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 | | The scope of his history was broadly the same as that of the two great contemporary poets. | | | History and physical science alike are in all poetry ancillary to ideas. | | | History might be written in Greek--as, indeed, throughout the Republican and Imperial times it continued to be--by any Roman who was sufficiently conversant with that language, in which models for every style of historical composition were ready to his hand. |
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http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/gutenberg/etext05/8llit10.txt
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: French Literature |
| | Hence the fondness of the literature of the seventeenth century for general ideas and for sentiments that are common to mankind, and its success in those kinds of literature which are based on the general study of the human heart. | | | The great representative of history in the Middle Ages is Froissart (1337-1410); in him we have to deal with a veritable writer. | | | It is yet too early to attempt the task of determining the due place of the nineteenth century in the literary history of France; the men and affairs of the century are still near to us, and in the study of literature a true perspective can be obtained only from a certain distance. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06190a.htm
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| | The History and Future of the Book |
| | For example, ongoing court cases and proposed legislation that attempt to restrict copyright laws, the sharing of ideas, and freedom of expression are built upon a long history of both censorship and ownership in traditional book culture. | | | The history of books is important not only because of the many mistaken reports in the 80s and 90s of the book's imminent demise. | | | "The History and Future of the Book" (English 204-01A) is one of the English Department's three Foundation Courses and is designed to introduce students to historical and contemporary developments in the technology and impact of the book. |
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http://headlesschicken.ca/eng204
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| | Franklin College: History and Literature Major |
| | This course is an introduction to themes and trends in the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of the West from the seventeenth century to the present with emphasis on the relationship between ideas and institutions. | | | This course is an introduction to themes and trends in the political, economic, social and intellectual history of the Near East, Greece, Rome, India, China, Japan, and the West from the Neolithic Revolution to the seventeenth century with emphasis on the global diffusion of ideas and institutions. | | | The History and Literature major provides students with a substantive understanding of the relationships between history and literature as interdependent academic disciplines. |
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http://www.fc.edu/academics/hl.html
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| | Amazon.com: Augustan Culture: Books: Karl Galinsky |
| | The book treats the general reader with a jargon-free, yet accurate and informative discussion of the politics, religion, literature, moral culture and ideas, art and architecture of Augustus' times; at the same time, the classicist will also find an interpretation that proves to be strong, serious, and weightily argued. | | | The Oxford Illustrated History of Greece and the Hellenistic World (Oxford Illustrated Histories) by John Boardman | | | The time is right for a work that interweaves Augustan history, literature, and art, and Karl Galinsky is one of the very few scholars who has enough expertise in all three areas to do this successfully... |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691058903?v=glance
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| | Camp Chase Gazette: The Voice of Civil War Reenacting |
| | Company H (New Jersey Civil War History Association Inc.) is a non-profit living history organization dedicated to historical preservation, public education, and the personal enjoyment of the reenacting hobby. | | | - The 42nd Virginia Infantry Regiment is a nonprofit living history organization that was founded in 1983 and officially organized in 1984. | | | We advocate no political or social ideas other than those of the United States Constitution. |
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http://www.campchase.com/links/reenactment.htm
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| | Stephen's Alternate History Site |
| | Colonials Return - A future history scenario (which could have occured in the past, as well) in which Africa's political and social structures collapes completely, causing the rest of the world to "recolonize" the continent, bringing aid and relief to the suffering population who remain. | | | newsgroup deals with alternate histories and alternate realities, posting ideas and timelines of the participants on which you can comment. | | | Alternate Histories in SF - A very good introduction to the Alternate History genre in science fiction writing by sci-fi author Stephen Baxter. |
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http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/AH.htm
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| | History as Creation |
| | Finally, history is rational in a third sense: that of the link between the past and the future, of facts which will necessarily become values, of this set of blind quasi-natural laws which blindly generate the least blind situation of all: that of liberated humanity. | | | There is a Reason at work in history which ensures that past history is comprehensible, that future history is desirable, and that the apparently blind necessity of facts is secretly arranged in such a way as to give birth to what is good. | | | This period was dominated, as no other period of history, by scientism and positivism, triumphantly carried forward by the accumulation of scientific discoveries, their experimental verification, and especially, for the first time on this scale, by 'the reasoned application of science to industry'. |
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http://www.geocities.com/cordobakaf/history.html
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| | God of the Machine |
| | (An excellent history of modern philosophy could be written treating it entirely as a misapplication of these four ideas.) Undecidability no more implies universal skepticism than relativistic physics implies relativistic morality. | | | A history of the heroic age of molecular biology, from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. | | | This activity is influenced, in turn, by memories conditioned by that animal's history of reward and punishment acquired during its past behavior. |
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http://www.godofthemachine.com
