Historiography

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...

Collections of essays surveying the historical discipline at the end of the 1970s heralded the new approached being developed, approaches that promised a rich diversity and cosmopolitan pluralism in the face of the uncertainty of historical reality. The...

This book brings together the Armenian Genocide process and its transgenerational outcome, which are often juxtaposed in existing scholarship, to ask how the Armenian Genocide is conceptualized and placed within diasporic communities. Taking a dual...

This collection of essays by Indonesian and foreign contributors offers new and highly original analyses of the mass violence in Indonesia which began in 1965 and its aftermath. Fifty years on from one the largest genocides of the twentieth century, they...

This book makes a unique contribution to the renewed debate about empire and imperialism and will be of great interest to all those concerned with understanding the historical antecedents and wider implications of today's emergentliberal interventionism,...

The book provides a synthesis of the development of the genre of national history writing in Europe, in particular it seeks to illuminate the relationship between history writing and the construction of national identities in modern Europe.Book...

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 9789076660653Author Klaas Johan PopmaFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Wordbridge PubPublisher Wordbridge PubWeight(grams) 499g

“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 examines the legacy of philosophical idealism in twentieth century British historical and political thought. It demonstrates that the absolute idealism of the nineteenth century was radically transformed by R.G. Collingwood, Michael Oakeshott,...

This book discusses the merits of the theory of agonistic memory in relation to the memory of war. After explaining the theory in detail it provides two case studies, one on war museums in contemporary Europe and one on mass graves exhumations, which...

This book explores how photography and recorded music act as vehicles or catalysts in processes of remembering, and how they are regarded, treated, valued and drawn upon as resources connecting past and present in everyday life. It does so via two key...

This book looks at the memory of the communist past in Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on Bulgaria: its “official” memory, constructed by institutions, its public memory, molded by media, rituals, books and films and the urban...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798201607241Author Daniel WrinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Storyteller Books, LLCPublisher Storyteller Books, LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789392900044Author Gopish GopalkrishnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Red Toucan Publisher LlpPublisher Red Toucan Publisher LlpWeight(grams) 277g

This open access book provides a concise introduction to a critical development in memory studies. A global memory formation has emerged since the 1990s, in which memories of traumatic histories in different parts of the world, often articulated in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628200768Author Henry Steele CommagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint 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 9798224088362Author Jan KrikkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Dco BooksPublisher Dco BooksWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798215850138Author Darvin BabiukFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Darvin BabiukPublisher Darvin BabiukWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985887600Author Jim GiombettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Jim GiombettiPublisher Jim GiombettiWeight(grams) 313g

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 journal spin-off special issue publication begins by approaching the politics of memory with focus on the governance and policies of memory: its administrations. The contributions focus on transcending methodological nationalism and bringing back...

If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles from ten countries. The book reminds us of the...

Throughout this book we discover what our idea of memory would be without the moving image. This thought provoking analysis examines how the medium has informed modern and contemporary models of memory. The book examines the ways in which cinematic optic...

This book presents a thorough analysis of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s memory culture, focusing particularly on commemorations and representations of the Anfal and Halabja atrocities. The author employs a transdisciplinary approach that draws on Memory...

This timely book examines austerity's conflicted meanings, from austerity chic and anti-austerity protest to economic and eco-austerity. Bramall's compelling text explores the presence and persuasiveness of the past, developing a new approach to the...

In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788833133164Author Massimo BucarelliFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Viella EditricePublisher Viella EditriceWeight(grams) 5g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541602090Author Scott SpillmanFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books

This book is a unique attempt to capture the growing societal experience of living in an age unlike anything the world has ever seen. Fueled by the perception of acquiring unprecedented powers through technologies that entangle the human and the natural...

This book considers if and how oral history is 'best practice' for education. International scholars, practitioners, and teachers consider conceptual approaches, methodological limitations, and pedagogical possibilities of oral history education. These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789076660646Author Klaas Johan PopmaFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint Wordbridge PubPublisher Wordbridge PubWeight(grams) 376g

This book offers historians and aspiring historians a learned, absorbing, and comprehensive overview of current fashions of method, interpretation, and meaning in the context of postmodernism that has washed over the historical profession in the last two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684931989Author R G CollingwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Mockingbird PressPublisher Mockingbird PressWeight(grams) 626g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394973633Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Double 9 BooksllpPublisher Double 9 BooksllpWeight(grams) 245g

A pioneering work in oral history, this book tells the story of the rise and fall of the industrial revolution and the apogee and crisis of the labor movement through an oral history of Terni, a steel town in Central Italy and the seat of the first large...

There is a long-held feeling in Russia that Moscow is the true heir to the Christian Byzantine Empire. In 1894, Imperial Russia opened one of the world’s leading centres for Byzantine archaeology in Istanbul, the Russian Archaeological Institute – its...

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 discusses the merits of the theory of agonistic memory in relation to the memory of war. After explaining the theory in detail it provides two case studies, one on war museums in contemporary Europe and one on mass graves exhumations, which...