The Modern Historiography Reader (Routledge Readers in History)
In The Modern Historiography Reader, Adam Budd guides readers through European and North American developments in history-writing since the eighteenth century. Starting with Enlightenment history and moving through subjects such as moral history, national history, the emergence of history as a profession, and the impact of scientific principles on history, he then looks at some of the most important developments in twentieth-century historiography such as social history, traumatic memory, postco...
Die Entstehungsgeschichte Der Betriebssoziologie in Deutschland (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, #83)
by Hans-Michael Rummler
Die Herausbildung der Betriebssoziologie als empirische Sozialwissenschaft vollzog sich in der Strukturkrise der sich entfaltenden Industriegesellschaft, am Wandel der gesellschaftlichen Konstitution von Industriearbeit und in der Hinwendung von der sozialen Frage zur Arbeiterfrage im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert. Neben den wirtschafts- und sozialhistorischen Voraussetzungen gehoren zur Entstehung der Betriebssoziologie praktische soziale Betriebsfuhrung und staatlich initiierte betriebliche Sozi...
As Tony Judt argues persuasively in Reappraisals, we have entered an "age of forgetting." Today's world is so utterly unlike the world of just twenty years ago that we have set aside our immediate past even before we could make sense of it. We literally don't know where we came from, and the results of this burgeoning ignorance are proving calamitous, with the clear prospect of worse to come. We have lost touch with three generations of international policy debate, social thought and public-spir...
American Labyrinth
Intellectual history has never been more relevant and more important to public life in the United States. In complicated and confounding times, people look for the principles that drive action and the foundations that support national ideals. American Labyrinth demonstrates the power of intellectual history to illuminate our public life and examine our ideological assumptions. This volume of essays brings together 19 influential intellectual historians to contribute original thoughts on topics...
The Fun Bits of History You Don't Know about Athens and Egypt Monuments
by Callum Evans
Geschichte Der Marketing-Theorie (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, #1889)
by Roland Bubik
Die Marketing-Lehre gleicht einer Ansammlung der unterschiedlichsten 'Approaches' und Methoden. 'Marketing' umfasst eine funktionale Absatztheorie, versteht sich daneben aber auch als eine Managementlehre. Woher ruhrt diese Heterogenitat des Faches? Wie konnte eine Verkaufskunde zur Parallel-BWL mutieren? Was ist eigentlich modern am modernen Marketing - und welche alten Inhalte erscheinen lediglich in immer neuer Verpackung auf dem Wissenschaftsmarkt? Wie kam es zur Verdrangung der deutschen Ab...
Diese Monographie, die sich sowohl an Natur- als auch an Geisteswissenschaftler wendet, thematisiert die Moglichkeit der Explikation von sozialer Praxis als oko-kulturelles System. Der zentrale Begriff der Untersuchung ist der Begriff -soziale Praxis-. Er wird unter der wissenschaftstheoretischen Konzeptualisierung des Subjekt/Objekt-Verhaltnisses aufbauend auf den Theorien der klassischen Physik, den physikalisch-chemischen Selbstorganisationstheorien sowie der Theorie selbstreferentieller Syst...
Cultural History of Causality
by Humanities Distinguished Professor Stephen Kern
The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies. Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and identifying a pantheon of little-known scholars who contributed to our modern understandings of the alphabet, one of the most important inventions in human history. Beginning with Biblical tales and...
Wechselwirkungen zwischen Psychologiegeschichte, politischer Geschichte, Sozial-, Kultur- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte fur Lander Europas und Nordamerikas werden thematisiert. Die Beitrage dokumentieren Vielfalt und Wandel der Psychologie in Forschung und Praxis im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Die Wandlungen betreffen die Auswirkungen von Machtverhaltnissen, politischen Entscheidungen und gesellschaftlichen Umbruchen auf nationale und regionale Psychologieentwicklungen, die Einflusse von Wissenschaft...
Can the Marxist tradition still provide new resources for thinking the specificity of historical time? This volume proposes to transform our understanding of Marxism by reconnecting with the 'subterranean currents' of plural temporalities that have traversed its development. From Rousseau and Sieyes to Marx, from Bloch to Althusser, from Gramsci to Pasolini and Postcolonialism, the chapters in this volume seek both to valorise neglected resources from Marxism's contradictory history, and also to...
Is psychoanalysis a legitimate tool for helping us understand the past? Many traditional historians have answered with an emphatic no, greeting the introduction of Freud into historical study with reponses ranging from condescending skepticism to outrage. Now Peter Gay, one of America's leading historians, builds and eloquent case for "history informed by psychoanalysis" and offers an impressive rebuttal to the charges of the profession's anti-Freudians. Iin this book, Gay takes on the oppositi...
Pillars of the Profession (Eurasian Studies Library)
by Jonathan Daly
Technology and Science in Ancient Civilizations
Why did the Greeks excel in geometry, but lag begin the Mesopotamians in arithmetic? How were the great pyramids of Egypt and the Han tombs in China constructed? What did the complex system of canals and dykes in the Tigris and Euphrates river valley have to do with the deforestation of Lebanon's famed cedar forests? This work presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which the ancients learned about and preserved their knowledge of the natural world, and the ways in which they develop...
State Repression and the Labors of Memory (Contradictions of Modernity)
by Elizabeth Jelin
Hearing the news from South America at the turn of the millennium can be like traveling in time: here are the trials of Pinochet, the searches for "the disappeared" in Argentina, the investigation of the death of former president Goulart in Brazil, the Peace Commission in Uruguay, the Archive of Terror in Paraguay, a Truth Commission in Peru. As societies struggle to come to terms with the past and with the vexing questions posed by ineradicable memories, this wise book offers guidance. Combinin...
In these pathbreaking essays, Roy Rosenzweig charts the impact of new media on teaching, researching, preserving, presenting, and understanding history. Negotiating between the "cyberenthusiasts" who champion technological breakthroughs and the "digital skeptics" who fear the end of traditional humanistic scholarship, Rosenzweig re-envisions the practices and professional rites of academic historians while analyzing and advocating for the achievements of amateur historians. While he addresses th...
Presence
The philosophy of "presence" seeks to challenge current understandings of meaning and understanding. One can trace its origins back to Vico, Dilthey, and Heidegger, though its more immediate exponents include Jean-Luc Nancy, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, and such contemporary philosophers of history as Frank Ankersmit and Eelco Runia. The theoretical paradigm of presence conveys how the past is literally with us in the present in significant and material ways: Things we cannot touch nonetheless touch u...
Cultural History in France (Studies for the International Society for Cultural History)
This volume, which gathers contributions presented at the annual conferences of l'Association pour le développement de l'histoire culturelle (ADHC), questions the subjects and boundaries of cultural history in France – with regard to neighboring approaches such as cultural studies, media studies, and gender studies – to elaborate a "social history of representations." Historians, philosophers and sociologists address a large variety of topics and methodological proposals. Definitions, objects an...
Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus
by James W Loewen
In "Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus," the bestselling author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me" offers a graphic corrective to the Columbus story told in so many American classrooms. First published over fifteen years ago and long out-of-print, the poster and accompanying paperback book sum up the mis-tellings--and reveal the real story--in a graphically appealing and accessible format. In vintage Loewen fashion, the poster juxtaposes short quotes from a range of high school textbo...