Historiography category: 1227 books
by Mark Salber Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought, but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect, ideology, and understanding. In this exceptionally wide-ranging study, Phillips examines...
by Ranajit Guha
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. Indigenous histories have been expropriated, eclipsed, sometimes even wholly eradicated, in the service of imperialist aims buttressed by a distinctly Western philosophy...
Nation and History
Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
The important scholarly achievements of Polish historians remain largely unknown outside Poland. In Nation and History, editors Peter Brock, John Stanley, and Piotr J. Wróbel have brought together twenty-four essays on Polish historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War, an era of unparalleled...
The Historiography of Transition
Critical Phases in the Development of Modernity (1494-1973)
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Defining a “historic transition” means understanding how the complex system of intellectual, social, and material structures formed that determined the transition from a certain “universe” to a “new universe,” where the old explanations were radically rethought. In this book, a group of...
by Stephen Morillo
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
The third edition of What is Military History? has been thoroughly updated, and includes a new bibliography and new case studies on naval warfare and the origins of war, as well as expanded sections on historiography, environmental history and world history.
This popular textbook showcases...
The Art of History
A Study of Four Great Historians of the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The first important scholarly consideration of Enlightenment historiography of the twentieth century, this book, originally published in 1926, critically examines the ideas of Voltaire, Hume, Robertston and Gibbon with respect to the theory and practice of historiography. The substantial introduction...
Historians across Borders
Writing American History in a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
In this stimulating and highly original study of the writing of American history, twenty-four scholars from eleven European countries explore the impact of writing history from abroad. Six distinguished scholars from around the world add their commentaries.
Arguing that historical writing is...
The Race of Time
Three Lectures on Renaissance Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Professor Baker recounts and analyses the relations of the English Renaissance historians to other writers of their time and to the historians of later ages. Supported and enlivened with a wealth of quotation from the historians themselves, their critics and their colleagues, The Race of Time illuminates...
The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies
Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
The essays in this provocative collection exemplify the innovations that have characterized the relatively new field of late ancient studies. Focused on civilizations clustered mainly around the Mediterranean and covering the period between roughly 100 and 700 CE, scholars in this field have brought...
What Is History For?
Johann Gustav Droysen and the Functions of Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
A scholar of Hellenistic and Prussian history, Droysen developed a historical theory that at the time was unprecedented in range and depth, and which remains to the present day a valuable key for understanding history as both an idea and a professional practice. Arthur Alfaix Assis interprets Droysen’s...
Artefacts of History
Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
This book encourages us to critically regard the ways in which ideologies of cultural heritage and civilisational legacies are transformed into tangible and visible things through archaeological scholarship.
Through little-known histories of the practices, governance and scholarship of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Do women have a history? Did women have a renaissance? These were provocative questions when they were raised in the heyday of women’s studies in the 1970s. But how relevant does gender remain to premodern history in the twenty-first century? This book considers this question in eight new case studies...
The Imagined Island
History, Identity, and Utopia in Hispaniola
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
In a landmark study of history, power, and identity in the Caribbean, Pedro L. San Miguel examines the historiography of Hispaniola, the West Indian island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He argues that the national identities of (and often the tense relations between) citizens of these...
by Dr Philip SA Cummins
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
This book introduces you to the world of historiography - the study of how and why history is written. Clio's Scroll argues for a contemporary and personal approach to understanding and articulating a theory of history. It is designed to guide you through the relevant issues facing those who write...