'Wright very self-consciously places his own biography within the romantic conventions of Creightonian history and romantic art, very appropriately joining together these two heroes. The great Canadian historian created the first hero; his biographer has created the second.' -- William Westfall Historical Studies in Education Spring 2016 'Donald Creighton is a beautifully written biography, easily the most ambitious biography I have read in a number of years. And its attention to the psychology of the man, to the whole personality and life of its subject, is commendable.' -- Christopher Dummitt Acadiensis , vol 45:01:2016 'Wright gives Creighton his due as an undeniably salient figure in Canada's intellectual history. In the process, he has created an invaluable guide for anyone who seeks to read and to understand Canada's preeminent historian.' -- Kevin Boatright Canada's History December 2016- January 2017 'Donald Wright has provided an admirably full and balanced account of the historian and the man... A powerful study of high art, flawed humanity, and the vicissitudes of reputation.' -- A.B. McKillop Canadian Historical Review vol 97:03:2016Table of ContentsIntroduction I: Spring 1. Family Tree 2. Childhood and Adolescence 3. Vic 4. Oxford and Paris II: Summer 5. Historian 6. Professor 7. Mid-Career 8. Macdonald III: Fall 9. Chairman 10. Decolonization 11. Confederation IV: Winter 12. Despair 13. Endings Appendix 1: Donald Creighton: Selected Bibliography Appendix 2: Donald Creighton's Doctoral Students
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University of Toronto Press Reading Canadian Womens and Gender History
Book SynopsisBy putting past and present scholarship into dialogue with each other, this book addresses accomplishments in Canadian women's and gender history, as well as ongoing silences and absences.Trade Review"Anyone engaging in women’s, gender, or feminist history in Canada today will benefit from the book’s thorough consideration of how the field of women’s history, understood broadly, was built, its historiographical trends, and the collaborative effort of historians to de-marginalize women and bring their experiences to the forefront of historical study. The excellent contributions in this book remind us yet again that though the field is rich and deep, much work remains to be done." -- Rebecca Beausaert, University of Guelph * Histoire sociale / Social History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Feminist Conversations Nancy Janovicek, University of Calgary and Carmen Nielson, Mount Royal University 2. Our Historiographical Moment: A Conversation about Indigenous Women’s History in Canada in the Early Twenty-First Century Mary Jane Logan McCallum, University of Winnipeg and Susan M. Hill, University of Toronto 3. Writing Black Canadian Women’s History: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going Karen Flynn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Funké Aladejebi, University of New Brunswick 4. Quebec Nationalism and the History of Women and Gender Denyse Baillargeon, Université de Montréal 5. Class, Race, and Gender Roles in Early British North America Katherine M.J. McKenna, Western University 6. Performative (Ir)rationality: Rethinking Agency in Canadian Histories of Gender, Religion, Reason, and Beyond Beth A. Robertson, Carleton University 7. Home Fronts and Front Lines: A Gendered History of War and Peace Tarah Brookfield, Wilfrid Laurier University and Sarah Glassford, University of Ottawa 8. Historical Feminisms in Canada to 1940: Further Reflections on the So-Called First Wave Nancy Forestell, St. Francis Xavier University 9. Never Done: Feminists Reinterpret Their Own History Joan Sangster, Trent University 10. Beyond Sisters or Strangers: Feminist Immigrant Women’s History and Rewriting Canadian History Marlene Epp, University of Waterloo and Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto 11. Primal Urge/National Force: Sex, Sexuality, and National History Heather Stanley, Vancouver Island University 12. Challenging Work: Feminist Scholarship on Women, Gender, and Work in Canadian History Lisa Pasolli, Queen’s University and Julia Smith, University of Alberta 13. Realizing Reproductive Justice in Canadian History Shannon Stettner, University of Waterloo, Kristin Burnett, Lakehead University, and Lori Chambers, Lakehead University List of Contributors Index
£25.19
University of Toronto Press Donald Creighton
Book SynopsisThrough his virtuoso research into Creighton's own voluminous papers, Donald Creighton captures the twentieth-century transformation of English Canada through the life and times of one of its leading intellectuals.Trade Review'Wright has not only written the definitive biography of one of Canada's most important historians but provided us with a model of how a biography ought to be done.' -- Phillip A. Buckner The Dorchester Review Autumn/Winter 2015 'Wright very self-consciously places his own biography within the romantic conventions of Creightonian history and romantic art, very appropriately joining together these two heroes. The great Canadian historian created the first hero; his biographer has created the second.' -- William Westfall Historical Studies in Education Spring 2016 'Wright gives Creighton his due as an undeniably salient figure in Canada's intellectual history. In the process, he has created an invaluable guide for anyone who seeks to read and to understand Canada's preeminent historian.' -- Kevin Boatright Canada's History December 2016- January 2017 'Donald Wright has provided an admirably full and balanced account of the historian and the man... A powerful study of high art, flawed humanity, and the vicissitudes of reputation.' -- A.B. McKillop Canadian Historical Review vol 97:03:2016 'Donald Creighton is a beautifully written biography, easily the most ambitious biography I have read in a number of years. And its attention to the psychology of the man, to the whole personality and life of its subject, is commendable.' -- Christopher Dummitt Acadiensis , vol 45:01:2016Table of ContentsIntroduction I: Spring 1. Family Tree 2. Childhood and Adolescence 3. Vic 4. Oxford and Paris II: Summer 5. Historian 6. Professor 7. Mid-Career 8. Macdonald III: Fall 9. Chairman 10. Decolonization 11. Confederation IV: Winter 12. Despair 13. Endings Appendix 1: Donald Creighton: Selected Bibliography Appendix 2: Donald Creighton's Doctoral Students
£65.70
University of Toronto Press Le province de Quebec
Book SynopsisThere is no doubt that local and regional history, considered by many as a kind of minor historical study, has a pressing need for a systematic inventory of its resources. This collection shows the durability, the vividness, and the astonishing productivity of a sector of history which is the stronghold of the history-lover rather than the professional historian.The nature and content of each book determines its selection. For each book included, the compilers have weighed its contribution to local history and regional history rather than the style in which it is written—narrative, memoir, descriptive study, or novel. It is this criterion of selection that has permitted the retention of several general histories of a varied nature—Bouchette, Charlevoix, Nicholas Denys, La Potherie, Lescarbot, Hanotaux, Sulte, etc.— where local and regional life takes on a major importance for reasons of order in history, method, or quite simply because local life is the prin
£33.30
University of Toronto Press Studies in the Eighteenth Century III
Book SynopsisThis volume of essays, from the Third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, continues the valuable and lively tradition established in the two earlier seminars and volumes.The essays, by distinguished international scholars, range over many of the topics that make the eighteenth century a rich area of study: the burgeoning of ideas about man and his place in the world, social history, philosophy and literature, literary criticism and traditions, the poetry and prose of the giants of the age.For all students of eighteenth-century studies this book will be vital reading.
£25.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Philosophy of History and
Book SynopsisA COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY The philosophy of historiography examines our representations and knowledge of the past, the relation between evidence, inference, explanation and narrative. Do we possess knowledge of the past? Do we just have probable beliefs about the past, or is historiography a piece of convincing fiction? The philosophy of history is the direct philosophical examination of history, whether it is necessary or contingent, whether it has a direction or whether it is coincidental, and if it has a direction, what it is, and how and why it is unfolding? The fifty entries in this Companion cover the main issues in the philosophies of historiography and history, including natural history and the practices of historians. Written by an international and multi-disciplinary group of experts, these clearly written entries present a cutting-edge updated picture of current research in the philosophies of historiography and history. ThisTrade Review"Like the encompassing nature of the other volumes in the Blackwell Companion to Philosophy series, undergraduate students and scholars with a serious interest in philosophical problems related to history and historiography should benefit from the newest Companion." (Reviews in Religion & Theology, 2012) "This volume does a fine job of showing the field's connections to many of the central concerns of contemporary philosophy. Part Four offers essays addressing the traditional schools and issues of philosophy of history and historiography, as well as valuable essays on postmodernism, Muslim philosophy of history, and philosophy of history at the end of the Cold War, among other topics. Recommended." (Choice, June 2009) "Tucker is to be congratulated…for conceiving of this work, and for soliciting, selecting, organizing, and editing its essays—all of which were written especially for the volume. [E]ach essay presents a particular author's take on a subject, often ending with further questions and suggestions. In this way it resembles a conversational partner who accompanies one along the way, stimulating further reflection as well as providing interesting information and observations. A companion literally is someone who breaks bread with another (com: with; panis: bread), and it certainly is the case that these essays—so clearly written, so mercifully manageable in length, and so sharp in focus—collectively and individually provide a great deal of food for thought. [T]he range and scope of the volume…is impressive by any standard. The fact that the authors are world-class authorities in the areas in which they are writing, and that they have made a special effort (prodded, no doubt, by its editor), to write in clear, jargon-free prose, makes evident the appeal and usefulness of the book. Too, the book is handsomely produced and well copy-edited by Wiley-Blackwell." (Brian Fay, Journal of the Philosophy of History)Table of ContentsList of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xi Glossary of Terms xii 1 Introduction 1Aviezer Tucker Part I Major Fields 7 2 Philosophy of Historiography 9Peter Kosso 3 Philosophy of History 26ZdenFk VaSíCek 4 Philosophical Issues in Natural History and Its Historiography 44Carol E. Cleland 5 Historians and Philosophy of Historiography 63John Zammito Part II Basic Problems 85 6 Historiographic Evidence and Confirmation 87Mark Day and Gregory Radick 7 Causation in Historiography 98Aviezer Tucker 8 Historiographic Counterfactuals 109Elazar Weinryb 9 Historical Necessity and Contingency 120Yemima Ben-Menahem 10 Explanation in Historiography 131Graham Macdonald and Cynthia Macdonald 11 Historiographic Understanding 142Giuseppina D’Oro 12 Colligation 152C. Behan McCullagh 13 The Laws of History 162Stephan Berry 14 Historiographic Objectivity 172Paul Newall 15 Realism about the Past 181Murray Murphey 16 Anti-realism about the Past 190Fabrice Pataut 17 Narrative and Interpretation 199F. R. Ankersmit 18 The Ontology of the Objects of Historiography 209Lars Udehn 19 Origins: Common Causes in Historiographic Reasoning 220Aviezer Tucker 20 Phylogenetic Inference 231Matt Haber 21 Historicism 243Robert D’Amico 22 Ethics and the Writing of Historiography 253Jonathan Gorman 23 Logical Fallacies of Historians 262Paul Newall 24 Historical Fallacies of Historians 274Carlos Spoerhase and Colin G. King Part III Philosophy and Sub-fields of Historiography 285 25 Philosophy of History of Science 287Nicholas Jardine 26 Philosophies of Historiography and the Social Sciences 297Harold Kincaid 27 The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory 307Michael Ruse 28 The Philosophy of Geology 318Rob Inkpen 29 Philosophy of Archaeology 330Ben Jeffares 30 Reductionism: Historiography and Psychology 342Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald 31 Historiography and Myth 353Mary Lefkowitz 32 Historiography and Memory 362Marie-Claire Lavabre 33 Historiographic Schools 371Christopher Lloyd Part IV Classical Schools and Philosophers of Historiography and History 381 34 Leopold Ranke 383Thomas Gil 35 Scientific Historiography 393Chris Lorenz 36 Darwin 404John S. Wilkins 37 Logical Empiricism and Logical Positivism 416Krzysztof Brzechczyn 38 Jewish and Christian Philosophy of History 427Samuel Moyn 39 Muslim Philosophy of History 437Zaid Ahmad 40 Vico 446Joseph Mali 41 Kant and Herder 457Sharon Anderson-Gold 42 Hegel 468Tom Rockmore 43 Neo-Kantianism 477Charles Bambach 44 Marx 488Tom Rockmore 45 Collingwood and Croce 498Stein Helgeby 46 Phenomenology 508David Weberman 47 Jan Patocka 518Ivan Chvatík 48 Hermeneutics 529Rudolf A. Makkreel 49 Postmodernism 540Beverley Southgate 50 Philosophy of History at the End of the Cold War 550Krishan Kumar Index 561
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Builders of Empire Freemasons and British Imperialism 17171927
Book SynopsisStudy of the relationship between Freemasonry and British imperialism that takes readers on a journey across 2 centuries and 5 continents, demonstrating that from the moment it left Britain's shores, Freemasonry proved central to the building and cohesion of the British Empire.
