History: theory & methods
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History: theory & methods
Hardback. The Cold War continues to shape international relations almost twenty years after being acknowledged as the central event of the last half of the twentieth century. Interpretations of how it ended thus remain crucial to an accurate understanding of global events and foreign policy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBA; HBTW; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 599.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597971744
- ISBN
- 9781597971744
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Condition: New
€ 55.34€ 49.96
€ 55.34
€ 49.96
Hardback. This book brings together experts on national history writing from all five continents to discuss the role of history in the making of national identities in a transnational and comparative way. The institutionalization and professionalisation of history writing is analysed in the context of history's increasing nationalization. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG; JFFS; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008021
- ISBN
- 9780230008021
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€ 64.41
€ 64.41
Hardback. Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some of the best work being done on a critical period of Russia and the Soviet Union. Editor(s): Alexopoulos, Golfo; Tomoff, Kiril; Hessler, Julie. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; HBAH; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 517.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105492
- ISBN
- 9780230105492
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€ 64.73
€ 64.73
Hardback. Environmental History as a distinct discipline is now over a generation old, with a large and diverse group of practitioners around the globe. This book provides a reflection on the achievements, diversity, and direction of environmental history in its varied national, international and continental contexts. Editor(s): Sorlin, Sverker; Warde, Paul. Num Pages: 380 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBTB; RNA; RNT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 733.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203464
- ISBN
- 9780230203464
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Condition: New
€ 124.40
€ 124.40
Hardback. An accessible yet thorough look at how historians and social scientists have thought and written about the history of the present-day European Union, and the main themes of their research and debates. Essential reading for historians of Europe and social scientists of the European Union alike. Editor(s): Kaiser, Wolfram; Varsori, Antonio. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; 3JJP; HBAH; HBJD; JPSN2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232693
- ISBN
- 9780230232693
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Condition: New
€ 64.95
€ 64.95
hardcover. Many of the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism. Essays discuss the most recent debates on the subject and how changes in the social sciences over the past forty years have impacted on the study of fascism from various perspectives. Editor(s): Pinto, Antonio Costa. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; HBAH; HBTB; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 586.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272958
- ISBN
- 9780230272958
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€ 112.85
€ 112.85
Hardcover. The book brings together many recent trends in writing history under a common framework: thinking history globally. By thinking history globally, the book explains, applies, and exemplifies the four basic strategies of analysis, the big C's: comparing, connecting, conceptualizing, and contextualizing, using twelve different branches of history. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBA; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 515.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361027
- ISBN
- 9780230361027
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Condition: New
€ 133.62
€ 133.62
The Past as History: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in...
Berger, Stefan, Conrad, Christoph
Hardcover. The book provides a synthesis of the development of the genre of national history writing in Europe, in particular it seeks to illuminate the relationship between history writing and the construction of national identities in modern Europe. Series: Writing the Nation. Num Pages: 583 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; HBA; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1016.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230500099
- ISBN
- 9780230500099
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Condition: New
€ 126.33
€ 126.33
Hardback. 'Beyond the Canon' deals with recent politicized processes of canonization and its implications for historical culture in a globalizing and postcolonial world. The volume discusses the framing and transmission of historical knowledge and its consequences for the construction of narratives and the teaching of history in multicultural environments. Editor(s): Grever, Maria; Stuurman, Siep. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230516502
- ISBN
- 9780230516502
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Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardback. In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present. Chapters explore forms of public history in which people's experience and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are part of their current lives. Editor(s): Ashton, Paul; Kean, Hilda. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBA; HBAH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 323
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230546691
- ISBN
- 9780230546691
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Condition: New
€ 123.28
€ 123.28
Hardback. This book offers historians and aspiring historians a learned, absorbing, and comprehensive overview of current fashions of method, interpretation, and meaning in the context of postmodernism that has washed over the historical profession in the last two decades. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608689
- ISBN
- 9780230608689
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€ 133.62
€ 133.62
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137280855
- ISBN
- 9781137280855
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€ 190.24
€ 190.24
Hardcover. Commemorating traumatic events means attempting to activate collective memory. By examining images, metonymic invocations, built environments and digital outreach interventions, this book establishes some of the cognitive and emotional responses that make us incorporate the past suffering of others as a painful legacy of our own. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBA; JFC; JHB; JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137290168
- ISBN
- 9781137290168
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€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardback. Exploring the developments that have occurred in the practice of oral history since digital audio and video became viable, this book explores various groundbreaking projects in the history of digital oral history, distilling the insights of pioneers in the field and applying them to the constantly changing electronic landscape of today. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBA; HBTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 471.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322005
- ISBN
- 9781137322005
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€ 143.94
€ 143.94
Hardcover. This volume investigates the different attitudes of historians and other social scientists to questions of causality. It argues that historical theorists after the linguistic turn have paid surprisingly little attention to causes in spite of the centrality of causation in many contemporary works of history. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372390
- ISBN
- 9781137372390
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Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Hardcover. Big Data in History introduces the project to create a world-historical archive, tracing the last four centuries of historical dynamics and change. Chapters address the archive's overall plan, how to interpret the past through a global archive, the missions of gathering records, linking local data into global patterns, and exploring the results. Num Pages: 127 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG; UNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 169 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378965
- ISBN
- 9781137378965
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Condition: New
€ 63.31
€ 63.31
Hardcover. History doesn't have to mean only an effort to know the past. It can be instead, according to Kierkegaard, a willful and personal choice regarding the creation of the future. Kierkegaard offers us an amazing new approach to the problem of what is history and who makes it. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBA; HPCF3; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383273
- ISBN
- 9781137383273
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Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Hardcover. Canadian Historical Writing presents an archaeology of contemporary Canadian historical writing within the theory and practice of historiography. Drawing on international debates within the fields of literary studies and history, the book focuses on the roles played by time, evidence, and interpretation in defining the historical. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137398888
- ISBN
- 9781137398888
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Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
Paperback. This collection of essays argues that there is an pre-history, that is, a longer tradition of the transnationalization of historical culture and historical science. It seeks to substantiate the claim that history writing reflected the globality of its time as much as followed the nationalization of the societies in which it was produced. Editor(s): Middell, Matthias; Roura i Aulinas, Lluis. Series: Writing the Nation. Num Pages: 552 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBAH; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 158 x 34. Weight in Grams: 822.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428097
- ISBN
- 9781137428097
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Condition: New
€ 124.95
€ 124.95
The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States. History, Nation...
. Ed(S): Evans, R. J. W.; Marchal, Guy P.
Paperback. An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate statehood. Examples range from Ireland and Iceland through Austria and Italy to Finland and Greece. Editor(s): Evans, R. J. W.; Marchal, Guy P. Series: Writing the Nation. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; 3JJ; HBAH; HBJD; HBLC; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 272 x 24. Weight in Grams: 466.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428110
- ISBN
- 9781137428110
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Condition: New
€ 64.43
€ 64.43
Paperback. This book brings together experts on national history writing from all five continents to discuss the role of history in the making of national identities in a transnational and comparative way. The institutionalisation and professionalisation of history writing is analysed in the context of history's increasing nationalisation. Editor(s): Berger, Stefan. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428127
- ISBN
- 9781137428127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.98
€ 63.98
Disputed Territories and Shared Pasts: Overlapping National Histories ...
Frank, Tibor, Hadler, Frank
Paperback. A collection of essays on European historiography, focussing on the overlapping national histories in Europe presenting many of the contested areas through conflicting historiographies. Sponsored by the European Science Foundation, this unique volume is part of Writing the Nation, a major international project. Editor(s): Frank, Tibor; Hadler, Frank. Series: Writing the Nation. Num Pages: 448 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 21 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; HBAH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 668.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428134
- ISBN
- 9781137428134
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Condition: New
€ 123.71
€ 123.71
Hardcover. Recently, we have witnessed a rearticulation of the traditional relationship between the past, present and future, broadening historiography's range from studying past events to their later impact and meaning. The volume proposes to look at the perspectives of this approach called mnemohistory, and argues for a redefinition of the term 'event'. Editor(s): Tamm, Marek. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 6 figures, 1 maps. BIC Classification: HBA; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470171
- ISBN
- 9781137470171
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Condition: New
€ 122.84
€ 122.84
Hardcover. This compact, forcefully argued work calls Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, and the rest of the so-called 'New Atheists' to account for failing to take seriously the historical record to which they so freely appeal when attacking religion. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HRQA; HRQA5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137477675
- ISBN
- 9781137477675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.70
€ 45.70