Catálogo de libros: Historia: teoría y métodos

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  • Mary Tudor
    Susan Doran / Thomas Freeman
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    192,97 €

  • The Mirror of the Medieval
    K. Patrick Fazioli
    Since its invention by Renaissance humanists, the myth of the 'Middle Ages' has held a uniquely important place in the Western historical imagination. Whether envisioned as an era of lost simplicity or a barbaric nightmare, the medieval past has always served as a mirror for modernity. This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual proje...
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    149,87 €

  • Tailoring Truth
    Jon Berndt Olsen
    By looking at state-sponsored memory projects, such as memorials, commemorations, and historical museums, this book reveals that the East German communist regime obsessively monitored and attempted to control public representations of the past to legitimize its rule. It demonstrates that the regime's approach to memory politics was not stagnant, but rather evolved over time...
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    44,40 €

  • Evidence and Meaning
    Rusen Jorn
    As one of the premier historical thinkers of his generation, Jörn Rüsen has made enormous contributions to the methods and theoretical framework of history as it is practiced today. In Evidence and Meaning, Rüsen surveys the seismic changes that have shaped the historical profession over the last half-century, while offering a clear, economical account of his theory of history....
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    184,19 €

  • Voices from the ’Jungle’
    Calais Writers
    Often called the ’Jungle’, the refugee camp near Calais in Northern France epitomises for many the suffering, uncertainty and violence which characterises the situation of refugees in Europe today. But the media soundbites we hear ignore the voices of the people who lived there - people who have travelled to Europe from conflict-torn countries such as Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan ...
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    26,36 €

  • Remembering Lived Lives
    Michael Jimenez
    Remembering Lived Lives is a religious historiography book that focuses on issues and theorists located primarily in Latin America. Instead of joining the chorus of contemporary European intellectuals like Slavoj Žižek, who insist on a renewed Eurocentrism, this study challenges both historians and theologians to take seriously the work done by theorists located in what Enrique...
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    37,08 €

  • Remembering Lived Lives
    Michael Jimenez
    Remembering Lived Lives is a religious historiography book that focuses on issues and theorists located primarily in Latin America. Instead of joining the chorus of contemporary European intellectuals like Slavoj Žižek, who insist on a renewed Eurocentrism, this study challenges both historians and theologians to take seriously the work done by theorists located in what Enrique...
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    22,37 €

  • Hurrah for Texas
    Archie P. McDonald
    In Texas historiography the 'Sterne Diary' is well known for its richness of material, its vividness of description, and its many incisive and human comments about the dramatis personae of the Republic of Texas.The diarist, Nicholas Adolphus Sterne, was born in Cologne, Germany, on April 5, 1801, and migrat­ed to America sixteen years later as a fugitive from the oppressions of...
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    21,66 €

  • The Enduring Relevance of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
    Karim F Hirji
    Soon after its publication in 1972, Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (HEUA) gained global popularity among progressive students, scholars and activists, and people concerned with African affairs. His innovative application of the method of political economy was a prime contributor to shifting the paradigm for rendition of the continent’s past as well as for visu...
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    8,69 €

  • Encyclopedia of Local History
    The Encyclopedia of Local History addresses nearly every aspect of local history, including everyday issues, theoretical approaches, and trends in the field. This encyclopedia provides both the casual browser and the dedicated historian with adept commentary by bringing the voices of over one hundred experts together in one place. Brand-new to this edition are critical topics c...
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    207,00 €

  • The Concept of History
    Dmitri Nikulin
    The Concept of History reflects on the presuppositions behind the contemporary understanding of history that often remain implicit and not spelled out. It is a critique of the modern understanding of history that presents it as universal and teleological, progressively moving forward to an end. Although few contemporary philosophers and historians maintain the view that there i...
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    206,59 €

  • The Last Hindu Emperor
    Cynthia Talbot
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    40,30 €

  • 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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    157,49 €

  • The Birth of the Past
    Zachary Sayre Schiffman
    How we learned to distinguish past from present and see the world historically.Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceHow did people learn to distinguish between past and present? How did they come to see the past as existing in its own distinctive context? In The Birth of the Past, Zachary Sayre Schiffman explores these questions in his sweeping survey of historical thinking in the...
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    47,02 €

