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Book SynopsisPresents overviews and approaches to the problems of world history. This book offers radical postmodern and postcolonial critiques of holism, identity, and Western scientific history in favor of a different kind of universalism. It is suitable for those interested in teaching history courses attuned to the global era in which we live.Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction: The Theory and Practice of World History 1 Philip Pomper Part 1 Mapping the Field 1 The Changing Shape of World History 21 William H. McNeill 2 Crossing Boundaries: Ecumenical, World, and Global History 41 Bruce Mazlish 3 Periodizing World History 53 William A. Green Part II Rethinking Structure, Agency, and Ideology 4 The World-System Perspective in the Construction of Economic History 69 Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod 5 Bringing Ideas and Agency Back In: Representation and the Comparative Approach to World History 81 Michael Adas 6 World Histories and the Construction of Collective Identities 105 S. N. Eisenstadt Part II Unbinding Identities 8 History’s Forgotten Doubles 159 Ashis Nandy 9 Identify in World History: A Postmodern Perspective 179 Lewis D. Wurgaft Part IV Charting Trajectories 10 World History, Cultural Relativism, and the Global Future 217 Theodore H. Von Laue Notes 235 Index 272

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Book SynopsisPresents overviews and approaches to the problems of world history. This book offers radical postmodern and postcolonial critiques of holism, identity, and Western scientific history in favor of a different kind of universalism. It is suitable for those interested in teaching history courses attuned to the global era in which we live.Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction: The Theory and Practice of World History 1 Philip Pomper Part 1 Mapping the Field 1 The Changing Shape of World History 21 William H. McNeill 2 Crossing Boundaries: Ecumenical, World, and Global History 41 Bruce Mazlish 3 Periodizing World History 53 William A. Green Part II Rethinking Structure, Agency, and Ideology 4 The World-System Perspective in the Construction of Economic History 69 Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod 5 Bringing Ideas and Agency Back In: Representation and the Comparative Approach to World History 81 Michael Adas 6 World Histories and the Construction of Collective Identities 105 S. N. Eisenstadt Part II Unbinding Identities 8 History’s Forgotten Doubles 159 Ashis Nandy 9 Identify in World History: A Postmodern Perspective 179 Lewis D. Wurgaft Part IV Charting Trajectories 10 World History, Cultural Relativism, and the Global Future 217 Theodore H. Von Laue Notes 235 Index 272

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Book SynopsisThis important book charts the development of philosophical thinking about history over the past 250 years, combining extracts from key texts with new explanatory and critical discussion. The book is designed to make the work of thinkers such as Hume, Herder, Hegel, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Foucault accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Western philosophy. An introductory section is followed by nine further chapters exploring contrasting schools of thought. The volume reveals the origins of contemporary trends in the discipline and relates wider philosophical reflections to the study of history itself. It also points to connections between philosophy of history and literary and cultural theory which have developed in recent decades.Trade Review"Philosophies of History will serve as a valuable introduction and point of reference to historians and history students who want to understand what the philosophers have been saying about their subject." Richard J. Evans, Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge "'Philosophy of History' is usually limited either to discussion of a narrow canon of historical speculators or to abstract conceptualizing, and it is useful to have a work, including both primary texts and commentary, that brings together both lines of interpretation." Donald R. Kelley, James Westfall Thompson Professor of History, Rutgers University "The primary purpose of this work is to serve as a sourcebook, and in this regard it is excellent. But perhaps its chief virtue is how well the documents are introduced. Graceful and succinct, it can serve as a guide not only to students beginning their study of the philosophy of history but to their instructors as well." Choice "The editors have provided a veritable quarry of potentially valuable source-material." History "This is a superb book for use in an upper-level history and theory course." History: Reviews of New BooksTable of Contents1. On Philosophizing about History. 2. Enlightenment. David Hume (1711-1776). Condoret, Marquis de (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicholas Caritat) (1743-1794). Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). 3. Classical Historicism. Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803). Wilhelm von Humbolt (1767-1835). Friedrick Scheiermacher. Georg Wilhelm. Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831). Leopold von Ranke. (1795-1886). 4. Positivism. Auguste Comte. (1798-1897). John Stewart Mill. (1806-1873). Henry Thomas Buckle. (1821-1862). 5. Suprahistory. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). S?ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855). Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). 6. Secular Historicism. Wilhelm Diltherly (1831-1911). Wilhelm Windelband (1848-1915). Henrich Rickert (1863-1936). Georg Simmel (1858-1918). Max Weber (1864-1920). 7. Hermeneutics. Edmund Husser. (1859-1938). Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). Hans Georg Gadamer (1900). Paul Ricoeur (1913-). 8. Kulturkritik. Karl Marx (1818-1883). Georg Luk?cs (1885-1971). Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). J?rgen Habermas (1929- ). 9. Narrativism. Cluade LUvi-Strauss. (1908- ). Roland Barthes (1915-1980). Hayden White (1928- ). Paul Ricoeur (1913- ). 10. Posthistory. Michel Foucault (1926-1984). Jean Baudrillard (1929- ). Francis Fukuyama (1952- ). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis text presents a coherent framework for the study of memory in past societies. It is a concise book explicitly designed to serve as an introduction to the central issues in the study of memory, authored by noted archaeologists working in a variety of contexts and geographic areas.Trade Review“In this exciting and interpretively timely volume, archaeology and social theory intersect to explore the materialization of memory. Drawing on diverse case studies, from historical and prehistoric contexts across the globe, contributors expand dimensions for critical understandings of ‘the past in the past.” Wendy Ashmore, University of California, Riverside “Memory is a locus of struggle over identity, authority, and power. This collection represents the first serious attempt in archaeology to examine this struggle. As such, it is a path-breaking volume that all archaeologists need to read and contemplate.” Randy McGuire, Binghamton University “The distinguished editors, an anthropological archaeologist and a Classical Greek archaeologist, have gathered a formidable team to explore memorizations over a vast span of time, space, and cultures, from the Old World to the New, and from prehistory right up to the present.” Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge "This is an excellent book which acheives what it sets out to do - to place memory more firmly on the research agenda of contemporary archaeology." Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 29, 2002-2004Table of ContentsPreface. Notes On Contributors. 1. Archaeologies Of Memory: An Introduction: Ruth M. Van Dyke And Susan E. Alcock (Colorado College; University Of Michigan). Part I: Memory Studies With Access To Texts:. 2. Echoes Of Empire: Vijayanagara And Historical Memory, Vijayanagara As Historical Memory: Carla M. Sinopoli (University Of Michigan). 3. Memory’s Materiality: Ancestral Presence, Commemorative Practice And Disjunctive Locales: Lynn Meskell (Columbia University). 4. Memory Tattered And Torn: Spolia In The Heartland Of Byzantine Hellenism: Amy Papalexandrou (Independent Scholar). 5. Glories Of The Past In The Past: Ritual Activities At Palatial Ruins In Early Iron Age Crete: Mieke Prent (University Of Amsterdam). 6. Concrete Memories: Fragments Of The Past In The Classic Maya Present (500-100 AD): Rosemary A. Joyce (University Of California, Berkeley). Part II: Memory Studies In Prehistory:. 7. Creating Memory In Prehistory: The Engraved Slate Plaques Of Southwest Iberia: Katina T. Lillios (Ripon College). 8. Memory, Mounds, And The Mississippian Argument Against Structure: Timothy R. Pauketat And Susan M. Alt (University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). 9. Memory And The Construction Of Chacoan Society: Ruth M. Van Dyke (Colorado College). Part III: Caveats And Commentaries:. 10. The Familiar Honeycomb: Byzantine Era Reuse Of Sicily’s Prehistoric Rock-Cut Tombs: Emma Blake (Stanford University). 11. The Translation Of Time: Richard Bradley (University Of Reading). Index.

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Book Synopsis* Serves as an accessible introduction to central issues in the study of memory, including authority and identity, and the role memory plays in their creation and transformation. * Presents a collection of newly commissioned essays that provide a coherent framework for the study of memory in past societies.Trade Review“In this exciting and interpretively timely volume, archaeology and social theory intersect to explore the materialization of memory. Drawing on diverse case studies, from historical and prehistoric contexts across the globe, contributors expand dimensions for critical understandings of ‘the past in the past.” Wendy Ashmore, University of California, Riverside “Memory is a locus of struggle over identity, authority, and power. This collection represents the first serious attempt in archaeology to examine this struggle. As such, it is a path-breaking volume that all archaeologists need to read and contemplate.” Randy McGuire, Binghamton University “The distinguished editors, an anthropological archaeologist and a Classical Greek archaeologist, have gathered a formidable team to explore memorizations over a vast span of time, space, and cultures, from the Old World to the New, and from prehistory right up to the present.” Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge "This is an excellent book which acheives what it sets out to do - to place memory more firmly on the research agenda of contemporary archaeology." Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 29, 2002-2004Table of ContentsPreface. Notes On Contributors. 1. Archaeologies Of Memory: An Introduction: Ruth M. Van Dyke And Susan E. Alcock (Colorado College; University Of Michigan). Part I: Memory Studies With Access To Texts:. 2. Echoes Of Empire: Vijayanagara And Historical Memory, Vijayanagara As Historical Memory: Carla M. Sinopoli (University Of Michigan). 3. Memory’s Materiality: Ancestral Presence, Commemorative Practice And Disjunctive Locales: Lynn Meskell (Columbia University). 4. Memory Tattered And Torn: Spolia In The Heartland Of Byzantine Hellenism: Amy Papalexandrou (Independent Scholar). 5. Glories Of The Past In The Past: Ritual Activities At Palatial Ruins In Early Iron Age Crete: Mieke Prent (University Of Amsterdam). 6. Concrete Memories: Fragments Of The Past In The Classic Maya Present (500-100 AD): Rosemary A. Joyce (University Of California, Berkeley). Part II: Memory Studies In Prehistory:. 7. Creating Memory In Prehistory: The Engraved Slate Plaques Of Southwest Iberia: Katina T. Lillios (Ripon College). 8. Memory, Mounds, And The Mississippian Argument Against Structure: Timothy R. Pauketat And Susan M. Alt (University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). 9. Memory And The Construction Of Chacoan Society: Ruth M. Van Dyke (Colorado College). Part III: Caveats And Commentaries:. 10. The Familiar Honeycomb: Byzantine Era Reuse Of Sicily’s Prehistoric Rock-Cut Tombs: Emma Blake (Stanford University). 11. The Translation Of Time: Richard Bradley (University Of Reading). Index.

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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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Book SynopsisThis unorthodox scholarly work dissects the ghosts of history in order to analyze how the pastboth recent and distanthaunts posterity, and in what ways the present disfigures the image of times gone by. The book presents a novel history of Communism from the perspective of its collapse, and inspects the world beyond the Fall in the distorting mirror of its imagined prehistory. Using a series of strange and darkly ironic stories, the subsequent chapters provide a close exploration of some of the essential objects of historical study: the name, the date, the dead, the relic, the pantheon, the court, the underworld, and the underground. The tension between vast distances, both in space and time, that Retroactive Justice covers, and the extremely focused analyses, provide an unexpected experience of writing and rewriting, visioning and revisioning history.Trade Review"The book...examines key moments in 20th-century Hungarian history from oblique angles; how politically sensitive exhumations pluck the strings of contemporary nationalism; the significance of the banishment and revival of national holidays....One extraordinary chapter uses the creation of a 'Pantheon of the Working-Class Movement' in Budapest's Kerepesi Cemetery to write an intricately wrought history of political burials in Hungary and elsewhere." -- Chronicle of Higher Education"This is a beautifully written book....Rev is remarkable for his capacity somehow to reconcile his own history with the analytical detachment of a scholar of great brilliance." -- London Review of Books"[Rev's] book is a superb introduction to the problems one encounters when approaching the extraordinarily complicated recent history of Hungary and Eastern Europe....History recovers a calling in this marvelous book, which deserves an audience far beyond area specialists." -- American Historical Review"The hope is...that the readership of Retroactive Justice will acknowledge that it addresses an important lacuna in Western academic studies of the communist era in central eastern Europe, and as such it not only provides new knowledge about that era, but, more importantly, challenges conventional and linear perceptions of historical events." -- Canadian Journal of History"Retroactive Justice is a collection of extraordinarily intelligent and profound studies about Hungarian society and its struggles to establish a comforting relationship with its twentieth-century past." -- Austrian History YearbookTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc2:Introduction 000 1. Parallel Autopsies 000 2. The Necronym 000 3. A Pantheon 000 4. Holy Days 000 5. A Rule of Law 000 6. Underground 000 7. Transition 000 @toc4:Index 000

