Historiography category: 1227 books
Making Black History
The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In the Jim Crow era, along with black churches, schools, and newspapers, African Americans also had their own history. Making Black History focuses on the engine behind the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and his Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). Author Jeffrey...
Stormtroopers (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)
A Social, Economic and Ideological Analysis 1929-35
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
This examination of Hitler’s stormtroopers provides vital insights into the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the establishment of the Nazi state. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources and extensive biographical material left by the stormtroopers themselves, the author challenges the belief...
by Alessandro Stanziani
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Global history locates national histories in the context of broader processes, in which the West is not necessarily synonymous with progress. And yet it often suffers from the same Eurocentrism that plagues national history, accepting Western categories and values uncritically and largely ignoring...
The Rise of Heritage
Preserving the Past in France, Germany and England, 1789–1914
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Where does our fascination for 'heritage' originate? This groundbreaking comparative study of preservation in France, Germany and England looks beyond national borders to reveal how the idea of heritage emerged from intense competition and collaboration in a global context. Astrid Swenson follows...
Those Who Come After
Postmemory, Acknowledgement and Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
This book explores the legacies of suffering in relation to ‘those who come after’ – the descendants of victims, survivors and perpetrators of traumatic events. It draws on recent discussions of ‘postmemory’ and ‘haunting’ that are concerned mainly with the transgenerational impact of...
by Mark Dooley
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Roger Scruton is one of the outstanding British philosophers of the post-war years. Why then is he at best ignored and at worst reviled? Part of the reason is that he is an unapologetic conservative in the tradition of Edmund Burke. That conservative instinct was sharpened during the Paris riots of...
by Felix Luna
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Un libro imperdible para conocer la historia argentina. Félix Luna
entrevista al historiador más importante que dio el país y uno de los
más grandes de Latinoamérica.
José Luis Romero (1909-1977) fue uno de los más grandes historiadores
latinoamericanos y, por su modalidad intelectual,...
by Nicolae Iorga
Language: French
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Histoire des relations entre la France et les Roumains, par l'historien et homme politique roumain Nicolae Iorga (1871 - 1940).
Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mise en page...
by Prince Jérôme Napoléon, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Extrait: "M. Taine a eu de nombreux précurseurs. A peine l'étranger avait-il pénétré dans Paris, que les insulteurs se levaient de toute part, pour accabler de leurs invectives le chef de la Grande Armée, le défenseur de la grande nation. De 1814 à 1830, tout a été mis en œuvre pour salir...
The Emergency and the Indian English Novel
Memory, Culture and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2019
This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses the Emergency as an event that prompted the writing of several notable novels attempting to preserve the silenced and fading memory of its human rights violations and suspension of...
by Joseph Marchand
Language: French
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: November 15, 2014
L’Université d’Avignon fut, dès son origine (1303)[1], et resta jusqu’à sa disparition, en 1792, une corporation de maîtres, gouvernée par les maîtres et à leur profit. À aucune époque de son histoire, on ne trouve la trace de l’intervention...
La Guerre américaine, son origine et ses vraies causes
( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Comme les nations ne peuvent être punies dans le monde futur, il faut, qu’elles le soient dans celui-ci. Par suite de l’irrésistible enchaînement de la cause et de l’effet, la Providence punit les crimes nationaux par des calamités nationales. — Le Colonel George Mason.
La Guerre...
LAfrique belge aux XIXe et XXe siècles
Nouvelles recherches et perspectives en histoire coloniale
Language: French
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Les études historiques sur la colonisation belge en Afrique centrale demeurent méconnues du grand public voire du monde scientifique.
Cet ouvrage collectif rassemble les travaux de chercheurs qui souhaitent dépasser les images et les messages stéréotypés ou peu nuancés mêlant l’histoire...
La réunion de l’Alsace à la France
Une leçon d’histoire à M. le comte de Moltke
Language: French
Release Date: June 9, 2016
La Réunion de l’Alsace à la France, une leçon d’histoire à M. le comte de Moltke, par le juriste et doyen de la faculté de droit de Paris Charles Giraud (1802 – 1881).
L'Alsace et la Lorraine, territoires du Saint-Empire romain germanique situés...