History: theory and methods

Drawing on current debates on secessions within the United Kingdom, this book analyses the British State today and looks at its place in the future.

Considering the great influence textbooks have as interpreters of history, politics and culture to future generations of citizens, it is no surprise that they generate considerable controversy.

Edmund Fryde provides a general account of the attempt to revive and surpass the standards of classical historiography and charts its progress.

Alienation, ecstasy, death, rebirth: in the poetry of Michelangelo, Donne, and d' Aubigne these archetypal themes make possible the ultimate formulation of new poetic symbolizations of self and world.

This book explores the intellectual world of Francesco Robortello, one of the most prominent scholars of the Italian Renaissance.

This book aims to address a neglected field of research by providing evidence-based insights into how contemporary visitors of different national and generational background, especially those of Polish and Jewish descent, experience and reflect on their visits, or on living in the proximity of different sites of memory across Poland, including former concentration and death camps, ghetto sites, and other physical sites such as museums with a connection to the Holocaust.

Wars create their own dynamics, especially with regard to images and language.

This book, first published in 1987, attempts to take fresh stock of a man who made a great impact on nineteenth-century English Secondary Education.

At the heart of the French Revolution there lay a fundamental paradox: how to liberate the minds of the people whilst simultaneously ensuring their loyalty to the new regime.

Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources is an introduction to the rich treasury of source material available to students of early modern history.

William of Moerbeke was a prolific medieval translator of Aristotle and other ancient philosophical and scientific authors from Greek into Latin, and he played a decisive role in the acceptance of Aristotelian philosophy in the Latin world.

Dominated by Darwinism and the numerous guises it assumed, evolutionary theory was a source of opportunities and difficulties for late Victorian novelists.

The Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History documents and interprets the development of economic history as a global discipline from the later nineteenth century to the present day.

The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across the late antique Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.

Die jidischen schtudies gehören zu den wenigen Reihen im deutschen Sprachraum, in denen Editionen jiddischer literarischer Werke sowie Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprache und Literatur der aschkenasischen Juden veröffentlicht werden.

This book describes the vibrant activity of survivors who founded Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers in Europe immediately after the Second World War.

Our natural world has been irretrievably altered by humans, for humans.

Readings on the Russian Revolution brings together 15 important post-Cold War writings on the history of the Russian Revolution.

Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America teaches imaginative and distinctive approaches to the practice of history through a series of essays on colonial Latin America.

Das 750-Jahr-Jubiläum der Gründung des Zisterzienserstiftes Stams (1273–2023) war der Anlass, die Geschichte dieses Klosters, das zu den herausragenden Erinnerungsorten des Landes Tirol gehört, auf eine neue Weise zu würdigen.

This book examines the relatively unknown English late-Victorian educational pioneer, Constance Louisa Maynard (1849-1935), whose innovative London-based Westfield College produced the first female BAs in the mid-1880s.

V VII-X INHALTSVERZEICHNIS XI-XXVI LITERATURVERZEICHNIS 1-6 EINLEITUNG 1-4 - Ältere Veröffentlichungen von Münzen aus Nikaia 4-5 - Die Kölner Sammlung von Münzen aus Nikaia 5-6 - Die Ermittlung von Prägesystemen 6 - Die Gegenstempel auf bithynischen Münzen der Römischen Kaiserzeit 7-17 ANHANG ZUR EINLEITUNG: Münzen aus Nikaia, die in Kata­ logen des Münzenhandels publiziert sind 19-186 TEIL I: BEITRÄGE ZUR ERFORSCHUNG DER NUMISMATIK BITHYNIENS IN DER RÖMISCHEN KAISERZEIT 21-40 1.

First published in 1972, Handbook for History Teachers is intended to be a general and comprehensive work of reference for teachers of history in primary and secondary schools of all kinds.

The Biographical Turn showcases the latest research through which the field of biography is being explored.

Das Handbuch will einen raschen und gleichzeitig analytischen Zugang zum Thema Reformation eröffnen, indem es in konsequent europäischer und interdisziplinärer Perspektive nach den Gelingens- bzw.

James Steuart published An Inquiry into the Principles of Political conomy in 1767, the first systematic treatise on economics, nine years before Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.

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

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

An examination of the barbarian laws in Carolingian Europe, contributing to debates concerning written law, kingship and ethnic identities.

This book tackles the difficult challenge of uncovering the pathogenic cause, epidemiological mechanics and broader historical impacts of an extremely deadly third-century ancient Roman pandemic.

An experienced author of history and theory presents this examination of the purpose of history at a time when recent debates have rendered the question 'what is history for?

This book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on a combination of archaeological evidence, building archaeological analysis, archival sources to explore the dynamic relations between dwelling houses, social organization of households, and patterns of cohabitation during the eighteenth century.

This volume explores abduction (inference to explanatory hypotheses), an important but neglected topic in scientific reasoning.

In Visible Histories, Disappearing Women, Mahua Sarkar examines how Muslim women in colonial Bengal came to be more marginalized than Hindu women in nationalist discourse and subsequent historical accounts.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the familiar belief that memory policies are successful in building peaceful societies.

How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the humanities, exemplified by history, and offers a critique of the validity of historical knowledge.

Using Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy's groundbreaking study of the persistence of German Idealist philosophy as his starting point, Justin Clemens presents a valuable study of the links between Romanticism and contemporary theory.

This collection provides a long-overdue examination of the nineteenth century as a crucible of new commemorative practices.

The Ends of History?

In 1600, Giordano Bruno, one of the leading intellectuals of the Renaissance, was burned at the stake on the charge of heresy by the Roman Inquisition.

The previous Variorum collection of studies by the late F.

This study of Lebanese historical thought and its role in national identity formation in the eighteenth century focuses on a sample of historians, mainly Christians, who lived and wrote during the Shihabi Emirate from 1697 till the Egyptian invasion in 1831.