Historiography category: 1227 books
Sediments of Time
On Possible Histories
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns, including his theory of sediments of time; his theory...
Provincializing Europe
Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is...
by NETLANCERS INC
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Collection Of Atlantis
This collection have 15 In-Apps books and they are :-
A Dweller on Two Planets :- A very influential speculative novel of Atlantis and points beyond, purportedly composed via automatic writing by a teenager in the shadow of Mount Shasta.
Atlantida :-...
History in the Plural
An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006) was one of most imposing and influential European intellectual historians in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and transgressing the boundaries of mainstream historical writing, he created numerous highly innovative approaches, absorbing influences from other...
Rooting Memory, Rooting Place
Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a fresh and nuanced view of twenty-first-century texts.
by Jeffrey Andrew Barash
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has served novel roles in a modern era otherwise characterized by...
Photography and Failure
One Medium's Entanglement with Flops, Underdogs and Disappointments
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Throughout photography's history, failure has played an essential, recurring part in the development and perceived value of this medium. Exploring a range of failures – individual and institutional, technological and historiographical – Photography and Failure asks what it means to fail and considers...
by J. Hillaby
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Using a wide range of rich original sources, this unique reference guide provides a remarkable picture of England's medieval Jewry. Following an extensive introduction, the dictionary includes illustrations, maps, and over 40 topographic, 30 biographic and 80 general entries, including texts of key legislation.
Op klompen door de dessa
Indiëgangers vertellen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 4, 2015
‘Willem Twijnstra deed na Indië zo raar. “Hij moet een schop onder de kont hebben en dan aan het werk,” zeiden ze in de polder.’ De jongens van toen zijn oude mannen geworden, maar ze zijn helder genoeg om de waarheid te vertellen. En die is hard, niet zelden verbijsterend en vaak ontroerend....
Memory Unbound
Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Though still a relatively young field, memory studies has undergone significant transformations since it first coalesced as an area of inquiry. Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid, dynamic, unbound phenomenon—a process rather than a reified object. Embodying just such an elastic...
by Kerry Butters
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
Memories of 1955 by Kerry Butters is a reference Book from that year, included in it are things in the News, Famous Births and Deaths etc. Great for birthday presents. Look out for other years in the series or maybe buy your own birth year. Look out for other years in the series by the same Author. 1916 - Present. Ideal for Birthdays, Anniversaries Etc
by Kerry Butters
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Memories of 1957 by Kerry Butters is a reference Book from that year, included in it are things in the News, Famous Births and Deaths etc. Great for birthday presents. Look out for other years in the series or maybe buy your own birth year. Look out for other years in the series by the same Author. 1916 - Present. Ideal for Birthdays, Anniversaries Etc
One in a Thousand
The Life and Death of Captain Eddie McKay, Royal Flying Corps
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This short microhistory details the life and death of Eddie McKay, a varsity athlete at Western University, who flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. Graham Broad switches creatively from telling McKay's fascinating story to teaching valuable lessons on how to do history: why the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The history of the Lone Star state is a narrative dominated by larger-than-life personalities and often-contentious legends, presenting interesting challenges for historians. Perhaps for this reason, Texas has produced a cadre of revered historians who have had a significant impact on the preservation...