Historiography Books

The Glaciers of Alaska That Are Shown on Russian Charts or Mentioned in Older Narratives is a book written by George Davidson in 1904. The book provides a detailed description of the glaciers of Alaska that were documented on Russian charts or mentioned...

The Geology Of The Northeast Coast Of Labrador is a book written by Reginald Aldworth Daly in 1902. The book is a comprehensive study of the geological features of the northeast coast of Labrador, a region located in the eastern part of Canada. The...

The Field Sports Of The North Of Europe: A Narrative Of Angling, Hunting, And Shooting In Sweden And Norway is a book written by Llewelyn Lloyd and published in 1885. The book is a detailed account of the author's experiences with angling, hunting, and...

The Coleoptera Of The Lower Rio Grande Valley: The Ferns Of Nicaragua is a scientific book written by Henry Frederick Wickham and originally published in 1897. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is dedicated to the study of beetles,...

The Entomology of Australia, Part 1: The Monograph of the Genus Phasma (1833) is a book written by George Robert Gray. It is a comprehensive study of the insect family Phasmida, commonly known as stick insects, found in Australia. The book is divided...

The book ""The English Factories In India, 1651-1654: A Calendar Of Documents In The India Office, Westminster"" written by William Foster is a comprehensive account of the English factories that were established in India during the years 1651-1654. The...

The British Tortrices is a book written by Samuel James Wilkinson and published in 1859. The book is a comprehensive guide to the tortrix moths found in Great Britain. It includes descriptions of the physical characteristics of each species, as well as...

The Birds of Dorsetshire is a comprehensive study of the bird species found in the county of Dorset, England. Written by John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell and published in 1888, the book provides a detailed account of the various species of birds that can be...

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...

Miscellaneous Entomological Papers is a collection of scientific papers written by Francis Marion Webster and published in 1894. The papers cover a wide range of topics in entomology, including descriptions of new species, observations on insect...

Florula Sebastopolitana (1880) est un livre �����crit par Gustave Lespinasse. Il s'agit d'un guide botanique d�����taill����� des plantes sauvages de la r�����gion de S�����bastopol, en Crim�����e. Le livre comprend des descriptions compl�����tes de plus...

Le Regne Vegetal V1-3 (1890) est un livre publi����� par Ducourtieux Publisher. Cette �����uvre est une encyclop�����die compl�����te sur le r�����gne v�����g�����tal, qui se compose de trois volumes. Le livre contient des informations d�����taill�����es...

De Historie Van Belgis, Part 1: Of Kronyke Der Nederlandsche Oudheyd (1829) is een boek geschreven door Marcus Van Vaernewijck. Het boek beschrijft de geschiedenis van Belgi����� en de Nederlandse oudheid. Het is het eerste deel van een serie boeken die...

Histoire naturelle des Equisetum de France est un livre �����crit par Joseph Duval-Jouve en 1864. Le livre pr�����sente une �����tude d�����taill�����e sur les Equisetum, une plante vivace qui pousse dans les zones humides. L'auteur d�����crit les...

This book offers an original reading of Carlo Ginzburg's work, tracing his trajectory in the context of Italian microhistory, his debates on the objectivity of historical knowledge, and the connection of his work to the expanded perspectives constructed...

This book traces the development of the Polish theory of history, analyzing how Jerzy Topolski, Krzysztof Pomian, and Olga Tokarczuk have both built upon and transgressed the metahistorical theories of American historian Hayden White.

This book explores the connection between history and mythology by engaging with myths not as allegories or falsehoods, but as representations of historical experience.

Beginning with Victoria's enthronement and an exploration of sensationalist accounts of attacks on the Queen, and ending with the notorious case of a fin-de-siècle killer, Victorian Crime, Madness, and Sensation throws new light on nineteenth-century...

Fifty Key Works of History and Historiography introduces some of the most important works ever written by those who have sought to understand, capture, query and interpret the past. The works covered include texts from ancient times to the present day...

This volume represents, explores and interrogates the current developments in the study of memory, engaging directly with the place of memory in culture, and with memory's meanings and history.

Debating Archaeological Empiricism examines the current intellectual turn in archaeology, primarily in its prehistoric and classical branches, characterized by a return to the archaeological evidence. Each chapter in the book approaches the empirical...

