Historiography

At a crucial moment in the history of relations of East and West, Orient and Occident, Christianity and Islam, Orientalism provides a timely account of the subject and the debate.

This extended new edition offers a multifaceted insight into a period of intellectual history in the West in which the balance between speculative theories and experiential science was reset.

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most celebrated and influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

Embodiment, Expertise, and Ethics in Early Modern Europe highlights the agency and intentionality of individuals and groups in the making of sensory knowledge from approximately 1500 to 1700.

Much of contemporary medical theory and practice focuses on the identification of specific causes of disease.

This book is an integrated series of philosophical investigations that offers significant new insights into key philosophical concerns ranging from methodological issues to substantive doctrines.

If the vibrancy on display in Thinking in the Past Tense is any indication, the study of intellectual history is enjoying an unusually fertile period in both Europe and North America.

Arnold Bake (1899-1963) was a Dutch pioneer in South Asian ethnomusicology, whose research impressed not only the most renowned Indologists of his time but also the leading figures in the emerging field of ethnomusicology.

The impact of evolutionary theory on the philosophy of science has been no less profound than its impact on the science of biology itself.

By the end of the sixteenth century, stories about the Revolt in the Low Countries (c.

This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how identity and agency become wholly embedded within practices of media-remembering.

The blind mendicant in Ukrainian folk tradition is a little-known social order, but an important one.

This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of considering the literature to illuminate the historical Roman context and the historical context to illuminate the literature.

The impact of evolutionary theory on the philosophy of science has been no less profound than its impact on the science of biology itself.

Friedrich Hayek was the 20th century's most significant free market theorist.

Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well recognised, yet scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works.

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes gehen zurück auf ein internationales Symposium zum Werk Heinrich von Kleists, das anläßlich seines 175.

Published in 1999.

The narratives of disease, hygiene, developments in medicine and the growth of urban environments are fundamental to the discipline of modern history.

How objective are our history books?

This book provides a critical examination of over 300 historical works about the French Revolution, published in Europe (in particular in France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Russia) as well as in the United States between 1789 and 1989.

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The long period from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century supplied numerous sources for Kierkegaard's thought in any number of different fields.

Originally published in 1963.

Die dem ostthüringischen Bergland angehörenden Waldungen des Fürstentums Reuß j.

Engineers work in an increasingly complex entanglement of ideas, people, cultures, technology, systems and environments.

Fred Flintstone lived in a sunny Stone Age American suburb, but his ancestors were respectable, middle-class Victorians.

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

This book argues that early American history is best understood as the story of a settler-colonial supplanting society-a society intent on a vast land grab of American Indian space and driven by a logic of elimination and a genocidal imperative to rid the new white settler living space of its existing Indigenous inhabitants.

Tracing the historical works of pivotal nineteenth-century figures, this book illuminates how the history of Empire was written and rewritten.

This edited book deepens the engagement between 21st century philosophy of mind and the emerging technologies which are transforming our environment.

The comparative approach to the understanding of history is increasingly popular today.

Imperial Apocalypse describes the collapse of the Russian Empire during World War One.

From Lucretius's horror loci and Buddhist drowsiness to the religious boredom of acedia and the philosophical explorations of Kant, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, boredom has long been a subject of philosophical fascination.

This book presents the first extended analysis of the friendship network of John Adams, forged during his lengthy public career from 1774-1801.

Alongside the names of such giants of Soviet history as Brezhnev, Khrush- chev, Kirov, Kosygin, Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky, the name of Mikhail Vasil'evich Fronze may seem to be out of place.

Pugliese's More Than Human Diasporas breaks the confines of existing scholarship in its vision of the way that more than human diasporic entities-such as water, trees, clay, stone and architectural styles-have functioned as agents within the context of empire, settler colonialism and a largely effaced history of Mediterranean enslavement, a history that pre existed and then coincided with the Atlantic slave trade.

This book explores the demise of the grand narrative of European modernity.

This title was first published in 2000.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

This study of six historians from the edges of the Roman world at the end of the Republic - the author of I Maccabees, Posidonius, Diodorus Siculus, Pompeius Trogus, Nicolaus of Damascus, and Memnon of Heraclea - combines discussion of their biographical details, the intellectual and elite culture in which they composed, and the methodological difficulties of interpreting fragmentary texts, with textual analysis of their representations of Rome.