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FROM SECRECY TO THE PUBLIC SPHERE: TRANSLATING CHINESE SWORN BROTHERHOOD PRACTICES FOR WESTERN AUDIENCES 从秘密到公共领域：为西方读者翻译中国宣誓的兄弟情谊

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History and Theory Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1111/hith.12393

Albert Manke, Fredy González

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CAN HISTORY ABSOLVE? CAN HISTORY JUDGE? 历史能赦免吗？历史可以评判吗？

IF 1.2 2区历史学

History and Theory Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI: 10.1111/hith.12396

MARTIN JAY

{"title":"CAN HISTORY ABSOLVE? CAN HISTORY JUDGE?","authors":"MARTIN JAY","doi":"10.1111/hith.12396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12396","url":null,"abstract":"Appealing to history, rather than to God, to provide an ultimate judgment about human actions can have a justificatory or consolatory function. The former grants proleptic absolution for acts that may be morally dubious because of their benign consequences, while the latter enables victims in the present to gain a measure of relief by imagining they will be honored by posterity. In both cases, problematic assumptions about “history” and “judgment” call into question the belief that future generations will vindicate present-day struggles. The first of these assumptions is that “history” conveys worth by what might be called “victors’ justice,” in which success proves that the winner was morally superior. The second is that “history” is an impersonal process that can be recounted in a single metanarrative rather than an ongoing series of different narratives that are themselves variable depending on who is doing the narrating. When “history” means the community of historians who recount and analyze the past, there is rarely, if ever, a grand consensus agreed upon by all. Finally, whereas the judgment of God is assumed to be qualitative and individualized, and thus perfect for each case, human judgment depends either on deontological rules, which may not be universal, or on analogies that are only roughly equivalent. In either case, the judgment can never transcend the fallibilities of those doing the judging and approach the perfection of a divine Last Judgment. Perhaps the most plausible version of “history will judge” is the realization that we are judged in the present by the still admirable aspirations of the past, which have yet to be realized.","PeriodicalId":47473,"journal":{"name":"History and Theory","volume":"64 3","pages":"319-337"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hith.12396","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145297633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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ALL THAT GLITTERS: THE MANY OBJECTS OF ROME'S MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATIONS 所有这些闪闪发光：罗马文明博物馆的许多物品

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History and Theory Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1111/hith.12395

Arielle Xena Alterwaite

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FROM ETERNITY TO APOCALYPSE: TIME, NEWS, AND HISTORY BETWEEN THE MUGHAL AND BRITISH EMPIRES, 1556–1785 从永恒到天启：莫卧儿和大英帝国之间的时间、新闻和历史，1556-1785

IF 1.1 2区历史学

History and Theory Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1111/hith.12381

Abhishek Kaicker

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“CIVILIZATION” OR “EMPIRE”? “CHINA” AS A HISTORICAL ENTITY IN CONTESTATION “文明”还是“帝国”？“中国”作为一个历史实体在争论中

IF 1.1 2区历史学

History and Theory Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1111/hith.12385

Nagatomi Hirayama

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DECOLONIZING THEORY AND CONCEPTS: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH 非殖民化理论和概念：来自全球南方的观点

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History and Theory Pub Date : 2025-03-23 DOI: 10.1111/hith.12384

Margrit Pernau

{"title":"DECOLONIZING THEORY AND CONCEPTS: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH","authors":"Margrit Pernau","doi":"10.1111/hith.12384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12384","url":null,"abstract":"Until recently, most concepts and theories used in social sciences and the humanities were developed in the West. They were both provincial, as they were based on Western experience and designed to interpret these local experiences, and presumed universal. If they did not fit developments in the Global South, this was due not to the inadequacy of the concept but to a “history of lack.” Dilip M. Menon's edited volume Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South can be situated within the broader movement to not only challenge these concepts and theories but also offer alternatives developed from the Global South. This review article lays out the larger intellectual framework of the volume. The history of concepts offers the possibility to distinguish more precisely between concepts used by the historical actors (hardly anyone challenges the need to base research on their careful investigation) and the analytical concepts. Especially in a global context, using analytical concepts from one of the languages of the Global South raises many questions that need to be addressed; the question of which language academics are to communicate with in the future is not the least important. Paracoloniality, the notion that there are areas of continuity beyond the “tired triad” of the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial, in turn, needs to be brought into conversation with the central assumption of decoloniality, which argues for an epistemic rupture between the precolonial and the colonial.","PeriodicalId":47473,"journal":{"name":"History and Theory","volume":"64 2","pages":"265-280"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hith.12384","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143950523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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“STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY”? MONUMENTS AND (ART-)HISTORICAL AWARENESS “搁浅在历史的岸边”？纪念碑和（艺术）历史意识

IF 1.2 2区历史学

History and Theory Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1111/hith.12382

Jakub Stejskal

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HISTORICAL NEURODIVERSITY STUDIES: A NEW PARADIGM OF EXPERIENCE 历史神经多样性研究：经验的新范式

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History and Theory Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1111/hith.12383

Bradley J. Irish

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ON DECOLONIZING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 关于社会科学的非殖民化

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History and Theory Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1111/hith.12387

JACOB COLLINS

{"title":"ON DECOLONIZING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES","authors":"JACOB COLLINS","doi":"10.1111/hith.12387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12387","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 This review article discusses George Steinmetz's The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought, a history of the French social sciences and their colonial entanglements. Surveying a vast array of objects, including institutions, texts, journals, thinkers, and concepts, Steinmetz demonstrates how central the colonial relation was to the production of social knowledge in France. This formation, he argues, has been actively repressed in historical accounts of sociology, and in an effort to decolonize the discipline, Steinmetz brings these connections out of the shadows and uses them to compose an alternative (colonial) history of the field. While acknowledging Steinmetz's major accomplishments, not least among them the consideration of unjustly neglected colonial thinkers, I challenge some of the book's basic narratives around the history and politics of decolonization. In what ways, I ask, is the contemporary call to decolonize the humanities and social sciences related to the social movement of decolonization, which swept through the colonized countries of Asia and Africa after the Second World War? What role did French social scientists play in the historical process of decolonization? Finally, how were these Third World social movements tied to social struggles happening in metropolitan Europe, notably the revolts of 1968? I conclude by suggesting that a more “genealogical” approach to the history of the colonial relation might lead to a more productive set of engagements on these important questions.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47473,"journal":{"name":"History and Theory","volume":"64 3","pages":"453-469"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145297456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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HISTORICAL ANTIFASCISM AND THE GLOBAL LEFT 历史上的反法西斯主义和全球左翼

IF 1.1 2区历史学

History and Theory Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1111/hith.12378

TERENCE RENAUD

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