Historiography

This book explores the latest thinking about Max Weber and his continuing influence on theoretical and empirical interests today.

Illustration and Heritage explores the re-materialisation of absent, lost, and invisible stories through illustrative practice and examines the potential role of contemporary illustration in cultural heritage.

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

This title was first published in 2003.

In the twentieth century, dyes, pharmaceuticals, photographic products, explosives, insecticides, fertilizers, synthetic rubber, fuels, and fibers, plastics, and other products have flowed out of the chemical industry and into the consumer economies, war machines, farms, and medical practices of industrial societies.

This book analyses the successive appearances of Adolf Hitler in French fiction between 1945 and 2017.

The first section of this volume aims to examine various aspects of the impact of Enlightenment thought in the Balkans in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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

This is the third and final volume in a broad study about the role of information largely in the Unites States since the early nineteenth century.

This book, now in its twelfth edition, has become indispensable to every library and to every serious student of history.

These essays examine the thought and works of a series of writers on political thought, religion, historiography and literature, from the 16th century to the 19th.

Drawing on letters, personal testimony, works of art, novels, and historic Black newspapers, this book is an interdisciplinary exploration of Black women's contributions to the intellectual life of nineteenth-century America.

Basically, historiography is the writing of history or the study of the development of historical method, historical research, and writing.

History in all its forms is more popular nowadays than ever.

The study of history in Canada has a history of its own, and its development as an academic discipline is a multifaceted one.

This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies written in Latin and the vernacular primarily in France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

This collection presents the first sustained examination of the nature and status of the idea of principles in early modern thought.

The editors have incurred many debts in preparing this book, and both etiquette and ethics would be contravened if they were not discharged here.

This collection of essays offers new perspectives from Japan on Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro.

The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive.

The Revolution in France of 1789 provoked a major 'pamphlet war' in Britain as writers debated what exactly had happened, why it had happened, and where events were now headed.

In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war guilt; Pierre Renouvin, a disabled serviceman and preeminent authority on the conflict in France; Luigi Albertini, the Italian newspaper tycoon who, unique among scholars of the Great War, played a part in pitching his country into it; Paul W.

This book focuses on the highly complex and intertwined relationship between civil aviation, technological globalization and Cold War politics.

Edmund Burke's iconic stance against the French Revolution and its supposed Enlightenment inspiration, has ensured his central role in debates about the nature of modernity and freedom.

We are arguably living in a 'postideological' era.

Colouring Textiles is an attempt to provide a new cross-cultural comparative approach to the art of dyeing and printing with natural dyestuffs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The concept of heresy is deeply rooted in Christian European culture.

This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution.

Rights language is a fundamental feature of the modern world.

Aquinas on God presents an accessible exploration of Thomas Aquinas' conception of God.

Roger North is known today as a biographer and writer on music, architecture and estate management.

In a world still divided into sovereign states and possessed of no institutions for comprehensive centralised regulation of transnational interests and activities, treaties are steadily increasing in number and importance as an imperfect but indispensable substitute for such regulation.

This volume provides an up-to-date and in-depth summary and analysis of the political practices of pre-Columbian communities of the Araucanians or Mapuche of south-central Chile and adjacent regions.

From 1970 to 1977 a major project to uncover source material for students of contemporary British history and politics was undertaken at the British Library of Political and Economic Science.

This book, first published in 1966, is an introduction to the life and work of Georg Kerschensteiner, the pioneer of the modern German system of vocational education, a system which is largely responsible for Germany's remarkable industrial recovery and advancement after the Second World War.

Prophets of the Past is the first book to examine in depth how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history.

This is a book about real time in economics, a dimension increasingly unused by the leading edge of the profession.

The Soviet historical profession is in ferment.

Dutch Golden Age scholar Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded throughout the seventeenth century as the most learned woman of her age.

This volume features articles which employ source-work research to trace Kierkegaard's understanding and use of authors from the Patristic and Medieval traditions.

Models of the History of Philosophy.

In The Shock of Medievalism Kathleen Biddick explores the nineteenth-century foundations of medieval studies as an academic discipline as well as certain unexamined contemporary consequences of these origins.

Now in its fifth edition, The Historian's Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual process and craft of history, offering an overview of the field and techniques for reading and writing about history.

This book explores and explains the reasons why the idea of universal history, a form of teleological history which holds that all peoples are travelling along the same path and destined to end at the same point, persists in political thought.

The years between 1700 and 1900 witnessed a fundamental transition in attitudes towards science, as earlier concepts of natural philosophy were replaced with a more modern conception of science.