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The Sources and Development of Social and Community Psychiatry - Community Mental Health, Erich Lindemann, and Social... The Sources and Development of Social and Community Psychiatry - Community Mental Health, Erich Lindemann, and Social Conscience in American Psychiatry, Volume 1 (Paperback)
David G. Satin
R1,413 Discovery Miles 14 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

These volumes make new contributions to the history of psychiatry and society in three ways: First, they propose a theory of values and ideology influencing the evolution of psychiatry and society in recurring cycles, and survey the history of psychiatry in recent centuries in light of this theory. Second, they review the waxing, prominence, and waning of Community Mental Health as an example of a segment of this cyclical history of psychiatry. Third, they provide the first biography of Erich Lindemann, one of the founders of social and community psychiatry, and explore the interaction of the prominent contributor with the historical environment and the influence this has on both. We return to the issue of values and ideologies as influences on psychiatry, whether or not it is accepted as professionally proper. This is intended to stimulate self-reflection and the acceptance of the values sources of ideology, their effect on professional practice, and the effect of values-based ideology on the community in which psychiatry practices. The books will be of interest to psychiatric teachers and practitioners, health planners, and socially responsible citizens.

The Challenge of Community Mental Health and Erich Lindemann - Community Mental Health, Erich Lindemann, and Social Conscience... The Challenge of Community Mental Health and Erich Lindemann - Community Mental Health, Erich Lindemann, and Social Conscience in American Psychiatry, Volume 2 (Paperback)
David G. Satin
R1,440 Discovery Miles 14 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

These volumes make new contributions to the history of psychiatry and society in three ways: First, they propose a theory of values and ideology influencing the evolution of psychiatry and society in recurring cycles, and survey the history of psychiatry in recent centuries in light of this theory. Second, they review the waxing, prominence, and waning of Community Mental Health as an example of a segment of this cyclical history of psychiatry. Third, they provide the first biography of Erich Lindemann, one of the founders of social and community psychiatry, and explore the interaction of the prominent contributor with the historical environment and the influence this has on both. We return to the issue of values and ideologies as influences on psychiatry, whether or not it is accepted as professionally proper. This is intended to stimulate self-reflection and the acceptance of the values sources of ideology, their effect on professional practice, and the effect of values-based ideology on the community in which psychiatry practices. The books will be of interest to psychiatric teachers and practitioners, health planners, and socially responsible citizens.

From Classical to Modern Republicanism - Reflections on England, Scotland, America, and France (Paperback): Mark Hulliung From Classical to Modern Republicanism - Reflections on England, Scotland, America, and France (Paperback)
Mark Hulliung
R1,401 Discovery Miles 14 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1955 Louis Hartz published a volume titled The Liberal Tradition in America, in which he argued that liberalism was the one and only American tradition. Since then scholars of New Left and neoconservative persuasion have offered an alternative account based on the notion that the civic notions of antiquity continued to dominate political thought in modern times. Against this revisionist view the argument of From Classical to Modern Liberalism is that we need to study America in comparative perspective, and if we do so we shall discover that republicanism in the modern world was distinctively modern, drawing upon ideas of natural rights, consent, and social contract. Rather than a struggle between liberalism and republicanism, we should speak about liberal republicanism. Rather than republicanism versus liberalism, we should address liberalism versus illiberalism, the true issue of our age.

How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire (Paperback): Sterling Joseph... How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire (Paperback)
Sterling Joseph Coleman Jr
R1,403 Discovery Miles 14 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire argues that within an entangled web of imperial, colonial and book trade networks books, reading and subscription libraries contributed to a core and peripheral criteria of clubbability used by the "select people"-clubbable settler elite-to vet the "proper sort"-clubbable indigenous elite-as they culturally, economically and socially navigated their way towards membership in colonial clubland. As a microcosm for British-controlled areas of the Caribbean, Asia and Africa, this book assesses the history, membership, growth and collection development of three colonial subscription libraries-the Penang Library in Malaysia, the General Library of the Institute of Jamaica and the Lagos Library in Nigeria-during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This work also examines the places these libraries occupied within the lives of their subscribers, and how the British Council reorganized these colonial subscription libraries to ensure their survival and the survival of colonial clubland in a post-colonial world. This book is designed to accommodate historians of Britain and its empire who are unfamiliar with library history, library historians who are unfamiliar with British history, and book historians who are unfamiliar with both topics.

