For 2,500 years, since the time of Herodotus and Thucydides, historians have sought to record the truth about the past. Today, however, the discipline is suffering a potentially lethal attach from the rise to prominence of an array of French-inspired literary and social theories…
Becoming (and being) a Catholic historian -- Personal landscapes of Catholicism : from East to West -- Homecoming : finding a Catholic hermeneutic -- In search of Chicano Catholic identity and history -- Deeply within : Catholicism, faith, and history -- The Blessed Virgin made …
Pt. 1. Memory, history and time -- pt. 2. Social, psychological and cultural frameworks of memory -- pt. 3. Acts and places of memory -- pt. 4. Politics of memory, forgetting and democracy.
"Turner was deeply affected by the world in which he lived, the sciences that explained it, and the conflicts and accomplishments of his society. He wove these strands into the dense fabric of the historical pictures he created, pictures that were extremely varied, complex, orig…
"This book is a teaching textbook for both lower and upper level courses on modern Chinese history and/or modern visual culture. The introduction provides an overview of key issues in the development of visual culture in China over the last 200-300 years, while each chapter is a…