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Book Synopsis Reflections on some leading facts and ideas of history: their meaning and interest by : Charles William Whish
Download or read book Reflections on some leading facts and ideas of history: their meaning and interest written by Charles William Whish and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reflections on Some Facts and Leading Ideas of History by : C. W. Whish
Download or read book Reflections on Some Facts and Leading Ideas of History written by C. W. Whish and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reflections on Some of the Leading Facts and Ideas of History: Their Meaning and Interest by : Charles William WHISH
Download or read book Reflections on Some of the Leading Facts and Ideas of History: Their Meaning and Interest written by Charles William WHISH and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Westminster Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Study History? written by John Fea and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the purpose of studying history? How do we reflect on contemporary life from a historical perspective, and can such reflection help us better understand ourselves, the world around us, and the God we worship and serve? Written by an accomplished historian, award-winning author, public evangelical spokesman, and respected teacher, this introductory textbook shows why Christians should study history, how faith is brought to bear on our understanding of the past, and how studying the past can help us more effectively love God and others. John Fea shows that deep historical thinking can relieve us of our narcissism; cultivate humility, hospitality, and love; and transform our lives more fully into the image of Jesus Christ. The first edition of this book has been used widely in Christian colleges across the country. The second edition provides an updated introduction to the study of history and the historian's vocation. The book has also been revised throughout and incorporates Fea's reflections on this topic from throughout the past 10 years.
Book Synopsis Reflections on History and Historians by : Theodore S. Hamerow
Download or read book Reflections on History and Historians written by Theodore S. Hamerow and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History as a field of learning is in a state of crisis. It has lost much of its influence in institutions of higher learning and its place in public esteem. Historians have, in large part, lost touch with the intelligent lay reader and with the undergraduate college student. History's value to society is being questioned. In this work, a distinguished historian views the profession to which he has been devoted for more than thirty years. Theodore S. Hamerow's learned observations will be welcomed by all historians and by those involved in the management of higher education, and should be required reading for all graduate students in history. Far from being a sentimental look at the past, Hamerow's work confronts the unpleasant reality of the present. History, he says flatly, is a discipline in retreat. The profession is in serious trouble and there are no signs that its problems will be resolved in the foreseeable future. After identifying the current crisis, Hamerow proceeds to trace the development of the profession over the last hundred years and to examine its characteristics in modern society. In this section of the book he shares some fascinating practical observations on the ways in which the profession operates. Hamerow explains why some historians rise to prominence while others do not. He also examines causes of the dissatisfactions that afflict many historians and their students. Hamerow also examines the way in which academic historians live their lives, as he expands on the daily realities that they face. He then explains how those realities have shaped scholarship and led to the "new history." The broad use of social science methods, he observes, has had the effect of isolating the new historians from traditional historians, indeed from one another. Couched in the arcane prose of machine-readable languages, says Hamerow, history has become inaccessible to the intelligent lay reader who had once read historical works with interest, understanding, and appreciation. In concluding his examination, Hamerow asks, "What is the use of history?" It has long been a favorite question asked by historians, but seldom one over which they agonized for very long. After considering various arguments for the usefulness of historical investigation, Hamerow offers his own justification. There are times, says Hamerow, when even the most spontaneous or instructive cultural pursuits need to be examined in the light of the purposes they serve and the goals they seek. Now might be a good time for all historians to take a long look at the direction their discipline has taken in the past century, at the functions it has come to perform, and at the serious dilemma it now faces. Hamerow is a steady and helpful guide to any such examination.
Book Synopsis The Philosophy of History by : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Download or read book The Philosophy of History written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Why Study History? by : Marcus Collins
Download or read book Why Study History? written by Marcus Collins and published by London Publishing Partnership. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering studying history at university? Wondering whether a history degree will get you a good job, and what you might earn? Want to know what it’s actually like to study history at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know. Studying any subject at degree level is an investment in the future that involves significant cost. Now more than ever, students and their parents need to weigh up the potential benefits of university courses. That’s where the Why Study series comes in. This series of books, aimed at students, parents and teachers, explains in practical terms the range and scope of an academic subject at university level and where it can lead in terms of careers or further study. Each book sets out to enthuse the reader about its subject and answer the crucial questions that a college prospectus does not.
Download or read book Real History written by Martin Bunzl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real History is a fascinating and essential read for all those interested in a reconciliation of the debates about the methodology and study of the philosophy of history.
