Historiography category: 1227 books
Demon of the Lost Cause
Sherman and Civil War History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
At the end of the Civil War, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman was surprisingly more popular in the newly defeated South than he was in the North. Yet, only thirty years later, his name was synonymous with evil and destruction in the South, particularly as the creator and enactor of...
Writing World War II
A Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
An indispensable tool for high-schoolers, undergraduates, or even amateur enthusiasts, Writing World War II teaches the craft of history writing—by example. In a series of thoughtful essays, Sylvie Murray examines American involvement in World War II and how it has subsequently been portrayed by...
Sound Poetics
Interaction and Personal Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This book examines sonic signals as something both heard internally and externally, through imagination, memory and direct response. In doing so it explores how the mind 'makes' sound through experience, as it interprets codes on the written page, and creates an internal leitmotif that then interacts...
Hard sell
Advertising, affluence and transatlantic relations, c. 1951–69
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Hard sell explores advertising in Britain in the 1950s and 60s through extensive new archival research in Britain and America, combining the study of business practices with analysis of television and press advertisements.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
"A hugely interesting set of essays, reflecting on a variety of ways in which medieval history has developed to the present time. Scholarship of the highest standard, deeply thought-provoking and deeply engaged with the inheritances and future tasks of medieval academic history. The collection...
History
Its Purpose and Method
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This treatise of historical methodology, originally published in 1950 is based upon a liberal conception of history which excludes no narrator of past events from the ranks of historians. It defines history as the accurate story which preserves the memory of the past experiences of human societies....
Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe, 1200–1920
Family, State and Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
This volume spans the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, across Europe and its empires, and brings together historians, art historians, literary scholars and anthropologists to rethink medieval and early modern ritual. The study of rituals, when it is alert to the emotions which are woven into and...
The Repentant Abelard
Family, Gender, and Ethics in Peter Abelard’s Carmen ad Astralabium and Planctus
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
The Repentant Abelard is both an innovative study and English translation of the late poetic works of controversial medieval philosopher and logician Peter Abelard, written for his beloved wife Heloise and son Astralabe. This study brings to life long overlooked works of this great thinker with analyses and comprehensive notes.
Aziyadé
Extrait des Notes et Lettres d'un Lieutenant de la Marine Anglaise Entré au Service de la Turquie le 10 Mai 1876 tué dans les Murs de Kars, le 27 Octobre 1877 ( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Dans tout roman bien conduit, une description du héros est de rigueur. Mais ce livre n’est point un roman, ou, du moins, c’en est un qui n’a pas été plus conduit que la vie de son héros. Et puis décrire au public indifférent ce Loti que nous aimions n’est pas chose aisée, et les plus...
Lautrec
Ou Quinze ans de moeurs parisiennes ( Edition intégrale ) illustré - annoté
Language: French
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Descendant des comtes souverains de Toulouse, qui bataillèrent contre le pape Innocent III, contre le roi Louis VIII de France, mieux encore contre le rude sanglier Simon de Montfort, le comte Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, aujourd’hui trépassé, chassait à courre, à grand tapage de chiens...
Expédition d'Egypte
Tome I
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Extrait : "Pour s'emparer de Malte et de l'Egypte, il faudrait de vingt à vingt-cinq mille hommes d'infanterie, et de deux à trois mille hommes de cavalerie sans chevaux. L'on pourrait prendre et embarquer ces troupes de la manière suivante, en Italie et en France : A Civita-Vecchia, la vingt-et-unième...
by Thucydides
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was written by Thucydides – an Athenian general who served in the war. It is widely considered a classic...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used "in public," they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's...
Copernicus: Platonist Astronomer-Philosopher
Cosmic Order, the Movement of the Earth, and the Scientific Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In 1543, Copernicus publicly defended geokinetic and heliocentric universe. This book examines why and how he became a Copernican and what his affirmation of heliocentrism means in the context of the Scientific Revolution. Close reading of Copernicus’ texts and examination of his sociocultural context...