16/02/2020
The Manchester Historian is looking for writers for our upcoming issue. Could you write for us?
Issue 36 - Ideology and Faith
This issue, we want to explore how humans have understood their place in the world historically. How have these understandings shaped the world and the way we live?
If you’d like to write an article, email a brief plan to [email protected]
You are welcome to write an article from the list below, but we also encourage pitches of your own article ideas, and of book reviews relevant to the theme. To reserve space in the magazine, you must email us with your article plan before 19th Feb. The final deadline for article submission is 24th Feb.
- Mother Earth: The changing relationship between humankind and nature. Could include:
> The rise of eco-socialism [RESERVED]
> Green politics: the political arm of the environmental movement in the 1960s and 70s
> Native Americans: the original environmentalists
> Indigenous peoples as the last custodians of the wild
> Mother Earth or the furnace of industrialisation: The ideology of man’s domination over nature - Earth as a controllable machine
- Futurism: a radical understanding of progress or fascist propaganda?
- A short history of the Apocalypse: Humanity’s imagined endings
- The Idea of Progress: An examination of the rise of the belief in the 19th century that life will get better
- Historical approaches to insanity: Could cover:
> Thinkers such as Nordau, Lombroso, Morel,
> Or perhaps the approach of Foucault, Szasz, Freud
> Analyse literature on insanity: eg. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; The Picture of Dorian Grey
- ‘I hear people say we have to stop and debate globalisation. You might as well debate whether autumn should follow summer’ (Blair, 2005) - Is a globalised world inevitable?
- How globalised was the pre-industrial world? Could cover:
> The slave trade in the Indian Ocean, the Columbian exchange, and the Roman and Mediteranian
- The damaging ideology of social Darwinism in Victorian Britain
- bell hooks and the growth of Intersectionality in Western Feminism [RESERVED]
- An introduction to Ayn Rand and Objectionalism
- Iconoclasts and iconophiles: the war over religious imagery in Abrahamic religion. Could cover:
> Protestantism and the rejection of Catholic sacrilege
> The wars fought over icons in Byzantium
> How the rejection of icons shaped Islamic art [RESERVED]
- A profile of Mary Wolstonecraft and the birth of Western Feminism [RESERVED]
- Women in intellectual history: a forgotten history
- Francis Fukuyama and contemporary debates over End of History
- A history of Utopian Societies - Robert Owen, Henri de Saint-Simon, Charles Forier, Henry George [RESERVED]
- The Harlem Renaissance - A radical expression of racial identity
- How the arrival of the printing press changed the world
- Decadence, pessimism and decline during the Fin de Siecle
> Could contrast with contemporary perceptions like the Belle Epoque
- Categorisation, empiricism and governance in Victorian Britain and Empire
> Could cover approaches to sexuality, race, imperial anthropology, criminality and degeneracy
> Could cover a longer analysis of European race theory
- Enlightened monarchs and the idea of rational government
> Could explore: how enlightened were the enlightened Monarchs?
- The global impact of the ideas of the French revolution
> Could explore how these ideas impacted Spanish America, the Caribbean, US.
- The ideology of Pan-arabism: the growth of Ba’athist Parties and the Muslim brotherhood
- The longevity of nomadism in pre-colonial sub-saharan Africa
- An article exploring Zionism. Could cover:
> The Zionist movement 1917-1948
> British responses to the Zionist movement in it’s colonial policy in Palestine
> How Zionism has shaped the history of Israel: the battle between ‘new’ and ‘old’ historians over 1948.
> The catastrophy of exile and the Holocaust in Zionist thought
- James Baldwin’s problematic relationship with America [RESERVED]
- Casta paintings and Iberian understandings of race 1760-1821
- Native American Monarchism during the Spanish American wars of independence
- The Chinese Dynastic Cycle: A self-fulfilling prophecy?
- The Chinese Civil Service Exam: an exercise in Confucianism and Communism
- What can ancient Hindu texts like the Vedas and the Manu tell us about the modern day caste system?
- To what extent is the Caste system a Hindu belief system?
- Printing to meteorology: Advances in science and culture under the Joseon Dynasty in Korea
- From Myanmar to Japan: Buddhism’s variations across Asia
- The role of Tibetan Buddhism in Tibetan society
> Historical timespan could begin with the first dissemination (7-9th Centuries), or cover later periods.
- Buddhist conversion as a strategy of upward mobility in Indian society 1850-1960
- The enduring legacy of Christianity on Western morality
> (This article could be a review of Dominion by Tom Holland; or an original analysis)
- The Barbarian Other on the edge of the Roman World
- ‘The Strong do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must’: Athenian Democracy and the Melian Dialogue
- The history of fire, the wheel, and other monumental prehistoric inventions
- StoneHenge, Druidism and prehistoric Celtic religion
- Ideological profiles: A brief history of… [examples could include:]
> Capitalism
> Communism, Socialism, Fabianism, Trotskyism
> Anarchism
> Liberalism
- A review of The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginsberg [RESERVED]
- The messages of dystopian fiction - from Wells to the modern day
- Fantasy as a reflection of society: the problematic narratives of CS Lewis and J R R Tolkein
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