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Book SynopsisWhy are we interested in history at all? Why do we feel the need to distinguish between past and present? In this book, the author argues that the past originates from an experience of rupture separating past and present. Think of the radical rupture with Europe''s past that was effected by the French and the Industrial Revolutions. Sublime Historical Experience investigates how the notion of sublime historical experience complicates and challenges existing conceptions of language, truth, and knowledge. These experiences of rupture are paradoxical since they involve both the separation of past and present and, at the same time, the effort to overcome this separation in terms of historical knowledge. The experience unites feelings of loss/pain with those of love/satisfaction, and thus is in agreement with how sublime experience is ordinarily defined. The experience is also precognitive since it precedes (the possibility of) historical knowledge. As such it is a challenge to trTable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments xxx Preface xxx Introduction: Experience in History and in Philosophy 1 1 Linguistic transcendentalism in extremis: The case of Richard Rorty 2 From language to experience 3 Huizinga on historical experience 4 Fragments of a history of historical experience 5 Gadamer and historical experience 6 (Pragmatist) aesthetic experience and historical experience 7 Subjective historical experience: the past as elegy 8 Sublime historical experience Epilogue: Rousseau and Holderlin Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWhy are we interested in history at all? Why do we feel the need to distinguish between past and present? This book investigates how the notion of sublime historical experience complicates and challenges existing conceptions of language, truth, and knowledge.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments xxx Preface xxx Introduction: Experience in History and in Philosophy 1 1 Linguistic transcendentalism in extremis: The case of Richard Rorty 2 From language to experience 3 Huizinga on historical experience 4 Fragments of a history of historical experience 5 Gadamer and historical experience 6 (Pragmatist) aesthetic experience and historical experience 7 Subjective historical experience: the past as elegy 8 Sublime historical experience Epilogue: Rousseau and Holderlin Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Experience of History is a lively and passionate introduction to the field that encourages students to seek and appreciate history inside the classroom and beyond.Table of ContentsPreface viii 1 Introduction 1 We are All Part of the Evidence 4 A Personal Example 6 2 The Historian not the History 12 Ideological History 14 Ethnic or National History 17 Distant Voices 18 Historical Style or Genre 20 The Older Historian 21 History by Non]Historians 23 Historical Jargon 25 History in Translation 26 3 If not the Historian, then Certainly the Evidence 28 The Nature of Evidence 28 Taxation Records 30 Court or Legal Documents 32 Eye]Witness Evidence 33 Using Evidence Requires Skill and Experience 35 Drawings as Evidence 36 Photographs as Evidence 37 Aural Evidence 38 Missing or Negative Evidence 39 Conclusion 45 4 The Periods and Divisions of History 46 Historical Periodization: History as Chunks of Time 46 The Example of the Middle Ages 47 Historical Periods Defined by Dynamic Ideas 49 Historical Periods Defined by Great Men or Women 54 Historical Periods Defined by Specific Years or Centuries 56 The Study of History through Geographical Categories 58 History as Chunks of Space 60 5 The Many and Various Forms of Historical Writing: The More Traditional Structures 64 The Chronicle 65 Political History 67 Diplomatic History 68 Legal History 69 Military History 69 Economic History 70 Subgenres of Economic History 73 Cultural and Intellectual History 73 Church or Confessional History 76 Jewish History 78 Histories of other Heterodox Religious Communities 79 6 The Many and Various Forms of Historical Writing: More Recent Categories of Historical Research 81 Social History 81 Prosopography 84 Gendered Histories 85 Women’s History 86 Feminist History 87 Gender History 88 Queer History 89 Children’s History 91 Transnational History 93 Diaspora Studies 94 Holocaust Studies 95 Genocide Studies 96 World History 97 Big History 98 7 The Writing of History 100 The Writing of History in the Past 101 The Deeds of Great Men 101 History as a Divine Plan 102 The Scientific Revolution, The Enlightenment, and the ‘Laws’ of History 103 History and Social Darwinism 104 Writing History After the Second World War 106 The Writing of History Today 107 An Example 108 Framing the Question 109 The State of the Question 110 Deciding on a Beginning and an End 111 The Contract with Your Audience 112 Structure 113 A Conclusion 114 Bibliographies and Notes 114 Maps and Illustrations 116 Envoi 117 8 Experiencing History 119 History Around Us 119 Museums and Art Galleries 125 History as Breaking News 128 Film and Television 129 Electronic Records, Social Media, and History 131 History from Evidence on the Internet 134 9 Conclusion 136 We are All Historians 136 We are All Disciples of Descartes 138 Some Final Words 140 Suggestions for Further Reading 142 Index 145

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Book SynopsisTracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction. Discusses the discovery of the ancient world through the medium of print in the long eighteenth century. Looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. Considers the interrelationship between architecture, antiquity and aesthetics in a pan-European context. Explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction. Table of ContentsIntroduction. Tracing Architecture: the aesthetics of antiquarianism (Dana Arnold and Stephen Bending). Monuments and Texts: Antiquarianism and the beauty of antiquity (Maria Grazia Lolla). Facts or Fragments? Visual histories in the age of mechanical reproduction (Dana Arnold). The Sources and Fortunes of Piranesi’s Archaeological Illustrations (Susan M. Dixon). Antiquity and Improvement in the National Landscape: the Buck’s views of antiquities 1726-42 (Andrew Kennedy). Data, Documentation and Display in Eighteenth-Century Investigations of Exeter Cathedral (Sam Smiles). Every Man is Naturally an Antiquarian: Francis Grose and polite antiquities (Stephen Bending). Voyage: Dominique-Vivant Denon and the transference of images of Egypt (Abigail Harrison Moore). Specimens of Antient Sculpture: Imperialism and the decline of art (Andrew Ballantyne). Index

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Book Synopsis* Surveys the evolution of historical thought in the Western World from biblical times to the present day. * Provides students with the background to contemporary historical debates and approaches. * Serves as a useful reference for researchers and teachers. * Includes chapters by 24 leading historians. .Trade Review"This companion is expansive in its subject and links with other disciplines, such as ancient history and the classics, anthropology, Biblical studies and theology… It covers many expected subjects, but also explores lesser-known areas of historical interest as well as the challenges to historical thought in the twenty-first century that will continue to make this companion a useful library resource." Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Contributors viii Acknowledgments xii Introduction: The Cultural History of Historical Thought Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza 1 Part I The Pre-modern Origins of Western Historical Thought 1 Historiography in Ancient Israel John Van Seters 15 2 Historical Thought in Ancient Greece Philip A. Stadter 35 3 Historical Thought in Ancient Rome J. E. Lendon 60 4 Historical Thought in Medieval Europe Gabrielle M. Spiegel 78 5 Historical Thought in the Renaissance Paula Findlen 99 Part II The Shaping of Modern Western Historical Thought 6 Historical Thought in the Era of the Enlightenment Johnson Kent Wright 123 7 German Historical Thought in the Age of Herder, Kant, and Hegel Harold Mah 143 8 German Historical Writing from Ranke to Weber: The Primacy of Politics Harry Liebersohn 166 9 National History in the Age of Michelet, Macaulay, and Bancroft Thomas N. Baker 185 10 Marxism and Historical Thought Walter L. Adamson 205 Part III Patterns in Twentieth-century Western Historical Thought 11 The Professionalization of Historical Studies and the Guiding Assumptions of Modern Historical Thought Georg G. Iggers 225 12 The History of Armed Power Peter Paret 243 13 Total History and Microhistory: The French and Italian Paradigms David A. Bell 262 14 Anthropology and the History of Culture William M. Reddy 277 15 The History of Science, Or, an Oxymoronic Theory of Relativistic Objectivity Ken Alder 297 16 Language, Literary Studies, and Historical Thought Susan A. Crane 319 17 Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Historical Thought Lynn Hunt 337 18 Redefining Historical Identities: Sexuality, Gender, and the Self Carolyn J. Dean 357 19 Historicizing Natural Environments: The Deep Roots of Environmental History Andrew C. Isenberg 372 Part IV Challenges to the Boundaries of Western Historical Thought 20 The New World History Jerry H. Bentley 393 21 Postcolonial History Prasenjit Duara 417 22 The Multicultural History of Nations Donna R. Gabaccia 432 23 New Technologies and Historical Knowledge James M. Murray 447 24 The Visual Media and Historical Knowledge Robert A. Rosenstone 466 Consolidated Bibliography 482 Index 495

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Book Synopsis In Reencounters,Crystal Mun-hye Baik examines what it means to live with and remember an ongoing war when its manifestations—hypervisible and deeply sensed—become everyday formations delinked from militarization. Contemplating beyond notions of inherited trauma and post memory, Baik offers the concept of reencounters to better track the Korean War’s illegible entanglements through an interdisciplinary archive of diasporic memory works that includes oral history projects, performances, and video installations rarely examined by Asian American studies scholars. Baik shows how Korean refugee migrations are repackaged into celebrated immigration narratives, how transnational adoptees are reclaimed by the South Korean state as welcomed “returnees,” and how militarized colonial outposts such as Jeju Island are recalibrated into desirable tourist destinations. Baik argues that as the works by Korean and Korean/American artists depict t

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Book Synopsis In Reencounters,Crystal Mun-hye Baik examines what it means to live with and remember an ongoing war when its manifestations—hypervisible and deeply sensed—become everyday formations delinked from militarization. Contemplating beyond notions of inherited trauma and post memory, Baik offers the concept of reencounters to better track the Korean War’s illegible entanglements through an interdisciplinary archive of diasporic memory works that includes oral history projects, performances, and video installations rarely examined by Asian American studies scholars. Baik shows how Korean refugee migrations are repackaged into celebrated immigration narratives, how transnational adoptees are reclaimed by the South Korean state as welcomed “returnees,” and how militarized colonial outposts such as Jeju Island are recalibrated into desirable tourist destinations. Baik argues that as the works by Korean and Korean/American artists depict t

