A Study of History
Author : Arnold Toynbee
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Page : 740 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Civilisation
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Author : Arnold Toynbee
Publisher :
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Civilisation
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Author : Arnold Joseph Toynbee
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Page : 760 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Civilization
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Author : Arnold Joseph Toynbee
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Page : 760 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Civilization
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Author : Arnold J. Toynbee
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 1956
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Page : 740 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Andrew Willard Jones
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1945125403
Author : Liane Carlson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0231548974
Central to the historicizing work of recent decades has been the concept of contingency, the realm of chance, change, and the unnecessary. Following Nietzsche and Foucault, genealogists have deployed contingency to show that all institutions and ideas could have been otherwise as a critique of the status quo. Yet scholars have spent very little time considering the genealogy of contingency itself—or what its history means for its role in politics. In Contingency and the Limits of History, Liane Carlson historicizes contingency by tying it to its theological and etymological roots in “touch,” contending that much of its critical, disruptive power is specific to our current historical moment. She returns to an older definition of contingency found in Christian theology that understands it as the lot of mortal creatures, who suffer, feel, bleed, and change, in contrast to a necessary, unchanging, impassible God. Far from dying out, Carlson reveals, this theological past persists in continental philosophy, where thinkers such as Novalis, Schelling, Merleau-Ponty, and Serres have imagined contingency as a type of radical destabilization brought about by the body’s collision with a changing world. Through studies of sickness, loneliness, violation, and love, she shows that different experiences of contingency can lead to dramatically dissimilar ethical and political projects. A strikingly original reconsideration of one of continental philosophy and critical theory’s most cherished concepts, this book reveals the limits of historicist accounts.
Author : David Greenberg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0231547161
Few American historians of his generation have had as much influence in both the academic and popular realms as Alan Brinkley. His debut work, the National Book Award–winning Voices of Protest, launched a storied career that considered the full spectrum of American political life. His books give serious and original treatments of populist dissent, the role of mass media, the struggles of liberalism and conservatism, and the powers and limits of the presidency. A longtime professor at Harvard University and Columbia University, Brinkley has shaped the field of U.S. history for generations of students through his textbooks and his mentorship of some of today’s foremost historians. Alan Brinkley: A Life in History brings together essays on his major works and ideas, as well as personal reminiscences from leading historians and thinkers beyond the academy whom Brinkley collaborated with, befriended, and influenced. Among the luminaries in this volume are the critic Frank Rich, the journalists Jonathan Alter and Nicholas Lemann, the biographer A. Scott Berg, and the historians Eric Foner and Lizabeth Cohen. Together, the seventeen essays that form this book chronicle the life and thought of a working historian, the development of historical scholarship in our time, and the role that history plays in our public life. At a moment when Americans are pondering the plight of their democracy, this volume offers a timely overview of a consummate student—and teacher—of the American political tradition.
Author : David Williams
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1595587470
“Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States did for the study of American history in general.” —Library Journal Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated with little-known anecdotes and firsthand testimony, this path-breaking narrative moves beyond presidents and generals to tell a new and powerful story about America’s most destructive conflict. A People’s History of the Civil War is a “readable social history” that “sheds fascinating light” on this crucial period. In so doing, it recovers the long-overlooked perspectives and forgotten voices of one of the defining chapters of American history (Publishers Weekly). “Meticulously researched and persuasively argued.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Author : Jeffrey Butler
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0813940591
Cradock, the product of more than twenty years of research by Jeffrey Butler, is a vivid history of a middle-sized South African town in the years when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and rigorous implementation of apartheid. Although Butler was born and raised in Cradock, he avoids sentimentality and offers an ambitious treatment of the racial themes that dominate recent South African history through the details of one emblematic community. Augmenting the obvious political narrative, Cradock examines poor infrastructural conditions that typify a grossly unequal system of racial segregation but otherwise neglected in the region’s historiography. Butler shows, with the richness that only a local study could provide, how the lives of blacks, whites, and mixed-race coloreds were affected by the bitter transition from segregation before 1948 to apartheid thereafter.