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Book SynopsisRethinking the Red Power Movement examines Red Power ideology with a focus on its many forms of solidarity with African Americans, the role of gender in shaping the movement, its international expansion, and its current meaning in contemporary activism.The Red Power Movement is often considered the apex of Indigenous activism in the twentieth century. While diverse, the movement is typically told through four actions. Beginning with the occupation of Alcatraz in 1969, followed by the Trail of Broken Treaties in 1972, Wounded Knee in 1973, then culminating with the Longest Walk in 1978, there is a clear jumpstart, middle, and end to the Red Power Movement. Through a chronological approach, this study makes the case that Red Power never diedâand neither did Indigenous activism. Instead, it shows how Indigenous peoples found many ways to push forward Indigenous sovereignty and continue to call on the United States to value Indigenous possibilities for justice, freedom, and power.This book is useful for students and scholars interested in twentieth century America, social movements, and the history of Indigenous activism.

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Book SynopsisStudent-Centered Oral History explores the overlaps of culturally relevant teaching, student-centered teaching, and oral history to demonstrate how this method empowers students, especially those from historically underrepresented communities. With tangible tools like lesson plans and reflection sheets, available to download as eResources from the book''s website, each interactive chapter is applicable to classrooms and age groups across the globe. Educators from all levels of experience will benefit from step-by-step guides and lesson plans, all organized around guiding questions. These lessons coach students and educators from start to finish through a student-centered oral history. Background research, historical context, cultivating a culture of consent, analysis, promotion, and gratitude are among the many lessons taught beyond writing questions and interviewing. With a specific focus on the ethics influencing a teacher's role as guide and grader of a student

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Book SynopsisWorld history continues to evolve as one of the most popular and widely discussed approaches to the study of history. The second edition of World History: The Basics offers an updated introduction of this fast-growing field, addressing key questions such as: What is world history? How do we study a subject with such a broad geographic and chronological range? Why has world history been controversial? This new edition integrates both US and global perspectives, including up to date historiographical analysis and coverage of developments around the world since the first edition was published. The volume also addresses the challenge of considering Big History along with attention to major regional civilizations. Authored by one of the field's pioneers, the book explores key topics such as time, place, interactions, themes, and more. Serving as both an excellent introduction to world history and a significant commentary on the past, present, and future of the discipline, this volume is an essential resource for understanding the field.

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Book SynopsisDrawing together leading legal historians from a range of jurisdictions and cultures, this collection of essays addresses the fundamental methodological underpinning of legal history research. Via a broad chronological span and a wide range of topics, the contributors explore the approaches, methods and sources that together form the basis of their research and shed light on the complexities of researching into the history of the law. By exploring the challenges posed by visual, unwritten and quasi-legal sources, the difficulties posed by traditional archival material and the novelty of exploring the development of legal culture and comparative perspectives, the book reveals the richness and dynamism of legal history research.Trade Review'This volume is highly recommended to all those involved in legal historical research. It contains a great deal of very practical advice, and it lucidly articulates the methods of many leading scholars in the field. Professor Musson and Professor Stebbings are to be congratulated on the compilation of a very useful and well-presented book. No university law library should be without a copy.' Andrew R. C. Simpson, The Edinburgh Law Review'This book is highly important.' Adelyn L. M. Wilson, Comparative Legal HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction Anthony Musson and Chantal Stebbings; Foreword: reflections on 'doing' legal history Sir John Baker; 1. Editing law reports and doing legal history: compatible or incompatible projects Paul Brand; 2. The indispensability of manuscript case notes to eighteenth-century barristers and judges James Oldham; 3. Judging the judges: the reputations of nineteenth century judges and their sources Patrick Polden; 4. Benefits and barriers: the making of Victorian legal history Chantal Stebbings; 5. The historical turn in late nineteenth-century American legal thought David M. Rabban; 6. The methodological debates in German speaking Europe (1960–90) Marcel Senn; 7. Exploring the minds of lawyers: the duty of the legal historian to write the books of non-written law Dirk Heirbaut; 8. Comparative legal history: a methodology David Ibbetson; 9. 'They put to the torture all the ancient monuments': reflections on making eighteenth-century Irish legal history Sean Donlan; 10. The politics of historiography and the taxonomies of the colonial past: law, history and the tribes Paul McHugh; 11. Lay legal history Wilf Prest; 12. Antiquarianism and legal history Michael Stuckey; 13. Re-examining King John and Magna Carta: reflections on reasons, methodology and methods Jane Frecknall-Hughes; 14. Visual sources: mirror of justice or 'through a glass darkly'? Anthony Musson; 15. Sanctity, superstition and the death of Sarah Jacob Richard Ireland.

