History Theory category: 16752 books
The Heart of Rome
Ancient Rome's Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The essays in this book examine the political activities and institutions of pre-Imperial Rome in conjunction with the habits of the hearts and the minds of the Romans. Relying on the writings of ancient authors, the essays analyze significant political developments and events. They attempt to draw...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Secret history, with its claim to expose secrets of state and the sexual intrigues of monarchs and ministers, alarmed and thrilled readers across Europe and America from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Scholars have recognised for some time the important position that the genre...
by Charles Merriam
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
A History of American Political Theories is a comprehensive attempt to understand the full sweep of American political thought since the founding. Working within the liberal-progressive tradition, Merriam reviewed American political history in its entirety, from the founding down to his own day. He...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The political impulse to secede - to attempt to separate from central government control - is a conspicuous feature of the post-cold war world. It is alive and growing in Canada, Russia, China, Italy, Belgium, Britain, and even the United States Yet secession remains one of the least studied and least...
The Jews of Iran
The History, Religion and Culture of a Community in the Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Living continuously in Iran for over 2700 years, Jews have played an integral role in the history of the country. Frequently understood as a passive minority group, and often marginalized by the Zoroastrian and succeeding Muslim hegemony, the Jews of Iran are instead portrayed in this book as having...
Telling It Like It Wasn’t
The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives are often written off as politically inspired fantasy...
Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton
Power Play of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
By engaging closely with the work of Richard Francis Burton (1821-90), the iconic nineteenth-century imperial spy, explorer, anthropologist and translator, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton explores the White Man’s ‘imperial fantasies’, and the ways in which the many metropolitan discourses...
Exorcism and Its Texts
Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Exorcism and demonic possession appear as recurrent motifs in early modern Spanish and English literatures. In Exorcism and Its Texts, Hilaire Kallendorf demonstrates how this 'infection' was represented in some thirty works of literature by fifteen different authors, ranging from canonical classics...
Georg Trakl's Poetry
Toward a Union of Opposites
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 1991
The chaotic mixture of elements in Trakl's poems is more apparent than real, this book argues, thus challenging the "Orphic" view of Walther Killy and his followers. A dream of unity—one of the most ancient dreams in human history—is in fact reflected in all of Trakl's work.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume of essays references traditional and contemporary thought on theory and practice in music education for all age groups, from the very young to the elderly. The material spans a broad range of subject areas from history and philosophy to art and music, and addresses issues such as curriculum,...
by Joseph Tendler
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Febvre asked this core question in The Problem of Unbelief: “Could sixteenth-century people hold religious views that were not those of official, Church-sanctioned Christianity, or could they simply not believe at all?” The answer informed a wider debate on modern history, particularly modern...
The Exclusions of Civilization
Indigenous Peoples in the Story of International Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This book builds upon an inter-disciplinary body of literature to detail the centrality of European colonialism and imperialism in the constitution of modern international relations. A critical historical analysis that challenges conventional assumptions about the evolution and expansion of international...
by Suzanne Forbes
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This book is the first full-length study of the development of Irish political print culture from the Glorious Revolution of 1688-9 to the advent of the Hanoverian succession in 1714. Based on extensive analysis of publications produced in Ireland during the period, including newspapers, sermons and...
by Cedric C. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Cedric C. Brown combines the study of literature and social history in order to recognize the immense importance of friendship bonds to early modern society. Drawing on new archival research, he acknowledges a wide range of types of friendship, from the intimate to the obviously instrumental, and...