"Philip D. Curtin was a leader among a new generation of historians that emerged after the Second World War. On the Fringes of History: A Memoir follows Curtin from his beginnings in central West Virginia in the 1920s through a distinguished academic career in which Curtin found…
'Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany', edited by Efraim Podoksik, is a collaborative project by leading scholars in German studies that examines the practices of theorising and researching in the humanities as pursued by German thinkers and scholars during the long ni…
"Over two thousand miles long, the boundary between Russia and China is the world's longest land border. Though sometimes considered a backwater, the border region was always of critical geopolitical importance and has a fascinating history. Not only did this border divide the t…
by Radhakrishnan, R., (Rajagopalan)
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Theoretical investigation into the place of historicization in humanistic thought, as well as into the complex, and often tense, relationship between history and theory.
'History, the Human, and the World Between' is a philosophical investigation of the human subject and its simultaneous implication in multiple and often contradictory ways of knowing.
China's westernmost province of Xinjiang has experienced escalating violence, cycles of interethnic strife, and state repression since the 1990s. Searching for the roots of these growing tensions, most of the research on the region has tended to zero in on ethnic clashes and pol…
"The decades following the end of World War II witnessed the establishment of a large and diverse German-American scholarly community studying modern German history. As West Germany's formerly deeply nationalist academic establishment began to reconcile itself with postwar liber…
