Historiography category: 1227 books
by D. C. Zook
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Although most people think first of politics when they think of diversity, history plays a surprisingly powerful and influential role in the creation of diversity as well. Identity is to a certain extent a narrative we tell about who we are and where we came from, and since diversity is primarily...
Memory and the Wars on Terror
Australian and British Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This edited collection aims to respond to dominant perspectives on twenty-first-century war by exploring how the events of 9/11 and the subsequent Wars on Terror are represented and remembered outside of the US framework. Existing critical coverage ignores the meaning of these events for people, nations...
Tapestry of Memory
Evidence and Testimony in Life-Story Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In this volume, contributors present narratives and explore the way they influence the perception of the past. While acknowledging the debate about the validity of qualitative research based on narratives, this volume aims to illuminate how truth and evidence form part of a much wider debate on the...
by Dr John Vella
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
For more than a millennium, Aristotle was regarded as the foremost authority in the western world in nearly every subject. His corpus spans a daunting array of subjects and he made significant contributions to every known field of inquiry in the ancient world.
In Aristotle: A Guide for the...
Foundations of Modern Historical Thought
From Machiavelli to Vico
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The emergence of a sense of the past in Renaissance humanism gave rise to a new historical consciousness about the meaning of history and methods of historical enquiry. This book, originally published in 1986, provides an in-depth critical introduction to the historical thought of some of the most...
by Harold Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
An in depth analysis of two Christian martyr stories that explains how our perception of history distorts the truth of early Christianity.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology, translated and edited by Professor John Marincola, contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in the ancient world.
The study of history was invented in the classical world. Treading uncharted...
What Is China?
Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Ge Zhaoguang, an eminent historian of traditional China and a public intellectual, takes on fundamental questions that shape the domestic and international politics of the world’s most populous country and its second largest economy. What Is China? offers an insider’s account that addresses sensitive...
Anthology of Philosophical and Cultural Issues
An exploration into new frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
This book argues that a general understanding of traditional Chinese philosophy can be achieved by a concise elaboration of its truth, goodness and beauty; that goodness and beauty in Chinese philosophy, combined with the integration of man and heaven, knowledge and practice, scenery and feeling,...
Historical Research
A Guide for Writers of Dissertations, Theses, Articles and Books
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
This is the first practical guide to cover the various stages of a history research project, from the selection of the topic and the organization and interpretation of source material, through to the completion of the written-up record.Whether it is for a dissertation, thesis article or, indeed, full-length...
by J. Mussell
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
James Mussell provides an accessible account of the digitization of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals. As studying this material is essential to understand the period, he argues that we have no choice but to engage with the new digital resources that have transformed how we access the print archive.
Words in Time
A Plea for Historical Re-thinking
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Through questions such as ‘What is power?’, ‘How are revolutions generated?’, ‘Does public opinion really exist?’, ‘What does terrorism mean?’ and ‘When are generations created?’, Words in Time scrutinizes the fundamental concepts by which we confer meaning to the historical and...
History and Its Objects
Antiquarianism and Material Culture since 1500
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Cultural history is increasingly informed by the history of material culture—the ways in which individuals or entire societies create and relate to objects both mundane and extraordinary—rather than on textual evidence alone. Books such as The Hare with Amber Eyes and A History of the World in...
Die wichtigsten Werke von Jacob Burckhardt
Reisebilder aus dem Süden, Briefe, Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien, Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen, Der Cicerone, Die Zeit Constantins des Großen, E Hämpfeli Lieder & Autobiographische Schriften
Language: German
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Diese Ausgabe der Werke von Jacob Christoph Burckhardt wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Dieses eBook ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (1818-1897) war ein Schweizer...