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| | Pictorial History of Science Fiction - David Kyle |
| | The Pictorial History is an oversized book, with hordes of illustrations in both black-and-white and color. | | | A companion volume is David Kyle's The Illustrated Book of Science Fiction Ideas and Dreams, arranged thematically, and quite as good as this book. | | | Science fiction has cast the net wide, to capture already so many shiny, glistening ideas. |
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http://www.troynovant.com/Franson/Kyle/Pictorial-History-of-SF.html
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| | The Tony Jones Alternate History Page |
| | Footnotes to History - 'an overview of ephemeral states, micronations, secessionist states, and every other kind of country you never heard of in high school', and as such quite a useful source for Alternate History ideas. | | | Puritan World : An alternate history where the powers of Europe are threatened by the totalitarian and theocratic Puritan New Commonwealth of the Americas. | | | Alternative history is a sub-genre of science fiction that has interested me for quite some time. |
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http://www.wolfram.demon.co.uk/alternate_history_top.html
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| | Stephen's Alternate History Site |
| | Colonials Return - A future history scenario (which could have occured in the past, as well) in which Africa's political and social structures collapes completely, causing the rest of the world to "recolonize" the continent, bringing aid and relief to the suffering population who remain. | | | I believe that individuals are largely autonomous - unbound by fatalism and the "larger forces" of history- can change their minds, and, I believe, individuals can have a significant effect on history. | | | newsgroup deals with alternate histories and alternate realities, posting ideas and timelines of the participants on which you can comment. |
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http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/AH.htm
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| | Religion, Philosophy and History |
| | Nietzsche developed his philosophy from his struggle with the history of the ancient Greeks. | | | The belief that history was a science as hard as the physical sciences was waning while some were restricting themselves to the empirical and merely trying to describe what actually happened. | | | The turmoil in ideas that Europe had experienced in previous centuries continued into the 1800s, as Europe was disturbed by a growth in technology and capitalism, the factory system, a developing middleclass, lower class unrest, and by advances in the sciences and medicine. |
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http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h45-ph.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China, including The Art of War |
| | Many business professionals like to say how "Business is war" and use these warriors' thought, but here the Saywers show that the ideas set down in these classics are for the warrior and especially for peace. | | | The first translation of the full body of ancient Chinese strategic wisdom, including Sun Tzu's Art of War and six other classics. | | | My friends who do read Chinese say this translations is one of the best English versions. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0813312280?v=glance
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| | An African Philosophy of History in the Oral Tradition |
| | In our view of philosophy as the raising of questions and ideas for consideration, the problems associated with the use of the proverb do not make the texts invalid, since they stimulate thought, comments, and arguments on the oral tradition. | | | We note that Tempels formulated a Bantu philosophy, from the "implicit," "folk," philosophy of the oral tradition of the Bantu. | | | Through the work of Vansina and his students from the University of Wisconsin, among others, we know that the oral tradition is a viable source and a history in its own right; and we recognize the custodians of the traditions as both informants and historians. |
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http://nigerdeltacongress.com/articles/an_african_philosophy_of_history.htm
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| | Mommsen's Roman History |
| | We may note that the ideas of the Grimm brothers, like that of Mommsen, combined belief in constitionalism with political liberalism and cultural nationalism; and that their academic work combined collecting local folk-tales and songs with comparative philology and with the study of the earliest evidence for the history of Germanic-speaking peoples. | | | The fact that Mommsen was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1902 confirmed that he was indeed the brightest star in the field of Roman history that arose from Europe in the 19th century. | | | History of Rome under the Emperors, 285: "Rome had as fierce a struggle against this [sc. |
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http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1997/wiedemann.html
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| | BrothersJudd.com - Review of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man |
| | In this book, Fukuyama expands on the ideas in his original essay and introduces several new ones, the most important of which, embodied by the idea of "thymos", is that the greatest threat to the End of History is the fact that people demand recognition. | | | Fukuyama's essential argument was not that history, in terms of events and conflicts and the like, had actually come to and end, rather that liberal capitalist democracy represented the final step in Man's political evolution. | | | The End of History and the Last Man (1992) |
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http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/742
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Consequences of Ideas |
| | Great book for Christians who want an introduction to the fascinating world of ideas. | | | After reading _Consequences_, I would highly recommend the highly acclaimed nine-volume series _A History of Philosophy_ by Thomist philosopher Frederick C. Copleston. | | | _Consequences_ covers great philosophers from Thales of Miletus, to the philosophers of modernism. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1581341725
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A science fiction writer is generally not trying to write a history of the future that they believe will happen, any more than a writer of westerns is trying to create a historically accurate depiction of the old West. | | | Sometimes, utopic and dystopic literature is regarded as science fiction (accurate insofar as sociology is science); however, dystopic literature sometimes falls under the cyberpunk genre. | | | Therefore, a story could describe an extremely unusual society (for example, an extraterrestrial civilization, or a parallel or alternate dimension of spacetime) and their unusual reactions to a scientific discovery, which (to the reader) is straightforward knowledge, for example, the story " Nightfall " by Isaac Asimov. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction
