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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1748
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10032439
Author : Fernando Báez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015079234939
Examines the many reasons and motivations for the destruction of books throughout history, citing specific acts from the smashing of ancient Sumerian tablets to the looting of libraries in post-war Iraq.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1759
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10032448
Author : Leopold von Ranke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044036351278
Author : Hall Bjørnstad,Helge Jordheim,Anne Régent-Susini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429849855
By examining the history of universal history from the late Middle Ages until the early nineteenth century we trace the making of the global. Early modern universal history can be seen as a response to the epistemological crisis provoked by new knowledge and experience. Traditional narratives were no longer sufficient to gain an understanding of events. Inspired by recent developments in theory of history, the volume argues that the relevance of universal history resides in the laboratory of intense, diverse and mainly unsuccessful attempts at thinking history and universals together. They all shared the common aim of integrating all time and space: assemble the world and keep it together.
Author : Susan Buck-Morss
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822973348
In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prison-house of its own debates. Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, Buck-Morss examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical imagination. She finds that it is in the discontinuities of historical flow, the edges of human experience, and the unexpected linkages between cultures that the possibility to transcend limits is discovered. It is these flashes of clarity that open the potential for understanding in spite of cultural differences. What Buck-Morss proposes amounts to a “new humanism,” one that goes beyond the usual ideological implications of such a phrase to embrace a radical neutrality that insists on the permeability of the space between opposing sides and as it reaches for a common humanity.
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Spanish fiction
ISBN : 0140180338
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1779
Category : Virginia
ISBN : PRNC:32101072916420
Author : Amélie Rorty,James Schmidt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521874632
The essays in this volume discuss the questions at the core of Kant's pioneering work in the philosophy of history.
Author : Tim Greenwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192511065
The Universal History (Patmutʻiwn tiezerakan) of Stepʻanos Tarōnecʻi is a history of the world in three books, composed by the Armenian scholar at the end of the tenth century and extending from the era of Abraham to the turn of the first millennium. It was completed in 1004/5 CE, at a time when the Byzantine Empire was expanding eastwards across the districts of historic Armenia and challenging key aspects of Armenian identity. Stepʻanos responded to these changing circumstances by looking to the past and fusing Armenian tradition with Persian, Roman, and Islamic history, thereby asserting that Armenia had a prominent and independent place in world history. The Universal History was intended to affirm and reinforce Armenian cultural memory. As well as assembling and revising extracts from existing Armenian texts, Stepʻanos also visited monastic communities where he learned about prominent Armenian scholars and ascetics who feature in his construction of the Armenian past. During his travels he gathered stories about local Armenian, Georgian, Persian, and Kurdish lords, which were then repeated in his composition. The Universal History therefore preserves a valuable narrative of events in Byzantium, Armenia, and the wider Middle East in the second half of the tenth century. This volume presents the first ever English translation of this work, drawing upon Manukyan's 2012 critical edition of the text, and is also the first study and translation of the Universal History to be published outside Armenia for a century. Fully annotated and with a substantial introduction, it not only provides an accessible guide to the text, drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship available, but also offers valuable new insights into the significance of an often overlooked work, the intellectual and literary contexts within which it was composed, and its place in the Armenian tradition.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1777
Category : World history
ISBN : NLS:B000295961
Author : J.M. Alonso-Núnez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004494213
This is an expanded version of a lecture given in the Departments of History and Classics at Harvard in 1998. Starting from a methodological point of view, this book show the evolution of the idea of world history through the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Ctesias, Ephorus, Polybius and others up to the historians of the Augustan epoch.
Author : GEORGE. SALE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033942103
Author : Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1813
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50205059
Author : Georges Ifrah
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-09
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0471393401
"Georges Ifrah is the man. This book, quite simply, rules. . . . It is outstanding . . . a mind-boggling and enriching experience." –The Guardian (London) "Monumental. . . . a fascinating journey taking us through many different cultures."–The Times (London)"Ifrah’s book amazes and fascinates by the scope of its scholarship. It is nothing less than the history of the human race told through figures." –International Herald Tribune Now in paperback, here is Georges Ifrah’s landmark international bestseller–the first complete, universal study of the invention and evolution of numbers the world over. A riveting history of counting and calculating, from the time of the cave dwellers to the twentieth century, this fascinating volume brings numbers to thrilling life, explaining their development in human terms, the intriguing situations that made them necessary, and the brilliant achievements in human thought that they made possible. It takes us through the numbers story from Europe to China, via ancient Greece and Rome, Mesopotamia, Latin America, India, and the Arabic countries. Exploring the many ways civilizations developed and changed their mathematical systems, Ifrah imparts a unique insight into the nature of human thought–and into how our understanding of numbers and the ways they shape our lives have changed and grown over thousands of years. "Dazzling."–Kirkus Reviews "Sure to transfix readers."–PublishersWeekly