History: theory and methods Books

Wild Life of Scotland is a book written by James Hunter Crawford in 1896. The book provides a detailed account of the various species of animals and birds that inhabit Scotland, along with their habits, habitats, and characteristics. The author has...

The Natural History of Gallinaceous Birds Volume 1 is a book written by William Jardine and published in 1834. The book is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of gallinaceous birds, which includes pheasants, quails, turkeys, grouse, and...

How does history relate to the past? According to leading historical theorists, the relation to the past in history is reducible to evidential, psychological, practical and retrospective concerns. In contrast, this volume claims that historical relations...

This book looks at the institutionalisation and refashioning of Ayurveda as a robust, literate classical tradition, separated from the assorted, vernacular traditions of healing practices. It focuses on the dominant perspectives and theories of...

Während sich Globalhistorikerinnen und -historiker bereits intensiv damit auseinandergesetzt haben, welche Themen und Fragestellungen in ihrem Ansatz behandelt werden sowie welche Theorien und Methoden Anwendung finden sollten, gibt es bislang nur wenige...

In all societies-but especially those that have endured political violence-the past is a shifting and contested terrain, never fixed and always intertwined with present-day cultural and political circumstances. Organized around the Argentine experience...

This is the first book to offer a detailed modern survey of witchcraft historiography. By using a broad chronological structure, from contemporary responses through to modern day developments in historical theory in relation to the study of the history...

This book is a full translation of the Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, a history of the Chinese state of Lu from 722 to 481 BCE, annotated so as to highlight the moral philosophy of its supposed writer, Confucius.

El libro ""Arte De La Correspondencia Commercial"" fue escrito por Pedro Beaume y publicado en 1824. Esta obra es una gu������a para la correspondencia comercial, en la que se explica c������mo redactar cartas y documentos de manera efectiva y...

Histoire Du Couvent Des Minimes De Lyon (1879) est un livre �����crit par J. B. Vanel qui raconte l'histoire du couvent des Minimes de Lyon. Ce couvent a �����t����� fond����� au XVIe si�����cle par le roi Fran�����ois Ier et les fr�����res Minimes. Le...

Histoire Des Revolutions De Madagascar (1833) est un livre �����crit par Paul Ackermann. Ce livre raconte l'histoire des r�����volutions qui ont eu lieu ������ Madagascar. Il explore les causes de ces r�����volutions et les cons�����quences qu'elles ont...

Inventaris Van Het Provinciale Archief Van Noord Holland (1873) is een boek geschreven door Pieter Scheltema. Het beschrijft het archief van de provincie Noord-Holland uit het jaar 1873. Het boek geeft een gedetailleerde beschrijving van de documenten...

Das Buch ""Studien �����ber metamorphosierte Gesteine im Gouvernement Olonez"" wurde 1879 von Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Inostrantsev verfasst. Es handelt sich um eine wissenschaftliche Abhandlung, die sich mit der Geologie und Petrologie des...

Instructions Pratiques Sur La Pisciculture est un livre �����crit par Jean Victor Coste en 1856. Il s'agit d'un guide pratique sur l'�����levage des poissons, destin����� aux agriculteurs et aux p������cheurs. Le livre d�����crit les diff�����rentes...

The Natural History of British Butterflies is a book written by James Duncan in 1835. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the different species of butterflies found in Britain, including their physical characteristics, habits, and habitats. It...

Un viaggio sorridente nell'antico Egitto dalla sua nascita al 1500 a.C.

This unique and detailed analysis provides the first accessible and comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, methodology of microhistory - one of the most significant innovations in historical scholarship to have emerged in the last few...

As a pioneering volume to consider the impact of exile on historical scholarship in the twentieth century in a systematic and global way, looking at Europe, North America, South America and Asia, Dynamics of Emigration asks about epistemic repercussions...

Remembering Lived Lives is a religious historiography book that focuses on issues and theorists located primarily in Latin America. Instead of joining the chorus of contemporary European intellectuals like Slavoj Žižek, who insist on a renewed...

