Historiography

These essays all-in various ways-address the relationship between adaptation, "e;true events,"e; and cultural memory.

This book puts the debates about the energy-climate continuum on a scientific ground!

This book investigates one aspect of the story of how our religiously-oriented culture became a secular one.

This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university.

Documenting the reception of the pre-eminent Austrian school reformer Johann Ignaz Felbiger and his pedagogical thought in European histories of education in the nineteenth century, this volume demonstrates how national and religious ideological preferences have propelled the construction of fundamental biases in educational historiography.

In her research Yulia Nurliani Lukito analyses modernity and the construction of culture by the authorities using the images of Indonesian vernacular architecture presented at three different sites and times.

The transformation of the medieval European image of the world in the period following the Great Discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries is the subject of this volume.

This book brings together anthropological and historical studies that analyze burial rituals within the Caribbean through the theoretical lens of syncretism and the hybridization of post-colonial and contemporary time periods.

Plato's earthly life ended in the year 347 B.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Probleme der Aneignung des antiken Erbes" verfügbar.

Die Rede vom akademischen Elfenbeinturm, die den Vorwurf einer bewussten Abschottung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung vom öffentlichen Diskurs impliziert, wird auch nach Jahrhunderten der gegenseitigen Abhängigkeit und Beeinflussung beider Sphären noch immer bemüht.

The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature features original essays exploring the automaton-from animated statue to anthropomorphized machine-in the poetry, prose, and drama of England in the 16th and 17th centuries.

This book explores the notions of space and extension of major early modern empiricist philosophers, especially Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Condillac.

This volume explores the shifting tides of how political violence is memorialized in today's decentralized, digital era.

`Scientific history of philosophy' was one of the professional branches of Soviet philosophy, and a place where philosophical culture was preserved in an often hostile environment.

The history of the Cold War has focused overwhelmingly on statecraft and military power, an approach that has naturally placed Moscow and Washington center stage.

Das seit 1949 von der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften betreute Polybios-Lexikon erschließt in Form eines Bedeutungswörterbuchs umfassend den Wortschatz der Historien des Polybios (um 200-120 v.

In the Jim Crow era, along with black churches, schools, and newspapers, African Americans also had their own history.

This book deals with the way historical genres are theorized and practiced in the twenty-first century.

The articles in this volume of ARCHIMEDES examine particular cases of `reception' in ways that emphasize pressing historiographical and methodological issues.

"e;Reframing Postcolonial Studies addresses the urgent issues that Black Lives Matter has raised with respect to everyday material practices and the frameworks in which our knowledge and cultural heritage are conceptualized and stored.

The history of Harbin, ruled by the Russians, by an international coalition of allied powers, by Chinese warlords, by the Soviet Union and finally by the Chinese Communists - all in the course of 100 years - is presented here as an example of Chinese local-history writing.

This book explores the pedagogical possibilities of testimony and witnessing.

This collection of Charles Burnett's articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe concentrates on the identity of the Latin translators and the context in which they were working.

This book traces the full history of the Higher Education Act of 1965 in its entirety, to the present.

The name of Hippocrates has been invoked as an inspiration of medicine since antiquity, and medical practitioners have turned to Hippocrates for ethical and social standards.

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

For much of the twentieth century, French intellectual life was dominated by theoreticians and historians of mentalite.

This book investigates the historical construction of scholarly personae by integrating a spectrum of recent perspectives from the history and cultural studies of knowledge and institutions.

This volume investigates the different attitudes of historians and other social scientists to questions of causality.

Writing the Holocaust provides students and teachers with an accessibly written overview of the key themes and major theoretical developments which continue to inform the nature of historical writing on the Holocaust.

This book looks at the role of popular music in constructing the myth of the First World War.

The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom investigates how the first royal divorce scandal led to the collapse of a kingdom, changing the fate of medieval Europe.

Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well recognised, but scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works.

Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection, for the first time, propose a dynamic relationship between rhetoric and medicine as discourses and disciplines of cure in early modern Europe.

Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy offers extremely careful and detailed criticisms of some of the most important assumptions scholars have brought to bear in beginning the process of (Platonic) interpretation.

This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of the period.

In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism's notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history.

Commodity, culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive.

Hubert Kleinert legt mit diesem Buch die erste umfassende Gesamtdarstellung der Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands seit 1990 vor.

 This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of 'dark tourism', the contemporary commodification of death within international visitor economies.

One of the world's most popular religions, Buddhism is also one of the most misunderstood.

Kurt Wolff has written principally in two veins (in English) for the last fifty years, 1) on sociology, epistemology (sociology of knowledge) and the philosophy of sociology; and 2) on the relevance of his formulation of "e;surrender and catch"e; to human experience, particularly in its cogni- tive forms.