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Open University Press Historical Research in Educational Settings
Book Synopsis* What is historical research in education?* How can researchers get started in this area?* Why does this field offer a common project for historians, educationists, and researchers across the social sciences?This book explores how to set about historical research in education. The first general guide of its kind for fifty years, the book locates this field in relation to changes in educational research, historical research, and a wide range of social sciences. It offers a theoretical guide to the rationales and problems of the field as well as to current opportunities for research. It also gives practical advice for getting started and for suitable research methods in different kinds of projects, and in doing so draws critically on extensive international literature. It includes detailed case studies on the following topics in historical research: Curriculum and Classrooms, Foucauldian Interpretations, the 'Alternative Road', Literacy in the Nineteenth Century,Trade Review"I Shall put this valuable study into the hands of any of my students writing on historical topics in education, since it is an intelligent, scholarly and eminently sensible introduction to the kind of methodological issues it is actually helpful to address - David PhillipsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsGlossary of termsGetting startedWhat the textbooks say and what they don'tHistory or education?The challenge of the social sciencesUsing published sourcesMethodological issuesDesigning and carrying out a research projectReferencesIndex.
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Liberty Fund Inc The Making of Tocquevilles Democracy In America
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Liberty Fund Inc Making of Tocquevilles Democracy in America 2nd
Book SynopsisIt is impossible to fully understand the American experience apart from Alexis de Tocqueville''s Democracy in America. Moreover, it is impossible fully to appreciate Tocqueville by assuming that he brought to his visitation to America, or to the writing of his great work, a fixed philosophical doctrine. James T. Schleifer documents where, when, and under what influences Tocqueville wrote different sections of his work. In doing so, Schleifer discloses the mental processes through which Tocqueville passed in reflecting on his experiences in America and transforming these reflections into the most original and revealing book ever written about Americans. For the first time the evolution of a number of Tocqueville''s central themes - democracy, individualism, centralisation, despotism - emerges into clear relief. As Russell B. Nye has observed, Schleifer''s study is a model of intellectual history, an account of the intertwining of a man, a set of ideas, and the final product, a book. The
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Cambridge University Press The Holocaust and the Revival of Psychological History
Book SynopsisWhy did men and women in one of the best educated countries in the Western world set out to get rid of Jews? In this book, Judith M. Hughes focuses on how historians' efforts to grapple anew with matters of actors' meanings, intentions, and purposes have prompted a return to psychoanalytically informed ways of thinking. Hughes makes her case with fine-grained analyses of books by Hugh Trevor-Roper, Ian Kershaw, Daniel Goldhagen, Saul FriedlÃnder, Christopher Browning, Jan Gross, Hannah Arendt and Gitta Sereny. All of the authors pose psychological questions; the more astute among them shed fresh light on the Holocaust - without making the past any less disturbing.Trade Review'Elegant and accessible, Judith M. Hughes's sober discussion probes the inner lives of Holocaust perpetrators through the lens of widely read researchers. Her book is a reminder of how varied and challenging have been responses to one of the most unsettling questions of our time: 'how could they do it?'' Michael R. Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto'In this gracefully written and quite absorbing review of the historiography of the Holocaust, Hughes clarifies the psychological questions posed implicitly or explicitly by the historians. Along the way she has much of interest to say about the personalities of both the perpetrators and their chroniclers.' Timothy Snyder, Bird White Housum Professor of History, Yale University'The historian and psychoanalyst Judith Hughes has produced a book that will allow nonspecialists to return to past debates on the Holocaust. Her volume examines prominent figures, including Adolf Hitler, Adolf Eichmann and Albert Speer; their biographers, including Ian Kershaw, Hannah Arendt and Gita Sereny; and controversies surrounding German and Polish complicity in the persecution of the Jews, including Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners and Jan Gross's Neighbors.' Anthony D. Kauders, German History'… a thought-provoking narrative about the way in which psychological questions have emerged in the Holocaust historiography, from the early post-war years until the twenty-first century.' Danae Karydaki, European History QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Hitler; 2. Nazi Germany and the Jews; 3. Willing executioners; 4. Examinations of conscience; 5. A battle with truth; 6. Conclusion.
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Te Papa Press Essential Audrey Eagle, The
Book SynopsisIn 2006, the award-winning Eagle's Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand was published to widespread acclaim and quickly became a modern classic for New Zealand botanists, gardeners and art-lovers. By popular demand, this accessible, affordable new edition presents a beautiful selection of 163 full-colour, full-page reproductions of Audrey Eagle's botanical paintings for new readers to discover and existing fans to savour. Every plant is depicted in full colour, including Eagle's many detailed enlargements which show the flowers, leaves and seeds of each plant in technically superb detail, while an appendix containing comprehensive notes, drafted in consultation with expert botanists, gives information on every plant. A fresh introduction gives new insights into Audrey Eagle and her life's work, and sets her place in the prestigious history of the botanical illustration of New Zealand's unique native flora.Trade ReviewMeticulous and detailed a work of art' The Dominion.'An outstanding contribution to the literature of New Zealand Botany' New Zealand Journal of Botany.'Each colour plate [is] a work of art and a labour of love' Evening Post.'A book such as this comes only once or twice in a lifetime. Audrey Eagle's achievement is magnificent' Christchurch Star.'Audrey Eagle's meticulous and beautiful renditions of our native flora are acclaimed, but it is her insistence on accuracy that makes her works on native trees and shrubs such respected reference books' The Press."
