Historiography category: 1227 books

By nature, human beings seek to make sense of their past. Paradoxically, true historical explanation is ultimately impossible. Historians never have complete evidence from the past, nor is their methodology rigorous enough to prove causal links. Although it cannot be proven that 'A caused B,' by redefining...

The book offers guidance to aspiring historians at every stage and in every walk of life, from practical advice on tackling and organizing projects to recommendations for finding and using resources of all kinds, whether at the local library or historical society or on the world wide web. It is intended...

"Towards a New Ethnohistory" engages respectfully in cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary methods to co-create with Indigenous people a new, decolonized ethnohistory. This new ethnohistory reflects Indigenous ways of knowing and is a direct response to critiques of scholars who...

Jan Mayen Discovery, History and Geological Environment. Tourism Information Guide. The early history of Jan Mayen is no more than legends if anything at all, and it may well be that no one has ever seen the island before the days of the whalers in the early 17th century. There are some stories of...

Ed Butler is fortunate to know many stories about his ancestors. Some of the stories have been handed down for several generations. Others are his experiences. Often they bring to mind more questions than they answer. If you were homesteading land in 1821 and your husband went to clear land one afternoon...

After six generations, the family estate has been subdivided, the garden has gone wild, and the house has been carved into a duplex. The McKinnons now live on one side of the property, while the other has been sold to an immigrant family from Turkey. Both heirs apparent must learn, now, to build love in the wilderness of their lives.

Unter dem Titel Römische Geschichte veröffentlichte der deutsche Historiker Theodor Mommsen von 1854 bis 1885 eine mehrbändige Darstellung der Geschichte des Römischen Reichs. Für dieses Werk erhielt Mommsen 1902 als erster Deutscher den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Für die Alte Geschichte ist...

TSAR WARS SERIES by GEORGE GRIFFITH A tale of future war, written before the existence of airships, submarine warfare, or high-explosives. This Series contains 2 existing novels: The Angel of the Revolution An Evil Emperor. A Titanic Struggle. Daring Rescues. Flying Ships. Mind...

DURING a portion of the first half of the present century, and more particularly during the latter part of it, there flourished and practised in the city of New York a physician who enjoyed perhaps an exceptional share of the consideration which, in the United States, has always been bestowed upon...

Two centuries ago when the kingdoms of Northern Europe were struggling for supremacy on the Baltic and control of the narrow portal to the sea, there appeared a young prince, the marvel of his age, who made himself the arbiter of these kingdoms and of their rulers. The military successes of Charles...

Historique... Après la mort en 1866 de Lavallée qui avait déjà écrit une longue introduction, Pierre-Jules Hetzel décide de confier la suite de l'ouvrage à Jules Verne. Celui-ci est alors en pleine rédaction de Vingt mille lieues sous les mers et se fait aider dans son travail de copie et...

Historique... Après la mort en 1867 de Lavallée qui avait déjà écrit une longue introduction, Pierre-Jules Hetzel décide de confier la suite de l’ouvrage à Jules Verne. Celui-ci est alors en pleine rédaction de Vingt mille lieues sous les mers et se fait aider dans son travail de copie et...

At Confederation, most French Canadians felt their homeland was Quebec; they supported the new arrangement because it separated Quebec from Ontario, creating an autonomous French-Canadian province loosely associated with the others. Unaware of other French-Canadian groups in British North America,...

In this radical reassessment, Alun Munslow challenges conventional notions of history and offers a new vision of historical thinking and practice. Deploying a range of concepts such as scepticism, aesthetics, ethics, standpoint, irony, authorship and a new understanding of truth, The Future of History...