Historiography

The Fiction of History sets out a number of themes in the relationship between history and fiction, emphasising the tensions and dilemmas created in this relationship and examining how various writers have dealt with these.

This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering an "e;early Anthropocene"e; in the literature, art, and science of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.

Oswald Spengler is regarded as one of the founders of the comparatist approach to history, and yet in modern scholarship he is often reduced to the catchphrase ?

This volume explores the response of liberals to rightwing attacks during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s, establishing it as a defensive approach aimed at warding off efforts to conflate liberalism with communism, but not at striking back at the opposing ideology of conservatism itself.

The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively earl- though not always under that name - in the Australasian region.

This is a fascinating account of two great scientists of the 20th century: Einstein and Heisenberg, discoverers, respectively, of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.

This book examines the nexus between nation-building and history education globally and the implication for cultural diversity and social justice.

Afrocentrism has been a controversial but popular movement in schools and universities across America, as well as in black communities.

The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thought.

Es ist für die Gerda Henkel Stiftung eine besondere Freude gewesen, daß sie Herrn Bittel für eine Gerda Henkel Vorlesung über ein zentrales Thema seiner Forschungen gewinnen konnte.

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This book tackles cultural mobilization in the First World War as a plural process of identity formation and de-formation.

This fresh collection of essays questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, including our understanding of its validity as well as our general conception of knowledge.

Modern human origins and the fate of the Neanderthals are arguably the most compelling and contentious arenas in paleoanthropology.

Fur die Zeit vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart und fur Europa und Nordamerika untersuchen in 16 Beitragen renommierte Autoren und Autorinnen unterschiedliche Facetten der universitaren Festkultur und der Inszenierung von feierlichen Anlassen: Jubilaumsfeiern wie religiose Zeremonien, Graduierungsfeste und Memorialfeiern oder Depositionsakte und schliesslich Festlichkeiten aus Anlass politischer Stellungnahmen.

"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.

With its many rites of initiation (religious, educational, professional or sexual), Elizabethan and Jacobean education emphasized both imitation and discovery in a struggle to bring population to a minimal literacy, while more demanding techniques were being developed for the cultural elite.

The cultural milieu in the "e;Age of Goethe"e; of eighteenth-century Germany is given fresh context in this art historical study of the noted writers' patroness: Anna Amalia, Duchess of Weimar-Sachsen-Eisenach.

This book examines the practice of transitional justice in the Solomon Islands from the period of the 'The Tensions' to the present.

"Las lecturas convencionales de la Antigüedad enfrentan a Atenas con Jerusalén, donde Atenas representa la «razón» y Jerusalén la «fe».

Exploring the breadth and complexities of history as a field of study, History in Practice demystifies what historians actually do and the tasks they take on.

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

Many business corporations are faced with the challenge of bringing together quite different types of knowledge in design processes: knowledge of different disciplines in the natural and engineering sciences, knowledge of markets and market trends, knowledge of political and juridical affairs.

This volume considers how the act through which historians interpret the past can be understood as one of epistemological and cognitive translation.

A call to arms to historians and everyone interested in history in contemporary society.

Spectacle is not often considered to be a significant part of the style of 'classical' cinema.

The opposition of science and religion is a recent phenomenon; in the middle ages, and indeed until the middle of the nineteenth century, there was almost no conflict.

This book intends to familiarise the reader with the political and sociological thought of Florestan Fernandes, covering the range of his research themes and socialist militancy between the 1940s and 1990s.

From Banks's brewery's yeasty stink to groaty pudding to spicy curry, Sebastian Groes and R.

Sir Philip Gibbs was one of the most widely read English journalists of the first half of the twentieth century.

Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact-especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics.

This book is a detailed exploration of the Hispanic intellectual context and the different Aristotelian traditions that prevailed until the 16th century.

This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering an "e;early Anthropocene"e; in the literature, art, and science of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.

Stone attributes the outbreak of the French Revolution to international/domestic pressures on national leaders.

This handbook explores a diverse range of artistic and cultural responses to modern conflict, from Mons in the First World War to Kabul in the twenty-first century.

Charles Bonnet began his career as a naturalist, from an early age establishing a reputation as a careful observer.

This collection brings much-needed focus to the vibrancy and vitality of minority and marginal writing about empire, and to their implications as expressions of embodied contact between imperial power and those negotiating its consequences from "e;below.

This book analyses contemporary war commemoration in Britain and Russia.

Peacebuilding and reconciliation between groups and entire nations that share a violent past are among the toughest, yet most important, challenges for modern societies.

This book is the first full-length study of the museum object as a memory medium in history exhibitions about the Nazi era, the Second World War, and the Holocaust.

Published in 1998, this is a fundamental re-assessment of the world-view of the alchemists, natural philosophers and intelligencers of the mid 17th century.

This book examines the Kemalist ideology of Turkey from two perspectives.

Scientific research is viewed as a deliberate activity and the logic of discovery consists of strategies and arguments whereby the best objectives (questions) and optimal means for achieving these objectives (heuristics) are chosen.