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Nietzsche and Methods of History – Being Active
Nietzsche and Methods of History – Being Active In John Armstrong’s short book, “Life Lessons From Nietzsche”, extracts from the nineteenth century philosopher are used to provide honest consolation. Today, I found a strong sense of honest consolation in the chapter which looked at Nietzsche’s essay, “Use & Abuse of History”. The importance of the…
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Interrelation of Ideas on Consciousness and Reality
Although it is not apparent from the philosophical subject matter, this essay is a plea for historians to find the compatibility, for the writing of public history, of the personal and the social. More fashionable historiographies of memoir, oral history, biography, are driving the conversation of history into solipsistic direction. It is the opposite extreme…
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Historical Geography Relives The MBH Project
Introducing the Mapping Brisbane History Project for the 2016 Professional Historians Australia Conference, Melbourne, Australia Google Maps and Google Earth in 2005 revived a sub-discipline that had been badly neglected in the previous couple of decades, historical geography. Online historical mapping was generated on a number of different platforms and spurred a plethora of webpages…
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The Concept of Race in Writing Social History
How far would you take the concept of race in writing a social history? The problem is that the concept sits much on appearance, and, in the twist of discussing the idea of race, it is too easy to have the appearance of being racist, the stance where the racial category has more importance than…
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W.G. Hoskins. English Provincial Towns in the Early Sixteenth Century.
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fifth Series, Vol. 6 (1956), pp. 1-19. Back | Original Document This is a ground-breaking paper by one of the earliest leading scholars in local history. The context of the early sixteenth century might appear to have little relevance, but the themes of urban development and its social impact…
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W. G. East, et la. History in a Map.
The Geographical Journal, Vol. 126, No. 1 (March, 1960), pp. 49-51. Back | Original Document The professional historians in the Brisbane Southside History Network are seeking to revive the old discipline of historical geography as a refreshed tool in local history. This is being achieved in the Mapping Brisbane History Project (http://mappingbrisbanehistory.com.au/). The forum held…
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Unnamed. The Uses of State and Local History.
History News, Vol. 23, No. 12 December, 1968), pp. 233-242. Back | Original Document At the very same time that Fridley was linking local history with global history, the American Association for State and Local History, in this reading, were looking for practical ends in the link between state and local history. The American model…
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Timothy Baumann, et al. Interpreting Uncomfortable History at the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Public Historian, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Spring 2011), pp. 37-66. Back | Original Document St. Louis, Missouri, is not a global city like New York, but it is a world-class city, and a world-renowned border city, which parallels the world-class status that can be seen in the Brisbane-Gold Coast corridor. In this collaboratively-written reading…
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Stephen Mosley. Common Ground: Integrating Social and Environmental History.
Journal of Social History, Vol. 39, No. 3, [Special Issue on the Future of Social History] (Spring, 2006), pp. 915-933. Back | Original Document Mosley in this reading brings us back to the consensus view, reaffirming social value and local environment history. The alignment between social or labour historians and environmentalism is explained in this…
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Russell W. Fridley. Local History and World Upheaval.
Minnesota History, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter, 1968), pp. 171-177. Back | Original Document By the late 1960s there is a consciousness of there being a new globalisation. “Think Globally, Act Locally”, was the catch-cry of the environmental and social movements of the left. It is somewhat ironic now, since globalisation has become seen as…