History: theory and methods Books
University of Notre Dame Press Vico Genealogist of Modernity
Book SynopsisIn this lucid and probing study, Robert C. Miner argues that Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was the architect of a subversive, genealogical approach to modernity. Miner documents the genesis of Vico''s stance toward modernity in the first phase of his thought. Through close examination of his early writings, centering on Vico''s critique of Descartes and his elaboration of the ''verum-factum'' principle, Vico, Genealogist of Modernity reveals that Vico strives to acknowledge the technical advances of modernity while unmasking its origins in human pride.Trade Review"Miner has given us nourishing food for thought, and this work deserves attention, not least for Miner's meticulous scholarship. . . . It should . . . rekindle an interest in this engaging, often neglected Neapolitan thinker." —Modern Age"Miner’s book rests on a thorough knowledge of Vico’s work. . . . [It] offers original insight and understanding into a seminal, if occasionally neglected, figure and is therefore highly recommended.” —Library Journal“Miner contends that reading Vico to understand his critique of secular modernity is the key to discovering him. His text is rich in probing questions and comparisons. . . . His style is clear and interesting and ends with helpful notes, bibliography, and index.” —Choice“[M]any novel and positive insights... Chief of these is the way he incorporates Vico's Catholicism into his analysis of Vico's thought. He is really the first Vico scholar to try this kind of synthesis in a systematic way. ... he deserves great credit for calling attention to the New Science, and Vico's thinking as a whole, as an important episode in the study of the history of ethics and religion.” —New Vico Studies“... written with ease and enthusiasm.” —Renaissance Quarterly“...well structured and stimulating.” —Philosophy in Review“...interesting interpretation of the significance of Vico’s thought....” —The Sixteenth Century Journal
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Pennsylvania State University Press A Sensory History Manifesto
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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University of Wisconsin Press Understanding and Teaching Contemporary US
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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The University of Michigan Press Zombie History
Book SynopsisYou can't outrun it, but you can outsmart itTrade ReviewThroughout the work, Hoffer selects examples of history Zombies that have plagued the telling of American history. By selecting and exposing such history Zombies, Hoffer aims not only to show the danger of such misguided and prejudiced perversions of the past, but also to demonstrate why responsible, living (and not undead) history matters for the telling of the American story." —Richard A. Bailey, Canisius College
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd World History
Book SynopsisPresents overviews and approaches to the problems of world history. This book offers radical postmodern and postcolonial critiques of holism, identity, and Western scientific history in favor of a different kind of universalism. It is suitable for those interested in teaching history courses attuned to the global era in which we live.Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction: The Theory and Practice of World History 1 Philip Pomper Part 1 Mapping the Field 1 The Changing Shape of World History 21 William H. McNeill 2 Crossing Boundaries: Ecumenical, World, and Global History 41 Bruce Mazlish 3 Periodizing World History 53 William A. Green Part II Rethinking Structure, Agency, and Ideology 4 The World-System Perspective in the Construction of Economic History 69 Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod 5 Bringing Ideas and Agency Back In: Representation and the Comparative Approach to World History 81 Michael Adas 6 World Histories and the Construction of Collective Identities 105 S. N. Eisenstadt Part II Unbinding Identities 8 History’s Forgotten Doubles 159 Ashis Nandy 9 Identify in World History: A Postmodern Perspective 179 Lewis D. Wurgaft Part IV Charting Trajectories 10 World History, Cultural Relativism, and the Global Future 217 Theodore H. Von Laue Notes 235 Index 272
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd World History
Book SynopsisPresents overviews and approaches to the problems of world history. This book offers radical postmodern and postcolonial critiques of holism, identity, and Western scientific history in favor of a different kind of universalism. It is suitable for those interested in teaching history courses attuned to the global era in which we live.Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction: The Theory and Practice of World History 1 Philip Pomper Part 1 Mapping the Field 1 The Changing Shape of World History 21 William H. McNeill 2 Crossing Boundaries: Ecumenical, World, and Global History 41 Bruce Mazlish 3 Periodizing World History 53 William A. Green Part II Rethinking Structure, Agency, and Ideology 4 The World-System Perspective in the Construction of Economic History 69 Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod 5 Bringing Ideas and Agency Back In: Representation and the Comparative Approach to World History 81 Michael Adas 6 World Histories and the Construction of Collective Identities 105 S. N. Eisenstadt Part II Unbinding Identities 8 History’s Forgotten Doubles 159 Ashis Nandy 9 Identify in World History: A Postmodern Perspective 179 Lewis D. Wurgaft Part IV Charting Trajectories 10 World History, Cultural Relativism, and the Global Future 217 Theodore H. Von Laue Notes 235 Index 272
£37.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Philosophies of History
