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Zone Books A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
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Manchester University Press History Through Material Culture
Book SynopsisHistory through material culture is a unique, step-by-step guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources.Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book makes clear how students and researchers ready to use these rich material sources can make important, valuable and original contributions to history.Written by two experienced museum practitioners and historians, the book recognises the theoretical and practical challenges of this approach and offers clear advice on methods to get the best out of material culture research. With a focus on the early modern and modern periods, this volume draws on examples from across the world and demonstrates how to use material culture to answer a range of enquiries, including social, economic, gender, cultural and global history.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Approaches to the material world 2 Planning a research project 3 Developing a methodology 4 Locating sources: understanding museum collections and other repositories 5 Analysing sources 6 Writing up findings Afterword Index
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Bristol University Press What Is History For
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The University of Chicago Press History Theory after the Fall An Essay on
Book SynopsisIn this ambitious work, Fred Weinstein confronts the obstacles that have increasingly frustrated our attempts to explain social and historical reality. Traditionally, we have relied on history and social theory to describe the ways people understand the world they live in. But the ordering explanations we have always usedderived from the classical social theories originally forged by Marx, Tocqueville, Weber, Durkheim, Freudhave collapsed. In the wake of this collapse or fall, the rival claims of fiction, psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, and history have created the dilemma of radical relativism, the prospect of multiple interpretations of any complex historical event. The basic strategy of social theory and the social sciencesthe search for underlying unitiesproves so inherently contradictory and has provided so little in the way of reliable knowledge of social and historical relationships that to many critics it seems no longer worth pursuing. Weinstein enters the debate by r
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Migration Theory
Book SynopsisThe revised fourth edition of Migration Theory continues to offer a one-stop synthesis of contemporary thought on migration.Editors Caroline B. Brettell and James F. Hollifield remain committed to include coverage that is comparative and global in scope while enhancing similarities and differences between one academic field and the next. All chapters have been revised to highlight cutting-edge issues in the field of migration studies today. The fourth edition welcomes two new authors, Professors Marie Price and François Héran, to offer a fresh approach with their chapters on geography and demography, respectively.Designed for undergraduate and graduate courses in migration studies, a primary goal of the text is to assist instructors in guiding students who may have little background on migration, to understand important issues and the scientific debates. This ensures Migration Theory is a highly valuable guide not only to the perspectives of one''s oTrade Review"This latest edition of one of the essential texts in migration studies offers updated and expanded discussions of the state of the literature in the field’s constituent disciplines. The introductory and concluding chapters are testament to the rapid evolution of migration studies and take seriously the challenge posed by critical migration studies to the field’s mainstream. This is a must-read and will be an indispensable reference book for both new and established scholars of migration."Antje Ellermann, Professor, The University of British Columbia"This volume is a heroic and unique attempt to bridge disciplinary and conceptual boundaries in migration studies. Although different approaches and theories enrich the field, we need more agreement on the nature of the phenomenon we are trying to understand. ‘Talking across disciplines’ makes a persuasive case for structured comparisons, in time, space and scale and as such is a crucial intervention that helps us to accumulate knowledge in a more systematic, efficient and encompassing way."Leo Lucassen, Director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, Professor in Global Labour and Migration History, Leiden University"Understanding migration requires insight into movement across geographies, economic drivers and impacts, change over time, social and cultural integration, as well as law and states’ power to enforce or open borders. Brettell and Hollifield bring together field experts and cogent syntheses to celebrate interdisciplinarity, highlighting how key questions, methods, and theoretical tool-kits can be complementary or stand apart. They seek to end such distances, and do a truly admirable job. Anyone interested in migration, whether a new or seasoned scholar, will learn from this impressive book."Irene Bloemraad, Faculty Director, University of California Berkeley"Now in its 4th edition, Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines has established itself has the indispensable guide to understanding how various disciplines approach the movement of people. While achieving a seamless unified theory across history, anthropology, sociology, demography, economics, political science, geography, and legal studies might be asking too much, especially given the significant range of approaches even within these disciplines, the goal is a laudable one. Brettell and Hollified provide scholars at all levels well-crafted summaries of scholarship in these various disciplines. In a field of study as broad as migration, this is a valuable resource when contemplating the "cutting edge" of current research, which will influence future research. Migration Theory is essential for scholars seeking to find their comparative advantage in the study of migration."Leo Chavez, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, IrvineTable of ContentsIntroduction. Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines 1. Historical Migration Studies: Time, Temporality, and Theory 2. Demography and Migration: The Wildcard in Population Dynamics 3. Economic Aspects of Migration 4. The Sociology of International Migration 5. Theorizing Migration in Anthropology: The Cultural, Social, Phenomenological, and Embodied Dimensions of Human Mobility 6. Geographical Theories of Migration: Exploring Scalar, Spatial and Placeful Dimensions of Human Mobility 7. The Politics of International Migration: How Can We Bring the State Back In? 8. Law and Migration: Constants, Challenges, and Changes 9. The State of Migration Theory: Challenges, Interdisciplinarity and Critique
