Historiography

The history of the Cold War has focused overwhelmingly on statecraft and military power, an approach that has naturally placed Moscow and Washington center stage.

This book presents some of the most recent trends and developments in Presocratic scholarship.

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.

Music as a Science of Mankind offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British eighteenth-century culture.

Spatial disorientation is of key relevance to our globalized world, eliciting complex questions about our relationship with technology and the last remaining vestiges of our animal nature.

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

Roger North is known today as a biographer and writer on music, architecture and estate management.

This title was first published in 2001.

Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events.

In this book, I deal with some fundamental problems of the Hegelian dialectic.

Originally published in 1937.

This book makes a strong case for the inclusion of Indigenous Elders' cultural knowledge in the delivery of inclusive education for learners who are members of minority communities.

This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe.

Originally published in 1967, this book analyses the method by which historical evidence is built up and compares the nature of historical proof with that of other disciplines such as the law and natural sciences.

Volume VIII of Acta Historiae Neerlandicae again presents studies on the history of the Low Countries which it is hoped will be of interest to foreign scholars.

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This book explores the Australian press reporting of the persecution and genocide of European Jews, and the extent to which the news of the Holocaust was known and believed, revealed and hidden, and acknowledged and minimised.

Five historians uncover the ties between people's daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives.

This book stresses the interrelatedness of knowledge by extricating models that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

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This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and forget the past.

THE PROBLEM AND THE APPROACH The abortive revolutions of 1848 have been widely regarded by historians as a watershed not only in the political but also in the intellectual de- velopment of modem Europe.

Amazonia is never quite what it seems.

Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire offers a new take on European history from c.

This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of considering the literature to illuminate the historical Roman context and the historical context to illuminate the literature.

Jerome Frank was one of the most important spokesmen for the generation of liberal intellectuals who came to maturity during the period of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

This book analyses photographic and cinematographic representations of war and its memorialisation rituals in the period of late modernity from the perspectives of cultural sociology, philosophy, art theory and film studies.

Hu Shih (1891-1962), Chinese philosopher, historian and diplomat.

This study is based upon the concept of nations with history and nations without history which was advanced in 1848/1849 in the pages of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, a Cologne based German newspaper under the editorship of Karl Marx.

In the period since the end of world War II numerous develop- ing countries have employed colonization, or planned pioneer settlement, as one method of building a more reliable and bal- anced economy.

First published in 1979.

In this work, originally published in 1989, the author establishes a tradition of radical historicism from Hegel to the Budapenst School.

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Early in his career, Fernand Brunner became one of the few specialists on Ibn Gabirol, a Jewish philosopher and poet in 11th-century Spain, whose treatise, the Fons vitae, is known only in Latin translation.

In the early 1690s Roger North was preparing to remove from London to Rougham, Norfolk, where he planned to continue his search for truth, which for him meant knowledge of nature, including human nature.

Part II: Engineering Decisions in the 21st Century Engineers work in an increasingly complex entanglement of ideas, people, cultures, technology, systems and environments.

After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "e;end of utopia"e; ("e;end of history,"e; "e;end of narratives"e;).

This book engages the globally pressing question of how to live and work with the haunting power of the past in the aftermath of mass violence.

Is the display of number and geometry in medieval religious architecture evidence of intended symbolism?

Popularizing the Past tells the stories of five postwar historians who changed the way ordinary Americans thought about their nation's history.

While it is generally acknowledged that Russia's culture has been influenced by France, the present study goes beyond the Francophile preferences of the noble elite and examines Russian society more broadly, exploring those elements of French cultural influence that are still relevant today.

This book presents a concise yet comprehensive survey of methods used in the expanding studies of human evolution, paying particular attention to new work on social evolution.