Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paperback (2nd Ed.) - Hayden White

Contributor(s): Author: Hayden WhiteSince its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's Metahistory has remained an essential book for understand...

This history of Europe from the French Revolution to the First World War weaves together political, economic, social and cultural developments.

Provides a map of current approaches to comics and their engagement with historical representation. The first section of the book explores the exis...

In blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, diplomats and travellers, English nation and Italian nation, Maura O'Connor shows us the exten...

DescriptionImperial Russia's large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the sig...

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. Lond...

This innovative book will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural, musical and scientific history of the nineteenth century - from undergraduat...

The dome of thought is an accessible and lively history of the Victorian pseudoscience of phrenology. It makes extensive use of the popular account...

In the 19th century Europe changed more rapidly and radically than during any prior period. This volume offers an approach to understanding one of ...

Reducere. By the Wand of Some Magician addresses the severe impact of railroad technology upon its arrival into Vermont in the mid-nineteenth century that in...

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Neil ThomasIllustration(s): 12 black and white tactical maps & 32 colour photographsNumber of pages: 208...

Contributor(s): Author: Hayden WhiteHayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning--its pro...

In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth cent...

This work is Volume 2 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early tw...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Paul W. RhodeIllustration(s): 13 line drawings, 132 tablesNumber of pages: 336Collection: Nati...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: E. W. BovillAuthor: Edward W. Bovill"This book is the liveliest account of African history ever written, covering overone] ...

Reducere. Remarkably thorough descriptions, information about hundreds of fashions: morning dresses, riding outfits, bridal gowns, more. Also millinery, foot...

The great German theologian Albert Schweitzer famously drew a line under nineteenth-century historical Jesus research by showing that at the bottom...

Reducere. Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System In this engaging new study, John D. Wong examines the Canton trad...

Focusing on David Clement Scott, the head of the Church of Scotland mission in Malawi, this innovative book narrates the rise and demise of a uniqu...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Stuart (Stuart Woolf dec'd as advised by daughter Deborah Woolf sf cases 01896460 & 01911615) WoolfNumber...

Reducere. Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Ranci re's most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Re...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Clare Walker GoreIllustration(s): 4 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 208Collection: E...

Bringing together an international group of established and emerging scholars, this volume considers the emerging field of the history of emotion a...

Reducere. Two brothers grow up on the Jewish streets of Warsaw. At the turn of the twentieth century, Adolphe leaves to seek work and start a family in Switz...

This book contributes to our understanding of modern European history through the lens of sound by examining diverse subjects such as performed and...

Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds t...

Tracing a mid-nineteenth-century revolution in understandings of old and second-hand books, David McKitterick reveals a transformation in values th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William L. WhiteThe product of more than 35 years of research, the Second Edition of Slaying the Dragon is the remarkable s...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have got a partner in a ballroom? What would y...

In this brilliant guide to modern European political ideas and thinkers spans the twentieth century, the author illuminates both the twentieth-cent...

A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year - the rise and fall of the women who ruled sixteenth-century Europe

Labyrinths of Deceit. Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth century - Richard J. Walker

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 236 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s)...

Reducere. Hayden White borrows the title for The Practical Past from philosopher Michael Oakeshott, who used the term to describe the accessible material and...

The first study to examine both the experience and representation of Christmas during the formative period of the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...

In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Helsinger reframes lyric poetry as a social form. Taking nineteenth-century poetry as her focus, she explores v...

Irish Imperial Networks: Migration, Social Communication and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century India - Barry Crosbie

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 3 bw illusNumber of pages: 344Collection: Global Shakespeare InvertedPublication date: 2022Dim...