Catálogo de libros: Historia: teoría y métodos

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  • Engaged Historian
    Stefan Berger
    On the surface, historical scholarship might seem thoroughly incompatible with political engagement: the ideal historian, many imagine, is a disinterested observer focused exclusively on the past. In truth, however, political action and historical research have been deeply intertwined for as long as the historical profession has existed. In this insightful collection, practicin...
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    183,92 €

  • Quantitative Methods in the Humanities
    Claire Lemercier / Claire Zalc / Arthur Goldhammer
    This timely and lucid guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical periods and topics in the humanities and social sciences--especially for those who do not think of themselves as experts in quantification, 'big data,' or 'digital humanities.'The authors reveal quantification to be a powerful and versatile tool, applicable to a myriad of materials from ...
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    26,26 €

  • Quantitative Methods in the Humanities
    Claire Lemercier / Claire Zalc / Arthur Goldhammer
    This timely and lucid guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical periods and topics in the humanities and social sciences--especially for those who do not think of themselves as experts in quantification, 'big data,' or 'digital humanities.'The authors reveal quantification to be a powerful and versatile tool, applicable to a myriad of materials from ...
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    52,58 €

  • Davy Crockett Day by Day
    William R. Chemerka / William RChemerka
    Davy Crockett’s real-life adventures and legendary exploits have been constantly acknowledged, memorialized, and celebrated in prose and poetry, film and television, music and art, newspapers and periodicals, and in outrageous myths. This book provides a chronicle of those assorted manifestations in three major sections: The first highlights Crockett’s life, the second traces h...
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    26,44 €

  • My Swan Lake Life
    Louise Blocker
    When Louise Blocker’s then eight-year-old grandson asked her two poignant questions-one about slavery and the other about her childhood-she initially gave him brief responses. But upon further reflection, she realized he deserved more thoughtful answers, which would involve embarking on a fact-finding mission, both into her own ancestry and into the history of slavery itself. M...
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    18,46 €

  • A Little Book for New Historians
    Robert Tracy McKenzie
    Many people think of history as merely 'the past'--or at most, information about the past. But the real work of a historian is to listen to the voices of those who have gone before and humbly remember the flesh and blood on the other side of the evidence. What is their story? How does it become part of our own? In A Little Book for New Historians veteran historian Robert Tracy ...
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    14,88 €

  • The Early Modern Hispanic World
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    151,88 €

  • A Concise History of History
    Daniel Woolf
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    35,20 €

  • A Concise History of History
    Daniel Woolf
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    107,63 €

  • Women Writers and the Nation’s Past 1790-1860
    Mary Spongberg
    1790 saw the publication of Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France -- the definitive tract of modern conservatism as a political philosophy. Though women of the period wrote texts that clearly responded to and reacted against Burke’s conception of English history and to the contemporary political events that continued to shape it, this conversation was largely i...
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    173,92 €

  • European Regions and Boundaries
    It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions--supra-national geographical designations such as "Scandinavia," "Eastern Europe," and "the Balkans." Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realities rather than a series of shifting, overlapping, and historically constructed concepts. This volum...
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    25,72 €

  • Contemplating Historical Consciousness
    The last several decades have witnessed an explosion of new empirical research into representations of the past and the conditions of their production, prompting claims that we have entered a new era in which the past has become more "present" than ever before. Contemplating Historical Consciousness brings together leading historians, ethnographers, and other scholars who give ...
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    184,29 €

  • Microhistories of the Holocaust
    How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe's Jews presents special challenges for historians, who have responded with work ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willing...
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    44,13 €

  • Biography and History
    Barbara Caine
    Looking at the complex relationship between the discipline of history and the writing of lives, this key textbook provides an original and insightful introduction to a growing and increasingly important area of historical scholarship and research. Examining key works that have changed the nature of biography, Barbara Caine also explores the way biographical narrative and life s...
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    44,95 €

  • Narrative and History
    Alun Munslow
    Based on the assumption that reality, reference and representation work together, this introductory textbook explains and illustrates the various ways in which historians write the past as history. For the first time, the full range of leading narrative theorists such as Paul Ricoeur, Hayden White, Frank Ankersmit, Seymour Chatman and Gérard Genette have been brought together t...
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    44,80 €

  • New Directions in the History of the Jews in the Polish Lands
    Making use of the leading scholars in the field from Poland, Western Europe, North America and Israel, the volume provides a definitive overview of the history and culture of one of the most important communities in the long history of the Jewish people. ...
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    133,41 €

