History: theory and methods

Intellectual Horizons offers a pioneering, transnational and comparative treatment of key thematic areas in the intellectual and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century.

In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political elites in the hope to create homogeneous nation-states.

Although the immense importance for the Renaissance of Greek emigres to fifteenth-century Italy has long been recognized, much basic research on the phenomenon remains to be done.

"Zwischen skeptischer Hoffnungslosigkeit und dogmatischem Trotz" - dieses Diktum Kants gibt gleichermaßen die kritischen Intentionen der kantischen Geschichtsphilosophie wie auch seiner Religionsphilosophie in äußerster Kürze und dennoch prägnant wieder.

Adam Smith was one of the most important seminal social philosophers of modern times.

This book presents a concise yet comprehensive survey of methods used in the expanding studies of human evolution, paying particular attention to new work on social evolution.

Digital Storytelling as Public History: A Guidebook for Educators provides a practical methodology for teaching public history in the digital age.

In Mies Contra Le Corbusier, Gevork Hartoonian embarks on a captivating exploration of the architectural ideologies embodied in the works of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier.

Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers whose work has unsettled and transformed the field of social philosophy and the social sciences.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Bericht für das Jahr 1963/64" verfügbar.

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

"Im Spiegel von Sueton lernen wir nicht nur etwas über die unterhaltsam-legendären Biographien der Kaiser, sondern erkennen auch uns selbst wieder: halb-gezähmte Kreaturen, deren große moralische Aufgabe es ist, die Balance zwischen dem inneren Engel und Monster zu finden - da wir beides sind, wäre es katastrophal diese Dualität zu ignorieren.

This book, first published in 1988, examines the origins, purposes and functioning of the civic universities founded in the second half of the nineteenth century and discusses their significance within both local and wider communities.

Originally published in 1991.

This is a study of the histories of the English Civil War or some aspects of it written in England or by Englishmen and Englishwomen or publish- ed in England up to 1702, the year of the publication of the first volume of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion.

In this volume, originally published in 1961, the author presents an exposition of the meanings given to history.

First published in 1934, Artists in Uniform confronts what the author describes as 'two of the worst features of the Soviet experiment' following Lenin's death - bigotry and bureaucratism - and shows how they have functioned in the sphere of arts and letters.

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The Scottish Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and scientific progress, in a country previously considered to be marginal to the European intellectual scene.

Within the context of the debate between idealism and empiricism, this book studies the ideas of six representative Canadian intellectuals of the late Victorian era.

Bringing together a who's who of Marshall scholars, this volume examines the major roles assumed by Marshall over his five-decade career - soldier; statesman and peacemaker; and leader and manager - to illuminate key issues and themes surrounding the man and his era.

The Traite des systemes is a milestone in the intellectual history of the eighteenth century.

The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c.

Der sichere Umgang mit Quellen ist fundamentale Voraussetzung für jeden, der sich mit dem Mittelalter beschäftigen möchte.

Containing the proceedings of the symposium held by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Niels Bohr, this collection was first published in 1988.

Cultural factors shape the symbolic environment in which contentious politics take place.

This volume of Professor Halkin's articles forms a complement to his recent biography of Erasmus of Rotterdam.

The book offers a history of the agricultural sciences in Nazi Germany.

The story of European-Russian collaboration in space is little known and its importance all too often understated.

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This book traces the translation history of twentieth-century German philosophy into English, with significant layovers in Paris, and proposes an innovative approach to long-standing difficulties in its translation.

The long period from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century supplied numerous sources for Kierkegaard's thought in any number of different fields.

The publication in 1632 of Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican marked a crucial moment in the 'scientific revolution' and helped Galileo become the 'father of modern science'.

This compact, forcefully argued work calls Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, and the rest of the so-called 'New Atheists' to account for failing to take seriously the historical record to which they so freely appeal when attacking religion.

Timely in its contribution to on-going debates on the decolonization of education, this novel volume charts the development of a scheme of postgraduate transnational education that saw British students sent to Indian and South Asian Universities while political decolonization was still ongoing.

How is history produced?

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