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For centuries, historians have narrated the arrival of Europeans using terminology (discovery, invasion, conquest, and colonization) that emphasizes their agency and disempowers that of Native Ameri……続きを見る

Starting with the most meagre resources, Philip made his kingdom the greatest power in Europe The Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily is one of our most valuable sources from ancient times. His histo……続きを見る

Virtual History examines many of the most popular historical video games released over the last decade and explores their portrayal of history. The book looks at the motives and perspectives of game……続きを見る

This volume, which gathers contributions presented at the annual conferences of l'Association pour le développement de l'histoire culturelle (ADHC), questions the subjects and boundaries of cultural……続きを見る

Este libro propone una aproximación a la noción de utopía desde la historia cultural, reinsertando al relato utópico publicado en lengua francesa en el siglo XVII dentro de procesos históricos más a……続きを見る

Exploring the breadth and complexities of history as a field of study, History in Practice demystifies what historians actually do and the tasks they take on. This study, written by one of the most ……続きを見る

Over recent decades, almost every area of historical study has seen its global turn – from consumption to finance, from politics to migration, from social order to cultural patterns. This volume ref……続きを見る

Central to the historicizing work of recent decades has been the concept of contingency, the realm of chance, change, and the unnecessary. Following Nietzsche and Foucault, genealogists have deploye……続きを見る

Originally published in 1967 Medieval Minds looks at the Middle Ages as a period with changing attitudes towards mental health and its treatment. The book argues that it was a period that that bridg……続きを見る

Why did the past matter so greatly in ancient China? How did it matter and to whom? This is an innovative study of how the past was implicated in the long transition of power in early China, as embo……続きを見る

Le Retable est pour Huysmans la réalisation irréfutable de cette possibilité, la confirmation de la justesse de sa foi. Les lignes écrites sur Grünewald témoignent d’un accomplissement, d’une parfai……続きを見る

Giambattista Vico ou Giovan Battista Vico, né le 23 juin 1668 à Naples où il est mort le 23 janvier 1744, est un philosophe de la politique, un rhétoricien, un historien et un juriste italien, qui é……続きを見る

Relire Le Peuple, c’est bien retrouver cette pensée agile, toujours en mouvement, capable de mettre en rapport les observations du vécu quotidien et les plus larges perspectives de l’histoire frança……続きを見る

Qu’on ne s’attende pas à un livre féministe : Certes on y trouve de beaux portraits des premières féministes de l’Histoire de France (Mme de Staël, Olympe de Gouges, Théroigne de Méricourt), et de q……続きを見る

Moyen-Age ...... Le Moyen Age s’inscrit entre deux espaces symboliques : celui de la forêt primitive et celui de la cathédrale. Dans le parcours qui va de l’une à l’autre. Michelet reconnaît le chem……続きを見る

En 1836, suite au scandale provoqué par sa première Lettre philosophique, Piotr Tchaadaïev fut déclaré fou par le pouvoir du tsar Nicolas Ier et assigné à résidence. Il écrivit cette Apologie d’un f……続きを見る

Jules Michelet est le grand historien auteur de l’Histoire de la Révolution Française. Edgar Quinet est un des hommes politiques et philosophes les plus influents de la IIIe République. Des Jésuites……続きを見る

Extrait: .... I. L’AMANT Paris, le 6 brumaire an IV Je ne conçois pas ce qui a pu donner lieu à votre lettre. Je vous prie de me faire le plaisir de croire que personne ne désire autant votre amitié……続きを見る

American Labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole, the book convinces the reader that the field of in……続きを見る

The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly’s Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to speculate on its lay……続きを見る

France has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accomplished historians. The field of French history has been vastly influential in American thought, both within the academy and be……続きを見る

In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that……続きを見る

Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands engages with the evolving historiography around the concept of belonging in the Russian and Ottoman empires. The contributors to this book argue that……続きを見る

The book, Objects of War, illuminates the ways in which people have used things to grapple with the social, cultural, and psychological upheavals wrought by war and forced displacement.ー Utah Publi……続きを見る

"Presence offers a timely constellation of essays addressing the recent turn toward presence in various disciplines, notably aesthetics, literary criticism, philosophy, and history. The interacting ……続きを見る

Weaving together literary and scholarly insights, History and Its Objects will prove indispensable reading for historians and cultural historians, as well as anthropologists and archeologists worldw……続きを見る

Ivan Jablonka’s History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that bo……続きを見る

In Soundings in Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his attempt to fashion a historiography that is at once critical and self-criticalーa project he initiated in Rethinking Intellectual Hist……続きを見る

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 ha……続きを見る

Richard Drake presents a new interpretation of Charles Austin Beard's life and work. The foremost American historian and a leading public intellectual in the first half of the twentieth century, Bea……続きを見る