Book SynopsisThis important book charts the development of philosophical thinking about history over the past 250 years, combining extracts from key texts with new explanatory and critical discussion. The book is designed to make the work of thinkers such as Hume, Herder, Hegel, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Foucault accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Western philosophy. An introductory section is followed by nine further chapters exploring contrasting schools of thought. The volume reveals the origins of contemporary trends in the discipline and relates wider philosophical reflections to the study of history itself. It also points to connections between philosophy of history and literary and cultural theory which have developed in recent decades.Trade Review"Philosophies of History will serve as a valuable introduction and point of reference to historians and history students who want to understand what the philosophers have been saying about their subject." Richard J. Evans, Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge "'Philosophy of History' is usually limited either to discussion of a narrow canon of historical speculators or to abstract conceptualizing, and it is useful to have a work, including both primary texts and commentary, that brings together both lines of interpretation." Donald R. Kelley, James Westfall Thompson Professor of History, Rutgers University "The primary purpose of this work is to serve as a sourcebook, and in this regard it is excellent. But perhaps its chief virtue is how well the documents are introduced. Graceful and succinct, it can serve as a guide not only to students beginning their study of the philosophy of history but to their instructors as well." Choice "The editors have provided a veritable quarry of potentially valuable source-material." History "This is a superb book for use in an upper-level history and theory course." History: Reviews of New BooksTable of Contents1. On Philosophizing about History. 2. Enlightenment. David Hume (1711-1776). Condoret, Marquis de (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicholas Caritat) (1743-1794). Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). 3. Classical Historicism. Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803). Wilhelm von Humbolt (1767-1835). Friedrick Scheiermacher. Georg Wilhelm. Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831). Leopold von Ranke. (1795-1886). 4. Positivism. Auguste Comte. (1798-1897). John Stewart Mill. (1806-1873). Henry Thomas Buckle. (1821-1862). 5. Suprahistory. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). S?ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855). Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). 6. Secular Historicism. Wilhelm Diltherly (1831-1911). Wilhelm Windelband (1848-1915). Henrich Rickert (1863-1936). Georg Simmel (1858-1918). Max Weber (1864-1920). 7. Hermeneutics. Edmund Husser. (1859-1938). Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). Hans Georg Gadamer (1900). Paul Ricoeur (1913-). 8. Kulturkritik. Karl Marx (1818-1883). Georg Luk?cs (1885-1971). Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). J?rgen Habermas (1929- ). 9. Narrativism. Cluade LUvi-Strauss. (1908- ). Roland Barthes (1915-1980). Hayden White (1928- ). Paul Ricoeur (1913- ). 10. Posthistory. Michel Foucault (1926-1984). Jean Baudrillard (1929- ). Francis Fukuyama (1952- ). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Archaeologies of Memory
Book SynopsisThis text presents a coherent framework for the study of memory in past societies. It is a concise book explicitly designed to serve as an introduction to the central issues in the study of memory, authored by noted archaeologists working in a variety of contexts and geographic areas.Trade Review“In this exciting and interpretively timely volume, archaeology and social theory intersect to explore the materialization of memory. Drawing on diverse case studies, from historical and prehistoric contexts across the globe, contributors expand dimensions for critical understandings of ‘the past in the past.” Wendy Ashmore, University of California, Riverside “Memory is a locus of struggle over identity, authority, and power. This collection represents the first serious attempt in archaeology to examine this struggle. As such, it is a path-breaking volume that all archaeologists need to read and contemplate.” Randy McGuire, Binghamton University “The distinguished editors, an anthropological archaeologist and a Classical Greek archaeologist, have gathered a formidable team to explore memorizations over a vast span of time, space, and cultures, from the Old World to the New, and from prehistory right up to the present.” Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge "This is an excellent book which acheives what it sets out to do - to place memory more firmly on the research agenda of contemporary archaeology." Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 29, 2002-2004Table of ContentsPreface. Notes On Contributors. 1. Archaeologies Of Memory: An Introduction: Ruth M. Van Dyke And Susan E. Alcock (Colorado College; University Of Michigan). Part I: Memory Studies With Access To Texts:. 2. Echoes Of Empire: Vijayanagara And Historical Memory, Vijayanagara As Historical Memory: Carla M. Sinopoli (University Of Michigan). 3. Memory’s Materiality: Ancestral Presence, Commemorative Practice And Disjunctive Locales: Lynn Meskell (Columbia University). 4. Memory Tattered And Torn: Spolia In The Heartland Of Byzantine Hellenism: Amy Papalexandrou (Independent Scholar). 5. Glories Of The Past In The Past: Ritual Activities At Palatial Ruins In Early Iron Age Crete: Mieke Prent (University Of Amsterdam). 6. Concrete Memories: Fragments Of The Past In The Classic Maya Present (500-100 AD): Rosemary A. Joyce (University Of California, Berkeley). Part II: Memory Studies In Prehistory:. 7. Creating Memory In Prehistory: The Engraved Slate Plaques Of Southwest Iberia: Katina T. Lillios (Ripon College). 8. Memory, Mounds, And The Mississippian Argument Against Structure: Timothy R. Pauketat And Susan M. Alt (University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). 9. Memory And The Construction Of Chacoan Society: Ruth M. Van Dyke (Colorado College). Part III: Caveats And Commentaries:. 10. The Familiar Honeycomb: Byzantine Era Reuse Of Sicily’s Prehistoric Rock-Cut Tombs: Emma Blake (Stanford University). 11. The Translation Of Time: Richard Bradley (University Of Reading). Index.
