From one of today's most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history mattersand why it needs to be told in a radically different, global wayIt's easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient historyobsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinction.
This second volume of essays by Professor Kelley takes the study of history as its starting point, then extends explorations into adjacent fields of legal, political, and social thought to confront some of the larger questions of the modern human sciences.
Mindful of the present state of discourse on ancient Greek historiography, this edited volume explores the major themes of pursuing factuality, managing witness/source bias, falling into historical error and creating or confronting propaganda.
This book provides a cultural history of cultivation theory, a North American mass communication paradigm best known for arguing that television violence was a potent agent of political socialisation.
This book provides a cultural history of cultivation theory, a North American mass communication paradigm best known for arguing that television violence was a potent agent of political socialisation.
The papers in this volume, which include three left unpublished at the time of Professor Offler's death in 1991, cover the period from the 9th to the 14th centuries; They well exemplify Offler's command of historical narrative and his technical skills as a historian.
The articles in this collection focus on instruction - and writings arising from that instruction - in philosophy and the arts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with emphasis on Central Europe.
This book provides a rigorous investigation into the adoption and culture of human rights in Nigeria, with a focus on the human rights attitudes of Nigerian students.
This edited collection focuses on the nexus between literary consumption, memory and collective identity formation in Russia from the 1980s until today.
Flitter examines those narratives within the intellectual parameters that defined them, probing the conceptual strategies by which writers represented history.
Steffen Mau schlägt vor, die Probleme, die sozialer Wandel hervorruft, unter dem Aspekt ihrer Zeitverhältnisse zu betrachten – und warnt: "Alle Versuche, Politik mit der Brechstange zu machen und Gesellschaften einen grundlegenden Wandel aufzuzwingen, erweisen sich als hoch riskant.
This volume gathers together a series of widely -scattered articles concerned with the great tradition of Platonic scholarship "e; The Golden Chain"e; from the time of Plato himself up into the period of Middle Platonism.
Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods compiles the essential readings of the vibrant field of rhetoric of science, tracing the growth and core concerns of the field since its development in the 1970s.
'A book with a ferocious pace and more black humour than one could imagine' Evening Standard**As heard on BBC Radio 4 The World Tonight**America lost 1.
This edited volume encompasses a range of themes and approaches relevant to the field of South African history today, as viewed from the perspective of practicing historians at the cutting edge of research in the discipline.
