Historiography

Lessons of history are often referred to in public discourse, but seldom in scholarly discussions. This book seeks to change this by introducing an innovative analytical model of historical lessons, starting from the basic three-fold perspective that...

This Element explores the relation between historiography and testimony as a question about what it means to know and understand the past historically. In contrast with the recent rapprochement between memory accounts and history in historical theory,...

This Element explores the relation between historiography and testimony as a question about what it means to know and understand the past historically. In contrast with the recent rapprochement between memory accounts and history in historical theory,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606180136Author Peter N. MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

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A penetrating critical perspective on the question of Thomas Jefferson's paternity that will make you rethink recent conventional wisdom. It is accepted by most scholars that Jefferson had a lengthy affair with his slave Sally Hemings and fathered at...

Russian historiography - at least as it is reflected in history textbooks - has been invariably focused on the central state, to the power. The national historiographies of the peoples that were once part of the empire, on the other hand, concentrate on...

Philosophical hermeneutics has shed a good deal of light both upon the methodological underpinnings of the humanities and social sciences generally and in particular upon some fundamental issues in the philosophy of history and history proper. The aim in...

Philosophical hermeneutics has shed a good deal of light both upon the methodological underpinnings of the humanities and social sciences generally and in particular upon some fundamental issues in the philosophy of history and history proper. The aim in...

The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World is an original and influential reconstruction of Classical Antiquity through a Marxist lens. Geoffrey de Ste. Croix explores the personality of the Ancient world as a slave economy. He traces the social...

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Ernst Kantorowicz was a complex figure whose long incident-filled life seemed to embody many of the contradictions of the twentieth century. A Jew from a disputed area between Germany and Poland who fought on the German side in World War I, he first...

What are the ethical responsibilities of the historian in an age of mass murder and hyper-reality? Can one be postmodern and still write history? For whom should history be written? The author explores these questions through the figure of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628200751Author Henry Steele CommagerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint ACLS History E-Book ProjectPublisher ACLS History E-Book ProjectWeight(grams)...

This new title is a totally rewritten version of The Nature of History, first published in 1970, with revised editions in 1981, and again in 1989. Addressing the key questions of what history is, and why and how one studies it, this is a positive...

After three years in his own time, Chris Lennox is again thrown back to Georgian England where wars are raging against the Danes and the French. His life is on the line at home and abroad as he fights to live another day. Ed Lane is a former member of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595580825Author Kyle WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 506g

With a broad, interdisciplinary command of the subject, Patrick H. Hutton considers the ideas of philosophers, poets, and historians, focusing especially on the work of Giambattista Vico, Maurice Halbwachs, Philippe Aries, and Michel Foucault. He surveys...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628200935Author Henry Steele CommagerFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint ACLS History E-Book ProjectPublisher ACLS History E-Book ProjectWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628200898Author Professor of History Henry Steele CommagerFormat HardbackImprint ACLS History E-Book ProjectPublisher ACLS History E-Book...

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The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence to suggest that women have engaged in historical writing since ancient times. This study traces...

Historiographic reasoning from evidentiary inputs is sui generis. Historiography is neither empirical, nor self-knowledge, nor a genre of fiction or ideology. Historiographic reasoning is irreducible to general scientific or social science reasoning. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987664617Author Joan Rosier-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Tangerine PublicationsPublisher Tangerine PublicationsWeight(grams) 449g

Information has a rich but under explored history. The information age of the late twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new history of information and, in this timely collection of essays, a team of international scholars from a variety of...

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An updated guide to Greek historiography was long overdue. In this comprehensive and temporally wide-ranging reassessment, History and Historiography in Greece examines the evolution of Greek historical scholarship by reviewing the ideas, methods, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350216181Author Professor Herman PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 156g

Building on over a century of scholarly achievements and advances, this book addresses the core problem of how to incorporate gender in the study of the history of medieval Europe, and why it is important to do so. Providing a succinct overview of the...

This short microhistory details the life and death of Eddie McKay, a varsity athlete at Western University, who flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. Graham Broad switches creatively from telling McKay's fascinating story to teaching...

The Language of the Past analyzes the use of history in discourses within the political, media and the public sphere. It examines how particular terms, phrases and allusions first came into usage, developed and how they are employed today. To speak of...