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Material Hermeneutics
Book SynopsisMaterial Hermeneutics explores the ways in which new imaging technologies and scientific instruments have changed our notions about ancient history. From the first lunar calendar to the black hole image, and from an ancient mummy in the Italian Alps to the irrigated valleys of Mesopotamia, this book demonstrates how revolutions in science have taught us far more than we imagined. Written by a leading philosopher of technology and utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, this book has implications for many fields, including philosophy, history, science, and technology. It will appeal to scholars and students of the humanities, as well as anthropologists and archaeologists. Table of Contents1. Why Material Hermeneutics? 2. Otzi: The Amateurs, Becoming a Scientific Object, Material Hermeneutics 3. The Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings 4. History Lessons: Coronado and the Qurivira 5. Civilizational Failure: Babylon and the Diatom, Peru and Tectonic Plates, Greenland and the Little Ice Age 6. Reading Vesuvian Texts and Major Technoart: Matisse and Picasso 7. Material Hermeneutics and Technoart 8. Musical and Scientific Instruments: Synthesizers and Digital Instruments 9. Science Turns Hermeneutic 10. Humanities and Social Science Turn Hermeneutic 11. Postphenomemenological Postscript: Lifeworld Revisited 12. Re-logicizing Origins: Ice Age Science and Lunar Calendars 13. Paul Ricoeur: From Linguistic to Material Hermeneutics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd People of the Iberian Borderlands
Book SynopsisThis book is devoted to the inhabitants of the SpanishPortuguese borderlands during the early modern period. It seeks to challenge a predominant historiography focused on the study of borderlands societies, relying exclusively on the antagonistic topics of subversion and the construction of boundaries. It states that by focusing just on one concept or another there is a restrictive understanding tending to condition the agency of local communities by external narratives. Thus, if traditionally border people were reduced by some scholars to actors of a struggle against a supposedly imposed border; in a more modern perspective, their behaviors have been also framed in bottom-up processes of consolidation of spaces of sovereignty in a no less limiting vision. Faced with both approaches, the objective of this work is not to deny them but, first and foremost, to situate the experiences of border populations outside of logics that I understand as originally alien to themselvTable of ContentsPART ONE: Communities between two communities 1. The Portuguese of Castile, the Castilians of Portugal 2. The unrepresented 3. Refuge and destruction 4. Contraband, modus vivendi PART TWO: War and the politics of daily life 5. On local truces 6. A grand yet local peace 7. ‘A wolflike urge’ 8. A rayano perspective on borderland custom houses PART THREE: At peace along the Raya 9. Restored sovereignties 10. ‘At the back of the world’ 11. Innumerable unresolved conflicts 12. The return of Mars
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethics and the History of Philosophy Selected Essays International Library of Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Teaching History at University Enhancing Learning
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range of international research, reflections and experiences of univeristy historians, this book links theory and practice and examines how high quality history teaching and learning can be acheived today in universities world wide.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Learning History For Understanding; Chapter 3 History Learning From The Student Perspective; Chapter 4 Approaches to Teaching History; Chapter 5 Creating a Context for Learning; Chapter 6 Strategies for Active Learning in the History Classroom; Chapter 7 Promoting Independence in Learning; Chapter 8 Assessing for Understanding; Chapter 9 Developing Understanding of Teaching;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Medieval Primary Sources
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part 1: Generic Sources. 1. Royal and Secular Biography Ralph A. Griffiths 2. Vernacular Chronicles and Narrative Sources in Medieval England Lister M. Matheson 3. The Medieval Sermon: Text, Performance, and Insight Anne T. Thayer 4. Wills as Primary Sources Shona Kelly Wray and Roisin Cossar 5. Letters and Letter Collections Joel T. Rosenthal Part 2: Topical Sources. 6. Writing Military History from Narrative Sources: Norman Battlefield Tactics, ca. 1000 Bernard Bachrach 7. Historians and Inquisitors: Testimonies from the Early Inquisitions into Heretical Depravity Mark G. Pegg 8. Sources of Royal Rituals and King-Making Jinty Nelson 9. The Sources for Manorial and Rural History Philip Slavin 10. Sources for Medieval Maritime History Maryanne Kowaleski 11. The Sources of Urban History Caroline M. Barron 12. Sources for the Study of Public Health in the Medieval City Carole Rawcliffe 13. Women’s History: Sources and Issues Katherine L. French 14. Sources for Representative Institutions Hannes Kleineke Part 3.The Visual and the Material. 15. Images and Objects as Sources for Medieval History Sara Lipton 16. Archaeology and History (in the United Kingdom) David Hinton Further Reading. Index.
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Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History
Book SynopsisHeretical Essays is Patocka''s final work, and one of his most exciting and iconoclastic. Patocka begins with prehistory, approached through the natural world as conceived by Husserl and Heidegger.According to Patocka, nature is as an alien construct, and history, which began as a quest for higher meaning, ends with life as self-sustaining consumption. Patocka explains how Europe declined from its Greek heritage to seek power rather than truth, splintering into ethnic subdivisions, and then how the Enlightenment moved Europe from an ethical to a material orientation.This book includes a translation of the Preface to the French Edition by Paul Ricoeur.
