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  • A Short History of Europe, 1600-1815

    Search for a Reasonable World

    by Lisa Rosner, John Theibault ...
    A concise survey that introduces readers to the people, ideas, and conflicts in European history from the Thirty Years' War to the Napoleonic Era. The authors draw on gender studies, environmental history, anthropology and cultural history to frame the essential argument of the work. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Remembering the Road to World War Two

    International History, National Identity, Collective Memory

    by Patrick Finney ...
    ‘This is comparative history on a grand scale, skilfully analysing complex national debates and drawing major conclusions without ever losing the necessary nuances of interpretation.’Stefan Berger, University of Manchester, UKRemembering the Road to World War Two is a broad and comparative international survey of the historiography of the origins of the Second World War. It explores how, in the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Passion for History

    Conversations with Denis Crouzet

    by Natalie Zemon Davis, Denis Crouzet ...
    Series series Early Modern Studies
    The pathbreaking work of renowned historian Natalie Zemon Davis has added profoundly to our understanding of early modern society and culture. She rescues men and women from oblivion using her unique combination of rich imagination, keen intelligence, and archival sleuthing to uncover the past. Davis brings to life a dazzling cast of extraordinary people, revealing their thoughts, emotions, and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • At the Limits of History

    Essays on Theory and Practice

    by Keith Jenkins ...
    "Why bother with history? Keith Jenkins has an answer. He helps us re-think the "end of history", as signalled by postmodernity. Readers may disagree with him, but he never fails to provoke debate about the future of the past."Joanna Bourke, Professor of History, Birkbeck CollegeKeith Jenkins’ work on historical theory is renowned; this collection presents the essential elements of his work over ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • House of Shivaji

    Studies and Documents on Maratha History: Royal Period

    by Jadunath Sarkar ...
    This volume contains writings on the 'Royal Period' (1626-1700), as distinguished from the 'Peshwa Period' of Maratha history, and added a long life of Malik Ambar (from original Persian sources) and biographies of four eminent Marathi historical research-pioneers, Rajwade, Sane, Khare and Parasnis. The materials have come from Persian manuscripts (patiently gathered during a life-time), newly ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Appropriating the Past

    Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology

    Edited by Geoffrey Scarre, Robin Coningham ...
    In this book an international team of archaeologists, philosophers, lawyers and heritage professionals addresses significant ethical questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the material remains of the past. The chapters explore competing claims to interpret and appropriate the past and the major ethical issues associated with them, including handling the sacred; contested rights ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Clio's Battles

    Historiography in Practice

    by Jeremy Black ...
    A survey of the variety of readings we have of the past and of how those readings are used in the present day to validate, discredit, unite, or divide.To write history is to consider how to explicate the past, to weigh the myriad possible approaches to the past, and to come to terms with how the past can be and has been used. In this book, prize-winning historian Jeremy Black considers both ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Processing the Past

    Contesting Authority in History and the Archives

    by Francis X. Blouin Jr., William G. Rosenberg ...
    Series series Oxford Series on History and Archives
    Processing the Past explores the dramatic changes taking place in historical understanding and archival management, and hence the relations between historians and archivists. Written by an archivist and a historian, it shows how these changes have been brought on by new historical thinking, new conceptions of archives, changing notions of historical authority, modifications in archival practices, ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Mapping Memory in Translation

    by Siobhan Brownlie ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a map of the application of memory studies concepts to the study of translation. A range of types of memory from personal memory and electronic memory to national and transnational memory are discussed, and links with translation are illustrated by detailed case studies. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England

    History, Poetry, and Performance

    by Sarah Elliott Novacich ...
    Series Book 97 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Sarah Elliott Novacich explores how medieval thinkers pondered the ethics and pleasures of the archive. She traces three episodes of sacred history - the loss of Eden, the loading of Noah's ark, and the Harrowing of Hell - across works of poetry, performance records, and iconography in order to demonstrate how medieval artists turned to sacred history to think through aspects of cultural ... Read more

    $80.39 USD

  • Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles

    Powerful Times

    Edited by A. Reading, T. Katriel ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles from ten countries. The book reminds us of the enduring cultural scripts for human agency, solidarity, resilience and human kindness. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Observable

    Heisenberg’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics

    by Patrick Aidan Heelan ...
    Series Book 1 - History and Philosophy of Science
    Patrick Aidan Heelan’s The Observable offers the reader a completely articulated development of his 1965 philosophy of quantum physics, Quantum Mechanics and Objectivity. In this previously unpublished study dating back more than a half a century, Heelan brings his background as both a physicist and a philosopher to his reflections on Werner Heisenberg’s physical philosophy. Including considerably ... Read more

    $98.09 USD