In dem historischen Roman 'Der Kaiser' von Georg Ebers tauchen die Leser in das antike Rom ein, um die faszinierende Geschichte eines jungen Mannes zu erleben, der überraschend zum Kaiser ernannt wird.
First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries.
Das Handbuch behandelt in über 150 eigenständigen Artikeln den grundlegenden Wortschatz des französischen Ancien Régime und der Französischen Revolution.
This edited collection is the first volume solely dedicated to research on Johann Gottfried Herder's understanding of history, time, and temporalities.
This book explores the lasting legacy of the controversial project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, funded by the CIA, to promote Western culture and liberal values in the battle of ideas with global Communism during the Cold War.
"e;International Relations"e; provides insightful and comprehensive coverage of world politics from a historical, strategic, economic and social dimensions perspective, aiming to expand your understanding of how the complex world political system operates.
Third Space, Hetero-Chronotopoi, Materialität – zwischenräumliche Strukturen als Analyseelemente machen raumzeitliche Merkmale vergangener und gegenwärtiger Gesellschaften und Untersuchungsgegenstände sichtbar.
In 'Savonarola und die florentinische Republik gegen Ende des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts' präsentiert Leopold von Ranke eine akribische Analyse der politischen und religiösen Landschaft Florenz' in der späten Renaissance.
The Repentant Abelard is both an innovative study and English translation of the late poetic works of controversial medieval philosopher and logician Peter Abelard, written for his beloved wife Heloise and son Astralabe.
Arthur Bernède racconte l'histoire de Mandrin, "Un jeune paysan, à l'âme exaltée d'aventurier sans peur et sans scrupules, mais au cœur généreux, allait lever l'étendard de la révolte, faisant bientôt trembler ces fermiers généraux, terreur des pauvres gens.
Cuando una historiadora o un historiador publica una obra, tendemos a imaginarla como resultado de operaciones analíticas que incluyen la lectura de bibliografía, la puesta a prueba de avances parciales en congresos de expertos (que permiten refinar las hipótesis o el método) y laboriosos procesos de escritura y reescritura.
In Vienna in the 1920s a group of brilliant philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists - led by figures such as Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, and Hans Hahn - gathered to discuss the foundations of science and mathematics.
Reflecting on the relationship between artists and their audiences, this book examines how artists have presented themselves publicly through interviews and sought to establish a critical voice for themselves.
This book summarizes the systematic research on the Neolithic cultures of Taiwan, based on the latest archaeological discoveries, and focusing on the maritime interactions between mainland southeast China, Taiwan, and southeast Asia during (5600-1800 BP).
This edited work explores piracy and surreptitious activities such as privateering, war-making, slave-hunting and raiding, focussing on Southeast Asia in the early modern period.
This book summary introduces the key research findings, exploration and excavation works carried out during the 80 years of archaeological endeavours entirely devoted to Liangzhu historical sites.
This book examines how convicts played a key role in the development of capitalism in Australia and how their active resistance shaped both workplace relations and institutions.
This book brings together history educators from Australia and around the world to tell their own personal stories and how they approach teaching history in the context of contemporary tensions in the classroom.
This book presents the basic fundamentals of descriptive archaeoastronomy and its application to the astronomical descriptions found in ancient Indian scriptures.
Departing from Jacques Derrida's appropriations of cinders as a trope of war atrocity aftermath, this book examines writings that deal with war trauma memories in Asian-American communities.
This book relays the largely untold story of the approximately 1,100 Australian war graves workers whose job it was to locate, identify exhume and rebury the thousands of Australian soldiers who died in Europe during the First World War.
Memory studies is a nascent and multidisciplinary research field, drawing from an impressive array of qualitative investigative methods deployed to do memory research.
This book explores the factors and mechanisms that may have influenced the dynamic behaviors of earliest civilizations, focusing on both environmental (geographic) factors on which traditional historic analyses are based and human (behavioral) factors on which anthropological analyses are usually based.
Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this second collection of articles by John Gascoigne explores this movement's filiation and influence in a range of contexts.
This book provides a rigorous investigation into the adoption and culture of human rights in Nigeria, with a focus on the human rights attitudes of Nigerian students.
This book is the first to provide an in-depth analysis about the history, urban development, planning, and preservation of the Lhasa city over the last thirteen centuries.
This book analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of 'rooting into a culture' and 'routing out of a culture' in the context of South Asian diaspora in Australia.
This book argues that a general understanding of traditional Chinese philosophy can be achieved by a concise elaboration of its truth, goodness and beauty; that goodness and beauty in Chinese philosophy, combined with the integration of man and heaven, knowledge and practice, scenery and feeling, reflect a pursuit of an ideal goal in traditional Chinese philosophy characterized by the thought mode uniting man and nature.
This book, based on the theory of Marxism-Leninism, aims to study the essence, content and features of various legal systems in China in different historical periods, as well as the rules of the development of Chinese legal systems.
La obra es resultado del trabajo de investigación acerca de la compresión de la historia y la memoria; la utilidad del testimonio en la narración del pasado, el punto de vista del devenir y la importancia de pensar las posibilidades del presente; sobre las variadas concepciones de la ruralidad y el papel de lo sonoro en la construcción de la memoria.
Esta obra presenta un análisis sobre el desarrollo de la disciplina histórica en Colombia y explica cómo se consolidó la escritura de la historia en el siglo XIX en torno al afán de alcanzar la unidad nacional; describe cómo la construcción del pasado nacional avanzó un buen trecho del siglo XX apoyada en la necesidad de alcanzar el anhelado "desarrollo"; reflexiona después sobre las crisis de los paradigmas a fines de los años ochenta que le habían servido a la escritura de la historia como referentes fundamentales, y concluye con un análisis sobre el modo en el fluye la necesidad y transcendencia de revisar los fundamentos de la nación que la construcción del pasado en Colombia había aceptado sin analizar ni cuestionar.
Los cabildos municipales fueron los primeros instrumentos de organización y acción política utilizados en América durante el proceso de conquista y representaban directamente a los primeros fundadores y pobladores de las ciudades.
