History: theory and methods

This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came about, and why they were so popular.

Different from literary works (prose, drama etc.

The first book on historiography to adopt a global and comparative perspective on the topic, A Global History of Modern Historiography looks not just at developments in the West but also at the other great historiographical traditions in Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere around the world over the course of the past two and a half centuries.

This book reframes commemoration through distinctly geographical lenses, locating it within experiential and digital worlds.

This book redefines the relationship between Marxism and history.

Grometstein explains modern physics with enthusiasm, wit and insight.

I can warmly recommend Responsible History to any concerned historian in need of a reliable compass for responsible conduct.

Germany and Japan have taken different ways of dealing with the past of the traumatic events of World War II and their own role.

This book takes a fresh look at the connection between history and policy, proposing that historians rediscover a sense of 'public purpose' that can embrace political decision-making - and also enhance historical practice.

Moving beyond existing scholarship, this book connects photography, archives, ecology and historical change and critically applies the Anthropocene as framework to the in-depth study of artists' projects.

David Hume, the eighteenth century philosopher, famously declared that 'the crusades engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engaged the curiosity of man kind'.

This book unlocks the Jewish theology of YHWH in three central stages of Jewish thought: the Hebrew bible, rabbinic literature, and medieval philosophy and mysticism.

This book offers a new theoretical perspective on the thought of the great fifteenth-century Egyptian polymath, Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d.

The history of sociology overwhelmingly focuses on 'the winners' from the classical 'canon' - Marx, Durkheim, and Weber - to today's most celebrated sociologists.

Beginning with a reassessment of contemporary romantic studies, this book provides a modern critical comparison of Keats and Shelley.

This volume clearly communicates that Weber's influence is of great significance to the history of social science, and to appreciating the theoretical work of other social scientists in the modern age.

This study explores the connection between politics and historical scholarship in the case of the Hungarian historian, Gyula Szekfu, whose career spanned one of the most significant and eventful periods of Hungarian history.

Psychoanalysis really should not exist today.

A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world.

This volume presents an overview of methodologies to identify and study foodways in the archaeological record.

Obwohl die Zeitgeschichtsschreibung in der Bundesrepublik inzwischen die Schwelle zu den 1970er Jahren überwinden konnte, ist die Selbstthematisierung der Fachgeschichte bislang kaum über das Jahr 1965 hinausgelangt.

This book presents eight papers about important historiographical issues as debated in the history of science in Islamicate societies, the history of science and philosophy of medieval Latin Europe and the history of mathematics as an academic discipline.

Im Wintersemester 1824/25 hat Hegel sein zweites Kolleg über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte gelesen.

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi offers a corrective to recent works on Orientalism that focus solely on European scholarly productions without exploring the significance of native scholars and vernacular scholarship to the making of Oriental studies.

Oil is the source of wealth and economic opportunity.

The later Roman Empire was shrinking on the map, but still shaped the way historians represented the space around them.

The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography.

Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and Poland from c.

This book provides the first bilateral study of Greek-US relations during Greece's transition to democracy in the second half of the 1970s.

Writing Conceptual Histories introduces conceptual history as a research perspective and as a lens through which we can study the past and present.

This book explores the writing of church history during the early Byzantine period, reconsidering the evidence for the nature and authorship of a hypothetical 'Arian' source for many surviving medieval histories of the fourth century.

This book presents research on geographical naming on land and sea from a wide range of standpoints on: theory and concepts, case studies and education.

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The Character of Seventeenth-Century French Protestantism and the Place of the Huguenot Refuge following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes Thirty-seven years ago the late Emile-G.

The historian's task involves unmasking the systems of power that underlie our sources.

Considering both retrospective memories and the prospective employment of memories, Memory in a Mediated World examines troubled times that demand resolution, recovery and restoration.

This book reflects on how teachers and students use new technologies in classroom settings in order to improve the capacity of teaching and learning in history to successfully meet the challenges of the twenty-first century through a complex understanding of the relation between past and present.

Through the collection of letters sent by members of a Jewish family between 1923 and 1942, this fascinating book explores phenomenological and psychoanalytical aspects of the Holocaust and its associated trauma, and the impact on future generations of the same family.

This is the first book on Italian Fascism to analyse the rich historiography written in Italian for the benefit of the English-speaking students.

Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development demonstrates the importance of one of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics winners Elinor Ostrom's research program.

Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory.

Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an unparalleled insight into how early modern scholarly culture understood the relations between its disciplines.

Judicial equity developed in England during the medieval period, providing an alternative access to justice for cases that the rigid structures of the common law could not accommodate.

This book explores how the expectations of historical justice movements and processes are understood within educational contexts, particularly history education.