Historiography category: 1227 books
Crowns and colonies
European monarchies and overseas empires
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Queen Victoria, who also bore the title of Empress of India, had a real and abiding interest in the British Empire, but other European monarchs also ruled over possessions 'beyond the seas'. This collection of original essays explores the connections between monarchy and colonialism, from the old...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Deep maps are finely detailed, multimedia depictions of a place and the people, buildings, objects, flora, and fauna that exist within it and which are inseparable from the activities of everyday life. These depictions may encompass the beliefs, desires, hopes, and fears of residents and help show...
The Priestly Kingdom
Social Ethics as Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1985
In this volume of essays John Howard Yoder projects a vision of Christian social ethics rooted in historical community and illuminated by scripture. Drawing upon scriptural accounts of the early church, he demonstrates the Christian community's constant need for reform and change. Yoder first examines...
The Five Hundred Year Rebellion
Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Provides helpful background information for understanding today’s leftist politics and indigenous movements in Latin America: There is considerable interest among readers in the US regarding the contemporary rise of leftist political parties and people’s movements in Latin America. This book tells...
A Little Book for New Historians
Why and How to Study History
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Many people think of history as merely "the past"—or at most, information about the past. But the real work of a historian is to listen to the voices of those who have gone before and humbly remember the flesh and blood on the other side of the evidence. What is their story? How does it...
by George A. Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
This volume explains how Star Trek allows viewers to comprehend significant aspects of Georg Hegel’s concept the absolute, the driving force behind history.
Gonzalez, with wit and wisdom, explains how Star Trek exhibits central elements of the absolute. He describes how themes and ethos central...
Kashmir’s Contested Pasts
Narratives, Geographies, and the Historical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
A pioneering and comprehensive study of the historical imagination in Kashmir, this book explores the conversations between the ideas of Kashmir and the ideas of history taking place within Kashmir’s multilingual historical tradition. Analysing the deep linkages among Sanskrit, Persian, and Kashmiri...
A Lover's Quarrel with the Past
Romance, Representation, Reading
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today. Qualifying the ‘non-historian’ as an ‘able’ interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current epistemological...
by Paul J. Vanderwood, Roberto Gómez Ciriza
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Al igual que la policía montada de Canadá, los rangers texanos y la gendarmerie francesa, los rurales mexicanos no han sido objeto de un estudio serio y profundo que desentrañe su historia, su funcionamiento y su importancia en el panorama de la vida nacional.
Profetas del pasado.
Quince voces de la historiografía sobre México
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Con motivo de la doble conmemoración de 1810 y 1910, Christopher Domínguez Michael entrevistó –para la revista Letras Libres y la serie de televisión La Conquista– a algunos de los más importantes entre los historiadores que, mexicanos y extranjeros, han escrito obras decisivas sobre nuestra...
Taking Back the Academy!
History of Activism, History as Activism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Memory Politics, Identity and Conflict
Historical Memory as a Variable
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book focuses on the methodology of research on historical memory and contributes to theoretical discussions concerning the use of historical memory as a variable to explain political action and social movement. The chapters of the book conceptualize the relationship between historical memory...
A Cultural History of Causality
Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment,...
Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts
Cities of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Drawing on a range of cities and conflicts from Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the collection explores the post-conflict condition as it is lived and expressed in modern cities such as Berlin, Belfast, Bilbao, Beirut, Derry, Skopje, Sarajevo, Tunis, Johannesburg and Harare. Post-Conflict Performance,...