20th-century history (2): ...then the ethics.(Review)

The Economist (US);  December 4, 1999 ;     700+ words ...HUMANITY: A MORAL HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By Jonathan...grand scale, add a dimension to the moral history of the century which previous mass...interesting. He moves between philosophy and history, discussing the conditions for moral...

Rochefort's 'History': the poetics of collusion in a colonizing narrative....

Papers on Language & Literature;  June 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ......represented, the category history is by far the most common...de Rochefort's Natural and Moral History of the Caribby Islands is...narrative intentions, the History configures the dynamics of...strictly-drawn confines of history to remap the traditional categories...

Natural and Moral History of the Indies

Anthropological Quarterly;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Jose de Acosta. 2002. Natural and Moral History of the Indies. Durham: Duke University...idolaters). In his Natural and Moral History of the Indies, a Jesuit intellectual...philosophers. To read the Natural and Moral History of the Indies is to engage the...

Stout, Harry S.: Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the...

History: Review of New Books;  March 22, 2006 ;     488 words ......Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War New York: Viking...writing, as the subtitle declares, A Moral History of the Civil War. His intent is...meaning and costs of warfare. Moral history, according to Stout, reflects...

Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History, of the American Civil...

Journal of Southern History;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History, of the American Civil War. By...for years to come. To craft a moral history, Stout examines the conflict through...revolve around Stout's approach to moral history. The author's judgment of Civil...

Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the American Civil War

The Journal of Southern History;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the American Civil War. By...for years to come. To craft a moral history, Stout examines the conflict through...revolve around Stout's approach to moral history. The author's judgment of Civil...

Natural and Moral History of the Indies.(Book Review)

Canadian Journal of History;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Natural and Moral History of the Indies by Jose de Acosta, translated...edition of Jose de Acosta's Natural and Moral History of the Indies, the first to appear...Spanish in 1590, Acosta's Natural and Moral History was soon translated into Italian...

History as a Theological Issue

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society;  March 1, 2002 ;     554 words ...History as a Theological Issue. By Nico T. Bakker. Translated by...98.00. The quest to discover the redemptive essence of history in contemporary theological discussion is undertaken in...crisis in theological studies. If a redemptive "essence" in history is to be found, it is in the Hebrew concept of ...

Humanity: a Moral History of the Twentieth Century. (Shorter...

Theological Studies;  March 1, 2002 ;     327 words ...HUMANITY: A MORAL HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By Jonathan Glover. New Haven...give ethics an empirical dimension and so provides a moral history that focuses on the erosion of moral value manifested in a variety of barbarisms of the 20th...

Books: The festival of cruelty isn't over Humanity: A Moral History of the...

The Independent - London;  October 10, 1999 ;     700+ words ......made a mockery of their vaunted moral and racial superiority. Nietzsche...Jonathan Glover's brave attempt at a moral history of the 20th century, Humanity...turns an appalled eye on our recent moral history. It is a myth, he says, that barbarism...

History and computers: the views from selected social studies journal.

The Social Studies;  November 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...History is a method, a particular way, of studying the record of human experience. It is also a body of information ... basic...other branch of learning (Handlin 1967, 8). This statement comprises three essential aspects of the definition of history: history as the past itself, history as a body of ...

A Moral History of the Evolution of a Caste of Doctors: The Issue of Trust...

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......which are essentially moral questions) are not whether...overlooked, a process I call "moral history."8 In the late '50s...archives of the AMA for a moral history I was writing on osteopathy...Professor of Medical History Ilza Veith, I was invited...

In a nutshell

Teaching History;  September 1, 2003 ;     513 words ...MORAL HISTORY? SOUNDS LIKE SOME NEW CITIZEWSHIP INITIATIVE...MORAL TO ME. That's the whole point. 'Moral History' is about studying humanity getting more...from, the progress of twentieth-century moral history. Nutshell's Year 9s loved it.

History and Theory.(Review)

History Today;  June 1, 1999 ;     693 words ...History and Theory Contemporary Readings Edited by Brian Fay, Philip Pomper and Richard...16.99 [pounds sterling] (pb) ISBN 0-63120952-2. THE STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE of history as depicted in this collection comes largely from the pages of the journal History & Theory. Of the nineteen contributions ...

Where does history come from? Alun Munslow argues that the centrality of...

History Today;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...WHERE DOES HISTORY come from? This may seem like an odd question. Surely history comes from the traces of the past that historians...in another way. What happens if we choose to view history as what, from one perspective at least, it plainly...