Jaakko Tahkokallio, "The Anglo-Norman Historical Canon: Publishing and Manuscript Culture "
English | ISBN: 1108713777 | 2019 | 75 pages | PDF | 716 KB
This Element is a contribution to the ongoing debate on what it meant to publish a book in manuscript. It offers case-studies of three twelfth-century Anglo-Norman historians: William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Geoffrey of Monmouth. It argues that the contemporary success and rapid attainment of canonical authority for their histories was in significant measure the result of successfully conducted publishing activities. These activities are analysed using the concept of a 'publishing circle'. This concept, it is suggested, may have wider utility in the study of authorial publishing in a manuscript culture. This Element is also available as Open Access.

Water and Human Societies: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030676919 | 266 Pages | PDF EPUB | 23 MB
This textbook explores the historical relationships between human communities and water. Bringing together for the first time key texts from across the literature, it discusses how the past has shaped our contemporary challenges with equitable access to clean and ample water supplies. The book is organized into chapters that explore thematic issues in water history, including "Water and Civilizations," Water and Health," "Water and Equity" and "Water and Sustainability". Each chapter is introduced by a critical overview of the theme, followed by four primary and secondary readings that discuss critical nodes in the historical and contemporary development of each chapter theme. "Further readings" at the end of each chapter invite the reader to further explore the dynamics of each theme. The foundational premise of the book is that in order to comprehend the complexity of global water challenges, we need to understand the history of cultural forces that have shaped our water practices. These historical patterns shape the range of choices available to us as we formulate responses to water challenges.

Shakespeare's World: The Comedies : A Historical Exploration of Literature
by John Pendergast
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1440857482 | 272 Pages | PDF | 1.31 MB

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1780273673 | 289 pages | True PDF | 15.79 MB
The Outer Hebrides lie 40 miles to the west of mainland Scotland, forming a barrier to the North Atlantic. Culturally distinct from early prehistory, the islands contain a wealth of historical and archaeological monuments, including the standing stones at Callanish, the magnificent St Clement's church at Rodel as well as numerous brochs, castles, Pitish houses, croft houses and industrial and military buildings.
In addition to descriptions of key historic sites from prehistory onwards and gazetteers covering every place of historical interest, this book also traces the development of the modern environment and landscape of the islands, enabling the visitor to appreciate the sites within their historical and cultural context.

The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era: Presenting the Past By Susan Brantly
2017 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 1315386445 | PDF | 2 MB
This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How does an author's nationality or gender impact their artistic choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a transnational audience? This study demonstrates how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. Furthermore, it traces how the concerns of the postmodern era, such as postmodern critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the Enlightenment, have impacted the genre of the historical novel, and shows this impact has not been uniform throughout Western culture. Not all historical novels written during the postmodern era are postmodern. The historical novel as a genre occupies a problematic, yet significant space in Cold War literary currents, torn between claims of authenticity and the impossibility of accessing the past. Historical novels from England, America, Germany, and France are compared and contrasted with historical novels from Sweden, testing a variety of theoretical perspectives in the process. This pitting of a center against a periphery serves to highlight traits that historical novels from the West have in common, but also how they differ. The historical novel is not just a local, regional phenomenon, but has become, during the postmodern era, a transnational tool for exploring how we should think of nations and nationalism and what a society should, or should not, look like.

Approaching Historical Sources in their Contexts - Space, Time and Performance
pdf | 20.57 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B08749MRK9 | Author: Sarah Barber | Year: 2020

Penny Summerfield, "Histories of the Self: Personal Narratives and Historical Practice"
English | ISBN: 0415576199 | 2018 | 202 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Histories of the Self interrogates historians' work with personal narratives. It introduces students and researchers to scholarly approaches to diaries, letters, oral history and memoirs as sources that give access to intimate aspects of the past.

Approaching Historical Sources in their Contexts: Space, Time and Performance (Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources) by Sarah Barber
2020 | ISBN: 0815364814, 0815364806 | English | 260 pages | PDF | 21 MB
In Approaching Historical Sources in Their Contexts, 12 academics examine how space, time and performance interact to co-create context for source analysis.

Scientific Method: A Historical and Philosophical Introduction By Barry S. Gower
1996 | 285 Pages | ISBN: 0415122821 | PDF | 2 MB
The results, conclusions and claims of natural science are often taken to be reliable because they arise from the use of a distinctive method. Yet today, there is widespread scepticism as to whether we can validly talk of method in modern science. This outstanding new survey explains how this controversy has developed since the seventeenth century and explores its philosophical basis. Questions of scientific method are discussed through key figures such as Galileo, Bacon, Newton, Bayes, Mill, Poincare, Duhem, Popper, and Carnap. The concluding chapters contain stimulating discussions of attacks on the idea of scientific method by key figures such as Kuhn, Lakatos, and Feyerabend. Essential reading for students of the history and philosophy of science. Scientific Method will also appeal to anyone with an interest in what philosophers say about science.

Nigel West Historical Dictionary Of Ian Flemings World Of Intelligence Fact And Fiction Historical Dictionaries Of Intelligence And Counterintelligence 2009 | 856.09 KB
English | 309 Pages

Title: Historical Dictionary of Ian Fleming's World of Intelligence: Fact and Fiction (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence)
Author: Nigel West
Year: 2009