Historiography Books

La ""Historia Verdadera De La Conqvista De Campeche"" es un libro escrito por Bernal D������az del Castillo en el a�����o 1632. En �����l se relata la historia de la conquista de la ciudad de Campeche, en M�����xico, por parte de los espa�����oles en el...

Making Sense of the Future integrates the latest thinking in Future Studies with the author's expertise in world history, economics, interdisciplinary studies, knowledge organization, and political activism.The book takes a systems approach that...

Double Helix History examines the interface between genetics and history in order to investigate the plausibility of 'new' knowledge derived from scientific methods and to reflect upon what it might mean for the practice of history.Since the mapping of...

In 1955 Louis Hartz published a volume titled The Liberal Tradition in America, in which he argued that liberalism was the one and only American tradition. Since then scholars of New Left and neoconservative persuasion have offered an alternative account...

Games of History provides an understanding of how games as artefacts, textual and visual sources on games and gaming as a pastime or a "serious" activity can be used as sources for the study of history.From the vast world of games, the book's focus is on...

Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World explores the relationship between the work of the Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci and the study of classical antiquity. The collection of essays engages with Greek and Roman history, literature, society, and...

Scholarship on immigration to America is a coin with two sides: it asks both how America changed immigrants, and how they changed America. Were the immigrants uprooted from their ancestral homes, leaving everything behind, or were they transplanted,...

Conspectus Generum Avium (1850) est opus ornithologicum a Bonaparte, Carolo Luciano scriptum. In hoc libro, auctor describit genus avium et earum differentias. Conspectus Generum Avium est una ex primis operibus ornithologiae systematice dispositae, quod...

All The Russias is a travelogue written by Henry Norman in 1903. The book covers his travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Norman describes his experiences and observations of the people,...

""Alt-Englisches Theater oder Supplemente zum Shakspear"" ist ein Buch von Ludwig Tieck aus dem Jahr 1811. Es handelt sich um eine Sammlung von �����bersetzungen und Bearbeitungen von St�����cken des englischen Dramatikers William Shakespeare. Tieck, ein...

Animalium Specierum In Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species Methodica Dispositio est opus magnum auctore Linne, Carl Von, anno MDCCCLIX editum. Hoc volumine, auctor animalia descripsit et in classes, ordines, genera et species methodica disposita est. In...

Oral History at a Distance is the first publication to explore both the ideas behind and application of oral history in remote projects.

De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire aims to offer a timely and inclusive contribution to the evolving cross-disciplinary scholarship that connects visual studies with British imperial historiography. The key purpose of this book is to...

Penned by leading historians, the specially-commissioned essays of <i>Whither the Early Republic</i> represent the most stimulating and innovative work being done on imperialism, environmental history, slavery, economic history, politics, and...

Leopold von Ranke, who was born in 1795, is considered to be one of the founders of the modern practice of writing history. This collection of his writings, edited and introduced by Georg G. Iggers, was first published in 1973 and remains the leading...

Over two decades ago we were confronted by the end of the Soviet Union and collapse of the geo-politicall divisions that had defined much of the twentieth century. From this particular end, the 'end of history' was proclaimed. But is it still possible to...

The Cultural History Reader is the first volume to collect together the distinctive contributions made by cultural historians across the spectrum of historiographical methods. It offers a unique view into the insights to be gained from examining how...

Colonial Surveying, With A View To The Disposal Of Waste Land: In A Report To The New Zealand Company (1849) is a book written by Felix Wakefield. The book is a report that details the process of surveying and disposing of waste land in colonial New...

""An Account of the Destruction of the Jesuits in France"" is a historical book written by Jean Le Rond D'Alembert in 1766. The book provides a detailed account of the events that led to the downfall of the Jesuits in France. The Jesuits were a powerful...

""Annaes Do Parlamento Brazileiro, 1823 V1 (1876)"" ����� um livro que cont�����m registros hist������ricos das sess�����es do Parlamento Brasileiro em 1823, durante a Assembleia Constituinte. A obra foi publicada em 1876 e ����� uma fonte valiosa para...

This volume explores issues of memory, remembering and language in late colonial India. It is the first systematic historical sociolinguistic study of English private and public citizens who lived in and/or worked for India and the Indian cause from the...

