History: theory and methods

The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "e;sustainable foods"e; that were produced from "e;sustainable agriculture"e;; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "e;sustainable development"e; as a strategy for local and global stability; and woe betide the city-dweller who doesn't aim for a "e;sustainable lifestyle.

The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "e;sustainable foods"e; that were produced from "e;sustainable agriculture"e;; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "e;sustainable development"e; as a strategy for local and global stability; and woe betide the city-dweller who doesn't aim for a "e;sustainable lifestyle.

The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides contains newly commissioned essays on Thucydides as an historian, thinker, and writer.

Oral history gives history back to the people in their own words.

Oral history gives history back to the people in their own words.

Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community.

Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community.

Processing the Past explores the dramatic changes taking place in historical understanding and archival management, and hence the relations between historians and archivists.

Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians.

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his People of Paradox (1973), and the Francis Parkman Prize for A Machine That Would Go of Itself (1987), Michael Kammen is widely regarded as one of our most important, and most diversely talented, cultural historians.

For anyone interested in history, the physical traces of the past, especially historical places, hold a special fascination.

"e;This is an exceedingly long short book, stretching at least fifty thousand years into the past and who knows how many into the future.

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.

What is history and why should we study it?

Studies the burgeoning field of psychohistory - from Freud, its primogenitor, to its present-day academic practitioners - and argues that little, if any, psychohistory is good history.

Since the 1960s, German scholars have developed distinctive methods for writing the history of political, social, and philosophical concepts.

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

Despite increased interest in recent years in the role of race in Western culture, scholars have neglected much of the body of work produced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by black intellectuals.

In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E.

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte politische Schriften" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

The vernacular Anglo-Saxon Chronicles cover the centuries which saw the making of England and its conquest by Scandinavians and Normans.

The vernacular Anglo-Saxon Chronicles cover the centuries which saw the making of England and its conquest by Scandinavians and Normans.

What is the point of history?

What is the point of history?

Against majority opinion within his profession, Donald Bloxham argues that it is legitimate, often unavoidable, and frequently important for historians to make value judgements about the past.

Against majority opinion within his profession, Donald Bloxham argues that it is legitimate, often unavoidable, and frequently important for historians to make value judgements about the past.

The age of exploration exposed the limits of available universal histories.

The age of exploration exposed the limits of available universal histories.

The Historiography of Philosophy is the text, virtually unchanged, of the Nellie Wallace lectures, which Michael Frede gave in Oxford in 1989-90.

The Historiography of Philosophy is the text, virtually unchanged, of the Nellie Wallace lectures, which Michael Frede gave in Oxford in 1989-90.

Throughout his narrative of Julio-Claudian Rome in the Annals, Tacitus includes numerous references to the gods, fate, fortune, astrology, omens, temples, priests, the emperor cult, and other religious material.

Throughout his narrative of Julio-Claudian Rome in the Annals, Tacitus includes numerous references to the gods, fate, fortune, astrology, omens, temples, priests, the emperor cult, and other religious material.

One of the great maxims of history is that it is written by the victors, and nowhere does this find greater support than in the later Roman Empire.

One of the great maxims of history is that it is written by the victors, and nowhere does this find greater support than in the later Roman Empire.

This volume explores the spatial framework of Herodotus' Histories, the Greek historian's account of Persian imperialism in the sixth and fifth century BC and its culmination in a series of grand expeditions against Greece itself.

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

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

It has long been established that the crisis of 1066 generated a florescence of historical writing in the first half of the twelfth century.

It has long been established that the crisis of 1066 generated a florescence of historical writing in the first half of the twelfth century.

Imagining Ireland's Pasts describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries and explains why they could not settle on an agreed narrative.

Imagining Ireland's Pasts describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries and explains why they could not settle on an agreed narrative.

How was the history of post-classical Rome and of the Church written in the Catholic Reformation?

How was the history of post-classical Rome and of the Church written in the Catholic Reformation?

This book offers a new theoretical perspective on the thought of the great fifteenth-century Egyptian polymath, Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d.

This book offers a new theoretical perspective on the thought of the great fifteenth-century Egyptian polymath, Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d.

Charles W.

Charles W.

How do we make social democracy?

How do we make social democracy?

During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, texts about the recent and more distant past were produced in remarkable numbers in the lands controlled by the kings of England.