History Theory category: 16752 books
The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790–1814
The Struggle for History's Authority
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
This study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814. During these years, intersections between history, political ideology, and fiction, as well as the various meanings of the term “history” itself,...
Swift and History
Politics and the English Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Swift has been said to have little interest in history; his attempts to write it have been disparaged and his desire to become Historiographer Royal ridiculed. Ashley Marshall argues that history mattered enormously to Swift. He read a vast amount of history and uses historical examples copiously...
Reading and Writing History from Bruni to Windschuttle
Essays in Honour of Gary Ianziti
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Featuring work by researchers in the fields of early modern studies, Italian studies, ecclesiastical history and historiography, this volume of essays adds to a rich corpus of literature on Renaissance and early modern historiography, bringing a unique approach to several of the problems currently...
by Jo Guldi, David Armitage
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
How should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history – especially long-term history – so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present?...
The History of Jihad
From Muhammad to ISIS
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
It is taken for granted, even among many Washington policymakers, that Islam is a fundamentally peaceful religion and that Islamic jihad terrorism is something relatively new, a product of the economic and political ferment of the twentieth century. But in The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS,...
The Small Voice of History
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Ranajit Guha is arguably the Indian historian whose writings have had a massive and formative impact on contemporary scholarship in several disciplines throughout the world: on postcolonial studies in literature, in anthropology, in history, in cultural studies, in art history.Guha first became known...
by Michael H. Turk
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
How scientific is economics? This question has often been framed by analogies and correspondences made between economics and other, seemingly more well-established scientific disciplines, starting with classical mechanics. At the same time economics is likely to be seen in opposition to or in contrast...
A History of American Economic Thought
Mainstream and Crosscurrents
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This vital addition to the Routledge History of Economic Thought series surveys arguably the most important country in the development of economics as we know it today – the United States of America.
A History of American Economic Thought is a comprehensive study of American economics as...
The Memory Hole
The U.S. History Curriculum Under Siege
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The U.S. history curriculum is under attack. Politicians, political analysts, and ideologues seek to wipe clean the slate of the American past and replace it with one of their own invention. The basis for this new narrative comes from political beliefs of the present, rather than any systematic examination...
The Eric Voegelin Reader
Politics, History, Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
By the time Eric Voegelin fled Hitler’s regime and made his way to the United States in 1938, he had already written four books criticizing Nazi racism, establishing what would be the focus of his life’s work: to account for the endemic political violence of the twentieth century. One of the...
History after Liberty
Tacitus on Tyrants, Sycophants, and Republicans
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Roman historian Tacitus wrote a damning critique of the first century CE Roman empire. The emperors in Tacitus’ works are almost universally tyrants surrounded by flatterers and informants, and the image Tacitus creates is of a society that has lost the liberty enjoyed under the Roman Republic....
A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers
Cryptography and the History of Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music, the arts, mathematics, and computer science who study ciphering and deciphering from new materialist, media studies, cognitive studies, disability studies, and other theoretical...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered in this collaboratively produced volume, written by leading scholars in the field of Native American history,...
Recording History
The British Record Industry, 1888 – 1931
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
In Recording History, Peter Martlanduses a range of archival sources to trace the genesis and early development of the British record industry from1888 to 1931. A work of economic and cultural history that draws on a vast range of quantitative data, itsurveys the commercial and business activities...