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Book SynopsisBased on declassified materials from eight Ukrainian and Russian archives, Stalin''s Empire of Memory, offers a complex and vivid analysis of the politics of memory under Stalinism. Using the Ukrainian republic as a case study, Serhy Yekelchyk elucidates the intricate interaction between the Kremlin, non-Russian intellectuals, and their audiences.Yekelchyk posits that contemporary representations of the past reflected the USSR''s evolution into an empire with a complex hierarchy among its nations. In reality, he argues, the authorities never quite managed to control popular historical imagination or fully reconcile Russia''s ''glorious past'' with national mythologies of the non-Russian nationalities.Combining archival research with an innovative methodology that links scholarly and political texts with the literary works and artistic images, Stalin''s Empire of Memory presents a lucid, readable text that will become a must-have for students, academics, aTrade Review"Yekelchyk's account is a model of archival research and clear exposition." -- Timothy Snyder American Historical Review "By masterfully integrating theories of collective memory with archival research and by detailing the party's compromises with the past, Yekelchyk has produced a rich and thought-provoking assessment of the politics of memory in Soviet Ukraine." -- George O. Liber Journal of Modern History "Yekelchyk's investigation of the 'creation' of Soviet Ukraine is nothing less than an interdisciplinary tour de force that supplies fascinating insight into the party's accidental role in the formation of the USSR's successor states." -- David Brandenberger Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire "Of significant interest to the broader scholarly audience interested in problems of nationalism, colonialism, and imperialism, as well as to college students beginning to explore these issues." -- Denis Kozlov Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue canadienne des slavistes

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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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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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Book SynopsisDie zunehmende Skepsis in der 2. Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts gegenüber ganzheitlichen Konzepten von Subjekt und Geschichte (z.B. als "Ende der Geschichte" und als "Tod des Subjekts") ist in den vergangenen Jahren im Zuge der Wenden zur Anthropologie und zur Geschichte - insbesondere in den Kulturwissenschaften - einer neuen Aktualität beider Begriffe gewichen. Die internationalen Beiträge des Bandes skizzieren als erste übergreifende systematische Auseinandersetzung das durch neuere Subjektkonzeptionen und Geschichtsmodelle eröffnete theoretische Feld, in dem die Vielfältigkeit des Handelns von Subjekten in und mit der Geschichte deutlich wird. Aus der Perspektive von Philosophie, Geschichts-, Kunst-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft werden die Wechselverhältnisse sowie Denk- und Darstellungsweisen von Subjekten und Geschichte(n) auf ihre epistemischen, ästhetischen und handlungstheoretischen Konsequenzen hin untersucht. Der Band unterteilt sich in drei Sektionen "Subjekt und Geschichte im nachmetaphysischen Zeitalter", "Theorie und Geschichtsschreibung" sowie "Inszenierungen von Subjekt und Geschichte". Table of ContentsStefan Deines/Stephan Jaeger/Ansgar Nünning, Subjektivierung von Geschichte(n) - Historisierung von Subjekten. Ein Spannungsverhältnis im gegenwärtigen Theoriediskurs I. Subjekt und Geschichte im 'nachmetaphysischen' Zeitalter Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner, Karl Marx in der Kehre Heideggers Thomas R. Wolf, Leben in Geschichte(n). Zur Hermeneutik des historisch-narrativen Subjekts Stefan Deines, Über die Grenzen des Verfügbaren. Zu den Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten kritischer Handlungsfähigkeit Hans Herbert Kögler, Situierte Autonomie: Zur Wiederkehr des Subjekts nach Foucault Moritz Baßler, Das Subjekt als Abkürzung Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth, The Trouble With History II. Theorie und Geschichtsschreibung Stephan Jaeger, Geschichte als Wahrnehmungsprozeß. Ihr selbstreflexiver Vollzug in der Geschichtsschreibung Marian Füssel, Die Rückkehr des 'Subjekts' in der Kulturgeschichte. Beobachtungen aus praxeologischer Perspektive Helmut Galle, Das Subjekt angesichts des Äußersten. Zeugnisse von Holocaust-Opfern als Dokumente für die Widerständigkeit von Subjektivität Daniel Fulda, Hat Geschichte ein Geschlecht? Gegenderte Autorschaft im historischen Diskurs III. Inszenierungen von Subjekt und Geschichte in Kunst und Literatur Stephan Bann, Oscillations of the I. Academic Painting after the French Revolution (Louis Hersent, Léopold Robert, Paul Delaroche) Dorothee Kimmich, Charlie Chaplin und Siegfried Kracauer. Bemerkungen zum Verhältnis von Geschichte, Kunst und Kino Ansgar Nünning, Die Rückkehr des sinnstiftenden Subjekts. Selbstreflexive Inszenierungen von historisierten Subjekten und subjektivierten Geschichten in britischen und postkolonialen historischen Romanen der Gegenwart Sabine Kyora, Literarische Inszenierungen von Subjekt und Geschichte in den Zeiten der Postmoderne Silke Horstkotte, Literarische Subjektivität und die Figur des Transgenerationellen in Marcel Beyers Spione und Rachel Seifferts The Dark Room Marcel Beyer, Das wilde Tier im Kopf des Historikers

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Book SynopsisIn recent discussions, increasing attention has been focussed on the question of how knowledge and the interpretation of reality come about. This volume presents a collection of papers dealing with this topic from historiological, philosophical and theological perspectives. In this way, a dialogue is conducted which transcends the boundaries of specialist disciplines and places the problem in a broader humanities perspective.

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Book Synopsis Der spannungsreichen Beziehung zwischen dem Aufklärer aus Königsberg und seinem Kritiker und Nachfahren Nietzsche widmete sich im Kant-Jahr 2004 eine Internationale Konferenz der Deutschen Nietzsche-Gesellschaft. Die Beiträge zeichnen die Scheidewege, die Kant und Nietzsche in unterschiedliche Richtungen führen, aber auch ihre Verbindungslinien nach - mit Blick auf die von beiden Philosophen maßgeblich beeinflussten aktuellen Diskussionen zu Reichweite und Grenzen der Rationalität, zu Problemen der Ethik, der Ästhetik, der Natur- und Geschichtsphilosophie.

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Book SynopsisIhre Quellen erscheinen der Geschichtswissenschaft als Selbstverständlichkeit. Dieses Buch untersucht an Beispielen aus Österreich und der Schweiz, wie es im Lauf des 19. Jahrhunderts dazu kam. Wissenschaftliche Techniken, materielle Praktiken, Ordnungsverfahren und Redeweisen formten aus Dingen der Vergangenheit zentrale Erkenntnisgegenstände - eben historische Quellen. Daniela Saxer beleuchtet, wie sich an Editionen, Registern und Fotografien von Quellen soziale Konflikte entzündeten, und macht einen Wandel der Subjektpositionen und der Objektivitätsbildung sichtbar. Sie diskutiert, wie die Verallgemeinerung des Blicks auf die Quellen dazu beitrug, Wirkungsmacht und Fragerichtungen der professionellen Geschichtswissenschaft zu festigen.

