Historiography Books
Oxford University Press The Globe on Paper
Book SynopsisThe age of exploration exposed the limits of available universal histories. Everyday interactions with cultures and societies across the globe brought to light a multiplicity of pasts which proved difficult to reconcile with an emerging sense of unity in the world. Among the first to address the questions posed by this challenge were a handful of Renaissance historians. On what basis could they narrate the history of hitherto unknown peoples? Why did the Bible and classical works say nothing about so many visible traces of ancient cultures? And how far was it possible to write histories of the world at a time of growing religious division in Europe and imperial rivalry around the world? A study of the cross-fertilization of historical writing in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, The Globe on Paper reconstructs a set of imaginative accounts worked out from Mexico to the Moluccas and Peru, and from the shops of Venetian printers to the rival courts of Spain and England. The Trade ReviewThe Globe on Paper is a superb examination of a collection of texts not usually studied together. In this tight, coherent study centered on sixteenth-century writers' attempts to compose unified narratives out of what at first blush seemed a plurality of pasts, Marcocci offers a valuable reinterpretation of some well-known sixteenth-century histories, presenting a new way of reading the subgenre of Renaissance histories of the world, while elucidating the creativity and innovation that characterized the writing of history during the "open Renaissance" of the sixteenth century. * Andrew Devereux, University of California, San Diego, Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Renaissance Historians and the World 1: Genealogical Histories: Forging Antiquities from New Spain to China 2: Histories in Motion: Thinking Back to the Moluccas in a Lisbon Hospital 3: Indigenous Comparisons: A Renaissance Bestseller in the Colonial Andes 4: Popular Accounts: Printing Histories of the World in Late Renaissance Venice 5: Jesuit Missions and Imperial Rivalries: The Twilight of Histories of the World Conclusions
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Oxford University Press The Invention of Papal History
Book SynopsisHow was the history of post-classical Rome and of the Church written in the Catholic Reformation? Historical texts composed in Rome at this time have been considered secondary to the city''s significance for the history of art. The Invention of Papal History corrects this distorting emphasis and shows how historical writing became part of a comprehensive formation of the image and self-perception of the papacy. By presenting and fully contextualising the path-breaking works of the Augustinian historian Onofrio Panvinio (1530-1568), Stefan Bauer shows what type of historical research was possible in the late Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. Crucial questions were, for example: How were the pontiffs elected? How many popes had been puppets of emperors? Could any of the past machinations, schisms, and disorder in the history of the Church be admitted to the reading public? Historiography in this period by no means consisted entirely of commissioned works written for patrons; rather, a creative interplay existed between, on the one hand, the endeavours of authors to explore the past and, on the other hand, the constraints of ideology and censorship placed on them. The Invention of Papal History sheds new light on the changing priorities, mentalities, and cultural standards that flourished in the transition from the Renaissance to the Catholic Reformation.Trade ReviewThis important and fascinating book ... is essential reading for those interested in the sixteenth-century Catholic Church as well as those interested in the evolution of historical scholarship. * Elizabeth McCahill, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Journal of Modern History *Bauer provides a comprehensive and enlightening examination of Panvinio's labors. * Thomas M. Izbicki, Rutgers University, American Historical Review *this excellent study ... is likely to remain the definitive work on Panvinio for years to come. * Katherine Van Liere, Calvin University, Sixteenth Century Journal *a very well researched, important, and constantly interesting book which adds greatly to our knowledge of sixteenth-century Rome. It is, in many respects, a model of what the history of scholarship should be. * Jean-Louis Quantin, École pratique des Hautes Études, Erudition and the Republic of Letters *This is an exemplary monograph on an individual scholar * Peter Burke, University of Cambridge, English Historical Review *the book offers in compact form valuable insight into an important part of the evolution of European historiography. The book will be especially valuable to early modern European and Church historians, but is accessible to non-specialists as well. * David Kertzer, Brown University, Journal of Interdisciplinary History *It is mandatory reading for anyone interested in historical scholarship in sixteenth-century Italy. * Jetze Touber, History of Humanities *a much needed contribution on the roots of a tradition of studies, in order to understand also the standing and the status of church history and papal history today. * Massimo Faggioli, Theologische Revue *...meticulously researched book... * Stefania Tutino, Church History *Stefan Bauer's The Invention of Papal History is an admirably readable and fascinating portrait, not only of its principal subject, Panvinio, but also of the culture of late Renaissance humanism at a time of profound instability in Europe. It is a significant achievement by this author, who, one hopes, has a great deal more such scholarship ahead of him... * Daniel Woolf, Queen's University, Marginalia Los Angeles Review of Books *Stefan Bauer's study of Onofrio Panvinio's complex contribution and intellectual legacy should be praised for its clarity, in-depth research and useful reflection on the complicated past. * Jennifer Mara DeSilva, Ball State University, LSE Review of Books *The erudition diffused across Bauer's book is impressive and the arguments are delivered with convincing elegance... a joy to read. * Fabien Montcher, Saint Louis University, Journal of Jesuit Studies *...insightful and enlightening... should inform all future investigations into the historiography, and especially the religious historiography, of this period * William Stenhouse, Yeshiva University, Revista de historiografía *The Invention of Papal History fulfills its objectives. It presents a biography that supersedes earlier lives of Panvinio, elucidates his historical method, and demonstrates how this method differed from those of earlier and later Catholic histories ... it is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of a period of historiography * Sam Kennerley, Reformation *The Invention of Papal History is an impressive work. Stefan Bauer has scoured the European libraries and archives with extraordinary competenceand thoroughness. His work ranges far beyond the figure of Panvinio, dealing with the confessional pressures to which historians were subjected, the various aspects of patronage, the ins and outs of censorship, as well as the far broader matter of Catholic historiography in the early modern period. It will remain a major contribution. * Alastair Hamilton, The Warburg Institute, Church History and Religious Culture *this important book helps us to better see papal history-writing not simply as polemical or as a chronicle of events, but as a dynamic intellectual field with its own critical methods. * Robert John Clines, Western Carolina University, Renaissance Studies *This thoughtful and judicious monograph is to be welcomed for the considerable light it sheds on confessionalisation of historiography and the cultural politics of papal Rome. * Peter Marshall, University of Warwick, History Today *Stefan Bauer has written an outstanding study of one of the most important Catholic historians in early modern Europe...This exceptional new book promises to do much to shape future work on history writing in early modern Europe. * Crawford Gribben, Queen's University Belfast, New Books Network *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: 'The Clouds roar': Panvinio's Early Career 2: Between Church and Empire: Panvinio's Final Decade 3: Panvinio's History of Papal Elections 4: Church History, Censorship, and Confessionalization Epilogue Appendix Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Representing the Dynasty in Flavian Rome
Book SynopsisRepresenting the Dynasty in Flavian Rome investigates the problem of contemporary historiography and regime representation in Flavian Rome through a close study of a text not usually read for such purposes but which has obvious promise for a study of this theme, the Jewish War of Flavius Josephus. Having surveyed the evolution of our conception of Josephus'' relationship to Flavian power, taken a broad account of issues of political expression and regime representation in Flavian Rome outside Josephus and examined questions relating to the structure and date of the work, Davies provides a series of thematically-focused readings of the three senior members of the Flavian family, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian, as represented by their contemporary and client Josephus. Key topics explored include the level of independence of Josephus'' vision, his work''s relationship to how the regime is depicted in other contemporary sources, how Josephus makes the Flavians serve his own agenda (which iTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Text and abbreviations 1: Introduction 2: Political Expression in Flavian Rome 3: The Jewish War: Audience, Structure and Date 4: The Flavians in Jewish War 1-6 5: The Flavians in Jewish War 7 6: Conclusions Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Historical Truth in FifteenthCentury Italy
Book SynopsisWhile humanists agreed on identifying the main requirement of the historical genre with truthfulness, they disagreed on their notions of historical truth. Some authors equated historical truth with verisimilitude, thus harmonizing the quest for truth with other ingredients of their histories, such as their political utility and rhetorical aptness. Others, instead, rejected the notion of verisimilitude, identifying historical truth with factuality. Accordingly, they sought to produce bare and exhaustive accounts of all the things that pertained to their historical explorations, often resorting to innovative disciplines, such as archeology, philology, and the history of institutions. The humanist historiographical debate is especially significant because the notion of verisimilitude encompassed crucial elements required for the development of methods of critical assessment. By perceiving verisimilitude and factuality as irreconcilable, Quattrocento humanists reached a critical impassetho
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Oxford University Press The Chronicle of John of Worcester
Book SynopsisJohn of Worcester is celebrated for his work on the Worcester Chronica Chronicarum, which was put together in stages in the first half of the twelfth century, and which became one of the most important historical texts to have survived from Britain of that period. A great deal of our understanding of early medieval British history, from before and after the Norman Conquest, depends upon it. At a late stage in the production of the Chronica Chronicarum, John turned his hand to the writing of an abbreviated chronicle, which he called his Chronicula, and which survives in a single, autograph manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin. The Chronicula interacts with its parent text, the Chronica Chronicarum, in interesting ways: it reassembles the Chronica according to the reigns of the emperors, it splices together information from different annals and sometimes redrafts the Chronica''s entries, thus providing an altered emphasis. The Chronicula also contains unique details (notably a set of po
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Oxford University Press The Unseen History of International Law
