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Almost everyone has heard of Adam Smith, founding father of modern economics and author of Wealth of Nations. There is, however, much more to him than this. This new introduction gives a crystal clear overview of the entirety of Smith’s thought. It demonstrates how...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-03-23
Collection :
Classic Thinkers
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Dieser Band bietet einen vielgestaltigen Überblick zu den Grundfragen der Historik und des historischen Denkens. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Jörn Rüsen ist Historiker und Kulturwissenschaftler.
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Springer VS
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2020-03-12
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A comprehensive history of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States, from 1776 to 1965 Most suffrage histories begin in 1848, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton first publicly demanded the right to vote at the Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. And...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-11-21
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This book provides the first comprehensive study of diverse migrant memories and what they mean for Australia in the twenty-first century. Drawing on rich case studies, it captures the changing political and cultural dimensions of migration memories as they are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-10
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This book explores the work of artists based in the global south whose practices and methods interrogate and explore the residue of Empire. In doing so, it highlights the way that contemporary art can assist in the un-forgetting of colonial violence and oppression that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-22
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This book offers a rare and innovative consideration of an enduring tendency in postwar art to explore places devoid of human agents in the wake of violent encounters. To see the scenery together with the crime elicits a double interrogation, not merely of a physical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-24
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Die Geschichtswissenschaft steckt in der Krise. Ist sie dabei, ihre Deutungshoheit über die Geschichte endgültig zu verlieren? Und was bedeutet das für die Zukunft der liberalen Demokratie, deren eigene Krise sich immer deutlicher abzeichnet? Zur Beantwortung dieser...
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Springer VS
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2019-04-10
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This book presents a critical and aesthetic defence of “non-place” as an act of cultural reclamation. Through the restorative properties of photography, it re-conceptualises the cultural significance of non-place. The non-place is often referred to as “wasteland”, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-31
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Die Rehabilitation des in Verruf geratenen Subjekts als einzig bestimmender historischer Akteur ist der zentrale Anspruch dieses Buches. Wesentliche geschichtswissenschaftliche Kategorien wie historische Wirklichkeit, Geschichte als Wissenschaft, Quellen und Medien...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-28
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This book interrogates why feminist memories matter. Feminist Afterlives explores how the images, ideas and feelings of past liberation struggles become freshly available and transmissible. In doing so, Red Chidgey examines how popular feminist memories travel as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-19
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This volume explores the different mechanisms and forms of expression used by women to come to terms with the past, focusing on the variety and complexity of women’s narratives of displacement within the context of Central and Eastern Europe. The first part addresses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-15
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What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a pre-eminent cultural historian here offers a far-reaching response to these deceptively simple questions. In this classic text, now revised and updated in...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-07-26
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'Not only one of our most distinguished historians but also one of the most valuable contributors to historical theory' SpectatorIn formulating an answer to the question of 'What is History', Carr argues that the 'facts' of history are simply those which historians have...
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Penguin
Parution :
2018-06-07
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This book examines the relationships between memory, history, and national identity through an interdisciplinary analysis of James Joyce’s works—as well as of literary texts by Kundera, Ford, Fitzgerald, and Walker Percy. Drawing on thinkers such as Nietzsche,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-30
Collection :
New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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This book uses Viktor Frankl’s Existential Psychology (logotherapy) to explore the ways some professors use unusually personal scholarship to discover meaning in personal adversity. A psychiatrist imprisoned for three years in Nazi concentration camps, Frankl believed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-23
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James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages. Students, teachers, researchers and general readers...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-01-08
Collection :
What is History?
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The third edition of What is Military History? has been thoroughly updated, and includes a new bibliography and new case studies on naval warfare and the origins of war, as well as expanded sections on historiography, environmental history and world history. This...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-12-21
Collection :
What is History?
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This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and forget the past. Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and historicist approaches to literature, it uses close readings to trace the complex...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-11
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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This edited collection aims to respond to dominant perspectives on twenty-first-century war by exploring how the events of 9/11 and the subsequent Wars on Terror are represented and remembered outside of the US framework. Existing critical coverage ignores the meaning...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-24
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What does it mean - and what might it yet come to mean - to write 'history' in the twenty-first century? History After Hobsbawm brings together leading historians from across the globe to ask what being an historian should mean in their particular fields of study....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-20
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