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Studies in historical documents from Nepal and India
This volume is the outcome of the conference “Studying Documents in Premodern South Asia and Beyond: Problems and Perspective”, held in October 2015 in Heidelberg. In bringing together experts from different fields—including Indology, Tibetology, History, Anthropology, Religious Studies, and Digital Humanties—it aims at exploring and rethinking issues of diplomatics and typology, the pl…
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- 9783946054702
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- XI, 535 p.
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- Documenta Nepalica
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- 954.96 STU s
Genealogy, archive, image : interpreting dynastic history in western India, c…
The ethnographic approach to Indian history and genealogy; the making of dynastic history in the kingdom of Jhalavad; the history of Gujarat. ‘Genealogy, Archive, Image’ addresses the ways in which history and tradition are ‘reinvented’ through text, memory and painting. It examines the making of dynastic history in the kingdom of Jhalavad, situated in Gujarat, western India, over th…
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- 9783110539455
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- XVI, 278 p.
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- 954.75 JHA, g
The Old English translation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum …
Did King Alfred the Great commission the Old English translation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, probably the masterpiece of medieval Anglo-Latin Literature, as part of his famous program of translation to educate the Anglo-Saxons? Was the Old English Historia, by any chance, a political and religious manifesto for the emerging ‘Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons’? Do we deal w…
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- 978386395189
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- 411 p.
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- 274.2 LEM o
Global history and new polycentric approaches : Europe, Asia and the Americas…
Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its emergence in Asia with the rapid development of th…
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- 9789811040535
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- xxx, 352p. : ill.
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- 901 GLO g
The cold war in the classroom : international perspectives on textbooks and m…
This book explores how the socially disputed period of the Cold War is remembered in today’s history classroom. Applying a diverse set of methodological strategies, the authors map the dividing lines in and between memory cultures across the globe, paying special attention to the impact the crisis-driven age of our present has on images of the past. Authors analysing educational media point t…
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- 9783030119997
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- xxx, 459p. : ill.
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- 909.825072 COL c
Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus
Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across. Hau also shows how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writin…
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- 9781474411073
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- VIII, 312 p.
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- 170.938 HAU m
World history, a genealogy : private conversations with world historians, 199…
This volume charts the history of the discipline through twenty-five in-depth conversations with historians whose work has shaped the field of world history in fundamental ways. These conversations, which took place over a period of twenty years for the world history journal Itinerario, cover these historians’ lives, work, and views of the academy in general and the field of world history in …
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- 9789400602854
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- 429p. : ill.
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- 907.2 WOR w
Writing history in the digital age
A born-digital project that asks how recent technologies have changed the ways that historians think, teach, author, and publish
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- 9780472072064
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- xiii, 283p. : ill.
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- 902.85 WRI w
Digital Samaritans : rhetorical delivery and engagement in the digital humani…
Digital Samaritans explores rhetorical delivery and cultural sovereignty in the digital humanities. The exigence for the book is rooted in a practical digital humanities project based on the digitization of manuscripts in diaspora for the Samaritan community, the smallest religious/ethnic group of 770 Samaritans split between Mount Gerizim in the Palestinian Authority and in Holon, Israel. Base…
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- 9780472072804
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- xx, 164p. : ill
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- 296.817072 RID d
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