Foundations of Psychohistory

The History of Childhood

Lloyd deMause

A survey of childhood that reveals startling views of life in Europe and America during the past 2000 years. This book documents the lives of former children who were abused. It places child abuse today into the context of what was routinely inflicted upon

The History of Childhood

The Untold Story of Child Abuse

Lloyd DeMause

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The Emotional Life of Nations

Lloyd DeMause

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The New Psychohistory

Lloyd DeMause

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Reagan's America

Lloyd DeMause

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Fundamentos Da Psico-Historia

Lloyd Demause

Este livro seminal de Lloyd deMause, diretor do Instituto de Psico-Historia em Nova York, traz os fundamentos de uma nova ciencia, a Psico-Historia, unica ciencia social criada no seculo 20, que investiga a motivacao humana por tras dos fatos que formam a civilizacao. Com traducoes em mais de 15 idiomas e ate agora inedito no Brasil, "Fundamentos da Psico-Historia" e um relato impressionante e um relato impressionante dos modos de criacao infantil ao longo dos seculos, revelando os motivos psicologicos dos maus tratos e abuso de criancas pelos genitores. Este registro atento e dedicado, porem desapaixonado, com a isencao propria de um cientista inortodoxo e ousado, que considera o envolvimento pessoal prioritario para a compreensao do passado. Com traducao primorosa de Clara Colotto e abrangente bibliografia sobre o tema, "Fundamentos da Psico-Historia" se torna, a partir de hoje, um titulo obrigatorio aos interessados nos diversos temas que aborda e uma referencia para a Academia."

American Colonies

Alan Taylor, Eric Foner

"In American Colonies, historian Alan Taylor challenges the traditional Anglocentric focus of colonial history by exploring the many cultural influences that gave birth to America. The result is a superlative history of the prerevolutionary era in North America that is unprecedented in its scope and sure to become a landmark."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Interpretation Of Cultures

Clifford Geertz

One of the twentieth century's most influential books, this classic work of anthropology offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture is With The Interpretation of Cultures, the distinguished anthropologist Clifford Geertz developed the concept of thick description, and in so doing, he virtually rewrote the rules of his field. Culture, Geertz argues, does not drive human behavior. Rather, it is a web of symbols that can help us better understand what that behavior means. A thick description explains not only the behavior, but the context in which it occurs, and to describe something thickly, Geertz argues, is the fundamental role of the anthropologist. Named one of the 100 most important books published since World War II by the Times Literary Supplement, The Interpretation of Cultures transformed how we think about others' cultures and our own. This definitive edition, with a foreword by Robert Darnton, remains an essential book for anthropologists, historians, and anyone else seeking to better understand human cultures.

Alexander and the East

The Tragedy of Triumph

A. B. Bosworth

In this study Brian Bosworth looks at the critical period between 329 and 325 BC, when Alexander the Great was active in Central Asia and what is now Pakistan. He documents Alexander's relations with the peoples he conquered, and addresses the question of what it meant to be on the receiving end of the conquest, drawing a bleak picture of massacre and repression. At the same time Alexander's views of empire are investigated, his attitude to his subjects, and the development of his concepts of personal divinity and universal monarchy. Analogies are thus drawn with the Spanish conquest of Mexico, which has a comparable historiographical tradition and parallels many of Alexander's dealings with his subjects. Although of concern to the specialist, this book is equally directed at the general reader interested in the history of Alexander and the morality of empire.

Lies My Teacher Told Me

Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

James W. Loewen

Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.

Apologies to Thucydides

Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa

Marshall Sahlins

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Saracens

Islam in the Medieval European Imagination

John Victor Tolan

Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. This book provides a comprehensive study of Christian polemical responses to Islam in the Middle Ages.

Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing

Kelly Boyd

The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the beginning of historical writing to the present day, including individuals from related disciplines like Jürgen Habermas and Clifford Geertz, whose theoretical contributions have informed historical debate. Additionally, the Encyclopedia includes some 200 essays treating the development of national, regional and topical historiographies, from the Ancient Near East to the history of sexuality. In addition to the Western tradition, it includes substantial assessments of African, Asian, and Latin American historians and debates on gender and subaltern studies.

Reflections on History and Historians

Theodore S. Hamerow

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.

Bibliography of the History of Medicine

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The Journal of Library History

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The Journal of Psychohistory

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The history of emotions

Second edition

Rob Boddice

This book introduces students and professional historians to the main areas of concern in the history of emotions and its intersection with emotion research in other disciplines. It discusses how the emotions intersect with other lines of historical research relating to power, practice, society and morality. The revised and fully updated second edition of the book demonstrates the field’s centrality to historiographical practice, as well as the importance of this kind of historical work for general interdisciplinary understandings of the value and the meaning of human experience.