History Theory category: 16752 books
Learning to Kneel
Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers....
Paris and the Marginalized Author
Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
This volume of essays explores what it is that has brought marginalized and often exiled writers, seen as treacherous, alienated, and/or queer by their societies and nations together by way of Paris. Spanning from the inter-war period of the late 1920s to the present millennium, this volume considers...
Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? The Geopolitical and Imaginary Borders between the Balkans and Europe
The Geopolitical and imaginary borders between the balkans and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? takes up one of the most fraught areas of Europe, the Balkans. Variously part of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Byzantine empires, this region has always been considered Europe’s border between the Orient and the Occident. Aiming to clarify the politics of drawing...
by J. A. O. C. Brown, Bryan Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Few works of history make as well-structured a case for the importance of studying continuity, rather than change, than Albert Hourani's A History of the Arab Peoples.
Hourani’s work had three major aims: to refute the idea that Arab society stagnated between 1000 and 1800; to study the period...
Orientalism and Musical Mission
Palestine and the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Orientalism and Musical Mission presents a new way of understanding music's connections with imperialism, drawing on new archive sources and interviews and using the lens of 'mission'. Rachel Beckles Willson demonstrates how institutions such as churches, schools, radio stations and governments, influenced...
by Lars Gustafsson
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
When poet/critic Lars Gustafsson was the editor of Bonniers Litterära Magasin, he was bombarded with the question, “What makes a good poem?” Forays into Swedish Poetry is his answer. The fifteen poems in this volume range across the history of Swedish poetry from the 1640s, at the beginning of...
Republicanism
History, Theory, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
In this collection of writings, leading historians of political thought and political theorists provide an overview of traditional and contemporary republicanism. The first part of the book presents studies of ancient and modern versions of republicanism in Athenian and Roman political thought, as...
The Exceptionally Decisive Carl Schmitt
Naming the Sovereign Hand
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was a German conservative. He is someone you need to read if you want to know what is going on in the world today. In this study, the topic of sovereignty on Schmitt’s terms is discussed. Two themes are used to explain the sovereign theory of Schmitt, that of names and the...
Nationalism and History Education
Curricula and Textbooks in the United States and France
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
History education, by nature, transmits an ‘official’ version of national identity. National identity is not a fixed entity, and controversy over history teaching is an essential part of the process of redefining and regenerating the nation. France and the United States have in particular experienced...
The General Will
The Evolution of a Concept
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Although it originated in theological debates, the general will ultimately became one of the most celebrated and denigrated concepts emerging from early modern political thought. Jean-Jacques Rousseau made it the central element of his political theory, and it took on a life of its own during the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Is a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study? Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound’s elusive objectivity. Examining the genealogy and evolution...
by A. John Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Modern states claim rights of jurisdiction and control over particular geographical areas and their associated natural resources. Boundaries of Authority explores the possible moral bases for such territorial claims by states, in the process arguing that many of these territorial claims in fact lack...
Colonial exchanges
Political theory and the agency of the colonized
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
When European nations colonized the globe, they not only imposed their power, they also spread ideas. Those living within colonized societies did not receive these ideas passively – instead, they sought to reshape and repurpose them, often in surprising or ambiguous ways. Recent scholarship in political...
by Irina Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: A, American University of Central Asia, course: Political Thought, language: English, abstract: In 'The Prince' Machiavelli refers to the people as inhabitants, subjects, private citizens,...