History Theory category: 16752 books
Impassioned Jurisprudence
Law, Literature, and Emotion, 1760–1848
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
In this volume of essays, scholars of the interdisciplinary field of law and literature write about the role of emotion in English law and legal theory in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The law’s claims to reason provided a growing citizenry that was beginning to establish its...
Empire of the People
Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur have emphasized how American democratic identity arose out of the distinct pattern by which English...
by Procopius
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign. Yet all the while the dutiful scribe was working on a very different - and dangerous - history to be...
Music and History
Bridging the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
This book begins with a simple question: Why haven't historians and musicologists been talking to one another? Historians frequently look to all aspects of human activity, including music, in order to better understand the past. Musicologists inquire into the social, cultural, and historical contexts...
African American Musical Heritage
An Appreciation, Historical Summary, and Guide to Music Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
LENARD C. BOWIE, DMA ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MUSIC, RETIRED THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA JACKSONVILLE , FLORIDA Dr. Lenard C. Bowie has developed an enviable reputation as a consummate musician. He is a classical trumpet artist, accomplished band director, effective music administrator, skilled...
Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin
Institutions, Dynamics, Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This volume brings together articles written by experts in the literary history of Central and Eastern European literatures. The overarching topic is the export of Socialist Realism into Europe after WWII, but the authors are interested not so much in highlighting the generalised, top-down mechanism...
Enchanted Objects
Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2010
Enchanted Objects investigates the relationship between visual art and contemporary fiction, addressing the problems that arise when paintings, deluxe books, porcelains, or statues are represented in contemporary novels. The distinction between objects and art objects depends on aesthetics. While...
by David D. Leitao
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
This book traces the image of the pregnant male in Greek literature as it evolved over the course of the classical period. The image - as deployed in myth and in metaphor - originated as a representation of paternity and, by extension, 'authorship' of ideas, works of art, legislation, and the like....
Pessimism
Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Pessimism claims an impressive following--from Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, to Freud, Camus, and Foucault. Yet "pessimist" remains a term of abuse--an accusation of a bad attitude--or the diagnosis of an unhappy psychological state. Pessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative...
by John Lukacs
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
In this brilliant, strikingly original book, historian John Lukacs delves to the core of Adolf Hitler's life and mind by examining him through the lenses of his surprisingly diverse biographers.
Since 1945 there have been more than one hundred biographies of Hitler, and countless other books...
Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe
A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872-1905
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the twentieth century. During his brief life in Poland, Paris, and Vienna, Kelles-Krauz...
Speaking in the Past Tense
Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
“Speaking in the Past Tense participates in an expanding critical dialogue on the writing of historical fiction, providing a series of reflections on the process from the perspective of those souls intrepid enough to step onto what is, practically by definition, contested territory.”
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by Will Norman
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself — that his works exist in a state of historical...
Scarlett's Women
'Gone With the Wind' and its Female Fans
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
One of the most successful books ever published and the basis of one of the most popular and highly praised Hollywood films of all time, Gone With the Wind has entered world culture in a way that few other stories have.
Seventy-five years on from the cinematic release of Gone with the Wind,...