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  • Analysing Historical Narratives

    On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past

    Edited by Nicola Brauch, Chris Lorenz, Stefan Berger ...
    Series Book 40 - Making Sense of History
    For all of the recent debates over the methods and theoretical underpinnings of the historical profession, scholars and laypeople alike still frequently think of history in terms of storytelling. Accordingly, historians and theorists have devoted much attention to how historical narratives work, illuminating the ways they can bind together events, shape an argument and lend support to ideology. ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Popularizing National Pasts

    1800 to the Present

    Edited by Stefan Berger, Chris Lorenz, Billie Melman ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of popular national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is European in the full sense of this term. One of its fortes is the inclusion of Eastern Europe. The cross ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    by Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss ...
    Translated by George Schwab ...
    "Arguably Schmitt's most influential work . . . recognized as one of the most important tracts of modern political thought." —Samuel Earle, The New StatesmanIn this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing oneself for the state—a critique as cogent ... Read more

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  • Historiography in the Twentieth Century

    From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge

    by Georg G. Iggers ...
    "No one looking for a well-informed introduction to . . the key views of history adopted by professional historians . . could find a better one than this." ―Richard J. Evans, author of In Defence of HistoryA broad perspective on historical thought and writing, with a new epilogue.In this book, now published in ten languages, a preeminent intellectual historian examines the profound changes in ... Read more

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  • Comparative Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ben Hutchinson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010

    Mobilization and legitimacy, continuity and change

    Edited by Peter Aronsson, Gabriella Elgenius ...
    Europe’s national museums have since their creation been at the centre of on-going nation making processes. National museums negotiate conflicts and contradictions and entrain the community sufficiently to obtain the support of scientists and art connoisseurs, citizens and taxpayers, policy makers, domestic and foreign visitors alike. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 assess ... Read more

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  • Fractured Times

    Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siècle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism to Dadaism to the emergence of information technology. In Fractured Times, Hobsbawm, with ... Read more

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  • What is the History of Knowledge?

    by Peter Burke ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, ‘knowledges in the plural’) and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural history. Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws upon examples of this ... Read more

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  • Memorylands

    Heritage and Identity in Europe Today

    by Sharon Macdonald ...
    Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a ’memoryland’ – littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how this ‘memory phenomenon’ is related to the changing nature of identities – especially European, national ... Read more

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  • Philosophy and Real Politics

    by Raymond Geuss ...
    Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But in Philosophy and Real Politics, Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political actors behave as they actually do. Far from being applied ethics, politics is a skill that allows ... Read more

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  • What Is Ancient History?

    by Walter Scheidel ...
    From one of today’s most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history matters—and why it needs to be told in a radically different, global wayIt’s easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history—obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinction. In What Is Ancient History?, Walter Scheidel presents a compelling ... Read more

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  • The Avant Garde

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Cottington ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    'The avant-garde' is perhaps the most important and influential concept in the history of modern culture. For over a hundred years it has governed critical and historical assessment of the quality and significance of an artist or a work of art, in any medium-if these have been judged to be 'avant-garde', then they have been worthy of consideration. If not, then by and large they have not, and ... Read more

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