Historiography

In this book historians and social scientists examine boycotts from the  eighteenth century to the present day.

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Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an unparalleled insight into how early modern scholarly culture understood the relations between its disciplines.

The 'history of ideas', better known these days as intellectual history, is a flourishing field of study which has been the object of much controversy but hardly any historical exploration.

In these essays, Andrew Cunningham is concerned with issues of identity - what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usually, how they are not identical with) topics, disciplines, arguments or diseases in the present.

It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little about the Middle Ages.

Anticipatory Materialisms explores nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature thatanticipates and pre-empts the recent philosophical 'turn' to materiality and affect.

This book is a study both of anachronism in antiquity and of anachronism as a vehicle for understanding antiquity.

This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and 'remembered' the Sixties.

Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture.

The general topic of this book is the theory of categories, its sources, meaning and development.

This book seeks to overcome the tension between 'western' and 'non-western' categories and tools in the study of global history, showing how most western approaches to the social sciences and history have developed through transnational and colonial interactions.

This collection of the best new and recent work on historical consciousness and practice in late Imperial Russia assembles the building blocks for a fundamental reconceptualization of Russian history and history writing.

John Locke was one of the first shareholders of the Bank of England and participated in parliamentary debates surrounding its creation.

The Ideology of Political Reactionaries offers a new perspective on the beliefs reactionaries share, presenting a theory of reactionary ideology in the process.

This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold.

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The Jesuit Juan de Mariana (1535-1624) is one of the most misunderstood authors in the history of political thought.

This volume brings together a series of papers at Kalamazoo as well as some contributed papers inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Lynn White Jr.

A brilliant reassessment which will reopen the debate on the veracity of sources in early Islamic history.

Historische Argumente waren im europäischen Mittelalter ein wirksames Mittel des Vor-Augen-Stellens, das unterschiedlichen Zwecken dienen konnte.

Historiography is the study of the methodology of writing history, the development of the discipline of history, and the changing interpretations of historical events in the works of individual historians.

To what extent can one speak of 'the Renaissance' in terms of grammar: did the medieval curricular subject grammatica survive into the Renaissance unchanged or was it transformed by the pedagogical programme of the humanists?

The two volumes to which this is apreface consist of the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science.

An engaging and accessible overview of the Enlightenment as a global phenomenon, with updated material and additional online resources.

The body has come to occupy a central place in cultural history, with historians consistently exploring such themes as the history of disease, disability, beauty, and sexuality.

Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies researches the development of knowledge economies in Early Modern Europe.

This volume approaches the broad topic of wonder in the works of Tacitus, encompassing paradox, the marvellous and the admirable.

This book is the first of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science).

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

Richard Hofstadter (1916-70) was America's most distinguished historian of the twentieth century.

Als Fortsetzer des Kirchenvaters Hieronymus befasst sich Prosper Tiro als einer von wenigen zeitgenossischen Autoren mit der Geschichte des Westromischen Reichs in der ersten Halfte des 5.

This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the El Mirador cave located on the Atapuerca karstic system, one of the longest Pleistocene and Holocene archaeopaleontological deposits in Iberia.

When you go into a scientific library or look through the catalogues of scientific publishers, you will quickly find books from food scientists, food technologists, food chemists, food microbiologists, and food toxicologists.

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.

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

This book addresses the global history of technology, warfare and state formation from the Stone Age to the Information Age.

First published in 1911.

Focusing on one of the most fascinating and debated figures in the history of modern Brazil, Stringing Together a Nation is the first full-length study of the life and career of Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon (1865-1958) to be published in English.

This book revises the picture of the teacher and educator of princes, Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (c.

This title was first published in 2003.

Across the nineteenth century, scholars in Britain, France and the German lands sought to understand their earliest ancestors: the Germanic and Celtic tribes known from classical antiquity, and the newly discovered peoples of prehistory.

The Hebrew novelist and political essayist, Amoz Oz (1939-2018), arguably Israel's leading intellectual, was fond of describing himself as using two different pens - the first used to write works of prose and fiction, and the other to criticize the government and advocate for a political change.