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Cambridge University Press Archaeology as History
Book SynopsisThis Element aims to provide readers with a reflexive and comprehensive overview of what it is that archaeologists do. The goal is to shift the reader's perspective of archaeology away from seeing it as a primarily data gathering field, to a clearer understanding of how archaeologists make and use the data they uncover.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Telling stories about places; 2. Telling stories about things; 3. Telling stories about time; 4. Telling stories about people; 5. Telling stories that change the world; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Rethinking Global History
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nation and the Writing of History in China and
Book SynopsisNation and the Writing of History in China and Britain explores, through a comparative approach, the reception of the nationalist worldview and its effects on the practice of history in China and Britain. This book proposes that nationalism, rather than a political doctrine, is a way of making sense of the world which results from the combination of a set of definite assumptions. The work analyzes how each one of these premises was accepted and negotiated by literati, intellectuals, historians, and other scholars in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The results of this research showcase how the reception of the new nationalist worldview crucially affected images of the past, the present, and the future in both societies and decisively framed cultural, social, and political debate. In addition, they likewise evidence the fundamental role that historical narratives play in the crystallization of national identities.This book is perfect for readers intereTable of Contents1. The Mirror of the Nation: the importance of national histories 2. History in China and Britain during the 19th century 3. The Age of Disorder: The breakup of Whig history and Classical historiography 4. The Echo of the Popular Mind: the nation as a collective 5. Nations United: the evolving politics of national belonging 6. The quest for national continuity
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Taylor & Francis Engaging with the Past c.250c.650
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Taylor & Francis The Musician and the Senator
Book SynopsisThis book was conceived as a laboratory on microhistory, an attempt to illustrate its main processes and advantages. Through the microhistorical approach the reader is off on an adventurous journey to discover an individualâs perspective, that of maestro Luigi Prisco who emigrated to the USA from the south of Italy. Luigi Prisco was a provincial musician and composer, born in 1857, who lived in Avellino, in Campania. In May 1902 Prisco joined millions of people in emigrating from southern Italy and the rest of the country to the United States, one more droplet in the immense river of Italian migration.Luigi Priscoâs personal correspondence with his mentor and friend Senator Donato Di Marzo (1840â1911) provides us with a precious insight into the aspirations and desires of a man who, through his actions, brought radical change to his life. Maestro Priscoâs letters are an interesting and insightful form of self-narration, which can only be fully understood using a microhistorical approach. The study of these letters is particularly valuable in highlighting the relationship between society and the intimate life of an individual, but also in underlining the active role that Prisco as an individual was able to play.This volume will be of great use to scholars interested in microhistory, the history of migrations, the history of âthe selfâ and in the development of theoretical approaches and methodologies when using letters as sources in interdisciplinary historical research.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Disney Theme Parks and Americas National
Book SynopsisDisney Theme Parks and America's National Narratives takes a public history approach to situating the physical spaces of the Disney brand within memory and identity studies. For over 65 years, Disney's theme parks have been important locations for the formation and negotiation of the collective memory of the American narrative. Disney's success as one of America's most prolific storytellers, its rise as a symbol of America itself, and its creation of theme parks that immerse visitors in three-dimensional versions of certain American values and historic myths have both echoed and shaped the way the American people see themselves. Like all versions of the American narrative, Disney's vision serves to reassure us, affirm our shared values, and unite a diverse group of people under a distinctly American identityor at least, it did. The book shows how the status Disney obtained led the public to use them both as touchstones of identity and as spaces to influence the Table of ContentsPart 1: Establishing Disney Parks as Sites of American Identity 1. Disney and American Folklore: Disney tells American History 2. Disney Diplomacy and Morale: Disney Symbolizes America 3. Disneyland and Walt Disney World: Experiencing "History" and "Identity" at Disney Parks 4. Mickey Mouse/White House: Celebrating American Identity at Disney Parks Part 2: Negotiating American Identity at the Disney Parks 5. Protest at the Parks: Changing America Via Disney 6. Retheming: Visualizing a Changing America at Disney Parks 6. Conclusion: A New Understanding of "Disneyfication"
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Taylor & Francis Law and the Medieval Village Community
Book SynopsisThis book expands on established doctrine in legal history and sets out a challenge for legal philosophers. The English medieval village community offers a historical and philosophical lens on the concept of custom which challenges accepted notions of what law is. The book traces the study of the medieval village community from early historical works in the nineteenth century through to current research. It demonstrates that some law-making can and has been âbottom-upâ in English law, with community-led decisionmaking having a particularly important role in the early common law. The detailed consideration of law in the English village community reveals alternative ways of making and conceiving of law which are not dependent on state authority, particularly in relation to customary and communal property rights. Acknowledging this poses challenges for legal theory: the legal positivism that dominates Western legal philosophy tends to reject custom as a source of law. However, this book argues that medieval customary law ought to be considered âlawâ if we are ever going to fully understand law â both then and now. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and academics working in the areas of Legal History, Legal Theory, and Jurisprudence.
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Cambridge University Press Law and Philosophy in the Late Roman Republic
Book SynopsisThe middle of the second until the middle of the first century BCE is one of the most creative periods in the history of human thought, and an important part of this was the interaction between Roman jurists and Hellenistic philosophers. In this highly original book, René Brouwer shows how jurists transformed the study of law into a science with the help of philosophical methods and concepts, such as division, rules and persons, and also how philosophers came to share the jurists'' preoccupations with cases and private property. The relevance of this cross-fertilization for present-day law and philosophy cannot be overestimated: in law, its legacy includes the academic study of law and the Western models of dispute resolution, while in philosophy, the method of casuistry and the concept of just property.Trade Review'Brouwer's monograph … provides a number of admirable new insights … Brouwer's book is brimming with stimulating material and is a valuable contribution …' Matthijs Wibier, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Law and philosophy around 150 BCE; 3. 'System' in law; 4. 'Rule' in law; 5. 'Person' in law; 6. Casuistry in philosophy; 7. Property in philosophy; 8. Law and philosophy after 50 BCE.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Biography
