History: theory and methods

This radical analysis of the role and importance of historiography interprets the philosophy and theory of history on the basis of historicity as a human condition.

Originally published in 1961.

This book presents the first sustained articulation of a Foucauldian uvre.

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

A richly illustrated book exploring the origins of the modern fascination for heritage, comparing preservation in France, Germany and England.

This book investigates the transnational dimensions of European cultural memory and how it contributes to the construction of new non-, supra, and post-national, but also national, memory narratives.

This book is a hands-on study skills guide that explores how film and moving image can be used as sources.

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The foundation of a stable democracy in Spain was built on a settled account: an agreement that both sides were equally guilty of violence, a consensus to avoid contention, and a pact of oblivion as the pathway to peace and democracy.

Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age explores the hypothesis that in the long seventeenth century humanist-inspired biblical criticism contributed significantly to the decline of ecclesiastical truth claims.

The beginning of World War I saw thousands of army and navy aviators who needed specialized clothing that could not be purchased off-the-shelf.

Filled with fine-scale drawings of British armored vehicles, including:*; Stuart I Light Tank*; Crusader III*; Tank*; Humber Scout Car*; Valentine Bridgelayer*; Cromwell IV Tank Daimler Armored Car*; And dozens more .

Crime does not pay, and politics by assassination pays even less.

This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe.

This book presents a perspective on the history of theoretical physics over the past two hundreds years.

One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?

In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded.

Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy argues that organic elements seen as incompatible with rational homo economicus have been left out of, or downplayed in, mainstream histories of economic thought.

This book discusses a number of ways in which the dialogue about Europe's past and future could be rendered more inclusive, such as the promotion of critical and sentimental education and the creation of virtual and actual social spaces in which citizens and organised identity groups can participate.

History doesn't have to mean only an effort to know the past.

Intended for high school and undergraduate students, this work provides an engaging overview of the abolitionist movement that allows readers to consider history more directly through more than 20 primary source documents.

This fresh collection of essays questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, including our understanding of its validity as well as our general conception of knowledge.

Between 1939-1941, from the time that Germany invaded Poland until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Americans engaged in a debate as intense as any in U.

Increasingly, the European Union and its member states have exhibited a lack of commitment to protecting the human rights of non-citizens.

Alcohol has been central to social, religious and personal use throughout the history.

In The Fantasy of Feminist History, Joan Wallach Scott argues that feminist perspectives on history are enriched by psychoanalytic concepts, particularly fantasy.

This book provides an analysis of the evolution of navigation and seaborne trade in the Black Sea, considering the geographic, geological, and hydro-meteorological data, including information from the historical, geopolitical, economic, social, and military frames.

A discussion of the historical archaeology of one of the largest cities in the world following four centuries of marginal positioning in regard to empires, trade routes, and the production and accumulation of wealth.

In the endless debate about the Two Cultures no book until this attempted to provide a selection of scientific writing on specific themes to stimulate students of arts subjects into discussion and writing about the nature of science and its relationship with the rest of life.

This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge.

This book is a greatly supplemented translation from Portuguese, originally published in 2015.

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Die politische Geschichte des Mittelalters muss im Spannungsfeld zwischen fragmentierter Überlieferung, geschichtswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen und modernen gesellschaftlichen Diskursen immer wieder neu geschrieben werden.

Bernard Williams' Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is widely regarded as one of the most important works of moral philosophy in the last fifty years.

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

The chapters in this book are revised versions of papers initially presented at a confer- ence on Universities and their cities held in Amsterdam on March 27-29 1996.

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

Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated.

This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction.

This book offers a solution to the ancient philosophical problem regarding the nature and the justification of morality.

Over the last two decades, globalization has had a profound impact on how we view the world and its sustainability.