History: theory and methods

In 1956 Allison and Rogers published A Catalogue of Catholic Books in English Printed Abroad Secretly in England, 1558-1640.

This book presents a cultural history of Latin America as seen through a symbolic good and a practice - the book, and the act of publication - two elements that have had an irrefutable power in shaping the modern world.

In jüngster Zeit hat die Sowjetunion zudem ihre Über der sowjetischen Raumfahrt lag viele Jahre ein Schleier der Geheimhaltung, der sich für die Zusammenarbeit mit westlichen Nationen im Welt­ raum erheblich intensiviert.

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

While memory is one of the most fascinating faculties of consciousness, it is also one of the most mysterious.

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The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography contains details of the lives of over 2100 women from all periods, cultures and walks of life - from queens to TV chefs, engineers to stand up comics, pilots to poisoners.

Although Kierkegaard's reception was initially more or less limited to Scandinavia, it has for a long time now been a highly international affair.

This book focuses on the analysis of different scales of mobility and addresses parameters and proxies of population movement aiming at the formation of a 'ground' for the further development of quantitative approaches.

The articles in this collection focus on instruction - and writings arising from that instruction - in philosophy and the arts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with emphasis on Central Europe.

The essays in this collection represent the explosion of scholarly interest since the 1960s in the pioneering feminist, philosopher, novelist, and political theorist, Mary Wollstonecraft.

Today the methods of applied statistics have penetrated very different fields of knowledge, including the investigation oftexts ofvarious origins.

Wars create their own dynamics, especially with regard to images and language.

Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760-1830, examines how women with enough cultural capital could turn their identity as representatives of "e;the public"e; - those on the receiving end of education - to their advantage, producing knowledge under the guise of relaying it.

First published in 1989, this persuasive and original work by John McClelland examines the importance of the idea of 'the crowd' in the writings of philosophers, historians and politicians from the classical era to the twentieth century.

The Routledge Handbook of Information History offers a definitive, inclusive, and far-reaching study of how information practices have influenced-and have been influenced by-society, politics, culture, and technology over millennia.

The Intellectual Roots of Contemporary Black Thought examines the ways in which the intellectual production of notable historical figures of Africa Diasporan Thought has shaped, and continues to shape, social and political discourses in relation to peoples of African descent.

Das Brandenburgische Namenbuch dokumentiert die in der ehemaligen Provinz Brandenburg überlieferten Siedlungsnamen, erklärt sie sprachwissenschaftlich und macht die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse für die deutsche und slawische Sprachgeschichte nutzbar.

This title, first published in 1975, analyses the ways in which developments in Victorian universities have shaped both the structure and the assumptions of British higher education in the twentieth century.

This volume examines the role of League of Nations committees, particularly the Advisory Committee of Jurists (ACJ) in shaping the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ).

Essays on the discipline of medieval history and its practitioners, from the late eighteenth century onwards.

This Handbook is the first systematic effort to map the fast-growing phenomenon of memory activism and to delineate a new field of research that lies at the intersection of memory and social movement studies.

John Maynard Keynes is best known for his contributions to economics, yet he spent nearly two decades exploring the concept of probability.

This book is the first translated and annotated edition of Ibn Nazif's Al-Ta'rikh al-Mansuri.

Originally published in 1964.

Global biographies provides an advanced and comprehensive analytical framework for historians to use biography as a method to write global history.

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The development of a coherent, cohesive visual system of mathematics brought about a seminal shift in approaches towards abstract thinking in western Europe.

La figura de Jaume I, ja des de l'edat mitjana, va assolir una dimensió mítica com a creador d'un regne nou i restaurador de la cristiandat a terres valencianes.

Using the Icelandic context, Sigur ur Gylfi Magn sson examines egodocuments as distinct and fascinating manifestations of microhistory, reflecting on their nature, the circumstances in which they originated, and their strengths and weaknesses for scholarly research.

Feminist history continues to change the way history is written, and in doing so changes our view of the past.

Why aren't ordinary Russians more outraged by Putin's invasion of Ukraine?

First published in 2007, The Nanking Atrocity remains an essential resource for understanding the massacre committed by Japanese soldiers in Nanking, China during the winter of 1937-38.

In today's world of modern research methods, the irony is that even though more materials are readily available now than ever before, this proliferation of sources has actually made the process more difficult for the novice researcher.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), his life and his work have been and continue to be the subject of an enormous number of scholarly works.

In the history of British patent law, the role of Parliament is often side-lined.

Durch rund 280 Jahre bis zur Zerstörung im Türkenkrieg von 1529 lag das Wiener Bürgerspital vor den Stadtmauern am Wienfluss.

Makes the study of medieval Greek historical writing accessible by providing fundamental orientation and information.

This book explores how photography and recorded music act as vehicles or catalysts in processes of remembering, and how they are regarded, treated, valued and drawn upon as resources connecting past and present in everyday life.