Historiography

Much of the legal system existing among the members of the society of nations has its origin in treaties and agreements.

The volume approaches the relations between China and the Catholic Church in a quite comprehensive and unprejudiced way.

This book guides readers through 10 pervasive fictions about medieval history, provides them with the sources and analytical tools to critique those fictions, and identifies what really happened in the Middle Ages.

This is a fresh look at the American Civil War from the standpoint of the natural resources necessary to keep the armies in the field.

It is commonly held that a strict divide between literature and history emerged in the 19th century, with the latter evolving into a more serious disciple of rigorous science.

"e;Banning's skill as an essayist shines"e; in this collection of writing on the foundation of the American republic (San Francisco Book Review).

Since the appearance of Hayden White's seminal work Metahistory in 1973, constructivist thought has been a key force within theory of history and has at times even provided inspiration for historians more generally.

A comprehensive exploration of the profound influence of Marxist ideas on the development of Cultural Studies in Britain, this volume covers a century of Marxist writing, balancing synoptic accounts of the various schools of Marxist thought with detailed analyses of the most important writers.

The belief that God eternally and unalterably decrees the election of one part of humankind and the reprobation of the rest has not aged well, but in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the doctrine of predestination was publicised and popularised to an extent unparalleled in the history of Christianity.

This book examines posttraumatic autobiographical projects, elucidating the complex relationship between the 'science of trauma' (and how that idea is understood across various scientific disciplines), and the rhetorical strategies of fragmentation, dissociation, reticence and repetitive troping widely used the representation of traumatic experience.

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This Encyclopedia offers a fresh, integrated and creative perspective on the formation and foundations of philosophy and science in European modernity.

There are two factors in the Revolution and the Risorgimento during the nineteenth century which have dictated the organization of this book and conditioned as well the presentation of its contents.

Diese literaturwissenschaftliche Studie beschäftigt sich mit Rückkehrerzählungen, denen eine gewaltvolle Vertreibung vorausliegt.

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

In the modern era, every family and local community can cultivate its own history, endowing living people with meanings inherited from the people of the past, by means of today's computer-based information and communication technologies.

Is history factual, or just another form of fiction?

When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.

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

This book examines the largely-neglected shift in Max Weber's work from political economy to economic sociology.

This book introduces a new way of looking at the writing of history.

History is one of the most important cultural tools to make sense of one's situation, to establish identity, define otherness, and explain change.

Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture explores the enduring legacy of mnemonic systems across literature, visual arts, pedagogy, and cultural production.

For millennia, messianic visions of redemption have inspired men and women to turn against unjust and oppressive orders.

The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and global exploration, primarily in seventeenth-century England.

This book offers a cross-cultural approach to cinematic representations of Alzheimer's disease in non-mainstream cinema.

Argues that Greek communities used their histories to help shape political and social realities, with a lasting impact on historiography.

James Mussell provides an accessible account of the digitization of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals.

What makes the 21st century different from the 20th century?

Psychoanalysis really should not exist today.

The distinguished historian David d''Avray applies seminal Weberian ideas to the comparative history of religion and the philosophy of law.

This book presents the basic fundamentals of descriptive archaeoastronomy and its application to the astronomical descriptions found in ancient Indian scriptures.

This volume of essays is meant as a tribute to Alistair Crombie by some of those who have studied with him.

The Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 27 August to 2 September 1975.

This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing history are undergoing radical transformation.

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This volume discusses how the German armed forces made effective use of military geologists to assist their fortification of the Channel Islands after their capture from the British in 1940.

The world was first introduced to the expertise and originality of Japanese scholars in phenomenology in Analecta Husserliana Vol.

This book explores the main currents of European thought between 1350 and 1992, which it approaches in two principal ways: culture as produced by place and the progressive unmooring of thought from previously set religious and philosophical boundaries.

This collection of essays explores how historians of theatre apply ethical thinking to the attempt to truthfully represent their subject - whether that be the life of a well-known performer, or the little known history of colonial theatre in India - by exploring the process by which such histories are written, and the challenges they raise.