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How was it possible to write history in the Soviet Union, under strict state control and without access to archives? What methods of research did these 'historians' - be they academic, that is based……続きを見る

Greek 'local histories', better called polis and island histories, have usually been seen as the poor relation of mainstream 'great' Greek historiography, and yet they were demonstrably popular and ……続きを見る

Critical theorists of economy tend to understand the history of market society as a succession of distinct stages. This vision of history rests on a chronological conception of time whereby each pre……続きを見る

At the Salem Witch Trails of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, USA, more than 200 people were accused of witchcraft by the Puritan Church, nineteen of whom were found guilty and executed by hanging. Aut……続きを見る

Retour sur les pratiques alimentaires des centres urbains. Si l’historiographie contemporaine a abondamment exploré l’histoire de l’alimentation, elle invite encore à poursuivre et à renouveler l’ét……続きを見る

Winner of the PEN Oakland–Josephine Miles Award “A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women.” ーDavid W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass “Readers expecting hoop-skirted lad……続きを見る

Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splint……続きを見る

'A work of remarkable scope' - Guardian FT Best science books of 2018 ***Primate Change***has been adapted into a radio series for the BBC WORLD SERVICE. * This is the road from climate change to pr……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "The French and Indian War" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Hunters of the Hills: A Story of the French and Indian W……続きを見る

Nesta obra, o objetivo de José Carlos Reis é demonstrar que a história é, primeiro, "teoria", no sentido estrito – epistemologia, metodologia, gnosiologia, ontologia, ética, política, estética, ling……続きを見る

Globalization has carried vast consequences for the lives of children. It has spurred unprecedented waves of immigration, contributed to far-reaching transformations in the organization, structure, ……続きを見る

Questions about the relationship between historical research and contemporary social and practical problems have posed a challenge to generations of historians, as well as to philosophers and theori……続きを見る

Die Geschichtswissenschaft steckt in der Krise. Ist sie dabei, ihre Deutungshoheit über die Geschichte endgültig zu verlieren? Und was bedeutet das für die Zukunft der liberalen Demokratie, deren ei……続きを見る

This text explores a variety of themes developed from successive years of the University of California, Davis, multidisciplinary graduate conference. It draws out connections on a wide array of topi……続きを見る

What is a religion? How do we discern the boundaries between religions, or religious communities? When does Judaism become Judaism, Christianity become Christianity, Islam become Islam? Scholars hav……続きを見る

This book analyses issues of language and Jewish identity among the Sephardim in Sarajevo. The author examines how Sephardim belonging to three different generations in Sarajevo deal with the challe……続きを見る

The post-apartheid era in South Africa has, in the space of nearly two decades, experienced a massive memory boom, manifest in a plethora of new memorials and museums and in the renaming of streets,……続きを見る

Inner-city Sydney was the epicenter of gay life in the Southern hemisphere in the 1970s and early 1980s. Gay men moved from across Australasia to find liberation in the city’s vibrant community netw……続きを見る

This book explores the growing trend of intermediality in cinematic representations of the Holocaust. It turns to the in-betweens that characterise the cinematic experience to discover how the diffe……続きを見る

« C’est Paris lui-même qui m’a libéré de Paris. Il m’a appris dans sa propre langue à me servir (à essayer du moins de me servir) de ma propre langue » Un « petit » Vaudois monté à Paris, tel se pré……続きを見る

IDEAS THAT HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD The best of an extraordinary 70 year archive, gathered in one volume for the first time. The prestigious BBC Reith Lectures have been enriching the worl……続きを見る

This book explores the legacies of suffering in relation to ‘those who come after’ – the descendants of victims, survivors and perpetrators of traumatic events. It draws on recent discussions of ‘po……続きを見る

Dieses fünfbändige Werk Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg ist das umfangreichste des deutschen Schriftstellers Theodor Fontane (1819-1898). Er beschreibt darin Schlösser, Klöster, Orte und Land……続きを見る

A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte written by Ida M. Tarbell who was an American writer. This book was published in 1901. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in……続きを見る

This book explores a central methodological issue at the heart of studies of the histories of children and childhood. It questions how we understand the perspectives of children in the past, and not……続きを見る

This book records a brief description of my early life in a lower middle-class family of rural Karnataka, followed by an account of my short-lived career in the British Indian Army during World War ……続きを見る

Kenneth Kruger lives in Koro Nation Park, a place inhabited by the poorest white people in South Africa. He is pursuing a dream of playing rugby for the national team but finds the going tough. He i……続きを見る

A groundbreaking historiography of the reign of Akhenaten More ink has probably been spilled on Akhenaten and his times (‘the Amarna Period’) than any other figure from ancient Egypt, with a vast ra……続きを見る

This book presents a radical new interpretation of Roman expansion in Italy during the fourth and third centuries BCE. Nicola Terrenato argues that the process was accomplished by means of a grand b……続きを見る

Inspired by the question of "what’s next?" in the field of Canadian women’s and gender history, this broadly historiographical volume represents a conversation among established and emerging scholar……続きを見る