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“ernst breisach”

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  • Historiography

    Ancient, Medieval, and Modern

    by Ernst Breisach ...
    A pioneering work that presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture.Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition of Ernst Breisach's Historiography narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Writing History in the Global Era

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written.Globalization is emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force. In Writing History in the Global Era, historian Lynn Hunt examines whether globalization can reinvigorate the telling of history. She looks toward scholars from the East and West collaborating in new ways as they ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rethinking the Other in Antiquity

    by Erich S. Gruen ...
    Series series Martin Classical Lectures
    Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. In this provocative book, Erich Gruen demonstrates how the ancients found connections rather than ... Read more

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  • The Classical Debt

    Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity

    by Johanna Hanink ...
    Ever since the International Monetary Fund’s first bailout of Greece’s sinking economy in 2010, the phrase “Greek debt” has meant one thing to the country’s creditors. But for millions who claim to prize culture over capital, it means something quite different: the symbolic debt that Western civilization owes to Greece for furnishing its principles of democracy, philosophy, mathematics, and fine ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Absolute and Star Trek

    by George A. Gonzalez ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume explains how Star Trek allows viewers to comprehend significant aspects of Georg Hegel’s concept the absolute, the driving force behind history.Gonzalez, with wit and wisdom, explains how Star Trek exhibits central elements of the absolute. He describes how themes and ethos central to the show display the concept beautifully. For instance, the show posits that people must possess the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe

    by Uilleam Blacker, Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    It is the aim of this volume to investigate how academic practices of Memory Studies are being applied, adapted, and transformed in the countries of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. It affords a new, startlingly different perspective for scholars of both Eastern European history and Memory Studies. ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen

    by László Strausz ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book argues that hesitation as an artistic and spectatorial strategy connects various screen media texts produced in post-war Romania. The chapters draw a historical connection between films made during the state socialist decades, televised broadcasts of the 1989 Romanian revolution, and films of the new Romanian cinema. The book explores how the critical attitude of new Romanian cinema ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Meanings in History

    by Alban G. Widgery ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Historiography
    In this book, originally published in 1967, the author gives his views of history, from reflection on living history as distinct from books about past history. He sees histories as the related histories of individuals and gives an account of the meanings in those individuals’ lives and defends the beliefs dominatnly held in relation to them. He challenges professional historians to concern ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Connected Lives of Dutch Punks

    Contesting Subcultural Boundaries

    by Kirsty Lohman ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is the first in-depth, ethnographic study of the Dutch punk scene. It questions the artificial boundaries of subcultural research, calling for a critical analysis of the distinctions drawn between subcultural and everyday lives, and between localised and globalised subcultures. The everyday experiences of punk are framed within the mobile and connected global subculture of which they are ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Herodotus and Greek History (Routledge Revivals)

    by John Hart ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Herodotus has shaped our knowledge of life, religion, war and politics in ancient Greece immeasurably, as well as being one of the most entertaining of all Classical Greek authors: fascinating, perceptive, accessible and not at all pretentious.Herodotus and Greek History, first published in 1982, examines the themes and preoccupations which form the basis for Herodotus’ style of history. The ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Authority and Identity in Medieval Islamic Historiography

    Persian Histories from the Peripheries

    by Mimi Hanaoka ...
    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 ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Cultural History

    A Concise Introduction

    by Alessandro Arcangeli ...
    The expression ‘cultural history’ is generally used today to signal a particular approach to history, one which could be applied to any object, and is mainly concerned with the sense men and women from the past gave to the world they lived in.In this introduction to cultural history as a subdiscipline, the reader will find the key steps in the historical development of the field from 1850 to the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD