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Presidential power is perhaps one of the most central issues in the
study of the American presidency. Since Richard E. Neustadt's
classic study, first published in 1960, there has not been a book
that thoroughly examines the issue of presidential power.
Presidential Power: Theories and Dilemmas by noted scholar John P.
Burke provides an updated and comprehensive look at the issues,
constraints, and exercise of presidential power.This book considers
the enduring question of how presidents can effectively exercise
power within our system of shared powers by examining major tools
and theories of presidential power, including Neustadt's theory of
persuasion and bargaining as power, constitutional and inherent
powers, Samuel Kernell's theory of going public, models of
historical time, and the notion of internal time. Using
illustrative examples from historical and contemporary
presidencies, Burke helps students and scholars better understand
how presidents can manage the public's expectations, navigate
presidential-congressional relations, and exercise influence in
order to achieve their policy goals.
In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a
social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He
discusses the social and political institutions which existed in
Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the
ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of
extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive
sociological approach, Peter Burke is concerned with not only the
finished works of Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci and
others, but also with the social background, patterns of
recruitment and means of subsistence of this 'cultural elite'. New
to this edition is a fully revised introduction focusing on what
Burke terms 'the domestic turn' in Renaissance studies and
discussing the relation of the Renaissance to global trends. He
thus makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Italian
Renaissance, and to our comprehension of the complex relations
between culture and society. This thoroughly revised and updated
third edition is richly illustrated throughout. It will have a wide
appeal among historians, sociologists and anyone interested in one
of the most creative periods of European history.
Practitioners of forensic medicine have various tools at their
disposal to determine cause of death, and today's computed
tomography (CT) can provide valuable clues if images are
interpreted properly. Forensic Pathology of Fractures and
Mechanisms of Injury: Postmortem CT Scanning is a guide for the
forensic pathologist who wants to use CT imaging to assist in
determining the mechanism of injury that might have contributed to
death. Advice from a forensic pathologist using CT images in daily
practice Drawn from the author's work at the Victorian Institute of
Forensic Medicine, the book presents an overview of his experience
with CT in routine casework, provides an appraisal of the
literature with respect to fractures, and offers suggestions for
the evaluation of CT images by pathologists. He then suggests what
reasonable conclusions can be drawn from the images, the
circumstances surrounding the death, and an external examination of
the deceased. Includes images and case studies Enhanced with
hundreds of CT images that clarify the text and case studies to put
the material in context, the book begins by discussing
classification of injuries and different types of fractures. It
then explores the basics of CT. Next, the book gives a head-to-toe
catalogue of various injuries and how they are represented on a CT
scan. Finally, the book explores the use of CT in difficult
forensic cases such as decomposed and burnt remains, falls, child
abuse, and transportation incidents. While not intended to make a
forensic pathologist an expert at CT image interpretation, the book
enables these professionals to become familiar with the technology
so they can competently use it in their practice, heightening the
accuracy of their cause of death determinations.
What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible
introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of
the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, knowledges in
the plural ) and how it differs from the history of science,
intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural
history. Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws upon
examples of this new kind of history from different periods and
from the history of India, East Asia and the Islamic world as well
as from Europe and the Americas. He discusses some of the main
concepts used by scholars working in the field, among them order of
knowledge , situated knowledge and knowledge society . This book
tells the story of the transformation of relatively raw information
into knowledge via processes of classification, verification and so
on, the dissemination of this knowledge and finally its employment
for different purposes, by governments, corporations or private
individuals. A concluding chapter identifies central problems in
the history of knowledge, from triumphalism to relativism, together
with attempts to solve them. The only book of its kind yet to be
published, What is the History of Knowledge? will be essential
reading for all students of history and the humanities in general,
as well as the interested general reader.
What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to
social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a pre--eminent
cultural historian here offers a far--reaching response to these
deceptively simple questions. In this classic text, now revised and
updated in its second edition, Peter Burke reviews afresh the
relationship between the fields of history and the social sciences
and their tentative convergence in recent decades. Burke first
examines what uses historians have made -- or might make -- of the
models, methods, and concepts of the social sciences, and then
analyzes some of the intellectual conflicts, such as the opposition
between structure and human agency, which are at the heart of the
tension between history and social theory. Throughout, he draws
from a broad range of cultures and periods to illustrate how
history, in turn, has been used to create and validate social
theories. This new edition brings the book up to date with the
addition of examples and discussions of new topics such as social
capital, globalization and post--colonialism. The second edition of
History and Social Theory will continue to stimulate both students
and scholars across a range of disciplines with its challenging
assessment of the roles of history and social science today.