£41.36
University of Texas Press Clios Laws
Book SynopsisA thought-provoking collection that explores the process of perceiving and writing about history, nationalism, and identity.Trade ReviewClio’s Laws constitutes a fresh depiction of the way history is now conceived and written, far removed from the rigid canons established by its historicist founders...A whole gallery of historical figures, professional historians and literary authors file past over the course of the book, hugely enriching what could have been reduced to a general survey of the most important ideas on the relationship between history and language....Clio’s Laws is undoubtedly a valuable and original contribution to the field of historiography and historical-literary criticism, as well as to Latin American studies. * Journal of the Philosophy of History *An eccentric assortment of writings that play, mostly in an ironic and irreverent mode, with the transnational topoi of Latin Americanist historiography as the author has lived and performed them over his notable career trajectory from Mexico to Barcelona and Chicago...the torsions of living, translating, and publishing between one or another manner of Spanish and English...animates the entire collection and may be taken to be its primary insight. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Tenorio-Trillo’s book will delight any so-called history buff...Clio’s Laws includes so many references across Europe and the Americas that it can be both enticing and dizzying for the reader...Tenorio-Trillo shows a respect for the tradition of historiography but has the mindfulness to discuss its current transformations. Readers convinced by Tenorio-Trillo’s playful attitude toward historical imagination will enjoy this book in two ways: they will learn a lot about historiography and history writing, and they will see imaginative history writing being practiced. The pleasure of reading Tenorio-Trillo is worth the price of the book. * Chiricú Journal *Expansive and provocative...Clio’s Laws provokes deep thoughts about history: not just the standard reflections on objectivity and knowledge, but rather takes the reader through a range of often idiosyncratic topics spanning from the laws of history to personal narratives, historical imagination, memory, and language...Clio’s Laws both reminded me of—and exposed me again to—the love of being a historian, reveling in imagination and the very human stories we share and contemplate...This is a book that deserves wide readership, both among graduate students as well as practicing historians needing a reconnection with what makes our calling unique...This is an excellent book. * American Historical Review *Table of Contents Preamble I. On History Chapter 1. The Laws of History Chapter 2. Poetry and History Chapter 3. The Historical Imagination Chapter 4. Reading History Today Chapter 5. Celebrating History: Between Ser and Estar Chapter 6. Self-History and Autobiography Chapter 7. Six Life Stories by Heart II. On Language Chapter 8. Polyglotism and Monolingualism Chapter 9. Amar queriendo como en otro tiempo: Language, Memory, and Boleros Chapter 10. Wicked Tongue (Extracts) Notes Bibliography
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University of Texas Press Arrian the Historian
Book Synopsis During the first centuries of the Roman Empire, Greek intellectuals wrote a great many texts modeled on the dialect and literature of Classical Athens, some 500 years prior. Among the most successful of these literary figures were sophists, whose highly influential display oratory has been the prevailing focus of scholarship on Roman Greece over the past fifty years. Often overlooked are the period's historians, who spurned sophistic oral performance in favor of written accounts. One such author is Arrian of Nicomedia. Daniel W. Leon examines the works of Arrian to show how the era''s historians responded to their sophistic peers' claims of authority and played a crucial role in theorizing the past at a time when knowledge of history was central to defining Greek cultural identity. Best known for his history of Alexander the Great, Arrian articulated a methodical approach to the study of the past and a notion of historical progress that established a continuous line of huTrade Review[Leon] notes from the outset that previous scholars have tended to focus more on Arrian's body of work rather than the man himself, often overlooking his literary outputs. [Leon] seeks to remedy that, comparing Arrian's work to that of his predecessors, such as Thucydides and Plutarch, to argue that literary criticism was part of Arrian's aim...Throughout the text, the author provides ample examples of ancient authors' writings in the original Greek alongside translations...Recommended. * CHOICE *[Arrian the Historian] is a welcome addition to a growing number of works examining the intellectualism of previously neglected ancient historians, offering a clear and concise analysis of Arrian’s historical thought and historiographical purpose. * Ancient History Bulletin *Leon’s book is a welcome contribution to the field of Arrianic studies, as it constitutes an original, thorough and successful effort to contextualise Arrian’s compositional strategies ...within the prism of literary and intellectual trends of the Second Sophistic...[Arrian the Historian is] cohesively argued and attractively produced. Leon vigorously and in an unprecedented way invites us to speculate on the ways in which imperial readership could have read Arrian’s oeuvre...as part of Arrian’s dialogue with current intellectual and literary trends. In this way he unearths an abundance of facets of the relationship between Arrian and the Second Sophistic. * The Classical Review *[A] brief but excellent book…Leon has produced an important contribution to the study of Arrian, of Greek historiography, and of the intellectual culture of the second century CE. The book is well written and enjoyable to read. * Histos *[Leon's] focus on how Arrian operated as a historian in the context of Greek historiography is one of [Arrian the Historian's] most significant contributions, not least because Leon’s detection of hitherto unnoticed patterns enriches our understanding of Arrian and the genre...[Arrian the Historian] raises important questions about the nature of historiography and historical education in the imperial period...Arrian the Historian should assist in stimulating further discussion about the intellectual climate of the second century AD. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Texts and Translations Introduction Chapter 1. Amateurs, Experts, and History Chapter 2. Novelty and Revision in the Works of Arrian Chapter 3. Alexander among the Kings of History Chapter 4. Sickness, Death, and Virtue Conclusion Appendix: The Date of the Anabasis Abbreviations in the Notes and Bibliography Notes Bibliography Index Locorum General Index
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University of Texas Press Saeculum
Book SynopsisHow the notion of unique eras influenced the Roman view of time and the narration of history from various perspectives. The Victorian Era. The Age of Enlightenment. The post-9/11 years. We are accustomed to demarcating history, fencing off one period from the next. But societies have not always operated in this way. Paul Hay returns to Rome in the first century BCE to glimpse the beginnings of periodization as it is still commonly practiced, exploring how the ancient Romans developed a novel sense of time and used it to construct their views of the past and of the possibilities of the future. It was the Roman general Sulla who first sought to portray himself as the inaugurator of a new age of prosperity, and through him Romans adopted the Etruscan term saeculum to refer to a unique era of history. Romans went on to deepen their investment in periodization by linking notions of time to moments of catastrophe, allowing them to conceptualize their own Trade ReviewThere is much more in the book that cannot be covered in this review . . . It is well written with a clear argument that temporal periodisation mattered to the Romans in the first century BCE, prefiguring the ‘Augustan Age’ (on which there is much discussion) . . . The book is worth reading to open your mind to the concept of the Romans taking action with a view to a future that would last beyond their own lifetime. * The Classical Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: A New Order of the Ages 1. Omen History: Sulla and the Etruscans on Periodization 2. Eternal Returns: Cataclysmic Destruction in Greek and Roman Thought 3. Inflection Points: Progress and Decline Narratives with Periodization 4. Beyond the Metallic Ages: Technical Histories and Culture Heroes 5. Acting Your Age: Periodization in Roman Politics after Sulla 6. Pyramids and Fish Wrappers: Roman Literary Periodization Conclusion: Spaces after Periods Notes Bibliography Index Locorum General Index
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Duke University Press A Primer for Teaching Women Gender and Sexuality
Book Synopsis A Primer for Teaching Women, Gender, and Sexuality in World History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching women, gender, and sexuality in history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for teachers who want to incorporate these issues into their world history classes. Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Urmi Engineer Willoughby present possible course topics, themes, concepts, and approaches while offering practical advice on materials and strategies helpful for teaching courses from a global perspective in today''s teaching environment for today''s students. In their discussions of pedagogy, syllabus organization, fostering students'' historical empathy, and connecting students with their community, Wiesner-Hanks and Willoughby draw readers into the process of strategically designing courses that will enable students to analyze genderTrade Review"As world historians, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Urmi Engineer Willoughby present effective discussions of the opportunities and problems associated with this most comprehensive field. Brimming with stimulating ideas and resources. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- T. P. Johnson * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: This Book and How to Use It vii Part I. Starting from Scratch 1. Setting Goals: Why Teach Women's, Gender, or Sexuality History? 3 2. Choosing a Focus and a Title: Women, Gender, or Sexuality? 17 3. Organizing Material: Chronological and Thematic Approaches 27 4. Incorporating Key Issues: Theory and Concepts from Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 41 Part II. Modifying Existing Courses 5. Integrating Gender More Fully as a Category of Analysis: Beyond "Add Men and Stir" 55 6. Globalizing a Regionally Based Course: Teaching What You Do Not Know 67 7. Incorporating Feminist Pedagogy as You Move Online: Feminist Principles in a Virtual World 77 Part III. Common Challenges and Opportunities 8. Fostering Historical Empathy: Ethical Frameworks and Contextualization 91 9. Developing Assessments That Fit Your Course Goals: Test, Papers, and Assignments 101 10. Connecting with the Community: Opportunities for Local Research and Civic Engagement 113 Notes 125 Selected Bibliography 141 Index 147
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Duke University Press A Primer for Teaching Women Gender and Sexuality
Book Synopsis A Primer for Teaching Women, Gender, and Sexuality in World History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching women, gender, and sexuality in history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for teachers who want to incorporate these issues into their world history classes. Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Urmi Engineer Willoughby present possible course topics, themes, concepts, and approaches while offering practical advice on materials and strategies helpful for teaching courses from a global perspective in today''s teaching environment for today''s students. In their discussions of pedagogy, syllabus organization, fostering students'' historical empathy, and connecting students with their community, Wiesner-Hanks and Willoughby draw readers into the process of strategically designing courses that will enable students to analyze genderTrade Review"As world historians, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Urmi Engineer Willoughby present effective discussions of the opportunities and problems associated with this most comprehensive field. Brimming with stimulating ideas and resources. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- T. P. Johnson * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: This Book and How to Use It vii Part I. Starting from Scratch 1. Setting Goals: Why Teach Women's, Gender, or Sexuality History? 3 2. Choosing a Focus and a Title: Women, Gender, or Sexuality? 17 3. Organizing Material: Chronological and Thematic Approaches 27 4. Incorporating Key Issues: Theory and Concepts from Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 41 Part II. Modifying Existing Courses 5. Integrating Gender More Fully as a Category of Analysis: Beyond "Add Men and Stir" 55 6. Globalizing a Regionally Based Course: Teaching What You Do Not Know 67 7. Incorporating Feminist Pedagogy as You Move Online: Feminist Principles in a Virtual World 77 Part III. Common Challenges and Opportunities 8. Fostering Historical Empathy: Ethical Frameworks and Contextualization 91 9. Developing Assessments That Fit Your Course Goals: Test, Papers, and Assignments 101 10. Connecting with the Community: Opportunities for Local Research and Civic Engagement 113 Notes 125 Selected Bibliography 141 Index 147
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Baylor University Press Patterns in History
Book SynopsisIn this concise volume, historian David Bebbington offers a summary of various theories of history from ancient times down to the present. Patterns in History provides Christian students of history with a trusted guide in what Mark Noll has described as “the best evangelical introduction to the history of history writing.”Trade Review"The book is a valuable contributionto the philosophy of history and the theory of historiography." C.T. McIntire, Church HistoryIn an age of trivial, superspecialized scholarship, this is Christian thinking of a high, broad order. Those interested in Christian ideas in the modern world, in comparative religion, and in the study of history all ought to invest in this unusually useful handbook." John G. Stackhouse, Jr., Christianity Today"A masterly summary of the major developments in the interpretation of history." Alastair Redfern, The Modern Churchman"A trusted guide for Christian students of history." Jacob P. Ellens, Calvin Theological JournalTable of ContentsPreface 1. What Is History? 2. Cyclical History 3. Christian History 4. The Idea of Progress 5. Historicism 6. Marxist History 7. Postmodern History 8. The Philosophy of Historiography 9. The Meaning of History Booklist Index
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University of Toronto Press Truth Morality and Meaning in History
Book SynopsisIn this important new book, Paul T. Phillips argues that most professional historians aside from a relatively small number devoted to theory and methodology have concerned themselves with particular, specialized areas of research, thereby ignoring the fundamental questions of truth, morality, and meaning. This is less so in the thriving general community of history enthusiasts beyond academia, and may explain, in part at least, history’s sharp decline as a subject of choice by students in recent years. Phillips sees great dangers resulting from the thinking of extreme relativists and postmodernists on the futility of attaining historical truth, especially in the age of post-truth. He also believes that moral judgment and the search for meaning in history should be considered part of the discipline’s mandate. In each section of this study, Phillips outlines the nature of individual issues and past efforts to address them, including approaches derived from otherTrade Review"Phillips's book is not a thundering polemic but, rather, a quiet, reasoned meditation. [...] The author is generally an erudite guide, and he packs a great many observations as to the history and philosophy of history into 134 pages of text." -- Alan MacHeachern, Western University * University of Toronto Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Truth 2. Morality 3. Meaning 4. History Beyond the Academy Conclusion Notes Index
£36.90
University of Toronto Press The CartularyChronicle of StPierre of Beze
Book SynopsisThe cartulary-chronicle of the Burgundian monastery of Bèze reveals how a twelfth-century monk viewed the 500-year-long history of his house.Trade Review"This edition presents the chronicle and its added documents in a clear and easily readable format, with enough description to invite interpretation and further research. For academics teaching their students to read and understand Latin chronicles, there is much of use in this volume." -- Lesley Coote, University of Hull * Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching *Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction List of Abbots Chronological List of Documents The Cartulary-Chronicle of Bèze Appendix Works Cited Index of People Index of Places Index of Topics
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University of Toronto Press Archival Material
Book SynopsisIn the mid- to late-1930s, while he was a student at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan wrote a series of eight essays on the philosophy and theology of history. These essays foreshadow a number of the major themes in his life’s work. The significance of these essays is enormous, not only for an understanding of the later trajectory of Lonergan’s own work but also for the development of a contemporary systematic theology. In an important entry from 1965 in his archival papers, Lonergan wrote that the mediated object of systematics is Geschichte or the history that is lived and written about. In the same entry, he stated that the doctrines that this systematic theology would attempt to understand are focused on redemption. The seeds of such a theology are planted in the current volume, where the formulae that are so pronounced in his later work first appear. Students of Lonergan’s work will find their understanding of his philosophy Table of ContentsGeneral Editors’ Preface Robert M. Doran 1. Essay in Fundamental Sociology: Philosophy of History 2. Pantōn Anakephalaiōsis: A Theory of Human Solidarity 3. Pantōn Anakephalaiōsis (2) 4. Sketch for a Metaphysic of Human Solidarity 5. A Theory of History 6. Outline of an Analytic Concept of History 7. Analytic Concept of History, in Blurred Outline 8. Analytic Concept of History Latin and Greek Words and Phrases
£47.60
University of Toronto Press Truth Morality and Meaning in History
Book SynopsisIn this important new book, Paul T. Phillips argues that most professional historians aside from a relatively small number devoted to theory and methodology have concerned themselves with particular, specialized areas of research, thereby ignoring the fundamental questions of truth, morality, and meaning. This is less so in the thriving general community of history enthusiasts beyond academia, and may explain, in part at least, history’s sharp decline as a subject of choice by students in recent years. Phillips sees great dangers resulting from the thinking of extreme relativists and postmodernists on the futility of attaining historical truth, especially in the age of post-truth. He also believes that moral judgment and the search for meaning in history should be considered part of the discipline’s mandate. In each section of this study, Phillips outlines the nature of individual issues and past efforts to address them, including approaches derived from otherTrade Review"Phillips's book is not a thundering polemic but, rather, a quiet, reasoned meditation. [...] The author is generally an erudite guide, and he packs a great many observations as to the history and philosophy of history into 134 pages of text." -- Alan MacHeachern, Western University * University of Toronto Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Truth 2. Morality 3. Meaning 4. History Beyond the Academy Conclusion Notes Index
£18.04
University of Toronto Press Archival Material
Book SynopsisIn the mid- to late-1930s, while he was a student at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan wrote a series of eight essays on the philosophy and theology of history. These essays foreshadow a number of the major themes in his life’s work. The significance of these essays is enormous, not only for an understanding of the later trajectory of Lonergan’s own work but also for the development of a contemporary systematic theology. In an important entry from 1965 in his archival papers, Lonergan wrote that the mediated object of systematics is Geschichte or the history that is lived and written about. In the same entry, he stated that the doctrines that this systematic theology would attempt to understand are focused on redemption. The seeds of such a theology are planted in the current volume, where the formulae that are so pronounced in his later work first appear. Students of Lonergan’s work will find their understanding of his philosophy Table of ContentsGeneral Editors’ Preface Robert M. Doran 1. Essay in Fundamental Sociology: Philosophy of History 2. Pantōn Anakephalaiōsis: A Theory of Human Solidarity 3. Pantōn Anakephalaiōsis (2) 4. Sketch for a Metaphysic of Human Solidarity 5. A Theory of History 6. Outline of an Analytic Concept of History 7. Analytic Concept of History, in Blurred Outline 8. Analytic Concept of History Latin and Greek Words and Phrases
£24.29
University of Toronto Press The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom
Book SynopsisThe Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom investigates how the first royal divorce scandal led to the collapse of a kingdom, changing the fate of medieval Europe. Through a set of annotated translations of key contemporary sources, the book presents the downfall of the Frankish kingdom of Lotharingia as a case study in early medieval politics, equipping readers to develop their own independent interpretations. The book tracks the twists and turns of the scandal as it unfolded over a crucial decade and a half in the ninth century. Drawing on primary sources such as letters, material culture, and secret treaties, The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom offers readers a sharply defined window into one of the most dramatic episodes in Carolingian history, rich with insights on the workings of early medieval society.Table of ContentsList of Figures Abbreviations Key Individuals Introduction 1. King Lothar II Grants Winebert an Immunity, November 856 2. A Coin of King Lothar II (Undated) 3. The Quierzy Letter, November 858 4. The Remiremont Liber Memorialis “Royal Entry,” December 861 5. The Council of Aachen, 29 April 862 6. The Summit at Savonnières, November 862 7. Bishop Adventius Writes to Archbishop Theutgaud, Early 863 8. King Lothar II Grants a Church to the Convent of St-Pierre in Lyon, 18 May 863 9. Bishop Adventius Reforms the Monastery of Gorze, June 863 10. Eberhard and Gisela Make a Will, c. 863 11. Bishop Adventius Writes to Pope Nicholas, Early 864 12. The Bishops of Lotharingia Write to the West Frankish Bishops, c. 865 13. King Lothar II Grants Queen Theutberga Lands, 17 January 866 14. Pope Nicholas Writes about Waldrada to the Bishops of Gaul, Germany, and Italy, 13 June 866 15. Queen Ermentrude’s Coronation, 25 August 866 16. Pope Nicholas I Writes to King Charles the Bald, 25 January 867 17. Bishop Adventius Organizes Prayers against the Northmen, Summer 867 18. The Metz Oath, c. 868 19. King Lothar II Writes to Archbishop Ado of Vienne, July 869 20. Pope Hadrian II Writes to the Lotharingian Aristocracy, 5 September 869 21. The Sacramentary of Metz, 869 22. Emperor Louis II Writes to Emperor Basil I of Byzantium, Early 871 Conclusion Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press The Imagination of Maurice Barres
