A Universal History of the Destruction of Books

A Universal History of the Destruction of Books
Author: Fernando Báez
Publisher:
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

Examines the many reasons and motivations for the destruction of books throughout history, citing specific acts from the smashing of ancient Sumerian tablets to the looting of libraries in post-war Iraq.

Universal History and the Making of the Global

Universal History and the Making of the Global
Author: Hall Bjørnstad
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2018-07-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429849850

By examining the history of universal history from the late Middle Ages until the early nineteenth century we trace the making of the global. Early modern universal history can be seen as a response to the epistemological crisis provoked by new knowledge and experience. Traditional narratives were no longer sufficient to gain an understanding of events. Inspired by recent developments in theory of history, the volume argues that the relevance of universal history resides in the laboratory of intense, diverse and mainly unsuccessful attempts at thinking history and universals together. They all shared the common aim of integrating all time and space: assemble the world and keep it together.

A Compendium of Universal History

A Compendium of Universal History
Author: Charles Theomartyr Stafford
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2022-07-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3375097174

Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

The Complete Compendium of Universal Knowledge

The Complete Compendium of Universal Knowledge
Author: William Ralston Balch
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781015723443

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History

Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History
Author: Susan F. Buck-Morss
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2009-02-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0822973340

In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prison-house of its own debates. Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, Buck-Morss examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical imagination. She finds that it is in the discontinuities of historical flow, the edges of human experience, and the unexpected linkages between cultures that the possibility to transcend limits is discovered. It is these flashes of clarity that open the potential for understanding in spite of cultural differences. What Buck-Morss proposes amounts to a "new humanism," one that goes beyond the usual ideological implications of such a phrase to embrace a radical neutrality that insists on the permeability of the space between opposing sides and as it reaches for a common humanity.

Universal Empire

Universal Empire
Author: Peter Fibiger Bang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2012-08-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1107022673

This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiquity to the eighteenth century.