Historians

Too Blessed to be Depressed - Crimson Architectural Historians 1994 - 2001

Too Blessed to be Depressed - Crimson Architectural Historians 1994 - 2001

Latin for Local and Family Historians

Clio Wired - The Future of the Past in the Digital Age

While he addresses the perils of doing history online, Rosenzweig eloquently identifies the promises of digital technologies for new and diverse practitioners. Negotiating between the cyberenthusiasts who champion technological breakthroughs and the digital skeptics who fear the end of traditional humanistic scholarship, Rosenzweig re-envisions the practices and professional rites of academic historians while analyzing and advocating for the achievements of amateur historians.

Triumph Revisited - Historians Battle for the Vietnam War

Triumph Revisited: Historians Battle for the Vietnam era a glimpse into how history is constructed

The Sources of Roman Law - Problems and Methods for Ancient Historians

This book is concerned with four central questions: Who made the law? Where did a Roman go to discover what the law student will find invaluable the description of how the sources have survived to inform our legal system and pose their problems for us..The notion and understanding of law penetrated society in Ancient Rome to a degree unparalleled in modern times. The poet Juvenal, for instance, described the virtuous man as a good soldier, faithful guardian, incorruptible

Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution - Conversations with Economic Historians

The book presents memoirs of personal development, intellectual lives and influences, new lines of historical research, long-standing debates, a growing international scholarly community, and the impact of modern economic growth on human health, mortality and even happiness. The conversations presented here are engaging, informative and -

Cosmopolitan Islanders - British Historians and the European Continent

Evans traces the evolution of British interest in the future. Books on the history of France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and many other European countries, and of Europe more generally, have frequently reached the best-seller lists both in

French Historians 1900-2000 - New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France

French Historians 1900-2000: The New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France examines the lives and writings of 40 of Frances great twentieth-century historians.Blends biography with critical analysis of major works,

Serious Sport - J.A. Mangans Contribution to the History of Sport

His seminal book on athleticism and imperialism commanded attention and applause from a broad range of historians and social

Greek and Roman Historians - Information and Misinformation

Greek and Roman Historians shows us how we can use written history to learn about the ancient historians which

Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima - Historians and the Second World War, 1945-1990

Bosworth argues that the traumatic history of the Second World War have

Modern Historians on British History 1485-1945 (Routledge Revivals) - A Critical Bibliography 1945-1969

First published in 1970, this Revivals reissue, which includes an extensive coverage of books and a reasonable selection of articles, endeavours both to survey the work done and to reduce it to some comprehensible order.The twenty-five year period following the Second World War saw an enormous expansion of activity in the writing of the mother country

The Roman Historians

Ronald Mellor demonstrates that Roman historical writing was regarded by its authors as a literary not a scholarly exercise, and how it must be evaluated in that context. This book examines in detail the major Roman historians:* Sallust* Livy* Tacitus* Ammianusas well as the biographies written by:* Nepos* Tacitus* Suetonius* the Augustan History* the autobiographies of Julius Caesar and the Emperor Augustus. But the clearest image of how the Romans wished to interpret their past pervades almost every aspect of their

History Revisited: Eminent Historians Take on the Great Works of Alternative History

Welfares Forgotten Past - A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law

.That poor law was not simply local custom, but consisted of legal rights, duties and obligations that went beyond social altruism. Welfares Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history and the emergence and persistence of the idea that its relief is a gift

Historical Controversies and Historians

This work by a team of historians from the University of Sussex fills this gap. The first half of the book focuses upon the historians themselves - such as Tawney, Carr, Buckhardt, Weber, Thompson - and demonstrates how the historian puts his/her own spin on historical interpretation. Together the study of controversies and historians shows

The Greek Historians

Homer wrote about contemporary or very recent events, where eye witnesses

Making History Count - A Primer in Quantitative Methods for Historians

They will also see how quantitative techniques can open up new aspects of an enquiry, and supplement and strengthen other methods of research.. The text is clearly illustrated with tables, graphs and diagrams, leading the student through key topics. This textbook will encourage students to recognize the benefits of

Becoming Historians

In these stories skillfully compiled and introduced by James Banner and John Gillis aspiring historians will find inspiration and guidance, experienced scholars will see reflections of their own dilemmas and struggles, and all readers will discover a rare account of how todays seasoned historians embarked on their intellectual journeys. Born around the time of World War II, these influential historians came of age just before the upheavals of the past more capacious and broadly relevant.In this unique

Arab Historians of the Crusades (Routledge Revivals)

Historians of Economics and Economic Thought

French Historians and Romanticism - Thierry, Guizot, the Saint-Simonians, Quinet, Michelet

The French Revolution had a profound influence on perceptions of the past was rediscovered, retrieved and represented in post-revolutionary France, concentrating

Teaching U.S. History - Dialogues Among Social Studies Teachers and Historians

Each chapter also includes a wealth of practical resources including suggested key documents or artifacts, a lesson plan for middle school and another suitable for high school, and suggested readings and questions for further study.Teaching U.. Seven chapters are organized around key US History eras and events from the time of slavery through the Civil Rights Movement and are followed by essays from expert teachers on the rewards and challenges of implementing these topics in the school classrooms where the nations students learn.S.S.S. History is a must read for any aspiring or current teacher who wants to think critically

The Historians of Late Antiquity

The first half of the lives and works of these varied figures. The second half compares and contrasts the information the historians provide, and the views they express on some central topics.The fourth and fifth centuries AD were an era of religious conflict, political change and military conflict. The responses of contemporary historians to these turbulent times reflect their diverse backgrounds - Christian and pagan, writing in both Greek and Latin, documenting