Historiography category: 1227 books
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: July 7, 2017
S'inscrivant dans la lignée de l'histoire culturelle, cet ouvrage collectif aborde les représentations de l'histoire, son écriture, de l'ego-histoire aux Grands Récits à travers les diverses postures : acteurs, témoins, historiens, où se rencontrent l'individu et le récit de l'histoire. L'ouvrage...
Impostures et pseudo-science
L'oeuvre de Mircea Eliade
Language: French
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Depuis une vingtaine d’années, et spécialement aux USA, une meilleure connaissance et une meilleure compréhension de la personnalité, de la vie et de l’œuvre de Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) ont suscité de très vives discussions qui ont à leur tour occasionné de nouvelles enquêtes et controverses....
by Rob Boddice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This book introduces students and professional historians to the main areas of concern in the history of emotions. It discusses how the emotions intersect with other lines of historical research relating to power, practice, society and morality. Addressing criticism from within and without the discipline...
The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present
Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
This collection examines practical and ethical issues inherent in the application of oral history and memory studies to research about the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Case studies highlight the importance of ethical good practice, including the reflexive...
by Marc Hagan
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
In 1985, an unnamed airline in the Far East, suffered a cataclysmic mechanical malfunction. With all 4 hydraulic systems destroyed, this documentary accounts for the step by step events in the last 32 minutes of the flight that is forever labeled as the worst single aircraft accident; to this day.It...
by Pierre Briant
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Enlightenment thinkers, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexander the Great’s achievements. As Pierre Briant shows, in their minds Alexander was the first European: an empire builder who welcomed trade with the “Orient” and brought Western civilization to its oppressed peoples.
The Cultural Politics of Austerity
Past and Present in Austere Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This timely book examines austerity's conflicted meanings, from austerity chic and anti-austerity protest to economic and eco-austerity. Bramall's compelling text explores the presence and persuasiveness of the past, developing a new approach to the historical in contemporary cultural politics.
by Luciano Canfora
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Nonostante "il mare abbia inghiottito buona parte della civiltà antica", Canfora riesce a mettere insieme mirabilmente i frammenti del mondo greco, rendendoli familiari e comprensibili.
by Lorenzo Braccesi
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Da fuggitiva, figlia del suicida Marco Claudiano, a moglie dell’imperatore Ottaviano, la parabola di una delle figure più complesse e affascinanti della romanità. Quando Livia incontra Ottaviano è subito chiaro che i due sono fatti l’uno per l’altra: entrambi cinici e spregiudicati. Sarà...
by Arnaldo Marcone
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Nipote di Cesare, Ottaviano sale al potere dopo l’assassinio dello zio che lo aveva adottato, e proprio il nome del padre adottivo sarà per lui la chiave di una rapidissima e inarrestabile ascesa politica. Per un quindicennio il suo progetto politico si riassume nella determinazione assoluta di...
Tito spiato dagli inglesi
I rapporti segreti sulla Jugoslavia 1968-1980
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Marxista duro e puro o grande amico dell’Occidente? Leader carismatico su scala mondiale o dittatore di un paese cardine per gli equilibri tra Est e Ovest? E soprattutto: riuscirà l’ottantenne Josip Broz Tito a mantenere il potere ancora a lungo?
In piena Guerra fredda, tra l’invasione sovietica...
Tra tolleranza ed intransigenza
Roma, il potere e le categorie marginali
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 10, 2017
La storia del pauperismo può apparire lontana dai grandi avvenimenti storici, eppure è in grado di illuminare sulle condizioni della vita civile e culturale di un Paese. Vladymir Martelli ripercorre in modo preciso e documentato la storia e le condizioni di vita degli emarginati: poveri, prostitute,...
The Idea of Ancient India
Essays on Religion, Politics, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
A major contribution towards the different perspectives and issues central to understanding ancient India
This book engages with some of the most important issues, debates, and methodologies in the writing of ancient Indian history.
Thematically structured, the first section discusses...
Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future
Colin Mackenzie, the Early Colonial State, and the Comprehensive Survey of India
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
For much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British East India Company consolidated its rule over India, evolving from a trading venture to a colonial administrative force. Yet its territorial gains far outpaced its understanding of the region and the people who lived there, and its desperate...