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Book SynopsisThis is the sixth and final volume in an acclaimed sequence of works situating Edward Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world's leading historians of ideas.Trade Review'By uniting civil with ecclesiastical histories, and by describing narratives of antiquity created by, and in a world on the brink of, revolutionary change, Pocock concludes his sixth volume in scholarly territory initially explored by the pioneering work of Arnaldo Momigliano and Franco Venturi, to both of whom the first volume of Barbarism and Religion was dedicated. In his end is his beginning; where Pocock's uniquely authoritative contribution to historical scholarship magisterially concludes, that of many others will surely follow.' B. W. Young, The English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Constantinian Empire: 1. Constantinople: a new city and a new history; 2. Constantine to Julian: the disintegration of a dynasty; Part II. The Church in the Empire: 3. Constantine's second revolution; 4. Theology and the problems of authority; 5. Nicaea and its aftermath; 6. The reign of Constantius and the Arian triumph; 7. The structure of chapter 21; Part III. The Interlude of Julian: 8. Gibbon and Julian: the history of an anomaly; 9. Julian apostate: the failure of an alternative; 10. Julian as persecutor: from toleration to the failure of repression; 11. The sojourn at Antioch and the Persian disaster; Part IV. Barbarism: The First Catastrophe: 12. Valentinian I and Valens: the turn to the west; 13. The geography and history of the western Decline and Fall; Part V. The Triumph of Orthodoxy and the Last Emperor: 14. The reign of Theodosius: triumphs preceding disaster; 15. Ambrose of Milan: the church and the empire; 16. Theodosius narrated and re-narrated: the death and rebirth of polytheism; Part VI. The Barbarisation of the West; 17. The Gothic phase: the sack of Rome and the loss of the transalpine west; 18. Vandals and Huns: the twin empires and the loss of Africa; 19. Attila and Aetius: the Hun invasions of the west; 20. The end of the western succession; Part VII. After the Fall: Towards a History Not Written: 21. Ends and beginnings: the conclusion of Gibbon's third volume; 22. The barbarian kingdoms and their laws: the beginnings of a mediaeval history; 23. The general observations; 24. Gibbon's first trilogy and its successor volumes; Conclusion of the present series; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed some of the same tasks, revealing both radical differences and striking similarities in textual practices across space, time and linguistic borders. This volume shows how much is learned when historians of scholarship, like contemporary historians of science, focus on earlier scholars'' practices, and when Western scholarly traditions are treated as part of a much larger, cross-cultural inquiry.Trade Review'… this transcultural investigation is the fruit of comparative and collaborative scholarship at its best. It is, to use the editors' coinage, a 'symphilological' achievement that will leave its readers with a habit of stopping to think about the particularity of scholarly practices and its implications for the history of ideas. All the contributions are lucidly written with a cross-disciplinary audience in mind and beautifully documented with images, tables, and transcriptions of the evidence discussed … the choice to let the individual contributions speak for themselves, along with the work of comparison and juxtaposition germane to the textual practice of the essay collection, seems a forceful methodological statement for a project that places the case study at the heart of its epistemic undertaking.' Tania Demetriuo, Isis ReviewTable of ContentsHow to do things with texts: an introduction Anthony Grafton and Glenn W. Most; 1. Reliable books: Islamic law, canonization, and manuscripts in the Ottoman Empire (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) Guy Burak; 2. Obscurity Ineke Sluiter; 3. Allegoresis and etymology Glenn W. Most; 4. Classifying the Rigveda on the basis of ritual usage: the deity-of-the-formula system Paolo Visigalli; 5. Maryādām Ullanghya: The boundaries of interpretation in early modern India Christopher Minkowski; 6. Making sense of Suetonius in the twelfth century Robert A. Kaster; 7. From Philology to Philosophy: Zhu Xi as a reader-annotator Lianbin Dai; 8. Gods on clay: ancient Near Eastern scholarly practices and the history of religions Aaron Tugendhaft; 9. An unknown medieval Coptic Hebraism? On a momentous junction of Jewish and Coptic biblical studies Ronny Vollandt; 10. Picturing as practice: placing a square above a square in the central Middle Ages Megan McNamee; 11. Inimitable sources: canonical texts and rhetorical theory in the Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew traditions Filippomaria Pontani; 12. Excerpts versus fragments: deconstructions and reconstitutions of the Excerpta Constantiniana András Németh; 13. Johann Buxtorf makes a notebook Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg; 14. World bibliographies: libraries and the reorganization of knowledge in late Renaissance Europe Paola Molino.

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Book SynopsisJoseph Mali reveals how four major modern thinkers the French historian Jules Michelet, the Irish writer James Joyce, the German literary scholar Erich Auerbach and the English philosopher Isaiah Berlin were inspired by Vico's New Science (1744) to create their own modern theories and stories of human life and history.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Jules Michelet: Vico and the origins of nationalism; 3. James Joyce: Vico and the origins of modernism; 4. Erich Auerbach: Vico and the origins of historicism; 5. Isaiah Berlin: Vico and the origins of pluralism; 6. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisSources are the raw material of History, but whereas the written word has traditionally been seen as the principal source, historians now recognize the value of sources beyond text. In this new edition of History and Material Culture, contributors consider a range of objects from an eighteenth-century bed curtain to a twenty-first-century shopping trolley which can help historians develop new interpretations and new knowledge about the past.Containing two new chapters on healing objects in East Africa and the shopping trolley in the social world, this book examines a variety of material sources from around the globe and across centuries to assess how such sources can be used to study the distant and the recent past. In a revised introduction, Karen Harvey discusses some of the principal issues raised when historians use material culture, particularly in the context of ''the material turn'', and suggests some initial steps for those unfamiliar with these kinds&nbTable of ContentsList of illustrationsList of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Historians, material culture and materialityKaren Harvey1 – Things that shape history: material culture and historical narrativesGiorgio Riello2 – Ornament as evidenceAndrew Morrall3 – Back yards and beyond: landscapes and historyMarina Moskowitz4 – Draping the body and dressing the home: the material culture of textiles and clothes in the Atlantic world, c. 1500-1800Beverly Lemire5 – Using buildings to understand social history: Britain and Ireland in the seventeenth centuryAnne Laurence6 – Pushed around: material culture, dispossession, and the American shopping cartCatherine Gudis7 – Repurposed objects and performance: ritual acts of healing in East AfricaJonathan Walz8 – Object biographies: from production to consumptionKarin Dannehl9 – Regional identity and material cultureHelen Berry10 – Objects and agency: material culture and modernity in ChinaFrank Dikötter11 – Mundane materiality, or, should small things still be forgotten? Material culture, micro-histories and the problem of scaleSara Pennell12 – The case of the missing footstool: reading the absent objectGlenn AdamsonIndex

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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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Book SynopsisIn recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained rather provincial in scope. Global History, Globally addresses this lacuna by surveying the state of global history in different world regions. Divided into three distinct but tightly interweaved sections, the book's chapters provide regional surveys of the practice of global history on all continents, review some of the research in four core fields of global history and consider a number of problems that global historians have contended with in their work. The authors hail from various world regions and are themselves leading global historians. Collectively, they provide an unprecedented survey of what today is the most dynamic field in the discipline of history. As one of the first books to systematically discuss Trade ReviewAn up-to-date survey of the field, the collection will be an excellent resource for both professional historians and general readers. * Canadian Journal of History *Bringing together editorial competence in American, Chinese and European history and authors from all parts of the world, this superb collection inaugurates a new phase in the observation of what global historians are actually doing. It takes stock of past achievements, discusses the challenges of the present, and outlines visions for the future. 'Practice' here includes the politics of global history in a broad range of regional contexts. No previous book has explained it with greater clarity. * Jürgen Osterhammel, Professor of History, University of Konstanz, Germany *Global history is a great rejuvenator of history; it is also in need of a re-set in these times. This book is indispensable for both. It illuminates the ways in which global history revives the study of the past by transcending methodological nationalism. It also gives readers a plenitude of perspectives and problems on what a global past means. Here is an anthology endowed with a unique ability to motivate our ambitions while reminding us of our limits, to dream globally but with humility. * Jeremy Adelman, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton University, USA *Expansive and seemingly unstoppable as it is, global history so far has been a remarkably one-sided affair. While it has incorporated ever more “other” pasts, a true dialogue across continents, languages, and national traditions has not yet emerged. This fascinating collection takes an important stride in that direction, demonstrating forcefully that the “world” does look very different depending on from where we look. * Sebastian Conrad, Professor of History, Free University of Berlin, Germany *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Global History, Globally Sven Beckert (Harvard University, USA) and Dominic Sachsenmaier (Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany) Part 1: Regions 1. Global History in (Western) Europe: Explorations and Debates Gareth Austin (Cambridge University, UK) 2. Re-presenting Asia on the Global Stage: The Rise of Global History Study in East Asia Qingjia Edward Wang (Beijing University, China/Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA) 3. Latin America and the Caribbean: Traditions of Global History Rafael Marquese and João Paulo Garrido Pimenta (both of University of Sao Paolo, Brazil) 4. African History and Global History: Revisiting Paradigms Omar Gueye (Cheikh Anta Diop, University, Dakar, Senegal) 5. Deconstructing Imperial and National Narratives in Turkey and the Arab Middle East Selcuk Esenbel and Meltem Toksöz (both of Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey) 6. The World History Project: Global History in North American Context Jerry H. Bentley (University of Hawai’i at Manoa, †) Part 2: Central Themes in Global History 7. New Perspectives on Workers and the History of Work: Global Labor History Andreas Eckert (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) and Marcel Van der Linden (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) 8. Scale, Scope, and Scholarship: Regional Practices and Global Economic Histories Kenneth Pomeranz (University of Chicago, USA) 9. Global Histories of Migration(s): Dialectics and Dialogic of Perspectives and Primacies Amit Mishra (University of Hyderabad, India) 10. The Challenge of the “Global” in Intellectual History Dominic Sachsenmaier (Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany) and Andrew Sartori (New York University, USA) Part 3: Problems in the Practice of Global History 11. Writing World History in Africa: Conditions, Stakes, and Challenges David Simo (University of Yaounde, Cameroon) 12. World History, Nationally: How Has the National Appropriated the Transnational in East Asian Historiography? Lim Jie-Hyun (Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea) 13. Writing the Globe from the Edges: Approaches to the Making of Global History in Australia Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia) 14. Japanese Efforts to Overcome Eurocentric Paradigms in the Study of Global History Shigeru Akita (Osaka University, Japan) Index

