History Theory category: 16752 books
Low End Theory
Bass, Bodies and the Materiality of Sonic Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Low End Theory probes the much-mythologized field of bass and low-frequency sound. It begins in music but quickly moves far beyond, following vibratory phenomena across time, disciplines and disparate cultural spheres (including hauntings, laboratories, organ workshops, burial mounds, sound art, studios,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1989, this Routledge Revival is a major collection of essays on the competing traditions of social and political theory. The contributions, by international scholars, reflect the re-examination of the boundaries between the ‘political’ and the ‘social’, the ‘public’...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This handbook is the only major survey of critical theory from philosophical, political, sociological, psychological and historical vantage points. It emphasizes not only on the historical and philosophical roots of critical theory, but also its current themes and trends as well as future applications...
Justice as Right Actions
An Original Theory of Justice in Conversation with Major Contemporary Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Justice as Right Actions presents an original theory of justice anchored in the analytical philosophical tradition. In contrast to many contemporary approaches, the theory provides normative guidance, rather than focusing solely on political structures and institutions, as the question of justice...
Judith Butler and Political Theory
Troubling Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2008
Over the past twenty-five years the work of Judith Butler has had an extraordinary impact on numerous disciplines and interdisciplinary projects across the humanities and social sciences. This original study is the first to take a thematic approach to Butler as a political thinker. Starting with...
More than a Historian
The Political and Economic Thought of Charles A.Beard
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Charles A. Beard (1874-1948) was one of America's most influential historians and political scientists. He played a major role in founding the disciplines of history and political science, helped shape the teaching of social studies in the nation's public schools, and was one the nation's most popular...
The School of Rome
Latin Studies and the Origins of Liberal Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect on children. W. Martin Bloomer details the processes, exercises, claims, and contexts of liberal education from the...
Medieval Theory of Authorship
Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, not medieval, theory. In Medieval Theory of Authorship, now...
by Tania Ferfolja, Criss Jones Diaz, Jacqueline Ullman
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Understanding Sociological Theory for Educational Practices introduces readers to the contemporary classroom through the lens of sociological theory. By compelling readers to think critically and reflexively this book helps future teachers create a welcoming and equitable learning environment for...
Institutional Theory in Political Science
The New Institutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Institutional Theory in Political Science provides an in-depth analysis of contemporary institutional theory, an essential tool to understand the world of politics and government.
Written by B. Guy Peters, a prominent expert in the field, the book argues that the new institutionalism comprises...
Interconnections
Gender and Race in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
This collection builds on decades of interdisciplinary work by historians of African American women as well as scholars of feminist and critical race theory, bridging the gap between well-developed theories of race, gender, and power and the practice of historical research. It examines how racial...
by T. Carver, Daniel Blank
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Since the 1920s, scholars have promoted a set of manuscripts, long abandoned by Marx and Engels, to canonical status in book form as The German Ideology, and in particular its 'first chapter,' known as 'I. Feuerbach.' Part one of this revolutionary study relates in detail the political history through...
Consociational Theory
McGarry and O’Leary and the Northern Ireland conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
Consociational power sharing is increasingly gaining ground, right around the world, as a means for resolving political conflict in divided societies. In this volume, edited by Rupert Taylor, nineteen internationally-respected scholars engage in a lively debate about the merits of the theory underlying...
Teaching History at University
Enhancing Learning and Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Alan Booth draws on a wide range of international research as well as the reflections and experiences of university historians, linking theory and practice. Teaching History at University examines how high-quality history teaching and learning can be achieved in today's universities worldwide. This...