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Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd The Edmonton Queen: The Final Voyage
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Bohlau Verlag Academic Showcases: The Collections at the
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Historical Diversities: Society, Politics &
Book SynopsisFeatures essays by some of the most eminent historians which cut across boundaries of time and space that highlight the diversified and multidimensional nature of historical studies, encompassing the fascinating themes in history from ancient to contemporary times. This volume is in honour of the distinguished Professor V N Datta.
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Jaico Publishing House The Journey Through Akashic Records
Book SynopsisJourney into the divine depths of the Akashic Records and access your unique soul information. Packed with hands-on exercises including past-life healing, psychic protection, and meeting otherworldly guides this ground-breaking book empowers you to find meaningful answers to lifeâs most important questions.
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Motilal Banarsidass, History of Indian Philosophy: Philosophy of
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Motilal Banarsidass, History of Indian Philosophy: Sankara School of
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Clarendon Press The Principles of History
Book SynopsisPublished here for the first time is much of a final and long-anticipated work on philosophy of history by the great Oxford philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943). The original text of this uncompleted work has only recently been discovered. It is accompanied by further, shorter writings by Collingwood on historical knowledge and inquiry, selected from previously unpublished manuscripts held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. All these writings, besides containing entirely new ideas, discuss further many of the issues which Collingwood famously raised in The Idea of History and in his Autobiography. The volume includes also two conclusions written by Collingwood for lectures which were eventually revised and published as The Idea of Nature, but which have relevance also to his philosophy of history. A lengthy editorial introduction sets these writings in their context, and discusses philosophical questions to which they give rise. The editors also consider why CollingwoTrade Reviewlong and quite masterly Introduction * Michael Bentley, EHR Vol. 116 *an important venture * Michael Bentley, EHR Vol. 116 *The cumulative effect of this labour of love, indeed, is to confound Knox's prejudice that the later years of Collingwood's writing merit suppression and to round off the project of bringing the entire gamut of Collingwood's work out of the archives and into the public domain. The result will surely be a continuing reappraisal of the only British philosopher of history whose work is still read by historians. * Michael Bentley, EHR *an important venture * Michael Bentley, EHR *Table of ContentsEDITORS' INTRODUCTION; PART I: THE PRINCIPLES OF HISTORY: INTRODUCTION TO BOOK I; 1. EVIDENCE; 2. ACTION; 3. NATURE AND ACTION; 4. THE PAST; HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY; PART II: ESSAYS AND NOTES ON PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY 1933-1939: NOTES TOWARDS A METAPHYSIC; HISTORY AS THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PRESENT; INAUGURAL: ROUGH NOTES; REALITY AS HISTORY; CAN HISTORIANS BE IMPARTIAL? NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF HISTORIOGRAPHY AND PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY; NOTES ON HISTORIOGRAPHY; CONCLUSIONS TO LECTURES ON NATURE AND MIND; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Management
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Oxford University Press, USA Experience and History
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 by Trade 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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Yale University Press At the End of an Age
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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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Writing Gender History
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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W. W. Norton & Company History as a System and Other Essays Toward a Philosophy of History
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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WW Norton & Co The Philosophy Of History With Reflections And Aphorisms
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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Polity Press Taking Responsibility for the Past
Book SynopsisInjustices of the past cast a shadow on the present. They are the root cause of much harm, the source of enmity, and increasingly in recent times, the focus of demands for reparation.Trade Review"Janna Thompson provides a sophisticated and parsimonious theory of reparative justice" Andrew Schapp, University of Melbourne "Her treatment of reparative justice is superb in all respects. The writing is lucid and elegant, the reliance on relevant scholarship is balanced and informative, the argument is coherent and sustained from start to finish. In short, Janna Thompson has written a truly indispensable book that cannot be ignored by anyone interested in the broad theme of justice in human affairs." Richard Falk, Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara "In this challenging and compelling book, Janna Thompson seeks to tread a careful path between the conflicting claims for reparation and to defend a theory of restorative justice. I found it a thorough, stimulating and well-argued defence of an important theory in applied ethics and political theory. It is scholarly and accessible and should attract much attention." Paul Kelly, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction: History and Responsibility. Chapter 1: Treaties and Transgenerational Responsibilities. Chapter 2: Historical Injustice and Respect for Nations. Chapter 3: Theories of Reparation. Chapter 4: Land Rights and Reparation. Chapter 5: A Matter of time. Chapter 6: All things considered. Chapter 7: The Rights of descendants. Chapter 8: Inheritance, Equity and Reparation. Chapter 9: Reparation and Injustices to Family Lines. Conclusion: Justice and Transgenerational Relationships. Notes. References. Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Aristotle A Guide for the Perplexed
Book SynopsisExplores the historical, philosophical and political context in which Aristotle's theories evolved. This book offers an account of the work and thought of this thinker, providing an outline of his central ideas and the ways in which they have influenced the history of western philosophy.Table of Contents1. Context and Background; 2. Being (ousia); 3. Epistemology and Philosophy of Science; 4. Philosophy of Nature; 5. Philosophy of Life; 6. Ethics; 7. Conclusion.
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ABC-CLIO The Next Million Years
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Democratic Moments Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought Reading Democratic Texts
Book SynopsisXavier Márquez is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and Political Science at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of A Stranger's Knowledge: Statesmanship, Philosophy and Law in Plato's Statesman (2012) and of Non-democratic Politics: Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, and Democratization (2016).Trade ReviewThis is an ambitious and exciting collection that begins to fill an enormous gap in political theory literature. Where much existing work in the field is content to present democracy - and "democratic moments"- as historically or paradigmatically Western, this volume breaks bold new ground in truly situating discussion of democracy across time and space. From this perspective there emerges a more creative, and certainly more accurate, picture of what democracy is, what it might be, and how it has been thought about in the course of human history - including not only work from the ancient Greeks and Romans but also hugely influential writers such as the Abbé Sieyes, Sun Yat-sen, and al-Farabi. * Leigh Jenco, Professor of Political Theory, London School of Economics, UK *This collection of deeply challenging short essays brings together thinkers grappling with the challenges and promises of their own times and places, and invites us to try to learn from them as we ponder our own difficult moment. We encounter here analyses of democracy from classical antiquity, the modern West, medieval Baghdad, eighteenth-century Russia, colonial India, rebellious China, and more. * John Markoff, Distinguished University Professor of Sociology, History, and Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Xavier Márquez, Victoria, (University of Wellington, New Zealand) 1. Herodotus’s Political Ecologies, Joel Alden Schlosser, (Bryn Mawr College, USA) 2. Protagoras’s Cooperative Know-how, James Kierstead, (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 3. Aristotle on Democracy and Democracies, Kevin M. Cherry, (University of Richmond, UK) 4. Cicero, On the Republic, W. Jeffrey Tatum, (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 5. Democracy without Elections: Popular Rule according to Alfarabi, Alexander Orwin, (Louisiana State University, USA) 6. Consent and Popular Sovereignty in Medieval Political Thought: Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor pacis, Takashi Shogimen, (University of Otago, New Zealand) 7. Machiavelli’s Democratic Turn, Catherine H. Zuckert, (University of Notre Dame, USA) 8. James Harrington and the Rule of King People, J. C. Davis, (University of East Anglia, UK) 9. Baruch Spinoza: Radical Republican, Emma Cohen de Lara and Nathan Cooper, (Amsterdam University College, Netherlands) 10. Thomas Paine and Democratic Contempt, Mario Feit, (Georgia State University, USA) 11. Alexander Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow: The Defence of Natural Rights and the Right to Self-defence Andrew Kahn, (Oxford University, UK) 12. Of Postmen and Democracy: Sieyès’s Theory of Representation, Lucia Rubinelli, (London School of Economics, UK) 13. ‘Morals and Enlightenment’: Bolivar’s Virtuous Democracy in the Angostura Address, Guillermo Aveledo, (Universidad Metropolitana, Venezuela) 14. The Puzzle of Political Leadership in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Ryan K. Balot and Zhichao Tong,(University of Toronto, Canada) 15. ‘Family Selfishness’ and the Corruption of Public Virtue: Harriet Taylor Mill’s Enfranchisement of Women, Katherine Smits, (University of Auckland, New Zealand) 16. Lenin: Soviet Democracy in 1917, Paul Blackledge, (London South Bank University, UK) 17. Democracy in the Revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg, Rosemary H. T. O’Kane, (Keele University, UK) 18. Max Weber’s Charismatic Democracy, Xavier Márquez, (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 19. An Alternative Democracy: Dissent in Gandhi’s Great Trial of 1922 Anuradha Veeravalli, (Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla) 20. Sun Yat-sen: People’s Democracy and Chinese Democracy Theresa Man Ling Lee, (University of Guelph, Canada) 21. Hobson on Democracy and the Humanized Economy, Colin Tyler, (University of Hull, UK) 22. A New Reading on Authority and Guardianship (wilayah): Ayatollah Muhammad Mahdi Shamsuddin, Hamid Mavani, (Claremont School of Theology, USA) Conclusion, Xavier Marquez, (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Orientalism Philology and the Illegibility of the Modern World
Book SynopsisHenning Trüper is Researcher at Leibniz Zentrum für Kultur- und Literaturforschung, Berlin, Germany. He is the author of Typography of a Method: François Louis Ganshof and the Writing of History (2014) and co-editor of Historical Teleologies in the Modern World (with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).Trade ReviewThis is easily the most serious and sophisticated study of Orientalism, going well beyond arguments about its relationship with imperialism to see how philology in particular came to represent a sustained anxiety about legibility and the very possibility of a theory of reading. Far from being an intellectually marginal or purely instrumental field of scholarship, Orientalism, Philology and the Illegibility of the Modern World turns out to be the privileged site for an epistemological crisis in modern Europe. * Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History, University of Oxford, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: History in Meaning 1. After Philology, a Wild Goose Chase 2. The Suicide of Naffa' wad 'Etmân 3. The Travel Diary 4. The Archive of Epigraphy 5. Burdened with Gods 6. A Trade in Shadows Conclusion: The Grammar of Modernity Unpublished Source Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) World History through Case Studies
Book SynopsisDavid Eaton is Associate Professor of World and African history at Grand Valley State University, USA. He received his PhD from Dalhousie University in 2008, and co-hosts On Top of the World: A World History Podcast. His doctoral research focused on the history of cattle raiding along the Kenya-Uganda border, and he has published articles in several journals including Nomadic Peoples, World History Connected, and African Affairs.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Public History
Book SynopsisFaye Sayer is Associate Professor in Heritage and History and Director of the International Centre for Heritage at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has published major articles on community heritage and worked for some of the UK's most significant heritage organizations, including English Heritage, The Portable Antiquities Scheme and the Museum of London. She has been involved in public heritage projects around the world, including in the USA, Europe, and Australia, and she is also a well-known, former Time Team archaeologist.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History
Book SynopsisAlexander Freund is Professor of History and holds the Chair in German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. He co-founded the UWinnipeg Oral History Centre, has been active in the International Oral History Association and several national oral history associations. He has published widely in oral history and is the author of Being German-Canadian: History, Memory, and Generations (2021).Erin Jessee is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow, UK, where she works across the program's research streams in oral history, war studies, gender history, and global history. She has fifteen years of experience working in Rwanda, among other conflict-affected contexts, and is the author of Negotiating Genocide in Rwanda (2017). More recently, she has begun focusing on early Rwandan history and cultural heritage studies, and has co-authored an oral historybased graphic novel, Nyiragitwa, among other publications.Alistair Thomson is Professor of History at Monash University, Australia and President of Oral History Australia. He previously served as President of the International Oral History Association (2006-08) and editor of the British journal Oral History (1991-2007). His oral history books include: Anzac Memories (1994 and 2013), The Oral History Reader (1998, 2006 and 2015 with Robert Perks), Ten Pound Poms (2005, with Jim Hammerton), Moving Stories: an intimate history of four women across two countries (2011), Oral History and Photography (2011, with Alexander Freund), and Australian Lives: An Intimate History (2017, with Anisa Puri).
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Updatism and the Understanding of Time and History
Book SynopsisThis book enables us to understand the current transformations in the experience of time that have been taking place in recent decades. Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira and Valdei Lopes de Araujo convincingly argue that we live in a time of Updatism', the temporal dimension that emerges in those societies imprisoned by the structures of infinite expansion, and that this Updatism has profound consequences for how we think about the past, the present and the future. Using the theoretical works of Lyotard and Heidegger as its foundation, 'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History analyses our digital modernity and the significance of key themes, such as updating, solitude, democracy, internet, exposure, postmodernism and historicism. It discusses aspects of our present time that reveal substantial differences between the historicist-modern time, usually located in the 19th century, and an emergent chronotope' or regime of historicity' understood and explained here as Updatism.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Why Collingwood Matters
Book SynopsisR.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) was an English philosopher, historian and practicing archaeologist. His work, particularly in the philosophy of action and history, has been profoundly influential in the 20th and 21st century. Although the importance of his work is indisputable, this is the first book to consider how and why it actually matters. Giussepina D''oro considers the importance of Collingwood as a thinker who thinks kaleidoscopically and, unlike lots of contemporary philosophers, refuses to focus on narrow, technical interests but instead, observes the whole world of thought. Why Collingwood Matters revives Collingwood''s conception of the role and character of philosophical analysis and shows how it informs his understanding of the mind, what it means to act, and what it means to understand the past historically. It also argues for the relevance of his metaphilosophical approach to the challenge posed by the Anthropocene and the global environmental cri
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Social Bonds and Historical Time
Book SynopsisTorbjörn Gustafsson Chorell is Professor of Intellectual History at Uppsala University, Sweden
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Selected Writings of Marc Bloch
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Cultural History and the Anthropocene
Book SynopsisAnders Ekström is a Professor in the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, SwedenMarit Ruge Bjærke is a Researcher in the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen, Norway Brita Brenna is a Professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, Oslo University, NorwayJohn Ødemark is Professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, Oslo University, Norway
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Cultural History for a Changing World
Book SynopsisJochen Hung is Associate Professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His research focuses on the relationship between media, culture and society in modern history.Willemijn Ruberg is Associate Professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Her research explores the cultural history of the body, gender, law, (forensic) medicine and psychiatry, as well as cultural theory. She is the author of History of the Body (2020).
