History: theory and methods

Plutarch's focus on the great leaders of the classical world, his anecdotal style, and his self-presentation as a good-natured friend and wise counsellor have appealed over the centuries to a wide audience, persons as diverse as Beethoven and Benjamin Franklin, Shakespeare and Harry Truman.

More than ninety percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century.

Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological practices that shape lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer oral histories.

This edited volume addresses memory practices among youth, families, cultural workers, activists, and engaged citizens in Lebanon and Morocco.

A philosophical examination of the deep past, and how paleontologists, archaeologists and geologists tell its story.

It is not always easy to maintain a proper balance between the delineation of cultural development within a given literary field and the claims of practical criticism.

This book examines the nature and consequences of strategic competition between the US and China, which affects the global security landscape and the emerging security architecture across the broader Asia-Pacific region.

This book analyses Chile's "e;truth and justice"e; policies implemented between 1990 and 2013.

This book presents an overview of important currents of thought in social and cultural anthropology, from the 19th century to the present.

This book examines the relationship between class and culture in 1930s Britain.

Die "Wiedergutmachung nationalsozialistischen Unrechts" ist immer noch eines der umstrittensten Themen bundesdeutscher Nachkriegspolitik.

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

Like their predecessors, and like their male counterparts, most women philosophers of the 20th century have significant expertise in several specialities.

This book describes Martin Bucer (1491-1551) as a teacher of theology, focusing on his time as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge between 1549 and 1551.

Lance Banning was one of the most distinguished historians of his generation.

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

This book is a study both of anachronism in antiquity and of anachronism as a vehicle for understanding antiquity.

This anthology of studies by the eminent geographer and climate scientist Eduard Bruckner (1862-1927) on anthropogenic climate change and the social, political and economic impact of climate variations on societies in historical times, assembles his pioneering work in English for the first time.

Taking the evidence of maps and documents, this book, originally published in 1957, describes 6 journeys inthe field: to parish boundaries, Elizabethan villages, the planted medieval towns and to parks of all periods.

How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imperative in our current sociopolitical context?

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Tacitus.

This book is the first of its kind to investigate the ongoing significance of industrial craft in deindustrialising places such as Australia.

This book is a work of historical critical exegesis.

The past decades public interest in history is booming.

This book examines the Tudor histories of the English Reformation written in the period 1530-83.

This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to shaping and imposition of "e;formulas for betrayal"e; as a result of changing memory politics in post-war Europe.

Wer Geschichte studiert, befasst sich auch mit Herodots »Historien«.

Anapolitanos critically examines and evaluates three basic characteristics of the Leibnizian metaphysical system: Leibniz's version of representation; the principle of continuity; and space, time, and the phenomenally spatio-temporal.

The Idea of History is the best known work of the Oxford philosopher and historian RG Collingwood.

Originally published in 1980.

Beginning with a couple of essays dealing with the experimental and mathematical foundations of physics in the work of Henry Cavendish and Joseph Fourier, the volume goes on to consider the broad areas of investigation that constituted the central foci of the development of the physics discipline in the nineteenth century: electricity and magnetism, including especially the work of Michael Faraday, William Thomson, and James Clerk Maxwell; and thermodynamics and matter theory, including the theoretical work and legacy of Josiah Willard Gibbs, some experimental work relating to thermodynamics and kinetic theory of Heinrich Hertz, and the work of Felix Seyler-Hoppe on hemoglobin in the neighboring field of biophysics/biochemistry.

How do Documents Become Sources?

Even if specific pieces of research (on the sources or on individual authors, such as Pico, Agrippa, Erasmus, Montaigne, Sanches etc.

​Ab den fünfziger Jahren entstand in Westdeutschland mit der neu geschaffenen „documenta“ allmählich das Bild einer eigenständigen „Westkunst“.

Histories of Postmodernism reexamines the history of the constellation of ideas and thinkers associated with postmodernism.

Why did Machiavelli write the Prince - and why did religious and political authorities find it so threatening?

This book examines 21st-century South African autobiographical writing that addresses the nation's socio-political realities, both past and present.

This book consists of a significant and valuable reappraisal of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by a number of outstanding, international Hegel scholars.

To understand the turnaround in Spain's stance towards Japan during World War II, this book goes beyond mutual contacts and explains through images, representations, and racism why Madrid aimed at declaring war on Japan but not against the III Reich -as London ironically replied when it learned of Spain's warmongering against one of the Axis members.

One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe.