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The Commune in French Historical Writing
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The Tension between Art and Science in Historical Writing.
… possibilities of understanding the nature of the historical task.</p><p>The speculative philosophies of Augustine, Kant, and Marx; the critical philosophies of Ranke, Comte along with the later positivist, and the historical idealist such as Collingwood will be surveyed. History is then examined …
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THE APPROPRIATION OF ISLAMIC HISTORY AND AHL AL-BAYTISM IN OTTOMAN HISTORICAL WRITING, 1300-1650
This is a study of Ottoman historical productions of the pre-1700 period that deal directly with narratives of early Islamic history. It specifically deals with the representations of the formative events of early Islamic history. Through the lenses of universal histories, biographies of Muhammad, …
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History and the Written Word in the Angevin Empire, (c. 1154 - c. 1200)
… is also noted for its prolific and distinctive historical writing — which was often written by administrators and reproduced administrative documents. Taking these connected phenomena as its starting point, this study investigates how the changing uses of, access to and attitudes towards the …
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An Exploration of Nature and Human Development in Young Adult Historical Fantasy
Traditional historical writing focuses on the cause and effect of human action, assuming that it is the historian’s responsibility to recount the ebbs and flows of human progress. In the process of laying hold of the past as a narrative of human action, historical writing has developed the tendency …
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The context, purpose, and dissemination of legendary genealogies in northern England and Iceland c. 1120 – c. 1241
… study of legendary genealogies in the historical writing of northern England and Iceland c. 1120 – c. 1241. Historical writing was produced in abundance over this period in both areas and the frequent contact between England and Scandinavia, as well as shared use of early medieval …
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Teaching to Think & Read Like a Historian
… 1) a need to return to the basics of reading and writing; 2) break down the sources for student comprehension of complex texts used in social studies classes; 3) students’ struggle with historical writing; and 4) comprehension literacy strategies used in social studies classrooms. Conclusions from …
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Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem: dialectic and the chromatic middleground
… construction. To the wealth of theoretical and historical writing about Brahms's Requiem the present study will contribute an Schenkerian account of musical processes that are integral parts of the work's philosophical dialectic.
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The Echoes of Fitna: Developing Historiographical Interpretations of the Battle of Siffin
… as well as developments in styles of Arabic historical writing, were highly influential in shaping the development of the story. Of particular focus is the development of a narrative voice that seeks to use the story to rehabilitate early Syrian figures by later Syrian historians.
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Writing in the borderlands: A critical review of literary journalism and historiography, 1989-2011
… this review of a body of literary journalism and historical writing over three decades, the author identifies shared epistemological and methodological challenges between these areas. The research questions arose out of the author’s three historical books, ‘Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who …
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Engines of Agency and Affect: A Model for Interactive Histories
… media (principally, games) as a form of historical writing. It argues that when historical knowledge is embedded within an interactive structure, it is as a historical problem space consisting of game and narrative mechanics. It provides a library of historical and digital humanities …
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Pietro Bembo’s Bias: Patronage, History, and the Italic Wars
… in fighting. Venetian Pietro Bembo wrote historical accounts of this period during the Renaissance. His contemporaries, Marino Sanudo, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Francesco Guicciardini, also wrote historical accounts of this time. My research spotlights Bembo’s history of the Venetian …
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The Collecting Habits on an Eighteenth-Century Englishman of Discernment: Charles Rogers, FRS, FRA (1711-1784)
… itself, and his contribution to early art historical writing, the study offers a multifaceted reassessment of Rogers' place in art history.<br/><br/>The first strand explores Rogers as an knowledgeable and engaged connoisseur, participating actively in the intellectual and antiquarian …
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Contemporary History and Its Publics in Italy, 1640-1740
This dissertation investigates the writing of contemporary history in Italy and the emergence of a reading public during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In accordance with humanist conventions, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century historians were often retired statesmen, who …
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Graffiti on the wall: reading history through news media: the role of news media in historical crises, in the case of the collapse of the Eastern bloc in Europe 1989.
… with other news correspondents, a review of historical writing on the period, and an exhaustive review of the coverage given by six major news outlets. The work sees the change in Europe being driven by mass social movements, but also examines conventional, institutional politics at work, and …
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A symphony of voices: digital and visual narratives of Japanese American incarceration
… the complex role of genre in the production of historical and aesthetic experience. The dissertation itself is a mixed-genre, multimodal work, comprising analysis that focuses on the official narrative and counter-narratives from Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII, along with creative …
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The demise of the dialectic: historical consciousness and the American experience
… categories of Critical Theory with a concrete historical content, and I have sought to demonstrate the absolute necessity of including these categories in any historical investigation that seeks to convey the ultimate meaning of the history that it studies.</p> <p>The thesis itself is divided …
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Contested power, identity and status : an historical case study of library paraprofessionals in Australia
… Interrogation of the theory of professions and historical writing, this study examined three major phases in the development of professional and paraprofesslonal library occupations in Australia. The early professionalising phase from the 1930s onwards where the Australian Institute of …
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A Visual Studies Approach To Critical Historiography
… to the literary construction of written historical narratives, they have all but ignored Derrida's caution against the suppression of writing to rhetoric, which reduces writing to speech's graphic representation. My study restores the place of writing qua writing to historiography, a …
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