History: theory and methods

Firmly rooted on Roman and canon law, Italian legal culture has had an impressive influence on the civil law tradition from the Middle Ages to present day, and it is rightly regarded as "e;the cradle of the European legal culture.

Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of post-colonial India.

Starting with an essay on the Renaissance as the concluding phase of the Middle Ages and ending with appreciations of Paul Oskar Kristeller, the great twentieth-century scholar of the Renaissance, this new volume by John Monfasani brings together seventeen articles that focus both on individuals, such as Erasmus of Rotterdam, Angelo Poliziano, Marsilio Ficino, and NiccolA2 Perotti, and on large-scale movements, such as the spread of Italian humanism, Ciceronianism, Biblical criticism, and the Plato-Aristotle Controversy.

This Element describes Living with Machines, the largest digital humanities project ever funded in the UK.

Barack Obama's politics are deeply informed by his profound knowledge and understanding of his country's history.

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

Sul's history of the international ginseng trade reveals the cultural aspects of international capitalism and the impact of this single commodity on relations between the East and the West.

Affectivity and the Social Bond offers a fresh and original perspective on the relationship between affectivity and transcendence in nineteenth and twentieth century French social theory.

Is history factual, or just another form of fiction?

In the ghetto, transit and concentration camp Theresienstadt, film recordings were made with the forced participation of the deportees and became known under the title "e;Theresienstadt - A Documentary from the Jewish Settlement Area"e;.

Transmedia Narratives for Cultural Heritage focuses on theoretical approaches to the analysis and creative practice of developing non-fiction digital transmedia narratives in the rapidly growing cultural heritage sector.

The French Revolution had a profound influence on perceptions of the past as well as setting the agenda for modern political culture.

This handbook provides a resource for those already familiar with some kinds of micro-particles who wish to learn more about others, or for those just starting out in the study of microremains who wish to have a broad understanding about microscopic archaeology.

Scholarship on premodern Japan has grown spectacularly over the past four decades, in terms of both sophistication and volume.

This title was originally published in 1947.

The Language of the Past analyzes the use of history in discourses within the political, media and the public sphere.

All technologies differ from one another.

This edited collection aims to respond to dominant perspectives on twenty-first-century war by exploring how the events of 9/11 and the subsequent Wars on Terror are represented and remembered outside of the US framework.

This volume develops a comprehensive framework for applying the theory of hauntology to everyday life from ethnographic and clinical points of view.

Awarded the Irish Historical Research Prize 2021.

Right up to the war, Europe's power elites were driven: motivated by chauvinistic demands, a spirit of aggression and hopes for a quick victory.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Eine Urga-Handschrift des mongolischen Geschichtswerks von Secen Sagang (alias Sanang Secen)" verfügbar.

and less as the emanation unden\'ent radioactive decay, and it became motion- less after about 30 seconds.

The Compendium of British Office Holders provides a comprehensive guide to holders of British Political, Administrative, Military and Ecclesiastical offices since the Roman conquest, giving names, dates and the length offices were held for governmental positions.

Unraveling the Voynich Codex reviews the historical, botanical, zoological, and iconographic evidence related to the Voynich Codex, one of the most enigmatic historic texts of all time.

In recent times there has been recognition of the growing influence of cultural theory on historical writing.

Stanley Rice, born in London in 1905, began his autobiography by stating that his life was 'an ordinary average life with all its ups and downs'.

One of the biggest challenges in the study of history is the unreliable nature of traditional archival sources which omit histories of marginalised groups.

Durch die Christianisierung Skandinaviens veränderte Europa vom 9.

The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolome de las Casas's Brevisima relacion de la destruicion de las Indias reinterprets Las Casas's controversial treatise as a legal document, whose legal character is linked to civil and ecclesial genres of the Early Modern and late Renaissance juridical tradition.

When my Habilitation (the tenure research document for my professorship) was published for the first time by StudienVerlag in 2003, I did not expect that a scientific study such as this would reach such a large readership in the Germ- speaking world.

Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France is a two-volume work that documents the French reception of G.

By North-American standards, philosophy is not new in Quebec: the first men- tion of philosophy lectures given by a Jesuit in the College de Quebec (founded 1635) dates from 1665, and the oldest logic manuscript dates from 1679.

In addition to the problem of language, conducting oral histories with immigrant narrators often requires special considerations: past violence, cultural sensitivity, and lack of trust.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Geschichtsphilosophie der Epoche des Imperialismus" verfügbar.

Dieses kleine Buch liefert historisch belegte Fakten ungewöhnlicher Maßnahmen und raffinierter Ideen aus der langen Leidensgeschichte der Steuern und Abgaben, die Schlaglichter auch auf heutige Eigenwilligkeiten und empfundene Absurditäten der Steuergesetzgebung werfen.

In the latter years of the ninth century, a mysterious figure arrived in the North African Jewish community of Kairouan.

In the field of medieval Indian historiography, an eight-volume magnum opus, History of India as Told by Its Own Historians, by Sir Henry Myers Elliot (1808-53) and the editor-compiler of his posthumous papers, John Dowson (1820-81), was published from London between 1867 and 1877.

A tribute to the pioneers of oil exploration in Indonesia (1850-1898).

This book provides a critical engagement with the idea of the 'security society' which has been the focus of so much attention in criminology and the social sciences more broadly.