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chapter 1 The eternal and the ephemeral -- part PART I The law-seekers -- chapter 2 What are laws, and where can we find them? -- chapter 3 Metaphysical historicism from Hesiod to Toynbee -- chapter 4 Positive historicism from Comte to Rostow -- chapter 5 The poverty or perversion of historicism? -- chapter 6 If history has laws, why haven�t they been discovered? -- part PART II The laws -- chapter 7 If history has laws, how would we recognize them? -- chapter 8 The laws of societal dynamics -- chapter 9 The laws of historical change -- chapter 10 The laws of institutional change -- chapter 11 The hidden wealth of historicism.

I am involved in a collaborative effort to produce a history of the Ukrainian Carpathian mountain village of Mshanets, Stary Sambir District, Lviv Province. Mshanets is rare among East European villages in that its relatively strong documentary base has been largely preserved despite the wars and upheavals that have severely damaged the region's historical record. The purpose of my research trip is to supplement the documentary data by interviewing current and former inhabitants of Mshanets and its vicinity and, secondly, to gain a sense of village's topography before writing about it. I have already shared some preliminary finding with Ukrainian historians; a monograph on the village (a longer-term goal) will be an innovation in Ukrainian historiography and might help open new directions for the discipline, currently finding its way after the fall of Communism and the lifting of Soviet ideological and political strictures on scholarship.

Canada has a long history of religious unbelief. This paper offers a social historical survey of its organized, activist forms. The radical thought of the Enlightenment was imported in the late eighteenth century, which saw Voltairean deists like Fleury Mesplet criticizing the Catholic Church in the French-speaking colony of Lower Canada. A long tradition of anticlericalism followed in Quebec even though (or because) the Church was massively influential. The rest of Canada saw freethought and rationalist movements, often organized by working-class autodidacts, developing in the nineteenth century with American and British influences. This tradition continued into the first half of the twentieth century when secularists grappled with fundamentalism and the challenge of radical politics. After World War II the language of secular humanism was deployed and organizations were run by highly educated professionals instead. The position of activist unbelief began to change as Canada shifted from being one of the Western world's most religious countries to being one of the least in the latter half of the twentieth century. Unbelief became unremarkable, though the persistence of religion meant that the twenty-first century saw a revival of militant atheism. This survey shows that unbelief was never just a pure philosophical position but has always been shaped by the social status quo it evolved in or was opposing. Nor was opposition ever enough; activist unbelievers inevitably had to offer the undecided a vision of the secular world they were working towards, and this meant getting involved in some form of politics.

Asking is one of the simplest and most familiar of human actions, and has a right to be thought of as single most powerful and most variously cohering form of social-symbolic gesture. Because so much is at stake in the act of asking, asking, or asking for, almost anything, whether information, help, love or respect, can be asking for trouble, so a great deal of care must be taken with the ways in which asking occurs and is responded. A History of Asking is the first attempt to grasp the unity and variety of the technics and technologies of asking, in all its modalities, as they extend across a spectrum from weak forms like begging, pleading, praying, imploring, beseeching, entreating, suing, supplicating and soliciting, through to the more assertively and even aggressively self-authorising modes of asking, like proposing, offering, inviting, requesting, appealing, applying, petitioning, claiming and demanding. The book considers the history of 6 broad modes of petitory practice. The act of begging, both among animals and humans is considered in terms of its theatrics. The institution of the political petition, protocols for which seem to arise in also every system of government of which we have knowledge, is tracked through from late medieval to nineteenth-century Britain. The act of prayer, central to religious practice, though often the last form of religious behaviour to fall away among those lapsing from adherence, and one of the religious practices that is most likely to be adhered to in the absence of any other religious commitment, is the subject of sustained scrutiny. The appeal of prayer is essentially to the fact of participation in language, and the specific forms of commitment to the condition of being bound, bindable, or biddable by it. Wooing and the associated economics of seduction and solicitation are tracked through from the formalisation of the conventions of courtly love in the 12th century through to modern techniques of flirtation. The book revives the antique term 'suitage' in order to discuss all the forms of sueing and suitorship for favours or advantage, as well as, more broadly the act, pursued almost life-long, of trying to get one another to do things for us, in particular in indirect or vicarious forms of what may be called 'interpetition', such as the dedications of books to patrons, the institution of the testimonial or letter of reference and the practices of flattery. A History of Asking concludes with a discussion of the many ways in which our necessarily parasitic relations on each other in a complex society are both conveyed and dissimulated, especially through the ways in which we summon and salute different kinds of service.