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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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Book SynopsisIn her brilliant new opening essay, Banerjee says of Berdyaev he was never more than a curious but unwelcome guest in history. He fearlessly engaged it on the level of ideas while remaining alien to its means and ends, gifted with an incurable longing for transcendence. Witness to two world wars, Berdyaev observed the destruction of established cultures in the traumatic birth of new systems. Arrested on political suspicion-by Czarist and then by Bolshevik policehe died in exile in France in 1948, carrying forth his intellectual work until the end.Berdyaev considered the philosophy of history as a field that laid the foundations of the Russian national consciousness. Its disputes were centered on distinctions between Slavophiles and Westerners, East and West. The Meaning of History was an early effort, following World War I, that attempted to revive this perspective. With the removal of Communism as a ruling system in Russia, that nation returned to an elaboration of Table of ContentsI: On The Essence of the Historical: The Meaning of Tradition; II: On The Nature of The Historical: The Metaphysical and The Historical; III: Of Celestial History: God and Man; IV: Of Celestial History: Time and Eternity; V: The Destiny of The Jews; VI: Christianity and History; VII: The Renaissance and Humanism; VIII: The End of The Renaissance and The Crisis of Humanism: The Advent of The Machine; IX: The End of The Renaissance and The Crisis of Humanism: The Disintegration of The Human Image; X: The Doctrine of Progress and The Goal of History; Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThe Viennese Socrates: Karl Popper and the Reconstruction of Progressive Politics examines Karl Popper's attempt to develop a political theory that draws upon Socratic fallibilism and commitment to ethical autonomy while preserving progressive sociological insights and commitment to activism. Philip Benesch argues that Popper's critique of Marxist theory is largely an endeavor to separate its progressive-activist core from its positivist and uncritical-rationalist entanglements. The author defends Popper against the charges of positivism and scientism leveled by the Frankfurt School, among others. Although he is in no sense an apologist for Popper's commentary on the classical tradition of philosophy, Benesch contends that Popper's philosophical contribution is of classical breadth and significance and that it continues and advances the great conversation that is the substance of the classical tradition.

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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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Book SynopsisThe second volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae covers the inscriptions of Caesarea Maritima and the coastal region of the Middle Coast from Tel Aviv in the south to Haifa in the north from the time of Alexander to the Muslim conquest. The approx. 1,050 texts comprise all the languages used for inscriptions during this period (Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, Samaritan, Syrian, and Persian) and are arranged according to the principal settlements and their territory. The great majority of the texts belongs to Caesarea, the capital of the province of Judaea/Syria Palaestina. No other place in Judaea has produced more Latin inscriptions than this area, reflecting the strong Roman influence on the city.

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Book SynopsisDie Sigillographie als eigenstandiger Teilbereich der Byzantinistik ist seit einigen Jahren verstarkt in den Blick sowohl der Byzantinistik als auch der Nachbardisziplinen geruckt, weil sie als einzige in groser Menge noch bisher unerschlossenes Material der Wissenschaft zur Verfugung stellt. Die Beitrage der Studies in Byzantine Sigillography befassen sich mit allen Aspekten der byzantinischen Siegelkunde: Vorstellung von Neufunden, Diskussion neuer Methoden, Fragen der politischen und kirchlichen Verwaltung von Byzanz, Prosopographie, historische Geographie, kunsthistorische und ikonographische Probleme.

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Book SynopsisFinland, South Africa and Bosnia-Herzegovina are each burdened by memories of a civil war, between either social classes, racial groups or ethnic communities. History wars have followed the conflicts and been fought on the arenas of popular rhetoric, public memory, that is, monuments, museums and commemoration rituals, and history education. This book studies how the parties to these conflicts have attributed guilt to «the others» and victimhood to «us» in each country, and compares their respective memory politics and education strategies. The author draws on the potential on «history from below» activities and multiperspectival history lessons.Table of ContentsContents: Post-conflict society – The burden of the past – Historical justice – Myths of guilt and victimization – Social memory – Transformation of public memory and history education – «History from below» – Multiperspectivality – International co-operation.

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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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Book SynopsisSince the early modern era, historians and observers of Spain, both within the country and beyond it, have identified a peculiarly Spanish disdain for work, especially manual labor, and have seen it as a primary explanation for that nation's alleged...Trade ReviewRuth MacKay's 'Lazy, Improvident People' is a critical examination of the common notion that Spaniards in general have historically preferred to do anything rather than dishonor themselves through manual labor.... To MacKay, the myth of the 'lazy, improvident' Spaniards amounts to a series of discourses in which intellectuals, Spanish and foreign alike, have for centuries been responding largely to each other in ways that reflect the specific political contingencies of their own moments rather than the social and economic realities that characterized the lives of the overwhelming majority of ordinary Spaniards.... The strength of this rich and thought-provoking monograph lies above all in the synthetic range achieved by the author via her thoughtful engagement with an incredibly broad assortment of sources.... MacKay is to be applauded heartily for offering us (to build upon her metaphor) a very 'fruitful' book indeed—one in which are contained seeds that will likely continue for many years to bear bountiful harvests of discussion and debate. -- David Coleman * Newsletter of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain *

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Book SynopsisWhat would the world be like is history had taken a different course? Science fiction literature has long contemplated this question, and this text analyzes alternate history science fiction through a variety of historical models. It raises questions of narrative, writers, temporality and time.

