Pambazuka Press, 2011. — 191 p. — ISBN: 978-1-906387-96-9; ISBN: 978-1-906387-97-6; ISBN India: 978-81-8291-110-9. Responding to the need to take a fresh look at world history, hitherto dominated by Eurocentric ideologues and historians in their attempt to justify the nature and character of modern capitalism, Samir Amin looks in this book at the ancient world system and how it...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. — 252 p. — ISBN10: 0520080459; ISBN13: 978-0520080454. "The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history," claimed Collingwood. In this remarkable collection of essays, many published for the first time, Frank Ankersmit demonstrates the prescience of that remark and goes a long way...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009, 400 p. — ISBN 978-0-8047-6003-4 (cloth: alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8047-6275-5 (pbk.: alk. paper). Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature and the humanities. The book is a major...
München: Verlag C.H. Beck (Beck'sche Reihe), 2013 (2. Aufl.). — 250 S. "Dieses Buch bietet einen fundierten Überblick über einflußreiche Denker und Strömungen der Philosophie des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts und zeigt anhand konkreter Fallbeispiele die Bedeutung ihrer Theorien für den Alltag des Historikers auf. Sein besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei denjenigen philosophischen...
Routledge, 1997. — 336 p. Modern relativism and postmodern thought in culture and language challenge the 'truth' of history. This book considers how all historians, confined by the concepts and forms of argument of their own cultures, can still discover truths about the past. The Truth of History presents a study of various historical explanations and interpretations and...
Arnold, 2003. - 320 p. ISBN: 0340761768, 0340761776. Designed to provide the material necessary for general courses in historiography, this extensive history thoughtfully analyzes the evolution of traditional approaches to the field, the challenge of the linguistic turn, and the contemporary perspectives that inform our current understandings. Stefan Berger is Professor of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 546 p. Notes on Contributors Stefan Berger and Chris Lorenz Narrativizations of the Past: The Theoretical Debate and the Example of the Weimar Republic Jan Eckel Double Trouble: A Comparison of the Politics of National History in Germany and in Quebec Chris Lorenz Setting the Scene for National History Joep Leerssen A Strained Relationship:...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 216 p. An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order. The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 216 p. An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order. The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility...
New York, New Press, 2008. — 288 p. — ISBN 978-1-59558-196-9 (hc.); ISBN 978-1-59558-414-4 (pbk.). Jared Diamond meets Stephen Hawking in the first popular book in an innovative new field that seeks to fit human history into the history of the universe, by an American Book Award winner. An epic book that Kirkus called "world history on a grand scale," Big History begins when...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1920 — 398 p. Account of the history of the Idea of Progress from ancient times to the late 19th century as written by J.B.Bury, Regius professor of modern history and fellow of the King's College in the University of Cambridge. Some interpretations of universal history: Bodin and Le Roy. Utility the end of knowledge: Bacon. Cartesianism. The doctrine...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 172 p. E. H. Carr's What is History? was originally published by Macmillan in 1961. Since then it has sold hundreds of thousands of copies throughout the world. In this book, ten internationally renowned scholars, writing from a range of historical vantage points, answer Carr's question for a new generation of historians: What does it mean to study...
Random House, 2013. — 833 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-26907-2. From one of our most acclaimed historians, a wise and provocative call to re-examine the way we look at the past: not merely as the story of incessant conflict between groups but also of human solidarity throughout the ages. Investigating the six most salient categories of human identity, difference, and confrontation —...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996 — 168 p. — ISBN10: 0801852471; ISBN13: 978-0801852473. "If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing intersect that the...
The John Hopkins University Press, 1996. — 125 p. Introduction: The Wound and the Voice Unclaimed Experience: Trauma and the Possibility of History (Freud, Moses and Monotheism) Literature and the Enactment of Memory (Duras, Resnais, Hiroshima mon amour) Traumatic Departures: Survival and History in Freud (Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Moses and Monotheism) The Falling Body...