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Oxford University Press, USA History Historians and Conservatism in Britain and America
Book SynopsisHistory, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America examines the subjects, motives, and personal and intellectual origins of conservative historians who were also successful public intellectuals. In their search for a persuasive and wide appeal, conservatives depended until at least the 1960s upon history and historians to provide conservative concepts with authority and authenticity. Beginning with the Great War in Britain and the Second World War in America, conservative historians participated actively and influentially in debates about the heart, soul, and especially the mind of conservatism. Particular emphasis is placed on four historians in Britain-F. J. C. Hearnshaw, Keith Feiling, Arthur Bryant, and Herbert Butterfield-and three in America-Daniel Boorstin, Peter Viereck, and Russell Kirk-who developed conservative responses to unprecedented and threatening events both at home and abroad. These historians shared basic assumptions about human nature and society, but theTrade ReviewA compelling examination of the work and influence of several British and American historians on convervatism during the twentieth century. * British Scholar *A dense, complex and penetrating book that explores a neglected area of 20th century history * A.W. Purdue, Times Higher Education Supplement *...a welcome contribution to the existing literature on intellectual history in Anglo-American in the twentieth century * Rachel S. Turner, Contemporary British History *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; PART I: INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, POLITICAL THOUGHT, AND CONSERVATISM ; PART II: THE INTER-WAR DECADES IN BRITAIN ; 1. Conservatism as a Crusade: F.J.C. Hearnshaw ; 2. The Attraction of Tory Democracy: Keith Feiling ; 3. The Phenomenon of Arthur Bryant: Patriotism, Conservatism, and the Greater Public ; 4. Arthur Bryant, Appeasement and Anti-Semitism ; PART III: POST-WAR BRITAIN ; 5. Christianity and Conservative Historiography : Hebert Butterfield, Cambridge, and the Greater World ; PART IV: POST-WAR AMERICA ; 6. Conservative History and Social Criticism, 1941 through the 1960s ; 7. The Americanization of the British Conservative Mind ; 8. Conservatism and Exceptionalism ; Epilogue: The Future of the Conservative Past ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press The Oxford History of Historical Writing
Book SynopsisVolume III of The Oxford History of Historical Writing contains essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally during the early modern era, from 1400 to 1800. The volume proceeds in geographic order from east to west, beginning in Asia and ending in the Americas. It aims at once to provide a selective but authoritative survey of the field and, where opportunity allows, to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. This is the third of five volumes in a series that explores representations of the past from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world.Trade ReviewThe Oxford History of History Writing is a fundamental publication on international historiography traditions, its problems, and key actors. Zaur Gasimov, Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas highly informative and thoughtful LASZLO KONTLER, English Historical Review Woolf has facilitated the critical surveys of materials that readers need to consider the circumstances that have shaped historical thought and practice on a truly global scale. Compiled by an international team of some 150 contributors, this series has already begun to stimulate new research and innovative teaching within and beyond the west, addressing if not correcting, any worries over the intellectual and cultural range of historical practice beyond Europe. Adam Budd, HistoryTable of ContentsEditors' Introduction ; 1. Chinese Official Historical Writing under the Ming and Qing ; 2. The Historical Writing of Qing Imperial Expansion ; 3. Private Historiography in Late Imperial China ; 4. A Social History of Japanese Historical Writing ; 5. Writing History in Pre-Modern Korea ; 6. Southeast Asian Historical Writing ; 7. Indo-Persian Historical Thought and Writings: India 1350-1750 ; 8. Persian Historical Writing under the Safavids (1501-1722/36) ; 9. Ottoman Historical Writing ; 10. Islamic Scholarship and Understanding History in West Africa before 1800 ; 11. Philology and History ; 12. Major Trends in European Antiquarianism, Petrarch to Peiresc ; 13. History, Myth, and Fiction: Doubts and Debates ; 14. Historical Writing in Russia and Ukraine ; 15. Austria, the Habsburgs, and Historical Writing in Central Europe ; 16. German Historical Writing from the Reformation to the Enlightenment ; 17. Italian Renaissance Historical Narrative ; 18. Italian Historical Writing: 1680-1800 ; 19. History and Historians in France, from the Great Italian Wars to the Death of Louis XIV ; 20. The Historical Thought of the French Philosophes ; 21. Writing History in Spain: History and Politics, c.1474-1600 ; 22. Historical Writing in Scandinavia ; 23. Historical Writing in Britain from the Late Middle Ages to the Eve of the Enlightenment ; 24. Scottish Historical Writing of the Enlightenment ; 25. English Enlightenment Histories, 1750-c.1815 ; 26. European Historiography on the East ; 27. A New History for a 'New World': The First One Hundred Years of Hispanic New World Historical Writing ; 28. Mesoamerican History: The Painted Historical Genre ; 29. Alphabetic Writing in Mesoamerican Historiography ; 30. Inca Historical Forms ; 31. Historical Writing about Brazil, 1500-1800 ; 32. Spanish American Colonial Historiography: Issues, Traditions, and Debates ; 33. Historical Writing in Colonial and Revolutionary America
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Oxford University Press Oxford History of Historical Writing Volume 5
Book SynopsisThe fifth volume of The Oxford History of Historical Writing offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally since 1945. Divided into two parts, part one selects and surveys theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to history, and part two examines select national and regional historiographies throughout the world. It aims at once to provide an authoritative survey of the field and to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. This is chronologically the last of five volumes in a series that explores representations of the past across the globe from the beginning of writing to the present day.Trade ReviewThe Oxford History of History Writing is a fundamental publication on international historiography traditions, its problems, and key actors. Zaur Gasimov, Jahrbucher fur Geschichte OsteuropasTable of ContentsEditors' Introduction ; 1. History and Theory ; 2. History and Memory ; 3. Censorship and History since 1945 ; 4. Postcolonial Criticism and History: Subaltern Studies ; 5. World History ; 6. Global Economic History: A Survey ; 7. Women's and Gender History ; 8. The Historiography of Environmental History ; 9. The Historiography of Science and Technology ; 10. History and Social Science in the West ; 11. From the Search for Normality to the Search for Normality: German Historical Writing ; 12. Historical Writing in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary ; 13. French Historical Writing ; 14. British Historical Writing ; 15. Scandinavian Historical Writing ; 16. Italian Historical Writing ; 17. Historical Writing in the Balkans ; 18. Athens and Apocalypse: Writing History in Soviet Russia ; 19. African Historical Writing ; 20. Argentine Historical Writing in an Era of Political Instability ; 21. Brazilian Historical Writing ; 22. Mexican Historical Writing ; 23. American Historical Writing ; 24. Arab Historical Writing ; 25. Indian Historical Writing since 1947 ; 26. Thai Historical Writing ; 27. Vietnamese Historical Writing ; 28. Indonesian Historical Writing since Independence ; 29. Settler Histories and Indigenous Pasts: New Zealand and Australia ; 30. Chinese Historical Writing since 1949 ; 31. Japanese Historical Writing ; 32. Historians and Historical Writing in Korea ; Epilogue: On the Current and Future State of Historical Writing
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Oxford University Press The Oxford History of Historical Writing
Book SynopsisHow was history written in Europe and Asia between 400-1400? How was the past understood in religious, social and political terms? And in what ways does the diversity of historical writing in this period mask underlying commonalities in narrating the past? The volume, which assembles 28 contributions from leading historians, tackles these and other questions. Part I provides comprehensive overviews of the development of historical writing in societies that range from the Korean Peninsula to north-west Europe, which together highlight regional and cultural distinctiveness. Part II complements the first part by taking a thematic and comparative approach; it includes essays on genre, warfare, and religion (amongst others) which address common concerns of historians working in this liminal period before the globalizing forces of the early modern world.Trade ReviewThe Oxford History of History Writing is a fundamental publication on international historiography traditions, its problems, and key actors. * Zaur Gasimov, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas *Nobody should venture into a part of world history new to them without consulting it. * History Today *Table of ContentsPART I: THE TRADITIONS OF HISTORICAL WRITING, 400-1400; PART II: MODES OF REPRESENTING THE PAST
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Oxford University Press The Oxford History of the British Empire Volume V Historiography
Book SynopsisThe volumes that comprise this set assess the British Empire in the light of recent scholarship, showing the creation of the empire in relation to its end. This fifth and final volume shows how opinions have changed over imperialism generally and the British Empire in particular.Trade ReviewOxford University Press has recently published a wide variety of historical titles in paperback. Pride of place must go to the five volume Oxford History of the British Empire written under the general editorship of Professor William Roger Lewis and published in hardback in 1998. The five volumes, describe the history and effect of the Empire on world history. The scholars who contributed and the volumes' individual editors all deserve high praise for thie massive undertaking. * Contemporary Review *Review from other book by this author concludes with two useful essays by A.G. Hopkins and Robin Winks, which masterfully survey the state of recent historical writing on the Empire ... scholars and future students of the British Empire will find this volume an indispensable guide. * R. Fritze, Choice *Table of ContentsList of Contributors ; 1. Introduction ; 2. The First British Empire ; 3. The Second British Empire ; 4. British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ; 5. The American Revolution ; 6. Ireland ; 7. The British West Indies ; 8. Canada and the Empire ; 9. Australia and the Empire ; 10. Colonization and History in New Zealand ; 11. India to 1858 ; 12. India, 1858-1937 ; 13. India in the 1940s ; 14. Ceylon (Sri Lanka) ; 15. Pakistan's Emergence ; 16. Science, Medicine, and the British Empire ; 17. Disease, Diet, and Gender: Late Twentieth-Century Critical Perspective on Empire ; 18. Exploration and Empire ; 19. Missions and Empire ; 20. Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Abolition ; 21. The Royal Navy and the British Empire ; 22. Imperial Defence ; 23. The Empire-Commonwealth and the Two World Wars ; 24. Imperial Flotsam? The British in the Pacific Islands ; 25. Formal and Informal Empire in East Asia ; 26. The British Empire in South-East Asia ; 27. Formal and Imformal Empire in the Middle East ; 28. Informal Empire in Latin America ; 29. Britain and the Scramble for Africa ; 30. The British Empire in Tropical Africa: A Review of the Literature to the 1960s ; 31. West Africa ; 32. East Africa: Metropolitan Action and Local Initiative ; 33. Central and Southern Africa ; 34. Decolonization and the End of Empire ; 35. The Commonwealth ; 36. Art and Empire ; 37. Architecture in the British Empire ; 38. Orients and Occidents: Colonial Discourse Theory and the Historiography of the British Empire ; 39. The Shaping of Imperial History ; 40. The Future of Imperial History ; 41. The Way Forward ; Chronology, Index
