History: theory and methods

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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Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph.

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.

Many historical processes are dynamic.

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.

"e;The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

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.

Cultural Cold Wars and UNESCO in the Twentieth Century addresses the now-considerable interest in the concept of cultural cold war as a means of advancing ideologies.

Dante's Comedy is a puzzling poem because the author wanted to lead his readers to understanding by engaging their curiosity.

Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality outlines some of the challenges of retracing sexual acts, identities, and desires in the past, and shows how historians have responded to these methodological challenges with ingenuity and creativity.

The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c.

This book examines the trajectory of the historical knowledge about journalism produced by its scholars in Brazil, from the early accounts originating from the Brazilian Historical and Geographic Institute in the 19th century to the specialized academic field at the turn of the 21st century.

Warum unterwirft sich der Mensch immer wieder Autoritäten?

Charles Trinkaus can be counted among the eminent intellectual and cultural historians of the Renaissance.

Dieses eBook: "Der Weihnachtsfund" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Dieses eBook: "In den Casematten Magdeburgs (Historischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

This book is the first to explore memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of psychiatry and mental health.

This book is the first to explore memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of psychiatry and mental health.

Friedrich Schillers Historische Werke bieten einen faszinierenden Einblick in die Geschichte und historischen Ereignisse vergangener Zeiten.