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"Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of darkness, Enlightenment thinkers tried to sweep superstition away with reason, the modern welfare state sought to slay the "giant" of ignorance, and in today's hyperconnected world seemingly limitless information is available on demand. But what about the knowledge lost over the centuries? Are we really any less ignorant than our ancestors? In this highly original account, Peter Burke examines the long history of humanity's ignorance across religion and science, war and politics, business and catastrophes. Burke reveals remarkable stories of the many forms of ignorance--genuine or feigned, conscious and unconscious--from the willful politicians who redrew Europe's borders in 1919 to the politics of whistleblowing and climate change denial. The result is a lively exploration of human knowledge across the ages, and the importance of recognizing its limits."--

Intro -- Contents -- List of Images and Boxes -- Boxes -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Note on Romanization -- Maps of Korea and East Asia -- Brief Chronology of Korean Political History -- Introduction -- 1: Goguryeo and Early Korea -- BATTLE OF SALSU RIVER, 612 -- ANCIENT KOREA AND GOGURYEO -- RISE AND FALL OF GOGURYEO -- THE PULL OF ANCIENT HISTORY -- 2: Queen Seondeok and Silla's Unification -- SILLA'S DISPATCH OF AN EMBASSY TO GOGURYEO, 642 -- BUDDHISM AND POWER -- LEGENDS OF THE UNIFICATION -- SILLA'S "WINNING" FEATURES -- 3: The Maturation and Decline of Unified Silla -- ASSASSINATION OF JANG BOGO, 846 -- JANG BOGO, CHOE CHIWON, AND UNIFIED SILLA SOCIETY -- SILLA AND NORTHEAST ASIA -- LOCAL STRONGMEN AND THE END OF SILLA -- 4: Elements of Goryeo's Founding -- THE ISSUANCE OF WANG GEON'S "TEN INJUNCTIONS," 943 -- "GREAT FOUNDER OF KOREA" -- VISION OF THE TEN INJUNCTIONS -- LEGACY -- 5: Religion and Regionalism in the Goryeo Order -- THE OUTBREAK OF THE MYOCHEONG REBELLION, 1135 -- THE INSTITUTIONALIZED INFLUENCE OF THE BUDDHIST CLERGY -- MYOCHEONG'S REBELLION -- AFTERMATH -- 6: Survival and Adaptation in the Mongol Overlord Period -- THE MARRIAGE OF LADY GI TO THE YUAN EMPEROR, 1340 -- THE MONGOL CONQUEST -- GORYEO WOMEN IN THE MONGOL EMPIRE -- 7: Competing Views of the Goryeo-Joseon Transition -- YI BANGWON'S PURGE OF JEONG DOJEON, 1398 -- JEONG DOJEON: FROM MASTERMIND TO POLITICAL POWER -- A RENAISSANCE, REVOLUTION, OR COUP? -- TAEJONG'S IMPACT -- 8: Confucianism and the Family in the Early Joseon Era -- THE DRAFTING OF LADY YI'S WILL, 1541 -- EARLY JOSEON CONFUCIANISM -- CONFUCIAN FAMILY LAW AND WOMEN'S STANDING -- 9: Surviving the Great Invasions, 1592-1637 -- THE RETURN OF ADMIRAL YI SUNSIN, 1597 -- PROBLEMS IN THE KOREAN RESPONSE -- NARRATIVES OF HEROISM -- THE REGIONAL ORDER REMADE.

AbstractIn 1881–1882, Marx undertook extensive historical studies, covering a large part of what was then known as "world history". The four large notebooks with excerpts from the works of (mainly) two leading historian of his time, Schlosser and Botta, have remained largely unpublished. In this article, Marx's last studies of the course of world history are contextualized: Marx's previous historical studies and his ongoing, but unfinished work on the critique of political economy. The range and scope of his notes is astoundingly broad, going far beyond European history and actually covering many other parts of the world. Marx's focus in these studies supports the interpretation offered in the article: that the author of "Capital" was fascinated by the long process of the making of the modern states and the European states system, one of the crucial prerequisites of the rise of modern capitalism in Europe.