This book provides a critical history of the movement associated
with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the
present. This movement has been the single most important force in
the development of what is sometimes called the new history .
Renowned cultural historian, Peter Burke, distinguishes between
four main generations in the development of the Annales School. The
first generation included Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, who fought
against the old historical establishment and founded the journal
Annales to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration. The second
generation was dominated by Fernand Braudel, whose magnificent work
on the Mediterranean has become a modern classic. The third
generation, deeply associated with the cultural turn in historical
scholarship, includes recently well-known historians such as
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Jacques Le Goff and Georges Duby. This new
edition brings us right up to the present, and contemplates the
work of a fourth generation, including practitioners such as Roger
Chartier, Serge Gruzinski and Jacques Revel. This new generation
continued much of the cultural focus of the previous Annales
historians, while diversifying further, and becoming increasingly
reflexive , a move that owes much to the sociocultural theories of
Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau and Pierre Bourdieu.
Wide-ranging yet concise, this new edition of a classic work of
analysis of one of the most important historical movements of the
twentieth century will be welcomed by students of history and other
social sciences and by the interested general reader.
From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting
to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in
all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible
introduction to play in Renaissance Italy, Peter Burke, celebrated
historian of the Italian Renaissance, synthesizes over forty years'
research, explores the various forms of play in this period, and
offers an overview that reveals the many connections between its
different domains. While play could be rough, the Church played an
increasing role in determining acceptable and unacceptable forms of
play, and, after campaigns against violence and obscenity, much of
the licentiousness characteristic of the early Renaissance was
tamed. This entertaining study of play reveals much about the
culture of Renaissance Italy, and illuminates an essential element
in human life.
Practitioners of forensic medicine have various tools at their
disposal to determine cause of death, and today's computed
tomography (CT) can provide valuable clues if images are
interpreted properly. Forensic Pathology of Fractures and
Mechanisms of Injury: Postmortem CT Scanning is a guide for the
forensic pathologist who wants to use CT imaging to assist in
determining the mechanism of injury that might have contributed to
death. Advice from a forensic pathologist using CT images in daily
practice Drawn from the author's work at the Victorian Institute of
Forensic Medicine, the book presents an overview of his experience
with CT in routine casework, provides an appraisal of the
literature with respect to fractures, and offers suggestions for
the evaluation of CT images by pathologists. He then suggests what
reasonable conclusions can be drawn from the images, the
circumstances surrounding the death, and an external examination of
the deceased. Includes images and case studies Enhanced with
hundreds of CT images that clarify the text and case studies to put
the material in context, the book begins by discussing
classification of injuries and different types of fractures. It
then explores the basics of CT. Next, the book gives a head-to-toe
catalogue of various injuries and how they are represented on a CT
scan. Finally, the book explores the use of CT in difficult
forensic cases such as decomposed and burnt remains, falls, child
abuse, and transportation incidents. While not intended to make a
forensic pathologist an expert at CT image interpretation, the book
enables these professionals to become familiar with the technology
so they can competently use it in their practice, heightening the
accuracy of their cause of death determinations.
This book provides a critical history of the movement associated
with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the
present. This movement has been the single most important force in
the development of what is sometimes called the new history .
Renowned cultural historian, Peter Burke, distinguishes between
four main generations in the development of the Annales School. The
first generation included Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, who fought
against the old historical establishment and founded the journal
Annales to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration. The second
generation was dominated by Fernand Braudel, whose magnificent work
on the Mediterranean has become a modern classic. The third
generation, deeply associated with the cultural turn in historical
scholarship, includes recently well-known historians such as
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Jacques Le Goff and Georges Duby. This new
edition brings us right up to the present, and contemplates the
work of a fourth generation, including practitioners such as Roger
Chartier, Serge Gruzinski and Jacques Revel. This new generation
continued much of the cultural focus of the previous Annales
historians, while diversifying further, and becoming increasingly
reflexive , a move that owes much to the sociocultural theories of
Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau and Pierre Bourdieu.
