Intellectual History

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The Arcadia of Jacopo Sannazaro

A New Translation with Commentary

By Nicholas R. Jones
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, Intellectual History, European History, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature

Translating the foundational text of pastoral fiction and poetry into English for the modern scholar and reader

Communicating the Other across Cultures

From Othering as Equipment for Living, to Communicating Other/Wise

By Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Political Science, International Relations, History, Intellectual History

Exposes how we have constructed and marginalized the Other across cultures, and suggests creative global solutions for inclusive multiculturalism

Life, Earth, Colony

Friedrich Ratzel's Necropolitical Geography

By Ian Klinke
Subjects: German Studies, History, Intellectual History, Political Science, Political Theory

A critical exploration of Friedrich Ratzel and the relationship between colonial and fascist necropolitics

A World of Fiction

Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History

By Katherine Bode
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Digital Projects, History, Intellectual History, 19th Century Literature
Series: Digital Humanities

Proposes a new basis for data-rich literary history

The Birth of the Archive

A History of Knowledge

By Markus Friedrich
Translated by John Dillon
Subjects: History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Intellectual History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World

The dynamic but little-known story of how archives came to shape and be shaped by European culture and society

Fraud and Misconduct in Research

Detection, Investigation, and Organizational Response

By Nachman Ben-Yehuda & Amalya Oliver-Lumerman
Subjects: Sociology, History, Intellectual History, Education, Higher Education Policy

A clear-eyed examination of research misconduct, and how efforts to expose and prevent it affect scientists and universities

 

Learning Legacies

Archive to Action through Women's Cross-Cultural Teaching

By Sarah Ruffing Robbins
Subjects: History, American History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: The New Public Scholarship

Examines pedagogy as a toolkit for social change, and the urgent need for cross-cultural collaborative teaching methods

Strange Science

Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age

By Lara Pauline Karpenko & Shalyn Rae Claggett
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History

A fascinating look at scientific inquiry during the Victorian period and the shifting boundary between mainstream and unorthodox sciences of the time

The Immaterial Book

Reading and Romance in Early Modern England

By Sarah Wall-Randell
Subjects: History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Cultural Studies

An examination of representations of books and reading in 16th- and 17th-century English romance texts and the myths and metaphors these representations create, perpetuate, and reimagine

Are We There Yet?

Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism

By Alison Byerly
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Media Studies, New Media

An unusual approach to the Victorian phenomenon of virtual travel and realism through the lens of contemporary conceptualizations of media and its effects

New York-Paris

Whitman, Baudelaire, and the Hybrid City

By Laure Katsaros
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History, European History, Intellectual History, European Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, European Literature, 19th Century Literature

A comparison of the mid-19th-century city in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire and their responses to the inescapable push of modernization

Baroque Horrors

Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities

By David Castillo
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Art, Art History, History, Intellectual History

Exploring the historical roots of horror in the modern age

The Information Master

Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

By Jacob Soll
Subjects: History, European History, Intellectual History, Political Science, Political History, Medieval and Early Modern History
Series: Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World

A fascinating inquiry into Jean-Baptiste Colbert's collection of knowledge

Salome's Modernity

Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression

By Petra Dierkes-Thrun
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Theater and Performance

A study of Oscar Wilde's Salomé in modernist and postmodernist literature and culture

The Lying Brain

Lie Detection in Science and Science Fiction

By Melissa M. Littlefield
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History, Law, Legal History

A cultural history of deception detection from science to science fiction

Over the Rainbow

Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature

By Kenneth B. Kidd & Michelle Ann Abate
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Sexuality Studies, History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Significant essays on LGBTQ topics in children's literature

The Lives of Machines

The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture

By Tamara S. Ketabgian
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, European History, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Intellectual History

Expanded views of the connection between humans and machines in the Victorian era

Anthrohistory

Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline

Edited by David Cohen, Fernando Coronil, Julie Skurski, Chandra Bhimull, Edward L. Murphy, and Monica Patterson
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, Intellectual History

A volume at the crossroads of History and Anthropology

The Street Porter and the Philosopher

Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism

By Sandra Peart & David M. Levy
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, System -- Development, Philosophy, History, Intellectual History

Leading economists explore the premise that all social interactions are exchanges among inherently equal human beings

The Cult of Statistical Significance

How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey & Steve Ziliak
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, Political Science, Political Methodology, Sociology, History, Intellectual History, Health & Medicine, European History, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

How the most important statistical method used in many of the sciences doesn't pass the test for basic common sense

History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning

By Nancy G. Siraisi
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Classical Studies, History, Intellectual History, Medieval and Early Modern History
Series: Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World

The first book in a new series and a groundbreaking study of connections, parallels, and mutual interaction between two critical disciplines—medicine and history—in 15th- to 17th-century Europe

Progress

Fact or Illusion?

Edited by Leo Marx & Bruce Mazlish
Subjects: History, Intellectual History, Political Science

Evaluates the foundational idea of progress from many perspectives

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