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Book The Cambridge World History  Volume 1  Introducing World History  to 10 000 BCE

Download or read book The Cambridge World History Volume 1 Introducing World History to 10 000 BCE written by David Christian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of the Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 BCE. In Part I leading scholars outline the approaches, methods, and themes that have shaped and defined world history scholarship across the world and right up to the present day. Chapters examine the historiographical development of the field globally, periodisation, divergence and convergence, belief and knowledge, technology and innovation, family, gender, anthropology, migration, and fire. Part II surveys the vast Palaeolithic era, which laid the foundations for human history, concentrating on the most recent phases of hominin evolution, the rise of Homo sapiens and the very earliest human societies through to the end of the last ice age. Anthropologists, archaeologists, historical linguists and historians examine climate and tools, language, and culture, as well as offering regional perspectives from across the world.

Book Biographie Universelle  Ancienne Et Moderne

Download or read book Biographie Universelle Ancienne Et Moderne written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 1290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introduction    l histoire universelle

Download or read book Introduction l histoire universelle written by Jules Michelet and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jules Michelet

Download or read book Jules Michelet written by Stephen A. Kippur and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Paris to Pompeii

Download or read book From Paris to Pompeii written by Göran Blix and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early nineteenth century, as amateur archaeologists excavated Pompeii, Egypt, Assyria, and the first prehistoric sites, a myth arose of archaeology as a magical science capable of unearthing and reconstructing worlds thought to be irretrievably lost. This timely myth provided an urgent antidote to the French anxiety of amnesia that undermined faith in progress, and it armed writers from Chateaubriand and Hugo to Michelet and Renan with the intellectual tools needed to affirm the indestructible character of the past. From Paris to Pompeii reveals how the nascent science of archaeology lay at the core of the romantic experience of history and shaped the way historians, novelists, artists, and the public at large sought to cope with the relentless change that relegated every new present to history. In postrevolutionary France, the widespread desire to claim that no being, city, culture, or language was ever definitively erased ran much deeper than mere nostalgic and reactionary impulses. Göran Blix contends that this desire was the cornerstone of the substitution of a weak secular form of immortality for the lost certainties of the Christian afterlife. Taking the iconic city of Pompeii as its central example, and ranging widely across French romantic culture, this book examines the formation of a modern archaeological gaze and analyzes its historical ontology, rhetoric of retrieval, and secular theology of memory, before turning to its broader political implications.

Book Politics and Narratives of Birth

Download or read book Politics and Narratives of Birth written by Carol A. Mossman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a feminist analysis which combines a psychoanalytic perspective on catastrophic birth with the politics of reproduction in the emergent democracy of nineteenth-century France. It focuses on three major thinkers whose personal relation to origins is problematic - Roussea, Constant, and Stendhal - and also includes a broad reading of the nineteenth-century novel within the frame of pathological generation, giving special attention to works by Michelet and Zola. Professor Mossman identifies important areas of interaction between production and reproduction at the level of aesthetic form, and between private, birth-related discourse and the ideology of the birth of democracy. Within the context of the collapse of ancien regime France, the nascent ideology of motherhood collides with modes of discourse that invade and colonize the maternal body, generating a considerable burden of anxiety expressed in the nineteenth-century French novel.

Book Bulletin of the John Rylands Library

Download or read book Bulletin of the John Rylands Library written by John Rylands Library and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester

Download or read book Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester written by John Rylands University Library of Manchester and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Character and Public Spirit in Britain and France  1750   1914

Download or read book National Character and Public Spirit in Britain and France 1750 1914 written by Roberto Romani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work of unusual ambition and rigorous comparison, Roberto Romani considers the concept of 'national character' in the intellectual histories of Britain and France. Perceptions of collective mentalities influenced a variety of political and economic debates, ranging from anti-absolutist polemic in eighteenth-century France to appraisals of socialism in Edwardian Britain. Romani argues that the eighteenth-century notion of 'national character', with its stress on climate and government, evolved into a concern with the virtues of 'public spirit' irrespective of national traits, in parallel with the establishment of representative institutions on the Continent. His discussion of contemporary thinkers includes Montesquieu, Voltaire, Hume, Millar, Burke, Constant, de Staël and Tocqueville. After the mid-nineteenth century, the advent of social scientific approaches, including those of Spencer, Hobson and Durkheim, shifted the focus from the qualities required by political liberty to those needed to operate complex social systems, and to bear its psychological pressures.