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Oxford University Press Concise Companion to History
Book SynopsisWhat is our relationship with the past? A quiet revolution has transformed the ways in which History provides us with answers. Indeed, not so long ago the very question might have seemed odd. But in recent decades the solid moorings to which History was seemingly tethered have proved less secure than earlier supposed. That realization has produced some discomfiture, but also many more opportunities for understanding worlds with which we have lost connection. No single book can hope to reflect all the ways in which History has ''changed with the times'' nor can, or should, a volume with numerous contributors speak with one voice. Yet the Companion does range widely, addressing key themes and structures from new areas of enquiry as well as providing fresh treatment of established fields; and it does mark a significant departure in a genre still shaped by stories that are predominantly Western. It reflects a practice of history that seeks global connections and pioneers a sustained dialogTrade ReviewThe stellar cast of authors... [introduce] the reader to some of the most exciting developments in the field of history over the past three decades.... the book achieves a great deal. * Stefan Berger, Times Literary Supplement *Ambitious...rich and challenging...makes some significant contributions * Alix Green, Reviews in History *How has the writing of history changed over the past half century? What are the topics and issues that interest historians today? These questions, and many more, are addressed in the Concise Companion, a pioneering and exceptionally stimulating volume of essays which indicate some of the ways in which the challenges of globalization are forcing historians to rethink their approaches to the past. * Sir John Elliott, Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Oxford *Ulinka Rublack has created a true companion volume for readers of recent and current historical writing. In an astonishing feat of editorship, she brings together some of the best living historians and some insuperable essays on the state and drift of the subject. * Felipe Fernández-Armesto, William P. Reynolds Professor of History, Notre Dame University *Table of ContentsPreface ; PART I: WRITING HISTORY ; 1. History and World History ; 2. Causation ; 3. The Status of Historical Knowledge ; 4. Historians ; PART II: THEMES AND STRUCTURES ; 5. Commerce ; 6. Power ; 7. Communication ; 8. Population ; 9. Gender ; 10. Culture ; 11. Ethnicity ; 12. Science ; 13. Environmental History ; 14. Religion ; 15. Emotions ; 16. The Power of Ideas ; Acknowledgements ; Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Doing Oral History
Book SynopsisDoing Oral History: A Practical Guide is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community. Over the past decades, the development of digital audio and video recording technology has continued to alter the practice of oral history, making it even easier to produce quality recordings and to disseminate them on the Internet. This basic manual offers detailed advice on setting up an oral history project, conducting interviews, making video recordings, preserving oral history collections in archives and libraries, and teaching and presenting oral history.Using the existing Q&A format, the third edition asks new questions and augments previous answers with new material, particularly in these areas:1. Technology: As before, the book avoids recommending specific equipment, but weighs the merits of the types of technology available for audio and video recording, transcription, preservation, and dissemination. Information about web sites is expanded, and more discussion is provided about how other oral history projects have posted their interviews online. 2. Teaching: The new edition addresses the use of oral history in online teaching. It also expands the discussion of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) with the latest information about compliance issues.3. Presentation: Once interviews have been conducted, there are many opportunities for creative presentation. There is much new material available on innovative forms of presentation developed over the last decade, including interpretive dance and other public performances.4. Legal considerations: The recent Boston College case, in which the courts have ruled that Irish police should have access to sealed oral history transcripts, has re-focused attention on the problems of protecting donor restrictions. The new edition offers case studies from the past decade.5. Theory and Memory: As a beginner''s manual, Doing Oral History has not dealt extensively with theoretical issues, on the grounds that these emerge best from practice. But the third edition includes the latest thinking about memory and provides a sample of some of the theoretical issues surrounding oral sources. It will include examples of increased studies into catastrophe and trauma, and the special considerations these have generated for interviewers.6. Internationalism: Perhaps the biggest development in the past decade has been the spreading of oral history around the world, facilitated in part by the International Oral History Association. New oral history projects have developed in areas that have undergone social and political upheavals, where the traditional archives reflect the old regimes, particularly in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The third edition includes many more references to non-U.S. projects that will still be relevant to an American audience. These changes make the third edition of Doing Oral History an even more useful tool for beginners, teachers, archivists, and all those oral history managers who have inherited older collections that must be converted to the latest technology.Trade ReviewDonald Ritchie...has produced an invaluable manual that will serve research scholars and teachers equally well. ... Without pretension, Doing Oral History fulfills the promise touted on the jacket cover: to provide 'practical advice and reasonable explanations for anyone.' ... [A] significant contribution to making oral history accessible to a wide audience of potential users. * The History Teacher *Written in a friendly question-and-answer format, this book gives advice for preparing, setting up, and conducting an interview. ... Ritchie's step-by-step guide will help you preserve your family's experiences for generations to come. * Family Tree *Ritchie has laid out the fundamentals to guide novices and given long-term practitioners material that will help them re-evaluate their own approaches. This book needs to be on every oral historian's shelf. * Northwest Oral History Association *This book is not a dustcatcher. It is destined to be dog-eared and full of underlined passages, from the first time you pick it up. In a user-friendly question-and-answer format, much like an oral history interview, Don Ritchie has packed into one modest volume enough practical advice to get an oral history project off the ground, help a novice oral historian conduct a responsible interview, and challenge more experienced oral historians, librarians, and archivists who might use oral history to think broadly about the impact of what they are doing. * Mid-Atlantic Archivist *[The] standard work for many years to come. * Public Historian *Simple, straightforward, and effective. ... [A] stimulating and formidable work...it is indeed a guide to practice, but it is much more: it is a stepping-off point to the increasingly large universe that oral history pracititioners occupy. * Oral History Review *[An] all-purpose guide to the entire range of the oral history process...this volume provides extensive background on oral history and its relation to the larger realm of historical inquiry, discusses how oral history interviewing compares with journalistic and other interviewing techniques, and considers the workings of the human memory. * American Archivist *A definitive guide that provides all the practical advice and explanations needed to turn your ideas and goals into action and to create recordings that illuminate the human experience for generations to come. Definitely recommended. * The Ultimate Puzzle: Family Research *A comprehensive handbook on the theory, methods, and practice of oral history, based on work by the Oral History Association to revise its professional standards and principles. * Book News, Inc. *[A] comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the art of oral history. * Oral History in New Zealand *offers a practical overview of the nuts and bolts of doing oral history, from setting up a project and conducting interviews to its uses in research and writing ... Ritchie's depth of experience and straightforward approach anticipate the vast majority of questions likely to be asked by those embarking on oral history projects. * Gail Dubrow, American Historical Review *The third edition of Doing Oral History presents a wealth of information in a readable and inviting form ... a welcome update to a classic publication. * Barbara W. Sommer, Oral History Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction and Acknowledgments ; Chapter 1. An Oral History of Our Time ; Memory and Oral History ; Public History and Oral History ; Chapter 2. Setting Up An Oral History Project ; Funding and Staffing ; Equipment ; Processing ; Legal Concerns ; Archiving and the Internet ; Chapter 3. Conducting Interviews ; Preparing for the Interview ; Setting up the Interview ; Conducting the Interview ; Concluding the Interview ; Chapter 4. Using Oral History for Research ; Oral Evidence ; Theory ; Publishing Oral History ; Chapter 5. Videotaping Oral History ; Setting and Equipment ; Processing and Preserving Video Recordings ; Video Documentaries, Exhibits, and the Internet ; Chapter 6. Preserving Oral History in Archives and Libraries ; Managing Oral History Collections ; Sound Recordings ; Digital Oral Archives ; Donated Interviews ; Legal Considerations ; Public Outreach ; Chapter 7. Teaching Oral History ; Oral History in Elementary and Secondary Schools ; Oral History in Undergraduate and Graduate Education ; Institutional Review Boards ; Chapter 8. Presenting Oral History ; Oral History Web Sites ; Community History ; Family Interviewing ; Therapeutic Uses of Oral History ; Museum Exhibits ; Radio and Television ; Performance ; Appendix 1: Best Practices of the Oral History Association. ; Appendix 2: Sample Legal Release Forms ; Notes and References ; Bibliography ; Internet Resources ; Index
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Oxford University Press Histories of the Holocaust
