History Theory category: 16752 books
Lost Worlds
The Emergence of French Social History, 1815–1970
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Today’s interest in social history and private life is often seen as a twentieth-century innovation. Most often Lucien Febvre and the Annales school in France are credited with making social history a widely accepted way for historians to approach the past. In Lost Worlds historian Jonathan Dewald...
America Writes Its History, 1650-1850
The Formation of a National Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
By turns irreverent, sympathetic and amusing, America Writes Its History, 1650–1850 adds to the public discourse on national identity as advanced through the written word. Highlighting the contributions of American writers who focused on history, the author shows that for nearly 200 years writers...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014!
2014 winner of the American Association for the History of Nursing’s Mary M. Roberts Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing!
The Routledge Handbook on the Global History of Nursing brings together leading scholars and scholarship...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Fiction has tremendous power to portray historical truth—and to communicate history to audiences who may not otherwise attend to the subject. This book presents Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to students and general readers as an insightful guide to the history of Europe and Africa in the late...
by Amber Brian
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Honorable Mention, 2016
Born between 1568 and 1580, Alva Ixtlilxochitl was a direct descendant of Ixtlilxochitl I and Ixtlilxochitl II, who had been rulers of Texcoco, one of the major city-states in pre-Conquest Mesoamerica. After...
History as a Kind of Writing
Textual Strategies in Contemporary French Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
In academia, the traditional role of the humanities is being questioned by the “posts”—postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postfeminism—which means that the project of writing history only grows more complex. In History as a Kind of Writing, scholar of French literature and culture Philippe...
Women's Bands in America
Performing Music and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Women's Bands in America is the first comprehensive exploration of women’s bands across the three centuries in American history. Contributors trace women's emerging roles in society as seen through women's bands—concert and marching—spanning three centuries of American history. Authors explore...
Shaped by the State
Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what “counts” are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. But while crisis-centered frameworks can make sense of certain dimensions of political culture, partisan...
by Dr Mary Spongberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence to suggest that women have engaged in historical writing since ancient times.This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming...
French Studies in History
Vol. II-The Departures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The early years of this century saw a rapid renewal in the subject as well as the methodology of history. This process was both influenced an reoriented by a rich, but often difficult dialogue with the other social sciences. It was thus that the territory of the historian was extended to cover areas...
History, Empathy and Conflict
Heroes, Victims and Victimisers
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book argues that popular culture has been transformed in a silent revolution from emphasising history’s heroes to its victims. While city squares and stations were named in the nineteenth century after military victories, now the equivalent airports are named after the victims of violence....
Imperial History and the Global Politics of Exclusion
Britain, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Examining the rise of the field of imperial history in Britain and wider webs of advocacy, this book demonstrates how intellectuals and politicians promoted settler colonialism, excluded the subject empire, and laid a precarious framework for decolonization. History was politics in late-nineteenth-century...
The Calling of History
Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
A leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association. By the end of his lifetime, however, he had been marginalized by the Indian history establishment,...
Historical Thinking for History Teachers
A new approach to engaging students and developing historical consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Effective Australian history education has never been more important for the development of critically aware and thoughtful young people. History fosters important skills in reasoning, historical consciousness and empathy; and an appreciation of history is crucial to the development of students' understanding...