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Book SynopsisFor the majority of the twentieth century, Americans thought of the past as foundational to, but separate from, the present, and they learned and thought about history in informational terms. But Rymsza-Pawlowska argues that the popular culture of the 1970s reflected an emerging desire to engage and enact the past on a more emotional level.

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Book SynopsisWith hundreds of full-color maps and finely crafted images, this atlas illustrates treaties that have determined the fates of millions, beginning with ancient Egyptians. Malise Ruthven and a team of experts provide lively historical commentary about the geopolitical efforts of princes, politicians, and diplomats to carve up the globe.Trade ReviewDemonstrates how the geopolitical landscape has been shaped and reshaped by diplomats. -- Claire Cock-Starkey * Wall Street Journal *A lucid and fascinating history of the practices and products of diplomacy, as that art evolved in conjunction with emerging European nation states…A sweeping but succinct overview, this work will be important to historians but ought to interest every global citizen. * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisIn Hiding from History, Meili Steele challenges an assumption at the heart of current debates in political, literary, historical, and cultural theory: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of...Trade Review"Hiding from History is an excellent book on a very important issue. It concerns the nature of practical reason, how we deliberate about good and bad, right and wrong. Of course, we deliberate as individuals too, but the issue here is how we deliberate in common. Meili Steele addresses the nature of public reason, highlighting the way in which literature can contribute to rational debate, sometimes in ways that philosophical argument cannot match." -- Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University"Meili Steele has written a great book, tightly argued, but expansive in scope. He shows how contemporary political thought and action have been handcuffed by the persistent attempt to transcend historical and cultural specificity. His compelling alternative of 'public imagination' avoids multiculturalism's identity fetishism by understanding culture as a process through which selves can reflect upon, reason about, and revise their lives with others." -- John McGowan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of Democracy's Children

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together twelve eminent scholars whose research has exemplified compelling strategies for negotiating the difficulties inherent in the history of religion.Trade Review"Faithful Narratives features an all-star lineup of historians, the best of the best, and all deliver. They contend that religion cannot be explained away, ignored as a factor in human agency, reduced to a by-product of other factors, or treated as a category separate from society." -- David Kling, University of Miami, author of The Bible in History"Traversing the boundaries of the religious and the secular, the premodern and modern, and the disciplines of history and religious studies, this collection of illuminating and compelling essays offers new insights into the significance of religion in the study of history. It is an important and interdisciplinary intervention in modern historiography, for the contributors remind us that religion belongs alongside politics, economics, and culture as an integral dimension of individual and communal identity." -- Kim Haines-Eitzen, Cornell University, author of The Gendered PalimpsestTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Challenge of Religion in History ANDREA STERK AND NINA CAPUTO Part One: Late Antique and Medieval Religious Debates and Their Modern Implications 1. Pagan Challenge, Christian Response: Emperor Julian and Gregory of Nazianzus as Paradigms of Interreligious Discourse SUSANNA ELM 2. Between Syria and Egypt: Alms, Work, and the "Holy Poor" PETER BROWN 3. Medieval Monks on Labor and Leisure JOHN VAN ENGEN 4. Sibling Rivalries, Scriptural Communities: What Medieval History Can and Cannot Teach Us about Relations between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam DAVID NIRENBERG Part Two: Early Modern Perspectives on Spirituality, Culture, and Religious Boundaries 5. The People and the Book: Print and the Transformation of Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe DAVID B. RUDERMAN 6. The Jewish Book in Christian Europe: Material Texts and Religious Encounters ANTHONY GRAFTON 7. Mission and Narrative in the Early Modern Spanish World: Diego de Ocaña's Desert in Passing KENNETH MILLS 8. Incombustible Weber: How the Protestant Reformation Really Disenchanted the World CARLOS EIRE Part Three: From the Premodern to the Modern World: Sacred Texts, Individual Agency, and Religious Identity 9. Religion and Gender in Enlightenment England: The Problem of Agency PHYLLIS MACK 10. Constructions of Jewish Identity through Reflections on Islam SUSANNAH HESCHEL 11. Bible, Translation, and Culture: From the KJV to the Christian Resurgence in Africa LAMIN SANNEH 12. Reflections on the Bible and American Public Life MARK A. NOLL Notes

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Book SynopsisThe field of Global History has experienced an unprecedented boom in the last two decades and carved itself deeply into the practice of historical research. Despite this, its conceptual foundations have rarely been explored. This introduction to what Global History is brings together theory and practice with 6 key concepts, delivered through 6 accessible case studies. Re-evaluating the central concerns and key approaches in the field, it offers an up-to-date discussion of the foundations of Global History, its guiding questions, and principal methods at work'.Doing Global History offers students valuable insights into the ways general concepts can be used and applied when doing historical research. The 6 concepts- connections, actors, structures, space, time and transit- and their accompanying examples will not only help readers to get a solid grasp of what global history means, but will stimulate further engagement in the field. Wenzlhuemer successfully shows that global historTrade ReviewWriting Global History is a brilliant introduction to one of the most exciting and dynamic fields of history. It is not only instructive but also highly entertaining, elegantly interweaving theoretical reflections on six key concepts – connections, actors, structures, space, time, transit – with insightful, rich, and beautifully narrated empirical case studies. It will be a crucial addition to every historian’s bookshelf and I am convinced that it will make it onto the reading lists of the major global history courses in the Anglophone world. * David Motadel, Associate Professor of International History, Department of International History, LSE, UK *Wenzlhuemer succeeds in providing a concise, well-explained, and entertaining overview of the main analytical tools one needs to do global history. The book is undoubtedly an excellent companion for any undergraduate or graduate student entering the field, but it is also recommended reading for scholars seeking to better understand what lies behind the global history label. … Doing Global History is an important contribution to ensuring the future of the field. * Connections *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is Global History 1. Connections: The Great Moon Hoax 2. Space: Connectivity and Isolation 3. Time: Telegraphy and Temporal Structure 4. Actors: Mutiny on the Bounty 5. Structures: Breakthrough on Mont Cenis 6. Transit: Dr. Crippen’s Getaway Conclusion: Writing Global Histories Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisLukas M. Verburgt is Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) and guest researcher at Leiden University, the Netherlands.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction: History of Science – Past, Present, Future, Lukas M. Verburgt (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Netherlands) 1. Global History of Science, James Poskett (University of Warwick, UK) a. Comment: Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh (University of Cambridge and Royal Institution, UK) b. Response: James Poskett (University of Warwick, UK) 2. Gender History of Science, Donald L. Opitz (DePaul University, USA) a. Comment: Joanna Wharton (University of York, UK) b. Response: Donald L. Opitz (DePaul University, USA) 3. Post/Decolonial History of Science and STS, Suman Seth(Cornell University, USA) a. Comment: Meredith Alberta Palmer (Cornell University, USA) b. Response: Suman Seth & Meredith Alberta Palmer (both Cornell University, USA) 4. Neo-Kantian/Post-Kuhnian History and Philosophy of Science, Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech University, USA) a. Comment: Katherina Kinzel (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) b. Response: Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech University, USA) 5. Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (&HPS), Max Dresow (University of Minnesota, USA) a. Comment: Hasok Chang (The University of Cambridge, UK) b. Response: Max Dresow (University of Minnesota, USA) 6. Historical Epistemology, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Technical University of Berlin, Germany) a. Comment: Massimiliano Simons (Maastricht University, The Netherlands and KU Leuven, Belgium) b. Response: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Technical University of Berlin, Germany) 7. Environmental History of Science, Johan Gärdebo (University of Uppsala, Sweden) a. Comment: Libby Robin (Australian National University, Australia) b. Response: Johan Gärdebo (University of Uppsala, Sweden) 8. Multispecies History of Science, Raf de Bont (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) a. Comment: Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter, UK) b. Response: Raf de Bont (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) 9. Material and Performative History of Science, Marieke Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands) a. Comment: Pamela Smith (Columbia University, USA) b. Response: Marieke Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands) 10. Computational History of Science, Julia Damerow and Manfred Laubichler (both Arizona State University USA) a. Comment: Colin Frederick Allen (University of Pittsburgh, USA) b. Response: Julia Damerow & Manfred Laubichler (both Arizona State University USA) 11. History of Knowledge, Peter Burke (University of Cambridge, UK) a. Comment: James A. Secord (University of Cambridge, UK) b. Response: Peter Burke (University of Cambridge, UK) 12. History of Scientific Ignorance, Lukas M. Verburgt (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Netherlands) a. Comment: Jouni-Matti Kuukanen (University of Oulu, Finland) b. Response: Lukas M. Verburgt (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Netherlands) 13. Agnotology in History of Science, Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University, USA) a. Comment: Anna Lisa Ahlers (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany) b. Response: Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University, USA) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of déjà vu and the idea 'End of History' relate to one another? Through thinkers like Bergson, Kojève and Nietzsche, Virno explores these constructs of memory and the passage of time. In showing how the experience of time becomes historical, Virno considers two fundamental concepts from Western philosophy: Power and The Act, reinterpreting these with respect to time. Through these, he elegantly constructs a radical new theory of historical temporality.Trade ReviewPaulo Virno is one of the most radical and lucid thinkers of the postoperaist political tradition * Meditations Journal *

