History: theory and methods

The essays collected in this volume represent many years of Professor Nauert's research and teaching on the history of Renaissance humanism, and more particularly on humanism north of the Alps.

Remembering the Second World War brings together an international and interdisciplinary cast of leading scholars to explore the remembrance of this conflict on a global scale.

Paul Vehse untersucht Anerkennungsproblematiken, die in der Gedenkstättenpädagogik im Bestreben um ein anerkennendes Gedenken an die Verfolgten des Nationalsozialismus entstehen.

This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing history are undergoing radical transformation.

Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East.

Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking.

​Mitte der 1990er Jahre geriet die Schweiz vergangenheitspolitisch ins Kreuzfeuer internationaler Kritik.

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 book explores the latest thinking about Max Weber and his continuing influence on theoretical and empirical interests today.

Illustration and Heritage explores the re-materialisation of absent, lost, and invisible stories through illustrative practice and examines the potential role of contemporary illustration in cultural heritage.

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

This title was first published in 2003.

In the twentieth century, dyes, pharmaceuticals, photographic products, explosives, insecticides, fertilizers, synthetic rubber, fuels, and fibers, plastics, and other products have flowed out of the chemical industry and into the consumer economies, war machines, farms, and medical practices of industrial societies.

This book explores the history, practice, and possibilities of writing about the lives of First Nations' peoples in Australia as well as Aotearoa New Zealand, North America, and the Pacific.

This book analyses the successive appearances of Adolf Hitler in French fiction between 1945 and 2017.

The first section of this volume aims to examine various aspects of the impact of Enlightenment thought in the Balkans in the 18th and 19th centuries.

History Below the Global aims to foster an entangled knowledge of global history, and to place "e;others"e; at the centre stage, to better understand the fluid world which we inhabit.

This interdisciplinary collection considers public and popular history within a global framework, seeking to understand considerations of local, domestic histories and the ways they interact with broader discourses.

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

This book considers how history is not just objectively lived but subjectively experienced by people in the process of orienting their present toward the past.

This is the third and final volume in a broad study about the role of information largely in the Unites States since the early nineteenth century.

This book, now in its twelfth edition, has become indispensable to every library and to every serious student of history.

These essays examine the thought and works of a series of writers on political thought, religion, historiography and literature, from the 16th century to the 19th.

Drawing on letters, personal testimony, works of art, novels, and historic Black newspapers, this book is an interdisciplinary exploration of Black women's contributions to the intellectual life of nineteenth-century America.

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

History in all its forms is more popular nowadays than ever.

Das Kloster Riddagshausen prägte durch seine herausragende Stellung als wirtschaftliches und geistliches Zentrum das Land Braunschweig nachhaltig.

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

This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies written in Latin and the vernacular primarily in France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

This collection presents the first sustained examination of the nature and status of the idea of principles in early modern thought.

The editors have incurred many debts in preparing this book, and both etiquette and ethics would be contravened if they were not discharged here.

This collection of essays offers new perspectives from Japan on Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro.

The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive.

The Revolution in France of 1789 provoked a major 'pamphlet war' in Britain as writers debated what exactly had happened, why it had happened, and where events were now headed.

In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war guilt; Pierre Renouvin, a disabled serviceman and preeminent authority on the conflict in France; Luigi Albertini, the Italian newspaper tycoon who, unique among scholars of the Great War, played a part in pitching his country into it; Paul W.

This book focuses on the highly complex and intertwined relationship between civil aviation, technological globalization and Cold War politics.

Over the past two decades or so, medieval geopolitics have come to occupy an increasingly prominent place in the collective imagination-and writings-of International Relations scholars.

Edmund Burke's iconic stance against the French Revolution and its supposed Enlightenment inspiration, has ensured his central role in debates about the nature of modernity and freedom.

We are arguably living in a 'postideological' era.

Colouring Textiles is an attempt to provide a new cross-cultural comparative approach to the art of dyeing and printing with natural dyestuffs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Over the past two decades, transnational history has become an established term describing approaches to the writing of world or global history that emphasise movement, dynamism and diversity.

The concept of heresy is deeply rooted in Christian European culture.