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"Labour History And Its Political Role - A New Landscape, Terry Irving
"Labour History And Its Political Role - A New Landscape, Terry Irving
Terence H Irving, Dr (Terry)
This address to a centenary issue forum for the Australian journal, "Labour History", focused on the political role of the journal in academic circles. It discussed the politics involved in the journal's foundation and the political implications of the redefinition of its field by Van der Linden, especially his use of the distinction between labour as toil and creative work. It is also a distinction made by recent 'autonomist' theorists. The article concludes by recommending that the journal should drop its present subtitle; that labour historians should pay more attention to the theoretical discussions of (working) class, multitude and subalternity; …
Review Of Niccolò Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography, Brian Maxson
Review Of Niccolò Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
The author offers a comprehensive analysis of the thought of Machiavelli situated against the backdrop of political and biographical developments in the early 16th century.
Between Locke’S Two Tracts And The Essay On Toleration: Religious Toleration And The Power Of The Magistrate, Kevin W. Vansylyvong
Between Locke’S Two Tracts And The Essay On Toleration: Religious Toleration And The Power Of The Magistrate, Kevin W. Vansylyvong
Honors Theses and Capstones
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Interview Of John Lukacs, Ph.D., John Lukacs Ph.D., Leo Wong
Interview Of John Lukacs, Ph.D., John Lukacs Ph.D., Leo Wong
All Oral Histories
John Lukacs was born in 1924 in Budapest Hungary. He grew up in a middle class family raised by a Roman Catholic Father, and a Jewish mother. While he received most of his education in Hungary, he went to high school in Great Britain during his teenage years. During the Second World War, he was drafted into a forced labor battalion for much of the war. When German troops occupied Hungary in late 1944, he had to avoid getting sent to death camps by avoiding German patrols. In addition, he had to avoid being caught in the crossfire during the …
Review Of A History Of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620, Brian Maxson
Review Of A History Of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
Mack provides a comprehensive examination of the content and circulation of rhetorical manuals published during the European Renaissance.
Language, Politics, And History: An Introductory Essay, José Del Valle
Language, Politics, And History: An Introductory Essay, José Del Valle
Publications and Research
This book chapter examines different articulations of language and history and introduces a new configuration that focuses on the political dimension of language.
“This Sort Of Men”: The Vernacular And The Humanist Movement In Fifteenth-Century Florence, Brian Maxson
“This Sort Of Men”: The Vernacular And The Humanist Movement In Fifteenth-Century Florence, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
This article focuses on a sliver of the individuals we now know as the Neo-Latinists, who viewed the vernacular as a vehicle for expression throughout the quattrocento.
Review Of Angelo Poliziano’S Lamia: Text, Translation, And Introductory Studies, Brian Maxson
Review Of Angelo Poliziano’S Lamia: Text, Translation, And Introductory Studies, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
This book reviewed discusses the life of Angelo Poliziano who was a leading humanist in Lorenzo de' Medici's Flroence. Poliziano was brought into the household of Lorenzo as a secretary and tutor for the Medici children in the early 1470's.
"Labour History And Its Political Role - A New Landscape, Terry Irving
"Labour History And Its Political Role - A New Landscape, Terry Irving
Terry Irving
This address to a centenary issue forum for the Australian journal, "Labour History", focused on the political role of the journal in academic circles. It discussed the politics involved in the journal's foundation and the political implications of the redefinition of its field by Van der Linden, especially his use of the distinction between labour as toil and creative work. It is also a distinction made by recent 'autonomist' theorists. The article concludes by recommending that the journal should drop its present subtitle; that labour historians should pay more attention to the theoretical discussions of (working) class, multitude and subalternity; …