History: theory and methods

Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material things--objects and pictures--were used to reason about issues of morality, race, citizenship, and capitalism, as well as reality and representation, in the nineteenth-century United States.

Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material things--objects and pictures--were used to reason about issues of morality, race, citizenship, and capitalism, as well as reality and representation, in the nineteenth-century United States.

A powerful account of Jewish resistence in Nazi-occupied Europe and why such resistance was so remarkable.

A powerful account of Jewish resistence in Nazi-occupied Europe and why such resistance was so remarkable.

The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History provides a comprehensive history of Africa's most populous and most rapidly developing country.

The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History provides a comprehensive history of Africa's most populous and most rapidly developing country.

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly WatersFor generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors.

The acclaimed account of the English people, now updated with two new chapters'Masterful, an enormously readable narrative of the English people from the Anglo-Saxons to the present' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Books of the YearIn The English and their History, the first full-length account to appear in one volume for many decades, Robert Tombs gives us the history of the English people, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them, from the prehistoric 'dreamtime' through to the present day.

Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age.

From the Wolfson Prize-winning author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic BritainBetween the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history changed.

Each of Foster's books has generated vigorous discussion, but in THE IRISH STORY he breaks fresh ground even by his own standards.

A LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

Churchill fought the war twice over - as Prime Minister and again as its premier historian.

Robert Irwin s history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present.

What is history and how should it be written?

Im Unterschied zu der klassischen militärischen Erziehung von preußischen Prinzen legte die Mutter Friedrichs III.

This book examines the development of the Russian radical right in exile between 1918 and 1945.

This book investigates the economic organization of ancient societies from a comparative perspective.

This book examines why, on the eve of the pamphlet's 175th anniversary, the Communist Manifesto left so faint an imprint on Europe's most revolutionary year of 1848, when it has had such a huge impact on posterity.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of core areas of investigation and theory relating to the history of women and science.

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This book offers the first full-length study of the education of children living within the Gaeltacht, the Irish-speaking communities in Ireland, from 1900 to the present day.

Innovation in money is just as important as innovation in any other sphere of activity; money is always a "e;work in progress.

This book considers issues of social and ecological significance through a masculinities lens.

This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories.

The post-war Federal Republic of Germany faced the task of addressing the plight of the victims of state socialism under the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany and in the German Democratic Republic, many of whom fled to the west.

The story of European-Russian collaboration in space is little known and its importance all too often understated.

This book provides an innovative perspective on migration, mobility and transport.

How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi GermanyNazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States.

Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "e;medieval"e; and a "e;modern"e; period has survived, even flourished, in academia.

This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical, colonial and violent appropriation during the 19th century.

This book investigates the historical construction of scholarly personae by integrating a spectrum of recent perspectives from the history and cultural studies of knowledge and institutions.

This book brings together psychoanalysis, clinical and theoretical, with history in a study of remembering as reparation: not compensation, but recognition of the actuality of perpetration and the remorseful urge to rejuvenate whatever represents this damage.

Critical Theory: The Basics brings clarity to a topic that is confusingly bandied about with various meanings today in popular and academic culture.

Critical Theory: The Basics brings clarity to a topic that is confusingly bandied about with various meanings today in popular and academic culture.

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Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction.

Focusing on why neoliberalism gained such a unique strong hold in the United States, philosopher Bruce N.

This book explores the factors and mechanisms that may have influenced the dynamic behaviors of earliest civilizations, focusing on both environmental (geographic) factors on which traditional historic analyses are based and human (behavioral) factors on which anthropological analyses are usually based.

This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the El Mirador cave located on the Atapuerca karstic system, one of the longest Pleistocene and Holocene archaeopaleontological deposits in Iberia.

Sources for Studying the Holocaust provides a pathway for readers to engage with questions about what sources can be used to study the Holocaust.

The book investigates the witch as a key rhetorical symbol in twentieth- and twenty-first century feminist memory, politics, activism, and popular culture.

In 1929, Charles Upson Clark (1875-1960), a history Professor at Columbia University carrying out bibliographic research on the early history of the Americas in the Vatican Library, came across a remarkable illustrated Latin manuscript entitled Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (Little Book of Indian Medicinal Herbs) completed in 1552.

This book explores the work of Thomas Seebohm (1934-2014), a leading phenomenologist and hermeneuticist.

This book considers how a combination of place-based writing and location responsive technologies produce new kinds of literary experiences.

After a long struggle, Jewish emancipation was formally completed in Germany in 1871, when Wilhelm I abolished religious discrimination across the entire Reich.

History Below the Global aims to foster an entangled knowledge of global history, and to place "e;others"e; at the centre stage, to better understand the fluid world which we inhabit.

In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L.