Book Finding List of the Minneapolis Public Library

Download or read book Finding List of the Minneapolis Public Library written by Minneapolis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book French News

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  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book French News written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emporialism

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  • Author : Amr Kamal
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2024-11-01
  • ISBN : 1438499485
  • Pages : 494 pages

Download or read book Emporialism written by Amr Kamal and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines what Amr Kamal calls the phenomenon of emporialism, or the convergence between the spaces and imaginaries of empires and emporia in the context of a modern Mediterranean divided among the British, French, and Ottoman empires. By "emporia," Kamal refers to the commercial network of nineteenth-century department stores, which gained prominence after the Suez Canal project. Taking as a focal point French and Egyptian department stores, the author examines emporialism as a set of phenomenological experiences, discursive and social praxes, and mechanisms of control and resistance, born from the intersection of modernity, colonialism, and mass consumption. Drawing on archival evidence, Kamal reads iconographic and literary representations of emporia in English, French, Arabic, and Hebrew, from the nineteenth century to the present, addressing works by Émile Zola, Huda Shaarawi, Jacqueline Kahanoff, and others. Emporialism, Kamal argues, served to rewrite the history of the Mediterranean, to reinvent national belonging, and to interrogate issues of modernity and social justice.

Book Revolution and the Republic

Download or read book Revolution and the Republic written by Jeremy Jennings and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolution and the Republic provides a new and wide-ranging interpretation of political thought in France from the eighteenth century to the present day. At its heart are the dramatic and violent events associated with the French Revolution of 1789 and the birth of the First Republic in 1792. For the next two centuries, writers in France struggled to make sense of these and subsequent events in French revolutionary history, producing a rich and perceptive analysis of the nature of republican government. But, as Revolution and the Republic shows, these important debates were not limited to the narrow confines of politics and to the writing of constitutions. Such was their significance that they occupied a central place in discussions about religion, science, philosophy, commerce, and the writing of history. They also shaped arguments about the character of France and the French nation as well as polemics about the role of intellectuals in French society. Moreover, they continue to be of importance in France today as the country faces the challenges posed by globalisation, multiculturalism, and the reform of the welfare state. Integrating the perspectives of intellectual history, political theory, social and cultural history, and political economy, Jeremy Jennings has written a study of political ideas that appeals to all those interested in the history of modern France and Europe more generally.

Book Rethinking Historical Time

Download or read book Rethinking Historical Time written by Marek Tamm and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is time out of joint? For the past two centuries, the dominant Western time regime has been future-oriented and based on the linear, progressive and homogeneous concept of time. Over the last few decades, there has been a shift towards a new, present-oriented regime or 'presentism', made up of multiple and percolating temporalities. Rethinking Historical Time engages with this change of paradigm, providing a timely overview of cutting-edge interdisciplinary approaches to this new temporal condition. Marek Tamm and Laurent Olivier have brought together an international team of scholars working in history, anthropology, archaeology, geography, philosophy, literature and visual studies to rethink the epistemological consequences of presentism for the study of past and to discuss critically the traditional assumptions that underpin research on historical time. Beginning with an analysis of presentism, the contributors move on to explore in historical and critical terms the idea of multiple temporalities, before presenting a series of case studies on the variability of different forms of time in contemporary material culture.

Book Historical Atlases

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  • Author : Walter Goffart
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2011-04-15
  • ISBN : 0226300722
  • Pages : 628 pages

Download or read book Historical Atlases written by Walter Goffart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we can walk into any well-stocked bookstore or library and find an array of historical atlases. The first thorough review of the source material, Historical Atlases traces how these collections of "maps for history"—maps whose sole purpose was to illustrate some historical moment or scene—came into being. Beginning in the sixteenth century, and continuing down to the late nineteenth, Walter Goffart discusses milestones in the origins of historical atlases as well as individual maps illustrating historical events in alternating, paired chapters. He focuses on maps of the medieval period because the development of maps for history hinged particularly on portrayals of this segment of the postclassical, "modern" past. Goffart concludes the book with a detailed catalogue of more than 700 historical maps and atlases produced from 1570 to 1870. Historical Atlases will immediately take its place as the single most important reference on its subject. Historians of cartography, medievalists, and anyone seriously interested in the role of maps in portraying history will find it invaluable.

Book Catalogue of the Young Men s Mercantile Library Association  of Cincinnati

Download or read book Catalogue of the Young Men s Mercantile Library Association of Cincinnati written by Young Men's Mercantile Library Association (Cincinnati, Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Books in the Library

Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Library written by University of Sydney and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: