Historiography category: 1227 books
Historical Consciousness
The Remembered Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
One of the most important developments of Western civilization has been the growth of historical consciousness. Consciously or not, history has become a form of thought applied to every facet of human experience; every field of human action can be studied, described, or understood through its history....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
First published in 1981, this book brings together different types of work by numerous fragmented groups in the field of Marxist history and puts them in dialogue with each other. It takes stock of then recent work, explores the main new lines, and looks at the political and ideological circumstances...
Playful Memories
The Autofictional Turn in Post-Dictatorship Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
This volume examines the blending of fact and fiction in a series of cultural artefacts by post-dictatorship writers and artists in Argentina, many of them children of disappeared or persecuted parents. Jordana Blejmar argues that these works, which emerged after the turn of the millennium, pay testament...
The Politics of Postmemory
Violence and Victimhood in Contemporary Argentine Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
This volume examines recent examples of Argentine literature, film, theatre and visual art from the children of the disappeared. By exploring their creative narration of childhood memories and the controversial use of parody, humour and fantasy, Maguire considers how this post-dictatorship generation...
Space and the Memories of Violence
Landscapes of Erasure, Disappearance and Exception
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Authors from a variety of disciplines dealing with diverse historical cases engage with the spatial deployment of violence and the possibilities for memory and resistance in contexts of state sponsored violence, enforced disappearances and regimes of exception. Contributors include Aleida Assmann, Jay Winter and David Harvey.
Modernity's Mist
British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Modernity’s Mist explores an understudied aspect of Romanticism: its future-oriented poetics. Whereas Romanticism is well known for its relation to the past, Emily Rohrbach situates Romantic epistemological uncertainties in relation to historiographical debates that opened up a radically unpredictable...
by Brenda Winters
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The War in Syria is a civil war and the leaders involved are causing the death of millions including children
Explicit Photographs. You must be over18 years of age to read this..
Oral History in Southeast Asia
Memories and Fragments
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Using the presence of the past as a point of departure, this books explores three critical themes in Southeast Asian oral history: the relationship between oral history and official histories produced by nation-states; the nature of memories of violence; and intersections between oral history, oral tradition, and heritage discourses.
by Clifford Geertz
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
One of the twentieth century's most influential books, this classic work of anthropology offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture is
With The Interpretation of Cultures, the distinguished anthropologist Clifford Geertz developed the concept of thick description, and in so doing,...
Vie de Molière
( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: November 26, 2018
François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), dit Voltaire, auteur de 56 pièces de théâtre nous offre une biographie de Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673), dit Molière, auteur dramatique de 33 œuvres. Cette Vie de Molière est bien « sage » ; Voltaire n’en profite pas, par exemple, pour attaquer la...
The Japanese and the War
Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Memories of World War II exert a powerful influence over Japan's culture and society. In The Japanese and the War, Michael Lucken details how World War II manifested in the literature, art, film, funerary practices, and education reform of the time. Concentrating on the years immediately before and...
Objects of War
The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Historians have become increasingly interested in material culture as both a category of analysis and as a teaching tool. And yet the profession tends to be suspicious of things; words are its stock-in-trade. What new insights can historians gain about the past by thinking about things? A central...
Builders of Empire
Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers. The empire's most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges. Their public rituals drew dense crowds from Montreal to Madras. The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons were quintessential builders of empire, argues Jessica...
At the Limits of History
Essays on Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
"Why bother with history? Keith Jenkins has an answer. He helps us re-think the "end of history", as signalled by postmodernity. Readers may disagree with him, but he never fails to provoke debate about the future of the past."
Joanna Bourke, Professor of History, Birkbeck...