History: theory and methods

Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians is an invaluable resource to educators seeking to bring history alive for students at all levels.

Did Jesus Christ really rise from the dead, or did the lance thrust accidentally save his life?

Needs and Feasibility: A Guide for Engineers in Community Projects -- The Case of Waste for Life is the story of Waste for Life (WFL).

The notion of 'history' has always been one strenuously debated by both academics and the wider population.

Grounded in medical, juridical, and philosophical texts of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, this innovative study tells the story of how the idea of woman contributed to the emergence of modern science.

This book proposes that the performance of archival research is related to the experience of tourism, where an individual immerses herself in a foreign environment, relating to and analyzing visual and sensory materials through embodiment and enactment.

Die 24 Beiträge präsentieren zentrale Forschungsergebnisse des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms "Ideen als gesellschaftliche Gestaltungskraft im Europa der Neuzeit.

The age of exploration exposed the limits of available universal histories.

These essays are concerned with the nature of early renaissance political thought and the relationship between humanism and medieval rhetoric.

A scholar of Hellenistic and Prussian history, Droysen developed a historical theory that at the time was unprecedented in range and depth, and which remains to the present day a valuable key for understanding history as both an idea and a professional practice.

This broad survey introduces readers to the major themes, figures, traditions and theories in Western historical thought, tracing its evolution from biblical times to the present.

These essays on the conceptual understanding of modern physics strike directly at some of the principal difficulties faced by contemporary philos- ophers of physical science.

This book examines the legacies and depictions of monarchs in an international context, focusing on both self-representation and commemoration by others.

Now in its second edition, Reading Primary Sources explores the varied traditions in source criticism and, through specific examples, illustrates how primary sources can be read and used in historical research.

First published in 1979.

This is the first scholarly collection of articles focused on the cultural astronomy of Africans.

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

Das bewegte Schicksal des Wittenberger Universalgelehrten Caspar Peucer ist zwar immer wieder in den Blickpunkt der historischen Forschung geraten jedoch blieben bisher einige Aspekte dieses facettenreichen Humanistenlebens unterbelichtet, darunter auch seine Rolle als Medizinprofessor an der Wittenberger Leucorea.

During the twentieth century, especially during World War II, female geologists were potrayed as having a glamourous and unique job.

"e;What characterizes the act of justice is not resort to a court and to judges; it is not the intervention of magistrates (even if they had to be simple mediators or arbitrators).

Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature and the humanities.

It has appeared to many commentators that the most fundamental change in what it is meant to be working-class in twentieth-century Britain came not as a result of war or of want, but of prosperity.

Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as Britain's imperial past.

This study of Lebanese historical thought and its role in national identity formation in the eighteenth century focuses on a sample of historians, mainly Christians, who lived and wrote during the Shihabi Emirate from 1697 till the Egyptian invasion in 1831.

This collection of essays investigates histories in the ancient world and the extent to which the producers and consumers of those histories believed them to be true.

This book is the first in 30 years to take transport museums seriously as vehicles for the making of public histories.

The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "e;sustainable foods"e; that were produced from "e;sustainable agriculture"e;; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "e;sustainable development"e; as a strategy for local and global stability; and woe betide the city-dweller who doesn't aim for a "e;sustainable lifestyle.

Das Vorkommen fiktionaler direkter Reden ist für den modernen Leser das wohl auffallendste Merkmal antiker Geschichtswerke.

In its retrieval and (re)construction, the past has become interwoven with the images and structure of cinema.

This volume studies a fundamental element of Montesquieu's argumentative architecture that is most apparent in his De l'Esprit des Lois: the problem of giving order to, and establishing a network of consistent explanations of political, social and cultural diversity.

There were several compelling reasons which prompted me to undertake the work of translating and commenting upon the Vale of Tears by Joseph Hacohen, the sixteenth century physician and historian.

Science Cultivating Practice is an institutional history of agricultural science in the Netherlands and its overseas territories.

This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world.

This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of civility and political culture in the Muslim world.

This book explores commemoration practices and preservation efforts in modern Britain, focusing on the years from the end of the First World War until the mid-1960s.