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Developing digital historians in Italy
… concerns the experiences of Italian digital historians and their implications for historical scholarship. The present and future of the profession of historian, in academia and outside it, are inextricably linked to the digital revolution that is pervading society. How historians face the …
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Robespierre and the French Historians
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The Histories and Historians of Central America to 1850
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A Measure of Detachment: Richard Hofstadter and the Progressive Historians
… arose as a critical response to the Progressive historians, particularly to Charles Beard. It argues that Hofstadter's first two books were demonstrations of the inadequacy of Progressive methodology, while his third book (the Age of Reform) was a demonstration of the potential of his new way of …
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An allergy and Novelists of the past, historians of the present
… and an exegesis: Novelists of the Past, Historians of the Present. The creative extract is part of a much longer project, called an allergy, a multi-generic self-reflexive historiographical metafictional novel which explores ideas of history and fiction, memory and imagination, truth and …
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‘Ye Olde Englishe Communists’: Popular Front Historians and the Left, 1936-1940
… Britons. In doing so, these ‘Popular Front historians’ also revealed the deep rooted Anglocentrism within both the British historical tradition and its socialist movements. At a time when movements for national independence were beginning to stir in Scotland and Wales, the Popular Front …
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Newspapers and historical research: a study of historians and custodians in Wales
… types of professional and non-professional historians, to evaluate the value of newspapers as historical documents and the problems particular to them. Examines the difficulties associated with newspapers in library collections from both the perspectives of newspaper users and custodians. …
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The huge delusion: a study of the young emperors and Roman historians
… psychoanalysts, philologists, and legions of historians, novelists, scenarists, and the like. Though many of their treatments are helpful, I find a parochialism caused by a focus of one Caesar or a single discipline. Hereditary epilepsy, for example, may occur in the Julians, but it does not …
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The contribution of émigré art historians to the British art world after 1933
The purpose of this Ph.D. thesis on émigré art historians in Britain is not only to show how alien the concept of art history was to the British before 1933, but also to assess and qualify the subsequent practical and theoretical contribution of art historians who immigrated to Britain. These 93 …
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Students As Historians: The Historical Narrative Inquiry Model's Impact on Historical Thinking and Historical Empathy
The dissertation explores middle-school students' abilities to engage in historical thinking. I dispute the Hallam-Piaget model, which discourages analytical thinking through the assumption that children lack skills to think critically about history. My historical narrative inquiry model (1) …
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Army officers, historians and journalists : the emergence, expansion and diversification of British military history, 1854-1914
… the subject was overlooked at universities, few historians wrote on the topic and the government had not yet sanctioned the writing of official history. Yet, by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the situation was radically different. Not only had Military History come to play an …
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Church Historians and Maronite Communal Consciousness: Agency and Creativity in Writing the History of Mount Lebanon
… nationalist myths and ideologies and that historians are central agents of nationality.
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Learning from e-family history: online research behaviour and strategies of family historians and implications for local studies collections.
… examines the online research behaviour of family historians, identifying a taxonomy of actions (seeking of genealogical facts, local or social history; communicating with other researchers or resources; locating resources or instructive information; managing own information), strategies (search …
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FORGETTING THE WEAKNESS OF HER SEX AND A WOMAN'S SOFTNESS':HISTORIANS OF THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD AND THEIR FEMALE SUBJECT'
The number of historians who wrote during the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries creates the unusual problem of too many sources. The sheer number of interesting and powerful women does the same. In order to narrow the topic of the presentation of women in texts from this period, I have …
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A Match Made in Heaven or Hell: Historians Debate the Influence of Richard Wagner on Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.
… development of Adolf Hitler as seen by various historians.</p> <p>This author has consulted the works of many different authors to attempt to find the ideological roots of Adolf Hitler.</p> <p>The ideology of Richard Wagner, as seen by some of the most pre-eminent historians of this period, has …
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