Historiography

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788778388575Author Thorsten B OlesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint University Press of Southern DenmarkPublisher University Press of Southern...

Cognition and Temporality: The Genesis of Historical Thought in Perception and Reasoning argues that both verbal grammar and figural grammar have their cognitive basis in twelve characteristic forms of judgment, distributed among individuals in human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987439012Author Hakeem Al-ZaynFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Command & Conquer LLCPublisher Command & Conquer LLCWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587901737Author Barry SpectorFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint Regent PressPublisher Regent PressWeight(grams) 771g

This volume extends the theoretical scope of the important concept of empathy by analysing not only the cultural contexts that foster the generating of empathy, but in focusing also on the limits of pro-social feelings and the mechanisms that lead to its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798201120023Author Daniel WrinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Storyteller Books, LLCPublisher Storyteller Books, LLCWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

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...

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...

A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences includes essays on the ways in which the histories of psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, history and political science have been written since the Second World War. Bringing together chapters...

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In this book, originally published in 1964, Peter Carpenter discusses the 'era approach' to teaching history, where short and unrelated periods are chosen for special study, and the students are encouraged to investigate them actively. He also supplies a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925937589Author Movses Dasxuranc'iFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Sophene Pty LtdPublisher Sophene Pty LtdWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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...

This book explores a central methodological issue at the heart of studies of the histories of children and childhood. It questions how we understand the perspectives of children in the past, and not just those of the adults who often defined and...

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...

Commemorating traumatic events means attempting to activate collective memory. By examining images, metonymic invocations, built environments and digital outreach interventions, this book establishes some of the cognitive and emotional responses that...

Big Data in History introduces the project to create a world-historical archive, tracing the last four centuries of historical dynamics and change. Chapters address the archive's overall plan, how to interpret the past through a global archive, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560854753Author Joseph W GeisnerFormat HardbackPage Count 454Imprint Signature BooksPublisher Signature BooksWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941028967Author Veronica Boulter ToynbeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 338g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979508523Author David F LappinFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Wayne A. MitchellPublisher Wayne A. MitchellWeight(grams) 159g

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History in Transit comprises Dominick LaCapra's explorations of relationships he believes have been insufficiently theorized: between experience and identity, between history and various theories of subjectivity, between extreme events and their...

The idea of human rights has been much criticized from a historical perspective but curiously enough its theoretical and practical contributions to the study of time, memory, and history have never been systematically explored. How is it to look at the...

No prominent pragmatist philosopher to date has offered us a fully developed theory of history or historical interpretation. Nevertheless, a number of pivotal arguments and suggestions made by the pragmatists appeared to many both insightful and...

This book offers a comparative analysis of British Army Unit War Diaries in the two World Wars, to reveal the role played by previously unnoticed technologies in shaping the archival records of war. Despite thriving scholarship on the history of war, the...

Since the end of the Second World War, the political rationale to remember the past has shifted from previous focus on states' victories, as these began commemorating their own historical crimes. This Element follows the rise of 'auto-critical memory',...

The idea of human rights has been much criticized from a historical perspective but curiously enough its theoretical and practical contributions to the study of time, memory, and history have never been systematically explored. How is it to look at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009539418Author Jaume AurellFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

This Element analyses the autobiographies of historians from a global perspective and looks at all eras, from antiquity to the present day. It includes twenty autobiographies: Caesar's and Lucian of Samosata's memories in antiquity; an autobiography of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Cundill History Prize 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780375727672Author John BurrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House...

This collection is published in the Crusades Subsidia series in honour of Professor Adrian J. Boas, an archaeologist, historian and scholar who has contributed widely and significantly to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages. Professor Boas’...

In this volume of essays John Howard Yoder projects a vision of Christian social ethics rooted in historical community and illuminated by scripture. Drawing upon scriptural accounts of the early church, he demonstrates the Christian community's constant...

American historians of the early national period, argues Eileen Ka-May Cheng, grappled with objectivity, professionalism, and other "modern" issues to a greater degree than their successors in later generations acknowledge. Her extensive...

What is history about? This Element shows that answers centred on the keyword 'past events' are incomplete, even if they are not simply wrong. Interweaving theoretical and historical perspectives, it provides an abstract overview of the thematic...

Michael Isenberg casts aside the traditional textbook approach and presents the study of history as a series of puzzles to ponder, with neither right nor wrong answers. Thinking about history, from this point of view, becomes an exciting intellectual...

This book is about the production and consumption of specifically Indian history, framed by concerns with postmodernism and postcolonialism. Several parallel themes crosscut the book's central focus on the discipline of history: its intellectual history,...

This Element is an analysis of the African Diaspora. It will define the African Diaspora and how the concepts behind the term came to be socially and historically engineered. The African diaspora is then placed into a broader historical context where the...

What is a classic in historical writing? How do we explain the continued interest in certain historical texts, even when their accounts and interpretations of particular periods have been displaced or revised by newer generations of historians? How do...

This Element shows that existing models of global slavery derived from sociology and modelled closely on antebellum American slavery being normative should be replaced a global slavery that is less American and more global. It argues that we can...

What is history about? This Element shows that answers centred on the keyword 'past events' are incomplete, even if they are not simply wrong. Interweaving theoretical and historical perspectives, it provides an abstract overview of the thematic...