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Book SynopsisThis book contains the papers delivered at sessions organised by the Genealogy and Local History Section at the annual conferences of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) between 2001 and 2005; many of these are updated versions of the original presentations. A wide range of significant issues and trends in historical and family research is covered. The authors, all experts in their own fields, address those engaged in delivering genealogy and local history services in libraries, archives and museums across the world. Moreover, they focus on the growing army of enthusiasts directly engaged in tracing their own ancestral and local history. Several papers give useful hints on how various resources can be used to further personal research. These include the exciting opportunities offered by the digitisation of primary resources and by the impact of the powerful new technology, among other things now on offer through DNA profiling.

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Book SynopsisCathal Nolan''s The Allure of Battle shows that while wars have shaped the history of the modern world, their outcomes are decided by many other factors. The book argues that major battles are not decisive to the outcome of wars; rather, wars depend on longer-term attrition in which the side that wins gradually and remorselessly overwhelms the other with larger arsenals and greater reserves of manpower. To illustrate his argument, Nolan draws on conflicts throughout the world and throughout history (aside from classical or medieval warfare, which, he argues, had greatly different characters from each other and from early modern and modern warfare). The Allure of Battle systematically examines a series of great battles, each described in the standard literature as the turning point of the war in which they occurred. It asks how they actually fit in the histories of those wars and military history more generally. In each case Nolan will show that even huge and important battles, which arTrade ReviewNolan exhibits an impressive depth of knowledge of his subject; his work is marked by stylish writing with extensive discourse on political and social as well as military issues * Russell K. Brown, The Journal of America's Military Past *The Allure of Battle provides new and fresh insights into war studies and offers several new and fresh perspectives to look at military history. This is a very well-researched book. Nolan's credentials on the subject are unmatched. It will change the way you have looked at military history up until now. It is a must-read for both students and experts of military history. * Washington Book Review *In the unusual The Allure of Battle, Cathal J. Nolan seeks to demolish how historians view war - and succeeds surprisingly well... I cannot remember reading anything in the last few years that has made me reconsider so many basic questions - What wins wars? What is the most illuminating way to relate military history? Most important, is our own military too focused on battles and insufficiently attentive to what is required to win wars? In other words, are our generals flailing because they try to substitute battlefield skill for strategic understanding? (I think they are.) Ultimately, Nolan is persuasive that too much attention has been paid to battles. * Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review *Nolan suggests that his book is not written for military historians but for the wider public, in part to alert the general reader to the distorted image of the decisiveness in battle. He is too modest: Everyone can benefit from what is a particularly fine history of war. * Ian F.W. Beckett, The Wall Street Journal *brilliant * National *Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS

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Book SynopsisA central motif of R. G. Collingwood''s philosophy of history is the idea that historical understanding requires a re-enactment of past experience. However, there have been sharp disagreements about the acceptability of this idea, and even its meaning. This book aims to advance the critical discussion in three ways: by analysing the idea itself further, concentrating especially on the contrast which Collingwood drew between it and scientific understanding; by exploring the limits of its applicability to what historians ordinarily consider their proper subject-matter; and by clarifying the relationship between it and some other key Collingwoodian ideas, such as the place of imagination in historical inquiry, the sense in which history deals with the individual, the essential perspectivity of historical judgement, and the importance of narrative and periodization in historical thinking. Professor Dray defends Collingwood against a good deal of recent criticism, while pointing to ways inTrade ReviewDray is a very careful writer, and his analysis of Collingwood's philosophy of history is unparalleled in its scope and in its balance. Dray is also a very clear writer, and the book is well organized ... this is a fine study, perhaps the single best account of the pertinent ideas of this century's most eminent philosopher of history. * Rex Martin, American Historical Review *It is something of an event then, to have his new work, the culmination of a lifetime of thought, appear in his retirement. As one would expect, it is a deeply considered book, lucidly written, and scrupulously fair to all parties. ... a sound and serious philosophical commentary, and anyone interested in either Collingwood or the philosophy of history should consider joining the dialogue and will learn much in the process. * Canadian Journal of History, April 1997 *Table of Contents1. History and Philosophy ; 2. Re-enactment and Understanding ; 3. Re-enactment and Laws ; 4. Intellect, Rationality, Feeling ; 5. The Physical and the Social ; 6. The Historical Imagination ; 7. The Ideality of History ; 8. The Perspectivity of History ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisOral history gives history back to the people in their own words. And in giving a past, it also helps them towards a future of their own making. Oral history and life stories help to create a truer picture of the past and the changing present, documenting the lives and feelings of all kinds of people, many otherwise hidden from history. It explores personal and family relationships and uncovers the secret cultures of work. It connects public and private experience, and it highlights the experiences of migrating between cultures. At the same time it can bring courage to the old, meaning to communities, and contact between generations. Sometimes it can offer a path for healing divided communities and those with traumatic memories. Without it the history and sociology of our time would be poor and narrow.In this fourth edition of his pioneering work, fully revised with Joanna Bornat, Paul Thompson challenges the accepted myths of historical scholarship. He discusses the reliability of oraTrade Review"[T]he book remains a key text. The updating, especially in providing new case studies, has been excellent. The methods from collecting through to presenting are thoughtful and thought-provoking. Above all else, Thompson, with Bornat and Abrams, has reinvigorated the case for oral history at an important juncture in the development of our discipline. It was in the end an exciting and worthwhile reunion."--Graham Smith, Oral History Review "No library collection that supports the work of oral historians, of social scientists employing the recorded interview, or of students and researchers seeking to assess methodology will be complete without this volume....Essential."--CHOICE "First published in 1978, The Voice of the Past was the pioneering, landmark book on oral history. Four decades later, this new edition showcases and examines the breathtaking energy, intellectual sophistication, and political impact of oral history today."--Alistair Thomson, Professor of History, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia "This newly updated edition of The Voice of the Past retains all the significance of this classic's earlier versions while adding valuable new sections and perspectives. While an emphasis on social justice remains at the fore, this fourth edition engages with other issues that oral historians have recently begun to explore as our methodology continues to evolve."--Mary Larson, former president, Oral History Association "An indispensable guide to every aspect of oral history, written and updated by two inspirational pioneers in this important field."--Steve Humphries, Director, Testimony Films, UK "What a delight to have a classic book not only reissued but thoroughly updated in a very inspiring way. It adds exciting new dimensions and perspectives to the expansive and interdisciplinary field of oral history."--Orvar Löfgren, Emeritus Professor of Ethnology, Lund University, Sweden "The Voice of the Past is a classic. It is a journey that gives you a 360* worldwide perspective of what oral history is and can be. It is also a very generous contribution that has encouraged the development of many different sorts of initiatives around the world."--Karen Worcman, Director, Museu da Pessoa, São Paulo "The Voice of the Past is a classic of unrivalled relevance in its field and beyond Thompson's book asserts with prodigious intelligence, in a language accessible to all, how we can escape the ghettos of fatalism only by listening to everyone's voices; how oral history is by far our greatest weapon against self-ignorance and the prejudice that we have developed in relation to ourselves as First Peoples. Thompson's work authoritatively confirms our intuition that not only our stories matter but that our memories are treasures and the plinth on which our identities, mode of governance, relation to the land and to the past will be re-established As any masterpiece, The Voice of the Past puts people at the heart of history and equips us daily, as Indigenous peoples, on the path of regaining self-knowledge, agency and a renewed desire to imagine what we want to become "--Pierrot Ross-Tremblay, Chair and Professor of Sociology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada "The Voice of the Past is the classic handbook for anyone who wants to explore oral history. This new edition brings it up to date with new ideas and new technologies, but it is the democratic generosity of the approach that will make the book enduringly attractive. If you read it, the next thing you will want to do is get your hands on a recording device and set out to discover real lives."--Catherine Merridale, author of Ivan's War "The Voice of the Past has become an institution in the field of oral history. With its new edition, it is updated, expanded and enriched to reflect on the growth and sophistication of the field itself. It is about both the method and the meaning of oral history. It offers answers to practical questions, discussions of theoretical issues and ethical dilemmas, reassurance and inspiration. An encyclopaedia, a guide, a challenge and a spur."--Daniela Koleva, St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia "The first edition of The Voice of the Past was groundbreaking book, immediately translated into Swedish and it became a must-read in Scandinavia, both inside and outside academia. This fourth expanded and updated edition again brings together knowledge and experience, and phenomenal curiosity, to show us how important oral history can be for us as researchers, citizens and human beings. This new edition ensures that The Voice of the Past it will continue to be the central work on oral history."--Annika Olsson & Malin Thor Tureby, Oral History in Sweden (OHIS) "The Voice of the Past is the classic text on the oral history, its history and method. This new edition has been substantially revised, updated and expanded including two newly written chapters capturing the global explosion of oral history activities in the past fifteen years as well as a new chapter by Lynn Abrams on oral history and theory. Carefully researched and clearly written, this revised edition remains a key resource for oral historians and life story researchers and community project workers throughout the world."--Xun Zhou, Lecturer in Modern History at the University Essex and author of Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962: An Oral History "The Voice of the Past is a testimony of the originality of the pioneers when Paul Thompson taught us the power of oral sources. This fourth edition adds the wisdom and experience of decades of research and analysis: it is a classic that transforms us in better historians."--Mercedes Vilanova, University of Barcelona, Founder-Editor of Historia y Fuente Oral "Paul Thompson is one of the great pioneers of oral history and The Voice of the Past is his classic text, serving us well for nearly forty years. It is just wonderful to see this engagingly updated and expanded fourth edition now being made available for a new worldwide generation of students and scholars. The book has, quite simply, become indispensible."--Ken Plummer, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex "In the history of oral history practices, Paul Thompson's book was and remains, a watershed moment. Moreover, with each new edition the book has been updated and re-orientated to engage with contemporary patterns of oral history work across the globe. The scope of the literature surveyed in the book is remarkable and will ensure that it remains an essential, highly readable, teaching text for oral history students. Most of all, the book provides compelling evidence of the level of intellectual maturity and depth that oral history has achieved and its significant contributions to the production of knowledge across disciplines, universities and publics."--Sean Field, University of Cape TownTable of ContentsPreface to the Fourth Edition 1. History and the Community 2. Historians and Oral History 3. Reaching Out: Other Cultures 4. Parallel Strands 5. Transforming Oral History through Theory 6. The Achievement of Oral History 7. Evidence 8. Memory and the Self 9. Projects 10. The Interview 11. After the Interview 12. Interpretation Appendix: Three Life-Story Interview Guides Notes Bibliography Websites Index

