Historiography category: 1227 books

The Experience of History is a lively and passionate introduction to the field that encourages students to seek and appreciate history inside the classroom and beyond. This work: Defines history as a discipline and the role of historians within it Addresses the analytical and critical thinking...

IS THE HISTORY OF HINDUISM, THE HISTORY OF BRAHMANAS FROM RIGVEDIC TIMES TO THE PRESENT? Or, does the story of Hinduism begin with the descriptions of the ancient roots as revealed by archaeological findings and the evidence from present day tribal, village and regional cultures? This book...

Whereas historical determinacy conceives the past as a complex and unstable network of causalities, this book asks how history can be related to a more radical future. To pose that question, it does not reject determinacy outright but rather seeks to explore how it works. In examining what it means...

Extrait : "On a voulu voir deux hommes distincts ainsi que deux noms séparés dans Napoléon Bonaparte. Bonaparte, a-t-on dit, nom frappant, facile à retenir, simple, uni, militaire, à consonnes dures, brèves, sèches, expressives. Nom éminemment convenable au citoyen, général en chef de l'armée...

 MONSIEUR LE MINISTRE,     Malgré l’intervalle de temps assez considérable qui s’est écoulé depuis que la Commission a eu l’honneur de vous présenter un aperçu général de ses travaux, elle ne peut vous signaler aujourd’hui...

Featuring a sweeping array of essays from scholars of state formation and development, this book presents an overview of approaches to studying the history of the state. Focusing on the question of state formation, this volume takes a particular look at the beginnings, structures, and constant reforming...

La Diplomatie occulte de Louis XV par l'historien de la littérature, journaliste et homme politique français Alfred Mézières (1826 – 1915). Extrait : Le premier sentiment qu’on éprouve, à mesure qu’on étudie davantage et qu’on...

In the late 19th century and early part of the 20th, with the coming of age of sociology in France, the idea that there could be a “science” of history was the subject of much and varied debate. The methodological problems surrounding historical knowledge that were debated throughout this period...

In the space of barely fifteen years, the history of masculinity has become an important dimension of social and cultural history. John Tosh has been in the forefront of the field since the beginning, having written A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England (1999),...

Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc was the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. His insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge. Mining his 70,000-page archive, Peter N. Miller recovers a lost Mediterranean world of the early seventeenth century.

L'epopea dei Mille è stata studiata e raccontata da molti autori e in diversi testi. Nel 1880 comparivano le "Noterelle d'uno dei Mille" edite dopo vent'anni, pubblicate da Giuseppe Cesare Abba, poi ricomparse con il titolo con il quale ancora oggi sono conosciute: "Da Quarto al Volturno". L'autore Giuseppe...

Dalle cronache alle più impegnative scritture storiche medievali, l'Italia si dimostra un laboratorio di innovazioni e riflessioni di grande spessore nel contesto europeo. La storiografia umanistica e storici come Machiavelli e Guicciardini non sorgono, quindi, come estemporanee novità, e neppure...

Che cos'è la storia moderna? Quando comincia e quando finisce? E che vuol dire moderno? Siamo già in un mondo post-moderno? Galasso risponde: che moderna è tutta l'età dalla fine del Medioevo a oggi; che perciò la storia contemporanea è solo la più recente storia moderna; che la modernità...

“Have you read Buckle's second volume? It has interested me greatly; I do not care whether his views are right or wrong, but I should think they contained much truth. There is a noble love of advancement and truth throughout, and to my taste he is the very best writer of the English language that...