Category: Historiography

By Barry K Gills; William R Thompson

1. Globalizations, worldwide histories and historic globalities / Barry ok. Gills and William R. Thompson -- 2. Globalizing background and historicizing globalization / Jerry H. Bentley -- three. the worldwide animus / Roland Robertson and David Inglis -- four. Civilizing strategies and foreign societies / Andrew Linklater -- five. Globalizations / David Wilkinson -- 6. the large cave in / Claudio Cioffi-Revilla -- 7. (Re)periphalization, (re)incorporation, frontiers and non-state societies / Thomas D. corridor -- eight. Growth/decline stages and semi-peripheral improvement within the historic Mesopotamian and Egyptian world-systems / Christopher Chase-Dunn ... [et al.] -- nine. Early Iron Age fiscal enlargement and contraction revisited / Andre Gunder Frank and William R. Thompson -- 10. darkish a long time / Sing C. bite -- eleven. 3 steps in globalization / Joachim Karl Rennstitch -- 12. Globalization started in 1571 / Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez -- thirteen. Colonies in a globalizing economic system, 1815-1948 / Patrick Karl O'Brien

By Jessica Priestley

In a chain of literary reports, Priestley explores a number of the earliest historical responses to Herodotus' Histories throughout the extant written list of the early and center Hellenistic interval. Responses to the Histories have been wealthy and sundry, and the diversity of Hellenistic writers responding in numerous how one can Herodotus' paintings is partly a mirrored image of the Histories'own large scope. The Histories remained proper during this later age and persisted to talk meaningfully to a extensive diversity of readers lengthy after Herodotus' death.
Herodotus and Hellenistic tradition explores quite a few discourses the place Herodotus occupies a major position within the highbrow heritage, and, specifically, it attracts realization to writers no longer often labeled as historians for you to increase our views on Herodotus' cultural value. via discussions of latest discourse on the subject of, for example, the Persian Wars, geography, the wondrous, aesthetics, literary variety, and biography, it nuances our realizing of the way historical readers reacted to and appropriated the Histories to serve their very own designated rhetorical pursuits. the quantity additionally contributes to scholarship that reappraises the very time period 'Hellenistic', drawing recognition to either diachronic continuities and synchronic diversity.

By David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, Trevor M. Harris

Deep maps are finely targeted, multimedia depictions of a spot and the folk, constructions, gadgets, plant life, and fauna that exist inside of it and that are inseparable from the actions of lifestyle. those depictions may perhaps surround the ideals, wants, hopes, and fears of citizens and aid exhibit what ties one position to a different. A deep map is how to interact proof inside of its spatio-temporal context and to supply a platform for a spatially-embedded argument. The essays during this ebook examine deep mapping and the spatial narratives that stem from it. The authors come from various disciplines: heritage, non secular experiences, geography and geographic info technological know-how, and machine technological know-how. each one applies the innovations of area, time, and position to difficulties vital to an knowing of society and tradition, utilising deep maps to bare the confluence of activities and proof and to track paths of highbrow exploration by way of applying a brand new artistic house that's visible, structurally open, multi-media, and multi-layered.

By Vanessa Agnew, Jonathan Lamb

Explores the uncalculated and incalculable parts in ancient re-enactment - unforeseen feelings, unplanned advancements - and locates them in nations the place settlers have been attempting to determine nationwide identities derived from metropolitan cultures necessarily plagued by the land itself and the folks who were there sooner than them.

By Kavita Mudan Finn

An exam of fifteenth-century British queens via literature and background.

By Geoffrey Cubitt

Lately, 'memory' has turn into a critical, although additionally a debatable, notion in old reviews - a time period that denotes either a brand new and specific box of research and a clean means of conceptualizing historical past as a box of inquiry extra generally.

This e-book, that's aimed either at experts and at scholars, presents historians with an obtainable and stimulating creation to debates and theories approximately reminiscence, and to the variety of ways which were taken to the examine of it in background and different disciplines

Contributing in a wide-ranging technique to debate on a number of the critical conceptual difficulties of reminiscence reviews, the booklet explores the relationships among the person and the collective, among reminiscence as survival and reminiscence as reconstruction, among remembering as a subjective adventure and as a social or cultural perform, and among reminiscence and historical past as modes of retrospective knowledge.

By Matthew Kempshall

This e-book offers an analytical evaluation of the massive diversity of historiography which was once produced in western Europe over a thousand-year interval among c.400 and c.1500. focusing on the final ideas of classical rhetoric relevant to the language of this writing, along the extra everyday traditions of old heritage, biblical exegesis and patristic theology, this survey introduces the conceptual sophistication and semantic rigour with which medieval authors may possibly technique their narratives of prior and current occasions, and the range of ends to which this background may possibly then be placed. via offering an in depth studying of a few of the historians who placed those linguistic rules and techniques into perform (from Augustine and Orosius via Otto of Freising and William of Malmesbury to Machiavelli and Guicciardini), it lines and questions a number of the key methodological adjustments that characterise the functionality and objective of the western historiographical culture during this formative interval of its development.

By Kevin P. Murphy

Historicising Gender and Sexuality encompasses a different choice of essays that shed new mild at the ancient intersections among gender and sexuality throughout time and house. Demonstrates either the particularities of particular formulations of gender and sexuality and the character of the connection among the kinds themselvesPresents proof that cautious and contextualised research of the moving courting of gender and sexuality illuminates broader old strategies 

By Lucas Herchenroeder

By Caterina Albano

Throughout this publication we find what our thought of reminiscence will be with no the relocating photograph. This proposal frightening research examines how the medium has educated glossy and modern versions of reminiscence. The ebook examines the ways that cinematic optic techniques tell an figuring out of reminiscence methods. serious to the reciprocity of brain and reveal is forgetting and the troublesome that it inscribes into reminiscence and its relation to contested histories. via a attention of works of art (film/video and sound deploy) via artists whose perform has continuously engaged with matters surrounding reminiscence, amnesia and trauma, the publication brings to undergo neuro-psychological perception and its implication with the relocating photograph (as either photograph and sound) to a attention of the worldwide panorama of reminiscence and the politics of reminiscence that tell them. The artists featured contain Kerry Tribe, Shona Illingworth, invoice Fontana, Lutz Becker, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, Harun Faorcki, and Eyal Sivan.