History: theory and methods

Clarifying the Past provides a comprehensive analysis of state-sponsored historical commissions operating in conflicted and divided societies, developing a theoretical and methodological framework within the historical dialogue paradigm, key to understanding the work of such commissions.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Jonathan Edwards is generally acknowledged as one of the foremost American philosophers.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of atheism, secularity and non-religion in Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The American Revolution-an event that gave America its first real "e;story"e; as an independent nation, distinct from native and colonial origins-continues to live on in the public's memory, celebrated each year on July 4 with fireworks and other patriotic displays.

First Published in 1999.

World Order in History argues that historians' ideas about world order have been influential in transforming nations' sense of themselves.

The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery.

This study examines how Tacitus' representation of speech determines the roles of speakers within the political sphere, and explores the possibility of politically effective speech in the principate.

This volume explores questions about conceptual change from both scientific and philosophical viewpoints by analyzing the recent history of evolutionary developmental biology.

Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies, this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications, but also, their architecture and how that architecture informs the political philosophy or social agenda that the author intended.

The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography.

Eine spannende Analyse der politischen, ökonomischen und gesellschaftlichen Zukunft Chinas Niemals in der Geschichte der Menschheit hat sich das Leben für so viele Menschen in so kurzer Zeit so dramatisch verändert wie in China in den letzten 30 Jahren.

Originally published between 1975 and 2003, the essays included in Humanism, Venice, and Women reflect Margaret L.

Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches is a sourcebook of writings on ancient history.

This book explores the hopes, desires, and imagined futures that characterized British radicalism in the 1790s, and the resurfacing of this sense of possibility in the following decades.

This text offers an authoritative historiography of German socialist theorist Karl Kautsky and his impact on debates about the Russian Revolution and the contemporary left.

This book discusses the merits of the theory of agonistic memory in relation to the memory of war.

Moshe Zuckermann untersucht die ideologischen Strukturen der deutschen Geschichtsschreibung des Vormärz zur Französischen Revolution.

Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism.

This authoritative and comprehensive guide to key people and events in Anglo-Jewish history stretches from Cromwell's re-admittance of the Jews in 1656 to the present day and contains nearly 3000 entries, the vast majority of which are not featured in any other sources.

This book presents a study of remembrance practices emerging after the 2005 London bombings.

In the year 1985, presumed to mark the 850th anniversary of Maimonides' birth, the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter was dedicated to Maim- onides as philosopher.

In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism's notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history.

This is the first comprehensive English-language study of East Asian art history in a transnational context, and challenges the existing geographic, temporal, and generic paradigms that currently frame the art history of East Asia.

My interest in the archaeology of the Scottish Highlands began long before I had any formal training in the subject.

This book explores the conflict between the Catalan project to become independent and the Spanish state's opposition to any attempt of secessionism.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Zur Politik, Moral und Philosophie der Geschichte" verfügbar.

How does history relate to the past?

Complete with practical advice and helpful guidance, this book is an approachable manual perfect for budding historians at all levels.

The role Hans Hahn played in the Vienna Circle has not always been sufficiently appreciated.

Life of Bolivar Sim6n Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 24, 1783, and died in Santa Marta, Colombia, on December 17, 1830.

Many of the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism.

Das seit 1949 von der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften betreute Polybios-Lexikon erschließt in Form eines Bedeutungswörterbuchs umfassend den Wortschatz der Historien des Polybios (um 200-120 v.

From 1789 onwards there sprang up a fervent revolutionary cult of Rousseau, and at each stage in the subsequent unfolding of the drama of the Revolution historians have seen Rousseau's influence at work.

Andean Archaeology III represents a continuation in our effort to highlight the ?

Without denying the real importance of the more 'traditional' tasks of a historian of ideas or scholar of literature - the edition of a text and research into its sources and influence - Professor Flint's objective has been to look sideways from the texts, so into the society to which their authors belonged.

In March 1997 the Society for Renaissance Studies and Gresham College together organised a conference to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gresham College's foundation.

The United States is a nation whose identity is defined by the idea of democracy.

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Considering what has been described as an Age of Revolutions, Black assesses a formative period in world history by examining the North American, European, Haitian and Latin American Revolutions.

The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolome de las Casas's Brevisima relacion de la destruicion de las Indias reinterprets Las Casas's controversial treatise as a legal document, whose legal character is linked to civil and ecclesial genres of the Early Modern and late Renaissance juridical tradition.