Search Results - "historian"

Henry Adams : The Historian as Political Theorist / by Young, James P. (1934- ).

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Rediscovering Herbert Horne : Poet, Architect, Typographer, Art Historian / by Fletcher, Ian, 1920-1988

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A Writing Life : Revisiting the Past / by Weintraub, Stanley, 1929-2019

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World History - A Genealogy : Private Conversations with World Historians, 1996–2016 /

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Defying the IRA? : Intimidation, coercion, and communities during the Irish Revolution / by Hughes, Brian (Historian)

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The Tailors and the Mannequins : Chen Cheng Mei and You Khin / by Nelson, Roger (Art historian)

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The Triumph of Uncertainty : Science and Self in the Postmodern Age / by Tauber, Alfred I.

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Celluloid Activist : The Life and Times of Vito Russo / by Schiavi, Michael R.

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Writing History in the Digital Age /

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Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World : Rethinking the Black Death /

Table of Contents: “…Heterogeneous immunological landscapes and medieval plague: an invitation to a new dialogue between historians and immunologists /…”
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Memory Crash : Politics of History in and around Ukraine, 1980s–2010s / by Kasʹi︠a︡nov, H. V. (Heorhiĭ Volodymyrovych), 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Notions and definitions -- Contexts -- State institutions -- Non-governmental organizations -- Historians -- Historical politics: an overview -- Spaces of Memory -- Historical politics: beyond borders -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Index.…”
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The History Problem : The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia / by Saito, Hiro (Sociologist)

Table of Contents: “…Cross-national fragmentation, 1945-1964 -- The growth of transnational interactions, 1965-1988 -- Apologies and denunciations, 1989-1996 -- The coexistence of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, 1997-2015 -- The legacy of the Tokyo trial -- The role of historians in the history problem.…”
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America's Gothic Fiction : The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana / by Baker, Dorothy Zayatz

Table of Contents: “…"We have seen strange things to day" : the history and artistry of Cotton Mather's remarkables -- "A wilderness of error" : Edgar Allan Poe's revision of providential tropes -- Cotton Mather as the "old New England grandmother" : Harriet Beecher Stowe and the female historian -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and the "singular mind" of Cotton Mather -- "The story was in the gaps" : Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Edith Wharton.…”
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The Return of the Omniscient Narrator : Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction / by Dawson, Paul, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The return of omniscience in contemporary fiction -- Omniscience and narrative authority -- The direct address and the ironic moralist -- Prolepsis and the literary historian -- Style and the pyrotechnic storyteller -- Polymathic knowledge, the immersion journalist, and the social commentator -- Voice and free indirect discourse in contemporary omniscient narration -- Paralepsis and omniscient character narration -- Real authors and real readers : a discursive approach to the narrative communication model -- Conclusion.…”
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Madame Bovary on Trial / by LaCapra, Dominick, 1939-

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Gershom Scholem : From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back / by Zadoff, Noam

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The Hub : Boston Past and Present / by O'Connor, Thomas H., 1922-2012

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The Play and Place of Criticism by Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000

Table of Contents: “…Critical dogma and the new critical historians. Platonism, Manichaeism, and the resolution of tension. …”
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Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928–1931 /

Table of Contents: “…Cultural revolution as class war / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Society, state, and ideology during the first five-year plan / Moshe Lewin -- Educational strategies and cultural revolution : the politics of Soviet development / Gail Warshofsky Lapidus -- The construction of the Stalinist psyche / David Joravsky -- Rural scholars and the cultural revolution / Susan Gross Solomon -- Marxist historians during the cultural revolution : a case study of professional in-fighting / George M. …”
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New Publication Cultures in the Humanities : Exploring the Paradigm Shift /

Table of Contents: “…Preface : Exploring paradigms and ourselves / Peter Dávidházi -- Digital humanities : foundations / Jacques Dubucs -- Looking forwards, not back : some ideas on the future of electronic publications / Gudrun Gersmann -- The dynamics of digital publications : an exploration of digital lexicography / Claudine Moulin and Julianne Nyhan -- Too much of a good thing? Or, a historian swamped by the web / Luca Codignola -- Electronic textual criticism : a challenge to the editor and to the publisher / Gábor Kecskemeti -- Computer-assisted scholarly editing of manuscript sources / Andrea Bozzi -- Electronic media and changing methods in classics / Bernhard Palme -- Publication practices in motion : the benefits of open access publishing for the humanities / Janneke Adema and Eelco Ferwerda -- The future of publications in the humanities : possible impacts of research assessment / Milena Žic Fuchs -- ERIH's role in the evaluation of research achievements in the humanities / Ferenc Kiefer -- Performing excellence in the humanities : the funding initiative 'Opus magnum' of the VolkswagenStiftung / Vera Szöllösi-Brenig.…”
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