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This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the lively historical controversies surrounding the political careers of Gladstone and Disraeli. Organised thematically around the most contested areas of interpretation, it offers a unique insight into the politics of Victorian England.

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Fully revised and updated, The history of emotions is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the theories, methods, achievements, and problems in this field of historical inquiry and its intersections with other disciplines.It emphasises the importance of this kind of historical work for general understandings of the meaning of human experience.

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Fully revised and updated, The history of emotions is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the theories, methods, achievements, and problems in this field of historical inquiry and its intersections with other disciplines.It emphasises the importance of this kind of historical work for general understandings of the meaning of human experience.

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Introduced by Alf Ludtke, the volume includes two empirical essays, one by Lutz Niethammer on life courses of East Germans after 1945 and one by Ludtke on modes of accepting fascism among German workers. The remaining five essays are theoretical.

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Despite the massive literature on the Holocaust, our understanding of it has traditionally been influenced by rather unsophisticated early perspectives and silence. This book summarises and criticises the existing scholarship on the subject and suggests new ways by which we can approach its study. -- .

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An updated edition of this accessible critical reader, with additional chapters including an introduction that contextualises the rise of each theoretical perspective and draw links between them. -- .

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Jean Henri Merle d'Aubign, Genevan historian of Christianity, offered Protestants in post-French revolutionary Europe historical reflections on the origins of their religious and political organizations.

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"Details the history and contemporary usage of terms and phrases associated with prehistoric, ancient, medieval or modern periods, employed within Anglophone countries to describe social, cultural or political situations in the present"--

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Topics such as the role of the historian, the definition of history, the purpose of the study of history, and the values that history imparts broaden the scope of the work and enliven the debate over the meaning of history.

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Einhorn, a rhetorical scholar, explores the rich history of the Native American oral tradition, focusing on stories, orations, prayers, and songs.

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Explores the new historicism and the challenges posed to it by a postmodern world that questions the very possibility of newness. This title considers new historicism's engagement with poststructuralism and locates the former within a tradition of pragmatic historiography in the United States.

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In 1874, John Richard Green, a virtually unknown former clergyman, sold the rights for his school textbook, A Short History of the English People, to Macmillan for 350 pounds sterling, a generous sum for a work expected to sell a few thousand copies.

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This work is a critical edition and translation with commentary on one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon historical documents, The Peterborough Chronicle.

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Provides an introduction to various major philosophical concepts, issues and debates raised by history. This book presents and criticises the arguments of the major philosophers and historians who have contributed to our understanding of the philosophy of history.

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This is the first translation of a classic work (Bahth fi nnsh' at 'ilm al ta' rikh 'inda l-'Arab) by the eminent Arab historian A. A. Duri. Published in Beirut in 1960, Duri's book was the first comprehensive effort to trace the origins and early development of Arab historical writing, and to resolve some extremely complex and still debated questi

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Focusing on the public ceremonies on and around 11th November which dominated the inter-war years, this book emphasizes the importance of Armistice Day, in reflecting what people felt about the war and in shaping their memories of it.

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Focusing on the public ceremonies on and around 11th November which dominated the inter-war years, this book emphasizes the importance of Armistice Day, in reflecting what people felt about the war and in shaping their memories of it.

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Great works of history have so often had at their heart a wish to sift people in ways that have been profoundly damaging and provided intellectual justification for terrible political decisions. This title presents an agonised attempt to understand how so much of the writing of history has been driven by a fatal desire to dramatize differences.

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