Historiography category: 1227 books
The Look of the Past
Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
How can we use visual and material culture to shed light on the past? Ludmilla Jordanova offers a fascinating and thoughtful introduction to the role of images, objects and buildings in the study of past times. Through a combination of thematic chapters and essays on specific artefacts – a building,...
The Art of Time Travel
Historians and Their Craft
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us. The art of time travel is to maintain critical poise and grace in this dizzy space.
In this landmark book, eminent historian and award-winning author Tom Griffiths...
Theatres of Memory
Past and Present in Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of “heritage” that lies at the heart of every Western nation’s obsession with the past. Today, in the age of Downton Abbey and Mad Men, we are once again...
Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering
Japan in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
“A series of astute academic essays on the forging of postwar Japan” from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Bancroft Prize (Kirkus Reviews).
Remembering and reconstructing the past inevitably involves forgetting—and nowhere more so than in the complex relationship...
The Diversity of History
Essays in Honour of Sir Herbert Butterfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Each of the essays in this volume, originally published in 1970, touches upon a historical theme which Herbert Butterfield illuminated. It covers a wide range of topics from music and relgion in modern European history to the scientific revolution of the 17th century.
Rodin
A l’Hotel de Biron et a Meudon ( Edition intégrale ) illustré - annoté
Language: French
Release Date: October 4, 2018
COMME DE NOTRE TEMPS.—UN FRISE-TOUPET HEUREUX. L’HISTOIRE D’UN HOTEL CÉLÈBRE.
LE XVIIIe siècle ressemble étrangement, par ses filous, au siècle que nous avons le malheur d’entamer. C’est pourquoi le XVIIIe siècle nous est si cher! A vrai dire, je crois même que de notre temps...
History Beyond the Text
A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of interpretation and require historians to consider alternative theoretical and practical approaches.
In...
Confessions of a Mormon Historian
The Diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997: Volume 3, Exile, 1980-97
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Leonard Arrington (1917–99) was born an Idaho chicken rancher whose early interests seemed not to extend much beyond the American west. Throughout his life, he tended to project a folksy persona, although nothing was farther from the truth.
He was, in fact, an intellectually oriented, academically...
Confessions of a Mormon Historian
The Diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Leonard Arrington (1917–99) was born an Idaho chicken rancher whose early interests seemed not to extend much beyond the American west. Throughout his life, he tended to project a folksy persona, although nothing was farther from the truth.
He was, in fact, an intellectually oriented, academically...
Die Welt der Poesie für neugierige Leser. Achter Band: Dichter und Dichterinnen in Zeiten der Weltkriege
Herausgegeben und mit einem Vorwort von Jan Michaelis
Language: German
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Achter Band: Dichter und Dichterinnen in Zeiten der Weltkriege: Rainer Maria Rilke zählt zu den bedeutenden Lyrikern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Hans Fallada war ein ausgezeichneter Milieuschilderer mit Humor. Hermann Hesse erhielt den Literatur-Nobelpreis im Jahr 1946. Agnes Miegel gilt als große ostpreußische...
by Edward Gibbon
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2006
Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left behind the unfinished drafts of his Memoirs, which were posthumously edited by his friend Lord Sheffield, and remain an astonishing portrait of a rich, full life. Recounting Gibbon's...
by Michael Bracey
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
This is a history/reflection book on a small town in Pennsylvania. The town is full of character and characters-- all real.
History and Film
Moving Pictures and the Study of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The ability to view recorded moving pictures has had a major impact on human culture since the development of the necessary technologies over a century ago. For most of this time people have gone to the movies to be entertained and perhaps edified, but in the meantime television, the videocassette...
Captured By History
One Man's Vision Of Our Tumultuous Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Captured by History is an autobiography like none other, for few historians have interviewed as many men and women who helped shape the most momentous events of our century than John Toland. Here, for the first time, Toland reveals how he found these key players and how he persuaded them to talk to...