£101.66
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Archaeologies of Memory
Book Synopsis* Serves as an accessible introduction to central issues in the study of memory, including authority and identity, and the role memory plays in their creation and transformation. * Presents a collection of newly commissioned essays that provide a coherent framework for the study of memory in past societies.Trade Review“In this exciting and interpretively timely volume, archaeology and social theory intersect to explore the materialization of memory. Drawing on diverse case studies, from historical and prehistoric contexts across the globe, contributors expand dimensions for critical understandings of ‘the past in the past.” Wendy Ashmore, University of California, Riverside “Memory is a locus of struggle over identity, authority, and power. This collection represents the first serious attempt in archaeology to examine this struggle. As such, it is a path-breaking volume that all archaeologists need to read and contemplate.” Randy McGuire, Binghamton University “The distinguished editors, an anthropological archaeologist and a Classical Greek archaeologist, have gathered a formidable team to explore memorizations over a vast span of time, space, and cultures, from the Old World to the New, and from prehistory right up to the present.” Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge "This is an excellent book which acheives what it sets out to do - to place memory more firmly on the research agenda of contemporary archaeology." Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 29, 2002-2004Table of ContentsPreface. Notes On Contributors. 1. Archaeologies Of Memory: An Introduction: Ruth M. Van Dyke And Susan E. Alcock (Colorado College; University Of Michigan). Part I: Memory Studies With Access To Texts:. 2. Echoes Of Empire: Vijayanagara And Historical Memory, Vijayanagara As Historical Memory: Carla M. Sinopoli (University Of Michigan). 3. Memory’s Materiality: Ancestral Presence, Commemorative Practice And Disjunctive Locales: Lynn Meskell (Columbia University). 4. Memory Tattered And Torn: Spolia In The Heartland Of Byzantine Hellenism: Amy Papalexandrou (Independent Scholar). 5. Glories Of The Past In The Past: Ritual Activities At Palatial Ruins In Early Iron Age Crete: Mieke Prent (University Of Amsterdam). 6. Concrete Memories: Fragments Of The Past In The Classic Maya Present (500-100 AD): Rosemary A. Joyce (University Of California, Berkeley). Part II: Memory Studies In Prehistory:. 7. Creating Memory In Prehistory: The Engraved Slate Plaques Of Southwest Iberia: Katina T. Lillios (Ripon College). 8. Memory, Mounds, And The Mississippian Argument Against Structure: Timothy R. Pauketat And Susan M. Alt (University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). 9. Memory And The Construction Of Chacoan Society: Ruth M. Van Dyke (Colorado College). Part III: Caveats And Commentaries:. 10. The Familiar Honeycomb: Byzantine Era Reuse Of Sicily’s Prehistoric Rock-Cut Tombs: Emma Blake (Stanford University). 11. The Translation Of Time: Richard Bradley (University Of Reading). Index.
£39.85
Harvard University Press Carving Up the Globe
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 *
£30.56
Princeton University Press Modern Architecture and Other Essays
Book SynopsisVincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in unique and compelling ways--with an audience that reaches from students and scholars to professional architects and ardent amateurs--Scully has profoundly influenced the way architecture is thought about and made. This extensively illustrated and elegantly designed volume distills Scully''s incalculable contribution. Neil Levine, a former student of Scully''s, selects twenty essays that reveal the breadth and depth of Scully''s work from the 1950s through the 1990s. The pieces are included for their singular contribution to our understanding of modern architecture as well as their relative unavailability to current readers. Levine offers a perceptive overview of Scully''s distinguished career and introduces each essay, skillfully setting the scholarly and cultural scene. The seleTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003 "Scully ... may find a place among the gallery of distinguished American critics ... for his historically grounded but engaged architectural criticism. That possibility is enhanced by the well-chosen essays in this volume. Not only did Neil Levine make an excellent selection, he also provided a brief but illuminating biographical essay tracing Scully's career. Better yet, the headnotes he has written for each of Scully's essays are themselves gemlike mini-essays."--Thomas Bender, The Nation "Vincent Scully is surely one of the most influential architectural historians and critics of the twentieth century... None of the essays included here are available in Scully's (more than 15) published books. Interestingly, I think the selection will work well both for readers familiar with Scully and his work, as well as for those to whom his writing will be new territory... The very best thing about this book is the wonderful quality of Scully's writing itself--clear, learned and witty."--Victoria Keller, The Art Book "Many of the texts, which span the years 1954 to 1999, were previously published only in magazines and have thus effectively been out of print. They cover the 20th century's mainstream trends, from the birth pangs of Frank Llyod Wright's Prairie Style to the death throes of postmodernism. All are fiercely opinionated."--Eve M. Kahn, ArtNews "Scully ranks among the most influential architectural historians of the 20th century... [T]his anthology is a wonderful source for anyone with a keen interest in architecture. No one living has written on the subject in a more eloquent and compelling way."--Choice "Covering diverse themes from Classicism to Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright to suburbia, each essay is telling in its own right, But whatever the ostensible theme, almost every one charts a growing awareness of Modernism's complex roots and relationships to tradition."--Jeremy Melvin, Architectural Review "[These essays] provide wide-ranging insights into the architectural thought of the past half-century by a central figure."--Richard Guy Wilson, Architectural Record "[An] overdue and welcome anthology. Scully owes his reputation to an authorial voice that is as arresting in the classroom as the printed page. In lecture, it is the elegant literary and formal precision that startles; on the printed page, the intimate spoken quality."--Michael Lewis, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians "Reading [this book], one sees quickly why Vincent Scully (now emeritus) was such a popular lecturer, a charismatic professor whose influence extended broadly throughout the architectural profession and the academy... Scully's writing bears comparison with [the] elevation of the esthetic to an almost religious level, and his particular approach to the architectural object--which he regards ideally both as internally coherent and as somehow 'corresponding' with reality itself--is very much in keeping with the New Criticism."