Historiography

Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Latin and Islamic World to Renaissance Europe brings together ten of Paola Zambelli's papers on the subject, four of which are published in English for the first time.

Churchill fought the war twice over - as Prime Minister and again as its premier historian.

This volume explores ways in which the literary trope of the palimpsest can be applied to ethnic and postcolonial literary and cultural studies.

In 1840, conflict within the Ottoman Empire gave rise to a serious all-European crisis which led to a diplomatic rupture between France and other Great Powers.

The Katha Upanishad embraces the key ideas of Indian mysticism in a mythic story we can all relate to the quest of a young hero, Nachiketa, who ventures into the land of death in search of immortality.

This book discusses three linguistic projects carried out in the seventeenth century: the artificial languages created by Dalgamo and Wilkins, and Leibniz's uncompleted scheme.

What is often held to be Britain's 'finest hour' – the Second World War – was not experienced so uniformly across the British Isles.

This ambitious book provides the only systematic examination of the American abolition movement's direct impacts on antislavery politics from colonial times to the Civil War and after.

This book explores the factors and mechanisms that may have influenced the dynamic behaviors of earliest civilizations, focusing on both environmental (geographic) factors on which traditional historic analyses are based and human (behavioral) factors on which anthropological analyses are usually based.

This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.

This is the first of three volumes which together contain the complete range of Lord Rutherford's scientific papers, incorporating in addition addresses, general lectures, letters to editors, accounts of his scientific work and personal recollections by friends and colleagues.

The articles in this volume employ source-work research to trace Kierkegaard's understanding and use of authors from the Greek tradition.

This book examines the role played by the international circulation of literature in constructing cultural memories of the Second World War.

Geschichte ist oft die in der Gegenwart wirksame Vergangenheit.

The Jesuit Juan de Mariana (1535-1624) is one of the most misunderstood authors in the history of political thought.

This book presents a philosophical position examined philosophically.

This study has grown out of an interest in French education and cul- ture that dates from fondly remembered student days in France.

Focusing on why neoliberalism gained such a unique strong hold in the United States, philosopher Bruce N.

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

First published in 1982, this book is inspired the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm, and has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationship to political and religious belief.

Marguerite Yourcenar is best known as the author of the 1951 novel Memoires d'Hadrien, her recreation of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian.

The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History extends the growing interdisciplinary conversation in opera studies by drawing on new research in performance studies and the philosophy of history.

This innovative collection re-evaluates the function and significance of the written word in early medieval Europe.

Professor Danilo Zolo has written an account of Otto Neurath's epistemology which deserves careful reading by all who have studied the development of 20th century philosophy of science.

This book presents a critical and aesthetic defence of "e;non-place"e; as an act of cultural reclamation.

Environmental History as a distinct discipline is now over a generation old, with a large and diverse group of practitioners around the globe.

This book is the first to link the modern appreciation for democratic freedom directly to Jewish political thought in seventeenth-century Amsterdam.

Critical theorists of economy tend to understand the history of market society as a succession of distinct stages.

In the middle of the 19th century a new value began to appear in Western Europe - the belief that (in the words of Matthew Arnold) 'the exercise of a creative activity is the true function of man'.

Profiles the eminent 18th century natural philosopher Henry Cavendish, best known for his work in chemistry and physics and one of the most baffling personalities in the history of science.

This volume suggests a new way of doing global history.

Examining the political theory of anarchism from a philosophical and historical perspective, Paul McLaughlin relates anarchism to the fundamental ethical and political problem of authority.

Paramount in the shaping of early Byzantine identity was the construction of the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (532-537 CE).

This book offers the first full-length study of the education of children living within the Gaeltacht, the Irish-speaking communities in Ireland, from 1900 to the present day.

Distinguished historian Richard W.

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The Essay on the Nature of Trade in General was written in the early 1730s by Richard Cantillon, a speculator and banker who had made a vast fortune during the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719-20.

Bioarchaeology has relied on Darwinian perspectives and biocultural models to communicate information about the lives of past peoples.

Social scientists have become increasingly aware that their work de- pends upon adequate concepts of certain basic relationships among the people who comprise polities, economies, and societies.

The role of archives and libraries in our digital age is one of the most pressing concerns of humanists, scholars, and citizens worldwide.

In the early 1980s the late Charles B.

First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century.

Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East.

This book offers an original and comprehensive study of the memory of the Rogo di Primavalle, a fatal arson attack on the home of a far-right family on 16 April 1973.

The Historiography of Philosophy is the text, virtually unchanged, of the Nellie Wallace lectures, which Michael Frede gave in Oxford in 1989-90.

The history of sociology overwhelmingly focuses on 'the winners' from the classical 'canon' - Marx, Durkheim, and Weber - to today's most celebrated sociologists.