This book is a treasure house of Italian philosophy. Narrating and explaining the history of Italian philosophers from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, the author identifies the specificity, peculiarity, originality, and novelty of Italian philosophical thought in the men and women of the Renaissance. The vast intellectual output of the Renaissance can be traced back to a single philosophical stream beginning in Florence and fed by numerous converging human factors. This work offers historians and philosophers a vast survey and penetrating analysis of an intellectual tradition which h

An incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics Throughout the twentieth century, "free enterprise" has been a contested keyword in American politics, and the cornerstone of a conservative philosophy that seeks to limit government involvement into economic matters. Lawrence B. Glickman shows how the idea first gained traction in American discourse and was championed by opponents of the New Deal. Those politicians, believing free enterprise to be a fundamental American value, held it up as an antidote to a liberalism that they maintained would lead toward totalitarian statism. Tracing the use of the concept of free enterprise, Glickman shows how it has both constrained and transformed political dialogue. He presents a fascinating look into the complex history, and marketing, of an idea that forms the linchpin of the contemporary opposition to government regulation, taxation, and programs such as Medicare

In History is unwritten diskutieren historisch Forschende, Autor*innen, Künstler*innen und politische Initiativen in 25 Wortmeldungen, wie ein emanzipatorischer Umgang mit Geschichte heute aussehen könnte. Ob Kolonialismus im Kasten oder Tränen in der Wissenschaft, ob Rosa Luxemburg oder Subcomandante Marcos, ob Ausgraben und Erinnern oder Kämpfen und Zweifeln – zusammen ergeben die Beiträge einen vielfältigen Eindruck von einer Linken, die sich um die Vergangenheit scheren muss, wenn sie etwas von der Zukunft will. Die Publikation ist die erweiterte Dokumentation der gleichnamigen Konferenz in Berlin im Dezember 2013. Mit Beiträgen von Bernd Hüttner, tippel orchestra, Wolfgang Uellenberg, David Mayer, Cornelia Siebeck, Florian Grams, Dominik Nagl, Susanne Götze, Anton Tantner, gruppe audioscript, Bündnis Rosa&Karl, Saskia Helbling, Katharina Rhein, Initiative Ehemaliges Polizeigefängnis Klapperfeld, Chris Rotmund, Initiative für einen Gedenkort ehemaliges KZ Uckermark, Katharina Morawek, Lisa Bolyos, Ralf Hoffrogge, Renate Hürtgen, Bini Adamczak, Dörte Lerp, Susann Lewerenz, Initiative "Kolonialismus im Kasten?", Antifaschistische Initiative Moabit, Claudia Krieg, Max Lill, Christiane Leidinger, Ingeborg Boxhammer, Friedemann Affolderbach, Uwe Hirschfeld, Gottfried Oy und Christoph Schneider.

"I hope to provide students interested in the Native American past with an understanding of how the varied parts of the story fit into a larger whole. My goal is to tell a story of native peoples, to advance an argument. To that end, I focus upon twelve native communities whose histories encapsulate what I see as the principal themes and developments in Native American history"--

My final degree project is about Chernobyl, a nuclear accident that occurred on 26th April 1986 and polluted a lot of Ukrainian, Russian and Belorussian areas. My purpose of the final degree project is to describe what the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was for the Ukrainian society, how they lived through it, how they received information and what measures they had to take or continue taking to survive the situation. On top of this, it will also contain international reactions and information about aid programs. Therefore, the theme of this work is the Chernobyl accident and the working hypothesis is that Europe, Ukraine and America had different information about the accident. To perform the work, I will use media from different political parties from these countries which will help me to compare the information given to its citizens (in some cases I will have to translate into English). I will also use different books, one of them The big lie: The secret Chernobyl documents written by Alla Yaroshinskaya.