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Taylor & Francis Ltd Censuses and Census Takers
Book SynopsisThis book analyses the international development of the census by comparing the history of census taking on all continents and in many countries. The timeframe is wide, from male censuses in the Bible to current censuses covering the whole population. There is a focus on the efforts and destinies of census takers and the development of methods used to collect information into the census questionnaires. The book highlights international cooperation in census taking, as well as how computerized access to census data facilitates genealogical studies and statistical research on both historical and contemporary societies. It deals with such questions as Why did the French and British gentry block efforts at census taking in the 18th century?; What role did German censuses play during Holocaust?; Why were the Soviet census directors executed as part of the Moscow processes?; Why did US states sue the Census Bureau in the 1970s?; How do wars and revolutions affect census taking?Table of Contents1. Introduction and Pre-Censuses 2. Revolutionary Census Taking 3. Numeric censuses during the Restoration Period from 1815 4. The Nominative Census Revived 5. International Cooperation and Comparison 6. Into the 20th century - ups and downs of census taking 7. Towards a Global Census? 8. Census technology 9 The Historical Census References
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Taylor & Francis Ltd History and Material Culture
Book SynopsisSources are the raw material of History, but whereas the written word has traditionally been seen as the principal source, historians now recognize the value of sources beyond text. In this new edition of History and Material Culture, contributors consider a range of objects from an eighteenth-century bed curtain to a twenty-first-century shopping trolley which can help historians develop new interpretations and new knowledge about the past.Containing two new chapters on healing objects in East Africa and the shopping trolley in the social world, this book examines a variety of material sources from around the globe and across centuries to assess how such sources can be used to study the distant and the recent past. In a revised introduction, Karen Harvey discusses some of the principal issues raised when historians use material culture, particularly in the context of ''the material turn'', and suggests some initial steps for those unfamiliar with these kinds&nbTable of ContentsList of illustrationsList of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Historians, material culture and materialityKaren Harvey1 – Things that shape history: material culture and historical narrativesGiorgio Riello2 – Ornament as evidenceAndrew Morrall3 – Back yards and beyond: landscapes and historyMarina Moskowitz4 – Draping the body and dressing the home: the material culture of textiles and clothes in the Atlantic world, c. 1500-1800Beverly Lemire5 – Using buildings to understand social history: Britain and Ireland in the seventeenth centuryAnne Laurence6 – Pushed around: material culture, dispossession, and the American shopping cartCatherine Gudis7 – Repurposed objects and performance: ritual acts of healing in East AfricaJonathan Walz8 – Object biographies: from production to consumptionKarin Dannehl9 – Regional identity and material cultureHelen Berry10 – Objects and agency: material culture and modernity in ChinaFrank Dikötter11 – Mundane materiality, or, should small things still be forgotten? Material culture, micro-histories and the problem of scaleSara Pennell12 – The case of the missing footstool: reading the absent objectGlenn AdamsonIndex
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Taylor & Francis Inc The Meaning of History
Book SynopsisIn her brilliant new opening essay, Banerjee says of Berdyaev he was never more than a curious but unwelcome guest in history. He fearlessly engaged it on the level of ideas while remaining alien to its means and ends, gifted with an incurable longing for transcendence. Witness to two world wars, Berdyaev observed the destruction of established cultures in the traumatic birth of new systems. Arrested on political suspicion-by Czarist and then by Bolshevik policehe died in exile in France in 1948, carrying forth his intellectual work until the end.Berdyaev considered the philosophy of history as a field that laid the foundations of the Russian national consciousness. Its disputes were centered on distinctions between Slavophiles and Westerners, East and West. The Meaning of History was an early effort, following World War I, that attempted to revive this perspective. With the removal of Communism as a ruling system in Russia, that nation returned to an elaboration of Table of ContentsI: On The Essence of the Historical: The Meaning of Tradition; II: On The Nature of The Historical: The Metaphysical and The Historical; III: Of Celestial History: God and Man; IV: Of Celestial History: Time and Eternity; V: The Destiny of The Jews; VI: Christianity and History; VII: The Renaissance and Humanism; VIII: The End of The Renaissance and The Crisis of Humanism: The Advent of The Machine; IX: The End of The Renaissance and The Crisis of Humanism: The Disintegration of The Human Image; X: The Doctrine of Progress and The Goal of History; Epilogue
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Cambridge University Press The First Modern Society
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Cambridge University Press Religion and the Rise of Historicism
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Cambridge University Press The Historian and Character
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Cambridge University Press Rationalities in History A Weberian Essay in Comparison
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Cambridge University Press Poverty Knowledge in South Africa
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Cambridge University Press Rationalities in History A Weberian Essay in Comparison
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Cambridge University Press Art and History
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Cambridge University Press Vico
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Cambridge University Press Politics Theology and History
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Cambridge University Press Plausible Worlds
Book SynopsisThis widely acclaimed account of the role of counterfactuals in explanation deploys extended examples from both history and modern times. Its conclusions cast doubt on existing assumptions about the nature and place of theory, and indeed of the possibility of knowledge itself, in the human sciences.Trade Review'Hawthorn's Plausible Worlds is not only a good read, filled with all sorts of fascinating information, but a book that raises very large and interesting questions about the nature of explanation in the human sciences. I found his answers to the questions persuasive.' Richard Rorty'This volume is a marvelously stimulating and thought provoking work. It ought to be on the reading lists of advanced courses on both the theory and the methodology of history writing.' Allan Megill, The American Historical ReviewTable of Contents1. Counterfactuals, explanation and understanding; 2. Plague and fertility in early modern Europe; 3. The United States in South Korea; 4. Duccio's painting; 5. Explanation, understanding and theory.
