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Clarifying the Past Understanding Historical Commissions in Conflicted and Divided Societies

Clarifying the Past: Understanding Historical Commissions in Conflicted and Divided Societies

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By Cira Pallí-Asperó
May 27, 2024

Clarifying the Past provides a comprehensive analysis of state-sponsored historical commissions operating in conflicted and divided societies, developing a theoretical and methodological framework within the historical dialogue paradigm, key to understanding the work of such commissions. The ...

Combining Political History and Political Science Towards a New Understanding of the Political

Combining Political History and Political Science: Towards a New Understanding of the Political

1st Edition

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Edited By Carlos Domper Lasús, Giorgia Priorelli
May 27, 2024

This book shows how a multidisciplinary approach combining conceptual and methodological tools from political history and political science can help to develop a deeper understanding of contemporary political phenomena including democracy, populism, war, and forced migrations, among others. ...

Ideas and Methodologies in Historical Research

Ideas and Methodologies in Historical Research

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By Vladimer Luarsabishvili
May 27, 2024

This book explores the versatile nature of historical methodology and its use in interdisciplinary research. Based on the historical overview of the appearance of one sort of historical ideas and disappearance of another, the book aims to demonstrate a wide range of possibilities of research in the...

Nation and the Writing of History in China and Britain, 1880–1930

Nation and the Writing of History in China and Britain, 1880–1930

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By Asier Hernández Aguirresarobe
May 27, 2024

Nation and the Writing of History in China and Britain explores, through a comparative approach, the reception of the nationalist worldview and its effects on the practice of history in China and Britain. This book proposes that nationalism, rather than a political doctrine, is a way of making ...

Key Metaphors for History Mirrors of Time

Key Metaphors for History: Mirrors of Time

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By Javier Fernández-Sebastián
April 03, 2024

This book casts a fresh look at what to date has been a relatively unexplored question: the enormous value and usefulness of the metaphor in the understanding and writing of history (and at the historical culture reflected by these metaphors). Mapping a wide range of tropes present in ...

How to Write About the Holocaust The Postmodern Theory of History in Praxis

How to Write About the Holocaust: The Postmodern Theory of History in Praxis

1st Edition

By Theodor Pelekanidis
January 29, 2024

How to Write About the Holocaust is a contribution to ongoing debates in historiography and Holocaust studies. More specifically, it combines the theoretical framework that has developed in historiography in the last half a century with the demands of Holocaust representation. The first part of the...

The Politics of Time in China and Japan Back to the Future

The Politics of Time in China and Japan: Back to the Future

1st Edition

By Viren Murthy
January 29, 2024

Drawing on a wide range of texts and using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume shows how Chinese and Japanese intellectuals mobilized the past to create a better future. It is especially significant today given a world where, amidst tensions within Asia and the rise of China, East Asian ...

Ujamaa and Ubuntu Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective

Ujamaa and Ubuntu: Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective

1st Edition

By Bo Stråth
December 15, 2023

For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge. It is a language ordering time and space with words, such as enlightenment, reason, rationality, modernization, and the most recent by-word, globalization. However, it is a ...

The Biographical Landscapes of Raphael Lemkin

The Biographical Landscapes of Raphael Lemkin

1st Edition

By Piotr Madajczyk
November 03, 2023

The book is the first biography of Raphael Lemkin to draw on a comprehensive body of research into Lemkin as a person and his background and will be of interest to both non-specialists and academics. Drawing on archival materials, a nuanced description is provided of the ethnically mixed ...

Historical Narratives Constructable, Evaluable, Inevitable

Historical Narratives: Constructable, Evaluable, Inevitable

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By Mariana Imaz-Sheinbaum
October 27, 2023

This book explains some of the psychological processes that go into narrative construction and why it is that we have so much variability of historical accounts about a single historical event. A central focus of this book is how historians go from having unconnected units of data to having a ...

When Jews Argue Between the University and the Beit Midrash

When Jews Argue: Between the University and the Beit Midrash

1st Edition

Edited By Ethan B. Katz, Sergey Dolgopolski, Elisha Ancselovits
October 06, 2023

This book re-thinks the relationship between the world of the traditional Jewish study hall (the Beit Midrash) and the academy: Can these two institutions overcome their vast differences? Should they attempt to do so? If not, what could two methods of study seen as diametrically opposed possibly ...

The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education The Available Means

The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education: The Available Means

1st Edition

By Anthony Edward Zupancic
August 04, 2023

At its very center, The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education: The Available Means is a study of the subtle, organic ways that rhetoric can work to cultivate a particular character. This is an extension of the current work in composition studies, which focus on the ways...

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