Historiography category: 1227 books
Discourse and Culture
The Creation of America, 1870-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Written history is literary artifact: taking this as its starting point, Discourse and Culture argues that the Foucauldian concept of the shifting scale of linguistic and historic values must be the central focus for a new interpretation of American culture and ideology. Six major American historical...
Queer Domesticities
Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Sissy home boys or domestic outlaws? Through a series of vivid case studies taken from across the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Matt Cook explores the emergence of these trenchant stereotypes and looks at how they play out in the home and family lives of queer men.
At the Mercy of Their Clothes
Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
In much of modern fiction, it is the clothes that make the character. Garments embody personal and national histories. They convey wealth, status, aspiration, and morality (or a lack thereof). They suggest where characters have been and where they might be headed, as well as whether or not they are...
British queer history
New approaches and perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This collection of essays takes stock of the ‘new British queer history’. It is intended both for scholars and students of British social and cultural history and of the history of sexuality, and for a broader readership interested in queer issues. In offering a snapshot of the field, this volume...
So Conceived and So Dedicated
Intellectual Life in the Civil War-Era North
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
“Outstanding essays” exploring how educated Northerners viewed, and discussed, the Civil War (Michael B. Ballard, Civil War News).
With contributions from multiple historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the Civil War and implementing their vision of a...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This book analyses some of the fundamental reasons for the triumph of National Socialism in 1933. Written in 1983 by historians at Canadian, American and British universities, it provides a clear and balanced historiographical perspective of the dynamics of socio-political mobilization which helped...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Bringing together incisive contributions from an international group of colleagues and former students, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective takes stock of the field of German history as exemplified by the extraordinary scholarly career of Konrad H. Jarausch. Through fascinating reflections...
Europeanization in the Twentieth Century
Historical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
Europeanization is a term at the centre of contemporary political debate. In this innovative study, a team of British and German historians present the findings of their research project into how the concept and content of Europeanization needs to be understood as a historical phenomenon, which has changed its meaning during the twentieth century.
How to Read a History Book
The Hidden History Of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
A deconstruction of the modern history book as artifact, How to Read a History Book explains who writes history books, how the writers are trained, and why they write them. It also discusses genre, bias (political and otherwise) and how to read history books between the lines. Written for undergraduates,...
Listening on the Edge
Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
From the headlines of local newspapers to the coverage of major media outlets, scenes of war, natural disaster, political revolution and ethnic repression greet readers and viewers at every turn. What we often fail to grasp, however, despite numerous treatments of events is the deep meaning and broader...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Gender History Across Epistemologies offers broad range of innovative approaches to gender history. The essays reveal how historians of gender are crossing boundaries - disciplinary, methodological, and national - to explore new opportunities for viewing gender as a category of historical analysis.
Essays...
The City of Auckland
New Zealand, 1840-1920 (Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
This book is the first attempt which has been made to write a connected history of the City of Auckland. Although in years the city is comparatively young, many of the events which have marked its progress have already been forgotten. With the exception, perhaps, of the principal incidents associated...
Incontri (e scontri) mediterranei
Il Mediterraneo come spazio di contatto tra culture e religioni diverse
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Il Mediterraneo è davvero un “continente liquido”, un luogo di millenari scambi, o un mare che al contrario tiene reciprocamente lontane le genti che su di esso si affacciano? È il mare dei confronti o il mare degli scontri di civiltà? Partendo da un esame della letteratura specialistica recente,...
Going to the Sources
A Guide to Historical Research and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
It’s been almost 30 years since the first edition of Going to the Sources: A Guide to Historical Research and Writing was first published. Newly revised and updated, the sixth edition of this bestselling guide helps students at all levels meet the challenge of writing their first (or their first...