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HMK Publishing Limited FROM MYSTERY TO HISTORY
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Towards the Light
Book SynopsisIn Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for the vote to the struggle for the right to freedom of conscience. As Grayling passionately affirms, it is a story - and a struggle - that continues to this day as those in power use the threat of terrorism in the 21st century to roll-back the liberties that so many have fought and died to win for us. Including an appendix of landmark documents, including the British and American Bills of Rights and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the Bloomsbury Revelations edition also includes a new preface by the author reflecting on developments since the book''s original publication.Table of ContentsPreface to the Bloomsbury Revelations Edition Acknowledgements 1. Setting the Scene Part I: The Demand for Liberty 2. The Reformation and the Beginning of Modern Liberty 3. Freeing the Mind 4. The Fight Against Absolutism Part II: The Extension of Liberty 5. Slaves, Workers, Women and the Struggle for Liberty 6. The Liberty Century 7. Rights Out of Wrongs 8. The Idea of Liberty and the Verge of Betrayal Postscript Appendices: Landmarks on the Road to Freedom 1. The Bill of Rights, 1689 2. The US Bill of Rights, 1791 3. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 4. The Chartists' 'Six Points' and Petition 5. United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Laughter of the Thracian Woman: A Protohistory of Theory
Book SynopsisAn important work by 20-century philosopher Hans Blumenberg, here translated into English for the first time, The Laughter of the Thracian Woman describes the reception history of an anecdote best known from Plato’s Theaetetus dialogue: while focused on observing the stars, the early astronomer and proto-philosopher Thales of Miletus fails to see a well directly in his path and tumbles down. A Thracian servant girl laughs, amused that he sought to understand what was above him when he was not mindful of what was right in front of him. Blumenberg sees the story as a highly sought substitute for our missing knowledge of the earliest historical events that would fit the label “theory.” By retelling the anecdote, philosophers reveal their distinctive values regarding absorption in curiosity, philosophy’s past, and the demand that theorists abide by sanctioned methods and procedures. In this work and others, Blumenberg demonstrates that philosophers’ most beloved images and anecdotes have become indispensable to philosophy as metaphors; that is, as representations whose meanings remain indefinite and invite frequent reinterpretation.Trade ReviewThis English translation of Das Lachen der Thrakerin, the original German of which first appeared with Suhrkamp in 1987, will no doubt intensify the impression among anglophone readers that Blumenberg is a decidedly historical and literary philosopher whose own thinking emerges from an almost obsessive level of engagement with the minutiae of Western intellectual history, including the genre of the philosophical anecdote ... Like many of Blumenberg's works, Das Lachen der Thrakerin demands a lot of the reader: a detailed knowledge of the Western tradition, not only of philosophy, but of letters in general, from the Presocratics to the present; and patience with an argumentative method which revels in the detours and the details, and which is thin on orienting summaries (here the highly informative Afterword and scholarly apparatus provided by Hawkins offer much historical context and orientation). * Modern Language Review *Greek astronomer Thales of Miletus was the original absent-minded professor. He was walking and studying the night sky, it is said, when he tripped and fell into a well, leading him to theorize that water—and not a god or gods—was the prime mover of reality. German-Jewish ‘philosophical anthropologist’ Blumenberg follows the myth of Thales through the ages to show that the scientific endeavor is necessary but also fundamentally ridiculous. It culminates with an attack on ‘incomprehensible arrogance’ as the most destructive human tendency, reaffirming modesty and skepticism. Today everything is made of data instead of water; Blumenberg, translated with great care by Spencer Hawkins, reminds me that we are still as ridiculous as Thales. -- David Auerbach * Slate Magazine *In its sweeping scope and singular focus, Hans Blumenberg’s The Laughter of the Thracian Woman provides a monadic history of how to read the beginning of thinking as located precisely at the nexus of storytelling and reflection, literature and philosophy. In Blumenberg’s series of relentless reconstructions and analyses, the telling and re-telling of the anecdote of Thales falling into a well – over and over again, from Plato to Heidegger, accompanied by the Thracian woman’s laughter – comes to form the central image for the tension within philosophy between theoretical reflection and intuitive insight. * Paul Fleming, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Director, Institute for German Cultural Studies (IGCS), Cornell University, USA *Hans Blumenberg stands as one of the most important and innovative thinkers of the twentieth century. As a philosopher, historian of science, and literary scholar, his work has made indispensable contributions to a broad range of fields across the Humanities and the Social Sciences. This impeccably nuanced translation of The Laughter of the Thracian Woman promises to enhance our understanding of Blumenberg’s methodology and the theoretical premises that drive his thought, while offering key insights into the perennial tensions between theory and realism, contemplation and action, philosophical reflection and the Lebenswelt. * John T. Hamilton, William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Chair, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reading into the Distance About this book I. Theory as exotic behavior II. Socrates is shifted into protohistory III. Knowledge about heaven and capability on earth IV. The theorist between comedy and tragedy V. Reoccupations VI. Astrological predominance VII. Applause and scorn from the moralists VIII. As adopted by historical critique IX. From cursing sinners to scorn for the Creation X. Tycho Brahe's coachman and the earthquake in Lisbon XI. Absentmindednesses XII. In what matter Thales had failed according to Nietzsche XIII. How to recognize what matters IVX. Interdisciplinarity as repetition of protohistory Works Cited
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Discovery Publisher Carroll Quigley: Life, Lectures and Collected Writings
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ActiveHistory Books A History Teaching Toolbox: Omnibus Edition: Practical classroom strategies
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Lume Books 1939: The World We Left Behind
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White Horse Press Nordic Climate Histories
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De Gruyter Phenomenology and Historical Thought: Its History
Book SynopsisThe volume begins with what is in common to contemporary phenomenological historians and historiographers. That is the understandings that temporality is the core of human judgment conditioning in its forms how we consciously attend and judge phenomena. For every phenomenological historian or historiographer, all history is an event, a span of time. This time span is not external to the individual, rather forms the content and structure of every judgment of the person. It is the logic used by the individual to structure the phenomenon attended. Rather than the phenomenon being seen as something solely external, it is understood by phenomenologists as also of our immediate awareness and thought. Thus, the phenomenological method discerns all judgment as based upon one’s span of attention of inner or outer phenomena.. There is an intentionality to attention. One intends one’s own foci. Attention is the temporal duration of that intending. The volume offers a text that enables contemporary historians, graduate students, and even undergraduates who are well taught, to understand both the history of phenomenology as a method of inquiry, and the contemporary practice of phenomenological historical and historiographical thought.