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Cambridge University Press Archaeology and the Senses Human Experience
Book SynopsisThis book is an exciting new look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and offers an argument for how the discipline can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience. Yannis Hamilakis shows how, despite its intensely physical engagement with the material traces of the past, archaeology has mostly neglected multi-sensory experience, instead prioritising isolated vision and relying on the Western hierarchy of the five senses. In place of this limited view of experience, Hamilakis proposes a sensorial archaeology that can unearth the lost, suppressed, and forgotten sensory and affective modalities of humans. Using Bronze Age Crete as a case study, Hamilakis shows how sensorial memory can help us rethink questions ranging from the production of ancestral heritage to large-scale social change, and the cultural significance of monuments. Hamilakis points the way to reconstituting archaeology as a sensorial and affective multi-temporal practice.Trade Review'This book goes far beyond a study of archaeology, the past, and the traditional senses of the modern Western world. It presents an innovative strategy that, through a broad approach to a sensorially inspired archaeology, enables the past to be written as a rich and affective palimpsest, while maintaining the standards and rigors of archaeological investigation.' Ruth Tringham, University of California, Berkeley'This is an extremely well-researched book which draws heavily on philosophical, historical, and anthropological thinking but embeds it excellently within the relevant archaeological literature. It should be attractive to all students and academics who wish to challenge the conventions of archaeological interpretation - it forms an important statement that future archaeologists may in time regard as a classic.' Paul Rainbird, University of Bristol'Richly evocative, theoretically innovative, and written by a leading figure in the field, Archaeology and the Senses opens up new terrain in the anthropology of the senses. The accessibility of this book will make it a touchstone for scholars and students interested in new approaches to the interpretation of material objects.' David Sutton, Southern Illinois University'… a valuable study of cultural thinking - and a very enjoyable one to read at the same time … [Hamilakis] produces a fact-based, culturally sensitive and theoretically subtle reading which, although at first might not seem groundbreaking, is in fact exactly that.' Dimitris Plantzos, Historein'Despite the complex philosophical and historical analysis in the first half of the book, it is an accessible work that does not require specialist knowledge to decipher, something the author should be proud of.' Kay Armstrong, Antike Welt'Anyone familiar with Hamilakis' output will recognise recurrent themes in this book: memory, personhood, commensality, reflexivity, politics and, of course, the senses. Pulling these topics together, the book represents a significant statement by one of the leading thinkers within archaeology.' Jo Day, AntiquityTable of Contents1. Demolishing the museum of sensory ab/sense; 2. Archaeology, modernity, and the senses; 3. Recapturing sensorial and affective experience; 4. Senses, materiality, time: a new ontology; 5. Sensorial necro-politics: the mortuary mnemoscapes of Bronze Age Crete; 6. Why 'palaces'? Senses, memory, and the 'palatial' phenomenon in Bronze Age Crete; 7. From corporeality to sensoriality, from things to flows.
