History: theory and methods Books

Oral history provides a valuable way of understanding locality. This volume considers the importance of working closely with the specifics of place in the context of global issues including environmental concerns and new communication technologies...

This volume gathers Professor Burke's most important essays on the theory and the practice of history. In the first part, the main theme is the way in which concepts borrowed from social and cultural theory may encourage historians to ask new questions...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

""The World's History, Volume 2: Oceania, Eastern Asia, and the Indian Ocean"" is a comprehensive historical account written by Hans Ferdinand Helmolt and originally published in 1904. This book covers the history of the regions of Oceania, Eastern Asia,...

Dans ce livre, Jean Guiraud explore l'idée que l'histoire officielle est souvent incomplète et partiale. Il examine comment les récits historiques peuvent être manipulés pour servir des intérêts politiques ou sociaux, et comment ces manipulations peuvent...

A pioneering work in the field of historiography, Zaba's Method of Studying Universal History offers a radical new approach to the study of history. Rejecting the traditional linear narrative of events, Zaba proposes a more dynamic and interactive model...

This book is a comparative analysis of the medieval Sunni historiography of the caliphate of Uthman b. Affan and the revolt against him. By comparing treatments of Uthman in pietistic literature and universal chronicles, the work traces the gradual...

Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life offers a controversial analysis, grounded both in philosophical argument and empirical evidence, of what history does in contemporary culture. It endorses and extends the argument that contemporary...

The contemporary Dutch historical theorist/philosopher Frank Ankersmit, an erstwhile advocate and promulgator of what has become known as "the linguistic turn" in historical theory, is very well known within the discipline. His early position with regard...

Drawing on theory and practice from five continents, The Public History Reader offers clearly written accessible introductions to debates in public history as it places people, such as practitioners, bloggers, archivists, local historians, curators or...

Higher Education In Russian, Austrian, And Prussian Poland (1896) is a book published by the United States Office Of Education. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of higher education in Poland during the late 19th century. It...

Fully revised and updated, Genealogy, Psychology and Therapy highlights the importance of genealogy in the development of identity, and the therapeutic potential of family history in cultivating wellbeing. The popularity of amateur genealogy and family...

This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge.The tensions between competing paradigms,...

This book explores the issues of explanation and narration in historiography, arguing that history is not just interpretation, and that the interpretive part, important though it is, is far from wholly subjective or hostage to the historian's values...

Since the appearance of Hayden White's seminal work Metahistory in 1973, constructivist thought has been a key force within theory of history and has at times even provided inspiration for historians more generally. Despite the radical theoretical shift...

This book scrutinizes the emergence of historians participating as expert witnesses in historical forensic contribution in some of the most important national and international legal ventures of the last century. It aims to advance the debate from...

This book introduces a new way of looking at the writing of history. Rather than as the production of knowledge or the telling of stories, it sees writing history as an ethical, existential and emotional engagement with the people from the past. The...

The fifth volume of The Oxford History of Historical Writing offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally since 1945. Divided into two parts, part one selects and surveys theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to history,...

In his Baptist History in England and America, David Beale illuminates numerous topics, including Baptist origins, their search for the ancient manner of immersion, and even the way they acquired the name Baptist. His book annotates key beliefs and...

In the fourth edition of this widely acclaimed text, Robert A. Rosenstone argues that to leave history films out of the discussion of the meaning of the past is to ignore a major means of understanding historical events.

Fred Morrow Fling's Outline of Historical Method provides a comprehensive guide to studying history. This text is perfect for students or anyone interested in learning more about the methodology of historical research.This work has been selected by...

Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Einführung in das Studium der Geschichtswissenschaft. Es präsentiert alle wichtigen Ansätze und Methoden der Geschichtsforschung und beleuchtet die wichtigsten Themen der Geschichte. Der Autor diskutiert auch die Rolle...

Rethinking Military History is a bold new 'thought book' that reconsiders military history at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The chapters provide a valuable and concise survey of the main themes in the study of military history from...

The Postmodernism Reader traces the origins, development and the politics of postmodernism through the key writings of postmodernist thinkers. This collection of foundational essays restores the poignancy that has been lost - or even emphatically...

This book introduces business historians to oral history methodologies and approaches.Using four distinct oral history case studies to explore ideas of disruption and continuity in business history over the second half of the twentieth century, Robert...

Remembering the Holocaust in Educational Settings brings together a group of international experts to investigate the relationship between Holocaust remembrance and different types of educational activity through consideration of how education has become...

Der vorliegende Band versammelt ausgewählte Beiträge, die ein aktuelles Bild der Forschungsansätze und -projekte der Germanistik in Schweden vermitteln. Er belegt, dass der Begriff der Emotionen sich als geeigneter Ausgangspunkt für den Dialog von...

This book covers the topic of historical psychological experimental devices. The introduction explores the role of instruments in establishing psychological science; the main part categorizes the instruments and provides a description of their purpose...

Der Band bietet neue Zugänge zu einem kulturwissenschaftlichen Verständnis des europäischen Umgangs mit Geschichte um 1700. Er verweist auf politische, konfessionelle und soziale Hintergründe von Geschichtlichkeit, wie sie etwa in Leibniz' historischen...

In recent years, the enemies of Christopher Columbus have succeeded in damaging, if not demolishing, his historical reputation. Today, Columbus is seen not as a hero but as an inept sailor turned brutal conqueror, and his voyage is taught as the opening...

Since the 1970s West German historiography has been one of the main arenas of international comparative history. It has produced important empirical studies particularly in social history as well as methodological and theoretical reflections on...

This series aims at bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory as well as western and non-western concepts, for which this volume offers a particularly good example. It explores cultural differences in conceptualizing...

Writing on the history of German women has - like women's history elsewhere - undergone remarkable expansion and change since it began in the late 1960s. Today Women's history still continues to flourish alongside gender history but the focus of research...

Portable phones are now miniature multi-media centers that can fit neatly in one's pocket, and media industries of all types are adapting content for these new platforms, or innovating entirely new forms. In the light of this explosive growth, this...

This volume draws on a trove of unpublished original material from the pre-1940s to the present to offer a unique historiographic study of twentieth-century Methodist missionary work and women's active expression of faith, practised at the critical...