By Dale K. Van Kley (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) Although the French Revolution is associated with efforts to dechristianize the French state and citizens, it actually had long-term religious—even Christian—origins, claims Dale Van Kley in this controversial new book. Looking back at the two and a half centuries that preceded the revolution, Van Kley explores the … Continued
By W. Fitzhugh Brundage (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) Since the Civil War whites and blacks have struggled over the meanings and uses of the Southern past. Indeed, today’s controversies over flying the Confederate flag, renaming schools and streets, and commemorating the Civil War and the civil rights movement are only the latest examples of this ongoing … Continued
Edited by W. V. Harris (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) and Javier Arce
By Deborah McGrady (NHC Fellow, 2010–11)
Edited by Lydia H. Liu (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) The problem of translation has become increasingly central to critical reflections on modernity and its universalizing processes. Approaching translation as a symbolic and material exchange among peoples and civilizations—and not as a purely linguistic or literary matter, the essays in Tokens of Exchange focus on China and its interactions … Continued
By Stuart Clark (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) Vanities of the Eye investigates the cultural history of the senses in early modern Europe, a time in which the nature and reliability of human vision was the focus of much debate. In medicine, art theory, science, religion, and philosophy, sight came to be characterized as uncertain or paradoxical–mental … Continued
Edited by Robert Beachy (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) and Ralf Roth The question of who actually ran cities in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been increasingly debated in recent years. As well as trying to understand the distribution of political power and the rise of broad political participation, urban historians have questioned how and … Continued
Edited by Daphne Patai (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) and Sherna Berger Gluck Women's Words is the first collection of writings devoted exclusively to exploring the theoretical, methodological, and practical problems that arise when women utilize oral history as a tool of feminist scholarship. In thirteen multi-disciplin ary esays, the book takes stock of the implicit presuppositions , … Continued
Edited by N. G. L. Hammond (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) and F. W. Walbank The history of Macedonia–the most remarkable of all monarchic states–is here presented from the death of Philip II through the state's loss of independence in 167 B.C. Recent discoveries about Macedonian arts and institutions have aided the authors in recounting the impact … Continued
Edited by David Patrick Geggus (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) and David Barry Gaspar (NHC Fellow, 1984–85)