To Understand What Is Happening. Essays on Historicity

To Understand What Is Happening. Essays on Historicity
Author: Jan-Ivar Lindén
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2021-07-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004462627

The volume deals with historical ontology from several angles: the historicity of understanding (Françoise Dastur, Arbogast Schmitt, Samuel Weber), the limits of making (Emil Angehrn, Nicholas Davey, Jan-Ivar Lindén) and the future of memory (Jayne Svenungsson, Christoph Türcke, Bernhard Waldenfels).

Essays in Bibliographical History

Essays in Bibliographical History
Author: George Thomas Tanselle
Publisher: Bibliographical Society of University of Virginia
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2013
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

The state of bibliography today (1979) -- Physical bibliography in the twentieth century (1979) -- The evolving role of bibliography (1984) -- Issues in bibliographical studies since 1942 (1992) -- Years on : bibliography then and now (2003) -- Thoughts on the centenary of The Bibliographical Society of America (2004) -- The historiography of American literary publishing (1965) -- The Bibliographical Society's News sheet, 1894-1920 (1967) -- The descriptive bibliography of American authors (1968) -- Copyright records and the bibliographer (1969) -- The periodical literature of English and American bibliography (1968) -- Indianapolis in the world of books (1973) -- Bibliography and science (1974) -- The descriptive bibliography of eighteenth-century books (1975) -- The centennial meeting and convocation of the Grolier Club (1984) -- Exhibitions at the Grolier Club (1984) -- The varieties of scholarly editing (1985) -- The fiftieth anniversary of The Bibliographical Society of the University Of Virginia (1997) -- A history of Studies in bibliography : the first fifty years (1997) -- A brief history of the English short-title catalogue in North America (1998) -- Some thoughts on catalogues (2008) -- The textual criticism of visual and aural works (2008) -- Bibliographical history as a field of study (1988).

Science in Print

Science in Print
Author: Rima D. Apple
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0299286134

Ever since the threads of seventeenth-century natural philosophy began to coalesce into an understanding of the natural world, printed artifacts such as laboratory notebooks, research journals, college textbooks, and popular paperbacks have been instrumental to the development of what we think of today as “science.” But just as the history of science involves more than recording discoveries, so too does the study of print culture extend beyond the mere cataloguing of books. In both disciplines, researchers attempt to comprehend how social structures of power, reputation, and meaning permeate both the written record and the intellectual scaffolding through which scientific debate takes place. Science in Print brings together scholars from the fields of print culture, environmental history, science and technology studies, medical history, and library and information studies. This ambitious volume paints a rich picture of those tools and techniques of printing, publishing, and reading that shaped the ideas and practices that grew into modern science, from the days of the Royal Society of London in the late 1600s to the beginning of the modern U.S. environmental movement in the early 1960s.

Sometimes an Art

Sometimes an Art
Author: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2015-01-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1101874481

From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays that reflects a lifetime of erudition and accomplishments in history. The past has always been elusive: How can we understand people whose worlds were utterly different from our own without imposing our own standards and hindsight? What did things feel like in the moment, when outcomes were uncertain? How can we recover those uncertainties? What kind of imagination goes into the writing of transformative history? Are there latent trends that distinguish the kinds of history we now write? How unique was North America among the far-flung peripheries of the early British empire? As Bernard Bailyn argues in this elegant, deeply informed collection of essays, history always combines approximations based on incomplete data with empathic imagination, interweaving strands of knowledge into a narrative that also explains. This is a stirring and insightful work drawing on the wisdom and perspective of a career spanning more than five decades—a book that will appeal to anyone interested in history.

My Desire for History

My Desire for History
Author: Allan Bérubé
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807877980

This anthology pays tribute to Allan Berube (1946-2007), a self-taught historian and MacArthur Fellow who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and gay history in the United States. Best known for his Lambda Literary Award-winning book Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II (1990), Berube also wrote extensively on the history of sexual politics in San Francisco and on the relationship between sexuality, class, and race. John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman, who were close colleagues and friends of Berube, have selected sixteen of his most important essays, including hard-to-access articles and unpublished writing. The book provides a retrospective on Berube's life and work while it documents the emergence of a grassroots lesbian and gay community history movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Taken together, the essays attest to the power of history to mobilize individuals and communities to create social change.

Essays in Indian History

Essays in Indian History
Author: Irfan Habib
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2002
Genre: Historical materialism
ISBN: 1843310252

This volume offers a collection of several of Professor Habib's essays, providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history.

From Compositors to Collectors

From Compositors to Collectors
Author: John Hinks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2012
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

The essays in this collection trace texts from their creation and printing through to their publication, dissemination, and collection. In doing so, they show how production processes change texts and how collectors subsequently appropriate them for their own ends. By examining the diverse activities of those involved in both textual creation and collection over a long period, these essays highlight both continuities and changes in the book trade. Taken together, this collection offers considerable new insights into many facets of the book trade, ranging from creation to consumption. This newest addition to the Print Networks series includes nineteen essays from leading book history scholars, including Mariko Nagase, Daniel Cook, Stephen Brown, Brian Hillyard, Catherine Delafield, Rob Allen, Rachel Bower, Iain Beavan, and more. The "compositors" section covers everything from The Mayor of Quinborough, published in 1661, to My Name is Salma, published in 2007. Essays on "collectors" include Dr. James Fraser, Titus Wheatcroft, Sir Walter Scott, the USA Armed Services, and more. The book is illustrated throughout in black and white. Available in the UK from The British Library.

At the Limits of History

At the Limits of History
Author: Keith Jenkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136029826

"Why bother with history? Keith Jenkins has an answer. He helps us re-think the "end of history", as signalled by postmodernity. Readers may disagree with him, but he never fails to provoke debate about the future of the past." Joanna Bourke, Professor of History, Birkbeck College Keith Jenkins’ work on historical theory is renowned; this collection presents the essential elements of his work over the last fifteen years. Here we see Jenkins address the difficult and complex question of defining the limits of history. The collection draws together the key pieces of his work in one handy volume, encompassing the ever controversial issue of postmodernism and history, questions on the end of history and radical history into the future. Exchanges with Perez Zagorin and Michael Coleman further illuminate the level of debate that has surrounded postmodernism, and which continues to do so. An extended introduction and abstracts which contextualize each piece, together with a foreword by Hayden White and an afterword by Alun Munslow, make this collection essential reading for all those interested in the theory and practice of history and its development over the last few decades.

Essays in the History of Ideas

Essays in the History of Ideas
Author: Arthur O. Lovejoy
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2019-12-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1421432382

Originally published in 1948. In the first essay of this collection, Lovejoy reflects on the nature, methods, and difficulties of the historiography of ideas. He maps out recurring phenomena in the history of ideas, which the essays illustrate. One phenomenon is the presence and influence of the same presuppositions or other operative "ideas" in very diverse provinces of thought and in different periods. Another is the role of semantic transitions and confusions, of shifts and of ambiguities in the meanings of terms, in the history of thought and taste. A third phenomenon is the internal tensions or waverings in the mind of almost every individual writer—sometimes discernible even in a single writing or on a single page—arising from conflicting ideas or incongruous propensities of feeling or taste to which the writer is susceptible. These essays do not contribute to metaphysical and epistemological questions; they are primarily historical.