Historiography

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

Was Assyria merely a more brutal, more uncivilized and less interesting offshoot of the culture created by Sumerians and Babylonians in Southern Mesopotamia at the dawn of history?

This book is an exploration of the concept of in-betweenness, as it occurs within the process of moving between the author's root culture and adopted culture, from her perspective as an immigrant creative arts therapist.

This book investigates the memory of the Holocaust in Sweden and concentrates on early initiatives to document and disseminate information about the genocide during the late 1940s until the early 1960s.

In the history of Christian thought, St Bonaventure stands out as the pre-eminent Franciscan philosopher of the 13th century and as a key figure in the development of the spiritual theology of the Church.

This book offers an original reading of Carlo Ginzburg's work, tracing his trajectory in the context of Italian micro-history, his debates on the objectivity of historical knowledge, and the connection of his work to the expanded perspectives constructed in recent decades by global history.

The aim of this book is to explore and understand the activities undertaken by the Florentine Accademia del Cimento, one of Europe's first scientific societies.

In the first section dedicated to theoretical thoughts on comparative agriculture, Hubert Cochet introduces the notion of "e;agricultural development"e;, the very subject of comparative agriculture, with a restored endogenous dimension.

Illuminating and comprehensive, this excellent volume addresses the problematic relationship between democratic institutions and the current critique of enlightenment and modernity.

Gregor Reisch's The Philosophical pearl (Margarita Philosophica), first published in 1503 and republished 11 times in the sixteenth century, was the first extensive printed text which discussed the disciplines taught at university to achieve widespread dissemination.

This book deals with the early history of agriculture in a defined part of Western Europe: the loess belt west of the river Rhine.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) - either as "e;standard"e; GIS or custom made Historical GIS (HGIS) - have become quite popular in some historical sub-disciplines, such as Economic and Social History or Historical Geography.

Este libro trata de la historia como conocimiento y experiencia.

Crusading was a religious movement involving papal authorization, the incentive of remission of sins, pious motivation on behalf of the individual, and the justification of holy war.

Eine vergessene Geschichte: Texte aus den Anfängen der Frauenforschung.

These essays all-in various ways-address the relationship between adaptation, "e;true events,"e; and cultural memory.

This edited collection offers a comparative approach to the topic of multiculturalism, including different authors with contrasting arguments from different philosophical traditions and ideologies.

This book explores how ideas about race travelled across national borders in early twentieth-century Latin America.

Building on over a century of scholarly achievements and advances, this book addresses the core problem of how to incorporate gender in the study of the history of medieval Europe, and why it is important to do so.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "August Ludwig v.

Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying.

This book deals with the religious aspects and consequences of the Renaissance and Humanism.

As the first volume of a two-volume set that studies the ancient Chinese academy from a socio-cultural perspective, this title explores the history of the academy and its relationship with the development of Confucianism in the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties.

This book covers the topic of discourse and argumentation in archaeology with an aim to serve the archaeology community.

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

This collection of essays is a tribute to Stillman Drake by some of his friends and colleagues, and by others on whom his work has had a formative influence.

This pioneering book is the first English volume on Korean memories.

Sustainable development and rural policies have pursued strategies where farming has been often regarded as a factor deteriorating the ecosystem.

In 1598, the English clergyman John Darrell was brought before the High Commission at Lambeth Palace to face charges of fraud and counterfeiting.

After a long struggle, Jewish emancipation was formally completed in Germany in 1871, when Wilhelm I abolished religious discrimination across the entire Reich.

The scope of this book is confined to the international aspects of the Spanish civil war.

Few of the major campaigns of World War II aroused as much controversy as the War in North Africa, 1940-1943.

Two of the most commonly alleged features of Japanese society are its homogeneity and its encouragement of conformity, as represented by the saying that the nail that sticks up gets pounded.

This book presents a thorough analysis of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq's memory culture, focusing particularly on commemorations and representations of the Anfal and Halabja atrocities.

This first part of a 2-volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on the 19th-century Academia and Trade presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century.

Recent droughts in Africa and elsewhere in the world, from China to Peru, have serious implications for food security and grave consequences for local and international politics.

This is a profile of people known as Burakumin, a Japanese minority group with a history of many centuries.

This volume explores the multifarious representational strategies used by contemporary writers to textualise memory and its friction areas through literary practices.

Nearly thirty years ago, Monika Vrzgulova took part in the very first oral history research project aimed at Holocaust survivors in Slovakia.

Oral History is part of the Understanding Qualitative Research series, which is designed to provide researchers with authoritative guides to understanding, presenting, and critiquing analyses and associated inferences.

All religions make statements about God or the Absolute and about "e;the beginning"e;: about the beginning of the world and the beginning and nature of the human person.