Kategoria BISAC: History >> Reference

Die vorliegende Festschrift geht von der Auffassung aus, da die Wurdigung eines hervorragenden Reprasentanten einer wissenschaftlichen Disziplin bzw. eines bestimmten wissenschaftlichen Ansatzes umso glaubwurdiger ist, je konsequenter sie auf den einschlagigen Fachdiskurs bezogen wird. Ihre Herausgeber haben sich deshalb darauf verstandigt, die ublichen affirmativreputativen Elemente zuruckzustellen zugunsten einer Losung, die man den Versuch einer 'kritischen' Festschrift nennen konnte.

Historians and Nature considers five cutting-edge questions facing environmental historians today. How can we historicize nature? Is nature a historical actor? How have human beings interacted with nature and what patterns have emerged? How do we understand the ecology of urban spaces? What is the history of environmental diplomacy? Focusing on the United States and Germany, the book takes a comparative approach in examining environmental history. The authors draw on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, including history, cultural studies, human geography, biology and ecology....

"Reference Sources in History" catalogs atlases, encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, sourcebooks, bibliographies, and chronologies and makes sense of it all. Its broad scope and systematic organization make it an accessible, reliable resource for experienced and inexperienced researchers alike.

Fully annotated and updated, the new edition summarizes hundreds of reference works on every conceivable subject in history--from ancient to modern, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. This edition also reflects the dramatic impact of the digital revolution on historical research by integrating a...

The index to the Scandinavian Biographical Archive and the Scandinavian Biographical Archive. Series II contains short biographical information on persons from the whole of Scandinavia. It makes accessible approx. 350,000 articles from more than 500 sources. These works were published between 1621 and 1999.

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Christopher Columbus' discovery of the new world launched a process of economic and cultural integration that continues to this day. In the wake of Columbus's voyages, the major powers of Western Europe established imperial systems that shaped global politics and economics for centuries. "The Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism" is designed to provide a ready reference tool for students and scholars of these systems. Its major focus is the Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch, French, German, Belgian, and Italian empires during the past 500 years.

"The Dictionary" offers brief...

Containing some 3,000 quotations by 1,000 writers from different cultures, times, and perspectives, this book will fascinate readers who enjoy reflecting on history. "Choice"

This unusual work examines the literature of history and its attempts to define the meaning of history. Approximately three thousand quotations by about 1,000 prominent philosophers, writers, and historians offer diverse interpretations of the significance of historical study, ranging from history viewed as bunk to history elevated to lyric poetry.

The entries, arranged alphabetically by author, represent a...