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“francesco benigno”

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  • Words in Time

    A Plea for Historical Re-thinking

    by Francesco Benigno ...
    Through questions such as ‘What is power?’, ‘How are revolutions generated?’, ‘Does public opinion really exist?’, ‘What does terrorism mean?’ and ‘When are generations created?’, Words in Time scrutinizes the fundamental concepts by which we confer meaning to the historical and social world and what they actually signify, analysing their formation and use in modern thought within both history and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by George Garnett ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Norman Conquest in 1066 was the last time England was successfully invaded, and was one of the most profound turning points in English history, cataclysmically transforming a disparate collection of small nations into a European state. But what actually happened? How was the invasion viewed by those who witnessed it? And how has its legacy been seen by generations since? This fascinating Very ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Becoming Historians

    by James M. Banner, Jr., John R. Gillis ...
    In this unique collection, the memoirs of eleven historians provide a fascinating portrait of a formative generation of scholars. Born around the time of World War II, these influential historians came of age just before the upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s and helped to transform both their discipline and the broader world of American higher education. The self-inventions they thoughtfully ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History

    Essays from the North

    by Emily S. Rosenberg, Emilia Viotti da Costa, Steve J. Stern ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True to the intellectual vision of Brazilian historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, one of Latin America’s most distinguished scholars, the contributors actively revisit the political—as both a theme of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • 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

    $75.99 USD

  • History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence

    Time and Justice

    by Berber Bevernage ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something ‘absent’ or ‘distant.’ Victims of historical injustice, however, in contrast, often claim that the past got ‘stuck’ in the present and that it retains a haunting presence. History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence is centered around the provocative thesis that the way one ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies

    Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography

    by Philip Rousseau, Maureen A. Tilley, Susan Ashbrook Harvey ...
    The essays in this provocative collection exemplify the innovations that have characterized the relatively new field of late ancient studies. Focused on civilizations clustered mainly around the Mediterranean and covering the period between roughly 100 and 700 CE, scholars in this field have brought history and cultural studies to bear on theology and religious studies. They have adopted the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Impact of History?

    Histories at the Beginning of the 21st Century

    by Pedro Ramos Pinto, Bertrand Taithe ...
    Driven by the increasing importance of discussions around 'impact' and its meaning and implications for history, The Impact of History? brings together established and new voices to raise relevant questions, issues and controversies for debate. The chapters are articulated around the themes of public history, the politics of history, the role of history in the shaping of learning and the situation ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Trust

    A History

    by Geoffrey Hosking ...
    Today there is much talk of a 'crisis of trust'; a crisis which is almost certainly genuine, but usually misunderstood. Trust: A History offers a new perspective on the ways in which trust and distrust have functioned in past societies, providing an empirical and historical basis against which the present crisis can be examined, and suggesting ways in which the concept of trust can be used as a ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • A Global History of Modern Historiography

    by Georg Iggers, Q. Edward Wang, Supriya Mukherjee ...
    The first book on historiography to adopt a global and comparative perspective on the topic*, A Global History of Modern Historiography* looks not just at developments in the West but also at the other great historiographical traditions in Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere around the world over the course of the past two and a half centuries.This second edition contains fully updated sections ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Studies in the Nature and Teaching of History

    Edited by W H Burston, D Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Historiography
    Originally published in 1967, this book is aimed at the student teacher and discusses the philosophy of history and the effective learning of it. It discusses the UK secondary school history syllabus, with a particular emphasis on whether contemporary history is of more relevance to pupils than traditional history. There is a specific chapter on the problems of value-judgements in history and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Historians and the Church of England

    Religion and Historical Scholarship, 1870-1920

    by James Kirby ...
    Series series Oxford Historical Monographs
    Historians and the Church of England explores the vital relationship between the Church of England and the development of historical scholarship in the Victorian and Edwardian era. It draws upon a wide range of sources, from canonical works of history to unpublished letters, from sermons to periodical articles, to give a clear picture of the influence of religion upon the rich and flourishing ... Read more

    $104.39 USD