Browsing History by Title
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The action of the imagination
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After Historicism: The Politics of Time and History in Twentieth-Century Germany
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2023-08-31) -
After Sir William Jones: British Linguistic Scholarship and European Intellectual History
This article addresses a long-standing question in European intellectual history: why, if Sir William Jones formulated the Indo-European idea in Calcutta in 1786, was it developed only by German scholars on the continent ... -
Against "Cultures of Hiatus": History and the Archive in the Political Thought of John La Rose
(Duke University Press, 2018-03-01)This essay examines the relationship between a radical politics and the institution of the archive through a history of the George Padmore Institute (GPI), a community archive attached to New Beacon Books in London. Focusing ... -
Am I a researcher or a self-harmer? Mental health, objectivity and identity politics in history
(Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature), 2019) -
Anger as Misshapen Fear. Fascism, Literature, and the Emotional Body
(Brill, 2018-11-15) -
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, ... -
Artists and the City: Mapping the Art Worlds of 18th-Century Paris
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Atlantic Crossings Revisited
(2023-10-15)This roundtable reflects on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Daniel T. Rodgers's Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Harvard, 1998), a classic in our field. -
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 ...