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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 34–59.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... 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...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 245–273.
Published: 01 October 2024
...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...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 24–51.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Prathama Banerjee 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/postcolonial Bengal. Here I explore the twentieth...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 63–86.
Published: 01 April 2016
...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...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
...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...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 171–202.
Published: 01 October 2014
...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...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Marianne Constable; Sylvia Schafer Introduction: Law at the Intersection ofHistory and Theory Marianne Constable 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...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Shai Joshua Lavi 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 and legality both originate from the Latin verb legere...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Andrew N. Rubin 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 the book, he "found himself by some inescapable logic...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 169–186.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Travis M. Foster 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 daughter, Nan Prince, in her own mother's care. Nan's...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 140–159.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Zrinka Stahuljak 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 doctors. -Charles Daremberg, Histoire des sciences...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 130–147.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Ӧzlem Aslan; Zeynep Gambetti 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 holds second-wave feminism responsible for having lost...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 April 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 of contemporary debate by making them appear inevitable, natural...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 157–165.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... 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...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 146–151.
Published: 01 April 2020
... : Praeger , 1966 . Fuentes Marisa . Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2016 . Gallagher Catherine , and Greenblatt Stephen . “ Counter-history and the Anecdote .” In Practicing New Historicism , 49...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 176–182.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Research . Garden City, NY : Doubleday , 1968 . Clubb Jerome M. , and Allen Howard . “ Computers and Historical Studies .” Journal of American History 54 , no. 3 ( 1967 ): 599 – 607 . Day Ronald E. The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 172–175.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Omnia El Shakry Works Cited Benjamin Walter . “ Theses on the Philosophy of History .” In Illuminations: Essays and Reflections , edited by Arendt Hannah , translated by Zohn Harry , 253 – 64 . New York : Schocken Books , 1968 . Chittick William C. The Self...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 166–168.
Published: 01 April 2020
...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...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Andrew Zimmerman Works Cited Fanon Frantz . The Wretched of the Earth , translated by Philcox Richard . 1961 ; New York : Grove , 2004 . Foucault Michel . The History of Sexuality , vol. 1 , An Introduction , translated by Hurley Robert . New York...
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