Historiography category: 1227 books
Nostalgia, Loss and Creativity in South-East Europe
Political and Cultural Representations of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Where nostalgia was once dismissed a wistful dream of a never-never land, the academic focus has shifted to how pieces of the past are assembled as the elements in alternative political thinking as well as in artistic expression. The creative use of the past points to the complexities of the conceptualization...
The Varieties of Temporal Experience
Travels in Philosophical, Historical, and Ethnographic Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
What does it mean to live in time, between the unforeseeable and the irreversible? In The Varieties of Temporal Experience, Michael Jackson demonstrates the significance of a phenomenology of time for ethnography, philosophy, and history through a multifaceted consideration of the gap between our...
Konfuzianisches Ethos und westliche Wissenschaft
Wang Guowei (1877-1927) und das Ringen um das moderne China
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This study in German offers profound insights into the life and thoughts of Wang Guowei (1877-1927). Like many intellectuals who strongly perceived the necessity of reforms in the waning years of the Late Qing dynasty, i.e. after the Opium wars, Wang sought to strengthen China's position against foreign,...
by Carlo, Tosco
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Il libro ripercorre l’evoluzione dell’idea di paesaggio così come ha avuto luogo nella cultura occidentale. Nato nel tardo Medioevo all’interno delle arti figurative, alle soglie dell’età moderna il concetto assume una nuova dimensione scientifica, grazie all’incontro con le scienze del...
Creating a Local Historical Book
Fiction and Non-Fiction Genres
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Does Your City or Region Have a Fascinating Story that needs to be told before it's forgotten?
Yes, it does, and you can be the person to write it!
In this short text, Tyler Tichelaar, author of My Marquette and The Marquette Trilogy, talks in a conversational format about how he became interested...
Paysages irlandais
( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Un matin de novembre, à l’aube.
Kingstown est devant nous, éclairé par un jour blafard qui semble remplir sa mission de très méchante humeur ; des nuages énormes courent au-dessus de nos têtes ; l’horizon noir comme de l’encre fait ressortir la teinte livide des vagues et la blancheur...
by C. Kempshall
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The First World War in Computer Games analyses the depiction of combat, the landscape of the trenches, and concepts of how the war ended through computer games. This book explores how computer games are at the forefront of new representations of the First World War.
by Francis Miltoun
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
by Andy Bennett, Ian Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This volume explores the ways in which music scenes are not merely physical spaces for the practice of collective musical life but are also inscribed with and enacted through the articulation of cultural memory and emotional geography. The book draws on empirical data collected in cites throughout...
Photography, Music and Memory
Pieces of the Past in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
This book explores how photography and recorded music act as vehicles or catalysts in processes of remembering, and how they are regarded, treated, valued and drawn upon as resources connecting past and present in everyday life. It does so via two key concepts: vernacular memory and the mnemonic imagination.
Memory and the Management of Change
Repossessing the Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This book shows how the mnemonic imagination creatively uses the resources of photography and music in the registering and management of change. Looking in particular at major transitions and turning points, it covers key issues of identity for the remembering subject and key scales of remembering...
Genealogy, Psychology and Identity
Tales from a family tree
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The popularity of amateur genealogy and family history has soared in recent times. Genealogy, Psychology and Identity explores this popular international pastime and offers reasons why it informs our sense of who we are, and our place in both contemporary culture and historical context. We will never...
History, Memory, and Trans-European Identity
Unifying Divisions
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This book questions the presupposition voiced by many historians and political scientists that political experiences in Europe continue to be interpreted in terms of national history, and that a European community of remembrance still does not exist. By tracing the evolution of specific memory cultures...
by Bruno Mugnai
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Storia Generale dei Daci e delle loro guerre nel Mondo Antico(parte I)
La Milizia di Vienna nel XVI secolo nelle stampe di una collezione privata
Gli Huron-Wendat: XVII – XVIII secolo, Storia cultura, guerra e acconciature
L’Esercito e la Marina di Venezia nella guerra...