Historiography

This book is the first of its kind to investigate the ongoing significance of industrial craft in deindustrialising places such as Australia.

This book is a work of historical critical exegesis.

The past decades public interest in history is booming.

This book examines the Tudor histories of the English Reformation written in the period 1530-83.

This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to shaping and imposition of "e;formulas for betrayal"e; as a result of changing memory politics in post-war Europe.

Wer Geschichte studiert, befasst sich auch mit Herodots »Historien«.

Anapolitanos critically examines and evaluates three basic characteristics of the Leibnizian metaphysical system: Leibniz's version of representation; the principle of continuity; and space, time, and the phenomenally spatio-temporal.

Originally published in 1980.

Beginning with a couple of essays dealing with the experimental and mathematical foundations of physics in the work of Henry Cavendish and Joseph Fourier, the volume goes on to consider the broad areas of investigation that constituted the central foci of the development of the physics discipline in the nineteenth century: electricity and magnetism, including especially the work of Michael Faraday, William Thomson, and James Clerk Maxwell; and thermodynamics and matter theory, including the theoretical work and legacy of Josiah Willard Gibbs, some experimental work relating to thermodynamics and kinetic theory of Heinrich Hertz, and the work of Felix Seyler-Hoppe on hemoglobin in the neighboring field of biophysics/biochemistry.

How do Documents Become Sources?

Even if specific pieces of research (on the sources or on individual authors, such as Pico, Agrippa, Erasmus, Montaigne, Sanches etc.

​Ab den fünfziger Jahren entstand in Westdeutschland mit der neu geschaffenen „documenta“ allmählich das Bild einer eigenständigen „Westkunst“.

This book examines 21st-century South African autobiographical writing that addresses the nation's socio-political realities, both past and present.

This book consists of a significant and valuable reappraisal of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by a number of outstanding, international Hegel scholars.

To understand the turnaround in Spain's stance towards Japan during World War II, this book goes beyond mutual contacts and explains through images, representations, and racism why Madrid aimed at declaring war on Japan but not against the III Reich -as London ironically replied when it learned of Spain's warmongering against one of the Axis members.

One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe.

This book is a study of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial Competitions of the 1990s, with a focus on designs that kindle empathetic responses.

Diese Arbeit ist im Rahmen eines Forschungsvorhabens entstanden, das unter dem Arbeitstitel "Fachwissen in der Politik.

This book, the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity of those involved-Muslims, Christians, and Jews; women, men, and children; black, brown, and white; the unknown and the notable; locals, refugees, the displaced, and the interned; soldiers, officers, bureaucrats, volunteer fighters, and the forcibly recruited.

This volume presents a panorama of Syriac engagement with Aristotelian philosophy primarily situated in the 6th to the 9th centuries, but also ranging to the 13th.

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In the articles collected here Nancy Struever explores the basic assumption that rhetoric is not simply a bag of persuasive tricks, but functions, necessarily, as a mode of inquiry investigating not simply the mechanics of production and reception of discourse, but the psychological factors of reason and passion engaged by the assertion, modification, and contest of beliefs and dispositions of the civil communities.

Historical Letters introduces English-speaking readers to the seminal work of Peter Lavrov a key figure in Russian intellectual and socialist history.

Our understanding of ourselves and the world as historical has drastically changed since the postwar period, yet this emerging historical sensibility has not been appropriately explained in a coherent theory of history.

It was probably Rousseau who first thought of dreams as ennobling experiences.

As the world negotiates immense loss and questions of how to memorialize, the contributions in this volume evaluate the role of culture as a means to promote reconciliation, either between formerly warring parties, perpetrators and survivors, governments and communities, or within the self.

Nation and the Writing of History in China and Britain explores, through a comparative approach, the reception of the nationalist worldview and its effects on the practice of history in China and Britain.

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

This book explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Jesuit contributions to the rhetorical tradition established by Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian.

This book explores the lives, careers, and social and political activism of a diverse group of women historians in Ireland, contributing to the study of the Irish historical tradition and the study of women historians in an international context.

By nature, human beings seek to make sense of their past.

The twelve essays in this new collection by John Monfasani examine how, in particular cases, Greek emigres, Italian humanists, and Latin scholastics reacted with each other in surprising and important ways.

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.

In Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography, Stefan H.

Scientific modernity treats interpretation as a matter of discovery.

This book provides a new interpretation of the economic dimension of the Cold War.

From one of today's most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history mattersand why it needs to be told in a radically different, global wayIt's easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient historyobsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinction.

This book studies the rise and nature of historicist approaches to life, race, character, language, political economy, and empire.

This book discusses a number of ways in which the dialogue about Europe's past and future could be rendered more inclusive, such as the promotion of critical and sentimental education and the creation of virtual and actual social spaces in which citizens and organised identity groups can participate.

It is commonly held that a strict divide between literature and history emerged in the 19th century, with the latter evolving into a more serious disciple of rigorous science.

Winner of the 2024 Gradiva(R) Award for Best Book!

Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory is quite an interesting place for historians: several changes of nationality between France and Germany, high-profile scientists having been based there, big projects born or installed within its walls, and so on.

Opening the way for a reexamination of Matthew Arnold's unique contributions to ethical criticism, James Walter Caufield emphasizes the central role of philosophical pessimism in Arnold's master tropes of "e;culture"e; and "e;conduct.