Venerated and studied or else repudiated and rediscovered humanremains ensure...Venerated and studied or else repudiated and rediscovered human remains ensure continuity with the past. This volume intends to reconstruct the complexity of the cult and symbols they have generated and the uses assigned to them in Italy in...more
Venerated and studied or else repudiated and rediscovered humanremains ensure...Venerated and studied or else repudiated and rediscovered human remains ensure continuity with the past. This volume intends to reconstruct the complexity of the cult and symbols they have generated and the uses assigned to them in Italy in...more
How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the hu...How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the humanities exemplified by history and offers a critique of the validity of historical knowledge. The book focusses on history s academic disciplinary ethos to offer a...more
This book analyses the transformation in 16th- and 17th-century English econom...This book analyses the transformation in 16th- and 17th-century English economic life that overturned the traditional restraints of the medieval economy for the commercial ethos that governs the modern world and the resulting imbalance which opened...more
How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the hu...How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the humanities exemplified by history and offers a critique of the validity of historical knowledge. The book focusses on history s academic disciplinary ethos to offer a...more
How did Nicholas II Russia s last Tsar meet his death? Shot point blank in a b...How did Nicholas II Russia s last Tsar meet his death? Shot point blank in a bungled execution by radical Bolsheviks in the Urals Nicholas and his family disappeared from history in the Soviet era. But in the 1970s a local geologist and a crime...more
How did Nicholas II Russia s last Tsar meet his death? This book recounts the ...How did Nicholas II Russia s last Tsar meet his death? This book recounts the horrific details of his death and the thrilling discovery of the bones and also investigates the alternative narratives that have grown up around these events.more
In the late 19th century and early part of the 20th with the coming of age of ...In the late 19th century and early part of the 20th with the coming of age of sociology in France the idea that there could be a science of history was the subject of much and varied debate. The methodological problems surrounding historical...more
The Historyof Education as Historyof Knowledge brings together international...The History of Education as History of Knowledge brings together international scholars to explore how the emerging field of the history of knowledge can enrich the well-established history of education. While recent research in the history of...more
This book introduces a new way of looking at the writing ofhistory. Rather th...This book introduces a new way of looking at the writing of history. Rather than as the production of knowledge or the telling of stories it sees writing history as an ethical existential and emotional engagement with the people from the past. The...more
In Far-Right Revisionism and the End ofHistory: Alt/Histories historians soci...In Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories historians sociologists neuroscientists lawyers cultural critics and literary and media scholars come together to offer an interconnected and comparative collection for understanding how...more
This collection is about the emerging relationship between family historyand ...This collection is about the emerging relationship between family history and the discipline of history and the potential of each to revitalise the other. How have historians responded to this resurgence of interest in the personal and the local and...more
In Far-Right Revisionism and the End ofHistory: Alt/Histories historians soci...In Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories historians sociologists neuroscientists lawyers cultural critics and literary and media scholars come together to offer an interconnected and comparative collection for understanding how...more
In the late 19th century and early part of the 20th with the coming of age of ...In the late 19th century and early part of the 20th with the coming of age of sociology in France the idea that there could be a science of history was the subject of much and varied debate. The methodological problems surrounding historical...more
This book introduces a new way of looking at the writing ofhistory. Rather th...This book introduces a new way of looking at the writing of history. Rather than as the production of knowledge or the telling of stories it sees writing history as an ethical existential and emotional engagement with the people from the past. The...more