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Inventing Human Rights: A History

11 reviews
Lynn Hunt

W. W. Norton, 2008

A Novel Approach to Human Rights
Lynn Hunt's primary argument for the increased awareness of human rights in the eighteenth century is a novel one, literally. She argued that as citizens became emotionally involved in novels, they gained empathy skills, and thereafter saw the world in a new way. She drew a connection between the "three greatest novels of psychological identification of the eighteenth century" with the oncoming ...

The New Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)

2 reviews

University of California Press, 1989

The New Fascinating History
In the book The New Cultural History, editor Lynn Hunt has compiled a series of essays that seek to explain cultural history, as well as essays that undertake the approach to history that is exemplified in cultural history. Each essay is by a cultural historian of some degree, and each excerpt builds upon and carries out the notion of cultural history itself. Instead of one long discussion ...

Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (Studies on the History of ...

University of California Press, 1999

Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new directions in the theory and practice of historical research. The editors provide an introduction analyzing the origins and implications of the ...

Telling the Truth About History

14 reviews
Joyce Oldham Appleby, Lynn Hunt, ...

W. W. Norton & Company, 1995

Don't know much about History...
The book argues that various types of absolutisms (political, intellectual, or ideological) have been dethroned. Ever since the "heroic model of Science" (which in the past centuries enjoyed an aura of absolute validity) has been shown to be less than "perfectly objective," a struggle has ensued to fill the vacuum in the interpretation of history. On one extreme we find the radical projects of ...

The Making of the West: Combined Version (Volumes I & II): Peoples and Cultures

2 reviews
Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, ...

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008

Good Value
Hunt's "The Making of the West" concise edition is a good value. Coming in at under $40 used, it is easily $20 cheaper than the competition... and it's worth the money. The good: Like the price, this textbook has some things going for it. Unlike larger, wider and weightier "doorstop" textbooks, its "regular book size" and weight fit easily in a backpack, under your arm, or when reading in ...

The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, Vol. 1: To 1740

5 reviews
Lynn Hunt

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001

A fascinating and illuminating book
This is a fascinating history of Western civilization that goes beyond the customary emphasis on kings and battles to looking also at changes in the culture and ideas of people over the centuries. It's so enjoyable that it is bedside reading for me, though still very authoritative. The many illustrations, often of period art, add to its appeal. It will tremendously broaden your ...

Sources of The Making of the West, Peoples and Cultures: Volume I: To 1740

1 review
Lynn Hunt, Katharine J. Lualdi, ...

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008

gives depth to your appreciation of history
This little text is a good accompaniment to the main book, "Making of the West". Here, Lualdi takes the student in a tour of excerpts from original source documents. Translated where necessary from other languages. So you can see a lengthy essay written on the eve of the French Revolution. Asking, "What is the Third Estate?" This Estate was the impotent assembly that represented the French ...

The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, Vol. 2: Since 1500
Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, ...

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008

A team of renowned scholar-teachers created The Making of the West to address three of the biggest challenges teachers of western civilization face ? demonstrating how the West has been an evolving entity shaped by global influences; conveying the dynamic interaction of social, political, cultural, and economic history in shaping events over time; and revealing the historical roots of developments in today?s world. Through a ground-breaking ...

The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History (The Bedford Series in History and ...

1 review
Lynn Hunt

Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996

a truly brief and documentary history
The title of the book is totally accurate. What we find in it is a brief, but also objective and straightforward, history of important issues that shaped the French Revolution and the contemporary political institution building processes. The book distributes important speeches, proposed bills and other documents in different sections, each of which dealing with specific problems (slavery, ...

Measuring Time, Making History (Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series at Central European University)
Lynn Hunt

Central European University Press, 2008

First Volume of he Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series at Central European University, this small but rich book contains three lectures delivered at CEU. Explores some of the ways in which time matters or should matter to historians. Like everyone else, historians assume that time exists, yet despite its obvious importance to historical writing - what is history but the account of how things change over time? - writers of history do not ...

The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, Vol. C: Since 1780

1 review
Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, ...

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004

since the Industrial Revolution
Hunt and the co-authors offer a balanced and objective treatment of the development of Europe and the European-derived countries like the United States. The nominal starting date of 1740 for the events in the book can be considered approximately close enough to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The narrative discusses much. Including the rise of ideologies like capitalism and ...

The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, A Concise History, Volume II: Since 1340
Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, ...

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006

The Family Romance of the French Revolution (Centennial Book)

5 reviews
Lynn Hunt

University of California Press, 1993

Good cultural study of how the Revolution affected women
Please disregard the negative review. Hunt's text is fairly accessible. She describes how the great republican and liberal revolutionaries depoliticized women by emphasizing domesticity. Simply: women could not have political rights or privileges because their biology and psychology directed them toward the home and childrearing. Hunt argues from cultural products: plays, festival, and ...

The Invention of Pornography, 1500-1800: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity

1 review

Zone Books, 1996

The invention of pornography
Its very good with facts and historical stuff but there are better books on the subject out there.

The Making of the West - Peoples and Cultures - Volume A - To 1500 ; 2nd (Second) Edition
et al. Lynn Hunt, 2005

Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 1)

1 review
Lynn Hunt

University of California Press, 2004

A great addition to French Revolution Reading
If you want to understand how the French Revolution changed the common people of France this is a great way to start. The book is a bit dated but still stands up very well and Hunt's credentials are excellent. This book also talks about some of the symbols of the revolution and makes for an interesting analysis on the side. The politics goes through quite a bit of the revolution but it is ...

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
Jack R. Censer, Lynn Avery Hunt

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001

The CD-ROM in this set contains images from the French Revolution, including: primary documents, songs, maps, caricatures, portraits, sculptures, and photographs of artifacts. Whilst the text is a narrative of the revolution through to the defeat of Napoleon. Given the centrality of visual artifacts (imagery, symbolism, and print culture) to the history of the revolution these images represent an important resource.

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