Product Description: This genealogical reference book details the descendants of Jesse M. Heard, born in Greene County, Georgia in 1801, down to the fifth generation. It is meant to work in tandem with Joyce Perkerson Poole's book "A Heard Family Record-Based History - the First Five Generations in America"...read more

Product Description: Abraham Geiger ist vor allem als Reformrabbiner und damit als zentrale impulsgebende Persönlichkeit der jüdischen Reformbewegung des 19. Jahrhunderts bekannt. Er gehört aber auch zu den Gründungsgestalten der Wissenschaft des Judentums...read more

Product Description: Ortschroniken und Heimatb|cher sind allgegenwärtig in der Erinnerungskultur ländlicher Gebiete. Obwohl sie im Einzelnen nur einen kleinen Leserkreis ansprechen, stellen sie in der Breite ein historiografisches Massenphänomen dar...read more

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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 states of Franco Spain and the Soviet Union, to the Shinto shrines and Zen temples of Japan and ultimately to Hollywood. Alongside his own memoirs, Rosenstone reflects upon developments and changes within the realm of professional history, which in turn reflect the social, cultural, and intellectual shifts of the late 20th century. A pioneer of experimental and creative history, he suggests how the experience of the historian can inflect the written history, and provides a defence of innovation in historical writing that is both intellectually rigorous and entertaining. In doing so he offers a window into the state of history today – and points to exciting new ways of writing the past. This is a book about the craft of history, about both doing research and writing it. It should be required reading for all historians.

In this provocative historiography, Peter K. J. Park provides a penetrating account of a crucial period in the development of philosophy as an academic discipline. During these decades, a number of European philosophers influenced by Immanuel Kant began to formulate the history of philosophy as a march of progress from the Greeks to Kant a genealogy that supplanted existing accounts beginning in Egypt or Western Asia and at a time when European interest in Sanskrit and Persian literature was flourishing. Not without debate, these traditions were ultimately deemed outside the scope of philosophy and relegated to the study of religion. Park uncovers this debate and recounts the development of an exclusionary canon of philosophy in the decades of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. To what extent was this exclusion of Africa and Asia a result of the scientization of philosophy? To what extent was it a result of racism? This book includes the most extensive description available anywhere of Joseph-Marie de Gerando s "Histoire comparee des systemes de philosophie," Friedrich Schlegel s lectures on the history of philosophy, Friedrich Ast s and Thadda Anselm Rixner s systematic integration of Africa and Asia into the history of philosophy, and the controversy between G. W. F. Hegel and the theologian August Tholuck over pantheism. "

Product Description: Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centuries, Africans and their descendants―both free and enslaved―participated in the political, social, and cultural movements that indelibly shaped their countries’ colonial and post-independence pasts...read more

Product Description: This book examines the legacy of philosophical idealism in twentieth century British historical and political thought. It demonstrates that the absolute idealism of the nineteenth century was radically transformed by R.G. Collingwood, Michael Oakeshott, and Benedetto Croce...read more

Product Description: Aftermath examines how genocide is remembered and represented in both popular and scholarly memory, integrating scholarship on the Holocaust with the study of other genocides through a comparative framework. Scholars from a range of disciplines reevaluate narratives of past conflicts to explore how the memory of genocide is mobilized in the aftermath, tracing the development and evolution of memory through the lenses of national identities, colonialism, legal history, film studies, gender, the press, literary studies, and other diverse approaches...read more

Product Description: A critical assessment of one of Britain's foremost historians and university leaders of the second half of the 20th century.

Product Description: Questions of boundaries, identities, cultural landscapes, and economic regions are addressed in these 19 essays aimed at academics and students interested in regional history. The recent flourish in regional history bears striking parallels with the emergence of urban history in the 1960s; seeking conceptual clarity, this volume showcases the latest research in the field...read more

Product Description: Síntesis histórica de Aguascalientes que constituye un primer acercamiento a la historia regional, como medio para entender y explicar mejor la trascendencia que cada una de las partes ha jugado en la construcción de un pasado nacional, desde los primeros asentamientos chichimecas en esa zona geográfica, la avanzada colonizadora del siglo XVI y la etapa colonial, hasta el nacimiento del estado de Aguascalientes en 1857...read more

Product Description: Despite the criticism of his peers and the inattention of his successors, Alexandru Xenopol provided Romanian nationalistic historiography with a greater measure of respectability, especially with the general public. By the time of WWI a strong sense of national identity had become entrenched as an intellectually respectable mentality among Romania’s literate classes...read more

Product Description: What is history and how does it impact biblical interpretation and theology? Allegorizing History seeks to begin answering this question by arguing that conceptions of the past and the purpose(s) of history impact biblical interpretation and vice versa...read more