  • Future-Focused History Teaching
    Mike Maxwell
    HISTORY EDUCATION IS IN DECLINE because it fails to provide knowledge useful in the future. It's up to history teachers to save history schooling.   History education is fundamentally different from other school subjects in that it doesn't identify general principles derived from its subject matter—principles that describe how the world works that can be applied in the ...
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    24,80 €

  • Future-Focused History Teaching
    Mike Maxwell
    HISTORY EDUCATION IS IN DECLINE because it fails to provide knowledge useful in the future. It's up to history teachers to save history schooling.   History education is fundamentally different from other school subjects in that it doesn't identify general principles derived from its subject matter—principles that describe how the world works that can be applied in the ...
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    14,54 €

  • Empathy and History
    Tyson Retz
    Since empathy first emerged as an object of inquiry within British history education in the early 1970s, teachers, scholars and policymakers have debated the concept's role in the teaching and learning of history. Yet over the years this discussion has been confined to specialized education outlets, while empathy's broader significance for history and philosophy has too often...
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    149,66 €

  • The Oral History Manual
    Barbara W Sommer / Barbara W. Sommer / Barbara WSommer / Mary Kay Quinlan
    This edition provides new information on methodology, memory, technology, and legal options incorporated into each chapter and a completely new chapter provides guidelines on how to analyze interview content for effective use of oral history interview information. It is an updated and expanded road map with solid introduction to oral history. ...
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    58,08 €

  • Second Generation
    Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went on to become trained historians in their adopted homelands. By placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical analysis and professional reflections, this richly varied collection comprises the first sustained effort to illuminate the ...
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    49,95 €

  • The Illuminated Chronicle
    The Illuminated Chronicle was composed in 1358 in the international artistic style at the royal court of Louis I of Hungary. Its text, presented here in a new edition and translation, is the most complete record of Hungary’s medieval historical tradition, going back to the eleventh century and including the mythical past of its people. The pictures in this manuscript-formerly k...
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    154,82 €

  • Reading Shakespeare’s mind
    Steve Sohmer
    An accessible, enjoyable, occasionally speculative study based on a vast amount of research into some of Shakespeare’s more uninterpretable moments. ...
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    18,61 €

  • Idea of History
    R. G. Collingwood
    Robin George Collingwood, FBA (1889 - 1943) was an English historian, philosopher, and archaeologist most famous his philosophical works. Along with 'The Principles of Art' (1938), Collingwood’s 'The Idea of History' was his best-known work, originally collated from numerous sources following his death by a student of his, T. M. Knox. It became a major inspiration for philosoph...
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    30,62 €

  • The Ethos of History
    At a time when rapidly evolving technologies, political turmoil, and the tensions inherent in multiculturalism and globalization are reshaping historical consciousness, what is the proper role for historians and their work? By way of an answer, the contributors to this volume offer up an illuminating collective meditation on the idea of ethos and its relevance for historical ...
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    163,60 €

  • Uniting History and Theology
    Seth Heringer
    Uniting History and Theology argues that, for too long, Christians primarily have used the historical method to make historical claims. In doing so, they have used a method grounded in an incomplete understating of German historicism, thereby closing off investigation of the past from the aesthetic and God. The author contends that Martin Kähler, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and N. T. ...
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    142,88 €

  • Poetry for historians
    Carolyn Steedman
    What is the point of poetry for historians? The answer lies in this new ’history of history’, which looks at the question through the prism of W. H. Auden’s Cold War history poems and of poetry and history education from the eighteenth century to the present day. ...
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    144,82 €

  • Writing the Past Imperfect
    D. C. Zook
    Although most people think first of politics when they think of diversity, history plays a surprisingly powerful and influential role in the creation of diversity as well. Identity is to a certain extent a narrative we tell about who we are and where we came from, and since diversity is primarily a group-based competitive process, group-based historical narratives become expres...
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    10,83 €

  • Historical Dynamics
    Peter Turchin
    Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists have made great strides in understanding dynamical processes in the physical and biological worlds using a synthetic approach that combines mathematical modeling with statistical analyses. Taking up the problem of territorial dynamics...
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    50,18 €

  • Commerce, finance and statecraft
    Ben Dew
    In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the nation’s economic history. Commerce, finances and statecraft charts the development of these forms of writing and examines their importance for the economic, political and historical thought of the period. ...
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    157,37 €


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