Book SynopsisBiography: An Historiography examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present considering the problems and challenges that historians have faced in their biographical practice systematically.This volume analyses the strategies and methods that historians have used in response to seven major issues identified over time to do with evidence, including but not limited to the problem of causation, the problem of fact and fiction, the problem of other minds, the problem of significance or representativeness, the problems of perspective, both macro and micro, and the problem of subjectivity and relative truth.This volume will be essential for both postgraduates and historians studying biography.Trade Review"A hugely enjoyable read, deeply researched and knowledgeable, with an effective mix of structure, theory, and personality, as befits its subject. Very wide-ranging, it’s peppered with names and connections. In squaring a number of circles, Biography: a Historiography is a single-handed refutation of any misgivings historians may have as to the biographer and their craft." Dr Martin Farr, Newcastle University, UK"[I]t’s a big, authoritative work with a dazzling range of research and reference, and passionate engagement with ideas and issues. A book to think with!" Professor Richard Holmes, FRSL, FBA, OBE, Hon. Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge"This is a most welcome addition to the literature on biography which will be attractive to readers in several different disciplines. Historians will like its very firm grounding in the development of historical writing since the nineteenth century; students of literature will learn much from its studies of the Bloomsbury biographers and life writing today; while social scientists will find much to explore and applaud in its confident discussion of concepts and methodology. The discussion of biography is integrated with the discussion of general historiography. Our pre-existing historiographical familiarity helps us to appreciate the novelty of the author’s biographical arguments all the more."Professor Lawrence Goldman, Oxford University, UK"There are numerous monographs on biography as a genre but no single text dealing with historians and biography, and yet historians are a major producer of biographies. Melanie Nolan’s Biography: A Historiography provides the first systematic and focussed consideration of historians’ biographical approaches and practices. It is a far ranging and much needed work, competently executed and underpinned by an impressive array of research." Professor Douglas Munro, University of Queensland, AustraliaTable of Contents1. Introduction: "It’s Just a Biography": historicising historians’ biographical debates 2. Victorians’ debate over heroism: the role of the significant individual in history 3. Post-Victorian debates over artistic and scientific approaches to biography 4. Historians and the problem of other minds in biography 5. Cold War debates over individuals in history; counterfactuals, contingency and causation in biography 6. Postwar debates over atomizing lives 7. Late Twentieth Century debate over microhistory and the singularization of history 8. Current debates about life writing and historians’ ego histoire 9. Conclusion: Trevelyan’s empiricism and historians’ biographical practices
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Narratives of War
Book SynopsisNarratives of War considers the way war and battle are remembered and narrated across space and time in Europe in the twentieth century.The book reflects on how narratives are generated and deployed, and on their function as coping mechanisms, means of survival, commemorative gestures, historical records and evidence. The contributions address such issues as the tension and discrepancy between memory and the official chronicling of war, the relationship between various individuals' versions of war narratives and the ways in which events are brought together to serve varied functions for the narrators and their audiences. Drawing upon the two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War and the ex-Yugoslav wars, and considering narrative genres that include film, schoolbooks, novels, oral history, archives, official documents, personal testimony and memoirs, readers are introduced to a range of narrative forms and examples that highlight the complexity of narrative in relation tTable of ContentsPart I: Narrative and the Story of War 1. ‘Narratives of War in the Twentieth Century: an Introduction’ 2. ‘A Tale of Two Battles: Narrating Verdun and the Somme, 1916’ Part II: Constructing War Narratives 3. ‘The Stories the First World War Inherited: Adaptations of Napoleonic Veterans’ Memoirs, 1814-1914 4. ‘The Archive as Narrator? Narratives of German "Enemy Citizens" in the Netherlands after 1945’ 5. ‘Of Triumph and Defeat: World War II and its Historians in Post-war Germany’ 6. ‘The Imagery of War: Screening the Battlefield in the Twentieth Century’ Part III: The Development and Deployment of War Narratives 7. ‘The War Books Controversy Revisited: First World War Novels and Veteran Memory’ 8. ‘War and Peace as a "Paradoxical Coherence": How the European Union Uses the Remembrance of the Great War to Construct European Identities’ 9. ‘History Wars in School Textbooks? The Massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in Polish History Textbooks since 1989’ 10. ‘"I was Hurt and you were Hurt too": the Role of Religion and Competing Narratives in the Reconciliation Process in Bosnia and Herzegovina' Part IV: Testimonies and Survivalist Narratives 11. ‘Hints of Heroism, Traces of Trauma: Trauma and Narrative Structure in Interviews with Dutch and English International Brigade Volunteers of the Spanish Civil War’ 12. ‘Digital Survival? Online Interview Portals and the Re-Contextualization of Holocaust Testimonies’ 13. ‘Remembering the Sternlager of Bergen-Belsen: Anecdotes, Humour and Poetry as Survival Strategies’ Part V: Conclusion 14. ‘Twentieth-Century Narratives of War: Conclusions’
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Barack Obama
Book SynopsisBarack Obama's politics are deeply informed by his profound knowledge and understanding of his country's history. His articles, books, and speeches are replete with references to America's past and how that relates to the present he sees and the future he envisions. Exploring Obama's own words, Steven Sarson examines his interpretation of American history from colonial times to the present, showing how Obama sees American history as beginning with the common creed of equality and liberty proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and the more perfect union created by the Constitution. He analyses Obama's understanding of the colonies, revolution, and early nation, slavery and the civil war, segregation and civil rights, economy and society, Native Americans and foreign policy. An epilogue explores how Obama personifies the American dream through the stories of individuals, including his own. A unique and fascinating take on the past and how we interpret it, this book will appeal to Trade Review[A] worthy and original addition to the Obama literature. * The Journal of American History *The analysis of his writings is well researched and is a comprehensive historical critique, which would benefit readers of all levels. Historians that are interested in President Obama’s understanding of the role of the United States in the world will also benefit from reading Barack Obama: American Historian. * European Journal of American Studies *In the course of his careful, very readable, analysis of Obama’s vision of America Professor Sarson performs yet another service for history buffs. He does a fine, jargon-free, job of summarizing decades of scholarship in ways that are both accessible to lay readers and give a sense of why we historians, like President Obama, believe history matters. * Ronald Walters, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, USA *In this timely and brilliant book, Steven Sarson uncovers Barack Obama’s compassionate, coherent conception of his nation’s past: a story of a people striving for unity out of diversity, and which, through trial and tribulation has progressed. Written in lucid, engaging prose by a masterful historian with a deep understanding of both Obama and the history he tells, this book offers much-needed hope as well as understanding. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about America and is interested in why its past is so bound up with its present. * Adam Smith, Senior Lecturer in History, University College London, UK *Through a fascinating and thoroughly researched accounting, Sarson’s book gives us the American history that Barack Obama wrote and spoke about throughout his public life. That history is the foundation for the “hope” that Obama famously invoked with such regularity. How could Obama continue to insist on hope as a theme, given how much he knows about America's darkest past? Sarson argues convincingly that Obama’s American history is a key to the political history of our time. * Karin Wulf, Professor of History, College of William and Mary, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The landscape of our collective dreams Prologue: A More Perfect Union: Barack Obama’s American History 1 Our starting point as Americans: The American Colonies 2 Our common creed: The Declaration of Independence & the American Revolution 3 The foundation of our government: The Constitution & the New Nation 4 A new birth of freedom: Slavery & the Civil War 5 We Shall Overcome: Reconstruction, Jim Crow, & Civil Rights 6 The chief business of the American people: Property & Liberty 7 Beyond Our Borders: Native Americans & other Foreign Affairs Epilogue:.Out of Many, One: American History’s Barack Obama Notes Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Quantitative History and Uncharted People
Book SynopsisOne of the biggest challenges in the study of history is the unreliable nature of traditional archival sources which omit histories of marginalised groups. This book makes the case that quantitative history offers a way to fill these gaps in the archive. Showcasing 13 case studies from the South African past, it applies quantitative sources, tools and methods to social histories from below to uncover the experiences of unchartered peoples. Examining the occupations of slaves, victims of the Spanish flu, health of schoolchildren and more, it shows how quantitative tools can be particularly powerful in regions where historical records are preserved, but questions of bias and prejudice pervade. Applying methods such as GIS mapping, network analysis and algorithmic matching techniques it explores histories of indigenous peoples, women, enslaved peoples and other groups marginalised in South African history. Connecting quantitative sources and new forms of data interpretation with aTable of ContentsList of Figures Foreword, Robert Ross Preface 1. Quantitative History and Uncharted People, Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 2. Bridal Pregnancy in the Mother City, 1900–1960, Laura Richardson (University of Cambridge, UK) and Jan Kok (Nijmegen University, The Netherlands) 3. Sex Ratios and Girl Preference in the Cape, 1894–2011, Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Francisco Marco-Gracia (University of Zaragoza, Spain) 4. Khoe Households in Swellendam, 1825, Calumet Links (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 5. Race Reclassification in Cape Town, 1950–1984, Brittany Chalmers (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Kris Inwood (Guelph University, Canada) 6. Advertising the Enslaved for Sale: A Quantitative Approach to the Zuid-Afrikaan, 1830–1834, Wouter Raaijmakers (Radboud University, The Netherlands) and Kate Ekama (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 7. Domestic Service in Cape Town Before the Second World War, Amy Rommelspacher (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 8. Female Investors at the Cape, 1892–1902, Lloyd Maphosa (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Edward Kerby (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 9. Black Africans in Cape Town, 1890-1939, Nobungcwele Mbem (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Michiel de Haas (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) 10. Political Innovation in African Nationalist Organisations, 1880–1890, Jonathan Schoots (University of Chicago, USA) 11. Petitions to the Cape Parliament, 1854-1909, Kara Dimitruk (Swarthmore College, USA) and Kelsey Lemon (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 12. Death During the Influenza of 1918, Jonathan Jayes (Lund University, Sweden) and Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 13. Quantitative History in Practice, Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
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Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Association in Hellenistic Rhodes
Book SynopsisChristian Thomsen offers a study of political institutions on the island state of Rhodes an important power in the eastern Mediterranean and the first city of the Hellenistic world.
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Left Coast Press Inc Story Bridges: A Guide for Conducting
Book SynopsisAngela Zusman offers an informative guidebook with step-by-step directions for planning and implementing intergenerational oral history projects, using youth to interview elders. An expert on these programs, Zusman uses her experiences and those of other oral historians to show how community projects are organized, youthful historians located and trained, interviews conducted, and the project archived for future community needs. Included are a variety of sample documents and case studies designed to ease the process for the uninitiated.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Value of Stories Chapter One: History and Benefits of Oral History Chapter Two: Project Overview Chapter Three: Preparation Chapter Four: Bring on the Youth Chapter Five: Interviews Chapter Six: Archiving Chapter Seven: Assimilation Appendices About the Author
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Verso Books Déjà Vu and the End of History
Book SynopsisThis book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of déjà vu and the idea 'End of History' relate to one another? Through thinkers like Bergson, Kojève and Nietzsche, Virno explores these constructs of memory and the passage of time. In showing how the experience of time becomes historical, Virno considers two fundamental concepts from Western philosophy: Power and The Act, reinterpreting these with respect to time. Through these, he elegantly constructs a radical new theory of historical temporality.Trade ReviewPaulo Virno is one of the most radical and lucid thinkers of the postoperaist political tradition * Meditations Journal *
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Berghahn Books Kharkov/Kharkiv: A Borderland Capital
Book Synopsis Kharkiv is Ukraine’s second largest city and its former capital. Situated within 40 km of the Ukrainian-Russian border it is one of those East-Central European “liminal” cities which became a center of modernization and pluralization in the borderland area, playing a prominent role in the process of nation building. Volodymyr Kravchenko’s expanded edition of Kharkov/Kharkiv, now in the English-language and including a new chapter on the reconfiguration of the Ukrainian-Russian borderland during and after the watershed Euromaidan event, uniquely uncovers the city’s long history, from the 17th century to today. Addressing issues of regional and national identities, Ukrainian-Russian relations, mental mapping, historical narratives and the ensuing de/reconstruction of national mythologies, this book, fills a unique gap in the literature on Kharkiv.Trade Review “Kharkov/Kharkiv deals with exceptionally important and politically and culturally contested questions of regionalism in Eastern Europe and provides unique insight into the history of Ukraine and to a lesser degree Russia…I know no other author who could write with such authority, depth and nuance a history of the region which was always difficult to “capture” and explain within the limits of existing national narratives” • Serhii Plokhii, Harvard UniversityTable of Contents List of maps List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration Introduction Chapter 1. The Steppe Borderland Chapter 2. Town and Gown Chapter 3. Province in Search of an Identity Chapter 4. City, Empire, Nation Chapter 5. To the “First Capital” and back Chapter 6. Post-Soviet Borderland Chapter 7. The Frontline Conclusions Historical timeline Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Breaking the Dead Silence
Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition will be available on publication. The murder of George Floyd in 2020, the renewed international take up of the cry Black Lives Matter and the subsequent toppling of a statue commemorating slave-merchant-turned-philanthropist Edward Colston in Bristol provoked urgent questions on memorialisation, white privilege, social justice and repair. Debates on how legacies of colonialism and empire in Britain should be addressed spilled out of the scholarly world into the public discourse. In the immediate wake of the statue toppling this book offers a unique, distinctive and timely contribution to those debates: a series of voices and experiences are offered as critical commentaries and accounts of recent interventions on an official heritage narrative. It sets out to break the dead silence', by bringing together diverse perspectives from academics, artists, activists, heritage professionals and tourist guides. The book offers fresh insights, referencing work attending
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Berghahn Books Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline
Book SynopsisOswald Spengler was one of the most important thinkers of the Weimar Republic, but very little has been published on his politics, philosophy and life, especially in the English-language.Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline transforms the pre-existing picture of Spengler by demonstrating how Spengler's radical opposition to liberal democracy was an unwavering facet of his thought from 1918 onwards. It adopts a completely novel approach by placing a new emphasis on his political activities and writings, and is unique in explaining the interplay between Spengler's meta-historical considerations on world history and the practical demands of Realpolitik throughout the complex discourse of German national renewal.
