Historiography category: 1227 books
Liberty, Authority, Formality
Political Ideas and Culture, 1600-1900
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
The essays in this volume are all inspired by the historical scholarship of J.C. Davis. During a prolific career, Davis has transformed our understanding of early modern utopian literature and its contexts, and compelled students of seventeenth-century English to re-evaluate the significance of movements...
Garcilaso Inca de la Vega
An American Humanist, A Tribute to José Durand
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1998
Widely read and translated, Garcilaso is a key figure for understanding the development of mestizo culture in Latin America and his works have sparked many heated debates. This new collection of articles advances that discussion through contributions by twelve distinguished scholars who review central...
by Thomas Römer
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Developments in literary methodologies and archaeology have led scholars to question the traditional conception of biblical chronology and historiography. The starting point for Maximalist studies is the idea that the biblical story should simply be taken as true. However this position is indefensible...
The Persian Gulf in Modern Times
People, Ports, and History
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
This book explores the historiography, ports, and peoples of the Persian Gulf over the past two centuries, offering a more inclusive history of the region than previously available. Restoring the history of minority communities which until now have been silenced, the book provides a corrective to the 'official story' put forward by modern states.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as Britain's imperial past. What accounts for this preoccupation? Why has it gained such purchase on the historical imagination? How has it endured even as its subject slips further into the past?
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Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857
Volume I: Anticipations and Experiences in the Locality
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the Revolt of 1857 from a variety of original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in British...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
These essays examine the importance of historical consicousness and the role of historiography in ‘ethnic’ situations, exploring the many ways in which ethnic groups select history, write or rewrite it, rescue appropriate or ignore it, forget or traduce it. Drawing on expert knowledge of regions...
Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857
Volume IV: Military Aspects of the Indian Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the Revolt of 1857 from a variety of original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in British...
Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857
Documents of the Indian Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the revolt of 1857 from original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in British imperial...
Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857
Volume V: Muslim, Dalit and Subaltern Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the Revolt of 1857 from a variety of original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in British...
History
An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Demystifying the subject with clarity and verve, History: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice familiarizes the reader with the varied spectrum of historical approaches in a balanced, comprehensive and engaging manner. Global in scope, and covering a wide range of topics from the ancient...
The Observable
Heisenbergs Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Patrick Aidan Heelan’s The Observable offers the reader a completely articulated development of his 1965 philosophy of quantum physics, Quantum Mechanics and Objectivity. In this previously unpublished study dating back more than a half a century, Heelan brings his background as both a physicist...
Time's Reasons
Philosophies of History Old and New
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 1989
This original work caps years of thought by Leonard Krieger about the crisis of the discipline of history. His mission is to restore history's autonomy while attacking the sources of its erosion in various "new histories," which borrow their principles and methods from disciplines outside...
Unspeakable Histories
Film and the Experience of Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
In Unspeakable Histories, William Guynn focuses on the sensation of encountering past events through film. Film is capable, he argues, of triggering moments of heightened awareness in which the barrier between the past and the present can fall and the reality of the past we thought lost can be momentarily...