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Pendant l’été Florence est vide. Encaissée entre ses hautes montagnes, bâtie sur un fleuve qui pendant neuf mois ne roule que de la poussière, exposée sans que rien l’en garantisse à un soleil arden……続きを見る

Fin 1872, Émile Erckmann, contre qui un mandat d’arrêt a été émis par les Prussiens qui occupent l’Alsace et la Moselle, s’installe à St-Dié. L’été précédent, il a fait la connaissance à Paris d’un ……続きを見る

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 trans……続きを見る

Originally published in 1973. In this systematic treatise, Anthony Quinton examines the concept of substance, a philosophical refinement of the everyday notion of a thing. Four distinct, but not unc……続きを見る

Experimental philosophy was an exciting and extraordinarily successful development in the study of nature in the seventeenth century. Yet experimental philosophy was not without its critics and was ……続きを見る

This book asks the question: what is the role of memory during a political transition? Drawing on Ethiopian history, transitional justice, and scholarly fields concerned with memory, museums and tra……続きを見る

From his first book, From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto, to his well-known volume on Jewish memory, Zakhor, to his treatment of Sigmund Freud in Freud’s Moses, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932–2009) e……続きを見る

East London written by Walter Besant who was a novelist and historian. This book was published in 1901. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its origina……続きを見る

In the most wide-ranging history of phenomenology since Herbert Spiegelberg’s The Phenomenological Movement over fifty years ago, Baring uncovers a new and unexpected forceーCatholic intellectualsー……続きを見る

This book introduces the thought of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) into the discussion about natural law. For many critics, natural law is not natural but a façade behind which lurks the supernatural……続きを見る

How are our personal soundtracks of life devised? What makes some pieces of music more meaningful to us than others? This book explores the role of memory, both personal and cultural, in imbuing mus……続きを見る

Ninety-Three (Quatrevingt-treize) is the last novel by the French writer Victor Hugo. Published in 1874, shortly after the bloody upheaval of the Paris Commune, the novel concerns the Revolt in the ……続きを見る

In this important new book, Paul T. Phillips argues that most professional historians – aside from a relatively small number devoted to theory and methodology – have concerned themselves with partic……続きを見る

This book considers how history is not just objectively lived but subjectively experienced by people in the process of orienting their present toward the past. It analyses affectivity in historical ……続きを見る

The Intellectual Origins of Modernity explores the long and winding road of modernity from Rousseau to Foucault and its roots, which are not to be found in a desire for enlightenment or in the idea ……続きを見る

Photography, Truth and Reconciliation charts the connections between photography and a crucial issue in contemporary social history. The book examines the prevalence of photography in cultural respo……続きを見る

Cette lettre a été écrite alors que Fénelon était précepteur du duc de Bourgogne, petit-fils de Louis XIV. Fénelon envoya anonymement cette lettre à Madame de Maintenon, qui était mariée en secret à……続きを見る

This book maps out the state of China Studies in seven Southeast Asian countries from different perspectives. It looks at the history, current status, and characteristics of the study of China in In……続きを見る

The aim of this book is to explore the body in various historical contexts and to take it as a point of departure for broader historiographical projects. The chapters in the volume present the ways ……続きを見る

A Financial Times Book of the Year A Foreign Affairs Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year “A landmark contribution to the study of these epochal events.” ーTimes Literary Supplement “Brilli……続きを見る

This is the first comprehensive English-language study of East Asian art history in a transnational context, and challenges the existing geographic, temporal, and generic paradigms that currently fr……続きを見る

This book is an integrated series of philosophical investigations that offers significant new insights into key philosophical concerns ranging from methodological issues to substantive doctrines. Co……続きを見る

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