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| | history sf |
| | Gernsback's ideas regarding the nature of science do not really consider the impact of the prose, for as William Bainbridge clearly establishes, Gernsback's preoccupation was the "scientific authenticity and the romance of technological progress" (54). | | | This seems an easy way out for Aldiss, and history has followed his lead in declaring Mary Shelley to be of interest, if only in connection to her husband. | | | The idea of balance, ordered completeness and cyclical history is continually examined throughout her prose. |
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http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/Tonya/sf/history.html
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| | Archived: Basics of History |
| | The story of history is interesting to us because it tells us about real people who had ideas and beliefs, worked and struggled to put them in action, and shaped the present in which we find ourselves. | | | The first meaning of history is "tale, story," and the second meaning is "a chronological record of significant past events." The opening of tales for children--"Once upon a time"--captures both the story and time nature of history. | | | While there are many possible tales of the same event, good history is based on evidence and several perspectives. |
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http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/History/Basics.html
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| | Science Fiction on Radio |
| | Bright ideas for science fiction tales don't come on order; they're usually the product of a moment's inspiration, by a writer who is steeped in the field." | | | Clearly aimed at adults the episode, The Man Who Was Tomorrow, is about a man, the Timekeeper, who is able to stop time to present to one of the characters his life and relationship with his wife both in the future and the past. | | | Not all science fiction of the period was for adults. |
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http://www.otr.com/sf.html
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| | MedHist: The gateway to Internet resources for the History of Medicine |
| | Reflecting Manchester's key role in the early history of the computer, the Centre is also home to the National Archive for the History of Computing (NAHC), a repository consisting largely of manuscript collections, plus photographs, manuals, catalogues and oral history materials. | | | The Internet encyclopedia of philosophy is an online reference source providing brief entries covering the life, works and key ideas of principal thinkers in western philosophy. | | | The encyclopedia is organised as an A-Z listing of philosophers and philosophical terms, although there are additional ways to browse, including a timeline which organises philosophers into time period, then "type" of philosophy, and a keyword listing of important terms featured in the texts. |
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http://medhist.ac.uk/browse/mesh/detail/D049711.html
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| | A History of Knowledge |
| | The Romans' main contribution to the history of knowledge may well be engineering, which, after all, is but the practical application of science to daily life. | | | Hegel applied the same "dialectical" method to history, believing that history is due to the conflict of nations, conflicts that are resolved on a higher plane of political order. | | | Georges Buffon concocted the first western account of the history of life and of the Earth that was not based on the Bible. |
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http://www.thymos.com/know/history.html
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A science fiction writer is generally not trying to write a history of the future that they believe will happen, any more than a writer of westerns is trying to create a historically accurate depiction of the old West. | | | A science fiction story may be very realistic, as in Arthur C. Clarke's novel A Fall of Moondust, or highly imaginative, set in an extraterrestrial civilization or a parallel universe, as in Isaac Asimov's novel The Gods Themselves. | | | Olaf Stapledon's Darkness and the Light, which presents two possible futures for mankind defined by developments in ethics and philosophy, is a good example of speculative fiction. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction
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| | 2.2 : BACKGROUND READING FOR WORLD TRAVEL |
| | Penguin Books, UK More a mini-encyclopedia than a dictionary, this will introduce you to many of the people, events, issues, and ideas with which the reader of a Third World newspaper is expected to be familiar. | | | A history, by an Indian scholar and diplomat, of the role of Europeans in Asia. | | | The book is the single best one-volume reference about the world; if you buy one expensive book, sight unseen, on the strength of my recommendation, make it this one. |
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http://hasbrouck.org/links/index_2_2.html
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| | Case Western Reserve University - Department of History |
| | Even in this age, however, new fields of historical inquiry and discourse, such as social history or the history of ideas (as pioneered for example in science by Thorndike), were beginning to find practitioners. | | | He proposed to give a seminar in nineteenth-century England, and since Barnes was to teach two sections of the sophomore survey course in English history and two graduate 400-level courses, this did not directly interfere with Barnes's schedule. | | | The height of absurdity was reached in 1956-1957 when Barnes again went on sabbatical and rather than let Erickson teach the English history survey course Barnes insisted that it be canceled. |
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http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/hsty/hsty4.html
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| | Piero Scaruffi's History of Knowledge |
| | The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to the ideas that, throughout the course of our history, have dramatically changed the way we think of the world, of life and of ourselves. | | | Reader: "A History of Knowledge" (2004) by Piero Scaruffi. | | | The Age of Reason Augustine: "Confessiones" Aquinas: "Summa Theologica" More: "Utopia" Bacon: "Novum Organum" Descartes: "Discourse" Hobbes: "Leviathan" Spinoza's spiritualism; Leibniz' panpsychism; Newton: "Principia Mathematica" Vico: History Darwin: "Origin of Species" 5. |
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http://www.thymos.com/know/matter.html
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