Historiography category: 1227 books

In this book, originally published in 1967, the author gives his views of history, from reflection on living history as distinct from books about past history. He sees histories as the related histories of individuals and gives an account of the meanings in those individuals’ lives and defends the...

Like so many children of war, Liliane Richman grew up with a fractured past. Memories escaped her. As an adult Liliane began to feel the need to reconstruct her past, not only to understand the people she loved, but also to create a fuller picture of herself. Bones of Time is the story of a family,...

This book examines recent cinematic representations of the traumatic legacies of national and international events and processes. Whilst not ignoring European and Hollywood cinema, it includes studies of films about countries which have been less well-represented in cinematic trauma studies, including...

Conmemorar 75 años de El Colegio de México no constituye un logro menor, pero esta efeméride no basta para justificar un recuento de los triunfos alcanzados. Lejos de sucumbir a las trampas de la autocomplacencia, en estas páginas se busca establecer un diálogo crítico con su historia, así...

Incluye audio de Porfirio Díaz.PARAFERNALIA E INDEPENDENCIA es una atractiva colección de objetos, vestuarios, cuadros, invitaciones o vestidos, que nos invitan a regresar al pasado de México, al 1910 de Porfirio Díaz.De la mano de Xavier Guzmán, quien es el autor del texto, el lector encontrará...

Forever Incomplete is the story of the Kingdom of Nepal. It will take the reader through various periods in her long history-from the birth and unification of the country, attempts at expansion, and clashes with neighbouring powers to the demarcation of its present-day borders. The story also covers...

"All human beings are practicing historians," writes Gerda Lerner. "We live our lives; we tell our stories. It is as natural as breathing." It is as important as breathing, too. History shapes our self-definition and our relationship to community; it locates us in time and place and helps to give...

The Logic of History reveals the rational basis for historians' descriptions, interpretations and explanations of past events. C. Behan McCullagh defends the practice of history as more reliable than has recently been acknowledged. Historians, he argues, make their accounts of the past as fair as...

The major significance of the German naturalist-physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) as a topic of historical study is the fact that he was one of the first anthropologists to investigate humankind as part of natural history. Moreover, Blumenbach was, and continues to be, a central...

Humans are biological creatures first. Culture is an expression of our brain and neurological function. Intelligence is the key to the flourishing of the human super-species. Humanity has reached the point where two sub-species are now competing within the earthly ecology. These are not defined by...

Fred Flintstone lived in a sunny Stone Age American suburb, but his ancestors were respectable, middle-class Victorians. They were very amused to think that prehistory was an archaic version of their own world because it suggested that British ideals were eternal. In the 1850s, our prehistoric ancestors...

 Feminist history continues to change the way history is written, and in doing so changes our view of the past. The authors of this collection explore how issues of sexuality, class, nationalism and colonialism informed the ways in which women were represented and continue to be represented in history....

La nuova biografia dell’imperatore-filosofo nasce dalla consultazione non tanto degli atti e dei documenti ufficiali, ma delle scritture private di Marco Aurelio – le lettere, risalenti per la maggior parte al periodo della giovinezza, e i celebri aforismi scritti e raccolti a uso privato durante...

Un grande combattente e un abilissimo statista, con il suo editto di Tessalonica diede all’Europa quell’identità cristiana e cattolica oggi tanto discussa. Teodosio il Grande (379-395) fu l’ultimo imperatore romano che ebbe il potere di governare sull’impero unificato ed è noto, prevalentemente,...