Historiography category: 1227 books

Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various...

All’inizio del secolo scorso una missione francese scoprí a Susa, in Iran, una stele di basalto nera, alta m. 2,25, su cui era inscritto il famoso Codice di leggi di Hammurabi: grazie a questa scoperta, del tutto casuale, il nome di questo re babilonese è ora noto a tutti. Se però la sua vita...

Il "Breviarium politicorum secundum Rubricas Mazarinicas", pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1684 e ristampato con successo nel corso dei due secoli successivi, è una raccolta di massime divise per rubriche a seconda degli argomenti, con la quale il Cardinale Mazzarino vuole fornire preziose...

The study of history is a fundamentally sociable practice, with the exchange of ideas taking place in writing, over the seminar table, and often in informal discussions over food. These essays grew out of a web of sociability centered around French historian Robert Descimon, and focus on the nexus...

Alphonse Daudet évoque, sur un ton parfois passionné, la genèse de deux de ses oeuvres (Numa Roumestan, Les Rois en exil), ses rencontres avec les écrivains (Edmond de Goncourt), les hommes politiques (Gambetta) et les acteurs et actrices (Déjazet) marquants de son époque, le siège de Paris pendant la guerre de 1870 et la Commune.

Examining why the study of history as a science was not as advanced as other disciplines, the author of this book, originally published in 1933, examines the arguments in the controversy of what the object of history should be. He then discusses the impact of the study of history on government, war and revolution .

This is a book about how Catalans use their past, real and imagined, in the construction of their present and future. Michael A. Vargas inventories the significant people, signal events, and familiar icons that constitute the Catalan collective memory, from Wilfred the Hairy and Sant Jordi to the...

This book demonstrates how oral history can provide a valuable way of understanding locality, which is important in light of major issues facing the world today, including global environmental concerns.

Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas have had a major impact on a number of fields of inquiry. As scholars of media and communication begin to think more frequently and more carefully with Bourdieu’s ideas, this book offers a wealth of points of contact between Bourdieu’s ideas and research topics concerning...

Historical revisionism, far from being restricted to small groups of ‘negationists,’ has galvanized debates in the realm of recent history. The studies in this book range from general accounts of the background of recent historical revisionism to focused analyses of particular debates or social-cultural...

Satan, posing as the archangel Gabriel, dictates the Qur'an to Muhammad. Satan uses this new religious doctrine in an attempt to destroy the message of the Messiah and mankind's link with God. Pitting this new religion, void of all characteristics known both to the Jews and Christians, against Christianity,...

The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documentary film. Combining theoretical models from diverse disciplines, it presents a new approach to the study of testimony, memory and mediation.

Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the 'invention' of sexuality, erotic acts and desires were comprehended as species of sin, expressions of idealised love, courtship, and marriage, or components...

This book analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of ‘rooting into a culture’ and ‘routing out of a culture’ in the context of South Asian diaspora in Australia. These diasporic narratives are often characterised by bifurcated and dislocated identities that exist in...