Historiography category: 1227 books

Extrait : "L'empire de Russie est le plus vaste de notre hémisphère ; il s'étend d'occident en orient l'espace de plus de deux mille lieues communes de France, et il a plus de huit cents lieues du sud au nord dans sa plus grande largeur. Il confine à la Pologne et à la mer Glaciale ; il touche à...

There is no doubt that local and regional history, considered by many as a kind of minor historical study, has a pressing need for a systematic inventory of its resources. This collection shows the durability, the vividness, and the astonishing productivity of a sector of history which is the stronghold...

In History, Literature, Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his exploration of the complex relations between history and literature, here considering history as both process and representation. A trio of chapters at the center of the volume concern the ways in which history and literature...

Historians go to great lengths to avoid confronting discontinuity, searching for explanations as to why such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and the introduction of the euro logically develop from what came before. Moved by the Past radically breaks with this...

This book is a detailed critical study of Libeskind’s Berlin Jewish Museum in its historical, architectural and philosophical context. Emphasizing how the Holocaust changed our perception of history, memory, witnessing and representation, it develops the notion of ‘memorial ethics’ to explore...

Het leven van Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837) was een aaneenschakeling van riskante avonturen. Als kind moest ze met haar moeder van het paradijselijke eiland Martinique naar Frankrijk vluchten, waar juist de Revolutie was uitgebroken. Haar vader verloor het hoofd onder de guillotine, haar moeder...

The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influence one another, and what we gain in applying scientific methods to the interpretation of artwork. In this insightful book, Matthew Rampley addresses these...

In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths often obscured by both racism and "political correctness," as history has been hijacked by combatants in the culture wars of...

A collection of writings by the Founding Fathers of the United States of America containing: The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton & John Jay & James Madison The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis by Thomas Paine The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume...

In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South African refrain. Contemporary...

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In this lively exploration of America’s intellectual heritage, acclaimed poet, novelist, and critic Jay Parini celebrates the life and times of thirteen books that helped shape the American psyche.   Moving nimbly between the great watersheds in American letters—including Walden, Huckleberry...

The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness.Fully illustrated with some surprising images, this is a fascinating and authoritative history of ideas carried along on the guilty pleasures...