Historiography category: 1227 books
by Stephen Howard Browne, Barbara Biesecker, Barbie Zelizer
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories.
The study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications....
Hyde Park
Its History and Romance
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Hyde Park: Its History and Romance written by a prolific English author Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie. Inside this book has illustrations and maps which part of history. First published in 1908. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form....
Meaning in History
The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Modern man sees with one eye of faith and one eye of reason. Consequently, his view of history is confused. For centuries, the history of the Western world has been viewed from the Christian or classical standpoint—from a deep faith in the Kingdom of God or a belief in recurrent and eternal life-cycles....
by Edith Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece.
"Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief...
by Francis Miltoun
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
This statement is of undeniable merit, as some of us, who so love la belle France—even though we be strangers—well know.
The Burgundy of Charlemagne’s time was a much vaster extent of territory than that of the period when the province came to play its own kingly part.
The Cultural Turn in U. S. History
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
A definitive account of one of the most dominant trends in recent historical writing, The Cultural Turn in U.S. History takes stock of the field at the same time as it showcases exemplars of its practice.
The first of this volume’s three distinct sections offers a comprehensive...
by Zachary S. Schiffman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
How did people learn to distinguish between past and present? How did they come to see the past as existing in its own distinctive context? In The Birth of the Past, Zachary Sayre Schiffman explores these questions in his sweeping survey of historical thinking in the Western world. Today we automatically...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature and the humanities. The book is a major reconsideration of the historian's contributions and influence...
Journal des journaux de la Commune
Tableau résumé de la presse quotidienne, du 19 mars au 24 mai 1871, lois, décrets, proclamations, rapports et informations militaires, séances de la Commune, etc., reproduits d'après le "Journal officiel" de Paris, extraits des autres journaux
Language: French
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Extrait : "Le 19 mars 1871. Le Journal officiel, encore aux mains du gouvernement régulier, publie les pièces suivantes dans sa partie officielle : "Gardes nationaux de Paris, Un comité prenant le nom de comité central, après s'être emparé d'un certain nombre de canon, a couvert Paris de barricades,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive, international anthology combining major, ‘classic’ articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral history. Twenty-seven new chapters introduce the most significant developments in oral history in the...
by Eva Ulrike Pirker
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Since the mid-1990s, the black experience in Britain has begun to be (re)negotiated intensely, with a strong focus on history. Narrative Projections of a Black British History considers narratives that construct, or engage with, aspects of a black British history. Part I poses the question of what...
Prophets of the Past
Interpreters of Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Prophets of the Past is the first book to examine in depth how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. Michael Brenner reveals that perhaps no other national or religious group has used their shared history for so many different ideological and political purposes as the Jews. He...
Philosophy of History
A Guide for Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Philosophy of History is an essential introduction to a vast body of writing about history, from classical Greece and Rome to the modern world. M.C. Lemon maps out key debates and central concepts of philosophy of history, placing principal thinkers in the context of their times and schools of thought....
History and Its Limits
Human, Animal, Violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the limitations of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra focuses on the problem of understanding extreme...