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.... While genocide and nuclear catastrophe oriented the world imagination toward the specter of planetary annihilation, the “final solution” and the atomic bombings also cleave from one another in significant ways. In the space of postwar Europe, the history of the Holocaust is settled: Nazis were...

...Joseph D. Bryan Abstract Since the turn of the century, historians have focused on the diverse representations of the past, recognizing that traditional spaces (e.g., museums, statuary, and public commemorations) no longer have a monopoly on the public dissemination of history. This article...

...Prathama Banerjee Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois Press 2012 Chanakya/Kautilya: History, Philosophy, Theater and the Twentieth-century Political Prathama Banerjee This essay is part ofongoing work on possible historiesofour political pres­ ent, written from the perspective ofcolonial...

...Casey Shoop The Bones in the Concept: Big History, Theodor Adorno and Second Nature Casey Shoop With the evidence more or less in on the precarious climatological state of the planet, the desire for universal history, as the popular press avers, has returned. Its latest incarnation has been called...

...Andrew Zimmerman Guinea Sam Nightingale and Magic Marx in Civil War Missouri: Provincializing Global History and Decolonizing Theory Andrew Zimmerman Sometime in the 1850s, Guinea Sam Nightingale was shot from a cannon in West Africa, landing some 5,500 miles away in Boonville, Missouri.1 Upon...

...Ian Hesketh The Story ofBig History Ian Hesketh The goal is not to read a book; the goal is to read the story taking place all around us. -Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, The Universe Story No one and nothing lives a story. -Hayden White, Tropics ofDiscourse Consilience has long been the dream...

... and Sylvia Schafer Like culture and society, law often serves as the subject matter or object of history. Historians working from outside law recognize that formal or positive human-made laws and legal institutions themselves turn the stuff of the world into objects, subjecting them to legal regulation...

...Shai Joshua Lavi Copyright © 2018 University of Illinois Press 2018 Our Food is Our Bond: A History of Jewish and Muslim Animal Slaughter and Post-Christian Social Science ShaiJoshua Lavi Introduction According to a generally accepted, albeit at times controversial etymol­ ogy, the terms law...

...Andrew N. Rubin Copyright © 2015 University of Illinois Press 2015 Orientalism and the History ofWestem Anti-Semitism: The Coming End ofan American Taboo AndrewN. Rubin At the very end ofthe introduction to Orienta/ism, Edward W. Said makes the peculiar observation that as he was writing...

...Travis M. Foster Copyright © 2015 University of Illinois Press 2015 Jewett's Natural History ofSexuality TravisM. Foster Sarah Orne Jewett's1884 bildungsroman,A Country Doctor, can be summed up quickly. On the cusp ofdeath, an alcoholic mother returns to her hometown and leaves her infant...

...Zrinka Stahuljak Copyright © 2013 University of Illinois Press 2013 History as a Medical Category: Heredity, Positivism, and the Study ofthe Past in Nineteenth-Century France Zrinka Stahuijak If history is notof greater service to medicine, thatis notthe fault of history, butitis the faultof...

...Ӧzlem Aslan; Zeynep Gambetti Copyright © 2011 University of Illinois Press 2011 Provincializing Fraser's History: Feminism and Neoliberalism Revisited {JzlemAslan and Zeynep Gambetti In "Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning ofHistory;' recently published in the NewLeftReview, Nancy Fraser...

... Copyright © 2011 University of Illinois Press 2011 Introducing History ofthe Present History ofthePresent is a journal devoted to history as a critical endeavor. Its aim is twofold: to create a space in which scholars can reflect on the role history plays in establishing categories...

.... Without Theory, History is naught but tales,       told by victors and moralists, signifying       nothing beyond themselves. Without Theory, the operations of power       and sources of injustice remain mystified,       impenetrable to us mortals. Our observations, when limited...

... itself to and arguably distinguishes itself in the ways that it engages with the archive as a site of recovery, I find that Hall’s sense of the project of Familiar Stranger as reflected in the text pushes us to think differently about the relationship between history and/as recovery. What does it mean...

..., the séance table and the science of history were but two harbingers of this secular age—often sites of tragic recognition—in which attempts to experience the real presence of history have been foiled, frustrated, demystified, and debunked. But finally, once and for all, this dream will soon be realized...

...Omnia El Shakry Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 In “Theses,” section iii , the collective reflects upon the interconnected practice of critical theory and history. “ Critical historians . . . recognize that they are psychically, epistemologically, ethically, and politically...

...Indrani Chatterjee Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Kleinberg, Scott, and Wilder’s call for a closer relationship between critical thinking and history writing ( iii .1– iii .10) so closely resonates with my own training in postcolonial Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru Universities...

...Andrew Zimmerman Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 The “Theses on Theory and History” call, crucially, for a two-way relationship between history and theory, for “theoretically grounded history and historically grounded theory”: history grounded by theory, not merely decorated...