History: theory and methods

'This is comparative history on a grand scale, skilfully analysing complex national debates and drawing major conclusions without ever losing the necessary nuances of interpretation.

With a recent surge of interest in the field, a volume taking stock of important theoretical shifts in the philosophy of history is greatly needed.

This volume presents a series of penetrating analyses of particular poems and problems of literary history illustrating the many sides of medieval poetry and the interactions of learned, popular and courtly traditions.

by MICHEL FOUCAULT Everyone knows that in France there are few logicians but many historians of science; and that in the 'philosophical establishment' - whether teaching or research oriented - they have occupied a considerable position.

This book provides an accessible introduction to a wide range of concerns that have preoccupied historians over time.

This book compares the cultures of the different social groups living in the Low Countries in the early Middle Ages.

Ich habe Poelzig gekannt.

To Write What one Could Not Tell Anyone You who live in all tranquility So warm and comfortable in your houses, You who come home at night to find The table laid and friendly faces around you, Consider if this is a man, He who toils in the mud, Who knows no rest, Who fights for a crust of bread, Who dies for the slightest reason.

The case study has proved of enduring interest to all Western societies, particularly in relation to questions of subjectivity and the sexed self.

This book explores the creative women of the "e;Lost Generation"e; including painters, sculptors, film makers, writers, singers, composers, dancers, and impresarios who all pursued artistic careers in the years leading up to, during, and following World War I.

Spanning thirty years, the papers brought together in this volume reflect three of Professor Colish's interests as a historian of medieval scholastic thought.

Mügeln, August 2007.

This book describes the picture of reality given by Newton, and the development of the later picture of reality given by field theory.

A few years ago, one of us was approached by a student who asked if we really knew anything about human behavior from environmental archaeology.

This book will provide a thematic overview of one of European history's most devastating famines, the Great Finnish Famine of the 1860s.

„Wo waren Sie, als die Mauer fiel?

This book explores the connection between history and mythology by engaging with myths not as allegories or falsehoods, but as representations of historical experience.

On 18 August 1572, Marguerite de Valois, sister of King Charles IX, was married in Paris to Henri de Navarre, "e;first prince of the blood"e; and a Protestant.

Als Instanzen der Beschreibung moderner Gesellschaften gewinnen die Kulturwissenschaften immer mehr an Bedeutung.

Michael Polanyi is most famous for his work in chemistry and the philosophy of science, but in the 1930s and 1940s he made an important contribution to economics.

The years in-between the two World Wars were a crucial period for the building of economic dynamics as an autonomous field.

Employing an innovative methodological toolkit, Doing Conceptual History in Africa provides a refreshingly broad and interdisciplinary approach to African historical studies.

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.

Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today.

This book analyses issues of language and Jewish identity among the Sephardim in Sarajevo.

This volume draws on the recently discovered and extraordinarily rich scrapbook compiled by prosecuting solicitor Francis Hobler about the 1840 murder of Lord William Russell to consider public engagement with the issues raised from discovery of the murder itself through the ensuing legal processes.

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

This title was originally published in 1966.

This volume presents a subfield overview on current research, trends, and commentary on the state of aeronautical archaeology and its development, through selections from a session on aviation archaeology at the 2020 Society for Historical Archaeology Conference.

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.

Arguably, no event since the American Revolution has had a greater impact on US history than the Civil War.

Doing Public Humanities explores the cultural landscape from disruptive events to websites, from tours to exhibits, from after school arts programs to archives, giving readers a wide-ranging look at the interdisciplinary practice of public humanities.

Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) lived through the best of times and worst of times, through the renewal of scientific optimism and humane politics, and through the massive social collapse into idolatrous barbarism.

This book analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of Hungarian female perpetrators in the Second World War through the concept of invisibility.

What does it mean to be a social and cultural historian today?

Karl Leyser's intuitive and imaginative historical writing drew on deep reading in the primary sources and, above all, on an intimate knowledge of the major historians of the period displayed in this collection of his work.

This book examines the phenomenon of individual and collective bereavement in Palestinian society.

While most critical studies of interwar literary politics have focused on nationalism, Patrick Query makes a case that the idea of Europe intervenes in instances when the individual and the nation negotiate identity.

Information and communications technology is now an essential tool for the historian and for anyone engaging in historical study.

This third volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae includes inscriptions from the South Coast from the time of Alexander through the end of Byzantine rule in the 7th century.

Sources are the raw material of History, but whereas the written word has traditionally been seen as the principal source, historians now recognize the value of sources beyond text.

An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society.

At the end of the 19th century, German historical scholarship had grown to great prominence.