  • Spatial Concepts of Lithuania in the Long Nineteenth Century
    Darius Staliūnas
    This book deals with the spatial concepts of Lithuania and other geo-images that either 'competed' in the nineteenth century with the term Lithuania or were of a different taxonomic level (Samogitia, Prussia’s Lithuania, Lithuania Minor, Poland, the Western Region, the Northwest Region, Lita/Lite, Belarus, East Prussia etc.). ...
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    137,48 €

  • Between the Kola Forest and the Salty Sea
    C. Patrick Burrowes
    Between the Kola Forest and the Salty Sea reveals the long-hidden story of those who lived in the region before Liberia was created.  Here are a few of the inspiring revelations it contains:* The different languages and ethnic groups of Liberia share a common root.* The barkless 'kaykay' dog found in Liberian villages were a favorite pet of Ancient Egyptian pharaohs.* Kola - on...
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    56,48 €

  • 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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    183,86 €

  • History by Numbers
    Pat Hudson
    Fully updated and carefully revised, this new 2nd edition of History by Numbers stands alone as the only textbook on quantitative methods suitable for students of history. Even the numerically challenged will find inspiration.Taking a problem-solving approach and using authentic historical data, it describes each method in turn, including its origin, purpose, usefulness and ass...
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    206,02 €

  • Memory Unbound
    Though still a relatively young field, memory studies has undergone significant transformations since it first coalesced as an area of inquiry. Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid, dynamic, unbound phenomenon-a process rather than a reified object. Embodying just such an elastic approach, this state-of-the-field collection systematically explores the transcul...
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    184,02 €

  • Narratives in the Making
    Anselma Gallinat
    Despite the three decades that have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the historical narrative of East Germany is hardly fixed in public memory, as German society continues to grapple with the legacies of the Cold War. This fascinating ethnography looks at two very different types of local institutions in one eastern German state that take divergent approaches to those ...
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    184,30 €

  • War Stories
    Philip Dwyer
    Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays is one of the first to explore the modern war memoir, revealing the genre’s surprising capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars. Covering conflicts from the Napoleonic era ...
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    197,69 €

  • M. I. Finley
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    132,29 €

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History
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    59,64 €

  • Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography
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    38,13 €

  • Adventures of a Postmodern Historian
    Robert A. Rosenstone
    Robert Rosenstone was among the first ’postmodern’ historians, and remains one of the most renowned. In this honest, revealing and often funny memoir, he shows us how he got there and why. Adventures of a Postmodern Historian chronicles Rosenstone’s research journeys over half a century. Beginning in the 1960s, his offbeat trajectory took him on adventures through the police st...
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    193,60 €

  • The houses of history
    Anna Green / Kathleen Troup
    An updated edition of this accessible critical reader, with additional chapters including an introduction that contextualises the rise of each theoretical perspective and draw links between them. ...
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    144,02 €

  • Interrogating Francoism
    Helen Graham
    Helen Graham here brings together leading historians of international renown to examine 20th-century Spain in light of Franco’s dictatorship and its legacy.Interrogating Francoism uses a three-part structure to look at the old regime, the civil war and the forging of Francoism; the nature of Franco’s dictatorship; and the ’history wars’ that have since taken place over his lega...
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    193,32 €

  • The houses of history
    Anna Green / Kathleen Troup
    An updated edition of this accessible critical reader, with additional chapters including an introduction that contextualises the rise of each theoretical perspective and draw links between them. ...
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    30,96 €

  • The Language of the Past
    Ross Wilson
    The Language of the Past analyzes the use of history in discourses within the political, media and the public sphere. It examines how particular terms, phrases and allusions first came into usage, developed and how they are employed today. To speak of something or someone as representing the ’stone age’, or characterize an institution as ’byzantine’, to describe a business rela...
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    206,51 €

  • What is History For? Johann Gustav Droysen and the Functions of Historiography
    Arthur Alfaix Assis
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    44,55 €


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