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  • The Expert’s Historian

    Otto Hintze and the Nature of Modern Historical Thought

    by Leonard S. Smith ...
    "As we hoped, Hintze's further development made him one of the great ones in the discipline. To be sure, he was one of those who was only known in the circle of experts, like a very high mountain in a mountain range which one first noticed from the vantage point of a high pass." --Friedrich Meinecke, 1941 (translated by Leonard S. Smith) "What we call historicism is a new, unique, categorical ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Martin Luther's Two Ways of Viewing Life and the Educational Foundation of a Lutheran Ethos

    by Leonard S. Smith ...
    Like Leonard Smith's larger study, Religion and the Rise of History, this essay, Martin Luther's Two Ways of Viewing Life, asserts that Luther's well-known "at-the-same-time," simul, or paradoxical way of viewing life does not capture Luther's thought as a whole, because it does not represent his deeply incarnational and dynamic, mystical and holistic, particularizing and historical way of viewing ... Read more

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  • A Dysfunctional Legacy

    An Unfulfilled Promise

    by Leonard Smith ...
    A Dysfunctional Legacy presents a retelling of the defining events that occur in the family of Abraham from the time subsequent to the eviction of Ishmael and Hagar to the time of Jacobs death. Offering a realistic, down-to earth picture of this chosen family rather than the sanctimonious treatment of them that is sometimes presented, the story begins with the end of Abraham and Sarahs marriage ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830

    by Leonard Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830 constitutes the first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England. Using original research and drawing upon a wide range of expertise on the history of mental health this book demonstrates the crucial role of the lunatic hospitals in the early development of a national system of psychiatric institutions.These hospitals ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • French Colonialism

    From the Ancien Régime to the Present

    by Leonard V. Smith ...
    Series Book 65 - New Approaches to European History
    France had the second largest empire in the world after Britain, but one with very different origins and purposes. Over more than four centuries, the French empire explained itself in many different ways through many different colonial regimes. Beginning in the early modern period, a vast mercantile empire based on furs and fish in the New World and sugar cultivated by the enslaved in the ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Religion and the Rise of History

    Martin Luther and the Cultural Revolution in Germany, 1760-1810

    by Leonard S. Smith ...
    As a historical inquiry and synthesis, this intellectual history is the first study to apply the ideal-type or model-building methodology of Otto Hintze (1861-1940) to Western historical thought or to what R. G. Collingwood called "The Idea of History," for it contains succinct and useful models for seeing and teaching classical, Christian, and modern professional historiography. Religion and the ... Read more

    $26.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Embattled Self

    French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War

    by Leonard V. Smith ...
    How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The Embattled Self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the war. In order to do so, they used a variety of narrative tools at hand—rites ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Chaos

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Leonard Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour, and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. Our growing understanding of Chaos Theory is having fascinating applications in the real world - from technology to global warming, politics, human behaviour, and even ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919

    by Leonard V. Smith ...
    Series series The Greater War
    We have known for many decades that the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 "failed", in the sense that it did not prevent the outbreak of World War II. This book investigates not whether the Paris Peace Conference succeeded or failed, but the historically specific international system it created. It explores the rules under which that system operated, and the kinds of states and empires that inhabited ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • The Unitarians

    A Short History

    by Leonard Smith ...
    This short history of Unitarianism concisely explores the origins and progress of a worldwide liberal religious tradition committed to principles of freedom, reason, and tolerance.Unitarians have exercised an influence out of proportion to their minority status. Through their agency, Poland and Transylvania enjoyed periods of religious toleration. In Great Britain, as pioneers of early modern ... Read more

    $7.50 USD

  • The Unitarians

    A Short History

    by Leonard Smith ...
    This short history of Unitarianism concisely explores the origins and progress of a worldwide liberal religious tradition committed to principles of freedom, reason, and tolerance.Unitarians have exercised an influence out of proportion to their minority status. Through their agency, Poland and Transylvania enjoyed periods of religious toleration. In Great Britain, as pioneers of early modern ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • Private Madhouses in England, 1640–1815

    Commercialised Care for the Insane

    by Leonard Smith ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon. In 1815, about seventy per cent of people institutionalised because of insanity were being kept in private ‘madhouses’. The opening four chapters detail the emergence of these ... Read more

    $89.09 USD