Age of Questions (eBook)

Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century, and Beyond

Holly Case (Autor)

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2018
360 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-9021-7 (ISBN)

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A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish questions, contemporaries saw not interrogatives to be answered but problems to be solved. Alexis de Tocqueville, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Frederick Douglass, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rosa Luxemburg, and Adolf Hitler were among the many who put their pens to the task. The Age of Questions asks how the question form arose, what trajectory it followed, and why it provoked such feverish excitement for over a century. Was there a family resemblance between questions? Have they disappeared, or are they on the rise again in our time?In this pioneering book, Holly Case undertakes a stunningly original analysis, presenting, chapter by chapter, seven distinct arguments and frameworks for understanding the age. She considers whether it was marked by a progressive quest for emancipation (of women, slaves, Jews, laborers, and others); a steady, inexorable march toward genocide and the "e;Final Solution"e;; or a movement toward federation and the dissolution of boundaries. Or was it simply a farce, a false frenzy dreamed up by publicists eager to sell subscriptions? As the arguments clash, patterns emerge and sharpen until the age reveals its full and peculiar nature.Turning convention on its head with meticulous and astonishingly broad scholarship, The Age of Questions illuminates how patterns of thinking move history.

Autor

Holly Case is associate professor of history at Brown University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.7.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Neuzeit bis 1918
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • Adam Mickiewicz • Adolf Hitler • Alexis de Tocqueville • American question • Austria-Hungary • Balkans • Belgian question • Belgian Revolution • Benjamin Disraeli • Boundaries • British Empire • Bruno Bauer • bullion question • Carl von Clausewitz • Case study • Casus belli • Catechism • Catechisms • catharsis • Congress of Vienna • conservatives • contradictions • Debate • debating societies • deed • Eastern Question • Emancipation • Et cetera • Europe • European question • Farce • farce argument • federation • federative argument • final solution • final solutions • force argument • For our freedom and yours • Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Genocide • Geopolitics • Germans • Giuseppe Mazzini • Great Power • Greek war of independence • Heinrich Heine • historian • Hungary • imperialism • international public sphere • International Relations • Interwar Period • January Uprising • jewish question • Jews • Joachim von Ribbentrop • Joseph Conrad • july revolution • June Rebellion • Lecture • Leon Trotsky • Literature • Masaryk • mikhail bakunin • napoleonic wars • Napoleon III • national argument • Nationality • nationality question • nation state • Nazi Germany • Nazi Party • newspaper • New York University • novelist • November Uprising • On the Eve • On the Jewish Question • Ottoman Empire • Palladium • Pamphlet • PAMPHLETEER • Pan-Slavism • Parliament of Great Britain • Peace treaty • Philosopher • Philosophy • Philosophy of History • Polish question • Political Economy • political spectrum • Politician • Politics • popular pedagogy • popular sovereignty • progressive argument • Pseudonym • Publication • Public Opinion • Public sphere • Querelle des femmes • querism • question des femmes • questions • Reinhart Koselleck • right to exist • Romanians • Russian Empire • russians • Satire • SCHOLASTICISM • scholastic question • Science • sensibility • serfdom • Slavery • slavery question • Slavs • social issue • Social Question • Sovereignty • Suffrage • suspension-bridge argument • temporal argument • The Jewish Question • Theodor Herzl • the woman question • Thomas Robert Malthus • Time • timelessness • Timeliness • Totalitarianism • Ukrainian question • universal war • unrest • Victor Hugo • Vladimir Putin • woman question • World War I • World War II • Writing • x question • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-9021-7 / 1400890217
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-9021-7 / 9781400890217