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Kingship
By: Oakley, Francis
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
From despots to powerless figureheads, and from the Neolithic era to the present, this book traces the history of kingship around the world and the tenacity of its connection with the sacred.; Considers the many forms that kingship took during this period, including: the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt; the emperors of Japan; the Maya rulers of Mesoamerica; the medieval popes and emperors; and the English and French monarchs of early modern Europe.; Explores the panoply of governing roles that kingship involved – administrative, military, judicial, economic, religious and symbolic – but focussing on its connection with the sacred.; Draws on the insights of cultural anthropology and comparative religion, as well as the on the resources provided by historians.
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Price: $110.00
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Learning History in America
By: Kramer, Lloyd (ed.); Reid, Donald (ed.); Barney, William L. (ed.)
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
As it extends recent discussions about multiculturalism into the sphere of contemporary historical understanding, this book sets out explicitly to explore the practical and theoretical implications of these discussions for people who learn and teach history in the United States.
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Price: $70.50
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Literary Texts And The Roman Historian
By: Potter, David
Published by: Routledge
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian provides an accessible and concise introduction to the complexities of Roman historiography.
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Price: $28.95
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Madness in Seventeenth-century Autobiography
By: Hodgkin, Katharine
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd.
What did it mean to be mad in seventeenth-century England? This book uses autobiographical accounts of mental disorder to explore the ways madness was identified and experienced from the inside. It asks how certain people came to be defined as insane, and what we can learn from the accounts they wrote.
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Price: $100.00
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Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy
By: Peacock, Andrew
Published by: Routledge
Using newly discovered manuscripts, this study sheds much new light not just on mediaeval Islamic history and the development of Islamic historiography but also on manuscripts and the transmission of their texts.
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Price: $125.00
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Medieval Arabic Historiography
By: Hirschler, Konrad
Published by: Routledge
Using a fresh theoretical approach to pre-modern Arabic historiography, this study is concerned with social contexts and narrative structures of pre-modern Islamic historigraphy, written in Arabic in seventh and thirteenth century Syria and Eygpt.
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Price: $120.00
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Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities
By: Reuter, Timothy; Nelson, Janet L.
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Timothy Reuter was a perceptive and original thinker, a medievalist with extraordinary range. This collection of his essays addresses three themes: historiography and the development of the modern study of the medieval past; the importance of symbolic action and communication; and the need to avoid anachronism in considering medieval politics.
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Price: $85.00
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Mind Materiality and History
By: Toren, Christina
Published by: Routledge
Mind, Materiality and History has direct relevance to current debates on the nature of mind and consciousness, and demonstrates the centrality of the study of children to social analysis.
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Price: $38.95
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Modern Historiography
By: Bentley, Michael
Published by: Routledge
Modern Historiography is the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era.
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Price: $27.95
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