The American nations; or, Outlines of their general history, ancient and modern
Author | : Constantine Samuel Rafinesque |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1836 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Constantine Samuel Rafinesque |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1836 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1844 |
Genre | : World history |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Fernando Báez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Examines the many reasons and motivations for the destruction of books throughout history, citing specific acts from the smashing of ancient Sumerian tablets to the looting of libraries in post-war Iraq.
Author | : Anthony Grafton |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1995-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674254120 |
Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. What Anthony Grafton recounts is a war of ideas fought by mariners, scientists, publishers, and rulers over a period of 150 years. In colorful vignettes, published debates, and copious illustrations, we see these men and their contemporaries trying to make sense of their discoveries as they sometimes confirm, sometimes contest, and finally displace traditional notions of the world beyond Europe.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 2016-06-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004324720 |
Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books offers insights into the cultural and historical transmission and practices of martial arts, based on the corpus of the Fight Books (Fechtbücher) in 14th- to 17th-century Europe. The first part of the book deals with methodological and specific issues for the studies of this emerging interdisciplinary field of research. The second section offers an overview of the corpus based on geographical areas. The final part offers some relevant case studies. This is the first book proposing a comprehensive state of research and an overview of Historical European Martial Arts Studies. One of its major strengths lies in its association of interdisciplinary scholars with practitioners of martial arts. Contributors are Sydney Anglo, Matthias Johannes Bauer, Eric Burkart, Marco Cavina, Franck Cinato, John Clements, Timothy Dawson, Olivier Dupuis, Bert Gevaert, Dierk Hagedorn, Daniel Jaquet, Rachel E. Kellet, Jens Peter Kleinau, Ken Mondschein, Reinier van Noort, B. Ann Tlusty, Manuel Valle Ortiz, Karin Verelst, and Paul Wagner.
Author | : Ernst Breisach |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226072843 |
In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women’s history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, cultural history, and more. The definitive look at the writing of history by a historian, Historiography provides key insights into some of the most important issues, debates and innovations in modern historiography. Praise for the first edition: “Breisach’s comprehensive coverage of the subject and his clear presentation of the issues and the complexity of an evolving discipline easily make his work the best of its kind.”—Lester D. Stephens, American Historical Review
Author | : Victor Davis Hanson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2010-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1608192946 |
Victor Davis Hanson has long been acclaimed as one of our leading scholars of ancient history. In recent years he has also become a trenchant voice on current affairs, bringing a historian's deep knowledge of past conflicts to bear on the crises of the present, from 9/11 to Iran. "War," he writes, "is an entirely human enterprise." Ideologies change, technologies develop, new strategies are invented-but human nature is constant across time and space. The dynamics of warfare in the present age still remain comprehensible to us through careful study of the past. Though many have called the War on Terror unprecedented, its contours would have been quite familiar to Themistocles of Athens or William Tecumseh Sherman. And as we face the menace of a bin Laden or a Kim Jong-Il, we can prepare ourselves with knowledge of how such challenges have been met before. The Father of Us All brings together much of Hanson's finest writing on war and society, both ancient and modern. The author has gathered a range of essays, and combined and revised them into a richly textured new work that explores such topics as how technology shapes warfare, what constitutes the "American way of war," and why even those who abhor war need to study military history. "War is the father and king of us all," Heraclitus wrote in ancient Greece. And as Victor Davis Hanson shows, it is no less so today.
Author | : Geoffrey Parker |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781861892195 |
This title provides an examination of the rise, evolution and decline of the city-state, from ancient times to the present day.
Author | : Edith Hall |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2014-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393244121 |
"Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, Independent The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold synthesis of the full 2,000 years of Hellenic history to show how the ancient Greeks were the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of human progress. Hall portrays a uniquely rebellious, inquisitive, individualistic people whose ideas and creations continue to enthrall thinkers centuries after the Greek world was conquered by Rome. These are the Greeks as you’ve never seen them before.