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Some issues have title: Publications of the United States Army Center of Military History; or: Publications, Description based on: 1977-78; title from cover. ; Microfiche. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Description based on: Fall/winter 1984-85; title from cover. ; Some issues have title: Publications of the United States Army Center of Military History; or: Publications, . ; Mode of access: Internet.

This article discusses the several reasons for the complex relationship between social history and world history. It notes also the increasing interest among social historians for reconsidering their geographical range and base, which provides new opportunities for interaction between the fields. Using childhood as an example, the article argues for the mutual utility of running social history topics through world history periodization and related concerns with interregional contacts.

Why does the universe work the way it does? Why are stars so big? Why are humans so small? What does it mean to be human? Big History blends geology, biology, physics, anthropology, sociology, and so much more to tell one coherent story, taking us right back to our origins and exploring how a unique series of events led to and then impacted human existence: how everything came to be, where we fit in, and even where we are going. Graphics, artworks, timelines, and at-a-glance overviews make the causes and effects of pivotal events and major thresholds in Big History instantly accessible, and evidence features explain how we know what we know. An additional 64-page reference section provides a more conventional account of events in human history. Placing humans in the context of our universe and revealing how and why we got to where we are today, Big History covers 13.8 billion years of history, from the formation of the universe and the dawn of time to the present day

A review essay on books by: Derek Sayer, The Violence of Abstraction: The Analytical Foundations of Historical Materialism (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987); & Alex Callinicos, Making History: Agency, Structure and Change in Social Theory (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987 [see listings in IRPS No. 59]). The principal concepts of historical materialism are analyzed by Sayer as a response to G. A. Cohen's critique of traditional Marxism (Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence Oxford, 1978). Three aims are outlined: to produce an alternative interpretation of the compatibility of Marx's theory with empirical cases studied; to critique Cohen's definition of base, superstructure, & capitalist economic relations as eternally applicable; & to emphasize the interpenetration of production, productive forces, politics, law, & ideology. Callinicos examines the main concepts of historical materialism, drawing heavily on the works of Anthony Giddens, in which social structure is seen as both imposed on, & created by, individuals. It is concluded that this book provideds yet another critique of various accounts of Marxism rather than an alternative view of Marx's theoretical concepts. A. Devic

The story of American intellectual history's decline, fall, and phoenix-like rebirth in recent decades has become trite with the retelling: knocked from its position of prominence by the new social history and plunged into the chastened soul-searching of the famed Wingspread Conference of 1977, only to find itself rescued in part by the linguistic and cultural "turns" that swept the entire discipline of American history in the 1980s and 1990s. Like many a narrative, this one undoubtedly imposes too clear a pattern of meaning on a messier reality, but also like many a narrative, it has powerfully shaped the professional identities of American intellectual historians by giving them a sense of where they have been and how they arrived at their current place. That current place is a hospitable one, in many ways, for in the last couple of decades American historians seem to have grown increasingly receptive to the notion that ideas have mattered in history.

A reflection on "true history" considers what truth represents in historical thinking & how it establishes a relationship between its objective correlates. Although historical events & historical narratives may appear to be the same, & one is not possible without the other, they are actually opposed to each other & rely on one another with their difference. Attention is called to two eyewitness accounts of the 1792 cannonade of Valmy contained in the autobiographies of Johann Wolfgang Geothe & Friedrich Christian Laukhard that almost seem to be descriptions of different events. Combining the two accounts produces a third story, suggesting that seeking the truth by methodically formatting its stories leads to "an ocean of narratives." Reinhart Koselleck's (1987) categories of historical comprehension are explored, along with the place of metaphor & poetics in historical accounts; the potential for the stories of historians to reify the signifying patterns of interpreting subjectivity; & the need to find a locus in which event & narrative merge "in order to come to an agreement on their mutual unity.". J. Lindroth

Pre-Lenten carnivals in history raise questions about religious, social, & biological themes: eg, are carnivals more pagan or Christian in origin, & are they more rituals than means of relieving natural impulses? Such issues are assessed in a consideration of the Carnival of Romans in Feb 1580. A content analysis of the masquerades, parades, dances, & fantasies of the Carnival of Romans is compared to an analysis of the carnival by E. Leach (Rethinking Anthropology, London, 1961) & to other southern European carnivals of the sixteenth century. Agricultural, religious, & social in nature, carnivals can be seen as an attempt to redress social wrongs as well as to celebrate fertility. 8 References. D. Dunseath.