Contemporary Europe In The Historical Imagination

Author : Darcy C. Buerkle,Skye Doney
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9780299342401

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Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination by Darcy C. Buerkle,Skye Doney Pdf

George L. Mosse (1918-99) was one of the most influential cultural and intellectual historians of modern Europe. A refugee from Nazi Germany, he was an early leader in the study of fascism and the history of sexuality and masculinity, authoring more than two dozen books. In ContemporaryEurope in the Historical Imagination, an international assembly of leading scholars explore Mosse's enduring methodologies in German studies and modern European cultural history. Considering Mosse's life and work historically and critically, the book begins with his intellectual biography and goes on to reread his writings in light of historical developments since his death, and to use, extend, and contend with Mosse's legacy in new contexts he may not have addressed or even foreseen. The volume wrestles with intertwined questions that continue to emerge from Mosse's pioneering research, including: What role do sexual and racial stereotypes play in European political culture before and after 1945? How are gender and Nazi violence bound together? And what does commemoration reveal about national culture? Importantly, the contributors pose questions that are inspired by Mosse's work but that he did not directly examine. For example, to what extent were Nazism and Italian Fascism colonial projects? How have popular radical right parties reinforced and reimagined ethnonationalism and nativism? And how did Nazi perpetrators construct a moral system that accommodated genocide? Much like Mosse's own work, the chapters in this book inspire new interventions into the history of gender and sexuality, Jewish identity during the rise of the Third Reich, and the many reincarnations of fascist pageantry and mass politics.

Author : Stephanie Porras
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271084572

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Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination by Stephanie Porras Pdf

The question of how to understand Bruegel’s art has cast the artist in various guises: as a moralizing satirist, comedic humanist, celebrator of vernacular traditions, and proto-ethnographer. Stephanie Porras reorients these apparently contradictory accounts, arguing that the debate about how to read Bruegel has obscured his pictures’ complex relation to time and history. Rather than viewing Bruegel’s art as simply illustrating the social realities of his day, Porras asserts that Bruegel was an artist deeply concerned with the past. In playing with the boundaries of the familiar and the foreign, history and the present, Bruegel’s images engaged with the fraught question of Netherlandish history in the years just prior to the Dutch Revolt, when imperial, religious, and national identities were increasingly drawn into tension. His pictorial style and his manipulation of traditional iconographies reveal the complex relations, unique to this moment, among classical antiquity, local history, and art history. An important reassessment of Renaissance attitudes toward history and of Renaissance humanism in the Low Countries, this volume traces the emergence of archaeological and anthropological practices in historical thinking, their intersections with artistic production, and the developing concept of local art history.

Author : Hayden V. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Historiography
ISBN : OCLC:46853074

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Metahistory by Hayden V. White Pdf

Author : Hugh Dunthorne,Michael Wintle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004233799

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The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries by Hugh Dunthorne,Michael Wintle Pdf

The 19th century laid the foundations of history, both professional and popular. The authors of this collection compare Britain, the Netherlands, and Belgium, unearthing the ways in which history was conceived and then utilized, usually for nationalistic purposes.

Author : K. Patrick Fazioli
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785335457

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The Mirror of the Medieval by K. Patrick Fazioli Pdf

Since its invention by Renaissance humanists, the myth of the “Middle Ages” has held a uniquely important place in the Western historical imagination. Whether envisioned as an era of lost simplicity or a barbaric nightmare, the medieval past has always served as a mirror for modernity. This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projects—from nationalism to the discipline of anthropology—have appropriated the Middle Ages for their own ends. Deploying an interdisciplinary toolkit, author K. Patrick Fazioli grounds his analysis in contemporary struggles over power and identity in the Eastern Alps, while also considering the broader implications for scholarly research and public memory.

Author : Hayden White
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421415611

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Metahistory by Hayden White Pdf

This penetrating analysis of eight classic nineteenth-century thinkers explains how historians use literary techniques to write sophisticated historical works. Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the surface level of historical texts. This latent poetic and linguistic content—which White dubs the "metahistorical element"—essentially serves as a paradigm for what an "appropriate" historical explanation should be. To support his thesis, White analyzes the complex writing styles of historians like Michelet, Ranke, Tocqueville, and Burckhardt, and philosophers of history such as Marx, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Croce. The first work in the history of historiography to concentrate on historical writing as writing, Metahistory sets out to deprive history of its status as a bedrock of factual truth, to redeem narrative as the substance of historicality, and to identify the extent to which any distinction between history and ideology on the basis of the presumed scientificity of the former is spurious. This fortieth-anniversary edition includes a new preface in which White explains his motivation for writing Metahistory and discusses how reactions to the book informed his later writing. In a new foreword, Michael S. Roth, a former student of White's and the current president of Wesleyan University, reflects on the significance of the book across a broad range of fields, including history, literary theory, and philosophy. This book will be of interest to anyone—in any discipline—who takes the past as a serious object of study.