The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism into the Digital Age (Paperback): Nigel A. Raab The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism into the Digital Age (Paperback)
Nigel A. Raab
R1,412 Discovery Miles 14 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Humanities in Transition explores how the basic components of the digital age will have an impact on the most trusted theories of humanists. Over the past two generations, humanists have come to take basic postmodern theories for granted whether on language, knowledge or time. Yet Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and similar philosophers developed their ideas when the impact of this digital world could barely be imagined. The digital world, built on algorithms and massive amounts of data, operates on radically different principles. This volume analyzes these differences, demonstrating where an aging postmodernism cannot keep pace with today's technologies. The book first introduces the major influence postmodern had on global thought before turning to algorithms, digital space, digital time, data visuals and the concept to digital forgeries. By taking a closer look at these themes, it establishes a platform to create more robust humanist theories for the third millennium. This book will appeal to graduate students and established scholars in the Digital Humanities who are looking for diverse and energetic theoretical approaches that can truly come to terms with the digital world.

Ibn Nazif's World-History - Al-Ta'rikh al-Mansuri (Paperback): David Cook Ibn Nazif's World-History - Al-Ta'rikh al-Mansuri (Paperback)
David Cook
R1,403 Discovery Miles 14 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the first translated and annotated edition of Ibn Nazif's Al-Ta'rikh al-Mansuri. Totalling 227 folios, the manuscript is a unique and valuable source full of historical accounts and anecdotes. The documents include two letters by the Emperor Frederick II in Arabic, as well as the only mention of the Albigensian Crusade in the Arabic language. Other notable material includes Ibn Nazif's notes concerning the rivalries between the various Ayyubids and the wars against Jalal al-Din Mangubirti, descriptions of the Ayyubids in Yemen, and notes on the destruction of the Sicilian Muslims and the defeats of the Spanish Muslims. Containing an extensive historical introduction, this book will appeal to scholars and students interested in the later Crusader and middle Ayyubid periods.

Irish Writers and the Thirties - Art, Exile and War (Paperback): Katrina Goldstone Irish Writers and the Thirties - Art, Exile and War (Paperback)
Katrina Goldstone
R1,402 Discovery Miles 14 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This original study focusing on four Irish writers - Leslie Daiken, Charles Donnelly, Ewart Milne and Michael Sayers - retrieves a hitherto neglected episode of Thirties literary history which highlights the local and global aspects of Popular Front cultural movements. From interwar London to the Spanish Civil War and the USSR, the book examines the lives and work of Irish writers through their writings, their witness texts and their political activism. The relationships of these writers to George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Nancy Cunard, William Carlos Williams and other figures of cultural significance within the interwar period sheds new light on the internationalist aspects of a Leftist cultural history. The book also explores how Irish literary women on the Left defied marginalization. The impetus of the book is not merely to perform an act of literary salvage but to find new ways of re-imagining what might be said to constitute Irish literature mid-twentieth century; and to illustrate how Irish writers played a role in a transforming political moment of the twentieth century. It will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural history and literature, Irish diaspora studies, Jewish studies, and the social and literary history of the Thirties.

Reconstructing Minds and Landscapes - Silent Post-War Memory in the Margins of History (Paperback): Marja Tuominen, T.G.... Reconstructing Minds and Landscapes - Silent Post-War Memory in the Margins of History (Paperback)
Marja Tuominen, T.G. Ashplant, Tiina Harjumaa
R1,403 Discovery Miles 14 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mental and material reconstruction was an ongoing process after World War II, and it still is. This volume combines a detailed treatment of post-war cultural reconstruction in Finnish Lapland - a region on the geographical and historical margins of its nation-state - with comparative case studies of silent post-war memory from other European countries The contributors shed light on key aspects of cultural reconstruction generally: disruptions of national narratives, difficulties of post-war cultural demobilisation, sites of memory, visual narratives of post-war reconstruction, and manifestations of trans-generational experiences of cultural reconstruction. Exploration of the less conspicuous aspects of mental reconstruction reveals various forms of post-war silence and silencing which have halted or hindered different groups of people in their mental return to peace. Rather than focusing on the "executive level" of material reconstruction, the volume turns its gaze towards those who experienced the return to peace in the mental, societal, and historical margins: members of ethnic, religious, and cultural minorities, women, and children. The chapters draw on archival and other original sources, personal memories, autobiographical interpretations, and academic debate. The volume is relevant for scholars and advanced students in the fields of cultural history, art history, and cultural studies.

War and Semiotics - Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation, Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass... War and Semiotics - Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation, Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence (Paperback)
Frank Jacob
R1,414 Discovery Miles 14 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Wars create their own dynamics, especially with regard to images and language. The semiotic and semantic codes are redefined, according to the need to create an enemy image, or in reference to the results of a war that are post-event defined as just or reasonable. The semiotic systems of wars are central to the discussion of the contributions within this volume, which highlight the interrelationship of semiotic systems and their constructions during wars in different periods of history.

History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland (Paperback): Elizabeth Boyle History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland (Paperback)
Elizabeth Boyle
R1,401 Discovery Miles 14 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland explores medieval Irish conceptions of salvation history, using Latin and vernacular sources from c. 700-c. 1200 CE which adapt biblical history for audiences both secular and ecclesiastical. This book examines medieval Irish sources on the cities of Jerusalem and Babylon; reworkings of narratives from the Hebrew Scriptures; literature influenced by the Psalms; and texts indebted to Late Antique historiography. It argues that the conceptual framework of salvation history, and the related theory of the divinely-ordained movement of political power through history, had a formative influence on early Irish culture, society and identity. Primarily through analysis of previously untranslated sources, this study teases out some of the intricate connections between the local and the universal, in order to situate medieval Irish historiography within the context of that of the wider world. Using an overarching biblical chronology, beginning with the lives of the Jewish Patriarchs and ending with the Christian apostolic missions, this study shows how one culture understood the histories of others, and has important implications for issues such as kingship, religion and literary production in medieval Ireland. This book will appeal to scholars and students of medieval Ireland, as well as those interested in religious and cultural history.

Public History and Culture in South Africa - Memorialisation and Liberation Heritage Sites in Johannesburg and the Township... Public History and Culture in South Africa - Memorialisation and Liberation Heritage Sites in Johannesburg and the Township Space (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
R3,030 Discovery Miles 30 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The post-apartheid era in South Africa has, in the space of nearly two decades, experienced a massive memory boom, manifest in a plethora of new memorials and museums and in the renaming of streets, buildings, cities and more across the country. This memorialisation is intricately linked to questions of power, liberation and public history in the making and remaking of the South African nation. Ali Khangela Hlongwane and Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu analyse an array of these liberation heritage sites, including the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, the June 16, 1976 Interpretation Centre, the Apartheid Museum and the Mandela House Museum, foregrounding the work of migrant workers, architects, visual artists and activists in the practice of memorialisation. As they argue, memorialisation has been integral to the process of state and nation formation from the pre-colonial era through the present day.

Women in the French Enlightenment - From Femme Savante to Mother of the Family (Hardcover): Anna Maria Marchini Women in the French Enlightenment - From Femme Savante to Mother of the Family (Hardcover)
Anna Maria Marchini
R4,481 Discovery Miles 44 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume deals with philosophical, scientific, and ideological images of women during the French Enlightenment, examining their emergence in the reflections of the philosophes, in Catholic morality, in biological and medical knowledge, in novels, in periodicals, and in the law. Alongside the appeals for social and intellectual emancipation advanced by the femmes savantes, typical of the eighteenth-century salons, a new conception pertaining to women's social role related to the affirmation of the bourgeoisie and of its model of the family took place. Codified in a more complex and organized way within the Rousseauian philosophy, this new conception spread in various cultural debates, gaining a real hegemony: women were meant to be excluded from any "public" space, devoid of cultural aspirations, and only devoted to satisfying the needs of the family. The book adopts a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and synthetic approach and at the same time highlights the "roots" of some fundamental ways of considering women that are still active in present-day society. It also addresses researchers in the history of philosophy, sociology, literature, and gender studies, and readers with an interest in women's issues.

