Conversations about History, Volume 1.

Conversations about History, Volume 1.

Conversations About History, Volume 1, is a five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection of carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading historians with a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. All five books include a detailed essay setting up the diffe...

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Superior document:Ideas Roadshow Collections ; v.17
:
Burton, Howard.
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : Open Agenda Publishing,, 2021.
Ã2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Ideas Roadshow Collections
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Physical Description:1 online resource (235 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Textual Note
  • Preface
  • Enlightened Entrepreneurialism
  • A conversation with Margaret Jacob
  • Introduction
  • I. Historical Origins
  • II. Decrypting Newton
  • III. Beyond the Numbers
  • IV. Apprenticeship
  • V. Religion and Geography
  • VI. Theory vs. Practice
  • VII. Lessons Learned?
  • VIII. History Today
  • IX. Past and Future
  • X. Righting Wrongs, Slowly
  • Continuing the Conversation
  • Science and Pseudoscience
  • A conversation with Michael Gordin
  • Introduction
  • I. A Counterculture Hero
  • II. An Ideal Case
  • III. The Lysenko Lesson
  • IV. A Freudian Cosmology
  • V. Enter Einstein
  • VI. Responses and Reactions
  • VII. Digging In
  • VIII. Science vs. Pseudoscience
  • IX. Fringe Benefits
  • X. Learning From History
  • XI. Anthropic Digression
  • XII. Better Science?
  • Continuing the Conversation
  • The Consolations of History
  • A conversation with Teofilo Ruiz
  • Introduction
  • I. The Terror of History
  • II. Becoming a Historian
  • III. Historical Ruminations
  • IV. Progress?
  • V. Connecting
  • VI. Looking Ahead
  • Continuing the Conversation
  • Herculaneum Uncovered
  • A conversation with Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
  • Introduction
  • I. What We Know
  • II. Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie
  • III. Exploring Roman Society
  • IV. Herculaneum vs. Pompeii
  • V. The Future of the Past
  • Continuing the Conversation
  • Embracing Complexity
  • A conversation with David Cannadine
  • Introduction
  • I. Finding One's Historical Feet
  • II. The Art of Biography
  • III. The Undivided Past
  • IV. Transcending Parochialism
  • V. Categorical Examinations
  • VI. Historical Broadening
  • VII. What to Do, Part I
  • VIII. What to Do, Part II
  • Continuing the Conversation.

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