Author : Martin A. Ruehl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107036994

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The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination by Martin A. Ruehl Pdf

Explores German engagement with the Italian Renaissance in the decades from German unification to the Weimar republic.

Author : Jacob Lund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3956794877

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Anachrony, Contemporaneity, and Historical Imagination by Jacob Lund Pdf

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Author : Martin Jay
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1845454286

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The Modernist Imagination by Martin Jay Pdf

Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities is occurring at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. This volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities.

Author : Sarah H. Beckjord
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271034997

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Territories of History by Sarah H. Beckjord Pdf

Sarah H. Beckjord’s Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Beckjord argues, the authors were not only informed by the spirit of inquiry present in the humanist tradition but also drew heavily from their encounters with New World peoples. More specifically, their attempts to distinguish superstition and magic from science and religion in the New World significantly influenced the aforementioned chroniclers, who increasingly directed their insights away from the description of native peoples and toward a reflection on the nature of truth, rhetoric, and fiction in writing history. Due to a convergence of often contradictory information from a variety of sources—eyewitness accounts, historiography, imaginative literature, as well as broader philosophical and theological influences—categorizing historical texts from this period poses no easy task, but Beckjord sifts through the information in an effective, logical manner. At the heart of Beckjord’s study, though, is a fundamental philosophical problem: the slippery nature of truth—especially when dictated by stories. Territories of History engages both a body of emerging scholarship on early modern epistemology and empiricism and recent developments in narrative theory to illuminate the importance of these colonial authors’ critical insights. In highlighting the parallels between the sixteenth-century debates and poststructuralist approaches to the study of history, Beckjord uncovers an important legacy of the Hispanic intellectual tradition and updates the study of colonial historiography in view of recent discussions of narrative theory.

Author : Jacob Salwyn Schapiro
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1334947325

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Modern and Contemporary European History (Classic Reprint) by Jacob Salwyn Schapiro Pdf

Excerpt from Modern and Contemporary European History The Protestant Revolution had broken up the religious monopoly Of the Catholic Church, but it had by no means established religious equality, or even tolera The system tion. Indeed, Protestant theologians like Luther, of national Calvin, Knox, andcranmer were as insistent on churches conformity to the established religion as their Catholic opponents. The fundamental principle Of the Protestant Revolution was religious independence rather than religious freedom, the idea that every nation had the right to estab lish its own type Of Christianity. One World, one Faith, had been the demand Of the Catholic. In the warfare Of creeds in the seventeenth century, the futility Of this ideal became apparent, and a new principle, one Nation, one Faith, took its place. But as the nation had not yet attained any adequate means Of self-expression, the mon arch and the governing class were generally able to force upon it their own form of religion. Hence it came about that the religion of the king became by law the religion Of the people, and Official churches were organized to preach it. This is how we get the system of established churches. Toleration was the one thing that both Catholics and Protestants rejected. Conformity to the national religion was the law everywhere; hence nonconformists and free thinkers found themselves persons without a country. The degree Of intolerance varied with the strength Of the estab lished Church. In Spain, where Catholic hegemony was unchallenged, heretics were still burned at the stake. In England, where the established Anglican Church had many opponents, both Catholic and Protestant, nonconformists were merely fined and imprisoned. The Church, particu larly in Catholic countries, was very wealthy, as it owned vast tracts Of land which yielded enormous revenues. In addition, a special tax, called the tithe, was levied on the people, irrespective Of their religious beliefs, for the benefit Of the Official religion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Robert Allan Maxwell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271036366

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Representing History, 900-1300 by Robert Allan Maxwell Pdf

"Brings together the disciplines of art, music, and history to explore the importance of the past to conceptions of the present in the central Middle Ages"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Benjamin Schmidt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521804086

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Innocence Abroad by Benjamin Schmidt Pdf

Innocence Abroad explores the encounter between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Author : Lucia Faltin,Melanie J. Wright
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826494825

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The Religious Roots of Contemporary European Identity by Lucia Faltin,Melanie J. Wright Pdf

This volume provides a coherent critical examination of current issues related to the religious roots of contemporary, i.e. post-1990 European identity. This book has taken a multi and interdisciplinary approach, analysing the religious roots of Europe's identity today, with a focus on the secular context of religious communities. This will serve the readers to perceive their own identity in a wider context of shared values, reaching beyond a particular faith or non-religious framework.

Author : Tatiana C. String,Marcus Bull
Publisher : OUP/British Academy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0197264948

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Tudorism by Tatiana C. String,Marcus Bull Pdf

In architecture, music and literature, in paintings, films and television series, in print and on the internet, the Tudors are a hugely popular commodity. This volume is the first to study this phenomenon in depth, assembling foremost scholars in multiple fields to examine why the Tudors still make such an impact.