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Amsterdam University Press Writing History!: A Companion for Historians
Book SynopsisHistorians not only have knowledge of history, but by writing about it and engaging with other historians from the past and present, they make history themselves. This companion offers young historians clear guidelines for the different phases of historical research; how do you get a good historical question? How do you engage with the literature? How do you work with sources from the past, from archives to imagery and objects, art, or landscapes? What is the influence of digitalisation of the historical craft? Broad in scope, Writing History! also addresses historians’ traditional support of policy makers and their activity in fields of public history, such as museums, the media, and the leisure sector, and offers support for developing the necessary skills for this wide range of professions.
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Goose Lane Editions Our Land
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Cornell University Press From Reliable Sources
Book SynopsisA lively introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past.Trade Review"Among the books designed to teach aspiring historians proper procedures for their work, this volume ranks high. . . .Readers will especially appreciate the care taken to show the link between methodological innovations and the historical contexts in which they occurred."—Choice, January 2002, Vol. 39, No. 5"If the best historians, beginning with Thucydides, have been skeptical of metaphysical absolutes, they have also been reluctant to immerse themselves in antiquarianism. The present book draws strength from this tension."—Charles Sullivan, Common Knowledge, 2003"Historians generally have had to work out for themselves the different ways to read and use sources, the issue of how much we actually can learn from the past, the different ways that historical questions have been asked, and the uses to which history can be put. From Reliable Sources makes this process easier by laying out the principal elements of historiography and source criticism. No one, after reading this book, will be able to think again of sources as unproblematic conveyors of simple facts."—Constance Brittain Bouchard, University of Akron"Both learned and informative, From Reliable Sources is clearly the outcome of extensive archival and critical experience. With its accessible balance of exposition and example, it is also a pleasure to read. There is nothing else like this in English."—Isabel V. Hull, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsI. The Source: The Basis of Our Knowledge about the Past A. What Is a Source? B. Source Typologies, Their Evolution and Complementarity C. The Impact of Communication and Information Technology on the Production of Sources D. Storing and Delivering InformationII. Technical Analysis of Sources A. Clio's Laboratory Paleography Diplomatics Archaeology Statistics Additional Technical ToolsB. Source Criticism: The Great Tradition The "Genealogy" of the Document Genesis of a Document The "Originality" of the Document Interpretation of the Document Authorial Authority Competence of the Observer The Trustworthiness of the ObserverIII. Historical Interpretation: The Traditional Basics A. Comparison of Sources B. Establishing Evidentiary Satisfaction C. The "Facts" That MatterIV. New Interpretive Approaches A. Interdisciplinarity The Social Sciences The HumanitiesB. The Politics of History Writing The Annales The "New Left" and New Histories The New Cultural HistoryV. The Nature of Historical Knowledge A. Change and ContinuityB. Causality Causal Factors (Religious Ideology, Clericalism, and Anticlericalism; Social and Economic Factors; Biology and "Race"; Environment; Science, Technology, and Inventions; Power; Public Opinion and the Mass Media) The Role of the IndividualC. History Today The Problem of Objectivity The Status of the "Fact"Research BibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Methodology in Sports History
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John Murray Press The Traitors Circle
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd What Happened in the Twentieth Century?: Towards
Book SynopsisWhen we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see? Our first inclination is to focus on historical events: the 20th century was the age of two devastating world wars, of totalitarian regimes and terrible atrocities like the Holocaust – “the age of extremes,” to use Hobsbawm’s famous phrase. But in this new book, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk argues that we will never understand the 20th century if we focus on events and ideologies. Rather, in his view, the predominant motif of the 20th century is what Badiou called a passion for the real, which manifests itself as the will to actualize the truth directly in the here and now. Drawing on his Spheres trilogy, Sloterdijk interprets the actualization of the real in the 20th century as a passion for economic and technological “antigravitation”. The rise of consumerism and the easing of the burdens of human life by the constant deployment of new technologies have killed off the kind of radicalism that was rooted in the belief that power would rise from a material base of production. If the 20th century can still inspire us today, it is because the fundamental shift that it brought about opened the way for a critique of extremist reason, a post-Marxist theory of enrichment and a general economy of energy resources based on excess and dissipation. While developing his highly original interpretation of the 20th century, Sloterdijk also addresses a series of related topics including the meaning of the Anthropocene, the domestication of humans and the significance of the sea. The volume also includes major new pieces on Derrida and on Heidegger’s politics. This work, by one of the most original thinkers today will appeal to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences, as well as anyone interested in philosophy and critical theory.Table of Contents The Anthropocene - A Stage in the Process on the Margins of the Earth's History? From the Domestication of the Human Being to the Civilizing of Cultures: Answering the Question of Whether Humanity is Capable of Taming Itself The Ocean Experiment: From Nautical Globalization to a General Ecology The Synchronized World: Philosophical Aspects of Globalization What Happened in the 20th Century? Toward a Critique of Extremist Reason The Thinker in the Haunted Castle: On Derrida's Interpretation of Dreams Deep Observation: Towards a Philosophy of the Space Station The Permanent Renaissance: The Italian Novella and News of Modernity Heidegger's Politics: Postponing the End of History Odysseus the Sophist: On the Birth of Philosophy from the Spirit of Travel Stress Almost Sacred Text: Essay on the Constitution The Other Logos, or the Reason of Cunning: On the Intellectual History of the Indirect Editorial Note Notes
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Taylor & Francis Feminist History Reader Routledge Readers in
Book SynopsisThe Feminist History Reader gathers together key articles, from some of the very best writers in the field, that have shaped the dynamic historiography of the past thirty years, and introduces students to the major shifts and turning points in this dialogue.The Reader is divided into four sections: early feminist historians' writings following the move from reclaiming women's past through to the development of gender history the interaction of feminist history with âthe linguistic turnâ and the challenges made by post-structuralism and the responses it provoked the work of lesbian historians and queer theorists in their challenge of the heterosexism of feminist history writing the work of black feminists and postcolonial critics/Third World scholars and how they have laid bare the ethnocentric and imperialist tendencies of feminist theory. Each reading has a comprehensive and clearly structured introduction with a guide to further reading, this wide-ranging guide to developments in feminist history is essential reading for all students of history.Trade Review"a stylish set of readings which will enable important issues about feminist historical theorizing to be addressed and debated in the classroom"Liz Stanley, Feminist Review‘Advanced readers are likely to find much of interest in the Feminist History Reader … Morgan’s was a difficult editorial task and the result is a stylish set of readings which will enable important issues about feminist historical theorizing to be addressed and debated in the classroom, particularly given that Morgan’s editorial viewpoint on the field is discussed in such an interesting and in-depth way.’ – Feminist ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Bringing the Female Subject into View 1. The Trouble With Patriarchy 2. Feminism and History 3. Golden Age to Separate Spheres? A Review of the Categories and Chronology of English Women's History 4. Politics and Culture in Women's History: A Symposium 5. Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate 6. History and the Challenge of Gender History Part 2: Deconstructing the Female Subject: Feminist History and 'The Linguistic Turn' 7. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis 8. Does Sex Have a History? 9. Gender History/Women's History: Is Feminist Scholarship Losing its Critical Edge? 10. Gender as a Postmodern Category of Paralysis 11. Postmodern Blackness 12. Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of 'Postmodernism' Part 3: Searching for the Subject: Lesbian History 13. Who Hid Lesbian History? 14. Does it Matter if They Did it? 15. Lesbian History: All Theory and No Facts or All Facts and No Theory? 16. Queer: Theorizing Politics and History 17. 'Lesbian-Like' and the Social History of Lesbianisms 18. Toward a Global History of Same-Sex Sexuality Part 4: Centres of Difference: Decolonising Subjects: Rethinking Boundaries 19. Gender and Race: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought 20. Challenging Imperial Feminism 21. An Open Letter to Mary Daly 22. 'What Has Happened Here?': The Politics of Difference in Women's History and Feminist Politics 23. Dead Women Tell No Tales: Issues of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Postcolonial Writings on Widow Immolation in India 24. Gender and Nation 25. 'Introduction' to Civilizing Subjects 26. Rethinking Boundaries: Feminism and (Inter)Nationalism in Early-Twentieth-Century India 27. Actions Louder than Words: The Historical Task of Defining Feminist Consciousness in Colonial West Africa 28. 'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity Through Anticapitalist Struggles 29. Feminism's History
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University of California Press Apocalypse andor Metamorphosis
Book SynopsisPart of a trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature, this book contains eleven essays that covers 1990 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe.Table of ContentsPreface I. Apocalypse: The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind 2. Daphne, or Metamorphosis 3· My Georgics: A Palinode in Praise of Work 4· Metamorphoses II: Actaeon 5· The Prophetic Tradition 6. The Apocalypse of Islam 7· Philosophy and Prophecy: Spinoza's Hermeneutics 8. The Turn to Spinoza 9· Metamorphoses III: The Divine Narcissus IO. Revisioning Historical Identities II. Dionysus in I990
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Taylor & Francis Siege Warfare The Fortress in the Early Modern World 14941660
This classic text is the first integrated survey of the phenomenon of siege warfare during its most creative period. Well illustrated, this book is a valuable companion for enthusiasts of military history as well as early modern historians.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Problem of Nature
Book SynopsisThis book considers how nature - in both its biological and environmental manifestations - has been invoked as a dynamic force in human history. It shows how historians, philosophers, geographers, anthropologists and scientists have used ideas of nature to explain the evolution of cultures, to understand cultural difference, and to justify or condemn colonization, slavery and racial superiority. It examines the central part that ideas of environmental and biological determinism have played in theory, and describes how these ideas have served in different ways at different times as instruments of authority, identity and defiance. The book shows how powerful and problematic the invocation of nature can be.Table of ContentsForeword. 1. Introduction. 2. The Place of Nature. 3. Reappraising Nature. 4. Environment as Catastrophe. 5. Crossing Biological Boundaries. 6. The Ecological Frontier. 7. The Environmental Revolution. 8. Inventing Tropicality. 9. Colonizing Nature. Conclusion. Guide to Further Reading. Index.
