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Free Download Alon Helled, "Israel’s National Historiography: Between Generations, Identity and State "
English | ISBN: 3031627946 | 2024 | 191 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The book analyses the development of Israel’s national identity through the world of local Jewish Zionist historiography. Inspired by Norbert Elias’ historical and figurational sociology, the book examines the different phases and generations in Israel in light of the collective habitus and the nation-state survival unit, set by Zionism. It does so by putting in relation the intellectual profession of history-writing and the processes of state and identity building. It processually pursues the autonomization of the historiographical field in Israel from its socio-genesis in pre-state Israel to recent decades. By combining together well-established literature on the relations between nationalism and statehood and on the particularity of the Israeli case, the book updates the state of the art and opens new debates on Jewish\Israeli exceptionalism, while shedding light on continuity and change in Israeli statehood vis-à-vis the supposed uniqueness of Jewish history, as reinterpreted and codified by Zionism. As it examines the interconnections between local intelligentsia and politics, the enquiry avails of the sociological concepts of "generation," "habitus," "survival unit," "field," according to the long-period tradition of research in Pierre Bourdieu, Norbert Elias, Max Weber, and more. This rich sociological conceptualization permits to mirror and contextualize Israel’s national identity with both intellectual and sociopolitical emphases. By situating Israeli historians and their profession on the dynamic crossroads and intersections of academia, politics, and greater society, the study delineates the deep meaning of "Israeliness."

Free Download Laura Carlson Hasler, "Archival Historiography in Jewish Antiquity"
English | ISBN: 0190918721 | 2020 | 240 pages | PDF | 1221 KB
The question of how the Bible received its unusual form has been a question addressed by scholars since critical study of the text began. Early attention focused on the Pentateuch and the Primary History. Archival Historiography in Jewish Antiquity argues that Ezra and Nehemiah, late texts sometimes overlooked in such discussions, reveal another piece of this longstanding puzzle. Laura Carlson Hasler suggests that the concept of archival historiography makes sense of Ezra and Nehemiah’s unusual format and place in the Bible. Adapting the symbolic quality of ancient Near Eastern archives to their own purposes, the writers of these books found archiving an expression of religious and social power in a colonized context. Using the book of Esther as a comparative example, Carlson Hasler addresses literary disruption, a form unpalatable to modern readers, as an expected element of archival historiography. This book argues that archiving within the experience of trauma is more than sophisticated history writing, and in fact served to facilitate Judean recovery after the losses of exile.

Free Download Georg G. Iggers, "Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge"
English | ISBN: 0819567663 | 2005 | 198 pages | AZW3 | 517 KB
A broad perspective on historical thought and writing, with a new epilogue.

Free Download Clio’s Battles: Historiography in Practice by Jeremy Black
English | July 1, 2015 | ISBN: 0253016754 | 326 pages | PDF | 2.83 Mb
To write history is to consider how to explicate the past, to weigh the myriad possible approaches to the past, and to come to terms with how the past can be and has been used. In this book, prize-winning historian Jeremy Black considers both popular and academic approaches to the past. His focus is on the interaction between the presentation of the past and current circumstances, on how history is used to validate one view of the present or to discredit another, and on readings of the past that unite and those that divide. Black opens with an account that underscores the differences and developments in traditions of writing history from the ancient world to the present. Subsequent chapters take up more recent decades, notably the post-Cold War period, discussing how different perspectives can fuel discussions of the past by individuals interested in shaping public opinion or public perceptions of the past. Black then turns to the possible future uses of the then past as a way to gain perspective on how we use the past today. Clio’s Battles is an ambitious account of the engagement with the past across world history and of the clash over the content and interpretation of history and its implications for the present and future.

Free Download Philosophy, its History and Historiography by A. J. Holland
English | PDF | 1985 | 335 Pages | ISBN : 9027719454 | 33 MB
The Royal Institute of Philosophy has been sponsoring conferences in alternate years since 1969. These have from the start been intended to be of interest to persons who are not philosophers by profession. They have mainly focused on interdisciplinary areas such as the philosophies of psychology, education and the social sciences. The volumes arising from these conferences have included discussions between philosophers and distinguished practitioners of other disciplines relevant to the chosen topic. Beginning with the 1979 conference on ‘Law, Morality and Rights’ and the 1981 conference on ‘Space, Time and Causality’ these volumes are now constituted as a series.

Free Download Sonja Brentjes, "Historiography of the History of Science in Islamicate Societies "
English | ISBN: 103244505X | 2023 | 244 pages | PDF | 15 MB
This book presents eight papers about important historiographical issues as debated in the history of science in Islamicate societies, the history of science and philosophy of medieval Latin Europe and the history of mathematics as an academic discipline. Six papers deal with themes about the sciences in Islamicate societies from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, among them novelty, context and decline. Two other papers discuss the historiographical practices of historians of mathematics and other disciplines in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Free Download Kristina Rexová, "Historical Bibliography as an Essential Source for Historiography"
English | ISBN: 1443876178 | 2015 | 275 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This volume brings together papers presented at the Fifth International Conference of the European Historical Bibliographies Project, held in Prague on November 7 – 8, 2013, under the auspices of the Department of Historical Bibliography of the Institute of History of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic. The conference attracted bibliographers, historians and librarians from Denmark, France, Ireland, Lithuania, Germany, Switzerland and from a number of Czech institutions and libraries, who gathered to discuss a wide range of topics. The main theme of the conference was the significance of historical bibliography for historical science. Given the diversity of professional focus among the conference participants, this topic was approached and examined from a variety of viewpoints. The most important outcomes of these meetings were, firstly, explaining the way individual participating organisations dealt with historical bibliography, and, secondly, providing a comparison of different methodological and technological approaches for processing specialized bibliographies in various European countries. This book introduces the wider public to the current shape and prospects of historical bibliography projects across a range of European countries. Obviously, such projects must reflect the needs of their users, which mainly comprise historians and librarians. The ongoing development of historical bibliography does not only involve a technical challenge, but also a methodological one, as well as a societal one when interpreted in a broader context. Mutual communication helps form the future direction of historical bibliography, which will undoubtedly face many new tasks and challenges.

Free Download Sandra Lapointe, "Historiography and the Formation of Philosophical Canons"
English | ISBN: 1032024348 | 2023 | 350 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 12 MB
This book presents a series of case studies and reflections on the historiographical assumptions, methods and approaches that shape the way in which philosophers construct their own past.

Free Download Austin Stevenson, "The Consciousness of the Historical Jesus: Historiography, Theology, and Metaphysics "
English | ISBN: 056771439X | 2024 | 264 pages | EPUB, PDF | 557 KB + 17 MB

Free Download Charles O’Malley, "Toward a Just Pedagogy of Performance: Historiography, Narrative, and Equity in Dramatic Practice "
English | ISBN: 1032138319 | 2023 | 238 pages | EPUB, PDF | 622 KB + 10 MB