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This work addresses one of the main problems facing contemporary historians - how can the specialist research on urban history be reconciled with postmodernism It argues that an integrative systems approach can be used in any historical enquiry to construct a view of the past.

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A practical guide to the historical study of international politics, this book focuses on the basics of historical research on how to use original sources, analyze and interpret historical works, and actually write a work of history. It includes two appendixes that provide important sources and examples relevant to this area.

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This volume in the Issues in Historiography series examines the changing scholarly debate on individuals and events in African American history from the 1890s to the present. It highlights how over time the work of scholars has reflected both advances in academic understanding and wider developments in race relations in American society.

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This book examines the development of the historiography on the African American freedom struggle from the 1890s to the present day.

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This book examines the development of the historiography on the African American freedom struggle from the 1890s to the present day.

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Who will write the History of the American Revolution asked a worried John Adams, and who will ever write it This book is an attempt to answer these questions. Examining the many histories of the American Revolution and Constitution, it looks at how the transition from amateur to professional transformed the interpretation of the Revolution.

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Who will write the History of the American Revolution asked a worried John Adams, and who will ever write it This book is an attempt to answer these questions. Examining the many histories of the American Revolution and Constitution, it looks at how the transition from amateur to professional transformed the interpretation of the Revolution.

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This is the first book-length study to chart how the dramatic events of 30 generations ago have been understood, shaped and manipulated by writers in successive periods since and to show how modern images of the crusades are as much a product of our own and intervening times as of the bloody wars of the cross themselves. -- .

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This is the first book-length study to chart how the dramatic events of 30 generations ago have been understood, shaped and manipulated by writers in successive periods since and to show how modern images of the crusades are as much a product of our own and intervening times as of the bloody wars of the cross themselves. -- .

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Looks at when, why and how Spain declined in status from its pre-eminent position as a leading world power in the seventeenth century, examining the methodologies and schools of inquiry that have shaped the discourse and how historians' perceptions have been influenced by time and circumstance. -- .

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New edition, combines a discussion of successive historical approaches to the English Reformation with a critical review of recent debates in the area -- .

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Nine papers consider problems in American, French, and British history that range from economic history to political behavior and social structure. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton

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What did 'history' mean to the Greeks and the Romans This volume traces the development of conceptions of history and its practice from Homer to the writers of the Roman Empire. It contains sections on Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius and others.

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The changing understandings of the Middle Ages from the Age of Reason to the present, and how these relate to wider historiographical and philosophical developments.

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Argues that modernity's sense of the medieval past is the product of the dominant intellectual movements of the nineteenth century, Romanticism and Idealism, and that nineteenth century attitudes have continued to inform current understandings of the Middle Ages.

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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. -- .