History: theory and methods

This title was originally published in 1966.

Jesuits established a large number of astronomical, geophysical and meteorological observatories during the 17th and 18th centuries and again during the 19th and 20th centuries throughout the world.

Some of the most exciting and innovative legal scholarship has been driven by historical curiosity.

La Ilustración, en el siglo XVIII, revaloriza la razón en todos los ámbitos del saber.

The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents also defined by a somewhat different set of an attempt to provide basic information sociocultural characteristics than are eth- on all archaeologically known cultures, nological cultures.

The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive.

Nietzsche in Context presents a comprehensive reinterpretation of Nietzsche's thought, placing Nietzsche in the context of the philosophers of his own time.

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The saga of Jewish flight, suffering and death has been investi- gated from different points of view, and various aspects of this sad chapter of Jewish history have been carefully studied.

George Buchanan (1506-82) was the most distinguished Scottish humanist of the sixteenth century with an unparalleled contemporary reputation as a Latin poet, playwright, historian and political theorist.

Dutch Golden Age scholar Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded throughout the seventeenth century as the most learned woman of her age.

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Today Europe stands at a crossroads unlike any it has faced since 1945.

History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America examines the subjects, motives, and personal and intellectual origins of conservative historians who were also successful public intellectuals.

Geometry has fascinated philosophers since the days of Thales and Pythagoras.

Hu Shih (1891-1962),.

Scholars have long been puzzled by why Muslim landowners in Central Asia, called begs, stayed loyal to the Qing empire when its political legitimacy and military power were routinely challenged.

Of the twelve Augustae who lived during the fifty years of the so-called "e;military anarchy"e; (235-284 A.

Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development demonstrates the importance of one of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics winners Elinor Ostrom's research program.

La capital azteca fue una de las ciudades más grandes y complejas del mundo: construida en una isla en medio de un lago poco profundo, con una sólida infraestructura para lidiar con los recursos hídricos, su población llegó a rondar los 150 mil habitantes.

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The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History offers a broad survey of cutting-edge intersections between digital technologies and the study of art history, museum practices, and cultural heritage.

Dieses kleine Buch liefert historisch belegte Fakten ungewöhnlicher Maßnahmen und raffinierter Ideen aus der langen Leidensgeschichte der Steuern und Abgaben, die Schlaglichter auch auf heutige Eigenwilligkeiten und empfundene Absurditäten der Steuergesetzgebung werfen.

Working from a cultural studies perspective, author D.

Oral History is part of the Understanding Qualitative Research series, which is designed to provide researchers with authoritative guides to understanding, presenting, and critiquing analyses and associated inferences.

A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s, Millard Meiss (1904-1975) developed a new and multi-faceted methodological approach.

Lessons of history are often referred to in public discourse, but seldom in scholarly discussions.

Refiguring the Archive at once expresses cutting-edge debates on `the archive' in South Africa and internationally, and pushes the boundaries of those debates.

In spite of its carefully planned - and fully justified - modesty, the title of this book might very well surprise more than one potential reader.

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.

This book presents a series of case studies and reflections on the historiographical assumptions, methods and approaches that shape the way in which philosophers construct their own past.

When I first became acquainted with the thought of the American philoso- pher Josiah Royce, two factors particularly intrigued me.

Winner of the 2021 Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society Book Prize

Of the available sources for Islamic history between the seventh and eighth centuries CE, few are of greater importance than al-Baladhuri's Kitab Futuh al-buldan (The Book of the Conquest of Lands).

Intellektuelle gibt es in den Gesellschaften Europas seit dem Mittelalter und bis heute.

This book provides original insight into the way we now engage and remember national history.

The goal of this book is to ascertain Lessing's views on argumentation and rhetoric.

Although there is a rich historiography on Enlightenment Tuscany in Italian as well as French and German, the principle Anglophone works are Eric Cochrane's Tradition and Enlightenment in the Tuscan Academies (1961) and his Enlightenment Florence in the Forgotten Centuries (1973).

The word "e;pietism"e; usually conjures up a host of ambivalent im- pressions.

The essays collected in this volume represent many years of Professor Nauert's research and teaching on the history of Renaissance humanism, and more particularly on humanism north of the Alps.

This volume takes a comparative approach, locating totalitarianism in the vastly complex web of fragmented pasts, diverse presents and differently envisaged futures to enhance our understanding of this fraught era in European history.

This book analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of 'rooting into a culture' and 'routing out of a culture' in the context of South Asian diaspora in Australia.