Historiography

This book provides a much-needed historiographical overview of modern Irish History, which is often written mainly from a socio-political perspective.

This study represents the unexpected outcome of an enquiry into the resources for the study of the medieval history of East Central Europe.

The original idea for a conference on the "e;shapes of knowledge"e; dates back over ten years to conversations with the late Charles Schmitt of the Warburg Institute.

This monograph offers a cultural history of the development of physics in India during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on Indian physicists Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974), Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970) and Meghnad Saha (1893-1956).

This book examines authority in discourse from ancient to modern historians, while also presenting instances of current subversions of the classical rhetorical ethos.

This book is the first attempt to introduce the current status of archival practices in Japan as well as the basic views of the populace on making records accessible to English readers.

This collection brings together a group of important and influential essays on Mexican history and historiography by Eric Van Young, a leading scholar in the field.

This book examines the relationship between class and culture in 1930s Britain.

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History, Politics, and the American Past assesses the connection between historiography and politics in America on the basis of an important methodological distinction between the past and the history written about it.

The ancient historians were not always objective or accurate, and their intentions for writing were very different from those of modern historians.

The premise of Darkened Enlightenment is to highlight the fact that there currently exist a number of socio-political forces that have the design, or ultimate consequence, of trying to extinguish the light of reason and rationality.

The English Della Cruscan School, although its nucleus was formed in 1785 by the publication of The Florence Miscellany, existed neither in the consciousness of the group which formed it nor in that of the pu blic until it was so dubbed as a term of reproach by William Gifford in his bitter satire The Baviad (1791).

This book provides scholarly perspectives on a range of timely concerns in Irish diaspora studies.

Rocas Alijos lies 180 nautical miles west of Baja California.

This book explores the subject of genocide through key debates and case studies.

The soul is so closely connected to life that one cannot think that it could ever be separated from life and, consequently, be mortal.

In Diodorus Siculus and the World of the Late Roman Republic, Charles E.

This book suggests that religion, in its usual sense, can be replaced by something better, that the human spirit or subjectivity can be the subject of scientific study and that lack of purpose or design in the universe is not a handicap but a positive opportunity for intelligent beings to make of the universe and its contents what they reasonably can.

First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century.

This collection of essays approaches the history of psychoanalysis from a transnational perspective, emphasizing the flows of people, ideas and institution across cultures and nations, and examining the factors that contributed to turn psychoanalysis into one of the systems of beliefs that defined the Twentieth century.

This second volume of essays by Professor Kelley takes the study of history as its starting point, then extends explorations into adjacent fields of legal, political, and social thought to confront some of the larger questions of the modern human sciences.

Edmund Fryde provides a general account of the attempt to revive and surpass the standards of classical historiography and charts its progress.

Alienation, ecstasy, death, rebirth: in the poetry of Michelangelo, Donne, and d' Aubigne these archetypal themes make possible the ultimate formulation of new poetic symbolizations of self and world.

This book explores the intellectual world of Francesco Robortello, one of the most prominent scholars of the Italian Renaissance.

This book aims to address a neglected field of research by providing evidence-based insights into how contemporary visitors of different national and generational background, especially those of Polish and Jewish descent, experience and reflect on their visits, or on living in the proximity of different sites of memory across Poland, including former concentration and death camps, ghetto sites, and other physical sites such as museums with a connection to the Holocaust.

This book, first published in 1987, attempts to take fresh stock of a man who made a great impact on nineteenth-century English Secondary Education.

At the heart of the French Revolution there lay a fundamental paradox: how to liberate the minds of the people whilst simultaneously ensuring their loyalty to the new regime.

William of Moerbeke was a prolific medieval translator of Aristotle and other ancient philosophical and scientific authors from Greek into Latin, and he played a decisive role in the acceptance of Aristotelian philosophy in the Latin world.

Dominated by Darwinism and the numerous guises it assumed, evolutionary theory was a source of opportunities and difficulties for late Victorian novelists.

The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across the late antique Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.

This book describes the vibrant activity of survivors who founded Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers in Europe immediately after the Second World War.

Our natural world has been irretrievably altered by humans, for humans.

Readings on the Russian Revolution brings together 15 important post-Cold War writings on the history of the Russian Revolution.

Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America teaches imaginative and distinctive approaches to the practice of history through a series of essays on colonial Latin America.

Das 750-Jahr-Jubiläum der Gründung des Zisterzienserstiftes Stams (1273–2023) war der Anlass, die Geschichte dieses Klosters, das zu den herausragenden Erinnerungsorten des Landes Tirol gehört, auf eine neue Weise zu würdigen.

This book examines the relatively unknown English late-Victorian educational pioneer, Constance Louisa Maynard (1849-1935), whose innovative London-based Westfield College produced the first female BAs in the mid-1880s.

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Das Handbuch will einen raschen und gleichzeitig analytischen Zugang zum Thema Reformation eröffnen, indem es in konsequent europäischer und interdisziplinärer Perspektive nach den Gelingens- bzw.

James Steuart published An Inquiry into the Principles of Political conomy in 1767, the first systematic treatise on economics, nine years before Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.

This book is a greatly supplemented translation from Portuguese, originally published in 2015.

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An examination of the barbarian laws in Carolingian Europe, contributing to debates concerning written law, kingship and ethnic identities.