Wide-ranging yet concise, this new edition of a classic work of
analysis of one of the most important historical movements of the
twentieth century will be welcomed by students of history and other
social sciences and by the interested general reader.
Presidential power is perhaps one of the most central issues in the
study of the American presidency. Since Richard E. Neustadt's
classic study, first published in 1960, there has not been a book
that thoroughly examines the issue of presidential power.
Presidential Power: Theories and Dilemmas by noted scholar John P.
Burke provides an updated and comprehensive look at the issues,
constraints, and exercise of presidential power. This book
considers the enduring question of how presidents can effectively
exercise power within our system of shared powers by examining
major tools and theories of presidential power, including
Neustadt's theory of persuasion and bargaining as power,
constitutional and inherent powers, Samuel Kernell's theory of
going public, models of historical time, and the notion of internal
time. Using illustrative examples from historical and contemporary
presidencies, Burke helps students and scholars better understand
how presidents can manage the public's expectations, navigate
presidential-congressional relations, and exercise influence in
order to achieve their policy goals.
Early in his life, Marx had perceived the prevailing social system
as being so deeply flawed as to be irreparable. He was as impatient
with utopian fantasies as he was with mere tinkering, and so he was
driven to develop not only the intellectual forecast of bourgeois
capitalism's necessary demise but also the plan of human action
that would at once hasten that demise and school the revolutionary
actors for the post-revolutionary task of constructing a good
society. The essays in this 1981 book examine the problems that
have arisen from attempts to implement Marx's critical theory. The
centrality of the good society is hardly to be doubted in the
context of that theory. As long as socialist regimes continue to
invoke Marx's name, they necessarily render themselves subject to
the norms contained within or implied by Marx's understanding and
endorsement of freedom, equality, justice and human
self-realization in a community.
What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible
introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of
the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, knowledges in
the plural ) and how it differs from the history of science,
intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural
history. Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws upon
examples of this new kind of history from different periods and
from the history of India, East Asia and the Islamic world as well
as from Europe and the Americas. He discusses some of the main
concepts used by scholars working in the field, among them order of
knowledge , situated knowledge and knowledge society . This book
tells the story of the transformation of relatively raw information
into knowledge via processes of classification, verification and so
on, the dissemination of this knowledge and finally its employment
for different purposes, by governments, corporations or private
individuals. A concluding chapter identifies central problems in
the history of knowledge, from triumphalism to relativism, together
with attempts to solve them. The only book of its kind yet to be
published, What is the History of Knowledge? will be essential
reading for all students of history and the humanities in general,
as well as the interested general reader.
Peter Burke follows up his magisterial "Social History of
Knowledge," picking up where the first volume left off around 1750
at the publication of the French Encyclopedie and following the
story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a
social history (or a retrospective sociology of knowledge) in the
sense that it focuses not on individuals but on groups,
institutions, collective practices and general trends.
The book is divided into 3 parts. The first argues that
activities which appear to be timeless - gathering knowledge,
analysing, disseminating and employing it - are in fact time-bound
and take different forms in different periods and places. The
second part tries to counter the tendency to write a triumphalist
history of the 'growth' of knowledge by discussing losses of
knowledge and the price of specialization. The third part offers
geographical, sociological and chronological overviews, contrasting
the experience of centres and peripheries and arguing that each of
the main trends of the period - professionalization,
secularization, nationalization, democratization, etc, coexisted
and interacted with its opposite.
As ever, Peter Burke presents a breath-taking range of
scholarship in prose of exemplary clarity and accessibility. This
highly anticipated second volume will be essential reading across
the humanities and social sciences.
The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and
intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it,
the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to
miss, from curry and chips - recently voted the favourite dish in
Britain - to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu,
"Bollywood" films or salsa or reggae music. Some people celebrate
these phenomena, whilst others fear or condemn them. No wonder,
then, that theorists such as Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy,
and Ien Ang, have engaged with hybridity in their work and sought
to untangle these complex events and reactions; or that a variety
of disciplines now devote increasing attention to the works of
these theorists and to the processes of cultural encounter,
contact, interaction, exchange and hybridization. In this concise
book, leading historian Peter Burke considers these fascinating and
contested phenomena, ranging over theories, practices, processes
and events in a manner that is as wide-ranging and vibrant as the
topic at hand.