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Book SynopsisVeblen was an original thinker, responsible for introducing and popularising a host of important concepts and insights. He ignited controversy not only in economics, but also in sociology, history and political science. The number and quality of the responses to his work provide evidence of the novelty and explanatory power of his ideas. These comprehensive volumes will enable the reader to sample the broad spectrum of Veblen's thought and that of his critics and interpreters. They include critical appraisals of the corpus of his published work as well as reinterpretations of his life and influence on the social sciences particularly economics, political science and sociology.This authoritative collection includes reprints of materials previously published by leading scholars on nearly every aspect of Veblen's life and work. It will be invaluable to professional scholars and graduate students who wish to heighten their understanding of the alternatives to formalism in the social studies.Trade Review'The thoughtful anthology on studies of Veblen is most timely in an era when profits no longer have much to do with productivity and conspicuous consumption is more conspicuous than ever. America's greatest social scientist dealt with emotions that continue to plague us - competitive rivalry, desire, envy, emulation.' -- - John Patrick Diggins, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USTable of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Rick Tilman PART I ORIGINS AND BASIS OF VEBLEN’S THOUGHT 1. William M. Dugger (1979), ‘The Origins of Thorstein Veblen’s Thought’ 2. Anne Mayhew (1987), ‘The Beginnings of Institutionalism’ 3. Philip Mirowski (1987), ‘The Philosophical Bases of Institutionalist Economics’ 4. Stephen Edgell and Rick Tilman (1989), ‘The Intellectual Antecedents of Thorstein Veblen: A Reappraisal’ PART II HIS THEORY OF EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE 5. Stephen Edgell (1975), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of Evolutionary Change’ 6. Malcolm Rutherford (1984), ‘Thorstein Veblen and the Processes of Institutional Change’ 7. Paul D. Bush (1987), ‘The Theory of Institutional Change’ 8. Ann Jennings and William Waller (1994), ‘Evolutionary Economics and Cultural Hermeneutics: Veblen, Cultural Relativism, and Blind Drift’ 9. Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1998), ‘On the Evolution of Thorstein Veblen’s Evolutionary Economics’ 10. Clare Virginia Eby (1998), ‘Veblen’s Assault on Time’ PART III THEORY OF HUMAN NATURE 11. Melville J. Herskovits (1936), ‘The Significance of Thorstein Veblen for Anthropology’ 12. Thomas C. Mayberry (1969), ‘Thorstein Veblen on Human Nature’ 13. John P. Diggins (1977), ‘Animism and the Origins of Alienation: The Anthropological Perspective of Thorstein Veblen’ 14. William T. Waller, Jr. (1988), ‘The Concept of Habit in Economic Analysis’ 15. Stephen Edgell and Jules Townshend (1993), ‘Marx and Veblen on Human Nature, History, and Capitalism: Vive la Différence!’ PART IV CONSUMPTION 16. H. Leibenstein (1950), ‘Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen Effects in the Theory of Consumers’ Demand’ 17. Robert L. Steiner and Joseph Weiss (1951), ‘Veblen Revised in the Light of Counter-Snobbery’ 18. David B. Hamilton (1987), ‘Institutional Economics and Consumption’ 19. Stephen Edgell (1992), ‘Veblen and Post-Veblen Studies of Conspicuous Consumption: Social Stratification and Fashion’ 20. Roger Mason (1995), ‘Interpersonal Effects on Consumer Demand in Economic Theory and Marketing Thought, 1890–1950’ 21. Colin Campbell (1995), ‘Conspicuous Confusion? A Critique of Veblen’s Theory of Conspicuous Consumption’ 22. Rick Tilman (1999), ‘Thorstein Veblen and the Disinterest of Neoclassical Economists in Wasteful Consumption’ PART V CRITIC OF CLASSICAL AND NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS 23. A.W. Coats (1954), ‘The Influence of Veblen’s Methodology’ 24. Marc R. Tool (1977), ‘A Social Value Theory in Neoinstitutional Economics’ 25. Syamal K. Ghosh (1984), ‘On the Validity of Veblen’s Criticisms of Economic Orthodoxy: An Analysis of His Positions in the Light of Current Conditions and Economic Thought’ 26. Sasan Fayazmanesh (1998), ‘On Veblen’s Coining of the Term "Neoclassical"’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I VEBLEN’S ECONOMIC SYSTEM 1. Karl L. Anderson (1933), ‘The Unity of Veblen’s Theoretical System’ 2. J.A. Hobson (1937), ‘The Economics of Thorstein Veblen’ 3. Paul M. Sweezy (1957), ‘The Theory of Business Enterprise and Absentee Ownership’ 4. Kenneth J. Arrow (1975), ‘Thorstein Veblen as an Economic Theorist’ 5. Donald A. Walker (1977), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Economic System’ 6. James M. Cypher (1998), ‘Financial Dominance in the US Economy: The Increased Relevance of Veblen’s Analysis in a Post-Keynesian Structure’ PART II ON SOCIALISM AND RADICAL ECONOMICS 7. Joseph E. Pluta and Charles G. Leathers (1978), ‘Veblen and Modern Radical Economics’ 8. E.K. Hunt (1979), ‘The Importance of Thorstein Veblen for Contemporary Marxism’ 9. James Ronald Stanfield (1989), ‘Veblenian and Neo-Marxian Perspectives On the Cultural Crisis of Late Capitalism’ 10. William M. Dugger and William Waller (1996), ‘Radical Institutionalism: From Technological to Democratic Instrumentalism’ PART III VEBLEN AS SOCIOLOGIST AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHER 11. Arthur K. Davis (1945), ‘Sociological Elements in Veblen’s Economic Theory’ 12. Abram L. Harris (1953), ‘Veblen as Social Philosopher – A Reappraisal’ 13. David Riesman (1953), ‘The Social and Psychological Setting of Veblen’s Economic Theory’ PART IV SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE 14. Walter P. Metzger (1949), ‘Ideology and the Intellectual: A Study of Thorstein Veblen’ 15. Frank J. Weed (1972), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Sociology of Knowledge’ 16. Warren J. Samuels (1990), ‘The Self-Referentiability of Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Preconceptions of Economic Science’ 17. Rick Tilman (1999), ‘The Frankfurt School and the Problem of Social Rationality in Thorstein Veblen’ PART V FEMINISM 18. Edythe S. Miller (1972), ‘Veblen and Women’s Lib: A Parallel’ 19. Jeffrey Waddoups and Rick Tilman (1992), ‘Thorstein Veblen and the Feminism of Institutional Economists’ 20. Clare Virginia Eby (1992), ‘Veblen’s Anti-Anti-Feminism’ 21. Ann Jennings (1998), ‘Veblen’s Feminism in Historical Perspective’ 22. Nils Gilman (1999), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Neglected Feminism’ PART VI SATIRIST, STYLIST AND GRAMMARIAN 23. John Cummings (1899), ‘The Theory of the Leisure Class’ 24. Joseph Dorfman (1932), ‘The "Satire" of Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class’ 25. Teresa Toulouse (1985), ‘Veblen and His Reader: Rhetoric and Intention in The Theory of the Leisure Class’ 26. Paul D. Bush (1999), ‘Veblen’s "Olympian Detachment" Reconsidered’ 27. Gary Alan Fine (1994), ‘The Social Construction of Style: Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class as Contested Text’ PART VII ON THE HIGHER LEARNING IN AMERICA 28. Charles A. Beard (1918), ‘The Hire Learning in America’ 29. Harold J. Laski (1919), ‘The Higher Learning in America’ 30. Thomas Sowell (1969), ‘Veblen’s Higher Learning After Fifty Years’ 31. Arthur J. Vidich (1994), ‘The Higher Learning in America in Veblen’s Time and Our Own’ Name Index Volume III Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I HIS IDEAL POLITICAL ECONOMY 1. H.J. Hodder (1956), ‘The Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen’ 2. Rick Tilman (1972), ‘Veblen’s Ideal Political Economy and Its Critics’ 3. Donald R. Stabile (1988), ‘Veblen’s Analysis of Social Movements: Bellamyites, Workers, and Engineers’ 4. Charles G. Leathers (1989), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Theories of Governmental Failure: The Critic of Capitalism and Democracy Neglected Some Useful Insights, Hindsight Shows’ 5. Malcolm Rutherford (1992), ‘Thorstein Veblen and the Problem of the Engineers’ PART II THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 6. Niles M. Hansen (1964), ‘Weber and Veblen on Economic Development’ 7. Clarence E. Ayres (1960), ‘Institutionalism and Economic Development’ 8. Geoffrey Hodgson (1996), ‘An Evolutionary Theory of Long-Term Economic Growth’ PART III GERMANY AND JAPAN: IMPERIALISM, WAR AND PEACE 9. Graham Wallas (1915), ‘Veblen’s Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution’ 10. George H. Mead (1918), ‘The Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation. By Thorstein Veblen’ 11. Henry A. Wallace (1940), ‘Veblen’s "Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution"’ 12. William Appleman Williams (1957), ‘The Nature of Peace’ 13. Derk Visser (1969), ‘The German Captain of Enterprise: Veblen’s Imperial Germany Revisited’ 14. Jeff E. Biddle and Warren J. Samuels (1991), ‘Thorstein Veblen on War, Peace, and National Security’ PART IV THE BUSINESS/INDUSTRY DICHOTOMY 15. J.A. Banks (1959), ‘Veblen and Industrial Sociology’ 16. William T. Waller, Jr. (1982), ‘The Evolution of the Veblenian Dichotomy: Veblen, Hamilton, Ayres, and Foster’ 17. Phillip Anthony O’Hara (1993), ‘Veblen’s Analysis of Business, Industry and the Limits of Capital: An Interpretation and Sympathetic Critique’ 18. Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1998), ‘Dichotomizing the Dichotomy: Veblen versus Ayres’ PART V EGALITARIAN THEORIST OF COLLECTIVE WEALTH 19. Ken McCormick (1989), ‘Veblen on the Nature of Capital’ 20. Phillip Anthony O’Hara (1999), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of Collective Social Wealth, Instincts and Property Relations’ PART VI ECOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHICS 21. Joseph J. Spengler (1972), ‘Veblen on Population and Resources’ 22. Wilbur R. Jacobs (1978), ‘The Great Despoliation: Environmental Themes in American Frontier History’ 23. Ron D. White (1978), ‘Growth versus Conservation: A Veblenian Perspective’ PART VII VEBLEN’S LIFE AND WORK RECONSIDERED 24. Florence Veblen (1931), ‘Thorstein Veblen: Reminiscences of His Brother Orson’ 25. Stephen Edgell (1996), ‘Rescuing Veblen From Valhalla: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of a Sociological Legend’ 26. Russell H. Bartley and Sylvia Erickson Bartley (2000), ‘Stigmatizing Thorstein Veblen: A Study in the Confection of Academic Reputations’ PART VIII VEBLEN’S INTELLECTUAL LEGACY 27. Solidelle Fortier Wasser (1994), ‘Veblen’s "Post-Modernist" Economics’ 28. C. Wright Mills (1953), ‘Introduction to the Mentor Edition’ 29. C.E. Ayres (1963), ‘The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisA powerful account of Jewish resistence in Nazi-occupied Europe and why such resistance was so remarkable. Most popular accounts of the Holocaust typically cast Jewish victims as meek and ask, Why didn''t Jews resist? But we know now that Jews did resist, staging armed uprisings in ghettos and camps throughout Nazi-occupied Europe. In Hope and Honor, Rachel L. Einwohner illustrates the dangers in attempting resistance under unimaginable conditions and shows how remarkable such resistance was. She draws on oral testimonies, published and unpublished diaries and memoirs, and other written materials produced both by survivors and those who perished to show how Jews living under Nazi occupation in the ghettos of Warsaw, Vilna, and Lódz reached decisions about resistance. Using methods of comparative-historical sociology, Einwohner shows that decisions about resistance rested on Jews'' assessments of the threats facing them, and somewhat ironically, armed resistance took place only once actTrade ReviewThis six-chapter book is well written, provides new theoretical and historical insights, and is likely to engage readers in both the academic and nonacademic worlds. * Deborah A. Abowitz, Bucknell University, Mobilization *Recommended. General readers through graduate students. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Timeline of Important Events Chapter 1: Studying Jewish Resistance Chapter 2: Understanding Resistance: Theoretical Underpinnings Chapter 3: Fighting for Honor in the Warsaw Ghetto Chapter 4: Competing Visions in the Vilna Ghetto Chapter 5: Hope and Hunger in the Lódz Ghetto Chapter 6: Resistance: Past, Present, and Future Appendix: Data Sources References Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe book analyses the ideological and philosophical basis of Zionism, i.e. how Zionism solved the most important problems of Jews in the last decades of the 19th century: the problem of assimilation, the philosophical principles of national identity, the idea of self-liberation and the conception of the Jewish state. Another problem discussed in this book is how the religious idea of "Return to Zion" became both philosophical and political goals. All considerations are based on the analysis of the source texts of the protagonists and founders of Zionism (Hess, Pinsker, Herzl and Nordau). Zionism is also shown in the perspective of its strength and weakness, as well as its importance for Jewishness in general. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction Chapter I. Moses Hess and the Shabbat of History Messianic Mission New Anti-Semitism Jews as Revivers of the Nations Judaism: Religion of the Future The Basis of the Jewish Reform Historic Mission of Jews The Project of the Jewish State Chapter II. Leo Pinsker and the Jewish Self-Emancipation Pinsker’s Path to Emancipation The Issue of the “Jewish Question” Jews as a Nation Anti-Semitism and Its Philosophical Basis The Project of Self-Emancipation Chapter III. Theodor Herzl: We want to have our state! New Jewish Politics and Philosophy The Zionist Idea: A Philosophical Utopia? The “Jewish Question” Solution to the “Jewish Question” New Anti-Semitism The Jewish State: The Plan Table of Contents Chapter IV. Max Nordau: We, the Jewish Nation The Jewish People The Jewish Patriotism Anti-Semitism Against the Jews Zionism: New Jewish Philosophy The Final Solution to the “Jewish Question” Conclusion Bibliography Index of names Index of subjects

