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... Revolution . ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2013 ), 416 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Reviews HARD, SOFT, AND FUZZY HISTORIOGRAPHY J. G. A. Pocock Scott Sowerby, Making Toleration...

... INTRODUCTION: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND MELODRAMA Linda Colley, in the fi rst installment of this symposium, published an essay meant to preface all the articles that would appear subsequently under the head- ing “Imperial Trauma.”1 For this second installment, however, I would...

...David Cannadine Duke University Press 2005 Symposium: Imperial Trauma, Part 2 “BIG TENT” HISTORIOGRAPHY Transatlantic Obstacles and Opportunities in Writing the History of Empire David Cannadine Paradoxical though it may appear at fi...

...Natalie Zemon Davis Gabriel Piterberg, An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 271 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Gabriel...

...Dale Kent Duke University Press 2003 CK 9.2-07 Kent_w=_art 3/14/03 10:49 AM Page 254 CHARITY AND POWER IN RENAISSANCE FLORENCE Surmounting Cynicism in Historiography Dale Kent...

... that history, like poetry, could be a means of addressing in a nontheoretical way what appear to be theoretical issues — and the present essay argues that attention to the line between fiction or poetry and philosophy is of trivial consequence compared with attention to that between fiction and historiography...

... historiography, despite all claims to the contrary, is possible and valuable. In this monograph-length article, the texts of selected documents in the Adair Family Collection (Suffolk Record Office, Lowestoft Branch, call number 741) are set forth, often verbatim, and, though minutely contextualized...

... peregrinations between identities offer a kaleidoscopic view of Britain in the overlooked but crucial interstice between the upheavals of 1776 and 1789. Yet the partial nature of the evidence, the long omission of Gordon from the historiography of eighteenth-century Britain, and the complex, often furtive nature...

... especially art history. Furthermore, her body of scholarship registers a consistent engagement with art historians. Weaving together personal memoir and historiography, this article sketches the manifold ways in which Bynum's publications have responded to and shaped the contours of medieval art history...

...Youval Rotman As a contribution to the second installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “In the Humanities Classroom,” this essay describes a four-hour meeting of an undergraduate seminar on historiography at Tel Aviv University. The students and instructor alike are enabled, by analyzing...

... to them, but it claims as well that Ginzburg’s “combination of erudition and piercing intelligence is irresistible.” Copyright © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Carlo Ginzburg historiography storytelling microhistory ...

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..., this emphasis on groups and on experience defined as ordinary came as a reaction against prior forms of historiography. The bulk of history 1.  Peter Stearns as quoted in Marcel van der Linden, “Gaining Ground,” Journal of Social History 37.1 (Fall 2003): 69; Paul Cartledge, “What is Social...

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... take take the work of scientists natural as their model of intellectual activity. contrary to the positivism then dominating the profession, historians should not oftinuity formal and informal historiography implied, among other that, things, laypeople in regard to personal, family...

... to detail one’s own national shames, along with a tendency to discount religion. discount to atendency with along one’sshames, national detail to own of historiography, schools national many in a reticence, been have situation this Two state. nation of consequences secular ofthe...

... been seen in traditional historiography as sealing the fate of the the of fate the sealing as historiography traditional in seen been , trans. Jean-Louis 1999 1999...

...) transcends turning points in historiography and boundaries between cultures. Warburg’s idea of afterlife or survival differed widely even from that of Anton Springer. Warburg’s model presupposed a way—a decidedly anthropo- logical way...

..., by and written universal meaning. If we use it in the plural, we can ask what “histories” have been ofwriting history, the unless use of word this confines in the singular it to some the historiography, as thing same the not is history of Philosophy it. follow to War, and is no doubt now...

..., by and written universal meaning. If we use it in the plural, we can ask what “histories” have been ofwriting history, the unless use of word this confines in the singular it to some the historiography, as thing same the not is history of Philosophy it. follow to War, and is no doubt now...