--Tom McDonough, Art in AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 6 Introduction 8 Vincent Scully: A Bibliographical Sketch 12 Chapter 1: American Villas: Inventiveness in the American Suburb from Downing to Wright 34 Chapter 2: Wright vs. International Style 64 Chapter 3: Archetype and Order in Recent American Architecture 64 Chapter 4: Modern Architecture: Toward a Redefinition of Style 74 Chapter 5: The Nature of the Classical in Art 88 Chapter 6: Frank Lloyd Wright and Twentieth[Century Style 106 Chapter 7: The Death of the Street 120 Chapter 8: Doldrums in the Suburbs 128 Chapter 9: RIBA Discourse 1969: A Search for Principle between Two Wars 142 Chapter 10: Where is Modern Architecture Going? 158 Chapter 11: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Stuff of Dreams 170 Chapter 12: Architecture, Sculpture, and painting: Environment, Act, and Illusion 198 Chapter 13: Le Corbusier, 1922[1965 236 Chapter 14: Introduction to The Lois I. Kahn Archive: Personal Drawings 250 Chapter 15: Robert Venturi's Gentle Architecture 260 Chapter 16: Architecture: The Natural and the Mammade 282 Chapter 17: Louis I. Kahn and the Ruins of Rome 298 Chapter 18: Everybody Needs Everything 320 Chapter 19: The Architecture of Community 340 Chapter 20: America at the Millennium: Architecture and Community 358 Bibliography of Vincent Scully's Writings 368 Index 384 Text and Photography Credits 398
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Princeton University Press History
Book SynopsisLeopold von Ranke (1795-1886), generally recognized as the founder of the school of modern critical historical scholarship, and Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), the great Swiss proponent of cultural interpretation, are fathers of modern history--giants of their time who continue to exert an immense influence in our own. They are usually seen as contrasts, Ranke as representative of political history and Burckhardt of cultural history. In five essays, each flowing gracefully into the next, the distinguished historian Felix Gilbert shows that such contrasts are oversimplifications. Despite their interest in different aspects of the past, Ranke''s and Burckhardt''s views arose from common elements in the first half of the nineteenth century, the time in which they grew up and in which their first masterworks attracted such wide attention. This concise volume clarifies the beginnings of history as an autonomous discipline, while forcing us to examine our views on basic questions in historiTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*CHAPTER I. The Impact of the French Revolution and of the Napoleonic Age on Historical Thought, pg. 3*CHAPTER II. Ranke's View of the Task of Historical Scholarship, pg. 11*CHAPTER III. Ranke and the Meaning of History, pg. 32*CHAPTER IV. Burckhardt's Concept of Cultural History, pg. 46*CHAPTER V. Burckhardt and the Cultural History of His Time, pg. 81*CHAPTER VI. Ranke and Burckhardt: The Common Bond, pg. 93*INDEX, pg. 107
£27.00
Princeton University Press History Politics or Culture Reflections on Ranke
Book SynopsisTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*CHAPTER I. The Impact of the French Revolution and of the Napoleonic Age on Historical Thought, pg. 3*CHAPTER II. Ranke's View of the Task of Historical Scholarship, pg. 11*CHAPTER III. Ranke and the Meaning of History, pg. 32*CHAPTER IV. Burckhardt's Concept of Cultural History, pg. 46*CHAPTER V. Burckhardt and the Cultural History of His Time, pg. 81*CHAPTER VI. Ranke and Burckhardt: The Common Bond, pg. 93*INDEX, pg. 107
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Cornell University Press Hiding from History
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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Cornell University Press Lazy Improvident People
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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Cornell University Press Faithful Narratives
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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Cornell University Press History Literature Critical Theory
Book SynopsisIn this book, Dominick LaCapra continues his exploration of the complex relations between history and literature, considering history as both process and representation.Trade ReviewHistory, Literature, Critical Theory is a worthy addition to the LaCapra corpus, creating dialogues among history and other fields to enhance the possibilities for desirable change. * American Historical Review *As is true of much of LaCapra's workthis book defies easy disciplinary classification and will be welcomed by readers in a variety of disciplinesincluding Holocaust studies.... LaCapra stands as one of the most important critical theorists in the US todayand this work belongs in extensive collections of theory. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Mutual Interrogation of History and Literature2. The Quest! The Quest! Conrad and Flaubert3. Coetzee, Sebald, and the Narrative of Trauma4. Historical and Literary Approaches to the "Final Solution": Saul Friedländer and Jonathan Littell5. The Literary, the Historical, and the Sacred: The Question of NazismEpilogue: Recent Figurations of Trauma and Violence: Tarrying with ZizekNotes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press History
Book Synopsis"No one writes more thoughtfully or interestingly about the history of the profession than Higham does."--Laurence Veysey, University of California, Santa Cruz. "A classic in the field, probably the best overall picture of American historiography we have."--Richard L. Bushman, University of Delaware.Table of ContentsPrefacePart I. The Historical Profession1. Formative Years2. Growth Since 19073. Distribution and Recruitment of Talene4. The Historian and His AudiencePart II. Theory1. Scientific History: The American Orthodoxy2. The New History3. Relativism4. The Renewal of HistoryPart III. American History1. The Conservation Evolutionist as Amateur2. The Conservation Evolutionist as Professor3. The Ascendncy of Progressive History6. A Search for StabilityPart IV. Legacy1. A Time of Troubles2. Postscript: Objectivity ReexaminedIndex
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Stanford University Press Retroactive Justice
Book SynopsisThis unorthodox scholarly work dissects the ghosts of history in order to analyze how the pastboth recent and distanthaunts posterity, and in what ways the present disfigures the image of times gone by. The book presents a novel history of Communism from the perspective of its collapse, and inspects the world beyond the Fall in the distorting mirror of its imagined prehistory. Using a series of strange and darkly ironic stories, the subsequent chapters provide a close exploration of some of the essential objects of historical study: the name, the date, the dead, the relic, the pantheon, the court, the underworld, and the underground. The tension between vast distances, both in space and time, that Retroactive Justice covers, and the extremely focused analyses, provide an unexpected experience of writing and rewriting, visioning and revisioning history.Trade Review"The book...examines key moments in 20th-century Hungarian history from oblique angles; how politically sensitive exhumations pluck the strings of contemporary nationalism; the significance of the banishment and revival of national holidays....One extraordinary chapter uses the creation of a 'Pantheon of the Working-Class Movement' in Budapest's Kerepesi Cemetery to write an intricately wrought history of political burials in Hungary and elsewhere." -- Chronicle of Higher Education"This is a beautifully written book....Rev is remarkable for his capacity somehow to reconcile his own history with the analytical detachment of a scholar of great brilliance." -- London Review of Books"[Rev's] book is a superb introduction to the problems one encounters when approaching the extraordinarily complicated recent history of Hungary and Eastern Europe....History recovers a calling in this marvelous book, which deserves an audience far beyond area specialists." -- American Historical Review"The hope is...that the readership of Retroactive Justice will acknowledge that it addresses an important lacuna in Western academic studies of the communist era in central eastern Europe, and as such it not only provides new knowledge about that era, but, more importantly, challenges conventional and linear perceptions of historical events." -- Canadian Journal of History"Retroactive Justice is a collection of extraordinarily intelligent and profound studies about Hungarian society and its struggles to establish a comforting relationship with its twentieth-century past." -- Austrian History YearbookTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc2:Introduction 000 1. Parallel Autopsies 000 2. The Necronym 000 3. A Pantheon 000 4. Holy Days 000 5. A Rule of Law 000 6. Underground 000 7. Transition 000 @toc4:Index 000
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Stanford University Press Sublime Historical Experience
Book SynopsisWhy are we interested in history at all? Why do we feel the need to distinguish between past and present? In this book, the author argues that the past originates from an experience of rupture separating past and present. Think of the radical rupture with Europe''s past that was effected by the French and the Industrial Revolutions. Sublime Historical Experience investigates how the notion of sublime historical experience complicates and challenges existing conceptions of language, truth, and knowledge. These experiences of rupture are paradoxical since they involve both the separation of past and present and, at the same time, the effort to overcome this separation in terms of historical knowledge. The experience unites feelings of loss/pain with those of love/satisfaction, and thus is in agreement with how sublime experience is ordinarily defined. The experience is also precognitive since it precedes (the possibility of) historical knowledge. As such it is a challenge to trTable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments xxx Preface xxx Introduction: Experience in History and in Philosophy 1 1 Linguistic transcendentalism in extremis: The case of Richard Rorty 2 From language to experience 3 Huizinga on historical experience 4 Fragments of a history of historical experience 5 Gadamer and historical experience 6 (Pragmatist) aesthetic experience and historical experience 7 Subjective historical experience: the past as elegy 8 Sublime historical experience Epilogue: Rousseau and Holderlin Notes Index
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Stanford University Press Sublime Historical Experience
Book SynopsisWhy are we interested in history at all? Why do we feel the need to distinguish between past and present? This book investigates how the notion of sublime historical experience complicates and challenges existing conceptions of language, truth, and knowledge.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments xxx Preface xxx Introduction: Experience in History and in Philosophy 1 1 Linguistic transcendentalism in extremis: The case of Richard Rorty 2 From language to experience 3 Huizinga on historical experience 4 Fragments of a history of historical experience 5 Gadamer and historical experience 6 (Pragmatist) aesthetic experience and historical experience 7 Subjective historical experience: the past as elegy 8 Sublime historical experience Epilogue: Rousseau and Holderlin Notes Index
£22.49
MP-KST Kent State Uni The Alternate History Refiguring Historical Time
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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Pipe Roll Society The White Book ILiber AlbusI of Southwell
Book SynopsisFirst complete edition of an invaluable and extensive collection of medieval documents.with contributions from Neil Bettridge, Jean Cameron, Paul Cavill and Teresa Webber. The White Book of Southwell derives its name from its white vellum cover. Compiled between c.1350 and 1460, with a few later additions, its 500 pages record 620 individual documents from c.1100 onwards. They range widely from papal bulls and royal charters, quo warranto inquiries, privileges granted by many archbishops of York to the Chapter at Southwell,individual canons (or prebendaries) and the parishes where the Minster held lands or controlled livings. The majority date from c.1200-1460 and concern properties which the Chapter owned and administered through its courts, for which some rare proceedings are preserved. Because of their variety, the documents it contains are important not simply for ecclesiastical history but for broader social and economic trends in medieval Nottinghamshire either side of the BlackTrade ReviewThese volumes deserve to be widely used and plundered, and doubtless will be. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *This is an exemplary edition.It is very satisfactory that at last there is an authoritative source for historians wishing to check a point of detail concerning the history or constitution of the Southwell chapter. * THE RICARDIAN *Editing this manuscript has been an important, and challenging undertaking, in terms of size, date and range of documentation. The expertise of the several editors here is very much apparent. -- Northern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction The White Book of Southwell Appendix A: Additional documents relating to the privileges and administration of the Collegiate church of St Mary's, Southwell, not found in the White Book Appendix B: Check-list of documents in chronological order to 1540 illustrating the privileges and administration of the Collegiate church of St Mary's, Southwell, and its estates not included in the White Book, the 'Second Cartulary' or Appendix A Appendix C: Summary Fasti of Canons and Prebendaries of Southwell to 1540
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Tracing Architecture
Book SynopsisTracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction. Discusses the discovery of the ancient world through the medium of print in the long eighteenth century. Looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. Considers the interrelationship between architecture, antiquity and aesthetics in a pan-European context. Explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction. Table of ContentsIntroduction. Tracing Architecture: the aesthetics of antiquarianism (Dana Arnold and Stephen Bending). Monuments and Texts: Antiquarianism and the beauty of antiquity (Maria Grazia Lolla). Facts or Fragments? Visual histories in the age of mechanical reproduction (Dana Arnold). The Sources and Fortunes of Piranesi’s Archaeological Illustrations (Susan M. Dixon). Antiquity and Improvement in the National Landscape: the Buck’s views of antiquities 1726-42 (Andrew Kennedy). Data, Documentation and Display in Eighteenth-Century Investigations of Exeter Cathedral (Sam Smiles). Every Man is Naturally an Antiquarian: Francis Grose and polite antiquities (Stephen Bending). Voyage: Dominique-Vivant Denon and the transference of images of Egypt (Abigail Harrison Moore). Specimens of Antient Sculpture: Imperialism and the decline of art (Andrew Ballantyne). Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Western Historical Thought
Book Synopsis* Surveys the evolution of historical thought in the Western World from biblical times to the present day. * Provides students with the background to contemporary historical debates and approaches. * Serves as a useful reference for researchers and teachers. * Includes chapters by 24 leading historians. .Trade Review"This companion is expansive in its subject and links with other disciplines, such as ancient history and the classics, anthropology, Biblical studies and theology… It covers many expected subjects, but also explores lesser-known areas of historical interest as well as the challenges to historical thought in the twenty-first century that will continue to make this companion a useful library resource." Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Contributors viii Acknowledgments xii Introduction: The Cultural History of Historical Thought Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza 1 Part I The Pre-modern Origins of Western Historical Thought 1 Historiography in Ancient Israel John Van Seters 15 2 Historical Thought in Ancient Greece Philip A. Stadter 35 3 Historical Thought in Ancient Rome J. E. Lendon 60 4 Historical Thought in Medieval Europe Gabrielle M. Spiegel 78 5 Historical Thought in the Renaissance Paula Findlen 99 Part II The Shaping of Modern Western Historical Thought 6 Historical Thought in the Era of the Enlightenment Johnson Kent Wright 123 7 German Historical Thought in the Age of Herder, Kant, and Hegel Harold Mah 143 8 German Historical Writing from Ranke to Weber: The Primacy of Politics Harry Liebersohn 166 9 National History in the Age of Michelet, Macaulay, and Bancroft Thomas N. Baker 185 10 Marxism and Historical Thought Walter L. Adamson 205 Part III Patterns in Twentieth-century Western Historical Thought 11 The Professionalization of Historical Studies and the Guiding Assumptions of Modern Historical Thought Georg G. Iggers 225 12 The History of Armed Power Peter Paret 243 13 Total History and Microhistory: The French and Italian Paradigms David A. Bell 262 14 Anthropology and the History of Culture William M. Reddy 277 15 The History of Science, Or, an Oxymoronic Theory of Relativistic Objectivity Ken Alder 297 16 Language, Literary Studies, and Historical Thought Susan A. Crane 319 17 Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Historical Thought Lynn Hunt 337 18 Redefining Historical Identities: Sexuality, Gender, and the Self Carolyn J. Dean 357 19 Historicizing Natural Environments: The Deep Roots of Environmental History Andrew C. Isenberg 372 Part IV Challenges to the Boundaries of Western Historical Thought 20 The New World History Jerry H. Bentley 393 21 Postcolonial History Prasenjit Duara 417 22 The Multicultural History of Nations Donna R. Gabaccia 432 23 New Technologies and Historical Knowledge James M. Murray 447 24 The Visual Media and Historical Knowledge Robert A. Rosenstone 466 Consolidated Bibliography 482 Index 495
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Birth of the Past
Book SynopsisFeaturing a foreword by the eminent historian Anthony Grafton, this fascinating book draws upon a diverse range of sources-ancient histories, medieval theology, Renaissance art, literature, legal thought, and early modern mathematics and social science-to uncover the meaning of the past and its relationship to the present.Trade ReviewComplex and erudite, confident and controversial. As Schiffman's brilliant argument suggests, anachronism not only helps define the past but becomes its doppelganger. Times Literary Supplement Lively, brilliant, and erudite. [Schiffman's] learned and engaging style [and] fresh, stimulating ideas provide a intellectual feast not only for students of Western civilization, but for those of us seeking to understand other traditions. Essential. Choice This ambitious, lucid book chronicles European methods of imagining and representing the past from the ancient Greeks to the French Enlightenment. Schiffman provides a masterful account of the emergence of modern notions of historical causation that begins with Thucydides and ends more than two thousand years later with Montesquieu and Herder. Sixteenth Century Journal Anyone with an interest in the history of ideas, or the history of historiography for that matter, will find that this book repays close attention. Reviews in History Thought-provoking. History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive This is an important book, and deserves to be widely read. The Sun News Network Schiffman has given us a 'historiographical essay' by his own admission, and an excellent one at that: not the whole truth, but, more valuably, a new foothold for serious engagement. -- Anthony Ossa-Richardson Intellectual History Review It is refreshing to read a book with a clear, even bold, thesis that forces readers to reexamine the authority and applicability of basic historical concepts... The strength of this engaging study is not simply that it historicizes and thus defamiliarizes what passes for common sense in the present but also that it reconstructs what had been regarded as common sense in previous epochs in the Western tradition, from antiquity to the Christian era, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment. Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsForeword, by Anthony GraftonGestationIntroduction The Past Definedpart oneAntiquityFlatlandPasts PresentThe Herodotean AchievementThucydides and the RefashioningsLinear TimeHellenistic Innovationspart twoChristianityCan't Get Here from ThereThe Power of PrayerBreakthrough to the NowThe Idea of the SæculumThe Sæculum ReconfiguredGregory of Tours and the SæculumBack from the Futurepart threeRenaissanceThe Living PastThe Birth of AnachronismPetrarch's "Copernican Leap"The Commonplace View of the WorldJean Bodin and the Unity of Historypart fourEnlightenmentPresence and DistanceBiography as a Form of HistoryThe Politics of HistoryThe Relations of Truth / The Truth of RelationsMontesquieu and the Relations of ThingsThe Past EmergesEpilogue The Past HistoricizedNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Reencounters
Book Synopsis In Reencounters,Crystal Mun-hye Baik examines what it means to live with and remember an ongoing war when its manifestations—hypervisible and deeply sensed—become everyday formations delinked from militarization. Contemplating beyond notions of inherited trauma and post memory, Baik offers the concept of reencounters to better track the Korean War’s illegible entanglements through an interdisciplinary archive of diasporic memory works that includes oral history projects, performances, and video installations rarely examined by Asian American studies scholars. Baik shows how Korean refugee migrations are repackaged into celebrated immigration narratives, how transnational adoptees are reclaimed by the South Korean state as welcomed “returnees,” and how militarized colonial outposts such as Jeju Island are recalibrated into desirable tourist destinations. Baik argues that as the works by Korean and Korean/American artists depict t
