Historiography

A wonderfully engaging and entertaining history of the great dons of the last two hundred years, by one of our leading historians of ideas.

The groundbreaking biography of one of the most progressive, influential and entertaining women of the seventeenth century, Christina Alexandra, Queen of Sweden.

A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century.

A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work.

Christopher Hibbert's acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself.

LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDThis unique series - edited by Richard Holmes - recovers the great classical tradition of English biography.

In a series of powerful accounts drawn from diaries, letters, sound archives and interviews recorded during the period of devastation, discovery and transformation that make the blitz such an outstanding event in Britain's recent past, "e;The Blitz"e; brings to life the intense experiences, as they happened all over Britain.

'I would choose this account over and above the rest.

Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In his first book, award-winning radio and TV presenter Ryan Tubridy tells the fascinating story of the iconic president John F Kennedy's visit to Ireland.

This ebook does not include illustrations.

The seminal history of Ireland's most unusual century, thoroughly updated for the new millennium.

An ambitious and powerful account of modern Irish history through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand.

Talented historian Maya Jasonoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire.

This book examines Naples's patron saint, Gennaro, the history of his blood relic, and the mystery of its periodical liquefaction.

This edited collection is the first volume solely dedicated to research on Johann Gottfried Herder's understanding of history, time, and temporalities.

The essays gathered together in this volume follow the career of the sixteenth-century courtier-poet Pietro Aretino.

"e;The Annals"e; is a history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus to that of Nero, the years AD 14-68, covering the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.

Medicine Across Cultures: The History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures consists of 19 essays dealing with the medical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe.

This book focuses on the interrelationship of social, technical, and organizational aspects of and related to the product development process.

My interest in the archaeology of the Scottish Highlands began long before I had any formal training in the subject.

Historical archaeology has largely focused on the study of early military sites and homes of upper class.

This book examines how colonial identities were constructed in the Cape Colony of South Africa since its establishment in the 17th century up to the 20th century.

Glare is the name given to a new material for aircraft structures developed at Delft University in the Netherlands.

Food and feasting are increasingly recognized as having played a prominent role in the emergence of social hierarchies and the negotiation of power.

Research records composed of notes and protocols have long played a role in the efforts to understand the origins of what have come to be seen as the established milestones in the development of modern science.

This book deals with the use of technology in science teaching.

This is an engrossing book.

`Why life?

Fabricating Europe has within it a core idea, a crucial but imprecise idea, that of a European educational space, which transnational governance, networks and cultural and economic projects are creating now.

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.

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Originally distributed with a different title as a very limited edition of twelve in 1975, Historical Archaeology in Wachovia presents a unique record of the 1753 Moravian town of Bethabara, near Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

An attempt to use archaeological materials to investigate the colonization of southeastern Africa during the period 1500 to 1900.

A discussion of the historical archaeology of one of the largest cities in the world following four centuries of marginal positioning in regard to empires, trade routes, and the production and accumulation of wealth.

The multidisciplinary research program at Akrotiri Aetokremnos is important, in my op- ion, for three reasons: two empirical and one conceptual.

An archaeological analysis of the centrality of race and racism in American culture.

An attempt to render Chinese archaeology more accessible to Western readers through a detailed case study of approximately 16,000 years of cultural development in northeastern China.

A glance at the title of this book might well beg the question "e;What in heaven's name does archaeology have to do with manners?

For many years, one of my favorite classroom devices in historical archaeology was to ask the students to imagine that they had to make the choice between saving-from some unnamed calamity-all master's theses or all doctoral disser tations in anthropology, but not both.

Historical archaeology, one of the fastest growing of archaeology's sub fields in North America, has developed more slowly in Central and p- ticularly South America.

Archaeology can either bolster memory and tradition, or contradict the status quo and provide an alternative view of the past.

Is history more than (in Boswell's words) a `chronological series of remarkable events'?

Archaeology in the Middle East and the Balkans rarely focuses on the recent past; as a result, archaeologists have largely ignored the material remains of the Ottoman Empire.

In the early 1980s the author was asked to investigate the newly discovered wreck of the Xantho, an iron screw steamship active off the Australian coast during the period 1848 to 1872, and to develop a strategy to stop the looting that was occurring at the site.

A synthesis of Italian prehistory spanning more than 600,000 years beginning with the Lower Paleolithic and ending with the last hunter-gatherers.

Nearly, 50 years ago, Karl Pribram in a discussion section accompanying MacLean's proposal of a limbic system, criticized the visceral or limbic brain concept as theoretically too vague and cumbersome.

An exploration of hypothetical turning points in history from Ancient Greece to September 11 What if history, as we know it, had run another course?

How providential history-the conviction that God is an active agent in human history-has shaped the American historical imagination In 1847, Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman was killed after a disastrous eleven-year effort to evangelize the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest.

An experienced, multi-faceted historian shows how revisionist history is at the heart of creating historical knowledge"e;A rallying cry in favor of historians who, revisiting past subjects, change their minds.