Historiography category: 1227 books
History of the Swiss Watch Industry
From Jacques David to Nicolas Hayek- Third edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This book tackles the history of the Swiss watch industry in a global perspective: it gives particular attention to rival nations such as the United Kingdom, the USA and Japan. The author demonstrates how Swiss watchmakers succeeded in facing various challenges: the industrialization of production...
Global History, Globally
Research and Practice around the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained rather provincial in scope. Global...
by Alfred Kaka
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
Comoros Economy and Political Leadership. A history Book. The three islands that form the present state of Comoros were French protectorates at the end of the 19th century and were proclaimed colonies in 1912. Following a referendum in December 1974, the Comoran Chamber of Deputies unilaterally declared...
Settled Strangers
Asian Business Elites in East Africa (1800-2000)
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Settled Strangers aims at understanding the social, economic and political evolution of the transnational migrant community of Gujarati traders and merchants in East Africa. The history of South Asians in East Africa is neither part of the mainstream national Indian history nor that of East African...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
This edited collection attends to the locations of memory along and about the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh borders and the complex ways in which such memories are both allowed for and erased in the present. The collection is situated at the intersection of narratives connected to memory and commemoration...
by Romila Thapar
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
The claim that India--uniquely among civilizations--lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question: how to recognize the historical sense of societies whose past is recorded in ways very different from European conventions. Romila Thapar, a distinguished scholar of ancient India,...
Sport, Culture and Nation
Perspectives from Indian Football and South Asian Cricket
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
An in-depth analysis of the intricate relationships among sport, culture, politics, identity and regional cooperation in South Asia
In South Asia, sport has long been a site—albeit ignored by social scientists—which articulates the complexities and diversities of the everyday life of...
by John Hull
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Akrotiri, Santorini History and Environment. Akrotiri, Santorini, Dhekelia And Ancient Settlement The excavations at Akrotiri have uncovered one of the most important prehistoric settlements of the Aegean. The first habitation at the site dates from the Late Neolithic times (at least the 4th millennium...
Replicating Atonement
Foreign Models in the Commemoration of Atrocities
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
This collection examines what happens when one country’s experience of dealing with its traumatic past is held up as a model for others to follow. In regional and country studies covering Argentina, Canada, Japan, Lebanon, Rwanda, Russia, Turkey, the United States and former Yugoslavia, the authors...
Memories on the Move
Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
‘Through a series of excellent essays this volume uses concrete ethnographic analyses of memory practices in different parts of the globe to offer theoretical reflections on how memory shapes and is shaped by mobility in time and space.’
- Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
This volume considers the confluence of World History and historical materialism, with the following guiding question in mind: given developments in the field of historical materialism concerned with the intersection of race, gender, labour, and class, why is it that within the field of World History,...
Being a Historian
An Introduction to the Professional World of History
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Based on the author's more than 50 years of experience as a professional historian in academic and other capacities, Being a Historian is addressed to both aspiring and mature historians. It offers an overview of the state of the discipline of history today and the problems that confront it and its...
Writing the South through the Self
Explorations in Southern Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Drawing on two decades of teaching a college-level course on southern history as viewed through autobiography and memoir, John C. Inscoe has crafted a series of essays exploring the southern experience as reflected in the life stories of those who lived it. Constantly attuned to the pedagogical value...
Gautamastakam
The greatest master…the greatest prayer
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2013
The greatest master...the greatest prayer...stop going here and there, just pray to Guru Gautam Swami and see all your dreams fulfilled. This composition contains eight stanzas that extol Guru Gautam Swami, the first gandhara of Lord Mahavira who was the 24th Tirthankar of the jains. This composition...