Historiography

This book traces the history of the word 'charisma', and the various meanings assigned to it, from its first century origins in Christian theology to its manifestations in twenty-first century politics and culture, while considering how much of the word's original religious meaning persists in the contemporary secular understanding.

This book, originally published in 1963, discusses the place of history in education and general culture, methods of teaching and how to tackle reading.

Writing Architecture in Modern Italy tells the history of an intellectual group connected to the small but influential Italian Einaudi publishing house between the 1930s and the 1950s.

This collection analyses the concept of minority and minorities in global history.

There exists an extensive literature on the history of the Saint- Simonian movement as well as on various phases of Saint-Simo- nian economic, literary, aesthetic, feminist, and pacifist thought and activity.

"e;Let them come forward, they are thirsty for the sight of a King,"e; said Henri IV to his followers who were trying to push back the curious crowds as he entered Paris in February, I594.

Modern mathematical logic would not exist without the analytical tools first developed by George Boole in The Mathematical Analysis of Logic and The Laws of Thought.

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

The origins and development of Greek historiography cannot be properly understood unless early historical writings are situated in the framework of late archaic and early classical Greek culture and society.

This volume makes an important contribution to the understanding of translation theory and practice in the Early Modern period, focusing on the translation of knowledge, literature and travel writing, and examining discussions about the role of women and office of interpreter.

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

Cultural Memory in Seamus Heaney's Late Work considers the ways that memory functions in Heaney's poetry.

The Modernization of the Western World presents an overview of the history of Western civilization and provides readers with the intellectual tools they need to comprehend how societies function and change.

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My interest in the 'refugee question' of the 1930s stemmed initially from time spent as an undergraduate at Manchester University, an interest which has been expanded, via a doctoral thesis, to the writing of this book.

An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society.

The ashes of Herbert Norman now lie in the British cemetery at Rome, near those of Shelley and Keats.

This book describes the intense mobilization of American society in the Global War on Terrorism coupled with trends in progress before 9/11.

This stimulating volume explores how the memory of the Reformation has been remembered, forgotten, contested, and reinvented between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries.

This book uses plasticity as a metaphor for understanding how the past endures and evolves within the landscape, and the ways in which remembering shapes the sites we occupy and use.

This edited volume brings new perspectives on the topic maritime archaeology of the slave trade in the Caribbean.

Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry.

This rigorous scholarly appraisal of the legendary biographies of Tamerlane is the first of its kind in any language.

The past three decades have seen a remarkable growth of interest in intellectual history and this book provides the first comprehensive survey of recent research in this field.

Zu schön, um wahr zu seinKalifornien als Insel, versunkene Königreiche und das irdische Paradies – diese und andere gefühlte Fakten haben Kartografen quer durch die Jahrhunderte fein säuberlich in ihren Atlanten festgehalten.

This book reflects on the new histories emerging from the exhumation of mass graves that contain the corpses of the Republicans killed in extrajudicial executions during and after the conflict, nearly eighty years after the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

Bernard Williams' Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is widely regarded as one of the most important works of moral philosophy in the last fifty years.

Dieses Buch enthält insgesamt 730 Biographien der zwischen 1803 und 1932 an der Universität Heidelberg lehrenden Ordinarien, außerordentlichen Professoren und Honorarprofessoren.

Reinhart Koselleck (1923 2006) was one of most imposing and influential European intellectual historians in the twentieth century.

The essays collected in this volume represent many years of Professor Nauert's research and teaching on the history of Renaissance humanism, and more particularly on humanism north of the Alps.

Paul Vehse untersucht Anerkennungsproblematiken, die in der Gedenkstättenpädagogik im Bestreben um ein anerkennendes Gedenken an die Verfolgten des Nationalsozialismus entstehen.

This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing history are undergoing radical transformation.

Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East.

Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking.

​Mitte der 1990er Jahre geriet die Schweiz vergangenheitspolitisch ins Kreuzfeuer internationaler Kritik.

In the endless debate about the Two Cultures no book until this attempted to provide a selection of scientific writing on specific themes to stimulate students of arts subjects into discussion and writing about the nature of science and its relationship with the rest of life.