Book SynopsisThe power of imagination to construct those mythos which alone, according to Barres, give sense and value to our absurd existence and by which, above all, men are moved to believe and act, was at the centre of his life-long preoccupation with the art of arousing and directing spiritual energy in individuals and groups. This preoccupation appears in every context of his varied career—as novelist, essayist, journalist, orator, self-conscious Egotist, Romantic traveller, anti-Dreyfusard, religious syncretist and pragmatist, and, with Charles Maurras, one of the most influential founders and exponents of modern French nationalism. His great originality among French political writers of the twentieth century is to have consciously applied Baudelaire’s ‘Queen of Faculties’ and the insights of post-Baudelairian Symbolism to the enterprise of committed literature, using a ‘picturesque and musical’ language of persuasion, ‘without logic-chopping,
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University of Toronto Press General Preface and Life of Dr John North
Book SynopsisThis volume contains two important works by Roger North (1651?—1734): his General Preface and Life of Dr John North. The General Preface is a remarkable discussion of the theory of life writing, in which North works towards a revolutionary new kind of biography that combines practical, ethical, and scientific uses. It is a plea for a personal biography that will entertain its readers, teach them valuable moral and practical lessons, and at the same time add to the store of data available on human nature. North is led to consider such matters as the use of subject’s own works, the separation of the private life from the public, the unreliability of memory, and the unlikely combination of qualities needed in a biographer; he goes on to discuss the ethical responsibilities of the ‘historiographer’ and meditates on the folly of devoting oneself to public service. The General Preface is a landmark in the history of biographical theor
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University of Toronto Press Great Britain and the SchleswigHolstein Question 184864
Book SynopsisThis book closes an obvious gap in nineteenth-century historiography by carefully analysing British policy and public opinion with regard to the Schleswig-Holstein problem from 1848 to 1864. Solidly based on a study of private and public correspondence, memoirs, biographies, newspapers, periodicals, sessional papers, foreign office documents, and parliamentary debates, it argues that the failure of British policy was due to division and uncertainty of opinion. Britain vacillated between a pliant and a defiant course and eventually chose to worst features of both. Professor Sandiford demonstrates that the failure of Russell's Schleswig-Holstein diplomacy in 1864 was largely the result of a long sequence of British miscalculations dating back at least to 1848. He also shows that the general bewilderment, both within and outside the British Parliament, permitted the queen and a handful of her ministers to exert more influence on Britain's policy in 1863-4 than has previously been suppo
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Cornell University Press History Is a Contemporary Literature
Book SynopsisIvan Jablonka's History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that both social-scientific inquiry and literary explorations contribute to our understanding of the world. Jablonka argues that the act and art of writing, far from being an afterthought in the social sciences, should play a vital role in the production of knowledge in all stages of the researcher's work and embody or even constitute the understanding obtained. History (along with sociology and anthropology) can, he contends, achieve both greater rigor and wider audiences by creating a literary experience through a broad spectrum of narrative modes.Challenging scholars to adopt investigative, testimonial, and other experimental writing techniques as a way of creating and sharing knowledge, Jablonka envisions a social science literature that will inspire readers to become actively Trade ReviewHistorical scholarship and literary fiction share a trajectory of mutual inspiration that reaches back to antiquity and continued beyond the Early Modern period.... Ivan Jablonka's book makes the important point of bringing this traditional relationship back to mind. He rightly insists that historians should be aware of the common ground they have shared with literary writers and avoid the misconception that reduces literature to fiction.... Much more important is Jablonka's point that contemporary historical scholarship is in need of reform... that the social sciences and history might complete their entry into modernity by catching up on the literary revolution of the novel in the early twentieth century. * H-Soz-Kult *This engaging text reveals the various ways in which history and literature have always been constituted in a dialectical relationship to one another.... It offers a richly detailed and carefully delineated account of the ways that history and literature have inspired and borrowed from one another even as each has sought to define itself in opposition to the other.... Jablonka is certainly right to insist on history's power to unsettle the present..., and he has made a passionate case that its mission and civic function have never been more vital. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. The Great Divide 1. Historians, Orators, and Writers 2. The Novel, Father of History? 3. History as Science and "Literary Germs" 4. The Return of the Literary Repressed Part II. The Historical Way of Reasoning 5. What Is History? 6. Writers of History-as-Science 7. Approaches to Veridiction 8. Fictions of Method Part III. Literature and the Social Sciences 9. From Nonfiction to Literature-as-Truth 10. History, a Literature under Constraint? 11. The Research Text 12. On Scholarship of the Twenty-First Century
£999.99
Cornell University Press Charles Austin Beard
Book SynopsisRichard Drake presents a new interpretation of Charles Austin Beard''s life and work. The foremost American historian and a leading public intellectual in the first half of the twentieth century, Beard participated actively in the debates about American politics and foreign policy surrounding the two world wars. In a radical change of critical focus, Charles Austin Beard places the European dimension of Beard''s thought at the center, correcting previous biographers'' oversights and presenting a far more nuanced appreciation for Beard''s life.Drake analyzes the stages of Beard''s development as a historian and critic: his role as an intellectual leader in the Progressive movement, the support that he gave to the cause of American intervention in World War I, and his subsequent revisionist repudiation of Wilsonian ideals and embrace of non-interventionism in the lead-up to World War II. Charles Austin Beard shows that, as Americans tally the ruinous costsbTrade ReviewAn incisive view of the power of Beard, and a sense of his intellectual origins. Drake's worthy volume seeks to take full measure of Charles Beard's contribution to the scholarship of American history. * The Progressive *An estimable study. Drake's fine book performs an important service. It invites readers to do what Beard himself strove to do as he kept close watch on events during the 1930s and 1940s: to remain alert to hypocrisy and contradiction contributing to the misuse of American power. In an era awash with fake news, the handiwork not only of policymakers but of the media itself, this task becomes more important than ever. * The American Conservative *An unfolding account of [Charles Austin Beard's] ideas and arguments. The cold, hard face of Charles Austin Beard peers from the front cover of Mr. Drake's biography, as if from the other side of a tinted glass. His is a strong, hard visage, that of a man who long ago had made up his own mind about the world and America's limited place in it. * Wall Street Journal *Drake's book is to be recommended for historians of the interwar period in the United States, the 1930s, and the intellectual history of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as anyone interested in the range of historiographical thought in American history. Drake breaks new ground in showing Beard's relationship to European social thought, as well as Beard's friendship with Herbert Hoover in the later 1930s it will likely remain a standard work for many years to come, one that anyone interested in Charles Beard should not pass over. * H-Net *Drake has written a straightforward account of Beard's rise and fall. The book excels at showing how Beard's understanding of American history. * The Journal of American History *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Beardian Interpretation of American History 1. Discovering the Economic Taproot of Imperialism 2. Two Contrasting Progressive Views of the Great War 3. Becoming a Revisionist 4. Washington and Wall Street Working Together for War 5. Isolationism versus Internationalism 6. A Wartime Trilogy 7. Waging War for the Four Freedoms 8. Beard Finds an Ally in Herbert Hoover 9. Attacking "the Saint" 10. Defending Beard after the Fall 11. Beard's Philosophy of History and American Imperialism Conclusion: The Sad Historian of the Pensive Plain Notes Index
£97.20
Cornell University Press American Labyrinth
Book SynopsisAmerican Labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole, the book convinces the reader that the field of intellectual history is enjoying a renaissance. The book will be especially prized by intellectual historians, but historians of many different persuasions will find these essays rewarding too.?ChoiceIntellectual history has never been more relevant and more important to public life in the United States. In complicated and confounding times, people look for the principles that drive action and the foundations that support national ideals. American Labyrinth demonstrates the power of intellectual history to illuminate our public life and examine our ideological assumptions.This volume of essays brings together 19 influential intellectual historians to contribute original thoughts on topics of widespread interest. Raymond Haberski Jr. and Trade ReviewAmerican labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole, the book convinces the reader that the field of intellectual history is enjoying a renaissance. The book will be especially prized by intellectual historians, but historians of many different persuasions will find these essays rewarding too. * Choice *In American Labyrinth, the ever combative and often funny James Livingston presents a tour-de-force biographical meditation. American Labyrinth, ultimately, is about refusing to see ideas as just a one-way discourse. * Society for US Intellectual History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Intellectual History for Complicated Times Section I MAPPING AMERICAN IDEAS 1. Wingspread: So What? James Livingston 2. On Legal Fundamentalism: David Sehat 3. Freedom's Just Another Word? The Intellectual Trajectories of the 1960s: Kevin M. Schultz Section II IDEAS AND AMERICAN IDENTITIES 4. Philosophy vs. Philosophers: A Problem in American Intellectual History: Amy Kittelstrom 5. The Price of Recognition: Race and the Making of the Modern University: Jonathan Holloway 6. Thanks, Gender! An Intellectual History of the Gym: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela 7. Parallel Empires: Transnationalism and Intellectual History in the Western Hemisphere: Ruben Flores Section III DANGEROUS IDEAS 8. Toward a New, Old Liberal Imagination: From Obama to Niebuhr and Back Again: Kevin Mattson 9. Against the Liberal Tradition: An Intellectual History of the American Left: Andrew Hartman 10. From "Tall Ideas Dancing" to Trump's Twitter Ranting: Reckoning the Intellectual History of Conservatism: Lisa Szefel 11. The Reinvention of Entrepreneurship: Angus Burgin Section IV CONTESTED IDEAS 12. War and American Thought: Finding a Nation through Killing and Dying: Raymond Haberski Jr. 13. United States in the World: The Significance of an Isolationist Tradition: Christopher McKnight Nichols 14. Reinscribing Religious Authenticity: Religion, Secularism, and the Perspectival Character of Intellectual History: K. Healan Gaston 15. "The Entire Thing Was a Fraud": Christianity, Free thought, and African American Culture: Christopher Cameron Section V IDEAS AND CONSEQUENCES 16. Against and beyond Hofstadter: Revising the Study of Anti-intellectualism: Tim Lacy 17. Culture as Intellectual History: Broadening a Field of Study in the Wake of the Cultural Turn: Benjamin L. Alpers 18. On the Politics of Knowledge: Science, Conflict, Power: Andrew Jewett Conclusion: The Idea of Historical Context and the Intellectual Historian: Andrew Jewett Contributors Acknowledgments Index
