A History of Chinese Philosophy. Vol. II: The Period of Classical Learning (From The Second Century B. C. to The Twentieth Century A. D.).

A fragmentary text exhumed from the archives in 1958—or else fabricated that same year—is the fraught subject of this essay. Secret Mark has been embraced as the earliest surviving version of the Gospel of Mark and denounced as either a second-century forgery or a twentieth-century hoax. The stormy reception history of this controversial text—one that appears to represent a homoerotic encounter between Jesus and an unnamed young man—is an affective history of the first order, as the essay demonstrates. Approaching the scholarly and popular reception of Secret Mark as a queer archive of feelings (a là Ann Cvetkovich), the essay explores the ways in which historiographical protocols—even, or especially, in a discipline as austere and affect-challenged as biblical scholarship—act as both medium and cover for affective investments, and it reflects on how historians might better handle (their feelings about) the early Christian past, or, indeed, any past.

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A History of Iran

American Journal of Islam and Society ◽

10.35632/ajis.v26i4.1371 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 121-123

Author(s):

Derek J. Mancini-Lander

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Early Modern ◽

Fifteenth Century ◽

Second Century ◽

The Arts ◽

History Of ◽

First Millennium ◽

Ancient Times ◽

Qajar Period ◽

Constitutional Revolution

This survey of the history of Iranian civilization from ancient times to thepresent is intended for general audiences with little knowledge of Iranianhistory. The book’s nine chapters consist largely of chronological presentationsof political history, but occasionally make room for sections on religiousmovements, society, and the arts. The first two chapters briskly coverthe ancient period through the Sassanids. The third runs from the Islamicconquests through the fifteenth century and contains a long section on theevolution of Persian verse tradition. The fourth and fifth chapters cover theSafavids’ rise and fall, the development of early modern Twelver Shi`ism,and the tumultuous period leading up to the Qajars. The sixth surveys thelate Qajar period and the constitutional revolution, while the last three chaptersdetail the events of the twentieth century with an emphasis on the 1979Islamic revolution and what has happened since. As nearly a third of thebook deals with the twentieth century, the treatment of the ancient periodsand the first millennium of the Islamic era are comparatively spare.Axworthy’s main project is to trace the history of a sense of “Iranianness”or “Irananian identity” that he claims to have identified in ancientsources and uses to justify composing what he calls “a history of Iran.”Although he does not provide an explicit and comprehensive definition ofthis “Iranian identity,” he states clearly that he is not describing a sense ofnation (pp. xv-xvi and 117). Rather, he implies that this identity is a loosesense of affiliation based on the idea of a common land, language, andshared memory. But when he speaks, for example, of an “Iranian revival” inthe second century or an “Iranian reconquest” in the fourteenth, he uses thevery nation-centered paradigm of history that he seeks to avoid, even if herefrains from invoking a “national” sensibility ...

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Astronautics—Its Development During the Second Century of the RAeS (1966–2066)

The Aeronautical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0001924000151176 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 72 (689) ◽

pp. 373-384 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A. V. Cleaver

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Science Fiction ◽

Second Century ◽

Popular Press ◽

Technical Discipline ◽

History Of ◽

Space Age

The Royal Aeronautical Society is now 102 years old, and astronautics has already existed as a technical discipline for some 70 of these years, even if one disregards its long pre-history of mythology, science-fiction, and vague speculation. Tsiolkovsky began to make his amazing and entirely serious scientific contributions just before the dawn of the twentieth century. This suggestion that aeronautics and astronautics are much of an age would surprise many laymen, who are apt to accept literally the dating of the popular Press; this usually argues that the “Space Age” began with the launching of Sputnik I in 1957, disregarding even the first successful large rocket, the V2, which flew 15 years before Sputnik I. However, whether one argues that astronautics is already a septuagenarian, is in its vigorous and youthful twenties, or is not yet even a teenager, one must admit that its amazing development has occurred mostly in the last decade.

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An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe

10.1017/cbo9780511800627 ◽

2006 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Ivan T. Berend

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Economic History ◽

History Of ◽

Twentieth Century Europe

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