Historiography

Engaging the Crusades is a series of concise volumes (up to 50,000 words) which offer initial windows into the ways in which the crusades have been used in the last two centuries, demonstrating that the memory of the crusades is an important and emerging subject.

Taking a long chronological view and a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach, this is an innovative and distinctive book.

Das römische Pfandrecht bleibt eine unerschöpfliche Quelle von Rechtsproblemen, die sich bis in das geltende Recht hineinziehen.

Spinoza is praised as a father of atheism, a precursor of the Enlightenment, an 'anti-theologian' and a father of political liberalism.

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The Katha Upanishad embraces the key ideas of Indian mysticism in a mythic story we can all relate to the quest of a young hero, Nachiketa, who ventures into the land of death in search of immortality.

No discipline has been more praised or more criticized than the writing of history.

The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first centuryThe Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries.

The axiological idealism of Georges Bastide, which is itself an attempt to come to grips with basic philosophical problems in a form wholly in accord with the preoccupations of our times, offered a unique opportunity for coming into contact with two new horizons - critical idealism and axiological personalism.

When this book was first published, more than five years ago, I added an appendix on How the Pythagoreans discovered Proposition 11.

In this scholarly study, the author examines the way in which Peter the Great has been perceived over the years by artists, writers, intellectuals, and other historians, and what his image has meant to Russian culture during various historical periods since Peter's death in 1725.

This is an introduction and practical guide to how humanists use the digital to research, organize, analyze, and publish findings.

Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment comprises fifteen new essays written by a team of international scholars.

This engrossing book tells the story of the Florescu family, from its feudal blood ties, to the notorious 15th century figure Vlad Tepes (Count Dracula), right up to present day, touching on such diverse personalities as the Kennedys, Bill Clinton, and Michael Jackson.

First published in 1957, this essential classic work bridged the gap between analytical and theoretical biology, thus setting the insights of the former in a context which more sensitively reflects the ambiguities surrounding many of its core concepts and objectives.

Emerging from the 'history from below' movement, sport history was marginalised for decades by those working within more traditional historical fields (and institutions).

This book is based on the Thinking through the Body workshop held at the University of Wales, Lampeter, in June 1998.

The diverse developments in textile research of the last decade, along with the increased recognition of the importance of textile studies in adjacent fields, now merit a dedicated, full-length publication entitled "e;Ancient Textile Production from an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Humanities and Natural Sciences Interwoven for our Understanding of Textiles"e;.

These essays introduce the complexities of researching and analyzing race.

This book explores how First World War commemoration events are presented, reported and mediated on the websites of mainstream daily newspapers from seven European countries.

This book offers a synthesis of the main achievements and pending challenges during the thirty years of transitional justice in Chile after Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

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

This volume offers a stimulating new perspective on the history of historical studies.

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Acclaimed after the Second World War as England's greatest historian, Sir Lewis Namier was an eastern European immigrant who came to idealise the English gentleman and enjoyed close friendship with leading figures of his day, including Winston Churchill.

Der Name des berühmten Wiener Klarinettisten Anton Paul Stadler (1753-1812) ist den meisten Musikliebhabern im Kontext mit Mozarts singulären Klarinettenwerken geläufig.

The volume undertakes a comparative analysis of the various discursive traditions dealing with the connection between modernity and historicity in Southeastern and Northern Europe, reconstructing the ways in which different "temporalities" produced alternative representations of the past and future, of continuity and discontinuity, and identity.

International Historical Statistics: Europe is the latest edition of the most authoritative collection of statistics available.

This book investigates the history of the post-war welfare state in Germany and its normative foundations, with special emphasis on constitutional issues.

With its challenging, paradoxical thesis that Elizabethan England was a 'republic which happened also to be a monarchy', Patrick Collinson's 1987 essay 'The Monarchical Republic of Queen Elizabeth I' instigated a proliferation of research and lively debate about quasi-republican aspects of Tudor and Stuart England.

This book includes most of the contributions presented at a conference on "e;Univ- sities and Science in the Early Modern Period"e; held in 1999 in Valencia, Spain.

This handbook provides a resource for those already familiar with some kinds of micro-particles who wish to learn more about others, or for those just starting out in the study of microremains who wish to have a broad understanding about microscopic archaeology.

This book offers a solution to the ancient philosophical problem regarding the nature and the justification of morality.

George Buchanan (1506-82) was one of the most distinguished humanists of the Northern European Renaissance.

Early modern audiences, readerships, and viewerships were not homogenous.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Edmund Burke's historical thought, a neglected area of both Burke scholarship and historiography.

The philosophical study of technology has acquired only recently a voice in academic conversation.

Schools and circles have been a major force in twentieth-century intellectual movements.

This book maps key moments in the history of postwar art from a global perspective.

From typefounding through typesetting to the printing process itself, this narrative offers a fresh look at the unprecedented success story of the spread of the 'black art' right across Europe in a mere 40 years.

The ten essays published in this volume were written over the space of a decade, but they were conceived from the start as a coherent whole, presenting Peiresc's study of discrete languages and literatures of the Near East and North Africa.

This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historical contexts across cultural history.

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This second edition of the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology gathers all the terms and techniques in current use in the field of archaeology, more than 9,700 total, up from the original 7,000.

This volume is an attempt to give the American reader an idea of the extent of the Dutch network of trade in the seventeenth century.

Medieval Islamic society set great store by the transmission of history: to edify, argue legal points, explain present conditions, offer political and religious legitimacy, and entertain.