The Laboratory of Progress - Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1 (Hardcover): Joseph Jung The Laboratory of Progress - Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Joseph Jung; Translated by Ashley Curtis
R4,493 Discovery Miles 44 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small, backward, mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse, a hub of innovation, a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation - all in the course of a single century. That a tiny landlocked country should become a dominant steamship builder for the rest of the world; that a country that had never seen a cotton plant should become the world's second-largest textile producer; that a country with hardly any level terrain should come to boast the world's most highly developed railway network; and that a country whose main export was impoverished emigrants should be transformed into one of the world's major financial centres - these astonishing developments, among many others, are explored and explained, both through the specific stories of individual innovators and through a prescient analysis of the political, economic, societal and cultural structures that formed the context in which Switzerland's astonishing transformation took place. The book is a compelling read both for professional historians and for general readers with an interest in Switzerland; it highlights the roles of transport networks and individual pioneers in industrial and political development.

Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education - Proceedings of the International Conference on History,... Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education - Proceedings of the International Conference on History, Social Sciences, and Education (ICHSE 2021), Malang, Indonesia, 11 September 2021 (Hardcover)
Ronal Ridhoi, Arif Subekti, Francis M. Navarro, Hariyono
R4,063 Discovery Miles 40 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a collection of articles resulting from the International Conference on History, Social Sciences, and Education (ICHSE), which was held on 11 September 2021. The Department of History of Malang State University choose "Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education" as the main topic, and elaborates on five subthemes: 1) new trends in historical research; 2) formulation of new perspectives in history, social sciences, and education; 3) transdisciplinary research in history, social sciences, and education; 4) innovations in historical and social science learning during pandemics; 5) New ideas in the research and practice of social sciences and education. This seminar was open to international academics. This book presents new perspectives on methodology, methods, theory, and themes on history, social sciences, and education research from various perspectives on methodology and historiography. Now, history is not only about politics, economy and military, but also about environment, social, education, culinary, and so on. This book will be useful for students, historians, and the general public, in recording the development of Indonesian historical writing perspectives.

Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum - Origins, Reception and Significance (Hardcover): Grzegorz... Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum - Origins, Reception and Significance (Hardcover)
Grzegorz Bartusik, Radoslaw Biskup, Jakub Morawiec
R4,528 Discovery Miles 45 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The studies collected in this volume investigate the origins and context of the Gesta and will enable researchers to better understand and evaluate the historical veracity of the text / This will appeal to all those interested in Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum / This volume contains essays from leading researchers bring forward the latest studies in this topic.

The Mobility-Security Nexus and the Making of Order - An Interdisciplinary and Historicizing Intervention (Hardcover): Heidi... The Mobility-Security Nexus and the Making of Order - An Interdisciplinary and Historicizing Intervention (Hardcover)
Heidi Hein-Kircher, Werner Distler
R4,510 Discovery Miles 45 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book explores the complex, multi-directional connections of the "mobility/security nexus" in the re-ordering of states, empires, and markets in historical perspective. Contributing to a vivid academic debate, the book offers in-depth studies on how mobility and security interplay in the emergence of order beyond the modern state. While mobilities studies, migration studies and critical security studies have focused on particular aspects of this relationship, such as the construction of mobility as a political threat or the role of infrastructure and security, we still lack comprehensive conceptual frameworks to grasp the mobility/security nexus and its role in social, political, and economic orders. With authors drawn from sociology, International Relations, and various historical disciplines, this transdisciplinary volume historicizes the mobility-security nexus for the first time. In answering calls for more studies that are both empirical and have historical depth, the book presents substantial case studies on the nexus, ranging from the late Middle Ages right up to the present-day, with examples from the British Empire, the Russian Empire, the Habsburg Empire, Papua New Guinea, Rome in the 1980s or the European Union today. By doing so, the volume conceptualizes the mobility/security nexus from a new, innovative perspective and, further, highlights it as a prominent driving force for society and state development in history. This book will be of much interest to researchers and students of critical security studies, mobility studies, sociology, history and political science.