Book SynopsisThe Holocaust is one of the most intensively studied phenomena in modern history. The volume of writing that fuels the numerous debates about it is overwhelming in quantity and diversity. Even those who have dedicated their professional lives to understanding the Holocaust cannot assimilate it all. There is, then, an urgent need to synthesize and evaluate the complex historiography on the Holocaust, exploring the major themes and debates relating to it and drawing widely on the findings of a great deal of research. Concentrating on the work of the last two decades, Histories of the Holocaust examines the ''Final Solution'' as a European project, the decision-making process, perpetrator research, plunder and collaboration, regional studies, ghettos, camps, race science, antisemitic ideology, and recent debates concerning modernity, organization theory, colonialism, genocide studies, and cultural history. Research on victims is discussed, but Stone focuses more closely on perpetrators, rTrade ReviewEssential... concise, elegantly written, and well argued...A superb engagement with Holocaust scholarship. * John David Smith, Choice *If someone were to read only one book on Nazi Germany's efforts to exterminate European Jewry during World War II, it should be Dan Stone's Histories of the Holocaust. * Mark Brennan, Quarterly Review *Dan Stone examines critically and insightfully the post-1989 literature in question, together with the schools of thought and areas of debate. The impressive range, quantity and diversity of the material discussed makes Stones book the first interpretive guide to this vast literature. * Florin Lobont, Reviews in History *Truly superb...the way in which Dan Stone delineates the issues, aided by several previous works in this area, is simply without equal. * Matthew Feldman, Holocaust Studies *Stone has written an intelligent, wide-ranging and thought-provoking textbook on the Holocaust which will be indispensable reading for scholars and students alike ... a stellar critical synthesis. * Christian Goeschel, European History Quarterly *highly intelligent and judicious discussion of the most recent trends in Holocaust historiography ... an ambitious project which succeeds * Larry Eugene Jones, English Historical Review *Histories of the Holocaust demonstrates a magisterial grasp of its subject. It will become required reading on any course dedicated specifically to the history of the Holocaust. * Nicholas Chare, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Thinking about the Holocaust ; 1. The 'Final Solution': A German or European Project? ; 2. The Decision-Making Process in Context ; 3. The Holocaust: Child of Modernity? ; 4. Race Science: The Basis of the Nazi Worldview? ; 5. Genocide, the Holocaust and the History of Colonialism ; 6. The Holocaust as an Expression of Nazi Culture ; Conclusion: Into the Abyss ; Further Reading ; Index
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Oxford University Press A Concise Companion to History
Book SynopsisWhat is our relationship with the past? A quiet revolution has transformed the ways in which History provides us with answers. Indeed, not so long ago the very question might have seemed odd. But in recent decades the solid moorings to which History was seemingly tethered have proved less secure than earlier supposed. That realization has produced some discomfiture, but also many more opportunities for approaching worlds with which we have lost connection. No single book can hope to reflect all the ways in which History has ''changed with the times'' nor can, or should, a volume with numerous contributors speak with one voice. Yet the Companion does range widely, addressing key themes and structures from new areas of enquiry as well as providing fresh treatment of established fields; and it does mark a significant departure in a genre still shaped by stories that are predominantly Western. It reflects a practice of history that seeks global connections and pioneers a sustained dialogueTrade ReviewReview from previous edition The stellar cast of authors... [introduce] the reader to some of the most exciting developments in the field of history over the past three decades.... the book achieves a great deal. * Stefan Berger, Times Literary Supplement *Ambitious...rich and challenging...makes some significant contributions * Alix Green, Reviews in History *How has the writing of history changed over the past half century? What are the topics and issues that interest historians today? These questions, and many more, are addressed in the Concise Companion, a pioneering and exceptionally stimulating volume of essays which indicate some of the ways in which the challenges of globalization are forcing historians to rethink their approaches to the past. * Sir John Elliott, Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Oxford *Ulinka Rublack has created a true companion volume for readers of recent and current historical writing. In an astonishing feat of editorship, she brings together some of the best living historians and some insuperable essays on the state and drift of the subject. * Felipe Fernández-Armesto, William P. Reynolds Professor of History, Notre Dame University *Table of ContentsPreface ; PART I: WRITING HISTORY ; 1. History and World History ; 2. Causation ; 3. The Status of Historical Knowledge ; 4. Historians ; PART II: THEMES AND STRUCTURES ; 5. Commerce ; 6. Power ; 7. Communication ; 8. Population ; 9. Gender ; 10. Culture ; 11. Ethnicity ; 12. Science ; 13. Environmental History ; 14. Religion ; 15. Emotions ; 16. The Power of Ideas ; Acknowledgements ; Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Listening on the Edge
Book SynopsisFrom the headlines of local newspapers to the coverage of major media outlets, scenes of war, natural disaster, political revolution and ethnic repression greet readers and viewers at every turn. What we often fail to grasp, however, despite numerous treatments of events is the deep meaning and broader significance of crisis and disaster. The complexity and texture of these situations are most evident in the broader personal stories of those whom the events impact most intimately. Oral history, with its focus on listening and collaborative creation with participants, has emerged as a forceful approach to exploring the human experience of crisis.Despite the recent growth of crisis oral history fieldwork, there has been little formal discussion of the process and meaning of utilizing oral history in these environments. Oral history research takes on special dimensions when working in highly charged situations often in close proximity to traumatic events. The emergent inclination for oralTable of ContentsIntroduction: What Remains: Reflections on Crisis Oral History, Mark Cave ; Part I: Clamor ; 1. When All is Lost: Metanarrative in the Oral History of Hanifa, Survivor of Srebrenica, Selma Leydesdorff ; Oral history by Selma Leydesdorff with "Hanifa," Refugee camp, East Bosnia, April 2004 ; 2. "To Dream My Family Tonight": Listening to Stories of Grief and Hope among Hazaras Refugees in Australia, ; Denise Phillips ; Oral histories by Denise Phillips with Reza and Juma, Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia, 2004-2011 ; 3. Exhuming the Self: Trauma and Student Survivors of the Shootings at Virginia Tech, Tamara Kennelly and Susan E. Fleming-Cook ; Oral histories by Susan E. Fleming Cook with Yang Kim, Derek O'Dell, and Kristina Heeger-Anderson, Blacksburg, Virginia, 2009-2010 ; 4. Talking Cure: Trauma, Narrative, and the Cuban Rafter Crisis, Elizabeth Campisi ; Oral histories by Elizabeth Campisi with Cuban Rafter Crisis survivors conducted in Miami, Florida, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Rochester, New York, 1998-2001 ; 5. In the Ghost Forest: Listening to Tutsi Rescapes, Taylor Krauss ; Oral histories by Taylor Krauss with Rwandan Rescapes, Kigali, Rwanda, 2007-2008. ; 6. The Continuing and Unfinished Present: Oral History and Psychoanalysis in the Aftermath of Terror, Ghislaine Boulanger ; Part II: Resonance ; 7. Unlocked: Perspective and the New Orleans Prison Evacuation Crisis, Mark Cave ; Oral histories by Mark Cave with members of the Louisiana Department of Corrections, Angola, Pineville, and Keithville, Louisiana, March 23 and 24, June 17 and 18, 2009 ; 8. Living Too in Murder City: Oral History as Alternative Perspective to the Drug War in Ciudad Juarez, Eric Meringer ; Oral histories by Eric Rodrigo Meringer with Juarez residents Jonathan, Rosa and Raul, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, 2009-2010 ; 9. Until Our Last Breath: Voices of Poisoned Workers in China, Karin Mak ; Oral histories by Karin Mak with "Ren," "Min," "Fu," and "Wu," Huizhou, Guangdong and rural Sichuan, China, August and September, 2007 ; 10. Woven Together: Attachment to Place in the Aftermath of Disaster, Perspectives from Four Continents, ; Eleonora Rohland, Maike Bocker, Gitte Cullmann, Ingo Haltermann, Franz Mauelshagen ; Oral histories by Eleonora Rohland, Maike Bocker, Gitte Cullmann, and Ingo Haltermann with residents of New Orleans, Louisiana; Accra, Ghana; eastern Brandenburg, Germany; and Chaiten, Chile, 2009-2010 ; 11. Smile Through the Tears: Life, Art, and the Rwandan Genocide, Steven High ; Oral history by Jessica Silva with Rupert Bazambanza, Montreal, Canada, June 3 and 12 and July 6, 2008 ; 12. A Spiritual War: Crises of Faith in Combat Chaplains from Iraq and Afghanistan, David Peters ; Interviews by David W. Peters with "Christina," "Michael," "Timothy," "Craig," and "George," Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, 2011 ; 13. A Long Song: Oral History in the Time of Emergency and After, Mary Marshall Clark ; Oral histories by Gerry Albarelli and Temma Kaplan with Mohammad Bilal-Mizra, Talat Hamdani, Zaheer Jaffery, Salman Jaffery, and Zohra Saed, New York City, October 2001 to June 2005 ; Conclusion: The Fabric of Crisis: Approaching the Heart of Oral History, Stephen Sloan ; Contributors ; Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Doing History
Book SynopsisIn this era of Twitter and text-messaging, which calls into question previously accepted notions of literacy, today''s students need a new and more pragmatic approach to developing writing and research skills. While a number of guides to historical research and writing and several historical methodology texts have appeared in the past several years, no single text accomplishes what Doing History: An Introduction to the Historian''s Craft does. Through a unique two-part organization, authors Wendy Pojmann, Barbara Reeves-Ellington, and Karen Ward Mahar offer specific assignments to identify students'' weaknesses and build their skills. They provide concrete examples of historical approaches and theories and detailed guidelines to help students complete their work within the constraints of the academic term. The text integrates the complexities of historical research and writing into a single, comprehensive narrative without compromising depth and breadth. Its lively and accessible writiTrade ReviewThis is the first book that comprehensively prepares undergraduate history majors in the U.S. for writing a bachelor's thesis. Not only do the authors explain historiography and the methods of academic historians clearly and fully, but they also provide a detailed and immensely helpful guide to undertaking original research. This book is exactly what I've always wanted to help explain the mysteries of professional historical research to my students. * Scott K. Taylor, University of Kentucky *This text fills a real need. The authors explain concepts in clear and accessible language, although they never shy away from dealing with some of the most complicated issues in the field. * Connie Shemo, State University of New York, Plattsburgh *Doing History is very well crafted. It strikes the right balance between methods of historical and historiographical analysis. The writing is accessible and the authors move logically through defining history as a discipline, laying out the major types of history and how they have evolved over time, introducing students to the concept of historiography, teaching students how to examine primary and secondary sources, and walking them through the development of a research paper. * W. Brian Newsome, Elizabethtown College *Table of ContentsPreface ; About the Authors ; Part One: Handbook ; Chapter 1:What is the Discipline of History ; Chapter 2: The Development of the Discipline ; Chapter 3: Historiography ; Chapter 4: Primary Sources ; Chapter 5: Research ; Chapter 6: Writing ; Part Two: Workbook ; Chapter 1:What is the Discipline of History ; Chapter 2: The Development of the Discipline ; Chapter 3: Historiography ; Chapter 4: Primary Sources ; Chapter 5: Research ; Chapter 6: Writing ; Appendix ; Glossary ; Additional Readings ; Index
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Oxford University Press Processing the Past
