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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 (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 Copyright © 2016 University of Illinois Press 2016 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...
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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
... 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...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 April 2018
...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...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 April 2015
...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...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 169–186.
Published: 01 October 2015
...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...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 140–159.
Published: 01 October 2013
...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...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 130–147.
Published: 01 April 2011
...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...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 April 2011
... 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...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 157–165.
Published: 01 April 2020
... where history does and does not “make sense,” and this is the opening to interpretative and political innovation . ■ iii . 10 Critical history aims to understand the existing world in order to question the givens of our present so as to create openings for other possible worlds. iii...
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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
... of Physiology 47 ( 1914 ): 460 – 74 . Beer Stafford . Management Science: The Business Use of Operations Research . Garden City, NY : Doubleday , 1968 . Clubb Jerome M. , and Allen Howard . “ Computers and Historical Studies .” Journal of American History 54 , no. 3 ( 1967...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 172–175.
Published: 01 April 2020
... history. If the task of the critical historian, in Benjamin’s words, is “to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger,” then it is only by contemplating our own disappearance, or stated differently, our own death, within a moment of danger that the historian can seize the past...
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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 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...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 187–207.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., and ethnographers delegitimized the languages of the “Strangers,” along with the cultures and histories that these languages expressed. The erasure of Strangers from modern historiography was nearly total. Second, the category of Strangers was transformed in the wake of the Holocaust as Roma activists drew on Nazi...
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