Historiography

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This book situates historical scholarship within a plurihistoricity of contemporary historical culture, exploring conflicting conceptions of historical change in technological utopias of human enhancement, in prospects of human extinction, in societal...

Throughout the twentieth century, scholars, artists and politicians have accused each other of “historicism.” But what exactly did this mean? Judging by existing scholarship, the answers varied enormously. Like many other “isms,” historicism could mean...

With a recent surge of interest in the field, a volume taking stock of important theoretical shifts in the philosophy of history is greatly needed. A Philosophy of History fills this gap by weaving together a range of perspectives on the field which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915249005Author Stijn van RossemFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

This book examines authority in discourse from ancient to modern historians, while also presenting instances of current subversions of the classical rhetorical ethos. Ancient rhetoric set out the rules of authority in discourse, and directly affected the...

This innovative textbook demystifies the subject of world history through a diverse range of case studies. Each chapter looks at an event, person, or place commonly included in comprehensive textbooks, from prehistory to the present and from across the...

In a unique approach to historical representations, the central question of this book is 'what is history?' By describing 'history' through its supplementary function to the field of history, rather than the ground of a study, this collection considers...

This book explores the connection between history and mythology by engaging with myths not as allegories or falsehoods, but as representations of historical experience.Historical approaches to myth are often absent from discussions of mythology, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789395217644Author Dia BaglaFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Zorba BooksPublisher Zorba Books

With a recent surge of interest in the field, a volume taking stock of important theoretical shifts in the philosophy of history is greatly needed. A Philosophy of History fills this gap by weaving together a range of perspectives on the field which...

Exploring the developments that have occurred in the practice of oral history since digital audio and video became viable, this book explores various groundbreaking projects in the history of digital oral history, distilling the insights of pioneers in...

Offering a cross-media exploration of Israeli media on Holocaust Remembrance Day, one of Israel's most sacred national rituals, over the past six decades, this fascinating book investigates the way in which variables such as medium, structure of...

Homelessness is now a much greater problem than twenty years ago. In Britain today around half-a-million homeless people form a regrettable permanent 'underclass'. This book spells out their similarities with the spurned vagrant of bygone days. It traces...

Exploring the breadth and complexities of history as a field of study, History in Practice demystifies what historians actually do and the tasks they take on. This study, written by one of the most acute practitioners in the field, examines not only the...

This book discusses early-modern collective identities related to territory, language, cultural milieu, state, and alleged "ethnic" origins in the border and multilingual areas of Friuli and the County of Gorizia before the rise of nineteenth -...

It has long been established that the crisis of 1066 generated a florescence of historical writing in the first half of the twelfth century. Emily A. Winkler presents a new perspective on previously unqueried matters, investigating how historians'...

How was history written in Europe and Asia between 400-1400? How was the past understood in religious, social and political terms? And in what ways does the diversity of historical writing in this period mask underlying commonalities in narrating the...

Volume 4 of The Oxford History of Historical Writing offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally from 1800 to 1945. Divided into four parts, it first covers the rise, consolidation, and crisis of European historical thought, and...

The third edition of Writing History provides students and teachers with a comprehensive overview of how the study of history is informed by a broader intellectual and analytical framework, exploring the emergence and development of history as a...

This book seeks to overcome the tension between ‘western’ and ‘non-western’ categories and tools in the study of global history, showing how most western approaches to the social sciences and history have developed through transnational and colonial...

In 1949, in the aftermath of a devastating war, Eric Birley organised the First Congress of Roman Frontier Studies. His aim was not only to pursue the study of Roman frontiers but also to take a step towards restoring harmony in international relations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788173041419Author S. N. MukherjeeFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and...

This book explains some of the psychological processes that go into narrative construction and why it is that we have so much variability of historical accounts about a single historical event. A central focus of this book is how historians go from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503602561Author Cristiana FacchiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Brepols PublishersPublisher Brepols PublishersWeight(grams) 227g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227765055Author Jatin SharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Jatin SharmaPublisher Jatin SharmaWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798991767019Author Cheryl RemingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint ImprintPublisher ImprintWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503585451Author David KalhousFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 980g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330326129Author Sandy BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Panda Publishing AgencyPublisher Panda Publishing AgencyWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503606712Author Sverrir JakobssonFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009519922Author Edward Ross DickinsonFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Authors from a variety of disciplines dealing with diverse historical cases engage with the spatial deployment of violence and the possibilities for memory and resistance in contexts of state sponsored violence, enforced disappearances and regimes of...

This book traces the life of Maria Mia Truskier, who fled the Nazis as a young Polish Jew in early 1940 and once safely resettled in the United States, became an activist for other refugees, earning renown in the Bay Area as “the oldest refugee” of the...

This book, now in its twelfth edition, has become indispensable to every library and to every serious student of history. The twelfth edition takes the tables up to the end of 1990 and so records all the dramatic events occurring in Eastern Europe at the...

This book explores how narratives, exhibitions, media representations, and cultural heritage sites that communicate memories of conflicts in East Asia between 1930 and 1945 spread, interact, and are re-packaged for post-war audiences across national...

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