Princeton University Press, 2008. — 301 p. First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The...
Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press , 2004. — 668 p. — ISBN 0-520-90163-0. Maps of Time unites natural history and human history in a single, grand, and intelligible narrative. This is a great achievement, analogous to the way in which Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century united the heavens and the Earth under uniform laws of motion; it is even more...
Oxford: Clarendon press, 1951. — 361 p. The Idea of History is the best-known work of the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. Collingwood. It was originally published posthumously in 1946, having been mainly reconstructed from Collingwood's manuscripts, many of which are now lost. This important work examines how the idea of history has evolved from the...
Princeton University Press, 2016. - 309 p. Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 030011558X; ISBN13: 978-0300115581. This ambitious book explores the relationship between time and history and shows how an appreciation of long-term time helps to make sense of the past. The book is devoted to a wide-ranging analysis of the way different societies have conceived and interpreted time, and it develops a...
Duke University Press Books, 2007. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0822339277 ISBN13: 9780822339274 Europe (in Theory) is an innovative analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas about Europe that continue to inform thinking about culture, politics, and identity today. Drawing on insights from subaltern and postcolonial studies, Roberto M. Dainotto deconstructs imperialism not...
Abingdon, Oxon; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. — 232 p. — ISBN: 978-0-415-85878-6 Remaking History considers the ways that historical fictions of all kinds enable a complex engagement with the past. Popular historical texts including films, television and novels, along with cultural phenomena such as superheroes and vampires, broker relationships to ‘history’, while...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011. — 528 p. — ISBN10: 9004192484; ISBN13: 978-9004192485 This extensively researched book argues that the development of a libertarian culture was an indispensable component of the rise of the West. The roots of the West's superior intellectual and artistic creativity should be traced back to the aristocratic warlike culture of Indo-European speakers....
Evolver Editions, 2012. — 576 p. — eISBN: 978-1-58394-537-7 Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this landmark book, Eisenstein explains how a disconnection from the natural world and one another is built into the foundations of civilization: into science,...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2017. — 829 p. — (International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life) — ISBN: 978-3-319-39100-7. This handbook informs the reader about how much progress we, the human race, have made in enhancing the quality of life on this planet. Many skeptics focus on how the quality of life has deteriorated over the course of human history,...
University of Chicago Press, 2003. — 348 p. History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather flatters us with the belief in our ability to recreate the world in our image. It is a form of self-assertion that brooks no opposition or dissent and shelters us from the experience of time. So argues...
Wiley-Blackwell, 1992. — 241 p. We remember the past in a number of different ways, some of which we can barely describe. But we talk about the past in more specific social contexts, at home, at work, in the bar, reminiscing about past experience or narrating past events with specific groups of family friends and colleagues. How people talk about the past helps define their...
Dublin: Printed by Boulter Grierson, Printer to the King’s most Excellent Majesty, MDCCLXVII. [1767]. - 208 p. Adam Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society is a classic of the Scottish--and European--Enlightenment. Drawing on such diverse sources as classical authors and contemporary travel literature, Ferguson combines a subtle analysis of modern commercial society...
New York: HarperPerennial, 1970. — 358 p. — ISBN10: 0060904984; ISBN13: 978-0061315459. Professor Fischer's intentions in this book are clear and simple. His concerns are the ways in which historians set about their inquiries, the nature of their explanations of what they have observed, and the manner in which they present their 'arguments'—i.e., their solutions to problems,...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 — 208 p. — ISBN10: 0195171578; ISBN13: 978-0195171570 What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History...
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2017. — 240 S. In Deutschland genießt die Ideengeschichte ein so hohes Ansehen wie schon seit Langem nicht mehr. Mit der steigenden Popularität wird eine klärende Bestandsaufnahme des eigenen Methodenhaushaltes dringlich – ebenso steht eine Standortbestimmung innerhalb der Geschichtswissenschaft aus. Die Beiträger_innen des Bandes – darunter...
