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  • Religion, Evolution and Heredity

    Edited by Marius Turda ...
    This book engages with the relationship between religion, evolution and heredity, by bringing together two of its aspects that are frequently discussed separately: Darwinism and eugenics. It also demonstrates that religion has played a greater role in shaping modern debates on evolution and human improvement than current scholarship has previously acknowledged. Drawing on examples provided by ... Read more

    $30.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe

    Edited by Robert Pyrah, Marius Turda, Jan Fellerer ...
    Series series Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
    This volume addresses the question of ‘identity’ in East-Central Europe. It engages with a specific definition of ‘sub-cultures’ over the period from c. 1900 to the present and proposes novel ways in which the term can be used with the purpose of understanding identities that do not conform to the fixed, standard categories imposed from the top down, such as ‘ethnic group’, ‘majority’ or ‘minority ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Historicizing Race

    by Marius Turda, Maria Sophia Quine ...
    The idea of race may be outdated, as many commentators and scholars, working in a broad range of different fields in the sciences and humanities, have argued over many years. Nevertheless, it remains one of the most persistent forms of human classification. Theories of race primitivism (the idea that there is a 'natural' racial hierarchy and ranking order of 'inferior' and 'superior' races), race ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective

    by Marius Turda, Aaron Gillette ...
    Latin eugenics was a scientific, cultural and political programme designed to biologically empower modern European and American nations once commonly described as 'Latin', sharing genealogical, linguistic, religious, and cultural origins.Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective offers a comparative, nuanced approach to eugenics as a scientific programme as well as a cultural and political ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945

    Sources and Commentaries

    Edited by Marius Turda ...
    The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945 redefines the European history of eugenics by exploring the ideological transmission of eugenics internationally and its application locally in East-Central Europe. It includes 100 primary sources translated from the East-Central European languages into English for the first time and key contributions from leading scholars in the field from ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe

    Edited by Matthew Feldman, Marius Turda, Tudor Georgescu ...
    Series series Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions
    This edited volume arose from an international workshop convened in 2006 by Feldman and Turda with Tudor Georgescu, supported by Routledge, and the universities of Oxford, Brookes, Northampton and CEU (Budapest). As the field of fascist studies continues to integrate more fully into pan-European studies of the twentieth century, and given the increasing importance of secular ‘political religion’ ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Teleology and Modernity

    Edited by William Gibson, Dan O'Brien, Marius Turda ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    The main and original contribution of this volume is to offer a discussion of teleology through the prism of religion, philosophy and history. The goal is to incorporate teleology within discussions across these three disciplines rather than restrict it to one as is customarily the case. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, from individual teleologies to collective ones; ideas put forward by ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    A critical reader in history and theory, second edition

    by Anna Green, Kathleen Troup ...
    The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This innovative critical reader provides accessible introductions to fourteen schools of thought, from the empiricist to the postcolonial, including chapters on Marxist history, Freud and psychohistory, the Annales, historical sociology, narrative, gender, public history and the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • What is the History of Knowledge?

    by Peter Burke ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, ‘knowledges in the plural’) and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural history. Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws upon examples of this ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • What is Intellectual History?

    by Richard Whatmore ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is intellectual history?Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and translators between historic societies and our own, while their critics have often derided them as narrow-mindedly studying the ideas of dead white men. Some consider the discipline to be among the most ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • What is Microhistory?

    Theory and Practice

    by Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, István M. Szijártó ...
    This unique and detailed analysis provides the first accessible and comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, methodology of microhistory – one of the most significant innovations in historical scholarship to have emerged in the last few decades.The introduction guides the reader through the best-known example of microstoria, The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg, and explains ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Russian History: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Geoffrey Hosking ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Spanning the divide between Europe and Asia, Russia is a multi-ethnic empire with a huge territory, strategically placed and abundantly provided with natural resources. But Russia's territory has a harsh climate, is cut off from most maritime contact with the outside world, and has open and vulnerable land frontiers. It has therefore had to devote much of its wealth to the armed forces, and the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD