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  • The Biographical Turn

    Lives in history

    Edited by Hans Renders, Binne de Haan, Jonne Harmsma ...
    The Biographical Turn showcases the latest research through which the field of biography is being explored. Fifteen leading scholars in the field present the biographical perspective as a scholarly research methodology, investigating the consequences of this bottom-up approach and illuminating its value for different disciplines.While biography has been on the rise in academia since the 1980s, ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

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  • Revolution at the Gates

    Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917

    by V.I. Lenin ...
    Series series The Essential Zizek
    The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK, but Lenin? Doesn’t he stand for the big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire twentieth-century?Lenin, however, deserves wider consideration than this, and his writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political figure. They reveal his ability to grasp the significance of an extraordinary ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The crusaders

    A story of the war for the holy sepulchre

    by Alfred j. Church ...
    Series series Bluehen
    We find in the Chronica Maiora of Matthew Paris, a monk of St. Alban's Abbey in the thirteenth century, the story of a Jew who had been doomed, for some insult offered to Christ, to live till the Second Corning. He had heard the story from an Armenian bishop on a visit to England, who said that he had seen the man and talked with him. One of his characteristics was that he was accustomed to tell ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • The Origins of History

    by Herbert Butterfield ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Historiography
    A distillation of the thought and research to which Herbert Butterfield devoted the last twenty years of his life to, this book, originally published in 1981, traces how differently people understood the relevance of their past and its connection with their religion. It examines ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia; the political perceptiveness of the Hittites; the Jewish sense of God in history, of ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Origins of Analytical Philosophy

    by Michael Dummett ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    The twentieth century was marked by the triumph of the 'analytic' tradition of philosophy, which remains to this day the dominant mainstream of philosophical thought and teaching. In his landmark reflection and exploration of the origins of analytic philosophy, Michael Dummett vividly explores the roots of that tradition in the writings of such German and Austrian thinkers as Frege, Husserl and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies

    by Alun Munslow ...
    Series series Routledge Companions to History
    The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies provides a much-needed critical introduction to the major historians and philosophers together with the central issues, ideas and theories which have prompted the rethinking of history that has gathered pace since the 1990s.With twenty-nine new entries, and many that have been substantially updated, key concepts for the new history are examined through ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • The Sea

    Thalassography and Historiography

    Edited by Peter N. Miller ...
    Series series The Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histories of the Material World
    The Seabrings together a group of noted contributors to evaluate the different ways in which seas have served as subjects in historiography and asks how this has changed---and will change---the way history is written. The essays in this volume provide exemplary demonstrations of how a sea-based history-writing that focuses on connectivity, networks, and individuals describes the horizons and the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Our Knowledge of the Past

    A Philosophy of Historiography

    by Aviezer Tucker ...
    How do historians, comparative linguists, biblical and textual critics and evolutionary biologists establish beliefs about the past? How do they know the past? This book presents a philosophical analysis of the disciplines that offer scientific knowledge of the past. Using the analytic tools of contemporary epistemology and philosophy of science the book covers such topics as evidence, theory, ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Generations and Collective Memory

    by Amy Corning, Howard Schuman ...
    When discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuman, and in Generations and Collective Memory, they draw on an impressive range of research to show how generations share memories of formative ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fortunes of History

    Historical Inquiry from Herder to Huizinga

    by Professor Donald R. Kelley ...
    In Fortunes of History Donald R. Kelley offers an authoritative examination of historical writing during the long nineteenth century”-the years from the French Revolution to those just after the First World War. He provides a comprehensive analysis of the theories and practices of British, French, German, Italian, and American schools of historical thought, their principal figures, and their ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718

    Transnational Reception in English Political Thought

    by Marco Barducci ...
    Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718 is a reconstruction of the way Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) was read and used by English political and religious writers in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Engaging with the reception of all of Grotius's key works and a wide range of topics, the volume has much to say about the search for peace in an age of religious conflict and ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Lessons from the Past?

    Memory, Narrativity and Subjectivity

    by Bernhard Forchtner ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book reconstructs how claims to know ‘the lessons’ from past wrongdoings are made useful in the present. These claims are powerful tools in contemporary debates over who we are, who we want to be and what we should do. Drawing on a wide range of spoken and written texts from Austria, Denmark, Germany and the United States, this book proposes an abstract framework through which such claims can ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD