Kategoria BISAC: History >> Historiography

Seit der Wende von 1989/90 haben sich die Erkenntnisinteressen der internationalen Mediavistik radikal gewandelt. Unter dem Eindruck aktueller politischer Prozesse gerieten die lange Zeit dominierenden nationalgeschichtlicher Debatten immer weiter in den Hintergrund. An ihre Stelle trat zum einen die Frage nach der Integration und Desintegration der Kulturen im europaischen Mittelalter, zum anderen die Suche nach den Akteuren, Anlassen und Folgen weltumspannender Interaktionen wahrend des mittelalterlichen Jahrtausends. Prof. Dr. Michael Borgolte hat diese Paradigmenwechsel seit mehr als...

Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan is a historical analysis of the discourses of nostalgia in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japan. Through an analysis of the experience of rapid social change in Japan's modernization, it argues that fads (ryuko) and the desires they express are central to understanding Japanese modernity, conceptions of gender, and discourses of nationalism. In doing so, the author uncovers the myth of eternal return that lurks below the surface of Japanese history as an expression of the desire to find meaning amid the chaos and alienation of modern times....

The dynamic aspect of biological systems--the birth, growth, and death of individual organisms, the evolution of one form into another over time--has formed the basis for metaphors used in many fields for both artistic and heuristic purposes. Cladistic classification uses a tree whose branch points are based on the possession of derived or relatively recent characteristics, rather than primitive ones.

Die Geschichte der internationalen Beziehungen hat in den vergangenen Jahren einen enormen Aufwind erlebt. Sie hat ihre Themenfelder erweitert, ist methodisch offener und pluralistischer geworden. Der Sammelband vereinigt 52 Beitrage internationaler Autorinnen und Autoren. Er bildet die Vielfalt methodischer Ansatze und die thematische Breite der neuen internationalen Geschichtsschreibung ab.

This translation of the introduction to Wang Hui's Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2004) makes part of his four-volume masterwork available to English readers for the first time. A leading public intellectual in China, Wang charts the historical currents that have shaped Chinese modernity from the Song Dynasty to the present day, and along the way challenges the West to rethink some of its most basic assumptions about what it means to be modern.

China from Empire to Nation-State exposes oversimplifications and distortions implicit in Western critiques of...

Inscribed some time after 264 BCE, the Parian Marble offers a chronological list of events with an exceptional emphasis on literary matters. Literary History in the Parian Marble explores the literary and historiographical qualities of the inscription, the genre to which it belongs, and the emerging patterns of time. Endorsing the hypothesis that the inscription was originally displayed at a Parian shrine honoring Archilochus, Andrea Rotstein argues that literary history was one of its main concerns. Though it may be conventional in its focus on the chronology of poets, their...