History category: 194783 books
by Alun Munslow
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
The notion of 'history' has always been one strenuously debated by both academics and the wider population. This deeply provocative re-thinking of our engagement with the past by one of the world's leading post-modern historians takes that debate one step further.
Alun Munslow re-assesses history...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored...
by Professor Paul Knepper
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Writing the History of Crime investigates the development of historical writing on the subject of crime and its wider place in social and cultural history. It examines long-standing and emerging traditions in history writing, with separate chapters on legal and scientific approaches, as well as on...
Rewriting Ancient Jewish History
The History of the Jews in Roman Times and the New Historical Method
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Half a century ago, the primary contours of the history of the Jews in Roman times were not subject to much debate. This standard account collapsed, however, when a handful of insights undermined the traditional historical method, the method long enlisted by historians for eliciting facts from sources....
History and International Relations
From the Ancient World to the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
History and International Relations examines, from a historian's perspective, the evolution of international relations as a discipline and charts its engagement with the history of war, peace, and foreign relations from the ancient world to the present day. In three parts, it looks at the field's...
by Kenneth Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The Experience of History is a lively and passionate introduction to the field that encourages students to seek and appreciate history inside the classroom and beyond. This work:
Defines history as a discipline and the role of historians within it
Addresses the analytical and critical thinking...
Writing Food History
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The vibrant interest in food studies among both academics and amateurs has made food history an exciting field of investigation. Taking stock of three decades of groundbreaking multidisciplinary research, the book examines two broad questions: What has history contributed to the development of food...
Historical Memories in Culture, Politics and the Future
The Making of History and the World to Come
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This book is written to satisfy the individual’s desire for intellectual stimulation, to sow in the mind the seed of new ideas, and involve the reader in productive debates. It covers culture, history and the future, raising questions, presenting arguments and engaging the enquirer in reflection....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Environmental history has evolved into a well-established historical subfield which has broadened the horizons of historical research, beyond human affairs, to include the study of human interactions with natural and man-made environments. This broadened scope has attracted scholars from many different...
The Limits of Westernization
American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860 – 1960
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The rise of East Asia from the ashes of World War II in the late twentieth century has led to searching questions about the role the region will play in the world. The possibility that China will overtake the United States as a super power suggests the twenty-first century could become an Asian century....
The Nation in the History of Marxian Thought
The Concept of Nations with History and Nations without History
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This study is based upon the concept of nations with history and nations without history which was advanced in 1848/1849 in the pages of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, a Cologne based German newspaper under the editorship of Karl Marx. This theory is presented in this study as a model of opposites ;...
The Ends of History
Victorians and "the Woman Question"
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Why were the Victorians so passionate about "History"?
How did this passion relate to another Victorian obsession – the "woman question"? In a brilliant and provocative study, Christina Crosby investigates the links between the Victorians’ fascination with "history"...
by Peter Burke
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2019
What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully updated in its third edition, leading historian Peter Burke offers afresh his accessible account of the past, present and future of cultural history, as it has been practised...
by Richard Whatmore
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
What is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and translators between historic societies and our own, while their critics have often derided them as narrow-mindedly...