History: theory and methods

Explores Irish nationalism in Britain, from the politics of John Redmond to the political violence of Michael Collins.

This title, first published in 1995, explores the history of the American Missionary Association (AMA) - an abolitionist group founded in New York in 1846, whose primary focus was to abolish slavery, to promote racial equality and Christian values and to educate African Americans.

This volume presents original essays on the ideas of philosophical optimism and the best possible world.

In elf Beiträgen befasst sich dieser Band mit der Entstehung der »Humanität im Kriege in der Gründungs und Etablierungsphase des Roten Kreuzes.

Emerging from the 'history from below' movement, sport history was marginalised for decades by those working within more traditional historical fields (and institutions).

The process of converting the 'past' into 'history' involves engagement with a multitude of different sources and methods, and sports historians inevitably participate in the same debates over approaches and methodologies as their counterparts in other historical disciplines.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Leipziger namenkundliche Beiträge II" verfügbar.

Arnold Bake (1899-1963) was a Dutch pioneer in South Asian ethnomusicology, whose research impressed not only the most renowned Indologists of his time but also the leading figures in the emerging field of ethnomusicology.

Every political movement creates its own historical memory.

Ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, is one of the most ubiquitous chemical compounds in the history of the chemical sciences.

This volume addresses the construction and artistic representation of traumatic memories in the contemporary Western world from a variety of inter- and trans-disciplinarity critical approaches and perspectives, ranging from the cultural, political, historical, and ideological to the ethical and aesthetic, and distinguishing between individual, collective, and cultural traumas.

During the twentieth century, especially during World War II, female geologists were potrayed as having a glamourous and unique job.

Neither in English nor in French is there a published study of Napoleon Bonaparte's reestablishment in France of the Congregation of the Mis- 1 sion, whose members are generally known in France as Lazarists.

This book is the third of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science).

This book, first published in 1966, is an introduction to the life and work of Georg Kerschensteiner, the pioneer of the modern German system of vocational education, a system which is largely responsible for Germany's remarkable industrial recovery and advancement after the Second World War.

The Invention of Humboldt is a game-changing volume of essays by leading scholars of the Hispanic world that explodes many myths about Alexander von Humboldt and his world.

I have purposely limited myself to a rather brief statement in this introduc- tion, in order that the summing up be not misrepresented for the discursive development of the whole.

Science in the Changing World, first published in 1933, contains a series of broadcasted presentations on the relationship between science and the development of European civilisation in the first half of the 20th century.

This book is the first major study exploring archival and memorial practices of the Soviet unofficial culture.

Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory brings memory studies into conversation with a focus on feelings as cultural actors.

Devastated by two decades of war and ravaged by the spread of the plague, large parts of Italy fell quickly into the hands of a group known to history as the Lombards.

There were several compelling reasons which prompted me to undertake the work of translating and commenting upon the Vale of Tears by Joseph of all, those of Hacohen, the sixteenth century physician and historian.

This book analyzes sensationalized Nazi and Holocaust representations in Anglo-American cultural and political discourses.

This book is devoted to the concept of horizontal art history-a proposal of a paradigm shift formulated by the Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski (1952-2015)-that aims at undermining the hegemony of the discourse of art history created in the Western world.

The contemporary Dutch historical theorist/philosopher Frank Ankersmit, an erstwhile advocate and promulgator of what has become known as "e;the linguistic turn"e; in historical theory, is very well known within the discipline.

Researching urban space and the built environment is an accessible guide for historians keen to explore the spatial dimensions of the past.

This book discusses the extent to which Thomas Piketty's work can offer a model for ancient economic history, both methodologically and politically.

Originally published in 1971.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Marxistische deutsche Geschichtswissenschaft 1917 bis 1933" verfügbar.

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Scholarship on immigration to America is a coin with two sides: it asks both how America changed immigrants, and how they changed America.

Historians in the United States have argued that the ideals of the American Revolution have had an enduring significance outside their own country.

In this work, originally published in 1989, the author establishes a tradition of radical historicism from Hegel to the Budapenst School.

At its very center, The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education: The Available Means is a study of the subtle, organic ways that rhetoric can work to cultivate a particular character.

Since his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau's reputation as a thinker has steadily grown both in France and throughout the English-speaking world.

This study analyzes history as performance: as the interaction of actors, plays, stages and enactments.

Romanticism in all its expression communicated a vision of the essential interconnectedness and harmony of the universe.

This book mobilises the concept of kitsch to investigate the tensions around the representation of genocide in international graphic novels that focus on the Holocaust and the genocides in Armenia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

This volume examines recent examples of Argentine literature, film, theatre and visual art from the children of the disappeared.

As a philosopher, Stephen Erickson considers himself a messenger of sorts and the message he is delivering is an important and groundbreaking one.

Viewing Samuel Taylor Coleridge's pursuit of continental intellectualism through the lens of cosmopolitanism, Maximiliaan van Woudenberg examines the so-called 'German Mania' of the writer in the context of the intellectual history of the university.

This book explains in fascinating detail how economic and social transformations in pre-1600 Japan led to an industrious revolution in the early modern period and how the fruits of the Industrious Revolution are what have supported Japan since the eighteenth century, improving living standards and leading to the formation of the work ethic of modern Japan.

Gershom Scholem stands out among modern thinkers for the richness and power of his historical imagination.

This book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history.