History: theory and methods

Der Band lotet die Bedingungen des Erinnerns und Erzählens und damit einer Re-Inszenierung der Vergangenheit im Feld der Kinder- und Jugendmedien aus.

First published in 1981, this book brings together different types of work by numerous fragmented groups in the field of Marxist history and puts them in dialogue with each other.

This is a study of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic of all seventeenth-century figures.

The Internet has changed the past.

Das Buch von Sergei Kovalenko stellt die erste Untersuchung der Münzprägung der Taurischen Chersonesos in der spätklassischen Epoche (Ende 5.

This book presents a nuanced narrative on Sir Syed Ahmad Khan's (1817-1898) life and his invaluable contribution to the democratic consciousness in India.

So many books, monographs and articles have been written around the "e;Roman Question"e; that a word of explanation or even of apology for the present study may be called for.

Building on the historical study of cultural translation, this volume brings together a range of case studies and fresh approaches to early modern intellectual history by scholars from across Europe reflecting on ideological and political change from c.

The creation of this book stems largely from the current centennial cele- bration of the founding in Leipzig of Wundt's psychological laboratory.

This book follows the development of classical mathematics and the relation between work done in the Arab and Islamic worlds and that undertaken by the likes of Descartes and Fermat.

New Directions in Print Culture Studies features new methods and approaches to cultural and literary history that draw on periodicals, print culture, and material culture, thus revising and rewriting what we think we know about the aesthetic, cultural, and social history of transnational America.

Revision and revisionism are generally seen as standard parts of historical practice, yet they are underexplored within the growing literature on historiography.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book, originally published in 1972, offers a stimulating account of the Christian tradition of historiography as it is reflected in works of literature and history.

The recent tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico and resultant ethical consequences for the engineering profession are introduced and discussed.

That Kant's ideas remain vitally present in ethical thinking today is as impossible to deny as it is to overlook their less persisting aspects and sometimes outdated idiom.

This title was first published in 2003.

Despite increased interest in recent years in the role of race in Western culture, scholars have neglected much of the body of work produced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by black intellectuals.

This book contributes to various political debates about Central Europe in terms of its literary-symbolic geography.

Emotional Labour in Oral History Research critically appraises the many complex ways in which emotion management features in oral history research and its specific implications for the researcher.

This original and thought-provoking study looks at the context of postmodernist thought in general cultural terms as well as in relation to history.

This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of civility and political culture in the Muslim world.

This book tells the story of how the "e;servile arts"e; turned into the "e;mechanical arts,"e; which in turn developed into a kind of philosophical apparatus that made modern science possible.

This book explores the issue of cultural mobility within the interwar network of the European avant-garde, focusing on selected writers, artists, architects, magazines and groups from Poland, Belgium and Netherlands.

What is it to practice history in an age in which photographs exist?

First published in 1990, The Myths We Live By explores how memory and tradition are continually reshaped and recycled to make sense of the past from the standpoint of the present.

In 1966, American historic preservation was transformed by the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act, which created a National Register of Historic Places.

Modern developments in philosophy have provided us with tools, logical and methodological, that were not available to Medieval thinkers - a development that has its dangers as well as opportunities.

Discussions about the nature of the emotions in Hellenistic philosophy have aroused intense scholarly interest over the last few years.

Wer Geschichte studiert, befasst sich auch mit Herodots »Historien«.

An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generationsMarie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angouleme in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened.

This book-along with its companion volume Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representations-centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources.

Public History for a Post-Truth Era explores how to combat historical denial when faith in facts is at an all-time low.

This edited collection traces the impact of monographic exhibitions on the discipline of art history from the first examples in the late eighteenth century through the present.

From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857--1922).

Historical Teleologies in the Modern World tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century.

This second edition of the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology gathers all the terms and techniques in current use in the field of archaeology, more than 9,700 total, up from the original 7,000.

This book examines 21st-century South African autobiographical writing that addresses the nation's socio-political realities, both past and present.