Historiography

This book analyzes how a sizable group of Gennan workers came to support Communism and how they in turn influenced the emergence and development of the German Communist Party (KPD) in its fonnative period as a mass party.

Acclaimed after the Second World War as England's greatest historian, Sir Lewis Namier was an eastern European immigrant who came to idealise the English gentleman and enjoyed close friendship with leading figures of his day, including Winston Churchill.

This book provides a focus for future discussion in one of the most important debates within historical theology within the protestant tradition - the debate about the definition of a category of analysis that operates over five centuries of religious faith and practice and in a globalising religion.

The aim of the book is to present original and though-provoking essays in human paleontology and prehistory, which are at the forefront of human evolutionary research, in honor of Professor Yoel Rak (a leading scholar in paleoanthropology).

This book is an introductory instrument to the main themes of environmental history, illustrating its development over time, methodological implications, results achieved and those still under discussion.

In this work, Rutherford reviews why Adam Smith, Hayek, Mises and others praised economic markets, with a view to understanding, in contrast, historical attacks on markets dating as far back as Aristotle.

Early modern audiences, readerships, and viewerships were not homogenous.

An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generationsMarie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angouleme in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened.

Philosophy of Religion is marked by controversy over which philosophical accounts do justice to core religious beliefs.

Jesuit Science and the End of Nature's Secrets explores how several prominent Jesuit naturalists - including NiccolA2 Cabeo, Athanasius Kircher, and Gaspar Schott - tackled the problem of occult or insensible causation in the seventeenth century.

This collection demonstrates the usefulness of approaching texts-verbal, visual and aural-through a framework of humour.

This book reformulates the master narrative of erotic discourse in medieval literature.

Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power.

Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India.

This volume provides the English-speaking reader with little-known perspectives of Central and Eastern European historians on the topic of the Russian Revolution.

Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869) is today a largely unknown figure, sometimes considered to be a forerunner of Karl Marx.

In the social and cultural histories of women and feminism, Black women have long been overlooked or ignored.

Hermann Josef Abs war es bei den Verhandlungen zum Londoner Schuldenabkommen in seiner Funktion als deutscher Verhandlungsführer 1953 gelungen, eine umfassende Regelung der deutschen Auslandsschulden zu erreichen.

This book is about a divided nation and polarized nationhood.

William James (1842-1910) is widely regarded as the founding figure of modern psychology and one of the most important philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book presents a critical and aesthetic defence of "e;non-place"e; as an act of cultural reclamation.

If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind?

This book about receptions of Simon Magus uncovers further facets of one who was held to be the evil archetype of heretics.

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

This book contains the first and second volume papers from the 8th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA 8).

In nineteenth-century Britain, the effects of democracy in America were seen to spread from Congress all the way down to the personal habits of its citizens.

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

This book presents a philosophical analysis of the disciplines that offer scientific knowledge of the past.

In 1956 Allison and Rogers published A Catalogue of Catholic Books in English Printed Abroad Secretly in England, 1558-1640.

This book presents a cultural history of Latin America as seen through a symbolic good and a practice - the book, and the act of publication - two elements that have had an irrefutable power in shaping the modern world.

In jüngster Zeit hat die Sowjetunion zudem ihre Über der sowjetischen Raumfahrt lag viele Jahre ein Schleier der Geheimhaltung, der sich für die Zusammenarbeit mit westlichen Nationen im Welt­ raum erheblich intensiviert.

While memory is one of the most fascinating faculties of consciousness, it is also one of the most mysterious.

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The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography contains details of the lives of over 2100 women from all periods, cultures and walks of life - from queens to TV chefs, engineers to stand up comics, pilots to poisoners.

Although Kierkegaard's reception was initially more or less limited to Scandinavia, it has for a long time now been a highly international affair.

This book focuses on the analysis of different scales of mobility and addresses parameters and proxies of population movement aiming at the formation of a 'ground' for the further development of quantitative approaches.

The articles in this collection focus on instruction - and writings arising from that instruction - in philosophy and the arts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with emphasis on Central Europe.

The essays in this collection represent the explosion of scholarly interest since the 1960s in the pioneering feminist, philosopher, novelist, and political theorist, Mary Wollstonecraft.

Today the methods of applied statistics have penetrated very different fields of knowledge, including the investigation oftexts ofvarious origins.

Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760-1830, examines how women with enough cultural capital could turn their identity as representatives of "e;the public"e; - those on the receiving end of education - to their advantage, producing knowledge under the guise of relaying it.