{"product_id":"right-hand-and-the-left-hand-of-history","title":"Right Hand and the Left Hand of History","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeft-handers have been described as \"a people without a history\". This special issue provides scholarly analyses of aspects of asymmetry in history, from the Renaissance to the 20th Century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLauren Harris presents three studies describing: \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn 1811 American child-care manual for parents fearing, \"lest their children should be left-handed\"; \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eManuals on swordsmanship from the Renaissance onwards describing the \"accepted minority\" of left-handed swordsmen, a minority that still dominates the Olympics; \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe enigmatic bias whereby parents use their left arm to carry babies; \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJanet Snowman and Stephen Christman present two papers on left-handed musical geniuses: \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilliam Crotch, the self-taught, 18th Century, musical prodigy, whose unconventional left-handed playing styles stimulate many questions about the asymmetries of stringed instruments;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJimi Hendrix, the 20th Century, left-handed, guitarist of whom Robert Krieger said, \"… he was just so different. He just came from such a left-field place.\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChris McManus, Richard Rawles, James Moore and Matthew Freegard describe an early BBC TV programme presented in 1953 by Jacob Bronowski on right and left-handedness. In an early example of viewer participation, 6000 people sent postcards describing their handedness and also their perceptions of a \"mystery picture\", that was the duck-rabbit figure from Wittgenstein’s recently published Philosophical Investigations. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChris McManus and Janet Snowman describe A left-handed compliment, a newly discovered lithograph by John Lewis Marks (ca. 1795-6 - ca. 1857-61). Given Marks’,\"seeming love of vulgarity for its own sake\", there is probably an obscene sub-text reminiscent of a Donald McGill postcard.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54257636376920,"sku":"9781848727236","price":107.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/right-hand-and-the-left-hand-of-history","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}