Historiography category: 1227 books

In Part 1 of this book, originally published in 1980, the focus is on certain claims of R. G. Collingwood regarding the nature of historical understanding, of Charles Beard about the possibility of an objective reconstruction of the past, and of J. W. N. Watkins concerning the reducibility of what...

Writing History in the Digital Age began as a “what-if” experiment by posing a question: How have Internet technologies influenced how historians think, teach, author, and publish? To illustrate their answer, the contributors agreed to share the stages of their book-in-progress as it was constructed...

This book argues that popular culture has been transformed in a silent revolution from emphasising history’s heroes to its victims. While city squares and stations were named in the nineteenth century after military victories, now the equivalent airports are named after the victims of violence....

Abrégé de l’histoire romaine (Les 4 Livres) - Florus   Ouvrage traduit par Théophile Baudement (1808-1874).   Ce livre comprend l'édition intégrale (les 4 Livres) et  comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement...

The campaign of the Khilafat Movement and the Ali brothers’ close collaboration with Gandhi are well acknowledged in the pages of history. It is also well known that after the collapse of the Khilafat–Non-cooperation Movement, the relationship between them became strenuous, and the Ali brothers...

Building on over a century of scholarly achievements and advances, this book addresses the core problem of how to incorporate gender in the study of the history of medieval Europe, and why it is important to do so. Providing a succinct overview of the field, Patricia Skinner guides us through debates...

The central doctrine of empiricism - that true knowledge or understanding of the world comes ultimately from sense impressions - has underpinned most of the practices and arguments of historians for the past 150 years. Empirical history has always faced attacks from a variety of other approaches, however,...

Princeton Stories is a book by an American author and dramatist Jesse Lynch Williams. This book published in 1895 (Fourth edition). And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance...

Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This volume interrogates the various ways the text of the Histories has been and can be read by scholars: as...

APERÇU PRÉLIMINAIRE SUR LA TOPOGRAPHIE, LA POPULATION, L’INDUSTRIE ET LE COMMERCE DE RENNES A LA FIN DU XVIe SIÈCLE.     L’objet de ce travail est de montrer quelle fut et comment fonctionna l’administration municipale de la ville de Rennes du jour où...

A travers ce bref essai traité sur un mode plaisant, Gautier (1811-1872) dépeint la mode de son époque et l’immense variété des toilettes féminines, des coiffures, du maquillage… On finit par se représenter toute une société d’élégantes présentée dans une langue qui nous enchante.

Driven by the increasing importance of discussions around 'impact' and its meaning and implications for history, The Impact of History? brings together established and new voices to raise relevant questions, issues and controversies for debate. The chapters are articulated around the themes of public...

La Guerre de France en 1870-71, par l'historien et journaliste, membre de l’Académie française Charles de Mazade (1820 – 1893). La guerre franco-allemande, parfois appelée guerre franco-prussienne ou guerre de 1870, oppose, du 19 juillet 1870 au 29 janvier 1871, la...

Cet essai de synthèse est consacré à l'historiographie du Maghreb contemporain. Qui a écrit, et qui écrit l'histoire de l'Afrique du Nord, devenue Maghreb, depuis la fin du XIXe siècle ? Un demi-siècle après les indépendances, sans doute est-il nécessaire de revenir sur ce champ de recherches...