Recently, some neo‐Boasian anthropologists have portrayed Boas as an anthropologist with a deep sense of history, of the individual, and of agency. Focusing on Boas's ethnographic practice rather than his theoretical and programmatic statements, I first find an 'atomistic' (opposite of holistic) ethnographer, and a deep convergence between this atomism and Linnaean‐type natural history. In Foucault and Jacob's interpretation of natural history, this means studying socio‐cultural phenomena through their external manifestations, and removes historicity, and even individual cultures, from Boas's ethnography. Reviewing possible counter‐evidence from the holistic Boas (his work on style, meaning, the 'genius of a people,' texts, secondary explanations, and psychology), I retrieve the same natural historian, and the same atomism. All these facets of his practice thus appear as surface manifestations of this underlying épistémè, which provides a single interpretative framework making it possible to integrate most of his ethnographic work. Overall, this worldview leaves little, or no, room for individuals and their agency.

Theoretical Articles -- Structural Problems of German Industry in International Comparison -- Can Societies Learn from Economic Crises? -- What can the Businessman Learn from History, especially Business History? -- Studies -- The Establishment of the Life Insurance Business in Germany in the Nineteenth Century -- Forms and Phases of Industry Finance up to the Second World War -- Breaks and Continuity in the Economy and Social Structures between the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich -- Reports -- A Review of the New Literature on Business History -- The Integration of Foreign Workers -- The Role of Women in German Business Life.

A work of Abu Nasr al-Utbi "Tarikh-i al-Yamini" (History of Yamini) is an important source in the study of the history of Central Asia during the Ghaznavid period, in particular, Khorezm, Bukhara, Samarkand, Termez, Nasaf, Shash and the foundations of statehood in our country in the X-XI centuries. The work "Tarikh-i al-Yamini" has not been sufficiently studied and has not translated into Uzbek yet. Through this information, the researcher gets acquainted with the social processes that took place in Transoxiana, Khorasan, Kashmir in the first quarter of the X and XI centuries, the culture of the peoples, international relations in these countries. The work continues the events that took place after the "Tarikh-i al-Tabari" (History of Tabari). The work complements the information of the scholars like as Narshahi, Abu Rayhan Beruni, Saalibi about these periods. "History of Yamini" covers in detail the political events that took place in Transoxiana and Khorasan during the last Samanid period. It tells the story of the end of the X century and the first quarter of the XI century in connection with the history of Transoxiana and Khorasan. There is a certain kindness to the rulers as in all historical works of that period. The work of al-Utbi also reflects the battles for the thrones, wealth, power struggles, conflicts, bloodshed and various conflicts between the ruling powers.

Historians are not so prone as their brethren of the social studies to lengthy disputation concerning the function, the objective, the method, the locus and the limit of their subject. They tell us freely enough and often enough and variably enough what history is and does, but they seldom justify their pronouncements by elaborate argument. They rarely seek to place the other social disciplines in relation to their own. Not uncommonly their own proceeds as though these others did not exist or as though they existed on another level of communication altogether. History takes so free an amplitude that these others become angles of incidence to its main highroad. It is presumptively concerned with the concrete reality, the wholeness of things, while these others attach to abstractions such as law and government and economics and morals. The other social disciplines vex themselves with the ambition to be entitled sciences and cast aspiring and emulous eyes on the physicist and the mathematician, but history loses no sleep over such aspirations—untroubled by the inferiority complex of its associates it is even ready to reject the title of science when offered.

The connection between history and COVID-19 might appear counter-intuitive. We are used to being told by media outlets and employers, government officials and friends that we are 'living in unprecedented times'. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the rhythms of our daily lives, but not every response to COVID-19 has been new. It has also been understood through history. This article comes from a roundtable discussion that was held as part of NSW History Week on 11 September 2020. Bringing together historians, curators and archivists, this panel explored the way that history has been used to understand COVID-19. Particular attention was paid to attempts to record and archive our experiences through the pandemic, comparisons between COVID-19 and the 'Spanish' flu as well as shifting understandings of temporality during the pandemic. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has ruptured our quotidian experience, it is not a moment beyond history. This panel examined how history is being used as an anchor point, a source of inspiration and an educational tool with which to tackle 'these uncertain times'.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Technology in History -- Notes -- History of Technology in the Teaching of History -- History of technology and its contribution towards historical understanding -- History of technology as part of physical history -- What is the use of the history of technology? -- Summary -- Notes -- The Role of History in a Civil Engineering Course -- Notes -- Sir Proby Cautley (1802-1871), a Pioneer of Indian Irrigation -- The Doab Canal and the Dehra Dun Watercourses, 1825-1843 -- The Ganges Canal, 1842-1854 -- Notes