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  • The Making of a History

    Walter Prescott Webb and The Great Plains

    Walter Prescott Webb became one of the best known interpreters of the American West following the publication of The Great Plains in 1931. That book remained one of the outstanding studies of the region for decades and attracted considerable attention over the years for its unusual emphasis on the impact of geographic factors on the process of settlement. Using manuscript sources, some of which ... Leer más

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  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, ... Leer más

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  • Reading the Past

    Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology

    The third edition of this classic introduction to archaeological theory and method has been fully updated to address the burgeoning of theoretical debate throughout the discipline. Ian Hodder and Scott Hutson argue that archaeologists must bring to bear a variety of perspectives in the complex and uncertain task of constructing meaning from the past. While remaining centred on the importance of ... Leer más

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  • Processual Sociology

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    For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing—making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of the social world—both individuals and entities—must be explained by these series of events rather than as enduring objects ... Leer más

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  • Re-Figuring Hayden White

    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature and the humanities. The book is a major reconsideration of the historian's contributions and influence by an international group of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines. Individual essays ... Leer más

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  • History of the young king Francesco II of Naples

    This is a translation of a text from 1861, unreleased outside Spain, written by an alleged eyewitness to the events of the Risorgimento, as they happen. After an introduction on the framework of the European and Italian political situation that led to the "Expedition of the Mille", the book tells in detail the story of Francis II of Bourbon, ascended the throne of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ... Leer más

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  • Authority and Identity in Medieval Islamic Historiography

    Persian Histories from the Peripheries

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    Series series Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
    Intriguing dreams, improbable myths, fanciful genealogies, and suspect etymologies. These were all key elements of the historical texts composed by scholars and bureaucrats on the peripheries of Islamic empires between the tenth and fifteenth centuries. But how are historians to interpret such narratives? And what can these more literary histories tell us about the people who wrote them and the ... Leer más

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  • Alexandru D. Xenopol and the Development of Romanian Historiography

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Historiography
    Despite the criticism of his peers and the inattention of his successors, Alexandru Xenopol provided Romanian nationalistic historiography with a greater measure of respectability, especially with the general public. By the time of WWI a strong sense of national identity had become entrenched as an intellectually respectable mentality among Romania’s literate classes. This book examines Xenopol’s ... Leer más

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  • The Persian Gulf in Modern Times

    People, Ports, and History

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    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
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  • The Origins of Modern Historiography in India

    Antiquarianism and Philology, 1780-1880

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    This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of 'sources,' the forging of a new historical method, and the ascendance of positivist historiography in nineteenth-century India. ... Leer más

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  • A Global History of Modern Historiography

    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 ... Leer más

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