Historiography
epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:Gareth Dale

KARL’S CHOICE, ILONA’S TRIAL Polanyi had written The Great Transformation in the United States, and the prospect of developing his research program in that country was enticing. A particularly appropriate ...
( Category: History & Theory September 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-17 | Author:Conrad, Sebastian;

CHAPTER 8 Positionality and centered approaches What is the location of the world? Where do historians stand when they write its history? Can global historians rise above the parochialism of ...
( Category: Economic Conditions July 18,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Griffiths

As David Goodman, one of Donna’s students, put it, ‘Postmodernism is not some exotic importation, but a part of a set of debates in which we are all implicated.’ Goodman ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand July 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Jonathan D. Spence

* In fact, though such discriminations were commonplace, appeals were possible, and successful ones can be tracked through to the Supreme Court of the United States, as in cases like ...
( Category: China May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-22 | Author:Norman F. Cantor

II THE CONTOURS OF MEDIEVAL GOVERNMENT With rare clarity and skill in comparative analysis of different royal administrations, Haskins and Strayer showed the workings of medieval government. They explored the ...
( Category: Historiography April 17,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:Alexander Hammond [Hammond, Alexander]

THE TRUTH GAME They’d dated twice. Not even proper dates really, more like impromptu rendezvous. Even that had been a struggle. She was just so distant. Aloof, almost, but not ...
( Category: Greece February 15,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:Roberts, Jennifer T. [Roberts, Jennifer T.]

Inevitably, Herodotus was somewhat prone to falling into generalization. It was easy for him to seize on individual details he had observed and extrapolate wildly. One can see him in ...
( Category: Greece January 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-21 | Author:Northrop, Douglas

Connecting CHAPTER TWENTY Networks, Interactions, and Connective History FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO WITH BENJAMIN SACKS Global history, strictly understood, is the history of what happens worldwide – across the planet as a ...
( Category: Essays December 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Cohen, Paul A

THE DIMMING OF POPULAR MEMORY: JOAN OF ARC AFTER THE WAR Joan of Arc is visually omnipresent in today’s France. “A high percentage of churches,” according to one observer, “have ...
( Category: Jewish December 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2002-12-24 | Author:Gaddis, John Lewis

II. First, the distinction between the immediate, the intermediate, and the distant. Although historical narratives normally move forward, historians in preparing them move backward.11 They tend to start with some ...
( Category: United States December 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-21 | Author:Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Good Day, Columbus 4 I walked past Vasco da Gama’s body with premonitions of typhoons. I was in Portugal, at the Mosteiro dos Jéronimos, right where Europe started to redefine ...
( Category: African-American Studies October 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-26 | Author:Henry I. Shaw [Shaw, Henry I.]

More than 200 Japanese soldiers alone were killed in a frenzied attack in the sandspit where the Tenaru River flows into Ironbottom Sound (Sealark Channel). On the 9th, Whaling’s force, ...
( Category: World War II October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tosh, John

In classical mythology Clio was the muse who inspired historians, just as other muses inspired poets and musicians, etc. When Clio is invoked today, the implication is that history is ...
( Category: Historiography October 12,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Richard J. Evans

III DESPITE the increasing specialization and fragmentation which many have observed in the historical profession in recent decades, there is still in some respects reason to doubt Novick’s pessimistic view ...
( Category: Study & Teaching August 22,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Domenico Losurdo

The Third Reich and the Natives With the unleashing of the war in the East, Hitler set about constructing the ‘German Indies’, as they were sometimes called, or conquering a ...
( Category: Historiography August 19,2015 )