On History and Other Essays
Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Imports
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780389203551
Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Imports
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780389203551
Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107394597
From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion and classical scholarship. Anthony Grafton's book is based on his Trevelyan Lectures of 2005, and it proves to be a powerful and imaginative exploration of some central themes in the history of European ideas. Grafton explains why so many of these works were written, why they attained so much insight – and why, in the centuries that followed, most scholars gradually forgot that they had existed. Elegant and accessible, What Was History? is a deliberate evocation of E. H. Carr's celebrated Trevelyan Lectures, What Is History?.
Author : Mike Wallace
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781566394451
This is a book about why history matters. It shows how popularized historical images and narratives deeply influence Americans' understanding of their collective past. A leading public historian, Mike Wallace observes that we are a people who think of ourselves as having shed the past but also avid tourists who are on a "heritage binge," flocking by the thousands to Ellis Island, Colonial Williamsburg, or the Vietnam Memorial.Wallace probes into the trivialization of history that pervades American culture as well as the struggles over public memory that provoke stormy controversy. The recent imbroglio surrounding the National Air and Space Museum's proposed Enola Gay exhibit was reported as centering on why the U.S. government decided to use the A-Bomb against Japan. Wallace scrutinizes the actual plans for the exhibit and investigates the ways in which the controversy drew in historians, veterans, the media, and the general public.Whether his subject is multimillion dollar theme parks owned by powerful corporations, urban museums, or television docudramas, Mike Wallace shows how their depictions of history are shaped by assumptions about which pasts are worth saving, whose stories are worth telling, what gets left out, and who is authorized to make the decisions. Author note: Mike Wallace is Professor of History at John Jay College, City University of New York. He is the co-author, with Edwin G. Burrows, of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History.
Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 1990
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Dunn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521497848
A collection of penetrating essays on political thought - past, present and future - by a major commentator.
Author : Alexander Gerschenkron
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : J. B. S. Haldane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 1317355911
In this collection, first published in 1951, the central theme is that everything has a history, and that we cannot fully understand anything without some knowledge of its history. Professor Haldane writes mainly on geology, astronomy and zoology, but includes a variety of other topics, including eugenics, Einstein, and C. S. Lewis. His outlines of zoology, of the geology of England, and of the evidence for astronomical theories, will be of great use to students and teachers.
Author : Paul K. Longmore
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781592137756
'Personal inclination made me a historian. Personal encounter with public policy made me an activist.'
Author : John Neville Figgis
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 2015-10-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781344768450
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Author : Arthur O. Lovejoy
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,87 MB
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1421432382
Originally published in 1948. In the first essay of this collection, Lovejoy reflects on the nature, methods, and difficulties of the historiography of ideas. He maps out recurring phenomena in the history of ideas, which the essays illustrate. One phenomenon is the presence and influence of the same presuppositions or other operative "ideas" in very diverse provinces of thought and in different periods. Another is the role of semantic transitions and confusions, of shifts and of ambiguities in the meanings of terms, in the history of thought and taste. A third phenomenon is the internal tensions or waverings in the mind of almost every individual writer—sometimes discernible even in a single writing or on a single page—arising from conflicting ideas or incongruous propensities of feeling or taste to which the writer is susceptible. These essays do not contribute to metaphysical and epistemological questions; they are primarily historical.