School of History: Recent submissions
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Language and the National Past in Napoleonic France: Reassessing the Académie celtique, 1805-1813
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in French History following peer review. The version of record Ian B Stewart, Language and the National Past in Napoleonic France: ... -
PRESENTISM'S USEFUL ANACHRONISMS
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Before compassion: sympathy, tact and the history of the ideal nurse.
(2020-07-30)The word 'compassion' is ubiquitous in modern healthcare. Yet few writers agree on what the term means, and what makes it an essential trait in nursing. In this article, I take a historical approach to the problem of ... -
What is the history of anger a history of?
(2020-06-01)This article uses the history of emotions to make two arguments – one destructive and one constructive. It uses examples from intellectual and cultural history to undermine the idea that the modern English term ‘anger’ ... -
When did Britain join the Occident? On the origins of the idea of "the West" in English
(Elsevier, 2020-05-13) -
An unpublished letter from Hugh Cleghorn to Adam Smith
(2020-04)This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in The Scottish Historical Review. The Version of Record is available online at: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/shr.2020.0437. -
The Archimedean point: Science and technology in the thought of Hannah Arendt, 1951-1963
(2014-01-01)This essay examines Hannah Arendt's treatment of science and technology in her work during the 1950s and early 1960s. As scientific research acquired prominence in the United States and Germany after the Second World War, ... -
Reconciliation and violence: Hannah Arendt on historical understanding
(2014-01-01)This essay reconstructs Hannah Arendt's reading of Marx and Hegel in order to elucidate her critique of comprehensive philosophies of history. During the early 1950s Arendt endeavoured to develop a historical epistemology ... -
The Itinerant Library of Lala Lajpat Rai
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020-04-01)<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This essay traces the movements of a library from New York to Lahore in the wake of the First World War and then to Shimla and Chandigarh following the partition of the Indian ... -
The Political Day in London, c. 1697-1834
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Building, Dwelling, Dying: Architecture and History in Pakistan
There is a long history of scholars finding in architecture tools for thinking, whether this is the relationship between nature and culture in Simmel’s ruins, industrial capitalism in Benjamin’s Parisian arcades, or the ... -
The Bitburg Affair and the Beginnings of Jewish Activism in 1980s West Germany
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020-01-03)