Syracuse University Press, 2009. — xxx, 169 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-3171-2; ISBN-10: 0-8156-3171-5. "The rise of the West" has long been the accepted doctrine for framing analyses of world history. Privileging a Eurocentric approach, this traditional paradigm obscures the significance of the indigenous rich in non-Western regions and fails to recognize the contributions of the...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. — 258 p. — ISBN: 3319552473. History is our collective memory. History mirrors our own personal memory in that it is selective, fallible, and perishable. Like our individual memory, history acts to record, highlight and recall events that are especially intense, unusual, or meaningful to those who witness them. In this way, history...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2015 — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0231163762; ISBN13: 978-0231163767. Translated by Saskia Brown. François Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts,...
Budapest: CEU Press, 2007 — 144 p. — ISBN: 978-963-9776-14-2. Time is the crucial ingredient in history, and yet historians rarely talk about time as such. These essays offer new insight into the development of modern conceptions of time, from the Christian dating system (BC/AD or BCE/CE) to the idea of “modernity” as a new epoch in human history. Are the Gregorian calendar,...
Prometheus Books, 2007. — ISBN 9781591024842. This is the first systematic critique of Edward Said's influential work, "Orientalism" , a book that for almost three decades has received wide acclaim, voluminous commentary, and translation into more than fifteen languages. Said's main thesis was that the Western image of the East was heavily biased by colonialist attitudes,...
Middletown, CN: Wesley an University Press, 1983. — 405 p. — ISBN: 0-8195-6080-4 This is the first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German national tradition of historiography. It analyzes the basic theoretical assumptions of the German historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and relates these assumptions to political thought and action....
Oxford, New York: Bloomsbury, 2001 — 384 p. — ISBN10: 1859734375; ISBN13: 978-1859734377. Translated by Feike de Jong. This book offers a new theoretical basis for urban studies and for historical studies in general by addressing one of the main problems that confronts contemporary historians. How is it possible to process and synthesize an increasingly overwhelming amount of...
Routledge, 1999 - 248 p. Why History is an introduction to the issue of history and ethics. Designed to provoke discussion, the book asks whether a good knowledge and understanding of the past is a good thing to have and if so, why. In the context of postmodern times, Why History suggests that the goal of 'learning lessons from the past' is actually learning lessons from...
Cambridge University Press, 2014 — 176 p. How should historians speak truth to power - and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history - especially long-term history - so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to...
Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2014 — 376 p. — ISBN10: 0822356767; ISBN13: 978-0822356769. Translated by Michael K. Bourdaghs. In this major, paradigm-shifting work, Kojin Karatani systematically re-reads Marx's version of world history, shifting the focus of critique from modes of production to modes of exchange. Karatani seeks to understand both Capital-Nation-State,...
Brepols Publishers, 2019. — 254 p. This book investigates how, from the seventeenth century onward, philosophers, philologists and historians described various world "cultures", colonized the past (or national pasts), and thus invented Europe's philosophical nature. In the recent past, critical discussions concerning notions such as "cultural area" and 'area studies', as well...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 300 p. In this ambitious exploration of humanity and civilizations throughout history, major historical events and processes in the history of mankind are looked at in order to understand the "currents" of history. Jaroslav Krejc analyzes the whole history of civilization and considers historical events such as feudalism and the development of...
New York, London: W- W- Norton & Company, 1991 — 592 p. — ISBN: 0-393-30795-6. Can we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, Christopher Lasch seeks the answer in a history of the struggle between two ideas: one is the idea of progress - an idea driven by the conviction that human desire is insatiable and requires ever larger...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. — 248 p. — ISBN10: 0195067630; ISBN13: 978-0195067637 In Fantasy and Reality in History, Peter Loewenberg, a historian, political psychologist, and psychoanalyst, brings what the discipline of psychoanalysis has learned about human conduct and the irrational to bear on the analysis and writing of history. The result is a remarkable series...
