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The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, is an anthology of twenty essays and fourteen sidebars dealing with counterfactual history. It was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1999, ISBN 0-399-14576-1, and this book as well as its two sequels, What If? 2 and What Ifs? of American History, were edited by Robert Cowley.
The book collects previously published essays in which Berlin discusses the thoughts of 20th century ideologic dissenters who were opposed to the prevailing wisdom of their time. A wide range of individuals are discussed including Machiavelli , Giambattista Vico , Montesquieu , Alexander Herzen , Georges Sorel , Verdi , and Moses Hess [ 1 ]
The historian Arthur O. Lovejoy (1873–1962) coined the phrase history of ideas [8] and initiated its systematic study [9] in the early decades of the 20th century. Johns Hopkins University was a "fertile cradle" to Lovejoy's history of ideas; [10] he worked there as a professor of history, from 1910 to 1939, and for decades he presided over the regular meetings of the History of Ideas Club. [11]
He studies regional and national identities. He has also worked on the history of the English working class. His essay ‘When We Lived in Communities’ (Cities of Ideas 2004) explored the intelligence that sustained industrial communities and, along with ‘English Journeys’ (Prospect July 2007) is the nearest he has come to memoir.
Gene Demby is an American journalist and podcast host. He is cohost of the podcast Code Switch, created by National Public Radio ().He's also the lead blogger covering race, ethnicity and culture on the blog of the same name.
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I began to see there were institutional consequences to what seemed like a not particularly deeply thought-out term." [ 4 ] He has also said that "My deep, ongoing interest is in the relation between literature and history, the process through which certain remarkable works of art are at once embedded in a highly specific life-world and seem to ...