Historiography

This book tackles the difficult challenge of uncovering the pathogenic cause, epidemiological mechanics and broader historical impacts of an extremely deadly third-century ancient Roman pandemic.

This volume explores abduction (inference to explanatory hypotheses), an important but neglected topic in scientific reasoning.

In Visible Histories, Disappearing Women, Mahua Sarkar examines how Muslim women in colonial Bengal came to be more marginalized than Hindu women in nationalist discourse and subsequent historical accounts.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the familiar belief that memory policies are successful in building peaceful societies.

How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the humanities, exemplified by history, and offers a critique of the validity of historical knowledge.

Using Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy's groundbreaking study of the persistence of German Idealist philosophy as his starting point, Justin Clemens presents a valuable study of the links between Romanticism and contemporary theory.

This collection provides a long-overdue examination of the nineteenth century as a crucible of new commemorative practices.

In 1600, Giordano Bruno, one of the leading intellectuals of the Renaissance, was burned at the stake on the charge of heresy by the Roman Inquisition.

The previous Variorum collection of studies by the late F.

This study of Lebanese historical thought and its role in national identity formation in the eighteenth century focuses on a sample of historians, mainly Christians, who lived and wrote during the Shihabi Emirate from 1697 till the Egyptian invasion in 1831.

Das Buch präsentiert die erste seit längerer Zeit vorgelegte umfassende Studie in deutscher Sprache zum Politischen Denken der klassischen deutschen Literatur und Philosophie nach der Französischen Revolution, die das ganze politische Spektrum der Zeit auf Basis des neuesten Forschungsstandes vorstellt.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Das Problem des klassischen als historisches, archäologisches und philologisches Phänomen" verfügbar.

This book explores the present-day Irish Diaspora in Argentina, using oral narrative and a sociolinguistic theoretical framework to draw out the features that define contemporary Hiberno-Argentine identity.

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

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 is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and forget the past.

This book unlocks the Jewish theology of YHWH in three central stages of Jewish thought: the Hebrew bible, rabbinic literature, and medieval philosophy and mysticism.

Taking as its focus an age of transformational development in cartographic history, namely the two centuries between Columbus's arrival in the New World and the emergence of the Scientific Revolution, this study examines how maps were employed as physical and symbolic objects by thinkers, writers and artists.

This book explores cases of decapitation found in sources on the reign of Alexander the Great.

Liberating Histories makes an original, scholarly contribution to contemporary debates surrounding the cultural and political relevance of historical practices.

Central Asia, the 'heart' of the Eurasian landmass, has through the centuries been the hub of diverse and varied cultures.

This book is a collection of Nai Xia's quintessential works on Silk Road studies.

Die zeitliche, thematische und methodische Ausdifferenzierung der Geschichtsschreibung, die seit der Spätaufklärung auch in Schlesien zu beobachten ist, steht im Mittelpunkt der hier versammelten Regionalstudien.

As a contribution to cultural policy studies, this book offers a uniquely detailed and comprehensive account of the historical evolution of cultural policies and their contestation within a single democratic polity, while treating these developments comparatively against the backdrop of contemporaneous influences and developments internationally.

Originally published in 1985.

Now widely regarded as the best available guide to the study of the Founding, the first edition of Interpreting the Founding provided summaries and analyses of the leading interpretive frameworks that have guided the study of the Founding since the publication of Charles Beards An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution in 1913.

This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary Polish cinema's engagement with histories of Polish violence against their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust.

First published in 1982, this book is inspired the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm, and has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationship to political and religious belief.

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It has not been my intention to write a definitive study of appeasement.

The book uses an innovative prism of interorality that powerfully reevaluates Caribbean orality and innovatively casts light on its overlooked and fundamental epistemological contribution into the formation of Caribbean philosophy.

This book explores how ideas about race travelled across national borders in early twentieth-century Latin America.

The Historians of Angevin England is a study of the explosion of creativity in historical writing in England in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and what this tells us about the writing of history in the middle ages.

This volume explores the relationship between place, traumatic memory, and narrative.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Bericht für das Jahr 1956/57" verfügbar.

Seeking to bridge the gap between various approaches to the study of emotions, this volume aims at a multidisciplinary examination of connections between emotions and history and the ways in which these connections have manifested themselves in historiography, cultural, and literary studies.

This book has two purposes.