Budapest: CEU Press, 2008 — 376 p. — ISBN10: 9639776270; ISBN13: 978-9639776272. The interconnections of time with historical thought and knowledge have come powerfully to the fore since the 1970s. An international group of scholars, from a range of fields including literary theory, history of ideas, cultural anthropology, philosophy, intellectual history and theology,...
London: Verso Books, 2004. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1859845134; ISBN13: 978-1859845134 Despite predictions of the "death of the past" and the "end of history," the past refuses to go away. In fact, the start of the twenty-first century has seen an upsurge of interest in popular representations of history on the large and small screen, and of impassioned political conflicts over rival...
London, New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. — 235 p. — ISBN: 978-0-203-10256-5 (ebk) In a provocative analysis of European and American historical thinking and practice since the early eighteenth century, A History of History confronts several basic assumptions about the nature of history. Among these are the concept of ‘historical realism’, the belief in...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 248 p. The Concept of History reflects on the presuppositions behind the contemporary understanding of history that often remain implicit and not spelled out. It is a critique of the modern understanding of history that presents it as universal and teleological, progressively moving forward to an end. Although few contemporary philosophers and...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1969, viii & 335 p. ISBN: 0195008057; 9780195008050. The primary purpose of this book is to set forth the essential sources and contests of the Western idea of social development. The book is in large part historical, in smaller part analytical and critical. In the rather long final chapter I explore some of the difficulties which seem to me...
Routledge, 2015. — 176 p. Key Issues in Historical Theory is a fresh, clear and well-grounded introduction to this vibrant field of inquiry, incorporating many examples from novels, paintings, music, and political debates. The book expertly engages the reader in discussions of what history is, how people relate to the past and how they are formed by the past. Over 11...
University of Texas Press, 2019. — 384 p. In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empirical observations and arranging them systematically. Herodotus and the Question Why offers a comprehensive examination of the methods behind the Histories and the challenge of documenting...
Berghahn Books, 2006. — 292 p. History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging it with norms and values, hopes and fears. And it is...
Beograd: Biblioteka XX vek, 2008. — 480 s. Autor: Edvard V. Said (Edward W. Said, 1935, Jerusalim – 2003, Njujork) bio je profesor engleske i komparativne književnosti na univerzitetu Kolumbija u Njujorku, književni i muzički kritičar, kulturolog i angažovani borac za prava Palestinaca. Veoma plodan autor, Said je objavio veliki...
Penguin Books, 2003. — 432 p. "Orientalism" is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire and with each passing year its influence becomes if anything even greater. To mark its 25th anniversary, "Orientalism" rightfully takes its...
London: Penguin, 1977. — 374 p. Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, about the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism, defined as the West's patronizing representations of "The East"—the societies and peoples who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. According to Said, orientalism (the Western scholarship about the Eastern...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. — 336 p. — ( Wihh a foreword by Anthony Grafton). How did people learn to distinguish between past and present? How did they come to see the past as existing in its own distinctive context? In "The Birth of the Past", Zachary Sayre Schiffman explores these questions in his sweeping survey of historical thinking in the Western world. Today...
De Gruyter, 2004. - 293 p. Spätestens seit dem "linguistic turn" wird in den verschiedenen geisteswissenschaftlichen Disziplinen neu diskutiert, wie sich Erkenntnis und Interpretation von Wirklichkeit vollziehen. In Aufnahme der neueren geschichtstheoretischen Diskussion werden die erkenntnistheoretischen Voraussetzungen der Konstruktion von Geschichte untersucht, und es wird...
Routledge, 2019. — 270 p. Is the appropriate form of human action explanation causal or rather teleological? While this is a central question in analytic philosophy of action, it also has implications for questions about the differences between methods of explanation in the sciences on the one hand and in the humanities and the social sciences on the other. Additionally, this...
