Historiography category: 1227 books

Cover of Frate Francesco. Le fonti
by Alessandro Ciamei, Mario Bertin
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 22, 2014

Restituire alla storia di Francesco d’Assisi la sua assoluta attualità, liberarla dalle preoccupazioni dell’apologetica e dalle letture troppo accomodanti, tornare alla viva voce del Santo e di coloro che ne condivisero e ne raccontarono gli atti. Questo libro si offre come guida alla conoscenza...
Cover of Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford
by Linda C. Dowling
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014

In April 1895, Oscar Wilde stood in the prisoner's dock of the Old Bailey, charged with "acts of gross indecency with another male person. These filthy practices, the prosecutor declared, posed a deadly threat to English society, "a sore which cannot fail in time to corrupt and taint it all." Wilde...
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Stalin's Empire of Memory

Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination

by Serhy Yekelchyk
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015

Based on declassified materials from eight Ukrainian and Russian archives, Stalin's Empire of Memory, offers a complex and vivid analysis of the politics of memory under Stalinism. Using the Ukrainian republic as a case study, Serhy Yekelchyk elucidates the intricate interaction between the Kremlin,...
Cover of Practicing Oral History in Historical Organizations
by Barbara W Sommer
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016

It has been half a century since the last book that addressed how historical societies can utilize oral history. In this brief, practical guide, internationally known oral historian Barbara W. Sommer applies the best practices of contemporary oral historians to the projects that historical organizations...
Cover of War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017

This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories. The book focuses on the three Slavic countries of post-Soviet Eastern Europe – Russia, Ukraine...
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How Good an Historian Shall I Be?

R.G. Collingwood, the Historical Imagination and Education

by Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012

R.G. Collingwood’s name is familiar to historians and history educators around the world. Few, however, have charted the depths of his reflections on what it means to be educated in history. In this book Marnie Hughes-Warrington begins with the facet of Collingwood’s work best known to teachers—re-enactment—and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014

A Companion to Livy features a collection of essays representing the most up-to-date international scholarship on the life and works of the Roman historian Livy. Features contributions from top Livian scholars from around the world Presents for the first time a new interpretation of Livy's historical...
Cover of Big Data in History
by P. Manning
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013

Big Data in History introduces the project to create a world-historical archive, tracing the last four centuries of historical dynamics and change. Chapters address the archive's overall plan, how to interpret the past through a global archive, the missions of gathering records, linking local data into global patterns, and exploring the results.
Cover of Antarctica and the Humanities
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016

The continent for science is also a continent for the humanities. Despite having no indigenous human population, Antarctica has been imagined in powerful, innovative, and sometimes disturbing ways that reflect politics and culture much further north. Antarctica has become an important source of data...
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Auschwitz und die 'Auschwitz-Lüge'

Massenmord, Geschichtsfälschung und die deutsche Identität

by Till Bastian
Language: German
Release Date: February 24, 2016

Selbsternannte "Experten" präsentieren gefälschte "Dokumente" und pseudowissenschaftliche "Gutachten", die angeblich "beweisen", dass in Auschwitz alles "ganz anders" oder doch "halb so schlimm" gewesen sei. Neonazis und den sogenannten...
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Atlantic Gandhi

The Mahatma Overseas

by Nalini Natarajan
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013

Using the frames of diaspora theory, post-colonial discourse theory and the recent Atlantic turn in studies of resistance, this book brings into relief Gandhi's experience as a traveler moving from a classic colony, India, to the plantation and mining society of South Africa. The author forwards...
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Empire, Development and Colonialism

The Past in the Present

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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009

This collection explores the similarities, differences and overlaps between the contemporary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention and the historical artefacts and strategies of Empire. It includes views by historians and students of politics and development, drawing on...
Cover of La décomposition de l’armée et du pouvoir

La décomposition de l’armée et du pouvoir

Février – Septembre 1917 ( Edition intégrale ) annoté

by Anton Ivanovitch Dénikine
Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2018

Anton Ivanovitch Dénikine (en russe : Антон Иванович Деникин) est un général russe, chef d’état-major dans les armées de la Russie impériale pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, commandant en chef de l’armée des volontaires pendant la guerre civile russe. Lors...
Cover of De la littérature des nègres
by Henri Grégoire
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2014

SOUS le nom d’Éthiopiens, les Grecs comprenoient tous les hommes noirs. Cette assertion s’appuie sur des passages de la bible des Septante, Hérodote, Théophraste, Pausanias, Athénée, Héliodore, Eusèbe, Flavius Josephe. Ils sont appelés de...
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