History: theory and methods

This volume was developed to meet a much noted need for accessible case study material for courses in human ecology, cultural ecology, cultural geography, and other subjects increasingly offered to fulfill renewed student and faculty interest in environmental issues.

Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance analyses the intricate connections between silence, acts of remembrance and acts of forgetting, and relates the topic of silence to the international research field of Cultural Memory Studies.

TIus is the second, and fmal, volume to derive from the exciting Kronberg conference of 1975, and to show the intelligent editorial care of Gerard Radnitzky and Gunnar Andersson that was so evident in the first book, Progress and Rationality in Science (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol.

How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust?

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Globalization has carried vast consequences for the lives of children.

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Is history more than (in Boswell's words) a `chronological series of remarkable events'?

The study of history in Canada has a history of its own, and its development as an academic discipline is a multifaceted one.

The Routledge History of Medieval Magic brings together the work of scholars from across Europe and North America to provide extensive insights into recent developments in the study of medieval magic between c.

The aim of this book is to explore the body in various historical contexts and to take it as a point of departure for broader historiographical projects.

Historical Letters introduces English-speaking readers to the seminal work of Peter Lavrov a key figure in Russian intellectual and socialist history.

This volume explores literary and material representations of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty-first century.

An innovative, literary approach to historical accounts of politics, this book reveals the wide-ranging significance of Roman republican magistracy.

This book offers an original reading of Carlo Ginzburg's work, tracing his trajectory in the context of Italian micro-history, his debates on the objectivity of historical knowledge, and the connection of his work to the expanded perspectives constructed in recent decades by global history.

How do intellectuals engage with and affect their publics?

Ruth Henig's fully revised and extended second edition of Versailles and After includes a new chapter on recent historiography of the subject and provides students with concise coverage of the following topics:* the terms of the Treaty of Versailles* the inadeqacies of the League of Nations as a supranational peacekeeping body* why hopes of long term stability gradually faded.

This book provides a significant contribution to our understanding of the Ottoman Empire's economic history, particularly through its exploration of local entrepreneurship, which brings new perspectives to the economic dynamics of the region.

This original and thought-provoking study looks at the context of postmodernist thought in general cultural terms as well as in relation to history.

The Eighteenth Brumaire in the United States, Germany, and France, 1852-1933 is the first extended political history of Karl Marx's seminal text.

The work of Herodotos of Halikarnassos, 'the father of history', differs in many ways from that of modern historians, and it poses special problems to the student.

Learn to craft the perfect historical research paper with this approachable and practical guide Essaying the Past: How to Read, Write, and Think about History, 4th Edition continues the tradition of excellence established by the previous editions.

Drawing on his writing on philosophy, history, religion and politics, this is the first in-depth analysis of R.

Historical Imagination examines the threshold between what historians consider to be proper, imagination-free history and the malpractice of excessive imagination, asking where the boundary between the two sits and the limits of permitted imagination for the historian.

This book sheds new light on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt, drawing on a remarkable set of oral histories gathered in the 1950s from those who knew him.

Taking a fresh and imaginative approach to the topic, Enlightenment Reformation investigates how and why Hutchinsonianism came into being, evolved and eventually ended.

The Palgrave Handbook on Rethinking Colonial Commemorations explores global efforts, particularly from Indigenous and Bla(c)k communities, to dismantle colonial commemorations, monuments, and memorials.

The HMM2004 International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms is the second event of a series that has been started in 2000 as main activity of the IFToMM Permanent Commission for History of MMS, Mechanism and Machine Science.

Basically, historiography is the writing of history or the study of the development of historical method, historical research, and writing.

The emerging shape of the post Cold War world provides evidence that rather than diminishing, the profound intersection of political ideology and religious forms of belief is an ever more potent force in world affairs.

This book explores how modern Egyptians understand the Mamluks and reveals the ways in which that historical memory is utilized for political and ideological purposes.

This book sheds important new light on Sino-Soviet relations and the politics of the Xinjiang region, publishing for the first time the complete diaries of Liu Zerong, who served as diplomat and foreign ministry envoy from 1940-49.

Journey back in time and take a walk through the historic streets of the world's greatest cities.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Unbewältigte Vergangenheit" verfügbar.

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

Roman Tales: A Reader's Guide to the Art of Microhistory explores both the social and cultural life of Renaissance Rome and the mind-set and methods of microhistory.

Authoritative guide to using quantitative methods in history; clearly illustrated and accompanied by website material.

Environment as a Weapon  considers how the confluence of war and nature from the time of the Agricultural Revolution (10,000 BCE) to our present day has been represented in works of history, geography, and literature.

This book is based on my doctoral dissertation from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1996) of the same title.

This handbook offers comprehensive coverage of the history of Spain, exploring key themes and events in four broad but not necessarily rigid temporal categories: medieval, early modern, nineteenth century and twentieth century.