Historiography category: 1227 books
Media and Memory in New Shanghai
Western Performances of Futures Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Contributing to current debates about the globality and mediatisation of memories, Media and Memory in New Shanghai interrogates the city's spectacular regeneration into an emergent world centre, describing how Western elites partake in the production of New Shanghai by feeling its futures and performing its futures past.
Authoring the Past
Writing and Rethinking History
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Please explain why you think about and write history as you do?
Collecting together the responses to this question from 15 of the world’s foremost historians and theorists, Authoring the Past represents a powerful reflection on and intervention in the historiographical field.
Edited...
Het verraad van Benschop
Verzet en vergelding in een boerendorp, februari 1945
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In 'Het verraad van Benschop' beschrijft Bram de Graaf hoe de Tweede Wereldoorlog genadeloos ingreep in het Utrechtse boerendorpje Benschop. In februari 1945, toen de oorlog bijna voorbij leek te zijn, doen de Duitsers een inval in het dorp. Ze weten waar ze moeten zijn: een vermomde man wijst de...
Irish Flames
Peter Wallers true story of the arrival of the Black and Tans
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Before co-founder of the American School in London Peter Waller died he gave a partial manuscript to the author, his half-brother. His story is based on his memories of his childhood and the 1920 arrival of the Black and Tans. It is set in heart-wrenching times, intertwining flames of freedom, flames...
"I wish to keep a record"
Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick Women Diarists and Their World
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Nineteenth-century New Brunswick society was dominated by white, Protestant, Anglophone men. Yet, during this time of state formation in Canada, women increasingly helped to define and shape a provincial outlook.
*I wish to keep a record is the first book to focus exclusively on the life-course...
by Alun Munslow
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
In Deconstructing History, Alun Munslow examines history in the postmodern age. He provides an introduction to the debates and issues of postmodernist history. He also surveys the latest research into the relationship between the past, history and historical practice as well as forwarding his own...
by Leonie Hannan, Sarah Longair
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
People live in material worlds and the things we make, wear, sit upon, treasure or discard are key to understanding our lives and societies. As material culture is central to human experience, it represents a vital but under-used source for historians. Written in a lively and accessible style, this...
Decoding the Past
The Psychohistorical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In Decoding the Past, Peter Loewenberg has collected eleven of his brilliant essays on psychohistory, a discipline that has emerged from the synthesis of traditional historical analysis and clinical psychoanalysis. He surveys this relatively new field its methods and its problems to show the special...
by Jacob Burckhardt
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Western Civilisation was in its pomp when Jacob Burckhardt delivered his Judgements on History and Historians; European Empires spanned the globe, while the modern age was being forged in the nationalist revolutions of 1848. As a tutor to the young Friedrich Nietzsche as well as one of the first historians to take 'culture' as his subject rather th
The Rise of New Media 1750–1850
Transatlantic Discourse and American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This monograph explores transatlantic literary culture by tracing the proliferation of ‘new media,’ such as the anthology, the literary history and the magazine, in the period between 1750 and 1850. The fast-paced media landscape out of which these publishing genres developed produced the need...
Medizin und Sprache die Sprache der Medizin
Medycyna i jzyk jzyk medycyny
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Medizin und Sprache – die Sprache der Medizin lautete das Thema der 14. Tagung der Deutsch-Polnischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin. Der Tagungsband umfasst 17 Beiträge, die aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven das Verhältnis von Sprache und Medizin thematisieren. Die Autoren diskutieren...
by NETLANCERS INC
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
American expressions of belief, as well as folklore and superstition, that don't fit into any other category.
In this collection 8 books are there :-
Coffee In The Gourd :- A collection of Texas folklore.The articles reflect the cultural diversity of Texas, including articles on African-American,...
The Age of Asa
Lord Briggs, Public Life and History in Britain since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Asa Briggs has been a prominent figure in post-war cultural life - as a pioneering historian, a far-sighted educational reformer, and a sensitive chronicler of the way in which broadcasting and communication more generally have shaped modern society. He has also been a devoted servant of the public...
The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise
Clio Takes the Stand
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book scrutinizes the emergence of historians participating as expert witnesses in historical forensic contribution in some of the most important national and international legal ventures of the last century. It aims to advance the debate from discussions on whether historians should testify...