Book SynopsisProcessing the Past explores the dramatic changes taking place in historical understanding and archival management and in the relations between historians and archivists. Written by an archivist and a historian, it shows how these changes have been brought on by new historical thinking, new conceptions of archives, changing notions of historical authority, modifications in archival practices, and new information technologies. The book situates archives as subjects rather than places of study and examines the increasingly problematic relationships between historical and archival work. The authors contend that though historians and archivists once occupied the same conceptual and methodological space, they have divided into two separate professions with distinct conceptual frameworks and understandings of the authorities that govern their work: historians now ask questions not easily answered by traditional documentation, and archivists confront the challenges of new technologies and incTrade Reviewa challenging and stimulating book * Valerie Johnson, Business Archives *This is an important study focusing on historiography as it discusses how historical knowledge is shaped and managed. It is a must read for both historians and archivists. * Nuper Chaudhuri, American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: On the Intersections of Archives and History ; PART I: ARCHIVES, HISTORY, AND THE OPENING OF THE ARCHIVAL DIVIDE ; Chapter 1 - Authoritative History and Authoritative Archives ; Chapter 2 - The Turn Away from Historical Authority in the Archives ; Chapter 3 - Archival Authorities and New Technologies ; Chapter 4 - The Turn Away from Archival Authority in History ; Chapter 5 - Archival Essentialism and the Archival Divide ; PART II: PROCESSING THE PAST ; Chapter 6 - The Social Memory Problem ; Chapter 7 - Contested Archives, Contested Sources ; Chapter 8 - The Archivist as Activist in the Production of (Historical) Knowledge ; Chapter 9 - Rethinking Archival Politics: Trust, Truth, and the Law ; Chapter 10 - Archives and the Cyberinfrastructure ; Chapter 11 - Can Archives and History Reconnect: Bridging the Archival Divide ; Index
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The University of Chicago Press Historiography Ancient Medieval and Modern 3e
Book SynopsisIn this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women's history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, cultural history, and more. The definitive look at the writing of history by a historian, Historiography provides key insights into some of the most important issues, debates and innovations in modern historiography. Praise for the first edition: Breisach's comprehensive coverage of the subject and his clear presentation of the issues and the complexity of an evolving discipline easily make his work the best of its kind.Lester D. Stephens, American Historical Review
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University of Chicago Press Richard Hofstadter An Intellectual Biography
Book SynopsisRichard Hofstadter (1916-70) was America's most distinguished historian of the twentieth century. The author of several books, including The American Political Tradition, he was a champion of the liberal politics that emerged from the New Deal. This biography explores his life within the context of the rise and fall of American liberalism.Trade Review"Intelligent and stimulating... Brown admirably balances respect for his subject with critical distance and persuasively makes the case that the ambiguousness of Hofstadter's legacy is inseparable from his continuing interest.... At his best, Hofstadter remains vitally alive and endlessly instructive." - Sam Tanenhaus, New York Times Book Review "In this illuminating biography... [Brown] freshens the worn-out chronicle of postwar Upper West Side intelligentsia by retelling it from Hofstadter's playful, eternally skeptical, oddly uninflammatory point of view.... Above all, Brown helps readers assess Hofstadter as a member of a generation of American historians every bit as important as (and in some respects more so than) the well-known Progressive generation of Charles Beard, Frederick Jackson Turner, and Vernon Parrington." - Sean Wilentz, New Republic"
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The University of Chicago Press The Mystic Fable Volume One The Sixteenth and
Book SynopsisThis volume provides an analysis of Christian mysticism during the 16th and 17th centuries, along with an application of the author's transdisciplinary historiography. It aims to reveal the "mystical" aspect of postmodernism's movement of perpetual departure.
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The University of Chicago Press The Calling of History
Book SynopsisSir Jadunath Sarkar was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association. This book examines Sarkar's career - and poignant obsolescence - as a way in to larger questions about the discipline of history and its public life.Trade Review"This is a wonderful book: at once a deep study of what modernity meant to some complex and fascinating Indian intellectuals, a rich analysis of a major scholar's assumptions and practices, and a compelling read. The Calling of History will be an unforgettable experience for anyone who shares Sarkar's, and Chakrabarty's, interest in historical research and writing." (Anthony Grafton, Princeton University)
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The University of Chicago Press The Combing of History
Book SynopsisHow is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? This exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of history, revealing the economic, social and political forces at play in history's production.
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The University of Chicago Press The Combing of History
Book SynopsisHow is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? This exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of history, revealing the economic, social and political forces at play in history's production.
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The University of Chicago Press Walter Raleghs History of the World and the
Book SynopsisImprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive History of the World. The author uses Ralegh's History as a touchstone to explore the culture of history writing and historical thinking in the late Renaissance.Trade Review"In this learned, lively, and original book, Popper offers a detailed and penetrating analysis of Walter Ralegh's historical ideas and practices. At the same time, he recreates the larger world of Renaissance historical culture, and he sets Ralegh's work into its context in a way that brilliantly illuminates both." (Anthony Grafton, author of Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West)"
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The University of Chicago Press Practicing New Historicism
Book SynopsisThis work focuses on five aspects of new historicism: recurrent use of anecdotes, preoccupation with the nature of representations, fascination with the history of the body, sharp focus on neglected details, and skeptical analysis of ideology.
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The University of Chicago Press Hegel Heidegger and the Ground of History
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The University of Chicago Press Times Reasons Philosophies of History Old and New
Book SynopsisThis original work caps years of thought by Leonard Krieger about the crisis of the discipline of history. His mission is to restore history's autonomy while attacking the sources of its erosion in various new histories, which borrow their principles and methods from disciplines outside of history. Krieger justifies the discipline through an analysis of the foundations on which various generations of historians have tried to establish the coherence of their subject matter and of the convergence of historical patterns. The heart of Krieger's narrative is an insightful analysis of theories of history from the classical period to the present, with a principal focus on the modern period. Krieger's exposition covers such figures as Ranke, Hegel, Comte, Marx, Acton, Troeltsch, Spengler, Braudel, and Foucault, among others, and his discussion involves him in subtle distinctions among terms such as historism, historicism, and historicity. He points to the impact on history of academic politica
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The University of Chicago Press Purity and Exile Violence Memory and National
Book SynopsisThis study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile after their 1972 insurrection against the Tutsi was suppressed, shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how this process helps to construct identities such as Hutu and Tutsi.
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University of Chicago Press Telling It Like It Wasnt
Book SynopsisIn Telling It Like It Wasn't, Catherine Gallagher takes the history of counterfactual history seriously, pinning it down as an object of dispassionate study.Trade Review"Gallagher's new book is a genuinely original contribution to both the theory (and history) of the novel and the theory of history. Philosophers and historians have been debating the cognitive status of historical narratives for over half a century without taking into account the contributions to theory of narrative made by modern literary scholars. Based on a trove of 'counterfactualist' writings that have been little studied until of late, Gallagher's book sheds new light on the differences between history, myth, fiction, hypotheticals, the historical romance, and fantasy writing. Moreover, her book is mercifully free of jargon, her discussion of 'counterfactual' history is subtle and sophisticated, and her analysis of the relation between fiction and hypothesis convincing."--Hayden White "University Professor of the History of Consciousness, Emeritus, University of California " "At a time when fact itself is under siege, why tarry with thought experiments about pasts that didn't happen? Gallagher's answer is a historicist one: although counterfactual narratives have been with us in many forms since antiquity, their full story has remained untold. Fortunately, we no longer have to live in a timeline where Telling It Like It Wasn't has yet to be written. To read this engrossing book is to be haunted not by lives unled but by previously undermapped regions of history, philosophy, theology, legal reasoning, and literature." --Paul K. Saint-Amour, author of Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form
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The University of Chicago Press Living in the Stone Age Reflections on the
Book SynopsisRutherford explains how and why the idea of New Guinea as a stone age leftover came to be so common in discourse about the country, and why it has persisted even as other similarly racially imperialist language has fallen away.Trade Review"Living in the Stone Age is a deeply thoughtful and refreshingly programmatic book about the experience of empire and its fantasies and sympathies. Rutherford offers a subtle, close-up sense of the everyday experience, imperial fantasies, and agonistic assertions of sovereignty during the Dutch colony's closing decades. Extremely well crafted and written in an accessible, engaging style, this book makes for a fascinating and essential read for anyone interested in sovereignty, colonialism, anthropology, or Southeast Asian studies."--Patricia Spyer, The Graduate Institute, Geneva "In this eloquent book, Rutherford brings big questions and big historical contexts to a neglected archive of early interactions in western New Guinea at the end of the Dutch Empire. Living in the Stone Age conveys complex arguments through lively, conversational, and succinct writing. This book is a major contribution to West Papuan studies, and to understanding the enduring, pernicious historical constraints that the category 'Stone Age' imposes on any people associated with it."--Rupert Stasch, University of Cambridge
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The University of Chicago Press Islam and World History
Book SynopsisPublished in 1974, Marshall Hodgson's The Venture of Islam was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the development of Islamic studies and provided an alternative approach to world history. Edited by Edmund Burke III and Robert Mankin, Islam and World History explores the complexity of Hodgson's thought, the daring of his ideas, and the global context of his world historical insights into, among other themes, Islam and world history, gender in Islam, and the problem of Muslim universality. In our post-9/11 world, Hodgson's historical vision and moral engagement have never been more relevant. A towering achievement, Islam and World History will prove to be the definitive statement on Hodgson's relevance in the twenty-first century and will introduce his influential work to a new generation of readers.
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The University of Chicago Press Walter Raleghs History of the World and the
Book SynopsisImprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent the next seven years producing his massive History of the World. The author uses Ralegh's History as a touchstone to explore the culture of history writing and historical thinking in the late Renaissance.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Time Travelers
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The University of Chicago Press Time Travelers
Book SynopsisThe Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of lasting importance. They paved the way for many of our modern disciplines, discovered the primeval monsters we now call the dinosaurs, and built many of Britain's most important national museums and galleries. To a large degree, they created the perceptual frameworks through which we continue to understand the past. Out of their discoveries, new histories emerged, giving rise to new debates, while seemingly well-known pasts were thrown into confusion by new tools and methods of scrutiny. If in the eighteenth century the study of the past had been the province of a handful of elites, new technologies and economic development in the nineteenth century meant that the past, in all its brilliant detail, was for the first time the property of t
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The University of Chicago Press Latin America
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Serving as an investigation of "Latin America" in the abstract, historian Tenorio-Trillo's work reframes the understanding of not only where this abstract concept originated but also why it endures. . .Rooted in deep, thorough interdisciplinary research and analysis and written in witty prose, the book promises to open rich dialogues, not only within graduate seminar classrooms but also in the field as a whole."--Choice "This is a book that fully delivers on its title. [Tenorio-Trillo] provides a history of the idea of Latin America, rather than of the place itself, and he does so with plenty of wit and brio."--Current History "A great example of what skillful history writing can achieve: to combine deep historical knowledge with sharp political analysis. Add the ability to write engagingly and a refreshing sense of humor and you have the essence of this book: a must-read for every scholar of Latin America but also a prime example of critical engagement with the fundamental concepts underlying scholarly work."--H-Soz-Kult "An engaging and lucidly argued book. . .Passionate, impressively erudite, and occasionally playful."--Hispanic American Historical Review "Tenorio-Trillo examines a powerful paradox defining the study of 'Latin America' with particular focus on the US academy, exposing what appears, at first, as a logical impossibility. He demonstrates that the very notion of Latin America as conventionally articulated in this academic milieu should have ceased to carry any weight some time ago, on account of various developments in our fields of study. At the same time, he shows us that the term itself and all the debates that it is bound up with--the legitimate ones as well as the not-so-legitimate ones--continue to carry the highest degree of urgency in our time. Hence, this is less a book about abstract ideas and theories, and more an ethical call to arms for everyone that the problematic term concerns: a call, made with at times disarming clarity and honesty, to more effectively position our collective habits, priorities, and strategies to deal with the many, multi-faceted problems at hand. To call this essential reading for those concerned with the field would be a powerful under-statement."--Luis M. Castaneda, author of Spectacular Mexico "Latin America is one of those rare books that can fundamentally alter your understanding of a whole field. The basic idea is simple enough: under the deceptive clarity of geography there is a thick cultural history, a host of conflicts that crystalize in the name of Latin America--and we reveal much about ourselves, unknowingly, when we use it. All the excitement, and the pleasure, is in the details. Latin America is a major work by a mature scholar: deep, moving, passionate, nuanced, and erudite, but also lighthearted and truly funny at times. Only a handful of historians, and none in his generation, command the massive amount of knowledge about the continent that Tenorio does--in six languages. Add to it a sparkling, smiling prose, and a warm sense of humor. It is what every history book should aspire to be."--Fernando Escalante, El Colegio de Mexico "While some still write nine hundred page tomes that can be used as blunt instruments, others can get a lot done in a far shorter space. By turns playful, provocative, aphoristic, and unfailingly idiosyncratic, Tenorio-Trillo's Latin America showcases for the English-reading public the special talents of this intellectual contrabandista. How to cope with the very idea of 'Latin America, ' especially from within the US academy (but also from its fringes)? This short work is ostensibly a manifesto of 'defeat' but it is actually an act of subversion at many levels. Necessary reading for 'Latin Americanists' of all stripes, it should equally be read by all those who, like myself, have a love-hate relationship with 'area studies.'"--Sanjay Subrahmanyam, author of Europe's India "Like many ideas invented with the rise of racial thinking, the category of 'Latin America' lives on. And yet, few agree on what it means. Tenorio-Trillo's brilliant essays reveal the extent to which the endless search for understanding and coherence has led to confusion and contradiction. Latin America mutated from anti-yanqui slogan to cornerstone of North American universities. And yet, it has always carried the anti-liberal, anti-individualist traits with which it was born. Tenorio-Trillo's skeptical voyage should provoke a much-needed debate about what Latin America has meant--and whether or how we should let it go, finally."--Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University
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The University of Chicago Press Scientific History
Book SynopsisIncreasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a reengagement with the natural sciences. Taking their cues from recent breakthroughs in genetics and the neurosciences, advocates of big history are reassessing long-held assumptions about the very definition of history, its methods, and its evidentiary base. In Scientific History, Elena Aronova maps out historians' continuous engagement with the methods, tools, values, and scale of the natural sciences by examining several waves of their experimentation that surged highest at perceived times of trouble, from the crisis-ridden decades of the early twentieth century to the ruptures of the Cold War. The book explores the intertwined trajectories of six intellectuals and the larger programs they set in motion: Henri Berr (18631954), Nikolai Bukharin (18881938), Lucien Febvre (18781956), Nikolai Vavilov (18871943), Julian Huxley (18871975), and John Desmond Bernal (19011971). Though they held different political views, spoke differeTrade Review"Aronova illuminates intellectual cross-fertilizations of science and historiography by zooming in on the practices of scientists and scientist historians. . . . Aronova's thoroughly researched book uncovers largely submerged historiographical approaches that have emphasized the shared features of all modern knowledge-seeking endeavors ranging from the natural sciences to the humanities. It is a significant contribution to our understanding of both the natural sciences and the humanities. Its originality and sometimes surprising comparisons are thought-provoking for historians of all fields of study, and it is to be hoped that they will stimulate especially the much-needed methodological reflection in the historiography of science." * Journal of the History of Economic Thought *“With extensive source material and broad geographical range, Aronova gives us a tight and interwoven sense of trajectories of past big historical and big data ambitions and practices, relating these to shifting cultural and political contexts and observing the striking historical ironies these trajectories reveal. The book is significant in canvassing so much diverse material so efficiently and expertly, uncovering unexpected and disregarded historical connections while presenting the material engagingly and accessibly. It is a satisfying, impressive piece of scholarship that provides an explicit, extended, transnational historicization of big history." -- Nasser Zakariya, author of A Final Story: Science, Myth, and Beginnings"Where do today's dreams of writing history scientifically come from? Not from David Christian and Bill Gates, Anthropocene scholars, apostles of digital humanities, apologists for big data, amateur neuroscientists, or latterday cliometricians. Aronova provides a deeper genealogy of today's data-driven obsessions, rooted instead in twentieth-century Russian ambitions for a scientific Marxism. Using 'Russia-as-method' to examine Soviet visions of history as a materialist science, Aronova's sparklingly subversive narrative excavates foundational fights over how to write the history of science, how to practice the science of history, and how to tell the story of mankind. A work of wit, grace, and profundity." -- James Delbourgo, James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Professor of History, Rutgers University"A captivating tale of Clio becoming a scientist! Animated by a commanding multinational cast of characters, Scientific History offers the first broad-ranging analysis of why and how the methods, approaches, values, and frameworks advanced within the natural sciences—ranging from biogeography to mathematics to genetics—became part of historians’ armamentarium and profoundly influenced twentieth-century historical thought and practice. This engaging account ventures with enviable ease from the editorial offices of the Annales to the sessions of international history congresses, through the corridors of UNESCO to computer rooms at the ‘scientific information’ institutes in Philadelphia and Moscow. Aronova uncovers the forgotten and sometimes deliberately obscured but deep and thoroughly transnational roots of present-day historians’ fascination with ‘big data,’ quantification, and ‘big history.’ Meticulously researched and refreshingly free from Cold War–era polarizing biases, this book is a must read for anyone interested in history, science, and their intricate connections." -- Nikolai Krementsov, author of Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in Bolshevik Science and Fiction“[Aronova] demonstrates the complex interactions between science and history. Vivid passages describe the Soviet government's corruption of academic disciplines: social sciences, biology, and agronomy. A demanding but highly informative read.” * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Russia as Method 1 The Quest for Scientific History Two Unity of Science Movements Positivism, History, and Henri Berr’s Historical Synthesis Historical Synthesis and the History of Science The Internationalist Politics of Synthesis 2 Scientific History and the Russian Locale Russia and the West Russian Historiography on the World Stage Marxism and History The Great Break Bukharin and the History of Science London 1931 3 Nikolai Vavilov, Genogeography, and History’s Past Future The Geographies of History and the Genetic Archive The Mendeleev of Biology Vavilov’s Genogeography and the Bolsheviks’ Geopolitics A “New Kind of History” The Politics of History 4 Julian Huxley’s Cold Wars Julian Huxley’s Two Careers A Journey to a Utopian Future The Crisis in Soviet Genetics and Julian Huxley’s Cold Wars Huxley’s Evolutionary History 5 The UNESCO “History of Mankind: Cultural and Scientific Development” Project History by Committee Febvre’s Cahiers: Historical Journals and the Making of Historical Knowledge Cold War Internationalism and the Writing of History 6 Information Socialism, Historical Informatics, and the Markets Bernal’s Information Socialism: From London 1931 to Cold War America, via Russia Envisioning History as Data Science Historians and Computers The Socialist Markets for a Capitalist Data Product Epilogue Past Futures of the History of Science List of Archive Abbreviations Notes Index
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Inventing the Alphabet
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Drucker] provides a rich, detailed account of how western thinkers have understood the origins and development of the alphabet. . . . Millions learn the alphabet in childhood, and Drucker's study opens up a fascinating realm of ideas and scholarship into its origins and meaning." * BBC History Magazine *"In its wealth of detail and generous illustration [Inventing the Alphabet] goes some way toward reproducing the experience of reading the catalogs and compendia it describes." * New York Review of Books *"Drucker takes us on a journey through centuries of intellectual history, from the musings of the first historians to the scientific methods of modern archaeologists and linguists. At the heart of it all is the alphabet: an invention that is both ubiquitously banal and world-changingly innovative." * History Today *"This latest book by Drucker is not primarily a new history of the alphabet, although it provides this history, but a historiographical work that traces the ways beliefs in Western thought shaped the discourse around the alphabet’s origins. The author asks who knew what when and how people conceptualized the evidence available to them, from the earliest classical and biblical accounts to contemporary archaeological, epigraphical, and paleographical syntheses. . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"Johanna Drucker ’s Inventing the Alphabet is all about writing’s material histories." * London Review of Books *"For ill and for good, our world remains profoundly alphabetized, from classroom rosters, to bureaucratic systems, to the labeling of our very genetic essence, even if random access, not ABC order, has become our everyday search mode. As Drucker somewhat shockingly reminds us. . . the ancient analog alphabet forms the substrate of our digital world." * Critical Inquiry *"Stunning. . . . Drucker deserves our full recognition for this masterpiece of bibliographical scholarship." * Publishing Research Quarterly *“With Inventing the Alphabet, Drucker—scholar, interpreter, and designer of printed words and letters—sheds light on that which has brought humankind out of darkness." -- Steven Heller, author, design critic, and cochair of the SVA MFA Design DepartmentTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. When Did the Alphabet Become "Greek"? 2. Divine Gifts: Original Letters, Moses, and the Tablets at Mount Sinai 3. Medieval Copyists: Magical Letters, Mythic Scripts, and Exotic Alphabets 4. The Confusion of Tongues and Compendia of Scripts 5. Antiquity Explained: The Origin and Progress of Letters 6. The Rhetoric of Tables and the Harmony of Alphabets 7. Modern Archaeology: Putting the Evidence of the Alphabet in Place 8. Reading the Early Alphabet: Epigraphy and Paleography 9. Alphabet Effects and the Politics of Script Coda: Alphabetic Agency and Global Hegemony Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Popularizing the Past Historians Publishers and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Astute, informative, and skillfully researched, Witham’s thought-provoking analysis will appeal to historians (and aspiring historians) who want a better grasp on the challenges and opportunities of history as a profession and the business of popular-history books." * Library Journal *"In his new book Popularizing the Past, historian Nick Witham sheds light on five particularly interesting historians’ writing and publishing strategies during the mid-to-late twentieth century . . . Witham’s readings of these five figures offer sensitive analysis and point to the key questions about politics and publishing." * Boston Review *"I am very taken with Nick Witham’s illuminating book and hope that all practicing and aspiring US historians read it. Drawing on careful research and writing in sparkling prose that rivals his subjects', Witham examines how five prominent postwar historians navigated the challenges and rewards of scripting national narratives for audiences beyond the academy. For anyone interested in crafting intellectually robust, readable, and relevant scholarship, Popularizing the Past is essential reading." -- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, author of American Nietzsche"A fascinating exploration of American historians searching for their publics and seeking to balance empirical depth and literary flair, scholarship and fame, objectivity and activism. Nick Witham's book is the most probing examination of these matters that I have read. Essential for understanding the importance and perils of writing popular history." -- Gary Gerstle, author of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order"Those dispirited by today's skirmishes over the American past should seek out Nick Witham’s wonderful book on postwar history writing. His portrait of prominent scholars who wrote for the public offers a fresh take on popularization, presentism, and politicization—even as it underscores the essential work of histories that educate and engross readers." -- Sarah E. Igo, author of The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America"The argument of Witham’s book is that the audience for popular historical nonfiction that explains America to itself has always been a diverse one, made up of various types of readers. The imagined past, when an idealised American reader relaxed by the fireside with a sturdy tome written by a credentialed academic, is, largely speaking, a fiction…The best parts of Popularizing the Past are the archival discoveries of letters from readers, and between editors and writers, showing the nitty-gritty of how this sausage got made – and eaten." * History Today *"[An] engaging, instructive account of the efforts by five postwar American academic historians – and, importantly, their editors and publishers – to reach a broader, non-scholarly audience with their work . . . . If historians wish to produce work that resonates with ordinary readers while being taken seriously by fellow specialists, it can be done. And for guidance on how to do it they could do worse than look to those who, three-quarters of a century ago, set about ‘popularizing the past.'" -- Fredrik Logevall * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction What’s the Matter with History? The Problem of Popularity in Postwar American Historical Writing Part I Popular History and General Readers 1 Richard Hofstadter: Popular History and the Contradictions of Consensus 2 Daniel Boorstin: Popular History between Liberalism and Conservatism Part II: Popular History and Activist Readers 3 John Hope Franklin: The Racial Politics of Popular History 4 Howard Zinn: Popular History as Controversy 5 Gerda Lerner: The Struggle for a Popular Women’s History Conclusion The Legacies of Postwar Popular History Acknowledgments Archival Abbreviations Notes Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Popularizing the Past
Book SynopsisPopularizing the Past tells the stories of five postwar historians who changed the way ordinary Americans thought about their nation's history. What's the matter with history? For decades, critics of the discipline have argued that the historical profession is dominated by scholars unable, or perhaps even unwilling, to write for the public. In Popularizing the Past, Nick Witham challenges this interpretation by telling the stories of five historiansRichard Hofstadter, Daniel Boorstin, John Hope Franklin, Howard Zinn, and Gerda Lernerwho, in the decades after World War II, published widely read books of national history. Witham compellingly argues that we should understand historians' efforts to engage with the reading public as a vital part of their postwar identity and mission. He shows how the lives and writings of these five authors were fundamentally shaped by their desire to write histories that captivated both scholars and the elusive general reader. He also reveals how tTrade Review"Astute, informative, and skillfully researched, Witham’s thought-provoking analysis will appeal to historians (and aspiring historians) who want a better grasp on the challenges and opportunities of history as a profession and the business of popular-history books." * Library Journal *"In his new book Popularizing the Past, historian Nick Witham sheds light on five particularly interesting historians’ writing and publishing strategies during the mid-to-late twentieth century . . . Witham’s readings of these five figures offer sensitive analysis and point to the key questions about politics and publishing." * Boston Review *"I am very taken with Nick Witham’s illuminating book and hope that all practicing and aspiring US historians read it. Drawing on careful research and writing in sparkling prose that rivals his subjects', Witham examines how five prominent postwar historians navigated the challenges and rewards of scripting national narratives for audiences beyond the academy. For anyone interested in crafting intellectually robust, readable, and relevant scholarship, Popularizing the Past is essential reading." -- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, author of American Nietzsche"A fascinating exploration of American historians searching for their publics and seeking to balance empirical depth and literary flair, scholarship and fame, objectivity and activism. Nick Witham's book is the most probing examination of these matters that I have read. Essential for understanding the importance and perils of writing popular history." -- Gary Gerstle, author of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order"Those dispirited by today's skirmishes over the American past should seek out Nick Witham’s wonderful book on postwar history writing. His portrait of prominent scholars who wrote for the public offers a fresh take on popularization, presentism, and politicization—even as it underscores the essential work of histories that educate and engross readers." -- Sarah E. Igo, author of The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America"The argument of Witham’s book is that the audience for popular historical nonfiction that explains America to itself has always been a diverse one, made up of various types of readers. The imagined past, when an idealised American reader relaxed by the fireside with a sturdy tome written by a credentialed academic, is, largely speaking, a fiction…The best parts of Popularizing the Past are the archival discoveries of letters from readers, and between editors and writers, showing the nitty-gritty of how this sausage got made – and eaten." * History Today *"[An] engaging, instructive account of the efforts by five postwar American academic historians – and, importantly, their editors and publishers – to reach a broader, non-scholarly audience with their work . . . . If historians wish to produce work that resonates with ordinary readers while being taken seriously by fellow specialists, it can be done. And for guidance on how to do it they could do worse than look to those who, three-quarters of a century ago, set about ‘popularizing the past.'" -- Fredrik Logevall * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction What’s the Matter with History? The Problem of Popularity in Postwar American Historical Writing Part I Popular History and General Readers 1 Richard Hofstadter: Popular History and the Contradictions of Consensus 2 Daniel Boorstin: Popular History between Liberalism and Conservatism Part II: Popular History and Activist Readers 3 John Hope Franklin: The Racial Politics of Popular History 4 Howard Zinn: Popular History as Controversy 5 Gerda Lerner: The Struggle for a Popular Women’s History Conclusion The Legacies of Postwar Popular History Acknowledgments Archival Abbreviations Notes Index
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press The Measure of Times Past PreNewtonian
Book SynopsisIn this extraordinary work, Donald J. Wilcox seeks to discover an approach to narrative and history consistent with the discontinuous, relative time of the twentieth century. He shows how our B.C./A.D. system, intimately connected to Newtonian concepts of continuous, objective, and absolute time, has affected our conception and experience of the past. He demonstrates absolute time's centrality to modern historical methodologies and the problems it has created in the selection and interpretation of facts. Inspired by contemporary fiction and Einsteinian concepts of relativity, he concludes his analysis with a comparison of our system with earlier, pre-Newtonian time schemes to create a radical new critique of historical objectivity.
