Historiography category: 1227 books
by Ginger S. Frost
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
An introduction to the myths and realities of the history of Victorian Britain, with accompanying primary sources.
• Corrects nine myths about the Victorian era, with explanations of why these myths began
• Includes over 50 primary documents from a wide variety of genres
•...
by Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
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, through the Middle Ages to the contemporary world....
Usable History?
Representations of Yugoslavia's Difficult Past from 1945 to 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
When Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany and its allies in April 1941, what followed was as much a Yugoslav civil war as a war of occupation and liberation. Several hundred-thousand Yugoslav civilians were killed by other Yugoslavs in large-scale massacres or concentration camps, and the horrific...
The Historical Web and Digital Humanities
The Case of National Web Domains
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
The Historical Web and Digital Humanities fosters discussions between the Digital Humanities and web archive studies by focussing on one of the largest entities of the web, namely national and transnational web domains such as the British, French, or European web.
With a view to investigating...
Friedrich Barbarossa
Eine Biographie
Language: German
Release Date: November 22, 2011
«Er wird das Reich wie ein Fuchs an sich bringen, wie ein Löwe regieren und wie ein Hund sterben» – so soll es Friedrich Barbarossa schon im Kindesalter prophezeit worden sein. Den großen Staufer erwartete tatsächlich ein Leben von außerordentlicher Dramatik. Nun hat Knut Görich in dieser...
Angels and Ages
A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of man’s place in the world. Here...
by Gerardo M. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
With This Easy To Use Manual Discover Art Auctions, Decorative Collectibles, Art Auctions Drawings, Sculptures, Vintage Posters, Books and More!
De la quadruple racine du principe de la raison suffisante
Dissertation philosophique ( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2018
De la quadruple racine du principe de raison suffisante (Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde) est le titre de la thèse de doctorat d’Arthur Schopenhauer publiée en 1813. Le philosophe allemand en donnera une seconde édition remaniée en 1847. Schopenhauer considérait...
In Defense of Thomas Jefferson
The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
The belief that Thomas Jefferson had an affair and fathered a child (or children) with slave Sally Hemings---and that such an allegation was proven by DNA testing—has become so pervasive in American popular culture that it is not only widely accepted but taught to students as historical fact. But...
Archaeology from Space
How the Future Shapes Our Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
National Geographic Explorer and TED Prize-winner Dr. Sarah Parcak welcomes you to the exciting new world of space archaeology, a growing field that is sparking extraordinary discoveries from ancient civilizations across the globe.
In Archaeology from Space, Sarah Parcak shows the evolution,...
The Cheese and the Worms
The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records to illustrate the religious and...
Madame Récamier
( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Benjamin Constant est une exception dans la longue suite des amoureux de Juliette Récamier : parmi les Ballanche, Ampère, Montmorency, il est le seul à avoir toujours exigé plus que la simple amitié. L’auteur disculpe Juliette Récamier d’avoir inspiré à Constant sa palinodie des Cent-Jours, mais reconnaît que l’attitude de Constant fut dictée par son amour.
Mémoires de l'impératrice Catherine II
( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2018
QUELQUES heures après la mort de l’Impératrice Catherine, son fils, l’Empereur Paul, ordonna au comte Rostoptchine de mettre les scellés sur les papiers de l’Impératrice. Il était lui-même présent à la mise en ordre de ces papiers. On y trouva la célèbre lettre d’Alexis Orloff,[A]—par...
Histoire de la république de Gênes
( Edition intégrale ) IV Tomes - annoté
Language: French
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Les Génois ont une part considérable dans l’histoire de la navigation et du commerce au moyen âge. Ils sont marchands et guerriers aux croisades, habiles en même temps à se ménager le trafic avec les infidèles de l’Égypte et de la Mauritanie. Ils disputent l’empire de la Méditerranée...