Phyllis K Leffler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1673769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phyllis K Leffler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phyllis K |
| FAMILY NAME | Leffler |
| SIGNATURE | LEFFLER P K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ebony and Ivy
Reviewed by: Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder Phyllis K. Leffler Craig Steven Wilder. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. 352pp. $30.00. Craig Wilder’s Ebony and Ivy offers a comprehensive synthesis and interpretation of the ways in which race-based thought and slavery are implicated in the founding, dev…
Black families and fostering of leadership
Dominant depictions of Black families in US scholarship and political discourse have been negative; tropes of defunct, hyper-masculinized men and welfare queens along with a general ‘tangle of pathology’ indictment are common. This article supports other scholarship, which challenges these depictions and acknowledges common positive traits associated with Black families. Through an examination of interviews with 39 famous Black leaders from the U…
Public and Academic History
Journal Article Public and Academic History: A Philosophy and Paradigm. By Phyllis K. Leffler and Joseph Brent. (Malabar: Krieger, 1990. viii + 97 pp. Cloth, $16.00, ISBN 0-89464-298-7; paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-89464-299-5.) Get access Public and Academic History: A Philosophy and Paradigm. By Leffler Phyllis K. Brent Joseph. (Malabar: Krieger, 1990. viii + 97 pp. Cloth, $16.00, ISBN 0-89464-298-7; paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-89464-299-5.) Bruce Fraser Br…
French Historians and the Challenge to Louis XIV's Absolutism
The latter part of the reign of Louis XIV (ca. 1680-1715) was characterized by growing opposition to the king's policies and philosophy of governance. Historians of this period participated in this steady erosion of traditional political and social assumptions. Their role in this intellectual process has not been adequately noted. Instead of writing to support the pretentions of divine-right absolutism, as had many authors of the earlier seventee…
From Humanist to Enlightenment Historiography
During the seventeenth century historians in France developed new conceptions about history and applied new methodologies of historical writing. Not yet content to leave behind the Renaissance view that history was an art, and not yet comfortable with the Enlightenment claim that history was a science, these seventeenth-century writers created a transitional genre of historical writing. Called by contemporaries the histoire raisonnee,e it was a f…
The "Histoire Raisonnee," 1660-1720
Black families and fostering of leadership
Dominant depictions of Black families in US scholarship and political discourse have been negative; tropes of defunct, hyper-masculinized men and welfare queens along with a general ‘tangle of pathology’ indictment are common. This article supports other scholarship, which challenges these depictions and acknowledges common positive traits associated with Black families. Through an examination of interviews with 39 famous Black leaders from the U…
From Humanist to Enlightenment Historiography
During the seventeenth century historians in France developed new conceptions about history and applied new methodologies of historical writing. Not yet content to leave behind the Renaissance view that history was an art, and not yet comfortable with the Enlightenment claim that history was a science, these seventeenth-century writers created a transitional genre of historical writing. Called by contemporaries the histoire raisonnee,e it was a f…
The "Histoire Raisonnee," 1660-1720
From Humanist to Enlightenment Historiography
During the seventeenth century historians in France developed new conceptions about history and applied new methodologies of historical writing. Not yet content to leave behind the Renaissance view that history was an art, and not yet comfortable with the Enlightenment claim that history was a science, these seventeenth-century writers created a transitional genre of historical writing. Called by contemporaries the histoire raisonnee,e it was a f…
French Historians and the Challenge to Louis XIV's Absolutism
The latter part of the reign of Louis XIV (ca. 1680-1715) was characterized by growing opposition to the king's policies and philosophy of governance. Historians of this period participated in this steady erosion of traditional political and social assumptions. Their role in this intellectual process has not been adequately noted. Instead of writing to support the pretentions of divine-right absolutism, as had many authors of the earlier seventee…
Public and Academic History
Journal Article Public and Academic History: A Philosophy and Paradigm. By Phyllis K. Leffler and Joseph Brent. (Malabar: Krieger, 1990. viii + 97 pp. Cloth, $16.00, ISBN 0-89464-298-7; paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-89464-299-5.) Get access Public and Academic History: A Philosophy and Paradigm. By Leffler Phyllis K. Brent Joseph. (Malabar: Krieger, 1990. viii + 97 pp. Cloth, $16.00, ISBN 0-89464-298-7; paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-89464-299-5.) Bruce Fraser Br…
Black families and fostering of leadership
Dominant depictions of Black families in US scholarship and political discourse have been negative; tropes of defunct, hyper-masculinized men and welfare queens along with a general ‘tangle of pathology’ indictment are common. This article supports other scholarship, which challenges these depictions and acknowledges common positive traits associated with Black families. Through an examination of interviews with 39 famous Black leaders from the U…
Ebony and Ivy
Reviewed by: Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder Phyllis K. Leffler Craig Steven Wilder. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. 352pp. $30.00. Craig Wilder’s Ebony and Ivy offers a comprehensive synthesis and interpretation of the ways in which race-based thought and slavery are implicated in the founding, dev…
History (4 works) · Classics (3 works) · European Political History Analysis (3 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Classics (2 works)