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Before history became legend and legend became myth, the oral traditions of what is presently referred to as "Pre-History" were maintained for thousands of years, preserved and handed down throughout the generations since the dawn of the "Age of Man". Throughout the ages, through myth, allegory, parables, iconography and symbolism, the fragmented remains of ancient beliefs have preserved down to the present day; such are the tales in Mythos: The Prescient...
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To study history is to learn about oneself. And to fail to grasp the importance of the past-to remain ignorant of the deeds and writing of previous generations-is to bind oneself by the passions and prejudices of the age into which one is born. John Lukacs, one of today's most widely published historians, explains what the study of history entails, how it has been approached over the centuries, and why it should be undertaken by today's students....
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A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world.
The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the way for China's first modern global era. 1368 maps China's ascendance from the embassies of Admiral Zheng He to the arrival...
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Retour sur les pratiques alimentaires des centres urbains.
Si l'historiographie contemporaine a abondamment exploré l'histoire de l'alimentation, elle invite encore à poursuivre et à renouveler l'étude des marchés urbains, de leur approvisionnement, de la sécurité alimentaire et du manger dans l'espace public.
Dans un volume documenté et basé sur les recherches d'historiens, les éditions de l'ULB vous proposent une analyse historique complète...
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Remembering and reconstructing the past inevitably involves forgetting-and nowhere more so than in the complex relationship between the United States and Japan since the end of World War II. In this provocative and probing series of essays, John W. Dower-one of our leading historians of postwar Japan and author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Embracing Defeat-explores the uses and abuses to which this history has been subjected and, with deliberation...
86) The Varieties of Temporal Experience: Travels in Philosophical, Historical, and Ethnographic Time
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What does it mean to live in time, between the unforeseeable and the irreversible? In The Varieties of Temporal Experience, Michael Jackson demonstrates the significance of a phenomenology of time for ethnography, philosophy, and history through a multifaceted consideration of the gap between our cultural representations of temporality and the bewildering multiplicity of our experience of being-in-time.Jackson explores temporality in a subjective...
87) Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich
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"One of Times Higher Education's Best Books of 2018" "One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: History" Christopher Clark is the Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power, and Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947. He lives in Cambridge, England.
From the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers,...
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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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Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented cultural-symbolic practice: all humans have developed techniques of caring for and communicating with the dead. The premise of Being with the Dead is that we can explore our lives with the dead as a cross-cultural...
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To write history is to consider how to explicate the past, to weigh the myriad possible approaches to the past, and to come to terms with how the past can be and has been used. In this book, prize-winning historian Jeremy Black considers both popular and academic approaches to the past. His focus is on the interaction between the presentation of the past and current circumstances, on how history is used to validate one view of the present or to discredit...
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Esta obra se adentra en el proceso de creación de la carrera de Antropología en Colombia. El autor justifica no solo el nacimiento de la antropología como profesión, sino su pertinencia en planes estatales y la participación de sus egresados en la aplicación de políticas indigenistas, en la segunda mitad del siglo XX.
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As omnipresent as it is ungraspable, time has always inspired and eluded attempts to comprehend it. For the early Christians, for the twenty-first-century world, how have past and future been woven into the present? In Chronos, a leading French historian ranges from Western antiquity to the Anthropocene, pinpointing the crucial turning points in our relationship to time.
François Hartog considers the genealogy of Western temporalities, examining...
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A History of the Yoruba People is an audacious comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in Africa. In this commendable book, S. Adebanji Akintoye deploys four decades of historiography research with current interpretation and analyses to present the most complete and authoritative volume on the Yoruba to date. This exceptionally lucid account gathers and imparts a wealth of research and discourses...
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"Shortlisted for the 2012 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League" Erich S. Gruen is the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics (emeritus) at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans and Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition.
Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves...
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Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume present a more fluid and complex interpretation of Venetian culture.
Drawing on a variety of disciplines-history, art...
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Extrait: "Le siège de Troie. Si l'on en croit Platon, la Troie de Priam et d'Homère avait été construite « sur une petite éminence, dans une belle et vaste plaine, arrosée par différentes rivières sortant du mont Ida ». On a beaucoup discuté sur l'emplacement de cette éminence, de cette plaine et de ces rivières. Du temps de Strabon, on ne savait déjà plus au juste o se trouvait Troie..."
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"Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous...
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Since the early days of Buddhism in China, monastics and laity alike have expressed a profound concern with the past. In voluminous historical works, they attempted to determine as precisely as possible the dates of events in the Buddha's life, seeking to iron out discrepancies in varying accounts and pinpoint when he delivered which sermons. Buddhist writers chronicled the history of the Dharma in China as well, compiling biographies of eminent monks...
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We all know the name Nostradamus, but who was he really? Why did his predictions become so influential in Renaissance Europe and then keep resurfacing for nearly five centuries? And what does Nostradamus's endurance in the West say about us and our own world?
In Nostradamus: How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom, historian Stéphane Gerson takes readers on a journey back in time to explore the life and afterlife...
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Stefan Zweig nació el 28 de noviembre de 1881 en Viena y es uno de los autores más importantes de Europa en la primera mitad del siglo XX. Siendo judío, fue perseguido por el nazismo y forzado al exilio. Su última residencia fue en Brasil, donde tuvo un triste final. Zweig fue un escritor versátil que se dedicó a casi todas las actividades literarias y, además de sus novelas, se hizo famoso como historiador y biógrafo. Su biografía de María...
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