Extrait : "Pour s'emparer de Malte et de l'Egypte, il faudrait de vingt à vingt-cinq mille hommes d'infanterie, et de deux à trois mille hommes de cavalerie sans chevaux.
Extrait : "La méthode historique est la méthode employée pour constituer l'histoire; elle sert à déterminer scientifiquement les faits historiques, puis à les grouper en un système scientifique.
Extrait : "Que les rois se coalisent d'un bout de l'Europe à l'autre contre les nations ; Que le vicaire de Jésus-Christ lance l'anathème à la liberté ; Que les républicains tombent écrasés sous les murs de leurs villes : La République reste l'idéal des société, et la liberté outragée reparaît bientôt, comme le soleil après l'éclipse.
The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia: A Brief History first appeared in 1963, a little book by a man with no training as either a writer or a historian.
MUCH OF MY WEATHER and climate research over the past 50 years has focused on how atmospheric conditions impact the environment, the ec- omy, and human activities/health.
Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America teaches imaginative and distinctive approaches to the practice of history through a series of essays on colonial Latin America.
Writing the Holocaust provides students and teachers with an accessibly written overview of the key themes and major theoretical developments which continue to inform the nature of historical writing on the Holocaust.
Writing the Holocaust provides students and teachers with an accessibly written overview of the key themes and major theoretical developments which continue to inform the nature of historical writing on the Holocaust.
After centuries of colonial domination and a twentieth century riddled with dictatorships, indigenous peoples in Bolivia embarked upon a social and political struggle that would change the country forever.
From Lucretius's horror loci and Buddhist drowsiness to the religious boredom of acedia and the philosophical explorations of Kant, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, boredom has long been a subject of philosophical fascination.
This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.
This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.
David Hume, the eighteenth century philosopher, famously declared that 'the crusades engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engaged the curiosity of man kind'.
David Hume, the eighteenth century philosopher, famously declared that 'the crusades engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engaged the curiosity of man kind'.
A decade after Francis Fukuyama announced the 'End of History', anti-capitalist demonstrators at Seattle and elsewhere have helped reinvigorate the Left with the reply 'another world is possible'.
"e;A lucid, muscular, and often sly reflection"e; on the worth and purpose of historical scholarship by the award-winning author of The Third Reich Trilogy (Kirkus).
A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization.
The relationship between historical studies and psychoanalysis remains an open debate that is full of tension, in both a positive and a negative sense.
Popular presentations of history have recently been discovered as a new field of research, and even though interest in it has been growing noticeably very little has been published on this topic.
When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.
This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of "e;dialectical images"e;: Marx's "e;locomotives of history,"e; Alexandra Kollontai's sexually liberated bodies, Lenin's mummified body, Auguste Blanqui's barricades and red flags, the Paris Commune's demolition of the Vendome Column, among several others.
In Mies Contra Le Corbusier, Gevork Hartoonian embarks on a captivating exploration of the architectural ideologies embodied in the works of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier.
Winner of the 2021 Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society Book Prize
Of the available sources for Islamic history between the seventh and eighth centuries CE, few are of greater importance than al-Baladhuri's Kitab Futuh al-buldan (The Book of the Conquest of Lands).
Winner of the 2021 Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society Book Prize
Of the available sources for Islamic history between the seventh and eighth centuries CE, few are of greater importance than al-Baladhuri's Kitab Futuh al-buldan (The Book of the Conquest of Lands).
The famous letters of Bernard of Clairvaux attacking the philosopher Peter Abelard and a vituperative response to them are presented together for the first time.