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Book SynopsisDavid Carr outlines a distinctively phenomenological approach to history. Rather than asking what history is or how we know history, a phenomenology of history inquires into history as a phenomenon and into the experience of the historical. How does history present itself to us, how does it enter our lives, and what are the forms of experience in which it does so? History is usually associated with social existence and its past, and so Carr probes the experience of the social world and of its temporality. Experience in this context connotes not just observation but also involvement and interaction: We experience history not just in the social world around us but also in our own engagement with it. For several decades, philosophers'' reflections on history have been dominated by two themes: representation and memory. Each is conceived as a relation to the past: representation can be of the past, and memory is by its nature of the past. On both of these accounts, history is separated byTrade Review...this is an excellent work, thought provoking and detailed. It is a significant contribution to debates and studies in the often-neglected area of philosophy of history. More than this the essay is, perhaps in passing, a brilliant introduction to phenomenology. * Chris Lawn, Philosophy in Review. *Readers will benefit from both Carr's discussion of these authors and his original arguments for the fecundity of a phenomenological approach to history ... Recommended. * Choice *... a powerful combination of phenomenological analysis and a history of ideas that provides insight into the genesis of the philosophical motivations for pursuing "phenomenological perspectives" in the philosophy of history A highly readable and erudite contribution to current and future debates in the philosophy of history, this book is a welcome contribution to both phenomenology and the philosophy of history * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online *... ambitious, lucidly presented. * Martin Jay, Journal of the Philosophy of History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: On the Phenomenology of History ; 1. The Phenomenological Question ; 2. Representation, Memory, Experience ; 3. Phenomenological Perspectives: an Outline ; Chapter I: The Varieties of Experience ; 1. On the Concept of Experience and its Curious Fate ; 2. Experience and Innocence: The Empiricists ; 3. Experience in Kant and Hegel ; 4. So Far: Three Concepts of Experience ; 5. Dilthey, Husserl and a New Word: Erlebnis ; 6. From Mysticism to Pragmatism: Buber, James, Dewey ; 7. Taking Stock Again: How Many Concepts of Experience? ; 8. Experience and Foundationalism ; 9. Summing Up: Four Concepts of Experience ; Chapter II: Experience and History ; 1. The Two Relevant Senses of Experience ; 2. Husserl on Temporality ; 3. Time and Experience ; 4. Intentionality ; 5. Objects, Events, World ; 6. Others and The Human World ; 7. Experience and Historicity ; 8. Being with Others ; 9. <"We>" and Community ; 10. Community and Historicity ; 11. History and Retrospection ; 12. The Experience of Historical Events ; 13. Levels of Temporality ; 14. The Significance of These Examples ; Chapter III: Experience and The Philosophy of History ; 1. Taking Stock ; 2. Experience, Representation, Memory ; 3. Narrative Representation ; 4. Experience and Memory ; 5. What Kind of Philosophy of History Is This? ; 6. The Epistemology of History ; 7. The Metaphysics of History ; Chapter IV: The Metaphysics of History and Its Critics ; 1. The Project of Re-reading the Philosophy of History ; 2. The Rise and Fall of the Classical Philosophy of History: ; The Standard View ; 3. Hegel and his Alleged Predecessors ; 4. Hegel's Lectures and Their Reception ; 5. Twentieth Century Reactions ; Chapter V: A Phenomenological Re-reading of the Classical Philosophy of History ; 1. Danto and <"Metaphysics of Everyday Life>" ; 2. Narrative and Everyday Life ; 3. Practical Narrative ; 4. Narrative and The Classical Philosophy of History ; 5. Narrative and The Social ; 6. The Project of Re-reading ; 7. Marx and Marxists ; 8. Hegel's Lectures Again ; 9. History and the Phenomenology of Spirit ; 10. Hegel as Reformer ; 11. Hegel and Beyond ; 12. Conclusion ; Chapter VI: Phenomenologists on History ; 1. The Emergence of Nineteenth Century Historicism ; 2. Historicism and Marxism ; 3. Husserl and Dilthey ; 4. Husserl's Response to Historicism ; 5. Husserl's Crisis and a Different View of History ; 6. Philosophy of History in the Crisis ; 7. Phenomenology and The Epistemology of History ; 8. Phenomenology and Historicity in the Crisis ; 9. Coda: French Phenomenology of History ; 10. Conclusion ; Chapter VII: Space, Time and History ; 1. Time Zones: Phenomenological Reflections on Cultural Time ; a. Space and Place, Home and Beyond ; b. Lived Space, Lived Time ; c. The Universal Now ; d. Time and The Other ; e. Local Time, East and West ; f. Conclusion: Cultural Time and the Contemporary World ; 2. Place and Time: On the Interplay of Historical Points of View ; a. Place ; b. The Reality of Others ; c. Time ; d. <"Virtual History>" ; e. Narrative ; f. Conclusion ; Chapter VIII: Experience, Narrative and Historical Knowledge ; 1. History, Fiction and Human Time ; a. Questioning the Distinction Between History and Fiction ; b. A Response ; c. Fiction and Falsehood ; d. Knowledge and Imagination ; e. Narrative and Reality ; f. An Example ; g. Conclusion ; 2. Narrative Explanation ; 3. Epistemology and Ontology of Narrative ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

