Historiography category: 1227 books
by Elizabeth Lapina
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
In Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade, Elizabeth Lapina examines a variety of these chronicles, written both by participants in the crusade and by those who stayed behind. Her goal is to understand the enterprise from the perspective of its contemporaries and near contemporaries....
Archive Stories
Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2006
Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them—about the effect that the researcher’s race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or...
by Donald A. Ritchie
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2003
Oral history is vital to our understanding of the cultures and experiences of the past. Unlike written history, oral history forever captures people's feelings, expressions, and nuances of language. But what exactly is oral history? How reliable is the information gathered by oral history? And what...
The Making of a History
Walter Prescott Webb and The Great Plains
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Walter Prescott Webb became one of the best known interpreters of the American West following the publication of The Great Plains in 1931. That book remained one of the outstanding studies of the region for decades and attracted considerable attention over the years for its unusual emphasis on the impact...
by Peter D. Stachura
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The most influential and substantial leader, after Hitler, in the pre-1933 National Socialist Party was Gregor Strasser. This book (originally published in 1983 but as yet not superseded) is a comprehensive and scholarly assessment of Strasser’s significant and ultimately tragic career, based largely...
by G. Patios
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
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 and who makes it.
A Global History of Sexuality
The Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
A Global History of Sexuality provides a provocative, wide-ranging introduction to the history of sexuality from the late eighteenth century to the present day.
Explores what sexuality has meant in the everyday lives of individuals over the last 200 years
Organized around four major themes: the...
The Night Battles
Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives of Northern Italy, The Night Battles recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti, literally, "good walkers." These men and women described fighting extraordinary ritual battles against witches and wizards in order...
by Subhas & Lohiya
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2008
This book tells us how two important contemporaries, subhas chandra Bose and Rammanohar Lohia viewed pt.Jwaharlal Nehru. There is heat and acrimony in the writings because of fact these were written in anger.
On History
Introduction to World History (1831); Opening Address at the Faculty of Letters, 9 January 1834; Preface to History of France (1869)
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Edited by Lionel Gossman, this volume contains three programmatic essays by Michelet. The first two are available here for the first time in English translation. The third, the Preface to the 1869 edition of the Histoire de France, originally published in its first English translation by Edward K....
Angels
The mythology of angels and their everyday presence among us
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Over 50 per cent of Americans and over one third of British people believe that we all have a guardian angel that protects us throughout our lives. More people believe in these divine bodyguards than in global warming. It is truly astonishing how many spiritually aware people have seen or sensed an...
by George Reid Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Two-thirds of Africans, both free and enslaved, who came to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Spanish America and Brazil. Yet Afro-Latin Americans have been excluded from narratives of their hemisphere’s history. George Reid Andrews redresses this omission by making visible the lives and labors of black Latin Americans in the New World.
Hugh Trevor-Roper
The Historian
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Hugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the twentieth century. His scholarly interests ranged widely – from the Puritan Revolution to the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet he was also fascinated by the events of his own lifetime and wrote widely on issues of espionage and intelligence,...
Faithful Narratives
Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Historians of religion face complex interpretive issues when examining religious texts, practices, and experiences. Faithful Narratives presents the work of twelve eminent scholars whose research has exemplified compelling strategies for negotiating the difficulties inherent in this increasingly important...