This book explores commemoration practices and preservation efforts in modern Britain, focusing on the years from the end of the First World War until the mid-1960s.
This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold.
This collection of essays, written by leading experts, showcases historiographical problems, fresh interpretations, and new debates in medieval and Renaissance history and political thought.
This book evaluates the current and future state of fascism studies, reflecting on the first hundred years of fascism and looking ahead to a new era in which fascism studies increasingly faces fresh questions concerning its relevance and the potential reappearance of fascism.
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.
The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past.
This collection of essays investigates histories in the ancient world and the extent to which the producers and consumers of those histories believed them to be true.
The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global historyUntil very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century.
The volume undertakes a comparative analysis of the various discursive traditions dealing with the connection between modernity and historicity in Southeastern and Northern Europe, reconstructing the ways in which different "temporalities" produced alternative representations of the past and future, of continuity and discontinuity, and identity.
This book is a contribution to contemporary debates on social research with a unique focus on the relationship between methods and the crafting of knowledge.
The book provides a detailed account of his journey down the Mackenzie River in Canada and up the Yukon River in Alaska, including observations on the natural beauty and diverse wildlife of the regions.
In order to determine how history education can be harnessed to reduce conflict attitudes and intentions and create a culture of peace, this book examines how history curricula and textbooks shape the identities of their students through their portrayals of ingroup and outgroup identity, intergroup boundaries, and value systems.
Using the presence of the past as a point of departure, this books explores three critical themes in Southeast Asian oral history: the relationship between oral history and official histories produced by nation-states; the nature of memories of violence; and intersections between oral history, oral tradition, and heritage discourses.
This edited volume documents the current reflections on the 'Right to be Forgotten' and the interplay between the value of memory and citizen rights about memory.
This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment.
Mediante una serie de relatos de las propias comunidades del Valle del Huasco, este libro ofrece una mirada historiográfica hacia la explotación de los territorios indígenas, que son el blanco preferencial de las grandes trasnacionales y los proyectos mineros en Latinoamérica.
A new assessment of the debates about Just War in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the imperial wars of the nineteenth century through the age of total war, the evolution of human rights discourse and international law, to proportionality during the Cold War and the redefinition of authority with the ascendancy of terror groups.
This book explores the historiography, ports, and peoples of the Persian Gulf over the past two centuries, offering a more inclusive history of the region than previously available.
The New Nationalism and the First World War is an edited volume dedicated to a transnational study of the features of the turn-of-the-century nationalism, its manifestations in social and political arenas and the arts, and its influence on the development of the global-scale conflict that was the First World War.
Christopher Hookway has been influential in promoting engagement with pragmatist and naturalist perspectives from classical and contemporary American philosophy.
Christopher Hookway has been influential in promoting engagement with pragmatist and naturalist perspectives from classical and contemporary American philosophy.
The Histories is a multi-volume work written by Polybius who was taken as a hostage to Rome after the Roman defeat of the Achaean League, and there he began to write an account of the rise of Rome to a world power.
This collection offers insights into the transnational and translingual implications of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxieme Sexe (The Second Sex), a text that has served as foundational for feminisms worldwide since its publication in 1949.
This collection offers insights into the transnational and translingual implications of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxieme Sexe (The Second Sex), a text that has served as foundational for feminisms worldwide since its publication in 1949.