History: theory & methods
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History: theory & methods
Hardcover. Historians know about the past because they examine the evidence. But what exactly is "evidence", how do historians know what it means and how can we trust them to get it right? The author tackles such questions head on in this book and practices what he preaches through a many insightful assessments of historical controversies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299214104
- ISBN
- 9780299214104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.37
€ 37.37
Paperback. Fresh approaches to theater historiography and performance studies that bring the two fields productively together Editor(s): Bial, Henry; Magelssen, Scott. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: AN; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472051335
- ISBN
- 9780472051335
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Condition: New
€ 41.82
€ 41.82
Hardcover. Fresh approaches to theater historiography and performance studies that bring the two fields productively together Editor(s): Bial, Henry; Magelssen, Scott. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472071333
- ISBN
- 9780472071333
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Condition: New
€ 114.29
€ 114.29
Hardcover. A comparative consideration of the fascination with antiquity in European and Chinese intellectual history Num Pages: 426 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBAH; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 850.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472118182
- ISBN
- 9780472118182
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.37
€ 93.37
Hardcover. A unique volume that addresses how a thalassographic frame opens up new and important questions for the study of history Editor(s): Miller, Peter N. Series: The Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histories of the Material World. Num Pages: 312 pages, map. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBTM; PSPM; RBKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472118670
- ISBN
- 9780472118670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.15
€ 92.15
Hardcover. A practical guide on how one professor employs the transformative changes of digital media in the research, writing, and teaching of history Series: Digital Humanities. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; JFD; JNT; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- U OF M DIGT CULT BOOKS
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472118786
- ISBN
- 9780472118786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.58
€ 73.58
Hardcover. Forrest McDonald is the NEH's sixteenth Jefferson Lecturer, an eminent historians and the author of numerous works on the early American republic, the Constitution, and the American presidency. Here he recounts and reconsiders his own career, mixing in equal measure autobiography with a sharp critique of the historical craft. Num Pages: 200 pages, 20 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; HBAH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700613298
- ISBN
- 9780700613298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.98
€ 70.98
Paperback. Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927 Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; 3H; 3J; HBAH; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 2. Weight in Grams: 517.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781469633381
- ISBN
- 9781469633381
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Condition: New
€ 49.62
€ 49.62
Paperback. Presents a collection of fieldwork and the theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and themselves. This book examines the particular foundations and significance of history and historicity in various communities. Editor(s): Whitehead, Neil L. Num Pages: 236 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSBZ; HBA; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803298170
- ISBN
- 9780803298170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.55
€ 33.55
Paperback. This text examines the techniques of first-person interpretation - the portrayal of historical characters through interactive dramatization or roleplaying - to identify those that have been most effective with audiences while allowing interpreters to maintain historical fidelity. Num Pages: 280 pages, 41 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: AN; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807847107
- ISBN
- 9780807847107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.94
€ 59.94
Evidence and Inference in History and Law OP: Interdisciplinary Dialog...
Hampsher-Monk, Ian, Twining, William
Hardcover. A discussion of methodological problems relating to evidence, inference and interpretation. By pursuing these interests across divergent topics and fields, this work explores how such truth-seeking, proof-finding methods work, and of what it means to prove something in a range of contexts. Editor(s): Twining, William; Hampsher-Monk, Iain. Num Pages: 424 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA; LAB; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810118935
- ISBN
- 9780810118935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.62
€ 103.62
Hardback. A collection of memoirs of eleven historians who, born around the time of World War II, helped to transform both their discipline and the broader world of American higher education. Editor(s): Banner, James M., Jr.; Gillis, John R. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: BM; HBAH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226036564
- ISBN
- 9780226036564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.73
€ 118.73
Paperback. Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4"Through a Glass Darkly "is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HBAH; HRAX; HRCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Alabama Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817357122
- ISBN
- 9780817357122
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Condition: New
€ 42.19
€ 42.19
Order and History (Volume 2): The World of the Polis (Collected Works ...
Eric (Edited With An Introduction By Ellis Sa...
Hardcover. An exploration of the Ancient Greek symbolization of human reality. Taking us from the origins of Greek culture in the Pre-Homeric Cretan civilizations, through the Iliad and Odyssey, to the rise of philosophy with Parmenides and Heraclitus, it concludes with the later period of the Sceptics. Series: Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. Num Pages: 464 pages, index. BIC Classification: HBA; HPS; JFCX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 975.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826212832
- ISBN
- 9780826212832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.77
€ 87.77
Anamnesis: On the Theory of History and Politics (Collected Works of E...
Eric (Edited With An Introduction By Ellis Sa...
Hardcover. This translation of Voegelin's "Anamnesis" gives equal weight to the empirical and philosophical aspects of the work. This work is both a recollection of his own development and a demonstration of the anamnetic method as applied to historically remembered materials. Editor(s): Walsh, David. Translator(s): Niemeyer, Gerhart; Hanak, Miroslav John. Series: Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. Num Pages: 448 pages, index. BIC Classification: HBAH; HPCF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 866.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Missouri
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826213501
- ISBN
- 9780826213501
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.91
€ 81.91
Paperback. Editor(s): Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher; Nieto-Phillips, John M. Num Pages: 269 pages, 7 halftones and 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBAH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826336736
- ISBN
- 9780826336736
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Condition: New
€ 50.82
€ 50.82
Paperback. In this text, historian Richard Etulain has gathered 11 essays by western historians on ten of the discipline's early students. The result is a survey of the evolution of a scholarly field and of the ways in which the study of history reflects the concerns and interests of the society around it. Editor(s): Etulain, Richard W. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBAH; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 531.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874175172
- ISBN
- 9780874175172
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Condition: New
€ 37.57
€ 37.57
Paperback. The author of this work surveys the shifting boundaries between the personal, public, and professional uses of the past and explores their place in the broader cultural landscape. Each chapter investigates a specific encounter between Americans and their history. Num Pages: 272 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBAH; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558492813
- ISBN
- 9781558492813
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Condition: New
€ 44.98
€ 44.98
Paperback. Why don't we read novels as if they were histories and histories as if they were novels? Postmodern theorists have argued that since history is a narrative art, it must be understood as a form of narrative representation analogous to fiction. This work reconsiders the relationship between history and fiction in the context of postmodernism. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HBAH; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558496279
- ISBN
- 9781558496279
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Condition: New
€ 45.48
€ 45.48
Hardback. Historiography suggests that European nations regarded the New World as an inassimilable "other" that posed fundamental challenges to the accepted ideas of Renaissance culture. This work presents an interpretation that emphasizes the ways in which the lands and peoples in Africa, Asia, and the Americas were imagined as comprehensible and familiar. Series: Studies in Early Modern German History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBAH; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927121
- ISBN
- 9780813927121
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.84
€ 73.84