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Matthew M. Heaton and Toyin Falola Part I: Knowledge Production and Epistemologies of Nigerian History 1. Indigenous Knowledge and Oral Traditions in Nigeria Toyin Falola 2. Archaeology, Linguistics, and Early Histories of Nigeria Constanze Weise 3. Islamic Education in Nigeria Mustapha Hashim Kurfi 4. Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography of Nigeria Sati U. Fwatshak Part II: States and Societies to the Nineteenth Century 5. Prehistoric Developments in Nigeria Peter Breunig 6. The Origins of Kingdoms and Empires in Precolonial Nigeria Vincent Hiribarren 7. State Management and Political Institutions in Nigeria before 1800 Osarhieme Benson Osadolor 8. Economic Production and Exchange of States and Societies in Precolonial Nigeria Aribidesi Usman 9. Religion in Precolonial Nigeria Shobana Shankar 10. European Contact with Nigeria and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Matthew M. Heaton 11. Abolition, Legitimate Commerce, and Christianity in Nigeria Ayodeji Olukoju 12. Political Revolutions in Nineteenth Century Nigeria Toyin Falola Part III: Colonial Rule and the Making of Nigeria 13. The Conquest of Nigeria Abubakar Babajo Sani 14. The Colonial Administration of Nigeria Olufemi Vaughan 15. Colonial Economies of Nigeria Steven Pierce 16. Gender, Class, and Culture in Colonial Nigeria Funmilayo Idowu Agbaje 17. Nigeria and the World Wars Oliver Coates 18. Political, Economic, and Social Change in Nigeria, 1945-1960 Lynn Schler Part IV: Nigeria Since Independence 19. Federalism and the First Republic of Nigeria, 1960-1966 Rotimi T. Suberu 20. The Nigerian Civil War and Its Legacies Roy Doron 21. The Nigerian Oil Economy and the Rentier State Adeoye O. Akinola 22. Dictatorship and Democracy in Nigeria, 1966-1999 Eghosa E. Osaghae 23. Religious Nationalisms in Nigeria Matthews A. Ojo 24. Ethnic Nationalism and Minority Politics in Nigeria Akin Iwilade and Iwebunor Okwechime 25. Popular Culture, Literature, and the Arts in Nigeria Toyin Falola 26. Women and Gender Relations in Twenty-First Century Nigeria Adanna Ogbonna-Oluikpe 27. Agriculture, Environment, and Sustainable Development in Nigeria Chima J. Korieh 28. Architecture, Infrastructure, and the Built Environment in Nigeria Toyin Falola 29. An Afrocentric Overview of Education, Health, and Welfare Service in Twenty-First Century Nigeria Jamaine M. Abidogun 30. Federalism and Politics in Nigeria's Fourth Republic Cyril Obi and Godwin Onuoha 31. Dimensions of Nigeria's National Security and Development Challenges in Changing Global Contexts N. Oluwafemi Mimiko Part V: Nigeria in the World 32. Nigeria's Impact on Diasporic Cultures in the Americas Matt D. Childs 33. Nigeria and the Global Umma Brandon Kendhammer 34. Migrants, Immigrants, and the New Nigerian Diaspora Onoso Imoagene 35. Nigeria and African Affairs Adebayo Oyebade 36. Nigerian Diplomacy, Foreign Relations, and International Entanglements Toyin Falola Index

