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Historians of religion face complex interpretive issues when examining religious texts, practices, and experiences. Faithful Narratives presents the work of twelve eminent scholars whose research has exemplified compelling strategies for negotiating the difficulties inherent in this increasingly important area of historical inquiry. The chapters range chronologically from Late Antiquity to modern America and thematically from the spirituality of near...
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Durante las últimas décadas del franquismo y la transición posfranquista, los trabajos inspirados en los planteamientos teóricos y conceptuales que llegaban a España de la mano de las corrientes de la historiografía marxista británica y francesa contribuyeron a la renovación de la historiografía española y a la adopción de sus planteamientos teóricos y conceptuales. Los planteamientos marxistas supusieron un soplo de aire fresco a la anquilosada...
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Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature and the humanities. The book is a major reconsideration of the historian's contributions and influence by an international group of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines. Individual essays address the key concepts of White's intellectual career,...
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El interés por los Fueros, su historia y su época nunca ha desaparecido del todo. Una muestra de ello es este libro, donde un grupo de profesores de la Universitat de València reúnen un conjunto de reflexiones sobre aspectos muy diversos del legado foral. Por una parte, se estudia el origen y la aplicación del derecho en la época de vigencia de la legislación valenciana y, por otra, se analiza la realidad de ese derecho tras su abolición,...
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Les chroniques de la commune de Saint-Gilles.
Commune de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Saint-Gilles a toujours été une zone de passage. Paroisse dédiée à saint Gilles en 1216, le village d'Obbrussel (Haut-Bruxelles) est traversé pendant des siècles par les marchands et les brigands, les rois et leurs armées, mais aussi par les épidémies.
Au XIXe siècle, la Révolution industrielle s'installe à Saint-Gilles, avec la gare du Midi,...
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Intellectual history has never been more relevant and more important to public life in the United States. In complicated and confounding times, people look for the principles that drive action and the foundations that support national ideals. American Labyrinth demonstrates the power of intellectual history to illuminate our public life and examine our ideological assumptions.
This volume of essays brings together 19 influential intellectual historians...
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In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America's history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of slavery, this unique collection of essays looks at recent controversies that have played out in the public arena, with contributions by such noted historians as Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, and Gary B. Nash.
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El discurso histórico, junto con otros posibles sobre la música, es un componente necesario de la experiencia musical contemporánea. La historiografía musical indaga este discurso y su construcción en una compleja dialéctica interna a la propia historia, y también externa, en relación con otras áreas musicológicas y con otras disciplinas. Los siete ensayos que se reúnen en esta obra componen una valiosa visión de conjunto de la historiografía...
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Reckoning with History brings together original essays from a diverse group of historians who consider how writing about the past can engage with the urgent issues of the present. The contributors-all former students of the distinguished Columbia University historian Eric Foner-explore the uses and politics of history through key episodes across a wide range of struggles for freedom. They shed new light on how different groups have defined and fought...
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Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states' rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to rationalize the secession and the war itself. Unfortunately, skillful propagandists have been so successful in promoting this romanticized view that the Lost Cause has assumed...
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France has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accomplished historians. The field of French history has been vastly influential in American thought, both within the academy and beyond, regardless of France's standing among U.S. political and cultural elites. Even though other countries, from Britain to China, may have had a greater impact on American history, none has exerted quite the same hold on the American historical imagination,...
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Diverse perspectives on Lincoln's assassination, its aftermath, and its place in national memory from some of today's leading Lincoln scholars.
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most significant events in US history. It continues to attract the interest of scholars, writers, and armchair historians, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. Now leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer...
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A major reframing of world history, this anthology interrogates eighteenth-and nineteenth-century European imperialism from the perspective of indigenous peoples.
Rather than casting indigenous peoples as bystanders in the Age of Revolution, “Facing Empire” examines the active roles they played in helping to shape the course of modern imperialism. Focusing on indigenous peoples' experiences of the British Empire, the volume's comparative approach...
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Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplinary book recasts the relationship between religion and politics by exploring this institution in long-term and global comparative perspective.
Editors A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern present a theoretical framework for understanding sacred kingship, which leading scholars reflect on and respond...
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Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the Civil War have explored military, cultural, political, African American, women's, and environmental history.
The essays describe a wide array of photographs...
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Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands engages with the evolving historiography around the concept of belonging in the Russian and Ottoman empires. The contributors to this book argue that the popular notion that empires do not care about belonging is simplistic and wrong.
Chapters address numerous and varied dimensions of belonging in multiethnic territories of the Ottoman Empire, Imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union, from the mid-nineteenth...
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In post-Soviet Russia, there is a persistent trend to repress, control, or even co-opt national history. By reshaping memory to suit a politically convenient narrative, Russia has fashioned a good future out of a "bad past."
While Putin's regime has acquired nearly complete control over interpretations of the past, The Future of the Soviet Past reveals that Russia's inability to fully, rewrite its Soviet history plays an essential part in its current...
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