The First Modern Society - Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone (Paperback, Revised): A.L. Beier, David... The First Modern Society - Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone (Paperback, Revised)
A.L. Beier, David Cannadine, James M. Rosenheim
R2,417 R1,227 Discovery Miles 12 270 Save R1,190 (49%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Intended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these essays owe much to his influence. There are also four appreciations by friends and colleagues from Oxford and Princeton and a little-known autobiographical piece by Lawrence Stone himself.

A Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815-1918 - Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglements (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022):... A Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815-1918 - Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglements (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Marysa Demoor
R3,666 Discovery Miles 36 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book highlights the ways in which Britain and Belgium became culturally entangled as a result of their interaction in the period between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War. In the course of the nineteenth century, the battlefields of Waterloo and Ypres in Belgium became veritable burial grounds for generations of dead British military, indirectly leading to the most intensive ties between the two countries. By exploring this twofold path, the author uncovers a series of cross-influences and creative similarities within the Belgo-British artistic community, and explores the background against which the British national identity was constructed. Revealing unknown links between some of the most famous artists on both sides of the channel, such as D.G. Rossetti and Jan Van Eyck; Christina Rossetti and Fernand Khnopff; John Millais and Pieter Breughel, and Lewis Carroll and Quentin Massys, the book emphasises an artistic cross-fertilisation that can be found within battlefield literature throughout the nineteenth century, including examples from the likes of William M. Thackeray, Frances Trollope and Charlotte Bronte. Providing a rich intercultural history of Belgo-British relations after the battle of Waterloo, this interdisciplinary book will appeal to scholars and students researching history, literature, art and cultural studies.

Nostalgia, Loss and Creativity in South-East Europe - Political and Cultural Representations of the Past (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Nostalgia, Loss and Creativity in South-East Europe - Political and Cultural Representations of the Past (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Catharina Raudvere
R2,900 Discovery Miles 29 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Where nostalgia was once dismissed a wistful dream of a never-never land, the academic focus has shifted to how pieces of the past are assembled as the elements in alternative political thinking as well as in artistic expression. The creative use of the past points to the complexities of the conceptualization of nostalgia, while entering areas where the humanities meet the art world and commerce. This collection of essays shows how this bond is politically and socially visible on different levels, from states to local communities, along with creative developments in art, literature and religious practice. Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, the book offers analyses from diverse theoretical perspectives, united by an interest in the political and cultural representations of the past in South-East Europe from a long-term perspective. By emphasising how the relationship between loss and creative inspiration are intertwined in cultural production and history writing, these essays cover themes across South-East Europe and provide an insight into how specific agents - intellectuals, politicians, artists - have represented the past and have looked towards the future.

Evidence in Action between Science and Society - Constructing, Validating, and Contesting Knowledge (Hardcover): Sarah Ehlers,... Evidence in Action between Science and Society - Constructing, Validating, and Contesting Knowledge (Hardcover)
Sarah Ehlers, Stefan Esselborn
R4,505 Discovery Miles 45 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge. The tensions between competing paradigms, different bodies of knowledge and the relative hierarchies between them are a crucial element of the historical and contemporary dynamics of scientific knowledge production. The negotiation of evidence is at the heart of this process. Starting from the premise that evidence constitutes a central, but also essentially contested concept in contemporary knowledge-based societies, this volume focuses on how evidence is generated and applied in practice-in other words, on "evidence in action." The contributions analyze and compare different evidence practices within the field of science and technology, how they interlink with different forms of power, their interaction with and impact on the legal and political domain, and their relationship to other, more heterodox forms of evidence that challenge traditional notions of evidence. In doing so, this volume provides much-needed context and historical background to contemporary debates on the so-called "post-truth" society. Evidence in Action is the perfect resource for all those interested in the relationship between science, technology, and the role of knowledge in society.

The Indonesian Genocide of 1965 - Causes, Dynamics and Legacies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Katharine McGregor, Jess Melvin,... The Indonesian Genocide of 1965 - Causes, Dynamics and Legacies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Katharine McGregor, Jess Melvin, Annie Pohlman
R3,763 Discovery Miles 37 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of essays by Indonesian and foreign contributors offers new and highly original analyses of the mass violence in Indonesia which began in 1965 and its aftermath. Fifty years on from one the largest genocides of the twentieth century, they probe the causes, dynamics and legacies of this violence through the use of a wide range of sources and different scholarly lenses. Chapter 12 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

The Invention of Papal History - Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform (Hardcover): Stefan Bauer The Invention of Papal History - Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform (Hardcover)
Stefan Bauer
R2,656 Discovery Miles 26 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How was the history of post-classical Rome and of the Church written in the Catholic Reformation? Historical texts composed in Rome at this time have been considered secondary to the city's significance for the history of art. The Invention of Papal History corrects this distorting emphasis and shows how historical writing became part of a comprehensive formation of the image and self-perception of the papacy. By presenting and fully contextualising the path-breaking works of the Augustinian historian Onofrio Panvinio (1530-1568), Stefan Bauer shows what type of historical research was possible in the late Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. Crucial questions were, for example: How were the pontiffs elected? How many popes had been puppets of emperors? Could any of the past machinations, schisms, and disorder in the history of the Church be admitted to the reading public? Historiography in this period by no means consisted entirely of commissioned works written for patrons; rather, a creative interplay existed between, on the one hand, the endeavours of authors to explore the past and, on the other hand, the constraints of ideology and censorship placed on them. The Invention of Papal History sheds new light on the changing priorities, mentalities, and cultural standards that flourished in the transition from the Renaissance to the Catholic Reformation.

Ideas and Methodologies in Historical Research (Hardcover): Vladimer Luarsabishvili Ideas and Methodologies in Historical Research (Hardcover)
Vladimer Luarsabishvili
R1,649 Discovery Miles 16 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the versatile nature of historical methodology and its use in interdisciplinary research. Based on the historical overview of the appearance of one sort of historical ideas and disappearance of another, the book aims to demonstrate a wide range of possibilities of research in the field and to show how the pursuit of historical truth may facilitate the formation of collective memory and how the application of research tools can explain events in the contemporary world.

Intergenerational Memory and Language of the Sarajevo Sephardim (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Jonna Rock Intergenerational Memory and Language of the Sarajevo Sephardim (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Jonna Rock
R2,439 Discovery Miles 24 390 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book analyses issues of language and Jewish identity among the Sephardim in Sarajevo. The author examines how Sephardim belonging to three different generations in Sarajevo deal with the challenge of cultivating hybrid and hyphenated identities under destabilizing conditions, exploring how a group of interviewees define and describe the language they speak since Yugoslavia's collapse. Their self-identification through language is then placed within the context of other cases of linguistic and ethnic identity formation in European minority groups. This book will be of interest to students and scholars working in several related fields and disciplines, including Slavic studies, Historical Anthropology, Jewish History and Holocaust studies, Sociolinguistics, and Memory studies.

Benson J. Lossing and Historical Writing in the United States - 1830-1890 (Hardcover, New): Harold Mahan Benson J. Lossing and Historical Writing in the United States - 1830-1890 (Hardcover, New)
Harold Mahan
R2,214 R2,045 Discovery Miles 20 450 Save R169 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Benson J. Lossing (1813-1891), whose career as a populizer of United States history spanned nearly sixty years, is the focus of this study of the production and uses of history in nineteenth-century American culture. After an introduction on relevant theory and methodology and the background for American historical writing, nine chronological chapters trace Lossing's career from an impoverished youth in rural New York through a thirty-year sojourn in New York City and later periods of voluminous writing. A conclusion discusses how Lossing's reputation suffered after the rise of academic historians who perceived him as lacking scholarly exactitude.

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