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the past, present, and future of sensory history.Trade Review“Mark M. Smith’s masterful command of sensory history is everywhere on display in this timely, insightful manifesto. Small in size but capacious in scope, this agenda-setting examination of the ‘state of the field’ surveys a wide range of historical work on the senses while identifying new directions for future scholarship. Conveying complex ideas with enviable simplicity, A Sensory History Manifesto is both an essential guide to the field and a compelling argument for its transformation.”—Peter Denney,coeditor of Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700–1850“A Sensory History Manifesto is an impressively wide-ranging synthesis of some of the key developments in the field, covering the entire globe and all periods from antiquity to the present. It offers many excellent ideas for future interdisciplinary research, including engaging more fully with emerging animal–human interaction studies and with the hard sciences.”—Tim Lockley,author of Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795-1874“The field of sensory history is ready for a book like this, and Smith is the historian to write it. It is a model of keen insight and good advice.”—Andrew J. Rotter American Historical Review

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Book SynopsisDesigned for teachers looking for new perspectives on teaching the recent past. Less of a traditional textbook than a pedagogical Swiss Army knife, the volume offers a diversity of voices and approaches to teaching a field that, by its very nature, invites vigorous debate and puts generational differences in stark relief.Table of Contents Introduction: Teaching Contemporary History since Reagan Amy L. Sayward and Kimber M. Quinney “Life, Liberty, or Property”: Analyzing American Identity through Open Resources Monica L. Butler Examining African American Voter Suppression, from Reagan to Trump Aaron Treadwell “Work Does Not Stop with This March on Washington”: LGBTQ+ National Mobilizations, 1979–2009 Josh Cerretti Public Debate, Citizenship Participation, and Recent US Supreme Court Nominations Leah Vallely The Drug War Era: From the Crack Epidemic to the Opioid Crisis Kathryn McLain and Matthew R. Pembleton A Difficult Balance: National Security and Democracy from Reagan to Trump Kimber M. Quinney Explaining Waco: How Historians Come to Different Conclusions about What Really Happened Andrew Polk A Nation at Risk? Education Debates and Policies from Reagan to Trump Carl P. Watts Undermining the Sandbags: How Neoliberalism Encouraged Undocumented Migration, from the 1980s to the Early 2020s Benjamin C. Montoya Racializing Legality in Post-1965 Immigration Debates Natalie Mendoza Something Old, Something New, Something Purple? US Military Adaptation from the Renewed Cold War to Resurrected Confrontation Hal Friedman Arctic Nation: Climate Change Changes Policy Jeremy M. McKenzie and Laura Krenicki Pushing Back: Nuclear Disarmament and Peace Activism during the Cold War and Beyond Lori Clune Framing America for the World: Understanding US Foreign Policy Rhetoric: Using Presidential Speeches before the UN General Assembly Amy L. Sayward Teaching Women and US Foreign Policy: Hillary Rodham Clinton and Women’s Rights as Human Rights Allida Black and Kate English List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA lively introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past.Trade Review"Among the books designed to teach aspiring historians proper procedures for their work, this volume ranks high. . . .Readers will especially appreciate the care taken to show the link between methodological innovations and the historical contexts in which they occurred."—Choice, January 2002, Vol. 39, No. 5"If the best historians, beginning with Thucydides, have been skeptical of metaphysical absolutes, they have also been reluctant to immerse themselves in antiquarianism. The present book draws strength from this tension."—Charles Sullivan, Common Knowledge, 2003"Historians generally have had to work out for themselves the different ways to read and use sources, the issue of how much we actually can learn from the past, the different ways that historical questions have been asked, and the uses to which history can be put. From Reliable Sources makes this process easier by laying out the principal elements of historiography and source criticism. No one, after reading this book, will be able to think again of sources as unproblematic conveyors of simple facts."—Constance Brittain Bouchard, University of Akron"Both learned and informative, From Reliable Sources is clearly the outcome of extensive archival and critical experience. With its accessible balance of exposition and example, it is also a pleasure to read. There is nothing else like this in English."—Isabel V. Hull, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsI. The Source: The Basis of Our Knowledge about the Past A. What Is a Source? B. Source Typologies, Their Evolution and Complementarity C. The Impact of Communication and Information Technology on the Production of Sources D. Storing and Delivering InformationII. Technical Analysis of Sources A. Clio's Laboratory Paleography Diplomatics Archaeology Statistics Additional Technical ToolsB. Source Criticism: The Great Tradition The "Genealogy" of the Document Genesis of a Document The "Originality" of the Document Interpretation of the Document Authorial Authority Competence of the Observer The Trustworthiness of the ObserverIII. Historical Interpretation: The Traditional Basics A. Comparison of Sources B. Establishing Evidentiary Satisfaction C. The "Facts" That MatterIV. New Interpretive Approaches A. Interdisciplinarity The Social Sciences The HumanitiesB. The Politics of History Writing The Annales The "New Left" and New Histories The New Cultural HistoryV. The Nature of Historical Knowledge A. Change and ContinuityB. Causality Causal Factors (Religious Ideology, Clericalism, and Anticlericalism; Social and Economic Factors; Biology and "Race"; Environment; Science, Technology, and Inventions; Power; Public Opinion and the Mass Media) The Role of the IndividualC. History Today The Problem of Objectivity The Status of the "Fact"Research BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTo what extent do we and can we understand othersother peoples, species, times, and places? What is the role of others within ourselves, epitomized in the notion of unconscious forces? Can we come to terms with our internalized others in ways that foster mutual understanding and counteract the tendency to scapegoat, project, victimize, and indulge in prejudicial and narcissistic impulses? How do various fields or disciplines address or avoid such questions? And have these questions become particularly pressing and not in the least confined to other peoples, times, and places? Making selective and critical use of the thought of such important figures as Sigmund Freud, Jacques Derrida, and Mikhail Bakhtin, in Understanding Others Dominick LaCapra investigates a series of crucial topics from the current state of deconstruction, trauma studies, and the humanities to newer fields such as animal studies and posthumanist scholarship. LaCapra adroitly brings critical historicaTrade ReviewOne idea that has permeated Dominick LaCapra's work from the beginning is that historical texts pose questions to their readers. They call assumptions into question, render the familiar strange, and challenge contemporary habits of thought... LaCapra's latest volume [is] a stimulating model of how to engage carefully with texts that call into question some of the dominant modes of selfhood in our time. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *In this defiantly political book, Dominick LaCapra pairs Freud with Derrida to expose the psychological and historical processes underpinning the persecution of human and non-human others... LaCapra's great skill is in revivifying the methods of psychoanalysis and deconstruction, not as tools for the couch or the academy, but, in enabling 'a dialogical relation to the past,' as tools with which to build a post-human future. * FRENCH STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. History, Deconstruction, and Working through the Past 2. Humans, Other Animals, and the Humanities 3. Trauma, History, Memory, Identity: What Remains? 4. Frank Hamilton Cushing and His "Adventures" at Zuni 5. What is History? What is Literature? 6. What Use Are the Humanities? Index

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