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Book SynopsisJohn Lukacs asserts that now, even at the end of the modern age, our understanding of the universe is based on what we fallible human beings have imagined and defined in a historical continuum; it is religion that is the source of the highest form of knowledge.Trade Review"The author tackles weighty matters, but he is a consistently engaging writer, and some of his sly asides are among the best parts of the book." Michael Potemra, National Review "Lukacs is very much a voice worth listening to." Jeet Heer, National Post, Canada "Perhaps no historian has a better right to take stock of our times - and of the state of historical thinking - than Lukacs. A beautifully crafted and unforgettable book, one that every serious historian should read." Choice "The book is, at the same time, provocative and inviting, wild and disciplined, adventurous and carefully reasoned. It is hard to imagine a reader coming away from it without thinking differently about things that really matter." First Things

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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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Book SynopsisLaura Lee Downs is Director of Studies at the Centre de Recherches Historiques, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is the author of France at War (Berg, 2000), Childhood in the Promised Land (Duke University Press, 2003) and Why France? (Cornell University Press, 2007).Trade ReviewDowns puts the entire range of women's and gender history into context, showing how it challenges the conventional pieties, opens up new veins of research, and transforms our understanding of every aspect of history. Her command of the literature is simply astounding and her work is sure to be seen as a landmark in the development of the field of history in the broadest sense. -- Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA (about the first edition) Ingenuity and perspicuity shine through Laura Lee Downs' superb distillation and analysis of women's and gender history. To understand accomplishments and changes in the field, put this book at the top of your list. -- Nancy F. Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University (about the first edition) This fills an important gap in the range of books available on historiography. I envisage that the 'case-study' approach in chapters will be useful to students (i.e hopefully will encourage them to read the texts featured). -- Dr Anne Logan, University of Kent (about the first edition) 20051014Table of ContentsIntroduction; Before the second wave: scholarship on women from the early twentieth century into the 1960s; Second-wave feminism and the rediscovery of women's history, 1968-1975; Feminist historians and the 'new' social history: the case of England, 1968-1995; Is female to male as nature is to culture? Feminist anthropology and the search for a key to all misogynist mythologies; Beyond separate spheres: from women's history to gender history; Gender history, cultural history and the history of masculinity; Gender, poststructuralism and the 'cultural/linguistic turn' in history; Gender and history in a postcolonial world; From separate spheres to the public sphere: gender and the sexual politics of citizenship; Gender and history in a post-poststructuralist world; Conclusion: women's and gender history as a work in progress

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how the Iberian empires of the early modern period were structured around population control, segregation, and racial policies rather than nation-state characteristics.Covering a variety of topics, Schaub analyses the idea that the political regimes of the 15th-18th centuries did not have the characteristics of contemporary nation-states. It shows that control over populations, their description and the implementation of segregation played a central role in the structuring of these political systems. The focus is on the two Iberian monarchies in the early modern period. The reader will find both theoretical propositions of wide relevance and empirical examples as case studies. There are detailed explanations of the political regimes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, based on the example of the union of the crowns of Spain and Portugal. The book presents methods of managing the diversity of populations within imperial structures. It shows that the notion of the stain (macula) played an important role in disqualifying individuals and social groups. Finally, it draws on these empirical case studies to offer a general reflection on the history of race and colonisation. In short, the book shows that it is impossible to understand the political structures of the Ancien RÃgime without giving a central role to the policies of race.Political Authority, Otherness, and Race in Iberian Early Modern Societies will be of value to students and researchers who wish to gain a better understanding of the empires of the early modern period.

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Book SynopsisIn the first major engagement with Aberdeenshireâs rural society since Carterâs The Poor Manâs Country of 1979, Riddellâs study of Northeast Scotland encourages readers to consider the vast potential held by Digital Genealogy for second-wave Digital Humanities.Often overlooked in contemporary historical scholarship, this study carves out a place for Digital Genealogy in academia. Riddell constructs a new lens to examine rural society in the nineteenth century, through which he extends and challenges Carterâs analysis. In recovering a breadth of people and their social networks through prosopographical data, the book reveals the agency of individuals who left minimal records. Riddell not only puts forward a fresh perspective on the social structures of Scotlandâs north-eastern society but informs a discussion on the nature of Britishness both within concepts of a developed western civilisation and beyond them.This book will interest a broad readership; Scottish history enthusiasts, pursuers of Digital Genealogy and, scholars and students of the Digital Humanities will all find value in this study.

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook is the first systematic effort to map the fast-growing phenomenon of memory activism and to delineate a new field of research that lies at the intersection of memory and social movement studies.From Charlottesville to Cape Town, from Santiago to Sydney, we have recently witnessed protesters demanding that symbols of racist or colonial pasts be dismantled and that we talk about histories that have long been silenced. But such events are only the most visible instances of grassroots efforts to influence the meaning of the past in the present. Made up of more than 80 chapters that encapsulate the rich diversity of scholarship and practice of memory activism by assembling different disciplinary traditions, methodological approaches, and empirical evidence from across the globe, this Handbook establishes important questions and their theoretical implications arising from the social, political, and economic reality of memory activism.Memory ac

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Book SynopsisFour stimulating essays: "The Sportive Origin of the State," "Unity and Diversity of Europe," "Man the Technician," and "History as a System." The essays by Ortega in this volume were originally published under the title Toward a Philosophy of History.

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Book SynopsisMiller uses his original reinterpretation of the history of philosophy to examine the philosophy of history. He criticises all attempts to interpret history on premises not themselves historical.

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Book SynopsisPractising historians claim that their accounts of the past are something other than fiction, myth or propaganda. Yet there are significant challenges to this view, most notably from postmodernism. In Historical Theory, a prominent historian develops a highly original argument that evaluates the diversity of approaches to history and points to a constructive way forward.Mary Fulbrook argues that all historians face key theoretical questions, and that an emphasis on the facts alone is not enough. Against postmodernism, she argures that historical narratives are not simply inventions imposed on the past, and that some answers to historical questions are more plausible or adequate than others. Illustrated with numerous substantive examples and its focus is always on the most central theoretical issues and on real strategies for bridging the gap between the traces of the past and the interpretations of the present. Historical Theory is essential and enlightening reading for all historians and their students.Trade Review'Fulbrook's undogmatic approach certainly merits a close reading. The book soundly explores some of the main topics andproblems of historical analyses ... her comprehensive book is a sound and useful overview, even for students, who seek for a basic understanding of some of the major issues of historical theory.' - H'Mary Fulbrook's Historical Theory is a... thought-provoking intervention...' - Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 40, No. 1'Fulbrook's undogmatic approach certainly merits a close reading. The book soundly explores some of the main topics andproblems of historical analyses ... her comprehensive book is a sound and useful overview, even for students, who seek for a basic understanding of some of the major issues of historical theory.' - HTable of ContentsPreface, PART I Interpretations: Approaches to history, PART II Investigations: Routes from the present to the past, PART III Representations: The past in the present, Notes, Select bibliography, Index

