Historiography category: 1227 books
Music, Nostalgia and Memory
Historical and Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
How are our personal soundtracks of life devised? What makes some pieces of music more meaningful to us than others? This book explores the role of memory, both personal and cultural, in imbuing music with the power to move us. Focusing on the relationship between music and key life moments from...
Microeconomics: A Computational Approach
A Computational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
This concise and comprehensive introduction to economics offers readers at all levels a more realistic approach to understanding the elements of resource and product markets, including the role of business decisions; technological change; product differentiation; uncertainty; and the optimal location...
by Dr. LaShonda M. Jackson-Dean
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2018
Systemic oppression has been the foundation
of the continued uprising of white supremacy as well as white privilege. For centuries, the act of oppressing a certain group of people was by design and has been the founding contributor to PTSD within the Black race. Although some aspects of racism have...
Curating Oral Histories
From Interview to Archive
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
For the past ten years, Nancy MacKay’s Curating Oral Histories (2006) has been the one-stop shop for librarians, curators, program administrators, and project managers who are involved in turning an oral history interview into a primary research document, available for use in a repository. In this...
Story Bridges
A Guide for Conducting Intergenerational Oral History Projects
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Angela Zusman offers an informative guidebook with step-by-step directions for planning and implementing intergenerational oral history projects, using youth to interview elders. An expert on these programs, Zusman uses her experiences and those of other oral historians to show how community projects...
Mobility, Migration and Transport
Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
This book provides an innovative perspective on migration, mobility and transport. Using concepts drawn from migration history, mobilities studies and transport history it makes the case for greater integration of these disciplines. The approach is historical, demonstrating how past processes of travel...
by Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray
Language: French
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Histoire de la Commune de 1871 par le journaliste français Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray (1838 – 1901), figure de la Commune de Paris de 1871 et proche d’Eléanor Marx.
La Commune de Paris est une période insurrectionnelle de l'histoire de Paris qui dura un peu plus de...
The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to War since 1914
The British Isles, the United States and Australasia
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
This handbook explores a diverse range of artistic and cultural responses to modern conflict, from Mons in the First World War to Kabul in the twenty-first century. With over thirty chapters from an international range of contributors, ranging from the UK to the US and Australia, and working across...
The Making of the Greek Genocide
Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
During and after World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, a watershed moment in Greek history that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. And while few dispute the expulsion’s tragic scope, it remains the subject of fierce controversy, as activists have fought...
The Historian's Contribution to Anglo-American Misunderstanding
Report of a Committee on National Bias in Anglo-American History Text Books
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This book examines text books used in English and American schools and determines the way in which national bias has been instilled into school children by the use of history books. This study reveals that the deliberate distortion common a generation ago has disappeared, but has been displaced by...
by Bruno Misefari
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 29, 2014
"La guerra è stata dichiarata. L’infamia dunque ha vinto. Era necessario un tuffo nel sangue per lavare le ferite al popolo angariato. Era necessaria un’ubriacatura di odio per stornare dal suo capo le ire accumulate dall’ingiustizia. Ma non solo l’infamia ha vinto; ha vinto anche la...
by AA.VV., Aa.Vv., F. Melotto
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 9, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 9, 2016
Questa pubblicazione si pone l’obiettivo di ripercorrere lo scenario del Risorgimento nazionale nell’ottica particolare che parte dalla terra e dalla gente della Pianura veronese, rendendola protagonista di una microstoria che andrebbe altrimenti completamente perduta nel calderone della storia...
Talking Back to the Indian Act
Critical Readings in Settler Colonial Histories
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Talking Back to the Indian Act is a comprehensive "how-to" guide for engaging with primary source documents. The intent of the book is to encourage readers to develop the skills necessary to converse with primary sources in more refined and profound ways. As a piece of legislation that is...
Un chef de chantier à l’isthme de Suez
Suivi d’une campagne en Kabylie ( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Fin 1872, Émile Erckmann, contre qui un mandat d’arrêt a été émis par les Prussiens qui occupent l’Alsace et la Moselle, s’installe à St-Dié. L’été précédent, il a fait la connaissance à Paris d’un Lorrain, entrepreneur de travaux publics, qui avait longtemps travaillé en Égypte...