Historiography

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895431766Author Jocelyne DorayFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books

This book is a greatly supplemented translation from Portuguese, originally published in 2015. It discusses the most appropriate ways to create databases for research on history and other humanities, including an extensive debate about the usages that...

This book explores the historiography, ports, and peoples of the Persian Gulf over the past two centuries, offering a more inclusive history of the region than previously available. Restoring the history of minority communities which until now have been...

This open access book addresses the protection of privacy and personality rights in public records, records management, historical sources, and archives; and historical and current access to them in a broad international comparative perspective...

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...

Traversed by masses of migrants and wracked by environmental and economic change, the Mediterranean has come to connote crisis. In this context, Critically Mediterranean asks how the theories and methodologies of Mediterranean studies may be brought to...

Martin Luther King, Jr., was not an advocate of homosexual rights, nor was he an enemy; however both sides of the debate have used his words in their arguments, including his widow, in support of gay rights, and his daughter, in rejection. This...

This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are realities; they happen in the world, not in the fantasy life of individuals or in the narrative frames of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909488359Author Andrew Andrew MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Fortean WordsPublisher Fortean WordsWeight(grams) 286g

This book explores how polarised interpretations of America's past influence the present and vice versa. A focus on competing Protestant reactions to President Trump's 'Make America Great Again' slogan evidences a fundamental divide over how America...

This book provides an oral history of women who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. It follows the trajectory of eight women's lives from their decision to become nurses, to surgical and evacuation hospitals in Vietnam, and then...

This volume offers a stimulating new perspective on the history of historical studies. Through the prism of 'scholarly personae', it explores why historians care about attitudes or dispositions that they consider necessary for studying the past, yet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925937596Author Movses Dasxuranc'i (Kaghankatvatsi)Format PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Sophene Pty LtdPublisher Sophene Pty LtdWeight(grams) 336g

This book reflects on discourses about the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-1985) on social media. It examines entanglements between technological and mnemonic practices regarding this historical period. Following Olick and Robbins’ (1998) Historical...

This volume explores the relationship between place, traumatic memory, and narrative. Drawing on cases from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and North and South America, the book provides a uniquely cross-cultural and global approach. Covering a wide range...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394973145Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Double 9 BooksllpPublisher Double 9 BooksllpWeight(grams) 200g

Medizin und Sprache - die Sprache der Medizin lautete das Thema der 14. Tagung der Deutsch-Polnischen Gesellschaft fur Geschichte der Medizin. Der Tagungsband umfasst 17 Beitrage, die aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven das Verhaltnis von Sprache und...

This book takes a fresh look at the connection between history and policy, proposing that historians rediscover a sense of 'public purpose' that can embrace political decision-making - and also enhance historical practice. Making policy is a complex and...

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...

Why does the history of dogmatism deserve our attention? This open access book analyses uses of the term, following dogmatism from Victorian Britain to Cold War America, examining why it came to be regarded as a vice, and how understandings of its...

This book, originally published in 1977, is a survey of European historiography from its origins in the historians of Greece and Rome, through the annalists and chroniclers of the middle ages, to the historians of the late eighteenth century. The author...

History doesn't have to mean only an effort to know the past. It can be instead, according to Kierkegaard, a willful and personal choice regarding the creation of the future. Kierkegaard offers us an amazing new approach to the problem of what is history...

An original and insightful examination of the ways in which history is - and might be - written. It traces history's divided nature, beginning with its founding figures, Herodotus and Thucydides, right up to the key figures of historical reflection, such...

This book translates and contextualizes the recollections of men and women who built, lived, and worked in some of the factory compounds relocated from China’s most cosmopolitan city—Shanghai. Small Third Line factories became oases of relatively...

This book examines the evolution of historical professionalism, with the development of an international community that shares a set of values regarding both methodological minimum demands and what constitutes new results. Historical professionalism is...

In this book, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the intense and sustained work on the relationship between collective memory and history, retracing the royal roads pioneering scholars have traveled in their research and writing on this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684931972Author R G CollingwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Mockingbird PressPublisher Mockingbird PressWeight(grams) 458g

This second annual volume from the Organization of American Historians, containing the best American history articles published between the summers of 2005 and 2006, provides a quick and comprehensiveoverview ofthe topwork and the current intellectual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789609393331Author Spyros LoumanisFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Loumanis SpyrosPublisher Loumanis SpyrosWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218232450Author Nouné SekhpossianFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Yans Press LLCPublisher Yans Press LLCWeight(grams) 168g

This collection of essays argues that there is an pre-history, that is, a longer tradition of the transnationalization of historical culture and historical science. It seeks to substantiate the claim that history writing reflected the globality of its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798230886426Author Tim HurlockerFormat PaperbackPage Count 710Imprint Tim HurlockerPublisher Tim HurlockerWeight(grams) 889g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503584706Author Gerda HeydemannFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1052g

Narrativism has made important contributions to the theory and philosophy of historiography but it is now time to move beyond it to postnarrativism. Kuukkanen shows how it is possible to reject the absolutist truth-functional evaluation of...

This book explores the relationship between political memories of migration and the politics of migration, following over two hundred years of commemorating Australia Day. References to Europeans' original migration to the continent have been engaged in...

Based on the author's more than 50 years of experience as a professional historian in academic and other capacities, Being a Historian is addressed to both aspiring and mature historians. It offers an overview of the state of the discipline of history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987230084Author Matthew D HaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint 979-8-9872300-8-4Publisher 979-8-9872300-8-4Weight(grams) 549g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789076660622Author Klaas Johan PopmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Wordbridge PubPublisher Wordbridge PubWeight(grams) 152g

This book addresses the emergence of ‘protest memory’ as a powerful contemporary shaper of ideas and practices in culture, media and heritage domains. Directly focused on the role of museum and archive practitioners in protest memory curation, it makes a...