£97.20
Cornell University Press American Labyrinth
Book SynopsisAmerican Labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole, the book convinces the reader that the field of intellectual history is enjoying a renaissance. The book will be especially prized by intellectual historians, but historians of many different persuasions will find these essays rewarding too.?ChoiceIntellectual history has never been more relevant and more important to public life in the United States. In complicated and confounding times, people look for the principles that drive action and the foundations that support national ideals. American Labyrinth demonstrates the power of intellectual history to illuminate our public life and examine our ideological assumptions.This volume of essays brings together 19 influential intellectual historians to contribute original thoughts on topics of widespread interest. Raymond Haberski Jr. and Trade ReviewAmerican labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole, the book convinces the reader that the field of intellectual history is enjoying a renaissance. The book will be especially prized by intellectual historians, but historians of many different persuasions will find these essays rewarding too. * Choice *In American Labyrinth, the ever combative and often funny James Livingston presents a tour-de-force biographical meditation. American Labyrinth, ultimately, is about refusing to see ideas as just a one-way discourse. * Society for US Intellectual History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Intellectual History for Complicated Times Section I MAPPING AMERICAN IDEAS 1. Wingspread: So What? James Livingston 2. On Legal Fundamentalism: David Sehat 3. Freedom's Just Another Word? The Intellectual Trajectories of the 1960s: Kevin M. Schultz Section II IDEAS AND AMERICAN IDENTITIES 4. Philosophy vs. Philosophers: A Problem in American Intellectual History: Amy Kittelstrom 5. The Price of Recognition: Race and the Making of the Modern University: Jonathan Holloway 6. Thanks, Gender! An Intellectual History of the Gym: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela 7. Parallel Empires: Transnationalism and Intellectual History in the Western Hemisphere: Ruben Flores Section III DANGEROUS IDEAS 8. Toward a New, Old Liberal Imagination: From Obama to Niebuhr and Back Again: Kevin Mattson 9. Against the Liberal Tradition: An Intellectual History of the American Left: Andrew Hartman 10. From "Tall Ideas Dancing" to Trump's Twitter Ranting: Reckoning the Intellectual History of Conservatism: Lisa Szefel 11. The Reinvention of Entrepreneurship: Angus Burgin Section IV CONTESTED IDEAS 12. War and American Thought: Finding a Nation through Killing and Dying: Raymond Haberski Jr. 13. United States in the World: The Significance of an Isolationist Tradition: Christopher McKnight Nichols 14. Reinscribing Religious Authenticity: Religion, Secularism, and the Perspectival Character of Intellectual History: K. Healan Gaston 15. "The Entire Thing Was a Fraud": Christianity, Free thought, and African American Culture: Christopher Cameron Section V IDEAS AND CONSEQUENCES 16. Against and beyond Hofstadter: Revising the Study of Anti-intellectualism: Tim Lacy 17. Culture as Intellectual History: Broadening a Field of Study in the Wake of the Cultural Turn: Benjamin L. Alpers 18. On the Politics of Knowledge: Science, Conflict, Power: Andrew Jewett Conclusion: The Idea of Historical Context and the Intellectual Historian: Andrew Jewett Contributors Acknowledgments Index
£23.19
Cornell University Press Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands
Book SynopsisEmpire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands engages with the evolving historiography around the concept of belonging in the Russian and Ottoman empires. The contributors to this book argue that the popular notion that empires do not care about belonging is simplistic and wrong.Chapters address numerous and varied dimensions of belonging in multiethnic territories of the Ottoman Empire, Imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union, from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. They illustrate both the mutability and the durability of imperial belonging in Eurasian borderlands.Contributors to this volume pay attention to state authorities but also to the voices and experiences of teachers, linguists, humanitarian officials, refugees, deportees, soldiers, nomads, and those left behind. Through those voices the authors interrogate the mutual shaping of empire and nation, noting the persistence and frequency of coercive measures that imposed belonging or denTrade ReviewEmpire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands is an edited volume of thematically and regionally similar papers that resulted from a conference held at the University of Michigan in October 2016. Ronald Suny sums the book up concisely with a brilliant discussion of empire and nation that ties together the book's themes and demonstrates the insight and breadth of vision that he has gained over his re-markable career. Given the geopolitical events of today, the lessons learned from this body of research draw our attention to some of the more insidious things that oft en result for people living in the border-lands of great empires. * Historical Geography *Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands is a very strong collection and a fitting tribute to Suny, its essays steeped in broad historical and theoretical knowledge, and full of surprising and revelatory detail about those spaces, peoples and states in Eurasia's borderlands. * Eurasian Geography and Economics *The book's structure and the clarity of the essays make it a worthy addition to any course for undergraduate and graduate students learning about nationalities and identities in Imperial Russia or the Soviet Union. * Europe-Asia Studies *Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands showcases a vibrant new historical literature that focuses on the entanglements of the Russian/Soviet and Ottoman/Turkish states along their margins. This is an excellent volume with uniformly high-quality contributions. Taken together, the editors and authors of Empire and Belonging make significant contributions to the study of nation and empire in Eurasia.Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands showcases a vibrant new historical literature that focuses on the entanglements of the Russian/Soviet and Ottoman/Turkish states along their margins, where identities and allegiances were continually shifting. This is an excellent volume with uniformly high-quality contributions. [T]he editors and authors [...] make significant contributions to the study of nation and empire in Eurasia[.] * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Introduction: Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands 1. Making Minorities in the Eurasian Borderlands: A Comparative Perspective from the Russian and Ottoman Empires Part One: Negations of Belonging 2. Bloody Belonging: Writing Transcaspia into the Russian Empire 3. The Armenian Genocide of 1915: Lineaments of a Comparative History 4. "Do you want me to exterminate all of them or just the ones who oppose us?": The 1916 Revolt in Semirech'e 5. "What Are They Doing? After All, We're Not Germans": Expulsion, Belonging, and Postwar Experience Part Two: Belonging via Standardization 6. Developing a Soviet Armenian Nation: Refugees and Resettlement in the Early Soviet South Caucasus 7. Reforming the Language of Our Nation: Dictionaries, Identity, and the Tatar Lexical Revolution, 1900–1970 8. Speaking Soviet with an Armenian Accent: Literacy, Language Ideology, and Belonging in Early Soviet Armenia Part Three: Belonging and Mythmaking 9. Making a Home for the Soviet People: World War II and the Origins of the Sovetskii Narod 10. Dismantling "Georgia's Spiritual Mission": Sacral Ethnocentrism, Cosmopolitan Nationalism, and Primordial Awakenings at the Soviet Collapse 11. New Borders, New Belongings in Central Asia: Competing Visions and the Decoupling of the Soviet Union Conclusion Notes Contributors Index
£45.90
Cornell University Press The Afterlives of the Terror
Book SynopsisThe Afterlives of the Terror explores how those who experienced the mass violence of the French Revolution struggled to come to terms with it. Focusing on the Reign of Terror, Ronen Steinberg challenges the presumption that its aftermath was characterized by silence and enforced collective amnesia. Instead, he shows that there were painful, complex, and sometimes surprisingly honest debates about how to deal with its legacies. As The Afterlives of the Terror shows, revolutionary leaders, victims'' families, and ordinary citizens argued about accountability, retribution, redress, and commemoration. Drawing on the concept of transitional justice and the scholarship on the major traumas of the twentieth century, Steinberg explores how the French tried, but ultimately failed, to leave this difficult past behind. He argues that it was the same democratizing, radicalizing dynamic that led to the violence of the Terror, which also gave rise to an unprecedented interrogTrade ReviewSteinberg's excellent new book looks at the aftermath of the Reign of Terror in France through the modern lens of transitional justice. * Choice *Steinberg's engaging history will profitably engage French Revolutionists and scholars of trauma and mass violence. * American Historical Review *Steinberg's book imaginatively brings together different themes and sources, from property disputes to ghost stories, public trials to medical disputes. It also engages with multiple historiographies, including those on secularization, the centrality of violence to the revolution, the history of emotion, and the dynamics of transitional justice. The book as a whole is particularly effective in unsettling any sense of neat divisions between the Revolution and the historical moments that preceded and followed it. * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Approaching the Aftermath of the Terror 1. Nomenclature: Naming a Difficult Past after 9 Thermidor 2. Accountability: The Case of Joseph Le Bon 3. Redress: Les Biens des Condamnés 4. Remembrance: he Mass Graves of the Terror 5. Haunting: The Ghostly Presence of the Terror Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Is Time out of Joint