Fifty Key Thinkers on History is an essential guide to the most influential historians, theorists and philosophers of history. The entries offer comprehensive coverage of the long history of historiography ranging from ancient China, Greece and Rome,...

"Before us, several remote and now absurd wars." For Robin Gajdusek, these fields represent the first step toward resurrection as he retrieves a lost personal past through a writing catharsis which refocuses the vast battlefields of history into a...

L�������Ami Du Prince Et De La Patrie: Ou Le Bon Citoyen est un livre �����crit par Fran�����ois de Sapt en 1770. Le livre traite du r�����le du citoyen dans la soci�����t����� et de son devoir envers le prince et la patrie. De Sapt examine les...

""Japan Of Sword And Love"" is a book written by Joaquin Miller and published in 1905. The book is a collection of essays and stories about Japan, its people, culture, and history. Miller, an American poet and writer, visited Japan in the late 19th...

This book explores the versatile nature of historical methodology and its use in interdisciplinary research. Based on the historical overview of the appearance of one sort of historical ideas and disappearance of another, the book aims to demonstrate a...

World Past to World Present: A Sketch of Global History provides an unusually brief and present-focused treatment of human history beginning with the advent of agriculture and ending with considerable attention to world history developments since World...

This book shows how a multidisciplinary approach combining conceptual and methodological tools from political history and political science can help to develop a deeper understanding of contemporary political phenomena including democracy, populism, war,...

In Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling: Readings, Reflections and Ruminations, Richard J. Cox argues that personal archives might be assuming a new importance in society. As the technical means for creating, maintaining, and using documents are...

.Why Bother With History? argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Examining the motivations of past historians, the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that...

This collection examines practical and ethical issues inherent in the application of oral history and memory studies to research about the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Case studies highlight the importance of...

This book introduces students to ethics in historiography through an exploration of how historians in different times and places have explained how history ought to be written and how those views relate to different understandings of ethics.No two...

This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust and a collection of personal explorations focusing on the historians who write about these subjects.

This book aims to further a debate about aspects of "playing" and "gaming" in connection with history. Reaching out to academics, professionals and students alike, it pursues a dedicated interdisciplinary approach. Rather than only focusing on how...

Emotional Experience and Microhistory explores the life and death of Magnús Hj. Magnússon through his diary, poetry and other writing, showing how best to use the methods of microhistory to address complicated historical situations. The book deals with...

This book is a translation of La Nazione del Risorgimento, one of the most important and influential works on modern Italian history published in recent years. It analyses the aspects of the ideas of nationhood and patriotism that impassioned and...

The Enlightenment is generally painted as a movement of ideas and society lasting from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, but this book argues that the Enlightenment is an essential component of modernity itself. In the course of the...

This sweeping survey of the history of work, from hunter-gatherers to dotcom telecommuters, deftly compresses thousands of years of human evolution into an incisive volume that the Toronto 'Globe & Mail' calls "a page turner of a book". It is a book about

Writing Russia offers the first systematic analysis of Anglophone national histories of Russia. By deconstructing preeminent historical works on the history of Russia, this book provides insight into the hidden ideological underpinnings of the texts and...

Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something 'absent' or 'distant.' Victims of historical injustice, however, in contrast, often claim that the past got 'stuck' in the present...

Oral traditions are historical sources of a special nature. Their special nature derives from the fact that they are "unwritten" sources couched in a form suitable for oral transmission, and that their preservation depends on the powers of memory of...

In the past sixty years, oral history has moved from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies and is now employed as a research tool by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, medical therapists, documentary film makers, and educators at...

Liber ""Joannis Antonii Scopoli Entomologia Carniolica Exhibens Insecta Carnioliae Indegena"" a Scopoli, Giovanni Antonio editus est. Hic liber est de insectis Carnioliae indigenis, quos auctor accurate descripsit et delineavit. Scopoli, qui fuit medicus...

""Illustratio Systematis Sexualis Linnaeani V1"" est liber auctore Joanne Milleri, editus anno 1789. Hic liber continet descriptiones et illustrationes plantarum, quarum species in Systemate Sexuali Linnaeano distributas sunt. Joannes Millerus...