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De Gruyter History, Politics and Theory in the Great
Book SynopsisWorld history suffers from a paucity of clearly articulated, convincing explanations. While the rise of postmodernism and challenges to Eurocentrism did lead to some important correctives, the pendulum has swung too far the other direction, with a corresponding danger of ‘throwing the baby out with the bathwater’. We need careful, theoretically informed debates about ways of organizing world history. What constitutes a good historical explanation? What should guide historians to choose relevant facts? Which theoretical schools could be made useful, and to what ends? These questions are especially relevant to the main topic of this book: the ‘great divergence’ between the west and the rest of the world, and how this historical rupture is to be explained. The book provides extensive critical analyses of some of the key claims in world history, analyzing their strengths as well as their major weaknesses—too often rooted in insufficient familiarity of historians with theories they discard. It also historicizes the field and the debates to partly account for what caused some theories to become more influential and others to fall into oblivion—despite the fact that the more influential frameworks are seriously flawed and some of the more marginalized ideas are more coherent and plausible. The book offers insights regarding the theoretical and political relevance of older debates about the transition to capitalism and historical materialism. Three major schools of thought in world history are critically examined through an in-depth theoretical and comparative analysis that has not been undertaken elsewhere: the so-called ‘California School’, World Systems Analysis, and Marxist theories of history, capitalism, and the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Murphy argues that, despite some of the more recent criticisms of older approaches to world history, the older theories remain indispensable for the writing of world history and for coming to terms with issues of global poverty, inequality and eco-catastrophe.
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Brill Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World: Proceedings from the Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII
Book SynopsisThe ‘classical tradition’ is no invention of modernity. Already in ancient Greece and Rome, the privileging of the ancient played a role in social and cultural discourses of every period. A collaboration between scholars in diverse areas of classical studies, this volume addresses literary and material evidence for ancient notions of valuing (or disvaluing) the deep past from approximately the fifth century BCE until the second century CE. It examines how specific communities used notions of antiquity to define themselves or others, which models from the past proved most desirable, what literary or exegetic modes they employed, and how temporal systems for ascribing value intersected with the organization of space, the production of narrative, or the application of aesthetic criteria.
