Historiography

This book primarily focuses on the concept of forgetting, with particular emphasis on how we can trace the forgotten in contemporary life writing and memory texts. It consists of two main parts: the first concentrates on life writing in particular and...

Essays with national approaches provide unique coverage of Europe's Old Regime nobilities, from Britain to Russia and from Sweden to Portugal, framed by a substantial comparative editorial introduction and concluded by a survey of the fate of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394973305Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Double 9 BooksllpPublisher Double 9 BooksllpWeight(grams) 191g

The writing of history used to concentrate on narrative, analysis or theory. The historian stayed out of sight. This book is part of a more recent trend. Here, Susanna Hoe discusses her relationship to her material, the processes of research and writing,...

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This book explores the increasing interest in the Ottoman past in contemporary Greek society and its cultural sphere. It considers how the changing geo-political balances in South-East Europe since 1989 have offered Greek society an occasion to...

This introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice shows how issues of identity have shaped how we write history. Stefan Berger charts how a new self-reflexivity about what is involved in the process of writing history entered the...

This book relays the largely untold story of the approximately 1,100 Australian war graves workers whose job it was to locate, identify exhume and rebury the thousands of Australian soldiers who died in Europe during the First World War. It tells the...

Memory Work studies how Jewish children of Holocaust survivors from the English-speaking diaspora explore the past in literary texts. By identifying areas where memory manifests - Objects, Names, Bodies, Food, Passover, 9/11 it shows how the Second...

This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how identity and agency become wholly embedded within practices of media-remembering. It draws upon data collected from the British military, the BBC and Falkland Islanders during the 30th...

This book looks beyond the Aylesbury’s public face by examining its rise and fall from the perspective of those who knew it, based largely on the oral testimony and memoir of residents and former residents, youth and community workers, borough...

This book explores the representation of intra-state conflicts. It offers a distinctive approach by looking at narrative forms and strategies associated with civil war testimony, historiography and memory. The volume seeks to reflect current research in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628200805Author Henry Steele CommagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint ACLS History E-Book ProjectPublisher ACLS History E-Book ProjectWeight(grams)...

Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889439341Author Thomas BowdenFormat HardbackImprint The Paper TigerPublisher Paper Tiger

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798201890148Author Daniel WrinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Storyteller Books, LLCPublisher Storyteller Books, LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487578732Author C T McIntireFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394973220Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Double 9 BooksllpPublisher Double 9 BooksllpWeight(grams) 213g

This collection explores the intersections of oral history and environmental history. Oral history offers environmental historians the opportunity to understand the ways people's perceptions, experiences and beliefs about environments change over time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889439365Author Thomas A BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Paper Tiger (NJ)Publisher Paper Tiger (NJ)Weight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503586588Author Daniel MahoneyFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint Brepols PublishersPublisher Brepols Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009519915Author Edward Ross DickinsonFormat PaperbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

This book offers a collection of innovative methodological approaches to Memory Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe. Providing insights into the relationship between memory and identity, the twelve chapters provide multidisciplinary analysis of how...

The Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) in Asia Minor and the Population Exchange that followed led to the forced displacement of more than 1.5 million people who became entangled in the nation-building processes of both Greece and Turkey. This book examines...

This book is a study of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial Competitions of the 1990s, with a focus on designs that kindle empathetic responses. Through analysis of provocative designs, the book engages with issues of empathy, secondary witnessing, and...

"This is a timely contribution to some of the most pressing debates facing scholars of Jewish Studies today. It forces us to re-think standard approaches to both antisemitism and liberalism. Its geographic scope offers a model for how scholars can...

This book brings together contributions that analyse how subcultural myths develop and how they can be studied. Through critical engagement with (history) writing and other sources on subcultures by contemporaries, veterans, popular media and...

Women make up the vast majority of Protestant Christians in China-a largely faceless majority, as their stories too often go untold in scholarly research as well as popular media. This book writes Protestant Chinese women into the history of...

Inner-city Sydney was the epicenter of gay life in the Southern hemisphere in the 1970s and early 1980s. Gay men moved from across Australasia to find liberation in the city's vibrant community networks; and when HIV and AIDS devastated those networks,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825349288Author Cosima Clara GillhammerFormat PaperbackImprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 3756g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982195793Author Richard CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734368697Author David W JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Orderly Pack Rat thePublisher Orderly Pack Rat theWeight(grams) 458g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734368680Author David W JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Orderly Pack Rat thePublisher Orderly Pack Rat theWeight(grams) 812g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789355282538Author J SoundararajanPage Count 262Imprint MJP PublishersPublisher MJP Publishers

This collection explores the intersections of oral history and environmental history. Oral history offers environmental historians the opportunity to understand the ways people's perceptions, experiences and beliefs about environments change over time...

This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of 'sources,' the forging of a new...

This book is a collection of essays in Indonesian history and archaeology dealing with different and multiple trajectories, along four broad themes. The first part of the book covers competing or evolving representations of events, customs or traditions,...

Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in three instalments from 1776 to 1788, is widely regarded as the greatest work of history in the English language. Starting with the accession of the Roman Emperor Commodus...

History in all its forms is more popular nowadays than ever. History programmes on television can attract audiences in the millions, as do top heritage sites, while growing numbers of people pursue family and local history and join historical...

The body has come to occupy a central place in cultural history, with historians consistently exploring such themes as the history of disease, disability, beauty, and sexuality. This engaging and concise book offers a clear introduction to the history of...