Historiography

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...

This volume considers how the act through which historians interpret the past can be understood as one of epistemological and cognitive translation. The book convincingly argues that words, images, and historical and archaeological remains can all be...

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...

Rachel Bryant Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams lead a cast of renowned scholars to initiate an interdisciplinary conversation about the mechanisms of power that have shaped the nineteenth-century archive, to ask: What is a nineteenth-century archive,...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781964170268Author Snorri SturlusonFormat HardbackPage Count 732Imprint Henderson PublishingPublisher Henderson PublishingWeight(grams) 1139g

This is the first extensive analysis of large-scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early modern world. Using examples from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe, it questions the established narrative that violence was only curbed...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479611485Author Albert DittesFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Teach Services, Inc.Publisher Teach Services, Inc.Weight(grams) 181g

This book investigates the entanglement of memory and morality in an extended case study of the memory policy of the European Commission between 2014 and 2020. The main empirical aim is to provide an understanding of how the European Commission, various...

"What is historiography?" asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938 and professional historians continue to argue over the meaning of the term. This book challenges the view of historiography as an esoteric subject by presenting an...

This oral history of ex-combatants of the Portuguese colonial war places the reader face-to-face with the men who were conscripted to fight the last and bloodiest of the West's colonial wars in Africa, namely in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau (then...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788366304147Author ArcheobooksFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint ArcheobooksPublisher ArcheobooksWeight(grams) 312g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985887617Author Jim GiombettiFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Jim GiombettiPublisher Jim GiombettiWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330326068Author Sandy BlackFormat HardbackPage Count 86Imprint Panda Publishing AgencyPublisher Panda Publishing AgencyWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962886208Author Catherine GloverFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint AMZ Kindle Direct PublishingPublisher AMZ Kindle Direct PublishingWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503586557Author Rutger KramerFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

New Paths to Public Histories challenges readers to consider historical research as a collaborative pursuit enacted across a range of individuals from different backgrounds and institutions. It argues that research communities can benefit from...

This book analyses contemporary war commemoration in Britain and Russia. Focusing on the political aspects of remembrance, it explores the instrumentalisation of memory for managing civil-military relations and garnering public support for conflicts. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912702756Author David BatesFormat HardbackPage Count 334Imprint Institute of Historical ResearchPublisher School of Advanced Study

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...

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 provides a pathway for the New Coastal History. Our littorals are all too often the setting for climate change and the political, refugee and migration crises that blight our age. Yet historians have continued, in large part, to ignore the...

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 delves into the history of the Horn of Africa diaspora in Italy and Europe through the stories of those who fled to Italy from East African states. It draws on oral history research carried out by the BABE project (Bodies Across Borders: Oral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798885751032Author Bappaditya ChakravartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Garuda Prakashan Pvt. LtdPublisher Garuda Prakashan Pvt. Ltd