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Author : Wolfgang Behringer
Publisher : Polity
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745645292
Explores the latest historical research on the development of the earth's climate, showing how even minor changes in the climate could result in major social, political, and religious upheavals.
Author : Robert M. Burns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 041532081X
This collection aims to enable the reader to disentangle some of the ambiguities and confusions which have characterized the use of the term 'historiography'.
Author : Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht,Frank Schumacher
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1571813837
Combining the perspectives of 18 international scholars from Europe and the United States with a critical discussion of the role of culture in international relations, this volume introduces recent trends in the study of Culture and International History. It systematically explores the cultural dimension of international history, mapping existing approaches and conceptual lenses for the study of cultural factors and thus hopes to sharpen the awareness for the cultural approach to international history among both American and non-American scholars. The first part provides a methodological introduction, explores the cultural underpinnings of foreign policy, and the role of culture in international affairs by reviewing the historiography and examining the meaning of the word culture in the context of foreign relations. In the second part, contributors analyze culture as a tool of foreign policy. They demonstrate how culture was instrumentalized for diplomatic goals and purposes in different historical periods and world regions. The essays in the third part expand the state-centered view and retrace informal cultural relations among nations and peoples. This exploration of non-state cultural interaction focuses on the role of science, art, religion, and tourism. The fourth part collects the findings and arguments of part one, two, and three to define a roadmap for further scholarly inquiry. A group of" commentators" survey the preceding essays, place them into a larger research context, and address the question "Where do we go from here?" The last and fifth part presents a selection of primary sources along with individual comments highlighting a new genre of resources scholars interested in culture and international relations can consult.
Author : Jane Fenoulhet,Lesley Gilbert,Ulrich Tiedau
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910634974
This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.
Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745665863
The aim of this book is both to illustrate and to discuss some of the main varieties of cultural history which have emerged since the questioning of what might be called its "classic" form, exemplified in the work of Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga. Among the themes of individual chapters are the history of popular culture, the history of Carnival, the history of mentalities, the history of gestures, the history of jokes, and even the history of dreams. The emphasis of both the introduction and the case-studies which follow is on the variety of forms taken by cultural history today. The classic model has not been replaced by any new orthodoxy, despite the importance of approaches inspired by social and cultural anthropology. Variety is to be found in the cultures studied as well as among their historians. The case-studies included in the volume come not only from Europe (and in particular from Italy) but also from the New World, especially Brazil. Particular emphasis is placed on the importance of cultural encounters, cultural conflicts, and their consequences, whether these consequences should be described in terms of mixing, syncretism or synthesis. Written by one of the leading cultural historians in Europe today, this book will be of particular interest to students of early modern Europe, of the encounters between European culture and the New World, and to students and scholars interested in problems of historiography.
Author : Simon Gunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317868163
In recent times there has been recognition of the growing influence of cultural theory on historical writing. Foucault, Bourdieu, Butler and Spivak are just some of the thinkers whose ideas have been taken up and deployed by historians. What are these ideas and where do they come from? How have cultural theorists thought about 'history'? And how have historians applied theoretical insights to enhance their own understanding of events in the past? This book provides a wide-ranging and authoritative guide to the often vexed and controversial relationship between history and contemporary theory. It analyses the concepts that concern both theorists and historians, such as power, identity, modernity and postcolonialism, and offers a critical evaluation of them from an historical standpoint. Written in an accessible manner, History and Cultural Theory gives historians and students an invaluable summary of the impact of cultural theory on historiography over the last twenty years, and indicates the likely directions of the subject in the future.
Author : William H. Sewell Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226749198
While social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from social science to history. Logics of History argues that both history and the social sciences have something crucial to offer each other. While historians do not think of themselves as theorists, they know something social scientists do not: how to think about the temporalities of social life. On the other hand, while social scientists’ treatments of temporality are usually clumsy, their theoretical sophistication and penchant for structural accounts of social life could offer much to historians. Renowned for his work at the crossroads of history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, Sewell argues that only by combining a more sophisticated understanding of historical time with a concern for larger theoretical questions can a satisfying social theory emerge. In Logics of History, he reveals the shape such an engagement could take, some of the topics it could illuminate, and how it might affect both sides of the disciplinary divide.
Author : Jörn Rüsen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 157181454X
Presents 17 contributions written by an international group of historians addressing the intercultural dimension of historical theory. The editor's introduction discusses historical thinking as intercultural discourse and presents ten hypotheses that aim to define Western historical thinking. Scholars from Asia and Africa comment on his position in light of their own ideas about the sense and meaning of historical thinking. The volume wraps up with comments on the questions and issues raised by the authors and suggestions for the future of intercultural communication. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Sande Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822023803307
Author : Robert L. Carneiro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306471797
Is history more than (in Boswell's words) a `chronological series of remarkable events'? Does it have a pattern? Is it fraught with `meaning'? Can we discern its trends? What determines its course? In short, can a substantial and coherent philosophy of history be devised that offers answers to these questions? These issues, which have intrigued -and bedeviled - historians for centuries, are explored in this thoughtful book.
Author : Jörn Rüsen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857450418
This series aims at bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory as well as western and non-western concepts, for which this volume offers a particularly good example. It explores cultural differences in conceptualizing time and history in countries such as China, Japan, and India as well as pre-modern societies.
Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745658674
What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully updated in its second edition, leading historian Peter Burke offers afresh his accessible guide to the past, present and future of cultural history, as it has been practised not only in the English-speaking world, but also in Continental Europe, Asia, South America and elsewhere. Burke begins by providing a discussion of the ‘classic’ phase of cultural history, associated with Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga, and of the Marxist reaction, from Frederick Antal to Edward Thompson. He then charts the rise of cultural history in more recent times, concentrating on the work of the last generation, often described as the ‘New Cultural History'. He places cultural history in its own cultural context, noting links between new approaches to historical thought and writing and the rise of feminism, postcolonial studies and an everyday discourse in which the idea of culture plays an increasingly important part. The new edition also surveys the very latest developments in the field and considers the directions cultural history may be taking in the twenty-first century. The second edition of What is Cultural History? will continue to be an essential textbook for all students of history as well as those taking courses in cultural, anthropological and literary studies.
Author : Aletta Biersack
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520064294
Michel Foucault's History of culture / Patricia O'Brien -- Crowds, community, and ritual in the work of E.P. Thompson and Natalie Davis / Suzanne Desan -- Local knowledge, local history : Geertz and beyond / Aletta Biersack -- Literature, criticism, and historical imagination : the literary challenge of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra / Lloyd S. Kramer -- The American parade : representations of the nineteenth-century social order / Mary Ryan -- Texts, printing, readings / Roger Chartier -- Bodies, details, and the humanitarian narrative / Thomas W. Laqueur -- Seeing culture in a room for a Renaissance prince / Randolph Starn.
Author : American Historical Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004738964
Reflects the changes in society and culture that can influence the writing of history and the way in which the past is evaluated.
Author : Kerwin Lee Klein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520948297
From History to Theory describes major changes in the conceptual language of the humanities, particularly in the discourse of history. In seven beautifully written, closely related essays, Kerwin Lee Klein traces the development of academic vocabularies through the dynamically shifting cultural, political, and linguistic landscapes of the twentieth century. He considers the rise and fall of "philosophy of history" and discusses past attempts to imbue historical discourse with scientific precision. He explores the development of the "meta-narrative" and the post-Marxist view of history and shows how the present resurgence of old words—such as "memory"—in new contexts is providing a way to address marginalized peoples. In analyzing linguistic changes in the North American academy, From History to Theory innovatively ties semantic shifts in academic discourse to key trends in American society, culture, and politics.