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The aim of this article is to shed light on the methodological relationship between the history of ideas and the history of emotions, starting from the conception of weeping in the eighteenth-century French reflection. This period was critical for the defining of the modern concept of emotion because it encompassed the development of a new aesthetic and moral code centred on the exasperation of sensitivity and an exaggerated use of tears. This study brings out, in terms of methodology, the importance that the analysis of tears assumed from two points of view: on the one hand, it places the problem in a framework determined by history and culture (the object of study for the history of emotions); on the other, it recognises the unavoidable axiological and moral element that characterised crying (the object of study for the history of ideas). After a brief reconstruction of the discussion of tears in the history of emotion-from the histoire des mentalites to the 'emotional turn'-and in the history of ideas, respectively, the article outlines some potential areas for research in an interdisciplinary perspective. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]

"Everyday life in Graeco-Roman times has fascinated generations of scholars, students, and people interested in the New Testament alike. One of the most unique sources to access ancient everyday affairs are documentary papyri because they provide access to the ancient world both before and while it was shaped into one in which Christianity began to predominate. These textual sources allow the modern reader to meet everyday people from the past through their own writings and in texts about their daily affairs, joys, and sorrows. Documentary papyri provide an abundance of information to contextualize the New Testament and its authors, and to better understand its stories and messages. This volume aims at highlighting some of these contexts and to shed new papyrological light on the New Testament. The essays in this volume have been written in honour of Peter Arzt-Grabner, who has illuminated the New Testament through documentary papyri for more than three decades."

This interdisciplinary exploration of the modern historiography of international law invites a diverse assessment of the indissoluble unity of the old and the new in the most global of all legal disciplines. The study of the history of international law does not only serve a better understanding of how international law has evolved to become what it is and what it is not. Its histories, which rethink the past in the present, also influence our perception of contemporary matters in international law and our understandings of how they may potentially unfold. This multi-perspectival enquiry into the dominant modes of international legal history and its fundamental debates may also help students of both international law and history to identify the historical approaches that best suit their international legal-historical perspectives and best address their historical and legal research questions.

In Nausea, the 1938 novel that made Sartre famous, the protagonist is a historian who abandons the biography he is writing because he comes to believe that all histories are fictional, escapist, and useless. He sought the one and only truth of history; a truth that would revolutionize the world. By the time Sartre published his most mature works, he claimed to have written a biography that was perfectly true. This book examines how and why Sartre's position on the possibility and worth of historical knowledge changed so dramatically. In addition, it illuminates Sartre's unique contribution to the grand debate between Marxist and anarchist revolutionaries, a debate that continues today.

This book provides a valuable review of the disciplines of organizational and management history, illuminating the interconnectedness of these disciplines, identifying gaps in the literature, and sketching a model for a unified field of research and study. This co-authored study is a long-awaited theoretical re-evaluation of organizational and management history. The authors explore the disciplinary advantages of a joint approach to these related fields, noting opportunities for future scholarship, from the wider range of industries and case types to the richer theoretical toolbox. Within this framework, the book investigates interdisciplinary methodologies and surveys and analyzes the most promising of the newest theoretical lenses and empirical approaches in the field. The authors address complex issues from a metacritical perspective, from the emergent theorization of time in the context of organizational identity to the conundrum of case selection for empirical studies. Clear and thorough, the volume creates a compelling theoretical framework for future studies. New Directions in Organizational and Management History inaugurates, and sets the stage for, the new series De Gruyter Studies in Organizational and Management History.

Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial Method -- Introduction -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. What Is History? An Anthropologist's Eye View -- 2. Applied Anthropology: Disciplinary Oxymoron? -- 3. The Anthropological Concept of Culture at the End of the Boasian Century -- 4. Calibrating Discourses across Cultures in Search of Common Ground -- 5. "Keeping the Faith": A Legacy of Native American Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and Psychology -- 6. Anthropological Approaches to Human Nature, Cultural Relativism, and Ethnocentrism -- 7. Text, Symbol, and Tradition in Northwest Coast Ethnology from Franz Boas to Claude Lévi-Strauss -- 8. Mind, Body, and the Native Point of View: Boasian Theory at the Centennial of The Mind of Primitive Man -- 9. Franz Boas as Theorist: A Mentalist Paradigm for the Study of Mind, Body, Environment, and Culture -- 10. The Powell Classification of American Indian Languages -- 11. The Revision of the Powell Classification -- 12. Désveaux, Two Traditions of Anthropology in Mirror: American Geologisms and French Biologism -- 13. Rationalism, the (Sapir-)Whorf Hypothesis, and Assassination by Anachronism -- 14. The Structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss -- 15. Obituary for Frederica de Laguna (1906-2004) -- 16. Obituary for Dell Hathaway Hymes (1927-2009) -- 17. Obituary for George W. Stocking Jr. (1928-2013) -- 18. Review of Glimpses into My Own Black Box: An Exercise in Self-Deconstruction, by George W. Stocking Jr. -- 19. Obituary for Anthony F. C. Wallace (1923-2015) -- Index.

American federalism, 1776 to 1997: significant events / Eugene Boyd -- Federalism, state sovereignty and the Constitution: basis and limits of constitutional power / Kenneth R. Thomas -- Federalism and democracy / David J. Bodenhamer