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Cambridge University Press The Paths of History
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Cambridge University Press The Paths of History
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Cambridge University Press Religion and the Rise of Historicism
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Cambridge University Press Archaeology and the Senses
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Cambridge University Press The Past is a Foreign Country Revisited
Book SynopsisA quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture.Trade Review'Dazzling and wide-ranging … packed with vivid examples and a vast range of pithy quotations, and throughout expressed with verve and wit.' Robert Tombs, Evening Standard'The range is truly impressive and the understanding, indeed vision, at play in the presentation of past legacies makes for an enthralling read.' Standpoint'In giving a context to conservation work of any type, in providing insights into the ways the past is seen, has been seen, and how the past is analysed (and why), this book is invaluable. … This is a superb survey. Covering almost the whole field of what we as a species have made, good and bad, and how we deal with this making and its outputs (or indeed how we do not deal with them), this is a book of great range and richness and offers an intensely personal view that always informs and challenges. Lowenthal's sheer energy, his depth of coverage and his insights are accessible, fascinating and essential reading.' Graham Voce, News in Conversation: International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works'Reader-friendly, with a light touch and a sharp sense of irony and paradox. Moves with ease from the psychology of memory to school textbooks, science fiction, museums, forgeries, re-enactments, ephemera, apologies for actions taken long ago, the effects of ageing (on both artefacts and people), and, of course, heritage.' Peter Burke, History Today'A work of extraordinary breadth and depth by a scholar of stupendous erudition … essential reading for anyone interested in geography, history, and the nature of the human condition.' Alexander B. Murphy, AAG Review of Books'Magnificent book, indisputably a modern classic. Extraordinarily rich and endlessly fascinating meditation on the uses and abuses of the past in modern western culture … brilliant scholarship, sublimely elegant prose.' Michael Heffernan, AAG Review of Books'Of inestimable value to encounter and understand the world … Unrivalled scholarship, drawn from a lifetime of collecting and reflecting, upon a dizzying diversity of texts, comments and experiences of the past in the present … a great read.' David C. Harvey, AAG Review of Books'Master chronicler of our complexly shifting engagements with the past.' Dydia DeLyser, AAG Review of Books'An exemplary philosophical and historical guide on the increased importance of the Past … Evocative writing endowed with rigor, freshness and humor. Extraordinary power of synthesis, admirable wisdom and amazing lightness.' Luca Muscara, Revista Geográfica'Surely ranks among the best of the best.' Bruce Ryan, University of Cincinnati'A stunning work of scholarship, a staggering tour de force.' Stephen F. Brown, University of Ulster'Jaw-dropping interdisciplinarity and dazzling intellectual playfulness.' Simon Ditchfield, York UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Wanting the Past: 1. Nostalgia: dreams and nightmares; 2. Time travelling; 3. Benefits and burdens of the past; Part II. Disputing the Past: 4. Ancients vs moderns: tradition and innovation; 5. The look of age: aversion; 6. The look of age: affection; Part III. Knowing the Past: 7. Memory; 8. History; 9. Relics; Part IV. Remaking the Past: 10. Saving the past: preservation and replication; 11. Replacing the past: restoration and re-enactment; 12. Improving the past; Epilogue: the past in the present.
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Cambridge University Press The Theory and Philosophy of History
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Cambridge University Press A History of Political Science
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Cambridge University Press Pragmatism and Historical Representation
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Cambridge University Press The Fabric of Historical Time
Book SynopsisThis Element sketches a theory of historical time as based on a distinction between temporality and historicity. It pays special attention to the more-than-human temporalities of the Anthropocene, the technology-fueled historicities of runaway changes, and the conflicts in the fabric of historical time.Table of ContentsIntroduction: the fabric of historical time; 1. Modern historical time and its exhaustion; 2. A new multiplicity of historical times; 3. Conflicts in the fabric of historical time; 4. One fabric, many times: a resolution; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Confronting Evil in History
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Cambridge University Press Dealing with Dark Pasts
Book SynopsisSince the end of the Second World War, the political rationale to remember the past has shifted from previous focus on states'' victories, as these began commemorating their own historical crimes. This Element follows the rise of ''auto-critical memory'', or the politics of remembrance of a country''s own dark past. The Element explores the idea''s gestation in West Germany after the Second World War, its globalisation through initiatives of ''transitional justice'' in the 1990s, and present-day debates about how to remember the colonial past. It follows different case studies that span the European continent ? including Germany, France, Britain, Poland and Serbia ? and places these in a global context that traces the circulation of ideas of auto-critical memory. Ultimately, as it follows the emergence of demands for social and racial justice, the Element questions the usefulness of memory to achieve the goals many political actors ascribe to it.
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Cambridge University Press The Early Modern in South Asia
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Cambridge University Press History in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Cambridge University Press Time History and Political Thought
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Cambridge University Press Clarence Streit and TwentiethCentury American Internationalism
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Cambridge University Press Hegel and the Representative Constitution
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Cambridge University Press Our Urban Planet in Theory and History
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Cambridge University Press Mooring the Global Archive
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Cambridge University Press Mobile Manuscripts
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Cambridge University Press Rethinking Global History
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Cambridge University Press Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations
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Cambridge University Press Intellectual History and the Problem of
Book SynopsisHow does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? This ambitious study reassesses the main tenets of Intellectual History, offering a new framework for understanding past systems of knowledge from the 17th century onwards.
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Cambridge University Press Plural Pasts
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Cambridge University Press Writing the History of Global Slavery
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Cambridge University Press What Is a Classic in History
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Cambridge University Press Hiroshima and the Historians
Book SynopsisThe decision to use atomic bombs in 1945 was one of the most controversial in historical memory. In this thought-provoking analysis, Kenneth B. Pyle presents debates about this decision as a case study in the intricacy of the historian's craft, reminding readers of the value of historians in a free society.
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Cambridge University Press Hiroshima and the Historians
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Cambridge University Press Our Urban Planet in Theory and History
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Cambridge University Press Dealing with Dark Pasts
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Cambridge University Press Conceptualizing the History of the Present Time
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Cambridge University Press Teaching History in Higher Education
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Cambridge University Press Pragmatism and Historical Representation
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Cambridge University Press Knowledge and Narrative
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Cambridge University Press The History of Contingency and FutureOriented Thought
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