Advocating nuclear war, attempting communication with dolphins and taking an interest in the paranormal and UFOs, there is perhaps no greater (or stranger) cautionary tale for the Left than that of Posadism. Named after the Argentine Trotskyist J. Posadas, the movement's journey through the fractious and sectarian world of mid-20th century revolutionary socialism was unique. Although at times significant, Posadas' movement was ultimately a failure. As it disintegrated, it increasingly grew to r...
R.F. Foster's The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland examines how key events in Irish history have been recast and retold to serve a multiplicity of purposes. In this provocative and extremely funny book Roy Foster demolishes the clichés that surround Ireland's past, examining how key moments have been turned into myths - and, more recently, airbrushed and repackaged for Hollywood and popular culture. Whether discussing the 'misery tourism' of Famine theme parks, ideas of...
Historicism and Knowledge (Routledge Library Editions: Historiography)
by Robert D'Amico
D'Amico re-examines the reasons for the increasing influence of historicist arguments in modern philosophy. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of philosophy, critical theory, intellectual history.
CULTURAL TRANSITION IN THE CHILTERNS AND ESSEX REGION, 350 AD TO 650 AD
This collection reprints key articles written within the past 30 years on the Annales school, their journal, their influence on history, historiography and other academic fields.
The Star of Redemption (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
by Franz Rosenzweig
The Star of Redemption is widely recognized as a key document of modern existential thought and a significant contribution to Jewish theology in the twentieth century. An affirmation of what Rosenzweig called "the new thinking," the work ensconces common sense in the place of abstract, conceptual philosophizing and posits the validity of the concrete, individual human being over that of "humanity" in general. Fusing philosophy and theology, it assigns both Judaism and Christianity distinct but e...
Broken Narratives (Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography, #8)
The end of the Cold War reshuffled the power relations between former friends and enemies. In Broken Narratives the contributors offer an account of the consequences of the end of the Cold War for the (re-)telling of history in film, literature and academic historiography in Europe and East Asia. Despite the post-modern claim that there is no need for a master-narrative, the contributions to this book show that we are in the middle of an intense and difficult search for a common understanding of...
The Fun Bits of History You Don't Know about Athens and Conquering
by Callum Evans
Im Gespaltenen Zauberland. Oswald Spengler Und Die Aneignung Des Fremden
by Angela Van Goten
Marxist Historiographies
Marxist Historiographies is the first book to examine the ebb and flow of Marxist historiography from a global and cross-cultural perspective. Since the eighteenth century, few schools of historical thought have exerted a more lasting impact than Marxism, and this impact extends far beyond the Western world within which it is most commonly analysed. Edited by two highly respected authors in the field, this book deals with the effect of Marxism on historical writings not only in parts of Europe...
Historiography and Identity I (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, #24)
The Fun Bits of History You Don't Know about Greek Philosophers
by Callum Evans
The Fun Bits of History You Don't Know about First World War Weapons
by Callum Evans
Oakeshott on History (British Idealist Studies, Series 1: Oakeshott)
by Luke O'Sullivan
This book challenges the common view that Michael Oakeshott was mainly important as a political philosopher by offering the first comprehensive study of his ideas on history. It argues that Oakeshott's writings on the philosophy of history mark him out as the most successful of the philosophers who attempted to establish historical study as an autonomous form of thought during the twentieth century. It also contends that his work on the history of political thought is best seen in the context of...
The Meaning of History, and Other Historical Pieces
by Frederic Harrison
Culture and Power
Culture and Power: The Plots of History in Performance is a collection of essays on the configuration of history as text, including the visual, with a particular focus on the performance of historical plots. Contributors include distinguished scholars from parts of the world as far apart as Toronto and Istanbul, Singapore and Cardiff, or Berlin and Alicante, in all walks of academic life, from emeritus professors to recent PhDs. Covering a broad spectrum between cultural studies and metahistory,...
At the Roots of Italian Identity (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Italy)
by Edoardo Marcello Barsotti
This book investigates the relationship between the ideas of nation and race among the nationalist intelligentsia of the Italian Risorgimento and argues that ideas of race played a considerable role in defining Italian national identity. The author argues that the racialization of the Italians dates back to the early Napoleonic age and that naturalistic racialism—or race-thinking based on the taxonomies of the natural history of man—emerged well before the traditionally presumed date of the lat...