Routledge, 2019. — 270 p. Is the appropriate form of human action explanation causal or rather teleological? While this is a central question in analytic philosophy of action, it also has implications for questions about the differences between methods of explanation in the sciences on the one hand and in the humanities and the social sciences on the other. Additionally, this...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2015. - 272 p. The idea that human history is approaching a "singularity" – that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both – has moved from the realm of science fiction to serious debate. Some singularity theorists predict that if the field of artificial...
Routledge, 2009. — 215 p. — (History: concepts, theories and practice). — ISBN: 978-1-4082-2012-2. Is history factual, or just another form of fiction? Are there distinct boundaries between the two, or just extensive borderlands? How do novelists represent historians and history? The relationship between history and fiction has always been contentious and sometimes turbulent,...
Harlow: Longman, 2009. — 215 p. — ( History: concepts, theories and practice). — ISBN: 9781408220122. Is history factual, or just another form of fiction? Are there distinct boundaries between the two, or just extensive borderlands? How do novelists represent historians and history? The relationship between history and fiction has always been contentious and sometimes...
Wiley Blackwell, 2010. — 272 p. This book is about big history, the approach to history in which the human past is placed within the framework of cosmic history, from the beginning of the universe up until life on Earth today. This book offers a fresh theoretical approach to big history that, I hope, will provide a better understanding not only of the past but also of the major...
Cambridge University Press, 1988. — 262 p. Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies , though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such...
Pluto Press, 2000. — 208 p. — ISBN: 0745312683; 0745312632. This original study explores the development of the postmodern turn in history, brought on by the social, political and cultural changes of the 1970's and 1980's. Challenging notions of certainty and objectivity, postmodernism has questioned traditional models and methods in studying history. A timely intervention in...
Oxford University Press, 1987. — 640 p. Arnold Toynbee's analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations has been acknowledged as one of the great achievements of twentieth-century scholarship. D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this monumental work is a great achievement in its own right. While reducing the work to one sixth of its original size, he has succeeded in preserving its...
Oxford University Press, 1987. — 430 p. Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations. Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this magnificent enterprise preserves the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very...
London: Oxford University Press and Thames & Hudson, 1972. — 576 p. — ISBN: 0-500-27539-4. In The Study, Toynbee revolutionized the writing of history. By encompassing virtually all civilizations – the Egyptian, the Sumeric, the Mayan, the Iranian, the Japanese, the Hellenic, and the West, to name only a few – within the scope of his monumental work, he achieved the first...
London: Constable and Co., 1922. — 442 p. Professor Toynbee's specific narrative begins with the landing of Greek troops at Smyrna in May, 1919. His account is very full and detailed, and is based largely upon personal observation. Toynbee's principal conclusion is that the effect of Western diplomacy and of Western ideas, particularly the conception of nationality, upon the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. — 572 p. Aviezer Tucker. Major Fields. Philosophy of Historiography. Peter Kosso. Philosophy of History. ZdenFk VaSíCek. Philosophical Issues in Natural History and Its Historiography. Carol E. Cleland. Historians and Philosophy of Historiography. John Zammito. Basic Problems. Historiographic Evidence and Confirmation. Mark Day and Gregory Radick....
London: Atlantic Books, 2018. — 493 p. — (Histories of the Unexpected). — ISBN: 978-1-78649-412-2ю In this fascinating and original new book, Sam Willis and James Daybell lead us on a journey of discovery that tackles some of the greatest historical themes - from the Tudors to the Second World War, from the Roman Empire to the Victorians - but via entirely unexpected subjects....
Vintage Books, 2004. — 1406 p. — ISBN: 0-679-76399-6. At the beginning of Nonzero , Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial soup to the World Wide Web." Twenty-two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded — and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that evolution...
New York. The Dot Connector Library, 2017. - 589 p. Far out in exterior darkness where no breath stirs, no light shines, and no sound is heard, one can glance toward this spinning earth-ball. In the astral regions, illumination is of the soul, hence all is dark but this certain star and only a part of it is aglow. From such a distance, one can obtain an utterly untrammeled view...
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