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Free Download David Hume: Historical Thinker, Historical Writer by Mark G. Spencer
English | November 15, 2013 | ISBN: 0271061545 | 296 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
This volume provides a new and nuanced appreciation of David Hume as a historian. Gone for good are the days when one can offhandedly assert, as R. G. Collingwood once did, that Hume "deserted philosophical studies in favour of historical" ones. History and philosophy are commensurate in Hume’s thought and works from the beginning to the end. Only by recognizing this can we begin to make sense of Hume’s canon as a whole and see clearly his many contributions to fields we now recognize as the distinct disciplines of history, philosophy, political science, economics, literature, religious studies, and much else besides. Casting their individual beams of light on various nooks and crannies of Hume’s historical thought and writing, the book’s contributors illuminate the whole in a way that would not be possible from the perspective of a single-authored study.

Free Download A Historical and Theoretical Guide to Studying Religion by Wesley Kort
English | January 16, 2024 | ISBN: 1839990546 | 184 pages | PDF | 1.17 Mb
This book, a guide to studying religion, has two parts. The first or historical part traces the rise of the academic study of religion from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Primary attention is given to the relation of studying religion to Romanticism and to its contrary relations to principal characteristics of Western modernity, especially its rational and materialist emphases. The second part of the book addresses matters that present uncertainties, problems, and even tensions within the field, such as, what is or should be meant by referring to some persons or groups as religious, why religion is so often a cause of tensions and even conflicts both within and between religious groups and between them and the increasingly nonreligious or secular quality of modern Western culture, and the problem that arises for the field by reason of scholars who, on one side, are themselves religious and who, on the other side, are nonreligious or secular. The book places this final difficulty, the difference and often the tension between religious and nonreligious approaches to the study of religion, in the role of a unifying theme of the book and offers a way by which this problem can be addressed and to a considerable degree reduced.

Free Download Palestine Historical Chronicle: A Journey Through Time by Verity Press
English | March 22, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CWS221HN | 107 pages | EPUB | 0.41 Mb
"Palestine Historical Chronicle: A Journey Through Time"delves into the rich tapestry of Palestine’s history, weaving together millennia of events that shaped the destiny of a land and its people.

Free Download Réka Krizmanics, "Historical Knowledge Production Cultures in Late Socialist Hungary and Croatia: Expertise Unsettled"
English | ISBN: 1666933236 | 2024 | 250 pages | PDF | 1161 KB
Historical Knowledge Production Cultures in Late Socialist Hungary and Croatia: Expertise Unsettled offers a comparative study and analysis from the Hungarian case, and integrating academic, party, and popular historiography into a single analytical framework. Narratives concerning the history of the interwar period and the Second World War, and circumstances of their elaboration are at the forefront of this study. Réka Krizmanics argues that even within state socialist Eastern Europe, different enabling and restrictive factors were at play, and investigates the specificities of late socialism while embedding them in the context of their interwar, Stalinist and post-Stalinist legacies. "Expertise Unsettled" refers to the growing peril of historians, who proved to be often divided among themselves, and were increasingly on the defense as a guild, when literature, cinema, and interested non-professionals got involved in making and criticizing narratives of the recent past. Party history and party historians have been often sidelined in intellectual history, but the author argues that their inclusion is crucial both for a more complex understanding of what (late) state socialism meant for historians and to historicize practices of contemporary post-socialist, especially illiberal memory regimes.

Free Download Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts), 2nd Edition by Laurence Senelick
English | August 13, 2015 | ISBN: 1442249269 | True EPUB/PDF | 692 pages | 23.4/9 MB
A latecomer continually hampered by government control and interference, the Russian theatre seems an unlikely source of innovation and creativity. Yet, by the middle of the nineteenth century, it had given rise to a number of outstanding playwrights and actors, and by the start of the twentieth century, it was in the vanguard of progressive thinking in the realms of directing and design. Its influence throughout the world was pervasive: Nikolai Gogol’, Anton Chekhov and Maksim Gor’kii remain staples of repertories in every language, the ideas of Konstantin Stanislavskii, Vsevolod Meierkhol’d and Mikhail Chekhov continue to inspire actors and directors, while designers still draw on the graphics of the World of Art group and the Constructivists. What distinguishes Russian theater from almost any other is the way in which these achievements evolved and survived in ongoing conflict or cooperation with the State.

Free Download Historical Dictionary of German Theater (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts), 2nd Edition by William Grange
English | June 17, 2015 | ISBN: 1442250194 | True EPUB/PDF | 484 pages | 1.8/2 MB
The German-language theater is one of the most vibrant and generously endowed of any in the world. It boasts long and honored traditions that include world-renowned plays, playwrights, actors, directors, and designers, and several German theater artists have had an enormous impact on theater practice around the globe. Students continue to study German plays in dozens of languages, and every year scores of German plays are produced in a wide variety of non-German venues.

Free Download Gregor Kranjc, Žarko Lazarevic, Carole Rogel, "Historical Dictionary of Slovenia"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1538111055 | PDF | pages: 746 | 6.1 mb
The expanded third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Slovenia covers personalities and events that have made a mark on Slovenia in the more than a decade since the last edition. This includes new entries related to Slovenia’s first 13 years as a member of NATO and the EU, changing diplomatic relations with its neighbors and other global states and institutions, a new crop of politicians who have upended the political status quo, entries related to Slovenia’s worst 21st century recession (2008-2013), nationwide protests against corruption, and many other developments.

Free Download C.S. Harris, "What Angels Fear: A Historical Mystery"
English | 2005 | pages: 346 | ISBN: 0451216695 | PDF | 1,1 mb
The prime suspect in the brutal rape and murder of a young woman whose body is left on the altar steps of an ancient church, Sebastian St. Cyr, a young aristocrat haunted by his experiences in the Napoleonic Wars, becomes a fugitive, joining forces with an unlikely group of allies as he flees a ruthless powerbroker with ties to the Prince Regent. A first novel.

Free Download Marcy Linton, "Historical Pattern Archive: Women’s Clothing 1837-1969"
English | 2019 | pages: 283 | ISBN: 1138708496, 1138708518 | PDF | 260,0 mb
Historical Pattern Archive: Women’s Clothing 1837-1969 is the first book of its kind to capture such a wide range of women’s period patterns in one book, featuring 83 patterns spanning over a century of clothing.

Free Download Late Professor K. A. Nizami, "Delhi in Historical Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 0190124008 | 2020 | 184 pages | PDF | 672 KB
Many books have been written on the fascinating and chequered history of the city of Delhi. Few, however, have the breadth and scope of K.A. Nizami’s book, first published in Urdu in 1972. It captures in rich detail the cultural, social, economic and spiritual fabric of the city over seven centuries, using original literary, travel, biographical, hagiographical and administrative accounts in Persian, Hindavi and Urdu.