Historiography

Reissuing five works originally published between 1937 and 1991, this collection contains books addressing the subject of time, from a mostly philosophic point of view but also of interest to those in the science and mathematics worlds.

This wide-ranging book provides a scholarly account of recent and contemporary memorial and counter-memorial practices occurring in the visual arts, across diverse postcolonial topologies and imaginaries.

The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it.

Abu Bakr al-Suli was an Abbasid polymath and table companion, as well as a legendary chess player.

This volume consists of original essays by academic leaders and scholars connected to Clark Kerr's life and work.

Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism provides rich new insights into the history of political thought and clinical knowledge.

The passage of time has not slowed the production of books and articles about World War I.

Sallust's Histories and Triumviral Historiography explores the historiographical innovations of the first century Roman historian Sallust, focusing on the fragmentary Histories, an account of the turbulent years after the death of the dictator Sulla.

Remembering the past in the Middle Ages is a subject that is usually perceived as a study of chronicles and annals written by monks in monasteries.

This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia.

This is a study of ekphrasis, the art of making listeners and readers 'see' in their imagination through words alone, as taught in ancient rhetorical schools and as used by Greek writers of the Imperial period (2nd-6th centuries CE).

Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in the world today.

Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians is an invaluable resource to educators seeking to bring history alive for students at all levels.

McDowell and Braniff explore the relationship between commemoration and conflict in societies which have engaged in peace processes, attempting to unpack the ways in which the practices of memory and commemoration influence efforts to bring armed conflict to an end and whether it can even reactivate conflict as political circumstances change.

Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment whose thought was, in many respects, original and distinctive.

Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the past and recorded their own histories.

Have Marxian ideas been relevant or influential in the writing and interpretation of history?

With an emphasis on exploring measurable aspects of ancient narratives, Maths Meets Myths sets out to investigate age-old material with new techniques.

This book explores contemporary debates surrounding Poland's 'war children', that is the young victims, participants and survivors of the Second World War.

ways of doing it, but it is wrong to project it far into the past: it did not exist at the turn of the century and only became clearly apparent after the Second World War.

This edited volume is first of its kind to document and critically analyse the changes took place snice China's opening-up and reform and its impact on Dongbei, China's North-East region, known for its remote and vast landscape, unique and othered culture, rich resources, mighty infrastructures and industries, geopolitical significance.

Since the eighteenth century, the one-to-one singing lesson has been the most common method of delivery.

This is the third volume of three on demographics.

This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its recovery and subsequent development in Italy to the time of Galileo.

The entries in this volume focus upon the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave system in comparative perspective.

This book explores the creative women of the "e;Lost Generation"e; including painters, sculptors, film makers, writers, singers, composers, dancers, and impresarios who all pursued artistic careers in the years leading up to, during, and following World War I.

Jaan Valsiner has made numerous contributions to the development of psychology over the last 40 years.

Winner of the 2021/2022 People's Book Prize Best Achievement AwardHomes can be both comforting and troubling places.

Commemorating traumatic events means attempting to activate collective memory.

This volume studies a fundamental element of Montesquieu's argumentative architecture that is most apparent in his De l'Esprit des Lois: the problem of giving order to, and establishing a network of consistent explanations of political, social and cultural diversity.

The philosophy of history is an area of interest not only to philosophers, but to historians and to social scientists.

Experimental philosophy was an exciting and extraordinarily successful development in the study of nature in the seventeenth century.

A revelatory account of a spiritual leader who dared to assert the value of rabbinic doubt in the face of messianic certaintyIn 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that the redemption of the world was at hand.

Was für Soziolog_innen die Umfragen, Jurist_innen die Gesetzestexte und Psycholog_innen die Experimente sind, sind für Historiker_innen und Kulturwissenschaftler_innen die Quellen.

Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history.

Originally published in 1950.

Ali Mardan bey Topchibashov was a prominent politician, who played a crucial role in the history of Azerbaijan.

Is time out of joint?

This volume assembles documents that illustrate the changing relations between authors and publishers in the nineteenth century, and the impact of copyright reform on publishing practices.

Ancient Greece was the cradle of philosophy in the Western tradition.

In Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic James E.