Historiography category: 1227 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
What were the effects of the Age of Exploration on today's ethnic groups and social structure? How did the development of moveable type pave the way for Facebook and Twitter? Why is the Reformation so critical for understanding today's religious controversies? This set will help readers answer these...
Queen Boudica and Historical Culture in Britain
An Image of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Taking a long chronological view and a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach, this is an innovative and distinctive book. It is the definitive work on the posthumous reputation of the ever-popular warrior queen of the Iceni, Queen Boadicea/Boudica, exploring her presence in British historical discourse,...
Translating War
Literature and Memory in France and Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
This book examines the role played by the international circulation of literature in constructing cultural memories of the Second World War. War writing has rarely been read from the point of view of translation even though war is by definition a multilingual event, and knowledge of the Second World...
by Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
In justice to the author of “Queen Móo’s Talisman”, it may be recorded that at the time of its writing, there was no intention of allowing the verses to go into print; they were penned only for the one to whom they are dedicated. The songs introduced have been arranged to the metre...
Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940
Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This volume comprises a broad interdisciplinary examination of the many different approaches by which contemporary scholars record our history. The editors provide a comprehensive overview through thirty-eight chapters divided into four parts: a) Historical Culture and Public Uses of History; b)...
The Engaged Historian
Perspectives on the Intersections of Politics, Activism and the Historical Profession
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
On the surface, historical scholarship might seem thoroughly incompatible with political engagement: the ideal historian, many imagine, is a disinterested observer focused exclusively on the past. In truth, however, political action and historical research have been deeply intertwined for as long...
Shakespeare and Saturn
Accounting for Appearances
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
In the mid-sixteenth century, Copernicus asserted that the Earth was not the center of the universe as was generally believed, but that the sun lay there instead. The relegation of the Earth to the rank of an orbiting planet meant that humankind lost its privileged position as well, thus prompting...
Nazi Propaganda (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)
The Power and the Limitations
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Based on a detailed examination of specific aspects of Nazi propaganda, this book (originally published in 1983) enhances the understanding of National Socialism by revealing both its power and its limitations. The work tackles aspects of Nazi propaganda which had been neglected in the past, but together...
by Christopher Tyerman
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
David Hume, the eighteenth century philosopher, famously declared that ‘the crusades engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engaged the curiosity of man kind’. This is the first book length study of how succeeding generations from the First Crusade in 1099 to the present day have...
by Fred Spier
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Featuring a variety of updates and revisions, Big History and the Future of Humanity, Second Edition, presents an accessible and original overview of the entire sweep of history from the origins of the universe and origins of life on Earth up to the present day.
Provides an accessible and original...
Divining History
Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
For millennia, messianic visions of redemption have inspired men and women to turn against unjust and oppressive orders. Yet these very same traditions are regularly decried as antecedents to the violent and authoritarian ideologies of modernity. Informed in equal parts by theology and historical...
Cultural, Autobiographical and Absent Memories of Orphanhood
The Girls of Nazareth House Remember
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how cultural, autobiographical and absent memories of orphanhood interact and interconnect or come into being in the re-telling of a life story and construction of an identity. The volume investigates how care experienced identities are embedded...
The Caribbean Oral Tradition
Literature, Performance, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The book uses an innovative prism of interorality that powerfully reevaluates Caribbean orality and innovatively casts light on its overlooked and fundamental epistemological contribution into the formation of Caribbean philosophy. It defines the innovative prism of interorality as the systematic...