Søgeresultater - "historian"

Other pasts, different presents, alternative futures / af Black, Jeremy, 1955-

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...A personal note on life and times -- Types of history -- Power and the struggle for imperial mastery -- The West and the rest -- Britain and France, 1688-1815 -- Counterfactualism in military history -- Into the future -- Skepticism and the historian -- Conclusions -- Postscript....”
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American historical explanations a strategy for grounded inquiry / af Wise, Gene

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...Encountering the forms : the idea-form, the reality-form, the book-form, historians' explanation-forms -- bk. 2. Some strategies for grounded inquiry -- bk. 3. ...”
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The History Problem : The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia / af Saito, Hiro (Sociologist)

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...Cross-national fragmentation, 1945-1964 -- The growth of transnational interactions, 1965-1988 -- Apologies and denunciations, 1989-1996 -- The coexistence of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, 1997-2015 -- The legacy of the Tokyo trial -- The role of historians in the history problem....”
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Truth a guide / af Blackburn, Simon, 1944-

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...Faith, belief, and reason -- Man the measure -- Ishmael's problem and the delights of keeping quiet -- Nietzsche : the arch debunker -- The possibility of philosophy -- Observation and truth : from Locke to Rorty -- Realism as science; realism about science -- Historians and others....”
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Sensory worlds of early America af Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944-

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...New worlds for historians : the realm of the senses -- Brave new worlds : English-Indian encounters -- Invisible worlds : Indian wars and witchcraft crises -- Other worlds : slave revolts and religious awakenings -- A world of difference : the revolution of the senses....”
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The pursuits of philosophy an introduction to the life and thought of David Hume / af Baier, Annette

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...Childhood and youth: loss of faith and a passion for literature -- "At a distance from relations": writing his treatise in France -- Hume after the treatise -- Hume as librarian and historian -- Hume's life as a man in the public eye -- Hume's final years in Edinburgh -- Death and character....”
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Lincoln lessons reflections on America's greatest leader /

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...Jaffa -- Lincoln through the eyes of a civil war and civil rights historian / John F. Marszalek -- Lincoln's legacy for our time / James M. ...”
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Confronting American labor the New Left dilemma / af Coker, Jeffrey W.

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...Labor and the search for American socialism -- The exceptionalism of American labor -- The intellectual's role in the workers' movement -- Abandonment of the "labor metaphysic" -- The promise of insurgent labor -- New lefts, new insurgents -- The new labor history and the revival of the proletariat -- The historian's search for power....”
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Daring to be different Missouri's remarkable Owen sisters / af Mueller, Doris Land, 1927-

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...Joseph : the place and its people -- The early years -- Mary Alicia leads the way -- Luella : geologist, explorer, painter, family historian -- "Miss Juliette" : ornithologist, botanist, and artist -- The twilight years -- The legacy of the Owen sisters -- Epilogue....”
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Who will write our history? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive / af Kassow, Samuel D.

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...From "Bichuch" to Warsaw -- Borochov's disciple -- History for the people -- Organizing the community : self-help and relief -- A band of comrades -- The different voices of Polish Jewry -- Traces of life and death : texts from the archive -- The tidings of Job -- A historian's final mission....”
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Crusade against slavery Edward Coles, pioneer of freedom / af Leichtle, Kurt E., 1949-

Indholdsfortegnelse: “..."Dust in the balance" : an introduction -- River and opportunity -- Man of property -- Release -- Beginning -- A rough land of great promise -- Contest and convention -- A prairie firestorm -- The chasm -- The complaint -- The emancipator -- The devastating truth of Madison's will -- The aging historian -- The preacher -- Prodigal Virginian -- The woodlands....”
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A companion to Renaissance and Baroque art

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...The viewer, the critic, and the historian : reception and interpretation as cultural discourse....”
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Stravinsky inside out af Joseph, Charles M.

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...Truths and illusions : rethinking what we know -- Rediscovering the American Apollon musagète : Stravinsky, Coolidge, and the forgotten Washington connection -- Fathers and sons : remembering Sviatoslav Soulima -- The would-be Hollywood composer : Stravinsky, the literati, and "the dream factory" -- Television and The flood : anatomy of an "inglorious flop" -- Film documentaries : the composer on and off camera -- Letters, books, private thoughts : reading between the lines -- Boswellizing an icon : Stravinsky, Craft, and the historian's dilemma....”
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Marsilius of Padua and 'the truth of history' af Garnett, George

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...Introduction -- Providential history from the fall of man to the conversion of Constantine -- Providential history from the reign of Constantine -- Christian providential history : a dialectic of perfection and perversion -- The history of the Holy Roman Empire -- Canon law and the conflict between emperor and pope -- The historian's use of his canon law sources....”
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Rise and decline of civilizations : lessons for the Jewish people / af Wald, Salomon

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...Questions of definition and methodology -- part II. Historians on rise and decline -- part III. Macro-historical conditions of rise, golden age, and decline -- part IV. ...”
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Looking South the evolution of Latin Americanist scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975 / af Delpar, Helen

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...Preface -- Beginnings -- Laying the foundations -- Early historians -- The rise of anthropology -- Geography and the other social sciences -- Latin Americanists and the world of policy making -- Maturity and institutionalization -- A decade of expansion, 1935-1945 -- Marking time, 1945-1958 -- The boom years, 1958-1975 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index....”
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The politics of memory the writing of partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries / af Esser, Raingard

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...The jewel in the crown : Amsterdam and her historians -- Tot Lof van Haarlem : memories in competition -- Nijmegen : city of the Batavians -- Antverpiae antiquitatum -- Faded glory : Leuven -- Crusader kings and warrior saints : Geraardsbergen -- Centre and peripheries : Holland, Zeeland, Gelderland, Drenthe and Overijssel and Flanders -- On the border : Brabantia Sacra or Der Staten Brabant....”
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Blood & irony Southern white women's narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 / af Gardner, Sarah E.

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...Everywoman her own historian -- Pen and ink warriors, 1861-1865 -- Countrywomen in captivity, 1865-1877 -- A view from the mountain, 1877-1895 -- The imperative of historical inquiry, 1895-1905 -- Righting the wrongs of history, 1905-1915 -- Moderns confront the Civil War, 1916-1936 -- Everything that rises must converge....”
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Italy and the European powers the impact of war, 1500-1530 /

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Technology matters questions to live with / af Nye, David E., 1946-

Indholdsfortegnelse: “...-- Is technology predictable? -- How do historians understand technology? -- Cultural uniformity, or diversity? ...”
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