Historiography category: 1227 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
From two of the world’s leading postmodern historians, this thoroughly original collection of articles allows students and researchers to understand and learn important new ways of thinking and writing about the past.
This book includes a thorough two-part introduction on theory and practice...
Straniero
L’invasore, l’esule, l’altro
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Straniero è una parola molto presente nella vita civile. Eppure, per piacere o per forza, le persone si sono sempre spostate da un campo all'altro del pianeta, incontrandosi e mescolandosi, e isolare contorni puri - nazionali, geografici, etnici - si è rivelata sempre una sospetta quanto vana attività. Vale la pena dunque interrogarsi sulla storia di una aggettivo così ambizioso.
Fascismo
Condanne e revisioni
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Dal predominio del “paradigma antifascista” all’interpretazione del fascismo proposta da Renzo De Felice, Gustavo Corni ricostruisce l’evoluzione della storiografia contemporanea dal 1945 ad oggi. La sua analisi pone al centro dell’attenzione temi quali l’importanza della Resistenza, il...
by Ruan Ives Ferreira Da Silva
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Esta obra é uma pesquisa realizada com o intuito de entender a forma como os espanhóis entendiam a religião inca no período da colonização do Novo Mundo. De maneira mais específica, a obra trata das visões acerca do curandeirismo incaico, prática comum entre os povos nativos e que fora demonizada...
Designing Online Communities
How Designers, Developers, Community Managers, and Software Structure Discourse and Knowledge Production on the Web
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Discussion on the Web is mediated through layers of software and protocols. As scholars increasingly study communication and learning on the Internet, it is essential to consider how site administrators, programmers, and designers create interfaces and enable functionality. The managers, administrators,...
by Peter Grant
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This book looks at the role of popular music in constructing the myth of the First World War. Since the late 1950s over 1,500 popular songs from more than forty countries have been recorded that draw inspiration from the War. National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music takes an...
Social Movements, Memory and Media
Narrative in Action in the Italian and Spanish Student Movements
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Cultural factors shape the symbolic environment in which contentious politics take place. Among these factors, collective memories are particularly relevant: they can help collective action by providing symbolic material from the past, but at the same time they can constrain people's ability to mobilise...
An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War
Conscripted Generation
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This oral history of ex-combatants of the Portuguese colonial war places the reader face-to-face with the men who were conscripted to fight the last and bloodiest of the West’s colonial wars in Africa, namely in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau (then Portuguese Guinea), between 1961 and 1974....
Moving Natures
Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Mobility - the movements of people, things, and ideas, as well as their associated cultural meanings - has been a key factor in shaping Canadians' perceptions of and interactions with their country. Approaching the burgeoning field of environmental history in Canada through the lens of mobility reveals...
Europeans in Australia
Volume One: The Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The first of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the...
Inside the Confederate Nation
Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
In The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience (1970) and The Confederate Nation (1979), Emory Thomas redefined the field of Civil War history and reconceptualized the Confederacy as a unique entity fighting a war for survival. Inside the Confederate Nation honors his enormous contributions to the...
A Faithful Account of the Race
African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The civil rights and black power movements expanded popular awareness of the history and culture of African Americans. But, as Stephen Hall observes, African American authors, intellectuals, ministers, and abolitionists had been writing the history of the black experience since the 1800s. With this...
Oral History and Education
Theories, Dilemmas, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
This book considers if and how oral history is ‘best practice’ for education. International scholars, practitioners, and teachers consider conceptual approaches, methodological limitations, and pedagogical possibilities of oral history education. These experts ask if and how oral history enables...
Interpretations of History
From Confucius to Toynbee
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
In this volume, originally published in 1961, the author presents an exposition of the meanings given to history. Part 1 describes the conceptions of history impied in wide-spread religions and cultures, Confucian and Taoist, Hindu and Buddhist, Zoroastrian and Muslim, Greek and Roman, Jewish and...