Historia: teori & metod

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This book traces the development of scientific conservation and technical art history. It takes as its starting point the final years of the nineteenth century, which saw the establishment of the first museum laboratory in Berlin, and ground-break...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's Republic has influenced Western philosophers for centuries, with its main focus on what makes a well-balanced society and individual.

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The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental wor...

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'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker _________________________ In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acqu...

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One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history? The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole so...

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På några få minuter var det över. Fem människor låg ihjälskjutna och lika många låg sårade, på grusvägen ner till hamnen, där i Lunde. En ung kvinna, Eira Söderberg, hade träffats av kulspruteeld. Den militära truppens beskjutning av ett obeväpnat...

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'The most important book of the Trump era' The Economist How does a democracy die? What can we do to save our own? What lessons does history teach us? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful less...

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John H. Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ways these questi...

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Historieskrivningen om Sveriges agerande under andra världskriget har gått från att vara ett spörsmål för några få historieintresserade till att bli ett slagträ i den svenska inrikespolitiska debatten. Riksdagspartier och profilerade debattörer ha...

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Varför bry sig om historien i ett land som Sverige, ett land som haft fred i tvåhundra år? När andra länder minns sina stupade, sina revolutioner, sina hjältar och sina tragedier, vad ska då svenskarna minnas? Svenska historiker hävdar ändå att hi...

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During and after World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, a watershed moment in Greek history that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. And while few dispute the expulsions tragic scope, it remains the subjec...

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A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the worlds most influential and distinguished historians The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In...

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Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented cult...

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Metodkunskaper är nödvändiga för att både skriva, läsa och förstå vetenskaplig text. För att kunna få fram och ta del av information i historiska källor krävs både kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder av olika slag. Den här grundboken har därför e...

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Metodövningar är ett sätt att lära sig historieforskningens hantverk. Genom att studera olika källor och väga dem mot varandra kommer man fram till vad som kan vara en hållbar beskrivning och en möjlig analys av ett skeende. Källstudierna ger ocks...

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Metodövningar är ett sätt att lära sig historieforskningens hantverk. De ger insikt i hur man värderar skriftliga källor av skilda slag för att få kunskap om förflutna samhällen. Men metodövningar ger också träning i hur man förhåller sig till tid...

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Anna Green provides a coherent and accessible introduction to the major theoretical approaches and key concepts within this most diverse of historical fields. 'Cultural History' explores the conceptual, affective and imaginative worlds of human co...

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BY THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE 'Both history and a rallying cry . . . an illuminating guide to the nature and possibilities of propaganda.' TLS From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredibl...

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Bruce Gilley's watershed academic article "The Case for Colonialism" sparked a global furor. The book has been called, "one of the most important works of history of the last fifty years." One thing in certain: it cannot be ign...

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Why arent ordinary Russians more outraged by Putins invasion of Ukraine? Inside the Kremlins own historical propaganda narratives, Russias invasion of Ukraine makes complete sense. From its World War II cult to anti-Western conspiracy theories, th...

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In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin ...

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Kunskapshistoria är ett dynamiskt internationellt forskningsfält och i denna introduktion har författarna samlat centrala begrepp och perspektiv som är bärande inom dagens kunskapshistoria. Med fokus på en särskild sorts kunskapshistoria, kunskape...

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Att använda teori är en viktig del av historievetenskaperna. Med hjälp av teori kan en analys fördjupas och de empiriska resultaten göras greppbara i ett vidare sammanhang. För den som ska skriva en uppsats kan dock arbetet med teori framstå som a...

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Since the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming the Victims shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious a...

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One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history? The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole so...

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The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussein was like appeasing Hitler or Mussolini, and promptly invaded Iraq. Were they wrong to loo...

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The third edition of Writing History provides students and teachers with a comprehensive overview of how the study of history is informed by a broader intellectual and analytical framework, exploring the emergence and development of history as a d...

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The humanities include disciplines as diverse as literary theory, linguistics, history, film studies, theology, and philosophy. Do these various fields of study have anything in common that distinguishes them from, say, physics or sociology? The t...

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The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present need...

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