History: theory and methods

This volume is the fifth volume of A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, a project devoted to all Rembrandt's paintings.

Animal Acts records the history of the fluctuating boundary between animals and humans as expressed in literary, philosophical and scientific texts, as well as visual arts and historical practices such as dissection, circus acts, the hunt and zoos.

This volume offers one of the first systematic analyses of the rise of modern social science.

The appearance of religious toleration combined with the intensification of the search for theological truth led to a unique phenomenon in early modern Europe: Jewish Christians and Christian Jews.

This book examines the rise of two contrasting variants of Hindu nationalism-the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) divisive cultural nationalism and the softer, less threatening variant of Hindutva espoused by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC).

This volume, first published in 1921, presents a series of portraits of Einstein, thus offering glimpses in the character and private reflections of the man who changed the course of modern science.

The book is the first biography of Raphael Lemkin to draw on a comprehensive body of research into Lemkin as a person and his background and will be of interest to both non-specialists and academics.

This book is a collection of Nai Xia's quintessential works on Silk Road studies.

Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past, and Oral History Theory provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible overview of this important field.

Through questions such as 'What is power?

One of the controversial philosophical issues of recent years has been the question of the nature of logical and mathematical entities.

The practice of medicine in the days before the development of anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful experience.

This book is a detailed critical study of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum in its historical, architectural and philosophical context.

In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines.

I first became interested in Husserl and Heidegger as long ago as 1980, when as an undergraduate at the Freie Universitat Berlin I studied the books by Professor Ernst Tugendhat.

Whilst terms such as Lebensraum are commonly associated with National-Socialist ideology of the 1930s and 40s, ideas of racial living space were in fact generated in the previous decades by an international geographic community of explorers and academics.

Rosa Luxemburg war eine der bedeutendsten Intellektuellen des "e;langen"e; 19.

This volume brings together essays that explore the intersections between Nietzsche and Wittgenstein from various perspectives.

Acclaimed after the Second World War as England's greatest historian, Sir Lewis Namier was an eastern European immigrant who came to idealise the English gentleman and enjoyed close friendship with leading figures of his day, including Winston Churchill.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of social policy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, 1949-1990), followed by an analysis of the "e;Social Union"e;, the transformation of social policy in the process of German unification in 1990.

For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge.

The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University is an intellectual history of research in the humanities and social sciences.

The close relationship between religion, medicine and natural philosophy in the post-Reformation period has been documented and explored in a body of research since the 1990s; however, the direct and continued impact of Melanchthonian natural philosophy within the individual Lutheran principalities of northern Europe in general and Scandinavia in particular still has to be fully investigated and understood.

In June 2003, the Convention on the Future of Europe released what may become the Constitution of the European Union.

Global history locates national histories in the context of broader processes, in which the West is not necessarily synonymous with progress.

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

The greatest of Roman historians, Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56-117 CE) studied rhetoric in Rome.

Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes beschreiben die Besonderheiten und die Gemeinsamkeiten der Fachdidaktiken für das gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Aufgabenfeld (Geographie, Geschichte, Politik, Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik).

The plans for this study were formulated between 1956 and 1958.

A completely updated new edition of David Lowenthal''s classic account of how we reshape the past to serve present needs.

Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture.

With his groundbreaking Europe and the People Without History, Eric R.

The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and global exploration, primarily in seventeenth-century England.

This volume, first published in 1921, presents a series of portraits of Einstein, thus offering glimpses in the character and private reflections of the man who changed the course of modern science.

Die erweiterte Neuauflage der "Deutschen Geschichte" ist aktualisiert und schließt mit den Ereignissen des Jahres 1995.