History: theory & methods books

Philosophy flourished in Australia after the war. On top of this philosophy spread beyond the philosophy departments....  Read More >>

This book is a work of historical critical exegesis. Historical critical exegesis confines us to the particular...  Read More >>

The soul is so closely connected to life that one cannot think that it could ever be separated from life and, consequently,...  Read More >>

Suppose that a congenitally blind person has learned to distinguish and name a sphere and a cube by touch alone....  Read More >>

Heinrich Caro (1834-1910) was the inventor of new chemical processes that in the two decades commencing in 1869...  Read More >>

"Includes contributions to the philosophy of science from a historical point of view. This work represents a distinguished...  Read More >>

Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences contains a series of explorations of the different ways in which the social...  Read More >>

Starting with Richard Popkin's essay of 1963, `Scepticism in the Enlightenment', a new investigation into philosophical...  Read More >>

Heinrich Hertz, as the con­ summate experimentalist of 19th century technique and as brilliant clarifying critic...  Read More >>

Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology is a growing and important field in archaeology, with implications on the state...  Read More >>

Situated between the ideological exigencies of the Soviet system with its Marxist-Leninist `theoretical foundation'...  Read More >>

To lessen the impact of this dramatic changeover, which will be initially experienced as upheaval and global anxiety,...  Read More >>

A discussion of the historical archaeology of one of the largest cities in the world following four centuries of...  Read More >>

Employs historical archaeological evidence to demonstrate how polite rituals reproduced the social and material...  Read More >>

With an emphasis on paleographic reconstructions, site formation processes, chronological studies, and integrated...  Read More >>

Explores how the development of algebraic symbolism, logarithms, and the practical demands for an expanded number...  Read More >>

Evolution and Constitution for the first time brings together case law and law based on norms.  Read More >>

Medicine Across Cultures: The History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures consists of 19 essays dealing...  Read More >>

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Emergent evolution combines three separate but related claims, whose background, origin, and development I trace...  Read More >>

Scientific research is viewed as a deliberate activity and the logic of discovery consists of strategies and arguments...  Read More >>

This text gives a detailed record of Ludwig Boltzmann's life and philosophical thoughts during his final years,...  Read More >>

The preference bestowed on certain constructions over others results from the slighter recalcitrance in imagining...  Read More >>

The essays in this Festschrift are celebrations of the human mind in its manifold expressions - philosophical, scientific,...  Read More >>

From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to the assassination of JFK to the Birthers, Aaronvitch probes and explores the major...  Read More >>