The New History And The Old

Author : Gertrude Himmelfarb
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674013841
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New History and the Old written by Gertrude Himmelfarb and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and historiography, Himmelfarb adds four new essays. In examining the effects of postmodernism, the illusions of cosmopolitanism, A. J. P. Taylor and revisionism, and Fukuyama's "end of history," Himmelfarb enriches her exploration of the ways historians make sense of the past.

Author : Richard Handler
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822319740
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New History in an Old Museum written by Richard Handler and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic exploration of the presentation of history at Colonial Williamsburg. It examines the packaging of American history, and the consumerism and the manufacturing of cultural beliefs.

Author : Gertrude Himmelfarb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New History and the Old written by Gertrude Himmelfarb and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415942249
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Media, Old Media written by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this history of new media technologies, leading media and cultural theorists examine new media against the background of traditional media such as film, photography, and print in order to evaluate the multiple claims made about the benefits and freedom of digital media.

Author : Johannes Krause
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0593229428
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Humanity written by Johannes Krause and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Thrilling . . . a bracing summary of what we have learned [from] ‘archaeogenetics’—the study of ancient DNA . . . Krause and Trappe capture the excitement of this young field.”—Kyle Harper, The Wall Street Journal Johannes Krause is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and a brilliant pioneer in the field of archaeogenetics—archaeology augmented by DNA sequencing technology—which has allowed scientists to reconstruct human history reaching back hundreds of thousands of years before recorded time. In this surprising account, Krause and journalist Thomas Trappe rewrite a fascinating chapter of this history, the peopling of Europe, that takes us from the Neanderthals and Denisovans to the present. We know now that a wave of farmers from Anatolia migrated into Europe 8,000 years ago, essentially displacing the dark-skinned, blue-eyed hunter-gatherers who preceded them. This Anatolian farmer DNA is one of the core genetic components of people with contemporary European ancestry. Archaeogenetics has also revealed that indigenous North and South Americans, though long thought to have been East Asian, also share DNA with contemporary Europeans. Krause and Trappe vividly introduce us to the prehistoric cultures of the ancient Europeans: the Aurignacians, innovative artisans who carved flutes and animal and human forms from bird bones more than 40,000 years ago; the Varna, who buried their loved ones with gold long before the Pharaohs of Egypt; and the Gravettians, big-game hunters who were Europe’s most successful early settlers until they perished in the ice age. Genetics has earned a reputation for smuggling racist ideologies into science, but cutting-edge science makes nonsense of eugenics and “pure” bloodlines. Immigration and genetic exchanges have always defined our species; who we are is a question of culture, not biological inheritance. This revelatory book offers us an entirely new way to understand ourselves, both past and present.

Author : Ian Tyrrell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022681212X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Exceptionalism written by Ian Tyrrell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful dissection of a core American myth. The idea that the United States is unlike every other country in world history is a surprisingly resilient one. Throughout his distinguished career, Ian Tyrrell has been one of the most influential historians of the idea of American exceptionalism, but he has never written a book focused solely on it until now. The notion that American identity might be exceptional emerged, Tyrrell shows, from the belief that the nascent early republic was not simply a postcolonial state but a genuinely new experiment in an imperialist world dominated by Britain. Prior to the Civil War, American exceptionalism fostered declarations of cultural, economic, and spatial independence. As the country grew in population and size, becoming a major player in the global order, its exceptionalist beliefs came more and more into focus—and into question. Over time, a political divide emerged: those who believed that America’s exceptionalism was the basis of its virtue and those who saw America as either a long way from perfect or actually fully unexceptional, and thus subject to universal demands for justice. Tyrrell masterfully articulates the many forces that made American exceptionalism such a divisive and definitional concept. Today, he notes, the demands that people acknowledge America’s exceptionalism have grown ever more strident, even as the material and moral evidence for that exceptionalism—to the extent that there ever was any—has withered away.

Author : Carter J. Eckert
Publisher : 일조각
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Korea, Old and New written by Carter J. Eckert and published by 일조각. This book was released on 1990 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This full-scale presentation of the general history of Korea not only provides a detailed treatment of the post-1945 period, but describes at length the traditional historical-cultural milieu from which modern Korea has developed. This century has witnessed a multiplicity of both domestic and external factors that have resulted either in tendentious history or in emphasis badly skewed toward such dramatic events as the Korean War or South Korea's remarkable economic successes. Korea Old and New presents a more balanced survey. Its coverage of traditional Korea emphasizes cultural developments not merely as isolated expressions of the creative spirit of the people but as integrally related to Korea's political, social, and economic history. The book's preponderant concern is with the tumultuous modern era, and six academic specialists provide a wide-angle view of each distinct period. The authors succeed in elucidating the past while providing new understanding of the vast changes that have taken place in this ancient nation.

Author : Clement Eaton
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Old South written by Clement Eaton and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1966 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Der Manuelian
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004301895
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom written by Peter Der Manuelian and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These conference papers from a one-day international Egyptology symposium at Harvard University (April 26, 2012) consider questions of kingship, religion, art, economics, and old and new archaeological excavations at the Giza Pyramids and beyond (3rd millennium BCE).

Author : Marc Van De Mieroop
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118718232
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC written by Marc Van De Mieroop and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating the latest scholarly research, the third edition ofA History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000–323 BCpresents a comprehensive overview of the multiculturalcivilizations of the ancient Near East. Integrates the most up-to-date research, and includes a richerselection of supplementary materials Addresses the wide variety of political, social, and culturaldevelopments in the ancient Near East Updated features include new “Key Debate” boxes atthe end of each chapter to engage students with variousperspectives on a range of critical issues; a comprehensivetimeline of events; and 46 new illustrations, including 12 colorphotos Features a new chapter addressing governance and continuity inthe region during the Persian Empire Offers in-depth, accessible discussions of key texts andsources, including the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh