Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures write by Jeremy Black. This book was released on 2015-08-03. Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The most robust defense of historical counterfactuals to date . . . For those interested in this fascinating subject, Black’s book is indispensable.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) What if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not nailed his complaints to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517, or if the South had won the American Civil War? The questioning of apparent certainties or “known knowns” can be fascinating and, indeed, “What if?” books are very popular. However, this speculative approach, known as counterfactualism, has had limited impact in academic histories, historiography, and the teaching of historical methods. In this book, Jeremy Black offers a short guide to the subject, one that is designed to argue its value as a tool for public and academia alike. He “demonstrates that, in skillful hands, counterfactual history is more than just fun; as one ingredient among many, it can be an extremely fertile source of explanation” (History Today). “[Black’s] illustrative examples of ‘what if' ‘how,’ and ‘why’ will make readers sit back and wonder.”—Kirkus Reviews “With a unique methodology, Black performs a what-if analysis of history to show how little it takes to change the world’s fate . . . This book provokes thought and speculation while also entertaining.”—Foreword Reviews “A sparkling defense of the legitimacy and utility of counterfactual history―of what ifs―and the best single work on its subject available.”—Weekly Standard
Folds of Past, Present and Future
Folds of Past, Present and Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Folds of Past, Present and Future write by Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde. This book was released on 2021-09-07. Folds of Past, Present and Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together important theoretical and methodological issues currently being debated in the field of history of education. The contributions shed insightful and critical light on the historiography of education, on issues of de-/colonization, on the historical development of the educational sciences and on the potentiality attached to the use of new and challenging source material.
Planet Auschwitz
Planet Auschwitz - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Planet Auschwitz write by Brian E. Crim. This book was released on 2020-05-15. Planet Auschwitz available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Planet Auschwitz explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing on notable contributions from the last fifty years. The supernatural and extraterrestrial are rich and complex spaces with which to examine important Holocaust themes - trauma, guilt, grief, ideological fervor and perversion, industrialized killing, and the dangerous afterlife of Nazism after World War II. Planet Auschwitz explores why the Holocaust continues to set the standard for horror in the modern era and asks if the Holocaust is imaginable here on Earth, at least by those who perpetrated it, why not in a galaxy far, far away? The pervasive use of Holocaust imagery and plotlines in horror and science fiction reflects both our preoccupation with its enduring trauma and our persistent need to “work through” its many legacies. Planet Auschwitz website (https://planetauschwitz.com)
The Ever-Changing Past
The Ever-Changing Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ever-Changing Past write by James M. Banner, Jr.. This book was released on 2021-03-16. The Ever-Changing Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An experienced, multi-faceted historian shows how revisionist history is at the heart of creating historical knowledge "A rallying cry in favor of historians who, revisiting past subjects, change their minds. . . . Rewarding reading."—Kirkus Reviews History is not, and has never been, inert, certain, merely factual, and beyond reinterpretation. Taking readers from Thucydides to the origin of the French Revolution to the Civil War and beyond, James M. Banner, Jr. explores what historians do and why they do it. Banner shows why historical knowledge is unlikely ever to be unchanging, why history as a branch of knowledge is always a search for meaning and a constant source of argument, and why history is so essential to individuals’ awareness of their location in the world and to every group and nation’s sense of identity and destiny. He explains why all historians are revisionists while they seek to more fully understand the past, and how they always bring their distinct minds, dispositions, perspectives, and purposes to bear on the subjects they study.
Intersubjectivity and Transcendental Idealism
Intersubjectivity and Transcendental Idealism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intersubjectivity and Transcendental Idealism write by James R. Mensch. This book was released on 1988-07-08. Intersubjectivity and Transcendental Idealism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The threat of solipcism nagged Husserl. The question of the status of others occupied him during the last years of his life and remained a question that seemed to challenge the foundation of his life's work. This book offers new answers to this persistent philosophical question by defining the question in specifically Husserlian terms and by means of a careful examination of Husserl's later texts, including the unpublished Nachlass.