History and Wonder is a refreshing new take on the idea of history that tracks the entanglement of history and philosophy over time through the key idea of wonder.From Ancient Greek histories and wonder works, to Islamic curiosities and Chinese strange...

编辑推荐【一句话推荐】我们有石器时代的情感，中世纪的组织，却有着神一样的技术，这是*可怕的事情。人与机器之间的边界，*危险之处并不在于机器能够变得多么像人，而在于人在多大意义上已经变得像机器--像机器一样只在规范之内定义自己，接受权威灌输和社会主流观念的潜移默化以及消费主义的各种操纵，而无力反思更高层面的问题。毕竟，人的自由意志能力，并不体现在他们愿意做什么，而体现在他们不愿意去做什么。 ★我们总是过分强调精神与观念的伟大，却常常忽视技术对人类这一物种根本性的塑造能力--现代社会和现代文明是启蒙...

History Below the Global aims to foster an entangled knowledge of global history, and to place 'others' at the centre stage, to better understand the fluid world which we inhabit.

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, family history is the place where two great oceans of research are meeting: family historians outside the academy, with traditionally trained, often university-employed historians. This collection is both a...

The Vietnam War has had many long-reaching, traumatic effects, not just on the veterans of the war, but on their children as well. In this book, Weber examines the concept of the war as a social monad, a confusing array of personal stories and public...

In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political élites in the hope to create homogeneous nation-states. In contrast, this book asserts that collective memories develop...

Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five continents. The book's innovative approach and approachable...

How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imperative in our current sociopolitical context? This volume investigates a historiography whose function is to be a mode of thinking and exposes the inner...

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...

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...

The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documentary film. Combining theoretical models from diverse disciplines, it presents a new approach to the study...

Oral history gives history back to the people in their own words. And in giving a past, it also helps them towards a future of their own making. Oral history and life stories help to create a truer picture of the past and the changing present,...

Das Buch ""Das Sulzaer Thal: Oder Historische Darstellung Von Stadtsulza, Der Saline Neusulza, Dem Schlosse Saaleck Und Der Rudelsburg"" wurde im Jahr 1821 von Wilhelm Heinrich Gottlob Eisenach ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine historische...

Das Buch ""Das Pflanzenleben der Afrikanischen W�����sten"" wurde 1880 von Friedrich Simony ver������ffentlicht. Es ist eine umfassende Studie �����ber die Pflanzenwelt in den W�����sten Afrikas. Simony beschreibt die verschiedenen Arten von Pflanzen,...

Das Buch ""Der Deutsche Botaniker V1-2: Das Herbarienbuch"" von Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach wurde erstmals im Jahr 1841 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine zweib�����ndige Sammlung von Pflanzenbeschreibungen, die von einem der...

This book offers a cross-cultural approach to cinematic representations of Alzheimer's disease in non-mainstream cinema. Even though Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, is a global health issue, it is not perceived or represented...

In historical terms, the Old Diplomacy is not really that old-many of its concepts and methods date to the mid-nineteenth century-while the practices of New Diplomacy emerged only a couple of generations later. Moreover, "Diplomacy 2.0" and other...

Asa Briggs has been a prominent figure in post-war cultural life - as a pioneering historian, a far-sighted educational reformer, and a sensitive chronicler of the way in which broadcasting and communication more generally have shaped modern society. He...

Darwin's evolutionary ideas have been of immense social and political significance, filtering into an amazing galaxy of ideologies and agendas. This book focuses upon Social Darwinism, analyzing the concept, exploring its social origins, showing how...

Utilizing hitherto unexplored material that has become available only after the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, this book examines the Monist philosophy of the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel, and its role in stimulating the birth of Fascist ideology in...

After emerging from the tumult of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the field of Asian American studies has enjoyed rapid and extraordinary growth. Nonetheless, many aspects of Asian American history still remain open to debate. The Oxford...

Internationalism in Practice is a timely exploration of Claudia Jones' tireless advocacy for international, anti-imperialist, and anti-war solidarity during the pivotal, tumultuous years of the early 1950s. This new scholarly collection from Iskra Books...

Oh! Those Old One Room Schoolhouses and the Children They Loved" Sandy completes her trilogy of books pulling out nuggets of history, and embracing them with a little humor. Resident cats, their teachers, students, and one-room schoolhouses all share...