Historian, international lecturer, city planner, and early advocate of interdisciplinary study, Corinne Lathrop Gilb draws on disciplines beyond the conventional study of history to explore such diverse topics as symbolism in urban structure, biorhythms as determinants of creativity, the intertwined histories of liberalism and corporatism, and the role of beauty in public policy. Woven as a subtext throughout this collection of articles, speeches, and other short writings is Dr. Gilb's inquiry into the dynamic between inner history ("the architecture of self-space") and outer history. Thought-provoking and illuminating, Toward Holistic History is timely in its call for an historiography that recognizes the "great honeycomb" of pluralisms that defines our world. No longer in print, Toward Holistic History is available in libraries throughout the country, and can also be read online through these following PDF links:
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TITLE PAGE, COPYRIGHT PAGE, and TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 pp.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE 1 p.
PREFACE 3 pp.
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| PART I |
THE SELF AND HISTORY, THE SELF IN HISTORY 1 p. |
| Chapter 1 |
Problems of Self-Space: an Historian's View Inward and Outward 11 pp. |
| Chapter 2 |
Should We Learn More About Ourselves? 8 pp.
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| Chapter 3 |
Oral History: The Presentation of Self for Posterity 7 pp. |
| Chapter 4 |
Some Varieties of Metaphor in American Images of Selfhood 12 pp. |
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| PART II |
VALUES AND SOCIETY 4 pp. |
| Chapter 5 |
Whither American Values? 7 pp. |
| Chapter 6 |
Can We Measure Beauty? 15 pp. |
| Chapter 7 |
Values & Religion: Are Liberal [Protestant] Values
Expendable in Today's Pluralistic Society? 10 pp. |
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| PART III |
CITIES AS SYMBOLS 1 p. |
| Chapter 8 |
A Humanist View of the Urban Condition 4 pp. |
| Chapter 9 |
City Form, Governmental Structure and the Space of Power 25 pp. |
| Chapter 10 |
The Politics of Historic Preservation in Cities 8 pp. |
| Chapter 11 |
An Example of an Historic Preservation Issue: Detroit Must Move Forward 4 pp. |
| Chapter 12 |
Sacred Cities and Geopolitics and Economics: The Case of Jerusalem 11 pp. |
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| PART IV |
SPACE, TIME, POLITY, SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND COMMUNITY 2 pp. |
| Chapter 13 |
Geography, the Social Sciences and Urban History 33 pp. |
| Chapter 14 |
Polities, Long-Distance Trade, Social Stratification, Cities:
A Social Science Approach to Civilization 8 pp. |
| Chapter 15 |
Public or Private Government? 41 pp. |
| Chapter 16 |
The Changing Space of Power (A Summary) 2 pp. |
| Chapter 17 |
Adjudicative Structure, Space-Time, and Community 19 pp. |
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| PART V |
A CASE STUDY OF A SPECIFIC AMERICAN CITY 3 pp. |
| Chapter 18 |
Detroit’s Economy, Then and Now 13 pp. |
| Chapter 19 |
Thoughts Based on a Visit to African Cities 5 pp. |
| Chapter 20 |
Crisis in History—Motor City: The Future of Detroit 7 pp. |
| Chapter 21 |
The Urban University in its Community 6 pp. |
| Chapter 22 |
Some Thoughts on Relations Between History and Public Policy 4 pp. |
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| PART VI |
RHYTHM AS A COMMON DENOMINATOR 1 p. |
| Chapter 23 |
Rhythm and Energy: Linkages Between the Individual and His Environment 17 pp. |
| Chapter 24 |
Postscript: Rhythm in a Global High-Tech Age 3 pp. |
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| PART VII |
IS HISTORY THE RESULT OF FATE OR HUMAN CREATIVITY? 1 p. |
| Chapter 25 |
Some Comments About Play and Creativity 8 pp. |
| Chapter 26 |
Time and Change in Twentieth-Century Thought 14 pp. |
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| PART VIII |
TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE AND COMMUNITY 1 p. |
| Chapter 27 |
Digital Confluence, Space, Time, and Civilization 7 pp. |
| Chapter 28 |
The Impact of the Internet and World Wide Web on Community Life 10 pp. |
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| PART IX |
ON THE CUSP OF A NEW MILLENNIUM 2 pp. |
| Chapter 29 |
Whose World? What History? 15 pp. |
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR 2 pp.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & PERMISSIONS 1 p.
NOTES 65 pp.
INDEX 26 pp.
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