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Temple University Press,U.S. Reencounters
Book Synopsis In Reencounters,Crystal Mun-hye Baik examines what it means to live with and remember an ongoing war when its manifestations—hypervisible and deeply sensed—become everyday formations delinked from militarization. Contemplating beyond notions of inherited trauma and post memory, Baik offers the concept of reencounters to better track the Korean War’s illegible entanglements through an interdisciplinary archive of diasporic memory works that includes oral history projects, performances, and video installations rarely examined by Asian American studies scholars. Baik shows how Korean refugee migrations are repackaged into celebrated immigration narratives, how transnational adoptees are reclaimed by the South Korean state as welcomed “returnees,” and how militarized colonial outposts such as Jeju Island are recalibrated into desirable tourist destinations. Baik argues that as the works by Korean and Korean/American artists depict t
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University of Toronto Press Stalins Empire of Memory
Book SynopsisBased on declassified materials from eight Ukrainian and Russian archives, Stalin''s Empire of Memory, offers a complex and vivid analysis of the politics of memory under Stalinism. Using the Ukrainian republic as a case study, Serhy Yekelchyk elucidates the intricate interaction between the Kremlin, non-Russian intellectuals, and their audiences.Yekelchyk posits that contemporary representations of the past reflected the USSR''s evolution into an empire with a complex hierarchy among its nations. In reality, he argues, the authorities never quite managed to control popular historical imagination or fully reconcile Russia''s ''glorious past'' with national mythologies of the non-Russian nationalities.Combining archival research with an innovative methodology that links scholarly and political texts with the literary works and artistic images, Stalin''s Empire of Memory presents a lucid, readable text that will become a must-have for students, academics, aTrade Review"Yekelchyk's account is a model of archival research and clear exposition." -- Timothy Snyder American Historical Review "By masterfully integrating theories of collective memory with archival research and by detailing the party's compromises with the past, Yekelchyk has produced a rich and thought-provoking assessment of the politics of memory in Soviet Ukraine." -- George O. Liber Journal of Modern History "Yekelchyk's investigation of the 'creation' of Soviet Ukraine is nothing less than an interdisciplinary tour de force that supplies fascinating insight into the party's accidental role in the formation of the USSR's successor states." -- David Brandenberger Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire "Of significant interest to the broader scholarly audience interested in problems of nationalism, colonialism, and imperialism, as well as to college students beginning to explore these issues." -- Denis Kozlov Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue canadienne des slavistes
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina History Comes Alive Public History and Popular
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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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Redefining Liberal Arts Education in the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisDelves into the essential nature of the liberal arts in America today. Written by scholars from a diversity of fields and institutions, the essays in this collection legitimize the liberal arts and offer visions for the role of these disciplines in the modern world.
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Cornell University Press History Is a Contemporary Literature
Book SynopsisIvan Jablonka's History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that both social-scientific inquiry and literary explorations contribute to our understanding of the world. Jablonka argues that the act and art of writing, far from being an afterthought in the social sciences, should play a vital role in the production of knowledge in all stages of the researcher's work and embody or even constitute the understanding obtained. History (along with sociology and anthropology) can, he contends, achieve both greater rigor and wider audiences by creating a literary experience through a broad spectrum of narrative modes.Challenging scholars to adopt investigative, testimonial, and other experimental writing techniques as a way of creating and sharing knowledge, Jablonka envisions a social science literature that will inspire readers to become actively Trade ReviewHistorical scholarship and literary fiction share a trajectory of mutual inspiration that reaches back to antiquity and continued beyond the Early Modern period.... Ivan Jablonka's book makes the important point of bringing this traditional relationship back to mind. He rightly insists that historians should be aware of the common ground they have shared with literary writers and avoid the misconception that reduces literature to fiction.... Much more important is Jablonka's point that contemporary historical scholarship is in need of reform... that the social sciences and history might complete their entry into modernity by catching up on the literary revolution of the novel in the early twentieth century. * H-Soz-Kult *This engaging text reveals the various ways in which history and literature have always been constituted in a dialectical relationship to one another.... It offers a richly detailed and carefully delineated account of the ways that history and literature have inspired and borrowed from one another even as each has sought to define itself in opposition to the other.... Jablonka is certainly right to insist on history's power to unsettle the present..., and he has made a passionate case that its mission and civic function have never been more vital. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. The Great Divide 1. Historians, Orators, and Writers 2. The Novel, Father of History? 3. History as Science and "Literary Germs" 4. The Return of the Literary Repressed Part II. The Historical Way of Reasoning 5. What Is History? 6. Writers of History-as-Science 7. Approaches to Veridiction 8. Fictions of Method Part III. Literature and the Social Sciences 9. From Nonfiction to Literature-as-Truth 10. History, a Literature under Constraint? 11. The Research Text 12. On Scholarship of the Twenty-First Century
£999.99
Cornell University Press Understanding Others
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd What Happened in the Twentieth Century?: Towards