Forensic Medical Investigation of Motor Vehicle Incidents provides
an in-depth study of the circumstances underlying motor vehicle
incidents and allows for a reasoned analysis of a crash victim's
injuries. It also gives law enforcement the tools to communicate
relevant information to the forensic pathologists and trains
pathologists to infer crucial clues to the scenario that they may
then relate to the investigating officers. Beginning with the
design of the vehicle, its safety features and other mechanisms for
avoiding collision or injury, the book then addresses the myriad
behavioral and mitigating medical factors that impair human
abilities and cause vehicular incidents. It details the correct
forensic classification of injuries and reviews the direction,
force, and nature of injury. Organized into incidents involving
car-on-car and car-on-pedestrian, as well as bicycles, motorcycles,
and heavy machinery, the book delves into extensive accounts of the
various insults sustained by the body in the event of impact. This
information gives trauma care practitioners the ability to quickly
determine the nature and extent of the injuries sustained and
allows them to provide faster more effective care to the survivors
of the crash. To aid the pathologist in fulfilling the important
task of finding a reasonable cause of death, the second portion of
the book focuses on the postmortem examination, toxicology, and
documented cause of death. Written for all members of the
investigative team, including forensic pathologists, police
officers, safety engineers, and medical personnel in trauma care,
Forensic Investigations of Motor Vehicle Incidents is a preliminary
resource that facilitatescommunication among all those concerned
with the causes and effects of vehicular incidents.
In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a
social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He
discusses the social and political institutions which existed in
Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the
ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of
extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive
sociological approach, Peter Burke is concerned with not only the
finished works of Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci and
others, but also with the social background, patterns of
recruitment and means of subsistence of this cultural elite . New
to this edition is a fully revised introduction focusing on what
Burke terms the domestic turn in Renaissance studies and discussing
the relation of the Renaissance to global trends. He thus makes a
major contribution to our understanding of the Italian Renaissance,
and to our comprehension of the complex relations between culture
and society. This thoroughly revised and updated third edition is
richly illustrated throughout. It will have a wide appeal among
historians, sociologists and anyone interested in one of the most
creative periods of European history.
From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting
to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in
all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible
introduction to play in Renaissance Italy, Peter Burke, celebrated
historian of the Italian Renaissance, synthesizes over forty years'
research, explores the various forms of play in this period, and
offers an overview that reveals the many connections between its
different domains. While play could be rough, the Church played an
increasing role in determining acceptable and unacceptable forms of
play, and, after campaigns against violence and obscenity, much of
the licentiousness characteristic of the early Renaissance was
tamed. This entertaining study of play reveals much about the
culture of Renaissance Italy, and illuminates an essential element
in human life.
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The way in which history is written has changed quite dramatically
- so much so that the phrase ?the new history? is now commonly used
by historians. But what is the new history and how ?new? is it? Is
it a temporary fashion or a long-term trend? Will it - or should it
- replace traditional history, or can the two coexist in peace?
This second edition of New Perspectives on Historical Writing sets
out to answer these questions, examining the most exciting and
important developments in the methodology and practice of history.
Concentrating on some of the more recent movements, it sets out to
place these within the context of long-term changes in the writing
of history. Peter Burke is joined here by a distinguished group of
internationally renowned historians including Robert Darnton, Ivan
Gaskell, Richard Grove, Giovanni Levi, Roy Porter, Gwyn Prins, Joan
Scott, Jim Sharpe, Richard Tuck and Henk Wesseling. The
contributions examine a wide range of interdisciplinary areas of
historical research, including women?s history, history ?from
below?, the history of reading, oral history, the history of the
body, microhistory, the history of events, the ?new history?, the
history of images, political history and overseas history. This
volume has been thoroughly revised and updated for the second
edition, and includes an entirely new chapter on environmental
history. New Perspectives on Historical Writing is a timely and
important account of the new approaches to the writing of history.
It has become a key reference work and is used by students and
researchers in a wide range of disciplines: history and
historiography, women?s studies, anthropology, sociology, politics
and literature.
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