Historiography category: 1227 books

If you want to see the working world on the move, one of the places where you get this feeling is the Dubai international airport. Here one finds persons of different cultures, races, backgrounds on the move. One thing that binds the millions who transit this airport is that they are all workers.These...

Memory Work studies how Jewish children of Holocaust survivors from the English-speaking diaspora explore the past in literary texts. By identifying areas where memory manifests - Objects, Names, Bodies, Food, Passover, 9/11 it shows how the Second Generation engage with the pre-Holocaust family and their parents' survival.

L’Égyptologie est un ouvrage de l'égyptologue français Gaston Maspero (1846 – 1916). Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mise en page pour une lecture sur...

Winner, 2019 Summerfield G. Robert Award, sponsored by The Sons of the Republic of Texas Faces of Béxar showcases the finest work of Jesús F. de la Teja, a foremost authority on Spanish colonial Mexico and Texas through the Republic. These essays trace the arc of the author’s career over...

The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade...

Contre Verrès - Cicéron   Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.   Cicéron (106 av. J.-C. - 43 av. J.-C.) est un philosophe romain, homme d'État et un auteur...

What is gender and who has it? History, theory and gender are inextricably linked, but how exactly do they fit together? How do historians use theories about gender to write history? In this jargon-free introduction, Susan Kingsley Kent presents a student-friendly guide to the origins, conceptual...

Gorgi Valentinovitch Plekhanov (1856-1918) was an important Russian Marxist, often cited by Lenin, who was of a generation of young revolutionaries. In this work Plekhanov compares the materialist conception, ie, Marxist, how it happens and how it should be studied human history, with other concepts. The actuality of Plekhanov's reflections is impressive.

Among the first written accounts of the concentration camps—a major literary and historical discovery. While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was...

Il genere umano non trova più essenziale sapere che vi è stato un periodo in cui ricordava di provenire da grandi civiltà e che qualcuno gli precluse le fonti d’informazione. C’è stata un'epoca in cui l’uomo possedeva profonde conoscenze in ogni campo, tali da considerare, tutto quello che...

Histoire de la Révolution française, écrit par le grand historien français Jules Michelet (1798 – 1874). Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale des Tomes I et II, et comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.

Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past. In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the...

Written in an engaging and entertaining style, this widely-used how-to guide introduces readers to the theory, craft, and methods of history and provides a series of tools to help them research and understand the past. Part I is a stimulating, philosophical introduction to the key elements...

A succinct, student-friendly guide that helps students to create a strong Internal Assessment piece for their IB Diploma. By utilizing nearly two decades of IB teaching experience, James Rogers offers students the benefit of his experience and wisdom. A must read for any IB History student.