Download or read book The Ancient World written by C. W.. Whish and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Human Character and Morality by : Stephen D. Hudson
Download or read book Human Character and Morality written by Stephen D. Hudson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986, this book explores the animating qualities of human character and moral thought and discusses how they place constraints on the adequacy of moral theories. It evaluates some of the major theories in the history of ethics, notably the moral thoughts of Sidgwick, Kant, Aristotle and Hume. The book examines questions of fundamental importance to all of us and broadens the scope and wisdom of analytical philosophy by conveying the excitement of original philosophical research.
Book Synopsis Histories of a Radical Book by : Antoinette Burton
Download or read book Histories of a Radical Book written by Antoinette Burton and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For better or worse, E.P. Thompson’s monumental book The Making of the English Working Class has played an essential role in shaping the intellectual lives of generations of readers since its original publication in 1963. This collected volume explores the complex impact of Thompson’s book, both as an intellectual project and material object, relating it to the social and cultural history of the book form itself—an enduring artifact of English history.
Book Synopsis The Graeco-Roman World by : C. W. Whish
Download or read book The Graeco-Roman World written by C. W. Whish and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How Superstition Won and Science Lost by : John Chynoweth Burnham
Download or read book How Superstition Won and Science Lost written by John Chynoweth Burnham and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Burnham studies the history of changing patterns in the dissemination, or "popularization," of scientific findings to the general public since 1830. Focusing on three different areas of science -- health, psychology, and the natural sciences -- Burnham explores the ways in which this process of popularization has deteriorated. He draws on evidence ranging from early lyceum lecturers to the new math and argues that today popular science is the functional equivalent of superstition.
Download or read book Asiatic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.
Book Synopsis Reflections on the History of Ideas by : Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
Download or read book Reflections on the History of Ideas written by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Idea of History [1946 Edition] by : R. G. Collingwood
Download or read book The Idea of History [1946 Edition] written by R. G. Collingwood and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Idea of History (1946) is a book of philosophy that explores the nature of history and the historian's interpretation of it. Written by English historian, archaeologist, and philosopher R.G. Collingwood, the work encourages students of history to go beyond events into the motivations of the actors themselves. R.G. Collingwood (b. 1889, d. 1943) was the son of an artist/archaeologist father and artist/pianist mother. Showing an aptitude for the classics and history from an early age, he was recognized at school in Classic Moderations (representing fluency in Greek and Latin) as well as ancient history and philosophy. He soon entered academia and spent his entire professional life at Oxford. In fact, he was elected a fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford before he even graduated from University College. Later, he became the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the Magdalen College, Oxford. While his teaching work focused on philosophy, he was also a well-known archaeologist, spending his school vacations on dig sites like Hadrian's Wall and writing scholarly articles and books. These works include The Archaeology of Roman Britain (1930) and Roman Britain and the English Settlements, the first volume of the Oxford History of England (1936). Collingwood was considered the leading authority on Roman Britain during his lifetime. Collingwood died in 1943, after several strokes. In the following years, his student T. M. Knox collected a series of lectures by Collingwood, primarily written in 1936, and published them as The Idea of History in 1946. The book is split into five parts, spanning views of history from Herodotus in the Greco-Roman times through the advent and ascendency of Christianity, the Enlightenment, and the 19th Century. Collingwood considered history a science of human affairs mingled with psychology. He argues that to understand the past, the historian must use their "historical imagination" to recreate the thought process of the actors. By reliving the past in their own mind, the historian can discover the significant patterns and dynamics of previous civilizations. From a focus on humanism in the Greco-Roman era, to a theocentric view in Medieval times, to a reliance on science and a more "mature" worldview in the Enlightenment and beyond, Collingwood explores how the historians and philosophers in each time viewed history, and how their worldviews influenced their own perceptions of the past. It is only through the medium of the historian's mind, he argues, that historical facts can be interpreted. By immersing ourselves in the mentality of history's actors, we can rethink the past with a better understanding of the thoughts and motivations that guided their actions. Through the development of this historical consciousness, we can both understand the past and our place in the present world. But we must be careful not to impose our own values and beliefs onto these past actors, skewing their thoughts with our own. To do so leads to "scissors-and-paste" narratives of history, where sources are believable only if they suit the historian's own frame of mind. While the opinions expressed in The Idea of History are not shared by all historians, the work is nevertheless an important contribution to historical philosophy. His ideas were particularly central to historical debate during the 1950s and 1960s, and books have been written to support or refute his philosophy of history. He has influenced many great thinkers through the latter half of the 20th century and into the present.