Book SynopsisWhen we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see? Our first inclination is to focus on historical events: the 20th century was the age of two devastating world wars, of totalitarian regimes and terrible atrocities like the Holocaust – “the age of extremes,” to use Hobsbawm’s famous phrase. But in this new book, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk argues that we will never understand the 20th century if we focus on events and ideologies. Rather, in his view, the predominant motif of the 20th century is what Badiou called a passion for the real, which manifests itself as the will to actualize the truth directly in the here and now. Drawing on his Spheres trilogy, Sloterdijk interprets the actualization of the real in the 20th century as a passion for economic and technological “antigravitation”. The rise of consumerism and the easing of the burdens of human life by the constant deployment of new technologies have killed off the kind of radicalism that was rooted in the belief that power would rise from a material base of production. If the 20th century can still inspire us today, it is because the fundamental shift that it brought about opened the way for a critique of extremist reason, a post-Marxist theory of enrichment and a general economy of energy resources based on excess and dissipation. While developing his highly original interpretation of the 20th century, Sloterdijk also addresses a series of related topics including the meaning of the Anthropocene, the domestication of humans and the significance of the sea. The volume also includes major new pieces on Derrida and on Heidegger’s politics. This work, by one of the most original thinkers today will appeal to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences, as well as anyone interested in philosophy and critical theory.Table of Contents The Anthropocene - A Stage in the Process on the Margins of the Earth's History? From the Domestication of the Human Being to the Civilizing of Cultures: Answering the Question of Whether Humanity is Capable of Taming Itself The Ocean Experiment: From Nautical Globalization to a General Ecology The Synchronized World: Philosophical Aspects of Globalization What Happened in the 20th Century? Toward a Critique of Extremist Reason The Thinker in the Haunted Castle: On Derrida's Interpretation of Dreams Deep Observation: Towards a Philosophy of the Space Station The Permanent Renaissance: The Italian Novella and News of Modernity Heidegger's Politics: Postponing the End of History Odysseus the Sophist: On the Birth of Philosophy from the Spirit of Travel Stress Almost Sacred Text: Essay on the Constitution The Other Logos, or the Reason of Cunning: On the Intellectual History of the Indirect Editorial Note Notes
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Potomac Books Inc How the Cold War Ended
Book SynopsisThe Cold War continues to shape international relations almost twenty years after being acknowledged as the central event of the last half of the twentieth century. Interpretations of how it ended thus remain crucial to an accurate understanding of global events and foreign policy.
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Potomac Books Inc How the Cold War Ended
Book SynopsisThe Cold War continues to shape international relations almost twenty years after being acknowledged as the central event of the last half of the twentieth century. Interpretations of how it ended thus remain crucial to an accurate understanding of global events and foreign policy.
£17.99
University Press of Florida Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New
Book SynopsisApproaching Haiti’s history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspectiveThis volume is the first to focus on teaching about Haiti’s complex history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Making broad connections between Haiti and the rest of the Caribbean, contributors provide pedagogical guidance on how to approach the country from different lenses in course curricula. They offer practical suggestions, theories on a wide variety of texts, examples of syllabi, and classroom experiences.Teaching Haiti dispels stereotypes associating Haiti with disaster, poverty, and negative ideas of Vodou, going beyond the simplistic neocolonial, imperialist, and racist descriptions often found in literary and historical accounts. Instructors in diverse subject areas discuss ways of reshaping old narratives through women’s and gender studies, poetry, theater, art, religion, language, politics, history, and popular culture, and they advocate for including Haiti in American and Latin American studies courses.Portraying Haiti not as “the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere” but as a nation with a multifaceted culture that plays an important part on the world’s stage, this volume offers valuable lessons about Haiti’s past and present related to immigration, migration, locality, and globality. The essays remind us that these themes are increasingly relevant in an era in which teachers are often called to address neoliberalist views and practices and isolationist politics.Contributors:Cécile Accilien Jessica Adams Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken Anne M. François Régine Michelle Jean-Charles Elizabeth Langley Valérie K. Orlando Agnès Peysson-Zeiss John D. Ribó Joubert Satyre Darren Staloff Bonnie Thomas Don E. Walicek Sophie WattTrade ReviewA timely effort to overcome stereotypes and decolonize knowledge. . . . This unparalleled contribution inserts seldom-heard Haitian voices and a much-needed postcolonial perspective into scholarly and personal narratives of Haiti. . . . Essential." —ChoiceTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Ayiti se tè glise: Intersectionalities of History, Politics, and Culture Cécile Accilien and Valérie K. Orlando I. Teaching About Haitian Art, Literature, and Language 1. Getting Around the Poto Mitan: Reconstructing Haitian Womanhood in the Classroom Régine Jean-Charles 2. Teaching Haiti Through the Work of Rodney Saint-Eloi, écrivain engage Bonnie Thomas 3. Teaching Haitian Theater: Franck Fouché's Bouqui au paradis Joubert Satyre 4. Engaging Haiti Through Art and Religion Cécile Accilien 5. Creating Interdisciplinary Knowledge About Haiti's Creole Language Don E. Walicek II. Teaching About Haitian History and Politics 6. Haiti in the Presidencies of John Adams and John Quincy Adams: Lesson Plans and Course Modules Darren Staloff and Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken 7. Teaching the 2004 Coup in Haiti from a French Perspective: Insights into Global Neo-Imperial Culture and Practices Sophie Watt 8. Peck's Fatal Assistance: A Filmic Lesson on the Failures of Aid Agnès Peysson-Zeiss III. Teaching About Haiti in American Studies, Latin American Studies, and General Studies Contexts 9. Rendering Haiti Visible in an Introductory American Studies Course Elizabeth Langley 10. Race and Culture on the Thrift Store Shift: Teaching About Haiti Inside and Outside the Academy Jessica Adams 11. Rethinking Latinx Studies from Hispaniola's Borderlands John Ribó 12. Teaching Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Cultural Representations of Haitian Immigrant Experiences Anne M. François Index Contributors
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen
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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