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Book SynopsisIn this original study of witchcraft, Gibson explores the stories told by and about witches and their 'victims' through trial records, early news books, pamphlets and fascinating personal accounts. The author discusses the issues surrounding the interpretation of original historical sources and demonstrates that their representations of witchcraft are far from straight forward or reliable. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book sheds new light on early modern people's responses to witches and on the sometimes bizarre flexibility of the human imagination.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part 1 Records; Chapter 1 Ghost-writers—dialogue, interrogation and the production of the records of witchcraft; Chapter 2 Witchcraft trials and a methodology for reading them; Chapter 3 Deconstructing generic stories; Part 2 Pamphlets; Chapter 4 ‘Necessary’ and ‘triviall’ pamphlets; Chapter 5 Prefaces; Chapter 6 An Open Conclusion, or ‘Where do we go from here?’;

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Book SynopsisThe work of Herodotos of Halikarnassos, âthe father of historyâ, differs in many ways from that of modern historians, and it poses special problems to the student. Herodotosâ history of the Persian Wars, written in the second half of the fifth century BC, was both the first attempt at a comprehensive history and the first lengthy prose narrative in the Western cultural tradition. There was an almost total lack of written historical evidence in Greece at the time, and the audiences who paid to hear Herodotosâ lectures also expected historical dramatizations, and enjoyed descriptive material and anecdotes that today would be relegated to notes.In Herodotus the Historian, first published in 1985, K.H. Waters offers a comprehensive introduction to Herodotusâ background, aims, and methods. In a lively, informative style, this work offers a level-headed approach to an historian who has excited some extreme reactions and incited controversy among modern readers.Table of ContentsForeword; Abbreviations; ‘Life’ of Herodotus 1. Introduction 2. The Intellectual Background 3. The Education of a Historian 4. Selection of Subject-Matter 5. Structure of the History 6. The Herodotean Narrative 7. Sources of Information 8. Religious and Moral Attitudes 9. Herodotean Prejudices 10. The Importance of Individuals: Characterisation 11. Strengths and Weaknesses 12. The Writer and the Historian; Select Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisDisplaced Things in Museums and Beyond looks anew at the lives, effects and possibilities of things. Starting from the perspectives of things themselves, it outlines a particular, displacement approach to the museum, anthropology and material culture.The book explores the ways in which the objects are experienced in their present, displaced settings, and the implications and potentialities they carry. It offers insights into matters of difference and the hope that may be offered by transformative encounters between persons and things. Drawing on anthropological studies of ritual to conceptualise and examine displacement and its implications and possibilities, Dudley develops her arguments through exploration of displaced objects now in museums and dislocated or exiled from their prior geographical, historical, cultural, intellectual and personal contexts. The bookâs approach and conclusions are relevant far beyond the museum, showing that even in the most difficult of circumstances there is agency, distinction and dignity in the choices and impacts that are made, and that things and places as well as people have efficacy and potency in those choices. In Displaced Things, displacement emerges as fundamental to understanding the lives of things and their relationships with human beings, and the places, however defined, that they make and pass within. The book will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of museums, heritage, anthropology, culture and history.Table of ContentsPrologue; Part I Departures; Chapter 1 Displaced things; Chapter 2 Separating things; Part II Liminal things; Chapter 3 Representational things; Chapter 4 Subjunctive things; Chapter 5 Hopeful things;

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Book SynopsisIntended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these essays owe much to his influence. There are also four appreciations by friends and colleagues from Oxford and Princeton and a little-known autobiographical piece by Lawrence Stone himself.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Prologue: Lawrence Stone - as seen by others; 1. The myth and the man Julian Mitchell; 2. The enfant terrible? C. S. L. Davies; 3. 'Il Magnifico' Miriam Slater; 4. The eminence rouge? John M. Murrin; Part I. The Crown, The Aristocracy and The Gentry: 5. Lineage and kin in the sixteenth-century aristocracy: some comparative evidence on England and Germany Judith J. Hurwich; 6. Public ceremony and royal charisma: the English royal gentry in London, 1485–1642 R. M. Smuts; 7. County governance and elite withdrawal in Norfolk, 1660–1720 James M. Rosenheim; 8. The last Hanoverian sovereign?: the Victorian monarchy in historical perspective, 1688–1988 David Cannadine; 9. The gentrification of Victorian and Edwardian industrialists Richard Trainor; Part II. Power and Social Relations: 10. Poverty and progress in early modern England A. L. Beier; 11. Ambiguity and contradiction in 'the rise of professionalism': the English clergy, 1570–1730 Michael Hawkins; 12. Bourgeois revolution and transition to capitalism Robert Brenner; 13. Crowds, carnival and the state in English executions, 1604–1868 Thomas W. Laqueur; 14. Interpersonal conflict and social tension: civil litigation in England, 1640–1830 C. W. Brooks; 15. Church and state allied: the failure of parliamentary reform of the universities, 1688–1800 John Gascoigne; Part III. Urban Society and Social Change: 16. Resistance to change: the political elites of provincial towns during the English Revolution Roger Howell, Jr; 17. The London Wings and the Exclusion Crisis reconsidered Gary S. De Krey; 18. Cultural life in the provinces: Leeds and York, 1720–1820 J. Jefferson Looney; 19. The dynamics of class formation in nineteenth-century Bradford Theodore Koditschek; 20. The community perspective in family history: the Potteries during the nineteenth century Marguerite Dupree; Epilogue; Appendix; Index.

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Book SynopsisConcentrating upon the meeting of German theologian W. M. L. de Wette and Swiss-German historian Jacob Burckhardt, this book demonstrates the centrality of theological concerns and forms of knowledge in the emergence of modern, secular historical consciousness.Trade Review"Some readers may be more interested in Howard's contribution to theoretical arguments about the nature of secularity. Others may be drawn more by the power of his narrative. Both sorts will be richly rewarded." First Things"Burckhardt emerges...as a serious interlocutor who can illuminate the content of contemporary experience and help clarify the implications of current historicist perspectives... It is a striking example...of how the reconstruction of historical cultural contexts should not bury the dead in the past worlds but allow them to speak in ours." John E. Toes, Central European HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction: History, Theology, and Modernity; 1. Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette: enlightenment, romanticism and biblical criticism; 2. De Wette and Schleiermacher at Berlin (1810–1819): politics, history, and the post-enlightenment transformation of theology; 3. De Wette, D. F. Strauss, and the New Christusbild; 4. Basel, Burckhardt, and de Wette; 5. History without centaurs; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays and articles by Dom David Knowles was presented to him by his colleagues, friends and pupils on his retirement from the Regius Chair of Modern History at Cambridge in the summer of 1963.Table of ContentsFrontispiece: Dom David Knowles, from a photograph by Edward Leigh; Subscribers' dedication; Editor's note; Curriculum Vitae W. A. Pantin; List of abbreviations; 1. The historian and character; 2. The humanism of the twelfth century; 3. St Bernard of Clairvaux: 1090–1153; 4. Cistercians and Cluniacs: the controversy between St Bernard and Peter the Venerable; 5. The case of St William of York; 6. Archbishop Thomas Becket: a character study; 7. The censured opinions of Uthred of Boldon; 8. The last abbot of Wigmore; 9. The monastic buildings of England; 10. Jean Mabillon; 11. Cardinal Gasquet as an historian; 12. Edward Cuthbert Butler: 1858–1934; A bibliography of the writings of Dom David Knowles; Index.

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