History Theory category: 16752 books
The Music of the Netherlands Antilles
Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1999, eleven Antilleans attended the service held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's death. This service, held in the Warsaw church where the composer's heart is kept in an...
Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture
Top Hat, Gladstone Bag and Fog
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
In 1888 the name Jack the Ripper entered public consciousness with the brutal murders of women in the East End of London. The murderer was never caught, yet film and television depicts a killer with a recognisable costume, motive and persona. This book examines the origins of the screen presentation...
So Much Wasted
Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
In So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Homing in on those who starve themselves for various reasons and the cultural and political contexts in which...
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
"Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains. This man believes that he is the master of others, and still he is more of a slave than they are. How did that transformation take place? I don't know. How may the restraints on man become legitimate? I do believe I can answer that question …"Thus...
by David McLellan
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This essay is a survey of Marx's life, of his contributions to the varied fields of History, Economics, and Politics, and of his subsequent interpreters by a writer whose own studies have played major part in fostering this process of redefinition.
David McLellan was bom in Hertford and...
Constituent Moments
Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Since the American Revolution, there has been broad cultural consensus that “the people” are the only legitimate ground of public authority in the United States. For just as long, there has been disagreement over who the people are and how they should be represented or institutionally embodied....
by João Capistrano de Abreu
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998
In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of the...
THE POVERTY OF STATISM
Anarchism versus Marxism A debate with Nikolai Bukharin, Luigi Fabbri and Rudolf Rocker (Introduced by Albert Meltzer)
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Anarchist response to Nikolai Bukharin’s ‘Anarchy and Scientific Communism’; a libertarian critique of the proletarian state, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the organisation of production, etc., by two of Bukharin’s anarchist contemporaries. Includes Rocker’s essay ‘Marx and Anarchism’....
by Caleb Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscience in antebellum America’s court of public opinion and shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature.
Reading Herodotus
A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Debra Hamel’s book is a lively introduction to The History of the Persian Wars, Herodotus's account of Persia's expansion under four kings—Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes—and its eventual collision with the city-states of Greece.
The History can be a long slog for modern readers,...
Indias Literary History
Essays on the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book, the first major reassessment of literary history in nineteenth-century India for a generation, opens up this emerging field of literary history to nineteenth-century India. Its essays emphasise the making of literary history, the process of canonisation, the reinvention of literary tradition,...
This Indian Country
American Indian Activists and the Place They Made
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Frederick E. Hoxie, one of our most prominent and celebrated academic historians of Native American history, has for years asked his undergraduate students at the beginning of each semester to write down the names of three American Indians. Almost without exception, year after year, the names are...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book is the first omnibus history of the literature of the American Civil War, the deadliest conflict in US history. A History of American Civil War Literature examines the way in which the war has been remembered and rewritten over time in prose, poems, and other narratives. This history incorporates...
The Native American Renaissance
Literary Imagination and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize–winning House Made of Dawn in 1968 continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writing from such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko...