Historiography

The book provides an overview of the floods and major hydrological changes that occurred in the medieval Hungarian kingdom (covering the majority of the Carpathian Basin) between 1000 and 1500 AD.

This book maps key moments in the history of postwar art from a global perspective.

The end of this century has witnessed dramatic changes in morality, history and geography.

This book explores the history of pharmacy in France and its relationship to the discipline of chemistry as it emerged at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

A third edition of this classic introduction to archaeological theory and method.

Atlantic slavery represents one of the blackest pages of human history.

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This book explores (mis)representations of two female claimants to the Tudor throne, Lady Jane Grey and Mary I of England.

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.

Placing the works of Charles Dickens and Walter Benjamin in conversation with one another, Gillian Piggott argues that the two writers display a shared vision of modernity.

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Jonathan Edwards is generally acknowledged as one of the foremost American philosophers.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of atheism, secularity and non-religion in Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery.

This study examines how Tacitus' representation of speech determines the roles of speakers within the political sphere, and explores the possibility of politically effective speech in the principate.

This volume explores questions about conceptual change from both scientific and philosophical viewpoints by analyzing the recent history of evolutionary developmental biology.

Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies, this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications, but also, their architecture and how that architecture informs the political philosophy or social agenda that the author intended.

The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography.

Originally published between 1975 and 2003, the essays included in Humanism, Venice, and Women reflect Margaret L.

This book explores the hopes, desires, and imagined futures that characterized British radicalism in the 1790s, and the resurfacing of this sense of possibility in the following decades.

This text offers an authoritative historiography of German socialist theorist Karl Kautsky and his impact on debates about the Russian Revolution and the contemporary left.

This book discusses the merits of the theory of agonistic memory in relation to the memory of war.

Moshe Zuckermann untersucht die ideologischen Strukturen der deutschen Geschichtsschreibung des Vormärz zur Französischen Revolution.

Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism.

This authoritative and comprehensive guide to key people and events in Anglo-Jewish history stretches from Cromwell's re-admittance of the Jews in 1656 to the present day and contains nearly 3000 entries, the vast majority of which are not featured in any other sources.

This book presents a study of remembrance practices emerging after the 2005 London bombings.

In the year 1985, presumed to mark the 850th anniversary of Maimonides' birth, the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter was dedicated to Maim- onides as philosopher.

In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism's notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history.

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

This book explores the conflict between the Catalan project to become independent and the Spanish state's opposition to any attempt of secessionism.

How does history relate to the past?

Complete with practical advice and helpful guidance, this book is an approachable manual perfect for budding historians at all levels.

The role Hans Hahn played in the Vienna Circle has not always been sufficiently appreciated.

Life of Bolivar Sim6n Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 24, 1783, and died in Santa Marta, Colombia, on December 17, 1830.

Many of the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism.

Das seit 1949 von der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften betreute Polybios-Lexikon erschließt in Form eines Bedeutungswörterbuchs umfassend den Wortschatz der Historien des Polybios (um 200-120 v.

Andean Archaeology III represents a continuation in our effort to highlight the ?

Without denying the real importance of the more 'traditional' tasks of a historian of ideas or scholar of literature - the edition of a text and research into its sources and influence - Professor Flint's objective has been to look sideways from the texts, so into the society to which their authors belonged.

In March 1997 the Society for Renaissance Studies and Gresham College together organised a conference to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gresham College's foundation.

The United States is a nation whose identity is defined by the idea of democracy.

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