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Brill The Italian Genius on Display: The First National Exhibition of History of Science (Florence, 1929) and the Preservation of Scientific Heritage in Fascist Italy
Book SynopsisHeld in Florence in 1929, the First National Exhibition of History of Science was a pivotal event in the shaping of Italian cultural panorama. With more than 8000 items on display coming from public and private lenders, it showed the general public how rich the Italian scientific heritage was and how it could be regarded as part of a general nation-claiming narrative, thus laying the foundation for today’s protection policy and scholarly research. Moreover, it is also a telling case-study that offers precious insights into the complex relationships between cultural enterprises and political power during the fascist era, helping us understand how today’s geography of Italian cultural institutions have been shaped and reshaped through time.Table of ContentsPreface XI AcknowledgementsIX List of IllustrationsX List of ChartsII AbbreviationsII part 1: The Exhibition in Context 1 To Protect and to Promote 1 The Italian Scientific Heritage at the Turn of the Century 2 Universities, Museums, and the History of Science 3 Bringing History of Science to the People: Exhibitions and Commemorations 2 From Local to National 1 The Rise of Fascism 2 The National Scientific Heritage Protection Group 3 The Galilean Tradition and the Florentine Primacy 4 The Institute of the History of Science in Florence 5 Aldo Mieli and the National Institute of History of Science in Rome 3 Setting up the Exhibition 1 From a Tuscan Exposition to the National Exhibition 2 Funding and Financing 3 Location 4 Exhibition Criteria and Local Committees 4 The Exhibition in Context 1 History of Science and Propaganda: The Italian Genius and the National Scientific Primacy 2 History of Science and Ideology: The Italian Scientific Contributions throughout History 3 History of Science and the Public: Visitors at the Exhibition 4 History of Science and Entertainment: Music, Cinema, and Spectacles at the Exhibition 5 The National Museum of History of Science 1 From the Exhibition to the National Museum 2 Administration and Financing 3 Location and Collections 4 Visitors 6 Indexing the Italian Scientific Heritage 1 A Definitive Inventory 2 The Original Plan 3 The Revised Plan 4 Editorial Troubles 5 The End of the Project and the Catalogue of 1952 part 2: Plates The Exhibition in Detail 7 The Exhibition in Detail 1 Ground Floor I 2 Ground Floor II 3 Ground Floor III 4 Ground Floor IV 5 Basement 6 Pavilions Conclusion Bibliography Name Index
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Brill Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100-1800
Book SynopsisOrdering Emotions in Europe, 1100-1800 investigates how emotions were conceptualised and practised in the medieval and early modern period, as they ordered systems of thought and practice—from philosophy and theology, music and literature, to science and medicine. Analysing discursive, psychic and bodily dimensions of emotions as they were experienced, performed and narrated, authors explore how emotions were understood to interact with more abstract intellectual capacities in producing systems of thought, and how these key frameworks of the medieval and early modern period were enacted by individuals as social and emotional practices, acts and experiences of everyday life. Contributors are: Han Baltussen, Susan Broomhall, Louis C. Charland, Louise D’Arcens, Raphaële Garrod, Yasmin Haskell, Danijela Kambaskovic, Clare Monagle, Juanita Feros Ruys, François Soyer, Robert Weston, Carol J. Williams, R.S. White, and Spencer E. Young.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Hearts and Minds: Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100–1800 Susan Broomhall 1. Nine Angry Angels: Order, Emotion, and the Angelic and Demonic Hierarchies in the High Middle Ages Juanita Feros Ruys 2. Christ’s Masculinity: Homo and Vir in Peter Lombard’s Sentences Clare Monagle 3. Modes and Manipulation: Music, the State, and Emotion Carol J. Williams 4. Avarice, Emotions, and the Family in Thirteenth-Century Moral Discourse Spencer E. Young 5. Affective Memory Across Time: The Emotive City of Christine de Pizan Louise D’Arcens 6. Nicholas of Modruš’s De consolatione (1465–1466): A New Approach to Grief Management Han Baltussen 7. Hearts on Fire: Compassion and Love in Nicolas Houel’s Traité de la Charité chréstienne Susan Broomhall 8. Living Anxiously: The Senses, Society and Morality in Pre-Modern England Danijela Kambaskovic 9. Conceptual Eclecticism and Ethical Prescription in Early Modern Jesuit Discourses about Affects: Suárez and Caussin on Maternal Love Raphaële Garrod 10. Anatomy of a Passion: Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale as Case Study Louis C. Charland and R.S. White 11. Arts and Games of Love: Genre, Gender and Special Friendships in Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Poetry Yasmin Haskell 12. Androgyny and the Fear of Demonic Intervention in the Early Modern Iberian Peninsula: Ecclesiastical and Popular Responses François Soyer 13. Medical Effects and Affects: The Expression of Emotions in Early Modern Patient–Physician Correspondence Robert Weston Select Bibliography Index
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Brill Scaling the Balkans: Essays on Eastern European Entanglements
