Historiography

Study of the origin and development of civilization is of unequaled importance for understanding the cultural processes that create human societies.

This text has been out of print since 1990; it was originally published by Solomon Press in 1987.

As the foundations of the modern world were being laid at the beginning of the 19th century, Annapolis, Maryland, identified itself as the Ancient City.

This book was designed as a textbook for students who need to fill their science requirement.

The establishment of a consumer society in Australia has not been a particularly well explored area of academic inquiry.

Historical archaeologists are in a unique position to analyze both historical documents and archaeological data in order to generate hypotheses and draw conclusions.

Starting at the dawn of science, History of Industrial Gases traces the development of gas theory from its Aristotelian roots to its modern achievements as a global industry.

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Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in the world today.

In the past four decades or so, the so-called psychology of religion - after having been deemedextinct, impossible or unlikely has risen to prominence again: the number of publications israpidly growing, an impressive secondary literature (handbooks, introductions, etc.

The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts: Postcolonial Historical Archaeologies explores the complex interplay of colonial and capital formations throughout the modern world.

Most of the essays in this volume have appeared in scholarly journals or in books edited by others.

This book presents a series of case studies and thought-provoking essays arguing for a radical approach to history and providing a revisionist interpretation of the historians role.

This study provides a new interpretation of art after modernism by foregrounding the importance of conceptual thinking as a pervasive force for change in art and art history since 1950.

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

In historiography, the Idea of Progress is the theory that advances in technology, science, and social organization inevitably produce an improvement in the general human condition.

Das Holocaust- und Zweit-Weltkriegs-Gedenken und die daraus erwachsenen Erzählungen haben auch in der Schweiz ihre Spuren hinterlassen.

A COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY The philosophy of historiography examines our representations and knowledge of the past, the relation between evidence, inference, explanation and narrative.

A Companion to Tacitus brings much needed clarity and accessibility to the notoriously difficult language and yet indispensable historical accounts of Tacitus.

A Companion to Tacitus brings much needed clarity and accessibility to the notoriously difficult language and yet indispensable historical accounts of Tacitus.

A COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY The philosophy of historiography examines our representations and knowledge of the past, the relation between evidence, inference, explanation and narrative.

The book analyses the development of Israel's national identity through the world of local Jewish Zionist historiography.

Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949).

The study of history in Canada has a history of its own, and its development as an academic discipline is a multifaceted one.

This book is the first comprehensive examination of the way French-speaking Quebecers have written about their past in the twentieth century.

Viola Florence Barnes was one of the most prominent women historians in the United States from the 1920s to the 1950s.

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

The important scholarly achievements of Polish historians remain largely unknown outside Poland.

This volume of essays, from the Third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, continues the valuable and lively tradition established in the two earlier seminars and volumes.

This volume presents an array of studies on many aspects of the eighteenth century: on the novel, history, the history of ideas, drama, poetry and sentimentality.

The papers brought together in this volume bear witness to the growing vigour and diversity of eighteenth-century studies.

The ashes of Herbert Norman now lie in the British cemetery at Rome, near those of Shelley and Keats.

There is no doubt that local and regional history, considered by many as a kind of minor historical study, has a pressing need for a systematic inventory of its resources.

Professor Baker recounts and analyses the relations of the English Renaissance historians to other writers of their time and to the historians of later ages.

Inspired by the question of "e;what's next?

Inspired by the question of "e;what's next?

The study of history in Canada has a history of its own, and its development as an academic discipline is a multifaceted one.

Holidays are a key to helping us understand the transformation of national, regional, community and ethnic identities.

A member of the same intellectual generation as Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, and George Grant, Donald Creighton (1902–1979) was English Canada’s first great historian.

A member of the same intellectual generation as Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, and George Grant, Donald Creighton (1902–1979) was English Canada’s first great historian.

This short microhistory details the life and death of Eddie McKay, a varsity athlete at Western University, who flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War.