Das Buch ""Denkw�����rdiger und n�����tzlicher V1: Hessischer Antiquarius"" wurde im Jahr 1856 von C. F. Gunther ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine Sammlung von historischen und kulturellen Informationen �����ber Hessen. Das Werk ist in vier...

""Defensa de los Pueblos contra la Tirania de los Reyes"" es un libro escrito por Girolamo Spanzotti en 1827. En esta obra, el autor defiende el derecho de los pueblos a rebelarse contra la tiran������a de los reyes y a luchar por su libertad y sus...

History and Economic Life offers students a wide-ranging introduction to both quantitative and qualitative approaches to interpreting economic history sources from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century.Having identified an ever-widening gap between...

This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world. How does society remember...

This book looks at the role of popular music in constructing the myth of the First World War. Since the late 1950s over 1,500 popular songs from more than forty countries have been recorded that draw inspiration from the War. National Myth and the...

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...

This book explores a series of challenging new perspectives on the origins, development, and legacy of France's 'liberal moment' during the second half of the twentieth century. It surveys a significant shift in interest regarding socio-political...

'Through a series of excellent essays this volume uses concrete ethnographic analyses of memory practices in different parts of the globe to offer theoretical reflections on how memory shapes and is shaped by mobility in time and space.' - Marianne...

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...

This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how identity and agency become wholly embedded within practices of media-remembering. It draws upon data collected from the British military, the BBC and Falkland Islanders during the 30th...

Drawing on a range of cities and conflicts from Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the collection explores the post-conflict condition as it is lived and expressed in modern cities such as Berlin, Belfast, Bilbao, Beirut, Derry, Skopje, Sarajevo, Tunis,...

Presenting an archaeology of contemporary Canadian literature, Canadian Historical Writing: Reading the Remains situates ideas of history circulating in literary culture within the theory and practice of historiography. Drawing on international debates...

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This book examines sonic signals as something both heard internally and externally, through imagination, memory and direct response. In doing so it explores how the mind 'makes' sound through experience, as it interprets codes on the written page, and...

This book offers a unique approach to memory studies by focusing on local memory work conducted across the divide of the fall of Communism, whereas other histories have consistently used 1989 as a watershed moment. By examining the ways in which the...

This book analyses the successive appearances of Adolf Hitler in French fiction between 1945 and 2017. It discusses why, unlike what has been observed in the US and in the UK, it has proven problematic for French novelists to write about Hitler in their...

This book focuses on how Irish remembrance of the First World War impacted the emerging Irish identity in the postcolonial Irish Free State. While all combatants of the "war to end all wars" commemorated the war, Irish memorial efforts were fraught with...

This book explores the work of artists based in the global south whose practices and methods interrogate and explore the residue of Empire. In doing so, it highlights the way that contemporary art can assist in the un-forgetting of colonial violence and...

These essays all-in various ways-address the relationship between adaptation, "true events," and cultural memory. They ask (and frequently answer) the question: how do we script stories about real events that are often still fresh in our memories and may...

This volume explores the different mechanisms and forms of expression used by women to come to terms with the past, focusing on the variety and complexity of women's narratives of displacement within the context of Central and Eastern Europe. The first...

How are our personal soundtracks of life devised? What makes some pieces of music more meaningful to us than others? This book explores the role of memory, both personal and cultural, in imbuing music with the power to move us.  Focusing on the...

Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing examines the ways in which memory furnishes important source material in the three distinct areas of critical theory, memoir, and memorial art. The book first shows how affect theorists have increasingly...

The decision to go to war is the most momentous action an American president can take. Sending young men and women into combat weighs heavily on the Commander in Chief, as it does on the Congress, which must authorize war. This book is about seven...

During and after World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, a watershed moment in Greek history that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. And while few dispute the expulsion's tragic scope, it remains the subject of...

What is history - a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "history" as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can bedefined in...