Book SynopsisIs, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the futureand their relationship to the presentbeen reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has lost its utopian glamor, with the belief in progress and hope for a better future eroded by fears of ecological collapse.In this provocative book, Aleida Assmann argues that the apparently solid moorings of our temporal orientation have collapsed within the span of a generation. To understand this profound cultural crisis, she reconstructs the rise and fall of what she calls time regime of modernity that underpins notions of modernization and progress, a shared understanding that is now under threat. Is Time Out of Joint? assesses the deep change in the temporality of modern Western culture as it relates to our historical experienceTrade ReviewSuperbly translated by Sarah Clift, Is Time out of Joint? produces an evocative picture of the temptations and vices of modern historical time, assembled from an intriguingly wide and eclectic range of cultural sources. * Cambridge University Press *Assmann's book stands not only as a forensic examination of the emergence and demise of the 'Modern Time Regime', but also as a thorough survey and critique of theorizations of time predominantly in Germanophone philosophy and literature * Journal of European Studies *Aleida Assmann's study tells an expansive story of the shifting forms of time consciousness since the eighteenth century, representing both a culmination of her previous work on cultural memory and a bold intervention into contemporary debates on modern temporality. In doing so, Is Time Out of Joint? combines pithiness with creativity. * International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society *Aleida Assmann's Is Time out of Joint? has already become a classic in its national academic environment (and in segments of global humanities that can access German speaking scholarship). There is little doubt that the book will now quickly become a standard reference point in a far broader conversation about the temporal constitution of present societies. * Memory Studies *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Time and the Modern Baudelaire's Discovery of the Present How Long Does the Present Last? 2. Work on the Modern Myth of History Transformations in the Idea of Progress The Theory of Time Underlying Modern Historiography Modernization Theory and Theories of Modernity When Does the Modern Begin? Phases of Modernization in Western History The Golden Door of the Future: Modernization as Culture (Using the Example of the United States) 3. Five Aspects of the Modern Temporal Regime Temporal Rupture The Fiction of Beginning Creative Destruction Destroying and Preserving: The Invention of the Historical Acceleration 4. Concepts of Time in Late Modernity Compensation Theory Compensation Theory and Memory Theory: Two Different Approaches to the Past 5. Is Time out of Joint? Total Recall: The Rhetoric of Catastrophe and the Broad Present Connections between the Past, Present, and Future 6. The Past Is Not Past; or, On Repairing the Modern Time Regime Three New Categories: Culture, Identity, Memory The Past Is Not Past: Historical Wounds and the Idea of Reversible Time Identity Politics: Intersections between History and Memory Two Trends in the Politics of History Conclusion Works Cited Index
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Cornell University Press Charles Austin Beard
Book SynopsisRichard Drake presents a new interpretation of Charles Austin Beard''s life and work. The foremost American historian and a leading public intellectual in the first half of the twentieth century, Beard participated actively in the debates about American politics and foreign policy surrounding the two world wars. In a radical change of critical focus, Charles Austin Beard places the European dimension of Beard''s thought at the center, correcting previous biographers'' oversights and presenting a far more nuanced appreciation for Beard''s life.Drake analyzes the stages of Beard''s development as a historian and critic: his role as an intellectual leader in the Progressive movement, the support that he gave to the cause of American intervention in World War I, and his subsequent revisionist repudiation of Wilsonian ideals and embrace of non-interventionism in the lead-up to World War II. Charles Austin Beard shows that, as Americans tally the ruinous costsbTrade ReviewAn incisive view of the power of Beard, and a sense of his intellectual origins. Drake's worthy volume seeks to take full measure of Charles Beard's contribution to the scholarship of American history. * The Progressive *An estimable study. Drake's fine book performs an important service. It invites readers to do what Beard himself strove to do as he kept close watch on events during the 1930s and 1940s: to remain alert to hypocrisy and contradiction contributing to the misuse of American power. In an era awash with fake news, the handiwork not only of policymakers but of the media itself, this task becomes more important than ever. * The American Conservative *An unfolding account of [Charles Austin Beard's] ideas and arguments. The cold, hard face of Charles Austin Beard peers from the front cover of Mr. Drake's biography, as if from the other side of a tinted glass. His is a strong, hard visage, that of a man who long ago had made up his own mind about the world and America's limited place in it. * Wall Street Journal *Drake's book is to be recommended for historians of the interwar period in the United States, the 1930s, and the intellectual history of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as anyone interested in the range of historiographical thought in American history. Drake breaks new ground in showing Beard's relationship to European social thought, as well as Beard's friendship with Herbert Hoover in the later 1930s it will likely remain a standard work for many years to come, one that anyone interested in Charles Beard should not pass over. * H-Net *Drake has written a straightforward account of Beard's rise and fall. The book excels at showing how Beard's understanding of American history. * The Journal of American History *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Beardian Interpretation of American History 1. Discovering the Economic Taproot of Imperialism 2. Two Contrasting Progressive Views of the Great War 3. Becoming a Revisionist 4. Washington and Wall Street Working Together for War 5. Isolationism versus Internationalism 6. A Wartime Trilogy 7. Waging War for the Four Freedoms 8. Beard Finds an Ally in Herbert Hoover 9. Attacking "the Saint" 10. Defending Beard after the Fall 11. Beard's Philosophy of History and American Imperialism Conclusion: The Sad Historian of the Pensive Plain Notes Index
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Cornell University Press Writing Time
Book SynopsisWriting Time shows how serial literature based in journals and anthologies shaped the awareness of time at a transformative moment in the European literary and political landscapes. Sean Franzel explores how German-speaking authors and editors write time both by writing about time and by mapping time itself through specific literary formats.Through case studies of such writers as F. J. Bertuch, K. A. Böttinger, J. W. Goethe, Ludwig Börne, and Heinrich Heine, Franzel analyzes how serial writing predicated on open-ended continuation becomes a privileged mode of social commentary and literary entertainment and provides readers with an ongoing history of the present, or Zeitgeschichte. Drawing from media theory and periodical studies as well as from Reinhart Koselleck''s work on processes of temporalization and untimely models of historical time, Writing Time presents smaller literary formsthe urban tableau, cultural reportage, and caricatureas
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Stanford University Press Sediments of Time: On Possible Histories
Book SynopsisSediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns, including his theory of sediments of time; his theory of historical repetition, duration, and acceleration; his encounters with philosophical hermeneutics and political and legal thought; his concern with the limits of historical meaning; and his views on historical commemoration, including that of the Second World War and the Holocaust. A critical introduction addresses some of the challenges and potentials of Koselleck's reception in the Anglophone world.Trade Review"The definitive collection in English of Reinhart Koselleck's major essays on time, the history of concepts, and memory, Sediments of Time reaches well beyond the scope of existing anthologies, substantiating the immense achievement of his work. The volume also serves as a brilliant introduction to the celebrated historian's thought at a time when interest in temporality, political iconology, and the relationship between concepts and society continues to grow." —Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University"In the Anglophone world, Reinhart Koselleck's story is that of an unfulfilled reception. Remarkably put together, this collection is a rectification that promises him a new career. Having trained as a historian in post-1945 Germany, Koselleck put the concepts of experience, waiting, and repetition at the center of his thought. In the midst of today's intellectual confusion, his work presents a major benchmark."—François Hartog, author of Regimes of Historicity"[I]t is the ambition to deconstruct, and not to underpin, the foundations of historical philosophy that runs like a red thread through the essays, which all display an immense erudition, an intellectual curiosity, and a remarkably wide range of thematic concerns that can be taken in many different directions...Sediments of Time provides an excellent (re)introduction to Koselleck, which can hopefully spur a more nuanced and comprehensive discussion and reception of his work in this part of the world."––Niklas Olsen, American Historical Review"Franzel and Hoffmann have created a volume that reads with both clarity and elegance in English....This volume will be [a] valuable resource for both practitioners and theorists of history who wish to undertake a deeper excavation of Koselleck's thought. It also promises to embed Koselleck more firmly among the layers of Anglophone historiography."—Jennifer Allen, German History"[These] texts address a wide range of philosophers and scientists alike, offering highly innovative 'food for thought.' One also finds therein signs of the important influence these Essays have already exerted, in new concepts such as 'mapping' and in the necessity for studies of History as Time to combine with geopolitics."—Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard, Kronoscope"Sediments of Time, in short, offers literary historians the opportunity to reconsider the relation between history and fiction, bodily and linguistic experience, preverbal knowledge and discourse, singularity and repetition. With scholars across the humanities currently recovering ontological and materialist perspectives in order to move beyond the limitations of the linguistic turn, Koselleck's emphasis on the pre- and extralinguistic ought to become newly relevant at the present intellectual juncture."—Johannes Voelz, American Literary HistoryTable of Contents1. Sediments of Time 2. Fiction and Historical Reality 3. Space and History 4. Historik and Hermeneutics 5. Goethe's Untimely History 6. Does History Accelerate? 7. Constancy and Change of All Contemporary Histories 8. History, Law, and Justice 9. Linguistic Change and the History of Events 10. Structures of Repetition in Language and History 11. On the Meaning and Absurdity in History 12. Concepts of the Enemy 13. Sluices of Memory and Sediments of Experiences 14. Behind the Deadly Line: The Age of Totality 15. Some Forms and Traditions of Negative Memory 16. Histories in the Plural and the Theory of History. An Interview with Carsten Dutt
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Stanford University Press Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach
Book SynopsisThis book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing history are undergoing radical transformation. To do so, it explores the legacy and impact of deconstruction on American historical work; the current fetishization of lived experience, materialism, and the "real;" new trends in philosophy of history; and the persistence of ontological realism as the dominant mode of thought for conventional historians. Arguing that this ontological realist mode of thinking is reinforced by current analog publishing practices, Ethan Kleinberg advocates for a hauntological approach to history that follows the work of Jacques Derrida and embraces a past that is at once present and absent, available and restricted, rather than a fixed and static snapshot of a moment in time. This polysemic understanding of the past as multiple and conflicting, he maintains, is what makes the deconstructive approach to the past particularly well suited to new digital forms of historical writing and presentation.Trade Review"Ethan Kleinberg's book is the first deconstructive treatment of the recent debate over the nature of historical time, the presence of the past in the present, and the nature of historicity characteristic of modernity. It's also a healthy response to all of those critics of deconstruction who never bothered reading Derrida sufficiently deeply. It is serious. It is stimulating. It is original."—Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz"In this eagerly awaited and important book, Ethan Kleinberg makes an impassioned and convincing plea for historians to reflect on the theory and practice of their discipline. Inspired by Derrida and deeply immersed in the traditions of historical scholarship, he argues that a rigorous understanding of the past shows why it is necessarily open to continual revision."—Edward Baring, Drew University"[I]f we want to continue engaging in the project of history, then we need to appreciate how, beyond the enlightenment project of knowing it, the nineteenth century project of progressively realizing it, and the twentieth century's fragmentation of it, we are in effect haunted by the past....It is to the young historian that this book will be of most value, the historian in the making, preparing to devote herself to exploring the past with intelligence and imagination, a decision she made very likely out of this sense of a haunting past"—Réal Fillion, INTH Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Haunting History 2. Presence in Absentia 3. Chladenius, Droysen, Dilthey: Back to Where We've Never Been 4. The Analog Ceiling 5. Past Possible and Possible Pasts
£86.40
Stanford University Press Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach
Book SynopsisThis book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing history are undergoing radical transformation. To do so, it explores the legacy and impact of deconstruction on American historical work; the current fetishization of lived experience, materialism, and the "real;" new trends in philosophy of history; and the persistence of ontological realism as the dominant mode of thought for conventional historians. Arguing that this ontological realist mode of thinking is reinforced by current analog publishing practices, Ethan Kleinberg advocates for a hauntological approach to history that follows the work of Jacques Derrida and embraces a past that is at once present and absent, available and restricted, rather than a fixed and static snapshot of a moment in time. This polysemic understanding of the past as multiple and conflicting, he maintains, is what makes the deconstructive approach to the past particularly well suited to new digital forms of historical writing and presentation.Trade Review"Ethan Kleinberg's book is the first deconstructive treatment of the recent debate over the nature of historical time, the presence of the past in the present, and the nature of historicity characteristic of modernity. It's also a healthy response to all of those critics of deconstruction who never bothered reading Derrida sufficiently deeply. It is serious. It is stimulating. It is original."—Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz"In this eagerly awaited and important book, Ethan Kleinberg makes an impassioned and convincing plea for historians to reflect on the theory and practice of their discipline. Inspired by Derrida and deeply immersed in the traditions of historical scholarship, he argues that a rigorous understanding of the past shows why it is necessarily open to continual revision."—Edward Baring, Drew University"[I]f we want to continue engaging in the project of history, then we need to appreciate how, beyond the enlightenment project of knowing it, the nineteenth century project of progressively realizing it, and the twentieth century's fragmentation of it, we are in effect haunted by the past....It is to the young historian that this book will be of most value, the historian in the making, preparing to devote herself to exploring the past with intelligence and imagination, a decision she made very likely out of this sense of a haunting past"—Réal Fillion, INTH Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Haunting History 2. Presence in Absentia 3. Chladenius, Droysen, Dilthey: Back to Where We've Never Been 4. The Analog Ceiling 5. Past Possible and Possible Pasts
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Stanford University Press History in Financial Times
Book SynopsisCritical theorists of economy tend to understand the history of market society as a succession of distinct stages. This vision of history rests on a chronological conception of time whereby each present slips into the past so that a future might take its place. This book argues that the linear mode of thinking misses something crucial about the dynamics of contemporary capitalism. Rather than each present leaving a set past behind it, the past continually circulates through and shapes the present, such that historical change emerges through a shifting panorama of historical associations, names, and dates. The result is a strange feedback loop between now and then, real and imaginary. Demonstrating how this idea can give us a better purchase on financial capitalism in the post-crisis era, History in Financial Times traces the diverse modes of history production at work in the spheres of financial journalism, policymaking, and popular culture. Paying particular attention to narrative and to notions of crisis, recurrence, and revelation, Amin Samman gives us a novel take on the relation between historical thinking and critique. Trade Review"In History in Financial Times, Amin Samman brilliantly exposes the intricate workings of the historical imagination in our present financialized times. Effortlessly weaving together political economy, philosophy, historiography, and cultural studies, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding financial life today."—Jacqueline Best, University of Ottawa"Amin Samman has written a strikingly original book that brings the theory of history to issues of finance and economics in ways that I have not seen. His approach pushes both disciplines into new and productive territory. It is exciting, fresh, and strange in the most provocative and productive way."—Ethan Kleinberg, Wesleyan University"Samman argues that the inescapable recursiveness of historical reasoning requires a new politics that eschews metahistorical cul-de-sacs for a more honest and flexible reckoning with the conditions of life. An interesting and provocative application of poststructural theory to a field that is normally the province of materialists, this book is best suited to scholars of historiography and theory. Recommended."—S. P. Harshner, CHOICE"History in Financial Times draws on and synthesizes an impressive array of concepts, theories, and disciplines only gestured at here. The book shows a great deal of range in its method....[The] insistence on history in financial times serves as a necessary corrective to narrow-minded theories of economic or financial subjectivity and the self-serving significations of economic elites."—John Macintosh, Los Angeles Review of Books"[History in Financial Times] offers means to analyse the minutiae of how historical narratives (for instance, analogies between the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Depression) become a shorthand to help explain what is happening in the present....Samman's emphasis on narrative throughout the book is hugely important at a moment of widespread narrative dysfunctionality in which the distinction between fact and fiction comes to be widely contested."—Emily Rosamond, Finance and Society"History in Financial Timesis a deeply original and impressive contribution to critical studies of finance, the history of capitalism, and historical theory."—Joel Isaac, The American Historical Review"In its many luminous moments, Samman's text pushes the reader to rethink history itself (as a field, as a discourse, as an imaginary) as embedded in and impacting the dynamics of late financial capitalism. In particular, he helps us see the intricate interweaving of immaterial financial operations and the factual and fictional representations of those phenomena."—C. N. Biltoft, History & TheoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: "We Live in Financial Times" 1. Crisis Thinking 2. Historical Imagination 3. Return and Recurrence 4. Repetition and Revelation 5. Names of History Afterword: Exits to the Future
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd History: Why It Matters
Book SynopsisWe justify our actions in the present through our understanding of the past. But we live in a time when politicians lie brazenly about historical facts and meddle with the content of history books, while media differ wildly in their reporting of the same event. Frequently, new discoveries force us to re-evaluate everything we thought we knew about the past. So how can any certainty about history be established, and why does it matter? Lynn Hunt shows why the search for truth about the past, as a continual process of discovery, is vital for our societies. History has an essential role to play in ensuring honest presentation of evidence. In this way, it can foster humility about our present-day concerns, a critical attitude toward chauvinism, and an openness to other peoples and cultures. History, Hunt argues, is our best defense against tyranny. Introducing Polity's Why It Matters series; in these short and lively books, world-leading thinkers make the case for the importance of their subjects and aim to inspire a new generation of students.Trade Review"A smart, pithy, and frankly essential statement of the origins, aims, and methods of historical study. E.H. Carr's What is History—for the twenty-first century."—Jill Lepore, Harvard University and author of These Truths: A History of the United States "What is history now, why does it matter now, who are the people writing it, and who are they writing for? In this bracing and timely book, Lynn Hunt not only shows why these questions matter, but also answers them brilliantly and provocatively."—Sir David Cannadine, President of the British Academy "Confronted by the thickening miasma of lies seeping from the White House and Fox News, what's a historian to do? In fact, given the present circumstances, does it matter that we do anything at all? According to Lynn Hunt, it does. As the Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA, Hunt has, over a long and brilliant career, earned the right to make that claim."—Los Angeles Review of Books "A timely reconsideration of the value of History... A brief and lively call to arms"—Amy Murrell Taylor, Times Literary SupplementTable of Contents1. Now More Than Ever 2. Truth in History 3. History's Politics 4. History's Future Further Reading Index
£38.00
Dartmouth College Press A Critical History of the New American Studies
Book SynopsisA look at a critical period in American Studies
£72.20
Fordham University Press A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the
Book SynopsisNo matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead bodies—rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields, publicly displayed in marketplaces, exhumed and transported for political uses. A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean proposes an approach to understanding how dead bodies anchored the construction of knowledge within early modern Mediterranean historiography. A Grammar of the Corpse argues that the presence of the corpse in historical narrative is not incidental. It fills a central gap in testimonial narrative: providing tangible evidence of the narrator’s reliability while provoking an affective response in the audience. The use of corpses as a source of narrative authority mobilizes what cultural historians, philosophers, and social anthropologists have pointed to as the latent power of the dead for generating social and political meaning and knowledge. A Grammar of the Corpse analyzes the literary, semiotic, and epistemological function these bodies serve within text and through language. It finds that corpses are indexically present and yet disturbingly absent, a tension that informs their fraught relationship to their narrators’ own bodies and makes them useful but subversive tools of communication and knowledge. A Grammar of the Corpse complements recent work in medieval and early modern Iberian and Mediterranean studies to account for the confessional, ethnic, linguistic, and political diversity of the region. By reading Arabic texts alongside Portuguese and Spanish accounts of this key event, the book responds to the fundamental provocation of Mediterranean studies to work beyond the linguistic limitations of modern national boundaries.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Introduction: Necroepistemology | 1 1 Presence: Here Are the Dead | 25 2 Absence: Disappearing the Royal Dead | 45 3 Vitality: Wounded Narrators and the Living Dead | 69 4 Assemblage: Recovering Diplomatic Power with Corpses | 89 5 Erasure: Corpse Desecration for Narrative Control | 110 Epilogue | 135 Acknowledgments | 141 Notes | 145 Bibliography | 195 Index | 215
£84.15
Fordham University Press A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the
Book SynopsisNo matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead bodies—rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields, publicly displayed in marketplaces, exhumed and transported for political uses. A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean proposes an approach to understanding how dead bodies anchored the construction of knowledge within early modern Mediterranean historiography. A Grammar of the Corpse argues that the presence of the corpse in historical narrative is not incidental. It fills a central gap in testimonial narrative: providing tangible evidence of the narrator’s reliability while provoking an affective response in the audience. The use of corpses as a source of narrative authority mobilizes what cultural historians, philosophers, and social anthropologists have pointed to as the latent power of the dead for generating social and political meaning and knowledge. A Grammar of the Corpse analyzes the literary, semiotic, and epistemological function these bodies serve within text and through language. It finds that corpses are indexically present and yet disturbingly absent, a tension that informs their fraught relationship to their narrators’ own bodies and makes them useful but subversive tools of communication and knowledge. A Grammar of the Corpse complements recent work in medieval and early modern Iberian and Mediterranean studies to account for the confessional, ethnic, linguistic, and political diversity of the region. By reading Arabic texts alongside Portuguese and Spanish accounts of this key event, the book responds to the fundamental provocation of Mediterranean studies to work beyond the linguistic limitations of modern national boundaries.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Introduction: Necroepistemology | 1 1 Presence: Here Are the Dead | 25 2 Absence: Disappearing the Royal Dead | 45 3 Vitality: Wounded Narrators and the Living Dead | 69 4 Assemblage: Recovering Diplomatic Power with Corpses | 89 5 Erasure: Corpse Desecration for Narrative Control | 110 Epilogue | 135 Acknowledgments | 141 Notes | 145 Bibliography | 195 Index | 215
£23.79
University of Calgary Press The Prairie West as Promised Land
Book SynopsisIn 1906, the Sugar Maple Tree Song was just one example of the rhapsodic pieces that touted the Prairie West as the ""promised land"". In the formative years of agricultural settlement from the late nineteenth century to the First World War, the Canadian government, along with the railways and other Prairie boosters, further developed and propagated this image within the widely distributed promotional literature that was used to attract millions of immigrants to the Canadian West from all corners of the world.Some saw the Prairies as an ideal place to create a Utopian society; others seized the chance to take control of their own destinies in a new and exciting place. The image of the West as a place of unbridled prosperity and opportunity became the dominant perception of the region at that time. During the interwar and post-World War II eras, this image was questioned and challenged, although not entirely replaced, thus showing its pervasive influence.The Prairie West as Promised Land is group of essays, which includes contributions from some of the best-known Prairie historians as well as some of the most promising new scholars in the field, explores this persistent theme in Prairie history and makes an important contribution to the historiography of the Canadian West.Table of ContentsThe Promise of the West as Settlement Frontier. Adventurers in the Promised Land: British Writers in the Canadian North West, 1841-1913. Canada's Rocky Mountain Parks: Rationality, Romanticism, & a Modern Canada. Clifford Sifton's Vision of the Prairie. "We Must Farm to Enable Us to Live": The Plains Cree & Agriculture to 1900. Utopian Ideals & Community Settlements in Western Canada, 1880-1914. "Land I Can Own": Settling in the Promised Land. The City Yes, The City No: Perfection by Design in the Western City. Land of the Second Chance: Nellie McClung's Vision of the Prairie West as Promised Land. The Kingdom of God on the Prairies: J.S. Woodsworth's Vision of the Prairie West as Promised Land. "A Far Green Country Unto a Swift Sunrise": The Utopianism of the Alberta Farm Movement, 1909-1923. "No Place for a Woman": Engendering Western Canadian Settlement. Preaching Purity in the Promised Land: Bishop Lloyd & the Immigration Debate. Policing the Promised Land: The RCMP & Negative Nation-Building in Alberta & Saskatchewan in the Interwar Period. Uncertain Promise: The Prairie Farmer & the Post-War Era. The Artist's Eye: Modernist & Postmodern Visualizations of the Prairie West. The Dream Still Lives: Promised Land Narratives during the Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee. From Farm to Community: Co-operatives in Alberta & Saskatchewan, 1905-2005.
£44.06
University of Calgary Press Moving Natures: Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
Book SynopsisMobility - the movements of people, things, and ideas, as well as their associated cultural meanings - has been a key factor in shaping Canadians' perceptions of and interactions with their country. Approaching the burgeoning field of environmental history in Canada through the lens of mobility reveals some of the distinctive ways in which Canadians have come to terms with the country's climate and landscape.Spanning Canada's diverse regions, throughout its history, from the closing of the age of sail to the contemporary era of just-on-time delivery, Moving Natures examines a wide range of topics, from the impact of seasonal climactic conditions on different transportation modes, to the environmental consequences of building mobility corridors and pathways, to the relationship between changing forms of mobility with tourism and other recreational activities. Contributors make use of traditional archival sources, as well as historical geographic information systems (HGIS), qualitative and quantitative analysis, and critical theory.This thought-provoking collection divides the intersection of environmental and mobility history into two approaches. The chapters in the first section deal primarily with the construction and productive use of mobility technologies and infrastructure, as well as their environmental constraints and consequences. The chapters in the second section focus on consumers' uses of those vehicles and pathways: on pleasure travel, tourism, and recreational mobility. Together, they highlight three quintessentially Canadian themes: seasonality, links between mobility and natural resource development, and urbanites' experiences of the environment through mobility.Trade ReviewThis excellent collection should be seen as an initial step towards the refinement of mobility as a historical concept and a greater unpacking of mobility histories. - Alan Gordan, The Journal of Transport HistoryMoving Natures is a welcome intervention in several fields that engage with Canadaâs size, including environmental history, mobility studies, science and technology studies, and Canadian social and cultural history. Here, dominant narratives of transportation networks as annihilators of Canadian distances are complicated and decentralized by prying open the black boxes of mobility studies and environmental history with the crowbars of the other... The result is a well-rounded set of twelve interdisciplinary stories that address both the impact of mobility networks on the environment as well as changing perceptions of the environment when viewed from different transportation platforms. - Blair Stein, Scientia CanadensisMoving Natures presents an engaging and thought-provoking introduction to the potential of reimagining the interconnected roles of mobility and the environment in Canadian History - J.L. Weller, BC StudiesThis collection puts older themes in a new light, works outside of a nationalist perspective, and offers close readings of cases to make larger observations... Many historical geographers and environmental historians will find a great deal of interest within these pages, and the basis for fruitful comparisons with other cases and places. - Matthew Evenden, Journal of Historical Geography
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Weaving a Canadian Allegory: Anonymous Writing,
Book SynopsisLoretta Czernis applies her sociological training in document analysis to study one government prescription for what ails Canadians. The Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity rewrote Canada by reinventing patriotism, essentially inviting Canadians to imagine a new Canada. The Report itself is the product of what she calls the "federal writing machine" which exists to continually rewrite and thus reinvent Canada. Czernis' contextual reading of the Report occurs on two levels: reading technically, she examines the Report 's anonymous writing style that asks readers to imitate its own conclusions (be patriotic, buy a flag, shop at home). Gestural reading invites reading as performance. Canadians are invited to participate in reshaping Canada by reading Canada allegorically, as a social body, capable of changing its form. What a document may intend is not always the same as what is read into it. Mistakes can and do occur in the reading. Czernis suggests that these "mistakes" constitute a significant form of resistance to the anonymous writing machine. Weaving a Canadian Allegory will be of special interest to Canadianists, sociologists and to those involved in cultural, political and textual studies.Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Weaving a Canadian Allegory: Anonymous Writing, Personal Reading by Loretta Czernis Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Concerning Contexture 2. Reading and Projection 3. Confederation and the Body of Conflict 4. Writing a Body of Unity: Rewriting âCanada and the Search for Unityâ 5. Mytho-history to Allegory: Tomorrowâs Unity as Patriotâs Progress 6. Misreading Nietzche, Rewriting Bloom Afterword Appendix: Outlining The Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity Notes Bibliography Index
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