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Indiana University Press The Future of the Soviet Past The Politics of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, this is a popular topic well handled and essential for students and scholars across several disciplines. The volume provides a good overview of contemporary Russia, and as scholars we should now consider how else these new avenues of research can be unlocked. -- James C. Pearce - College of the Marshall Islands * The Russian Review *This volume considers the relationship between the history of the Soviet Union and contemporary Russian culture, exploring how cinema, television, music, education and more reflect historical narratives, particularly in relation to Josef Stalin. The contributors contend that 'Russia's inability to fully rewrite Soviet history plays [a] part in its current political agenda'. * Survival *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Revisiting the Future of the Soviet Past and the Memory of Stalinist Repression, by Nanci Adler and Anton Weiss-WendtPart I: The Present Memory of the Past1. Presentism, Politicization of History, and the New Role of the Historian in Russia, by Ivan Kurilla2. Secondhand History: Outsourcing Russia's Past to Kremlin's Proxies, by Anton Weiss-Wendt3. The Soviet Past and the 1945 Victory Cult as Civil Religion in Contemporary Russia, by Nikita Petrov4. Russia as a Bulwark against Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial: The Second World War according to Moscow, by Kiril FefermanPart II: Museums, Pop Culture, and Other Memory Battlegrounds5. Keeping the Past in the Past: The Attack on the Perm 36 Gulag Museum and Russian Historical Memory of Soviet Repression, by Steven A. Barnes6. Known and Unknown Soldiers: Remembering Russia's Fallen in the Great Patriotic War, by Johanna Dahlin7. Fighters of the Invisible Front: Re-imaging the Aftermath of the Great Patriotic War in Recent Russian Television Series, by Boris Noordenbos8. War, Cinema, and the Politics of Memory in Putin 2.0 Culture, by Stephen M. NorrisPart III: Remembering and Framing the Soviet Past beyond Russia's Borders9. The 2014 Russian Memory Law in European Context, by Nikolay Koposov10. Tenacious Pasts: Geopolitics and the Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Issues, by George Soroka11. The 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia: Return to the Soviet Interpretation, by Štěpán ČernoušekIndex
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Harvard University Press Christianity
Book SynopsisThe spread of Christianity is arguably humanity’s most consequential historical epic. Christianity tells the tale through more than a hundred beautiful color maps and illustrations depicting the journey of Jesus Christ’s followers from Judea to Constantine’s Rome, wider Europe, and today’s world of two billion Christians practicing in every land.Trade ReviewChristianity has a geography as well as a history, and this book embraces both… These maps are full of detail and give a clear and integrated visual picture of the events described…The atlas is elegantly produced on glossy pages that make it attractive and readable. -- John Binns * Church Times *Informative to read and attractive to look at. -- Lucy Beckett * Times Literary Supplement *
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E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books Mein Kampf
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Cambridge University Press The History of Contingency and FutureOriented Thought
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Edinburgh University Press The Canada Us Border
Book SynopsisExplores the Canada US border through a variety of theoretical, cultural and literary approaches
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Open University Press Historical Research in Educational Settings
Book Synopsis* What is historical research in education?* How can researchers get started in this area?* Why does this field offer a common project for historians, educationists, and researchers across the social sciences?This book explores how to set about historical research in education. The first general guide of its kind for fifty years, the book locates this field in relation to changes in educational research, historical research, and a wide range of social sciences. It offers a theoretical guide to the rationales and problems of the field as well as to current opportunities for research. It also gives practical advice for getting started and for suitable research methods in different kinds of projects, and in doing so draws critically on extensive international literature. It includes detailed case studies on the following topics in historical research: Curriculum and Classrooms, Foucauldian Interpretations, the 'Alternative Road', Literacy in the Nineteenth Century,Trade Review"I Shall put this valuable study into the hands of any of my students writing on historical topics in education, since it is an intelligent, scholarly and eminently sensible introduction to the kind of methodological issues it is actually helpful to address - David PhillipsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsGlossary of termsGetting startedWhat the textbooks say and what they don'tHistory or education?The challenge of the social sciencesUsing published sourcesMethodological issuesDesigning and carrying out a research projectReferencesIndex.
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Liberty Fund Inc The Making of Tocquevilles Democracy In America
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Liberty Fund Inc Making of Tocquevilles Democracy in America 2nd
Book SynopsisIt is impossible to fully understand the American experience apart from Alexis de Tocqueville''s Democracy in America. Moreover, it is impossible fully to appreciate Tocqueville by assuming that he brought to his visitation to America, or to the writing of his great work, a fixed philosophical doctrine. James T. Schleifer documents where, when, and under what influences Tocqueville wrote different sections of his work. In doing so, Schleifer discloses the mental processes through which Tocqueville passed in reflecting on his experiences in America and transforming these reflections into the most original and revealing book ever written about Americans. For the first time the evolution of a number of Tocqueville''s central themes - democracy, individualism, centralisation, despotism - emerges into clear relief. As Russell B. Nye has observed, Schleifer''s study is a model of intellectual history, an account of the intertwining of a man, a set of ideas, and the final product, a book. The
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Te Papa Press Essential Audrey Eagle, The
Book SynopsisIn 2006, the award-winning Eagle's Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand was published to widespread acclaim and quickly became a modern classic for New Zealand botanists, gardeners and art-lovers. By popular demand, this accessible, affordable new edition presents a beautiful selection of 163 full-colour, full-page reproductions of Audrey Eagle's botanical paintings for new readers to discover and existing fans to savour. Every plant is depicted in full colour, including Eagle's many detailed enlargements which show the flowers, leaves and seeds of each plant in technically superb detail, while an appendix containing comprehensive notes, drafted in consultation with expert botanists, gives information on every plant. A fresh introduction gives new insights into Audrey Eagle and her life's work, and sets her place in the prestigious history of the botanical illustration of New Zealand's unique native flora.Trade ReviewMeticulous and detailed a work of art' The Dominion.'An outstanding contribution to the literature of New Zealand Botany' New Zealand Journal of Botany.'Each colour plate [is] a work of art and a labour of love' Evening Post.'A book such as this comes only once or twice in a lifetime. Audrey Eagle's achievement is magnificent' Christchurch Star.'Audrey Eagle's meticulous and beautiful renditions of our native flora are acclaimed, but it is her insistence on accuracy that makes her works on native trees and shrubs such respected reference books' The Press."
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