Historiography

This volume examines recent examples of Argentine literature, film, theatre and visual art from the children of the disappeared.

This book provides a definition of the developing field of environmental memory studies.

A provocative reassessment of Heidegger's critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition's foremost interpreters.

The Reformed (or Calvinist) universities of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe hosted rich, Latin-language conversations on the nature of politics, the powers of kings and magistrates, resistance, revolution, and religious warfare.

Each of the essays in this volume, originally published in 1970, touches upon a historical theme which Herbert Butterfield illuminated.

A theological history of consequentialism and a fresh agenda for teleological ethics.

This third collection of Charles Schmitt's articles complements the previous two and consists largely of studies published in the last few years of his life.

Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science.

Our Greek colleagues, in Greece and abroad, must know (indeed they do know) how pleasant it is to recognize the renaissance of the philosophy of science among them with this fine collection.

This treatise of historical methodology, originally published in 1950 is based upon a liberal conception of history which excludes no narrator of past events from the ranks of historians.

Social memory studies offer an under-utilised lens through which to approach the texts of the Hebrew Bible.

The founding of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, N.

In the Survey of Recent Historical Works, which according to custom concludes this IXth volume of the Acta, is a notice of the recent 'Report of the Dutch research, with suggestions for future development'.

Contributing to current debates about the globality and mediatisation of memories, Media and Memory in New Shanghai interrogates the city's spectacular regeneration into an emergent world centre, describing how Western elites partake in the production of New Shanghai by feeling its futures and performing its futures past.

Afghanistan has been a theatre of civil and international conflict for much of the twentieth century – stability is essential if there is to be peace in the Greater Middle East.

The aim of this book is both to illustrate and to discuss some of the main varieties of cultural history which have emerged since the questioning of what might be called its "e;classic"e; form, exemplified in the work of Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga.

Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman draws on work by Kinji Imanishi, Frans de Waal, and other biologists to create an interdisciplinary, materialist notion of culture for ecocritical analysis.

This book brings together ten empirically rich and theoretically informed contributions that aim to clarify both geo-historical specificities and common transnational and global features of the cultures and practices of boundary making that shaped modern statehood.

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

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

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

This edited collection looks at two of the most important ancient Greek historians living in the 5th Century BCE who are considered to be the founders of the western tradition of historiography.

Deservedly so, Jules Vuillemin is widely respected and greatly admired.

This book provides an approachable exposition of the rationale of textual editing with special reference to texts from between 1550-1800.

This book sheds new light on the role of industrial districts in the industrial development of the past and present.

Originally published in 1961.

Stifling Political Competition examines the history and array of laws, regulations, subsidies and programs that benefit the two major parties and discourage even the possibility of a serious challenge to the Democrat-Republican duopoly.

Seit über hundert Jahren wartet eine interessierte Öffentlichkeit auf eine umfassende, kritische, kommentierte Edition der Briefe Wilhelm von Humboldts.

This book examines the relationships between memory, history, and national identity through an interdisciplinary analysis of James Joyce's works-as well as of literary texts by Kundera, Ford, Fitzgerald, and Walker Percy.

This "e;courageous and thought-provoking book"e; examines how the Holocaust came to hold its unique place in American memory (Foreign Affairs).

Between the Levite at the gate and the judicial systems of our day is a long journey in courthouse government, but its basic structure remains the same - law, judge and process.

Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science.

Stephen Martin* The fourteen essays that constitute this work provide a coherent review of the past and present of the European Community, and consider some of its possible futures.

Dieses Buch wendet sich nicht an den Amerikaspezialisten, sondern an diejenigen politisch Interessierten, die mit Erstaunen und Verwun­ derung, manchmal vielleicht auch mit Befremden und Enttäuschung das letzte Jahrzehnt der amerikanischen Geschichte verfolgt haben.

This book, in two volumes, breathes fresh air empirically, methodologically, and theoretically into understanding the rich ceremonial lives, the philosophical-religious knowledge, and the impressive material feats and labor organization that distinguish Hopewell Indians of central Ohio and neighboring regions during the first centuries CE.

Der vorliegende Band bietet - zum ersten Mal seit über vierzig Jahren - eine kritische Neuedition der literarischen Schriften, die der spätantike römische Kaiser Julian Apostata in der Zeit seiner Alleinherrschaft (361 - 363 n.

Into the short compass of this book Professor Graetz has succeeded in compressing an eminently readable survey of the directions in which the atomic theory, as accepted in the nineteenth century, has been extended by the remarkable and almost revolutionary physical investigations and discoveries of the two decades preceding the book's original publication in 1923.

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The notions of culture and civilization are at the heart of European self-image.

This book explores the multifaceted dimensions of the Girmitya diaspora and post-memory.

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