£38.00
University of Chicago Press Historys Babel
Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive research among the records of the American Historical Association and a multitude of other sources, the author traces the slow fragmentation of the field from 1880 to the divisions of the 1940s manifest today in the diverse professions of academia, teaching, and public history.Trade Review"In this impressively researched study, Robert B. Townsend conveys the intellectual energy and the distinctly American unified vision among particular historians of the time who sought a professional identity for the historical enterprise. This is an important study of the evolution of the infrastructure of the intellectual life of the nation." (Francis X. Blouin, Jr., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)"
£90.00
The University of Chicago Press Historys Babel
Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive research among the records of the American Historical Association and a multitude of other sources, the author traces the slow fragmentation of the field from 1880 to the divisions of the 1940s manifest today in the diverse professions of academia, teaching, and public history.Trade Review"In this impressively researched study, Robert B. Townsend conveys the intellectual energy and the distinctly American unified vision among particular historians of the time who sought a professional identity for the historical enterprise. This is an important study of the evolution of the infrastructure of the intellectual life of the nation." (Francis X. Blouin, Jr., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)"
£28.50
Palgrave MacMillan UK Natures End
Book SynopsisEnvironmental History as a distinct discipline is now over a generation old, with a large and diverse group of practitioners around the globe. This book provides a reflection on the achievements, diversity, and direction of environmental history in its varied national, international and continental contexts.Trade Review'Nature's End is both an adept explanation of the ways in which historians can make the environment a central theme, and a treasure trove packed with gems of essays by leading scholars who show how it is done. This book is a state-of-the-art guide to contemporary questions in global environmental history.' - J. Donald Hughes, University of Denver, USA 'This volume makes a contribution not only to the history of the environment, but also to its historiography and to the history of thought about the environment It contributes to bridge-building between disciplines and also to a dialogue with other kinds of historian, whether they work on politics or culture.' - Peter Burke, University of Cambridge, UK 'Leading scholars of environmental history clarify the discipline's epistemological context and offer compelling case studies. Nature's End is indispensable reading for all who seek to meld the various communities of knowledge of our world.' - Carole Crumley, University of North Carolina, USA 'Nature's End deserves a wide audience. Environmental historians of all sorts will find it useful, as few such collections can boast such a rich and diverse array of contributions, ranging widely in geographical and chronological scope and presenting several methodological and conceptual approaches.' - William Cavert, H-Environment '...thought-provoking...Hopefully, this volume will guide environmental and cultural historians towards fruitful interaction.' - European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Preface Introduction; S.Sörlin & P.Warde PART I: THE RISE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL Imperialism and Environmental Change: Unearthing the Origins and Evolution of Global Environmental History; R.Grove & V.Damodaran Habitat, Possession and Community: Reflections on the History of Conservation Ideas; B.Adams The Field of Action: Agriculture and the Defining of the Environment in Pre-Industrial Europe; P.Warde The Global Warming That Did Not Happen: Historicizing Glaciology and Climate Change; S.Sörlin Genealogies of the Ecological Moment: Planning, Complexity and the Emergence of 'the Environment' as Politics in West Germany, 1949-1982; H.Nehring PART II: HISTORY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES The Environmental History of Mountain Regions; R.Dodgshon Interdisciplinary Conversations: the Collective Model; A.Davies New Science for Sustainability in an Ancient Land; L.Robin PART III: MAKING SPACE: ENVIRONMENTS AND THEIR CONTEXTS Fifty-four, Forty, or Fight? Writing within and across Boundaries in North American Environmental History; M.Evenden & G.Wynn Modernity and the Politics of Waste in Britain; T.Cooper Why Intensity? Reflections on Long-Term Changes to Chinese Farming and the Institutional Steering of Modifications to the Environment; M.Elvin 'The pernicious calamities that occasion...hunger': Climate Variability and Social Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico; G.Endfield PART IV: 'THINGS HUMAN' Destiny and Decision: Taking the Lifeworld Seriously in Environmental History; K.Hastrup Afterword; P.Burke Index
£85.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK Alliteration in Culture
Book SynopsisNations and their Histories highlights the importance of the past and its uses in the formation of modern nations and national identities. The book looks at the construction of different national historiographies as well as present representations of the past in the political and cultural life of nations, covering the five continents.Table of ContentsIntroduction; S.Carvalho & F.Gemenne PART I: NATIONAL HISTORIES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONS Nationalism and the Making of National Past; J.Breuilly The Comparative History of National Historiographies in Europe; S.Berger 'Colonizing' the Past: History and Memory in Greece and Turkey; S.A.Sofos & U.Özk?r?ml? The Politics of Memorialization in Zimbabwe; T.Ranger Beginning the World Over Again: Past and Future in American Nationalism; D.H.Doyle Rediscovering Columbus in Nineteenth-Century American Textbooks; C.Cadot Social Darwinism and Nationalism in Mexico; D.A.Brading PART II: PRESENT REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIONAL HISTORIES Eternal France: Crisis and National Self-Perception in France, 1870-2005; R.Gildea Cuisine, Nationality and the Making of a National Meal: The English Breakfast; K.O'Connor National Restoration and Moral Renewal: The Dialectics of the Past in the Emergence of Modern Israel; A.Gal Crafting Iranian Nationalism: Intersectionality of Aryanism, Westernism and Islamism; A.Kian & G.Riaux The Evolution of State Discourses on the Nationalist Political Party in Post-Colonial Cameroon; C.Nsoudou Refashioning Sub-National Pasts for Post-National Futures; J.Wenzel A Season of War: Warriors, Veterans and Warfare in American Nationalism; S-M.Grant Sinocentrism and the National Question in China; E.Hyer Nation, History, Museum: The Politics of the Past at the National Museum of Australia; B.Wellings Conclusion; S.Carvalho & F.Gemenne
£42.74
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Transnational History 11 Theory and History
Book SynopsisPierre-Yves Saunieris Professor of History at Universite Laval, Canada. His previous publications include the co-edited volume The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (2009).Trade Review"An important, authoritative, and stimulating book which will quickly establish itself as an indispensable introduction to the study of transnational history." - Akira Iriye, Harvard University, USATable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Meanings and Usages 2. Connections 3. Circulations 4. Relations 5. Formations 6. About Methodology Conclusion Notes Glossary Further Reading Index.
£80.75
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Transnational History 18 Theory and History
Book SynopsisPierre-Yves Saunieris Professor of History at Universite Laval, Canada. His previous publications include the co-edited volume The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (2009).Trade Review"An important, authoritative, and stimulating book which will quickly establish itself as an indispensable introduction to the study of transnational history." - Akira Iriye, Harvard University, USATable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Meanings and Usages 2. Connections 3. Circulations 4. Relations 5. Formations 6. About Methodology Conclusion Notes Glossary Further Reading Index.
£29.27
Palgrave Macmillan Rethinking the Nature of Fascism Comparative Perspectives
Book SynopsisList of Illustrations Foreword; S.G.Payne Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Fascism and the other '-isms'; A.Costa Pinto PART I: FASCISM AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Decomposition and Recomposition of Theories: How to Arrive at Useful Ideas Explaining Fascism; S.U.Larsen Desperately Seeking a 'Generic Fascism': Some Discordant Thoughts on the Academic Recycling of Indigenous Categories; M.Dobry Fascism and Culture: A Mosse-Centric Meta-Narrative of how Fascist Studies Reinvented the Wheel; R.Griffin PART II: NEW APPROACHES Theories of Fascism: A Critique from the Perspective of Women's and Gender History; K.Passmore Fascism and Religion; J.Pollard Ideology, Propaganda, Violence and the Rise of Fascism; R.Eatwell Political Violence and Institutional Crisis in Interwar Southern Europe; G.Albanese Ruling Elites, Political Institutions and Decision-Making in Fascist-Era Dictatorships: Comparative Perspectives; A.Costa Pinto Fascism, 'Licence' and Genocide: from the Chimera ofTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword; S.G.Payne Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Fascism and the other '-isms'; A.Costa Pinto PART I: FASCISM AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Decomposition and Recomposition of Theories: How to Arrive at Useful Ideas Explaining Fascism; S.U.Larsen Desperately Seeking a 'Generic Fascism': Some Discordant Thoughts on the Academic Recycling of Indigenous Categories; M.Dobry Fascism and Culture: A Mosse-Centric Meta-Narrative of how Fascist Studies Reinvented the Wheel; R.Griffin PART II: NEW APPROACHES Theories of Fascism: A Critique from the Perspective of Women's and Gender History; K.Passmore Fascism and Religion; J.Pollard Ideology, Propaganda, Violence and the Rise of Fascism; R.Eatwell Political Violence and Institutional Crisis in Interwar Southern Europe; G.Albanese Ruling Elites, Political Institutions and Decision-Making in Fascist-Era Dictatorships: Comparative Perspectives; A.Costa Pinto Fascism, 'Licence' and Genocide: from the Chimera of Rebirth to the Authorization of Mass Murder; A.Kallis Concluding Remarks; A.Lyttelton Index
£71.24