Book SynopsisScaling the Balkans puts in conversation several fields that have been traditionally treated as discrete: Balkan studies, Ottoman studies, East European studies, and Habsburg and Russian studies. By looking at the complex interrelationship between countries and regions, demonstrating how different perspectives and different methodological approaches inflect interpretations and conclusions, it insists on the heuristic value of scales. The volume is a collection of published and unpublished essays, dealing with issues of modernism, backwardness, historical legacy, balkanism, post-colonialism and orientalism, nationalism, identity and alterity, society-and nation-building, historical demography and social structure, socialism and communism in memory, and historiography.Trade Review"This anthology will be of interest to those who want to follow in the footsteps laid by Todorova in Imagining the Balkans, but it will also be an asset to teachers, as the volume includes a number of key texts that form an excellent basis for lectures and seminars. Finally, all those who try to protect themselves in their own work from essentializing their image of the Balkans should reach for this volume to find sufficient information for the development and expansion of self-immunization strategies." Karl Kaser, Graz, in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (JGO 68) "Dieser Sammelband wird für jene interessant sein, die die von Todorova in Imagining the Balkans gelegten Spuren weiterverfolgen wollen, er wird aber auch für Lehrende eine Bereicherung sein, da der Band eine Reihe von Schlüsseltexten umfasst, die als Grundlage für Vorlesungen und Seminare hervorragend zu verwenden sind, darunter auch die beiden hier näher besprochenen. Schließlich sollten auch all jene zu diesem Band greifen, die sich in ihren eigenen Arbeiten vor Essentialisierungen ihres Balkanbildes zu schützen versuchen. Sie werden in dem beinahe 700 Seiten umfassenden Band ausreichend Hinweise für den Auf- und Ausbau von Selbstimmunisierungsstrategien vorfinden." Karl Kaser, Graz, in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (JGO 68)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations, Tables, Figures and Maps Introduction Part 1: Concepts Section 1: Modernism, Backwardness and Legacy 1 The Trap of Backwardness: Modernity, Temporality and the Study of Eastern European Nationalism 2 Modernism 3 Historical Legacies between Europe and the Near East Section 2: Balkanism, Postcolonialism and Orientalism 4 Balkan 5 Balkanism and Postcolonialism or On the Beauty of the Airplane View 6 The Balkans: from Discovery to Invention 7 The Balkans: from Invention to Intervention 8 Does Russian Orientalism Have a Russian Soul? A Contribution to the Debate between Nathaniel Knight and Adeeb Khalid Section 3: Nationalism, Identity and Alterity 9 Is There Weak Nationalism and Is It a Useful Category? 10 Is “the Other” a Useful Cross-cultural Concept? Some Thoughts on Its Implementation to the Balkan Region 11 Isn’t Central Europe Dead? Comments on Iver Neumann’s “Forgetting the Central Europe of the 1980s” 12 What Is or Is There a Balkan Culture, and Do or Should the Balkans Have a Regional Identity? Part 2: Structures, Processes and Events Section 1: Demography and Social Structure 13 European Population History: the Balkans 14 Situating the Family of Ottoman Bulgaria within the European Pattern 15 On the Epistemological Value of Family Models: the Balkans within the European Pattern 16 Historical Tradition and Transformation in Bulgaria: Women’s Issues, Feminist Issues Section 2: Nation- and Society-Building 17 The Course and Discourses of Bulgarian Nationalism 18 Language as a Cultural Unifier in a Multilingual Setting: the Bulgarian Case during the Nineteenth Century 19 Identity (Trans)formation among Bulgarian Muslims 20 Midhat Pasha and the Bulgarians 21 Improbable Maverick or Typical Conformist? Seven Thoughts on the New Bulgaria Section 3: Historiography and Memory 22 East European Studies in the US: Thematic and Methodological Problems 23 The Ottoman Menace in Post-Habsburg Historiography 24 Conversion to Islam as a Trope in Bulgarian Historiography, Fiction and Film 25 The Balkan Wars in Memory: the Carnegie Report and Trotsky’s War Correspondence Section 4: Socialism and Communism in Memory 26 Shared or Contested Heritage? Commemorating Socialism and Communism in Europe 27 1917 in the Balkans: Divergent “Horizons of Expectation” 28 Was there Civil Society and a Public Sphere under Socialism? The Debates around Vasil Levski’s Alleged Reburial in Bulgaria 29 Blowing Up the Past: the Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov as Lieu de Mémoire 30 Remembering Communism: Similar Trajectories, Different Memories Index
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Brill Traces of Ink: Experiences of Philology and Replication
Book SynopsisTraces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman world, the Syriac milieu and the Arabo-Islamic tradition). The volume proposes a fresh and interdisciplinary approach to the study of technical traditions, in which new results can be achieved thanks to the close collaboration between philologists and scientists. Replication represents a crucial meeting point between these two parties: a properly edited text informs the experts in the laboratory who, in turn, may shed light on many aspects of the text by recreating the material reality behind it. Contributors are: Miriam Blanco Cesteros, Michele Cammarosano, Claudia Colini, Vincenzo Damiani, Sara Fani, Matteo Martelli, Ira Rabin, Lucia Raggetti, and Katja Weirauch.Trade Review"[...] one of the merits of the book probably lies in addressing the complexity of a subfield of book studies that was traditionally overlooked.[...] The second merit of this work is the attempt to propose an interdisciplinary approach to face these challenges and do justice to the complexity that is emerging." - Luca Berardi, Università di Napoli "L'Orientale", in: EURASIAN Studies 19 (2021) 303–306Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Lucia Raggetti 1 WoW! Writing on Wax in Ancient Mesopotamia and Today: Questions and Results from an Interdisciplinary Project Katja Weirauch and Michele Cammarosano 2 Written in Blood? Decoding Some Red Inks of the Greek Magical Papyri Miriam Blanco Cesteros 3 Ink in Herculaneum: A Survey of Recent Perspectives Vincenzo Damiani 4 Material Studies of Historic Inks: Transition from Carbon to Iron-Gall Inks Ira Rabin 5 ‘Alchemical’ Inks in the Syriac Tradition Matteo Martelli 6 The Literary Dimension and Life of Arabic Treatises on Ink Making Sara Fani 7 “I tried it and it is really good” Replicating Recipes of Arabic Black Inks Claudia Colini 8 Ordinary Inks and Incredible Tricks in al-ʿIrāqī’s ʿUyūn al-ḥaqāʾiq Lucia Raggetti Index of Manuscripts Index of Authors Index of Sources Index of Technical Terms
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