Kelley offers a critical survey of western historical thought and writing from the pre-classical era to the late-18th century. He focuses on persistent themes and methodology: myth, national origins, chronology, language, rhetoric, and translation.
Leonard Krieger has long been revered as a contemporary master historian. With an eye toward placing his critical achievements before an expanded readership, he helped compile this core collection of his most important essays. Together these essays bring under single cover the k…
Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most importan…
Wodurch prägten die französischen Historiker aus dem Umfeld der Zeitschrift »Annales« einen wissenschaftlichen Paradigmenwechsel von der Politikgeschichte zur Sozial- und Mentalitäten-Geschichte? Peter Schöttler spürt den schwierigen Beziehungen und Verflechtungen zwischen franz…
