Reappraisals in History
Author: Jack H. Hexter
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780226332338
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Author: Jack H. Hexter
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780226332338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lawrence Stone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-07-06
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9780521364843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these essays owe much to his influence. There are also four appreciations by friends and colleagues from Oxford and Princeton and a little-known autobiographical piece by Lawrence Stone himself.
Author: J.H. Hexter
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: C. Scott Dixon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-11
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 1000497372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterpreting Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive collection of essays on the historiography of the early modern period (circa 1450-1800). Concerned with the principles, priorities, theories, and narratives behind the writing of early modern history, the book places particular emphasis on developments in recent scholarship. Each chapter, written by a prominent historian caught up in the debates, is devoted to the varieties of interpretation relating to a specific theme or field considered integral to understanding the age, providing readers with a ‘behind-the-scenes’ look at how historians have worked, and still work, within these fields. At one level the emphasis is historiographical, with the essays engaged in a direct dialogue with the influential theories, methods, assumptions, and conclusions in each of the fields. At another level the contributions emphasise the historical dimensions of interpretation, providing readers with surveys of the component parts that make up the modern narratives. Supported by extensive bibliographies, primary materials, and appendices with extracts from key secondary debates, Interpreting Early Modern Europe provides a systematic exploration of how historians have shaped the study of the early modern past. It is essential reading for students of early modern history. For a comprehensive overview of the history of early modern Europe see the partnering volume The European World 3ed Edited by Beat Kumin - https://www.routledge.com/The-European-World-15001800-An-Introduction-to-Early-Modern-History/Kuminah2/p/book/9781138119154.
Author: Jack H. HEXTER
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Published: 1967
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Willibald Steinmetz
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2019-09-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1789203368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an era defined by daily polls, institutional rankings, and other forms of social quantification, it can be easy to forget that comparison has a long historical lineage. Presenting a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume investigates the concepts and practices of comparison from the early modern period to the present. Each chapter demonstrates how comparison has helped to drive the seemingly irresistible dynamism of the modern world, exploring how comparatively minded assessors determine their units of analysis, the criteria they select or ignore, and just who it is that makes use of these comparisons—and to what ends.
Author: J. H. Hexter
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Published: 2003-01
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780758175847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bronwen Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-07-21
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1135168938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book looks at how people, things, and new forms of knowledge created "publics" in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of early modern society. The focus is on what the authors call "making publics" — the active creation of new forms of association that allowed people to connect with others in ways not rooted in family, rank or vocation, but rather founded in voluntary groupings built on the shared interests, tastes, commitments, and desires of individuals. By creating new forms of association, cultural producers and consumers challenged dominant ideas about just who could be a public person, greatly expanded the resources of public life for ordinary people in their own time, and developed ideas and practices that have helped create the political culture of modernity. Coming from a number of disciplines including literary and cultural studies, art history, history of religion, history of science, and musicology, the contributors develop analyses of a range of cases of early modern public-making that together demonstrate the rich inventiveness and formative social power of artistic and intellectual publication in this period.
Author: Benjamin A. Elman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-03-22
Total Pages: 900
ISBN-13: 9780520921474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this multidimensional analysis, Benjamin A. Elman uses over a thousand newly available examination records from the Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, 1315-1904, to explore the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the civil examination system, one of the most important institutions in Chinese history. For over five hundred years, the most important positions within the dynastic government were usually filled through these difficult examinations, and every other year some one to two million people from all levels of society attempted them. Covering the late imperial system from its inception to its demise, Elman revises our previous understanding of how the system actually worked, including its political and cultural machinery, the unforeseen consequences when it was unceremoniously scrapped by modernist reformers, and its long-term historical legacy. He argues that the Ming-Ch'ing civil examinations from 1370 to 1904 represented a substantial break with T'ang-Sung dynasty literary examinations from 650 to 1250. Late imperial examinations also made "Tao Learning," Neo-Confucian learning, the dynastic orthodoxy in official life and in literati culture. The intersections between elite social life, popular culture, and religion that are also considered reveal the full scope of the examination process throughout the late empire.
Author: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 0226427307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann chronicles more than three hundred years of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Ukraine, Lithuania and western parts of the Russian Federation. Massive in scale, the book is highly accessible and lavishly illustrated. The readability of the text and the entirely new insights it provides into three hundred years of Central European history make this a vital introduction to one of the least understood periods in the history of art.