History: theory & methods
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History: theory & methods
Hardback. Focusing on the notion of representation and on the necessity of distinguishing between representation and description, this book argues that the traditional semantic apparatus of meaning, truth, and reference that we use for description must be redefined if we are to understand properly the nature of historical writing. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739795
- ISBN
- 9780804739795
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.18
€ 154.18
Paperback. Why are we interested in history at all? Why do we feel the need to distinguish between past and present? In this book, the author argues that the past originates from an experience of rupture separating past and present, for example the rupture with Europe's past that was effected by the French and the Industrial Revolutions. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 504 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 166 x 28. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804749367
- ISBN
- 9780804749367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.15
€ 41.15
Hardback. Why are we interested in history at all? Why do we feel the need to distinguish between past and present? This book investigates how the notion of sublime historical experience complicates and challenges existing conceptions of language, truth, and knowledge. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 504 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804749350
- ISBN
- 9780804749350
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.22
€ 145.22
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 120 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA; JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 171.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691601229
- ISBN
- 9780691601229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.43
€ 50.43
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 120 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA; JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691630977
- ISBN
- 9780691630977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.40
€ 106.40
Paperback. A translation of Fernand Braudel's "Ecrits sur l'histoire", published in 1969. The main themes of the work include: the importance of a "rapprochement" between history and the social sciences; the inseparability of study of past and present; and the dubious value of the narrative techniques. Translator(s): Matthews, Sarah. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 180 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226071510
- ISBN
- 9780226071510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.73
€ 45.73
Paperback. Num Pages: 151 pages. BIC Classification: HBA; HBJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 9. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Oslo Academic Press Norway
- Number of pages
- 151
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788274772045
- ISBN
- 9788274772045
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 20.87
€ 27.99
€ 20.87
Paperback. The Rape of Nanjing was one of the worst atrocities committed during WWII. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of wartime China. This book considers the post war treatment in China of the Nanjing Massacre and Japan. It examines how the issue has developed as a political and diplomatic controversy. Editor(s): Fogel, Joshua A. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; GTB; HBAH; HBJF; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520220072
- ISBN
- 9780520220072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.72
€ 45.72
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
€ 72.86
€ 72.86
Hardback. Challenges the hold that cliometrics - an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists - has exerted on the study of our economic past. This book calls for the reconstruction of economic history, one in which history and the social sciences are brought to bear on economics, and not the other way around. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 line illus. BIC Classification: HBAH; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691144009
- ISBN
- 9780691144009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.53
€ 70.53
paperback. Translator(s): Brown, Saskia. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBA; HPS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780231163774
- ISBN
- 9780231163774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 20.34
€ 35.99
€ 20.34
Paperback. 'What is history'? From Thucydides to Toynbee, historians and non-historians alike have wondered how to answer this question. This book focuses on developments over the years in historical writing, not least the renewed interest in the status of narrative itself and the presence of the authorial 'voice'. Editor(s): Ankersmit, Frank; Kellner, Hans. Series: Critical Views. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780948462771
- ISBN
- 9780948462771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.56
€ 31.56
Hardcover. Irelands status as an island nation with a history of emigration has meant the development of a body of diasporic cultural memory. This book opens new pathways into the body of Irish cultural memory, demonstrating time and again the ways in which memory is supported by the negotiations of individuals within wider cultural contexts. Editor(s): Frawley, Oona. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBAH; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815632979
- ISBN
- 9780815632979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.17
€ 50.17
Paperback. A biography of the last and greatest British idealist philosopher, R G Collingwood (1889-1943), a man who both thought and lived at full pitch. Best known for his philosophies of history and art, Collingwood was also a historian, archaeologist, sailor, artist, and musician. Num Pages: 400 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: BGH; HBA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691150055
- ISBN
- 9780691150055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.51
€ 50.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBAH; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Black Rose Books Canada
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551642123
- ISBN
- 9781551642123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.08
€ 24.99
€ 22.08
Hardback. Helps to understand the intellectual and social transformation of China. This title distills the author's reflections on modern China and details change in Chinese historical studies in the 20th century. It assesses the work of historians prior to 1950 and the domination of China by the Communist Chinese. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 halftones. 22 color illus. 3 color maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBAH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691144634
- ISBN
- 9780691144634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.31
€ 58.31
Paperback. Provides a solution to the problem of how to introduce students to Hegel in a survey course in the history of Western philosophy. Translator(s): Rauch, Leo. Num Pages: 123 pages. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 6. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Hackett Pub Co Inc
- Number of pages
- 122
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872200562
- ISBN
- 9780872200562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.11
€ 19.99
€ 16.11
Paperback. Nine distinguished historians debunk the myth of the Lost Cause in an effort to replace falsity with truth. Editor(s): Gallagher, Gary W.; Nolan, Alan T. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBAH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222664
- ISBN
- 9780253222664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.20
€ 33.20
Hardback. Leonardo Bruni is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. Gary Ianziti undertakes a systematic work-by-work investigation of the full range of Bruni's output in history and biography, and assesses in detail the impact of the Greek historians on humanist methods of historical writing. Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBAH; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 34. Weight in Grams: 764.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674061521
- ISBN
- 9780674061521
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.20
€ 140.20
Paperback. A book on the study of history by G R Elton, it makes a major contribution to the question 'What is history?'. It sets out Elton's experience in the study, writing and teaching of history. It includes an which assesses the book's relationship to Elton's work, and its impact on the historical profession and its lessons for historians. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631229803
- ISBN
- 9780631229803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.33
€ 43.33