The battle of Vouillé, 507 CE : where France began / edited by Ralph W. Mathisen and Danuta Shanzer.

Table of Contents: “…Foreword; The Political and Military Dimension; The First Franco-Visigothic War and the Prelude to the Battle of Vouillé; Vouillé and the Decisive Battle Phenomenon in Late Antique Gaul; Vouillé, Voulon, and the Location of the Campus Vogladensis; Vouillé 507: Historiographical, Hagiographical, and Diplomatic Reconsiderations and Fortuna; Clovis, Anastasius, and Political Status in 508 C.E.: The Frankish Aftermath of the Battle of Vouillé; The Battle of Vouillé and the Restoration of the Roman Empire; The Role of Religion; Arians, Catholics, and Vouillé.…”
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Diodorus' mythistory and the pagan mission : historiography and culture-heroes in the first pentad of the Bibliotheke / by Iris Sulimani. by Sulimani, Iris

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Modernizing nature : forestry and imperial eco-development, 1800-1950. by Rajan, S. Ravi

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Questions of Tradition. by Phillips, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: What Is Tradition When It Is Not 'Invented'? A Historiographical Introduction -- Part I -- 1 Narratives of the Treaty Table: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of Tradition -- 2 Disappearing Acts: Traditions of Exposure, Traditions of Enclosure, and Iroquois Masks -- 3 The Tradition of African Art: Reflections on the Social Life of a Subject -- 4 Zwarte Piet's Bal Masqué -- 5 Traditional Futures -- Part II -- 6 Tacit Knowledge: Tradition and Its Aftermath -- 7 The Traditions of Liberalism -- 8 Law/Custom/Tradition: Perspectives from the Common Law -- 9 Tradition, Ethical Knowledge, and Multicultural Societies -- 10 Ideas about Tradition in the Life and Work of Philippe Ariès -- 11 Tradition as Politics and the Politics of Tradition -- Contributors.…”
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Tributary Empires in Global History. by Bang, Peter Fibiger

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American denominational history : perspectives on the past, prospects for the future / edited by Keith Harper.

Table of Contents: “…Woodruff Tait -- Black Protestantism : a historiographical appraisal / Paul Harvey -- Mormon historiography / David J. …”
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Hitler, the Germans, and the final solution / Ian Kershaw. by Kershaw, Ian

Table of Contents: “…: the emergence of the 'final solution' in the 'Warthegau' -- Hitler's role in the 'final solution' -- The 'everyday' and the 'exceptional': the shaping of popular opinion, 1933-1939 -- German popular opinion during the 'final solution': information, comprehension, reactions -- Reactions to the persecution of the Jews -- Popular opinion and the extermination of the Jews -- German popular opinion and the 'Jewish question', 1939-1943: some further reflections -- Hitler and the Holocaust -- 'Normality' and genocide: the problem of 'historicization' -- Shifting perspectives : historiographical trends in the aftermath of unification -- Hitler and the uniqueness of Nazism -- War and political violence in twentieth-century Europe.…”
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The land beyond the mists : essays on identity and authority in precolonial Congo and Rwanda / David Newbury ; foreword by Jan Vansina. by Newbury, David S.

Table of Contents: “…Bushi and the historians : historiographical themes in eastern Kivu -- Recent historical research in the area of Lake Kivu : Rwanda and Zaire -- Lake Kivu regional trade in the nineteenth century -- Kamo and lubambo : dual genesis traditions on Ijwi Island -- The campaigns of Rwabugiri -- Rwabugiri and Ijwi -- King and chief on Ijwi Island -- The clans of Rwanda : a historical hypothesis -- Bunyabungo : the western frontier in Rwanda, ca. 1750-1850 -- What role has kingship? …”
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The school of doubt : skepticism, history and politics in Cicero's Academica / by Orazio Cappello. by Cappello, Orazio

Table of Contents: “…2.2 The Letter as Reluctant Agit-Prop: The Correspondence between Cicero and Varro2.3 The Dedication Letter: ad Familiares 9.8; 3 Effecting Cicero: Fiction, Criticism and Subjectivity; 3.1 The Epistolary Cicero: Dialogue, Friendship and the Subject of the Letters; 3.2 On the Horizon: The Shrine to Tullia and Caesar's Return; 3.3 Conclusion; Part 2: The Pedigree of Doubt: Ciceronian Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy; 4 Historical Philosophy: Cicero and the Academica in Their Historiographical Contexts; 4.1 Program Notes; 4.2 Situating the Academica: The Corpus…”
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The rise of the Ottoman Empire : studies in the history of Turkey, 13th-15th centuries / Paul Wittek ; edited by Colin Heywood. by Wittek, Paul, 1894-1978

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The politics of commercial treaties in the eighteenth century : balance of power, balance of trade / Antonella Alimento, Koen Stapelbroek, editors.

Table of Contents: “…British Testimonies about the TreatyThe Portuguese Position: From Dom Luís da Cunha to the Marquis of Pombal; Historiographical Theses and Revisions; New Historiographical Developments; Concluding Remarks; Epilogue; The Anglo-French Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 Revisited: The Politics of Rivalry and Alliance; Introduction; The Impeachments in 1715: Charges and Defences; The Economics of Alliance and Rivalry; Conclusion: The Aftermath of the Treaty of Utrecht; The Treaty of Asiento between Spain and Great Britain; The Asiento Treaty and the War of the Spanish Succession…”
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Cultures in collision and conversation : essays in the intellectual history of the Jews / David Berger. by Berger, David, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…-- Miracles and the natural order in Nahmanides -- Polemic, exegesis, philosophy, and science : reflections on the tenacity of Ashkenazic modes of thought -- Malbim's secular knowledge and his relationship to the spirit of the Haskalah -- The uses of Maimonides by twentieth-century Jewry -- The Institute for Jewish Studies on its eightieth anniversary -- Interpreting the Bible -- "The wisest of all men" : Solomon's wisdom in medieval Jewish commentaries on the Book of Kings -- On the morality of the patriarchs in Jewish polemic and exegesis -- Yearning for redemption -- Three typological themes in early Jewish Messianism : Messiah son of Joseph, rabbinic calculations, and the figure of Armilus -- Some ironic consequences of Maimonides' rationalist approach to the Messianic age -- Sephardic and Ashkenazic Messianism in the Middle Ages : an examination of the historiographical controversy -- Maccabees, Zealots, and Josephus : the impact of Zionism on Joseph Klausner's history of the second temple -- The fragility of religious doctrine : accounting for orthodox acquiescence in the belief in a second coming -- Epilogue. …”
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Post-Holocaust : interpretation, misinterpretation, and the claims of history / Berel Lang. by Lang, Berel

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: The Nazi as Criminal; Two: Forgiveness, Revenge, and the Limits of Holocaust Justice; Three: Evil, Suffering, and the Holocaust; Four: Comparative Evil:Measuring Numbers, Degrees, People; Five: The Grammar of Antisemitism; Six: The Unspeakable vs. the Testimonial: Holocaust Trauma in Holocaust History; Seven: Undoing Certain Mischievous Questions about the Holocaust; Eight: From the Particular to the Universal, and Forward; Nine: Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism (in Sex, Shit, and Status)Ten: Lachrymose without Tears: Misreading the Holocaust in American LifeEleven: "Not Enough" vs. …”
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The valour and the horror revisited / edited by David J. Bercuson and S.F. Wise.

Table of Contents: “…Savage Christmas: The Canadians at Hong KongThe Canadians on VerriÃ?res Ridge: A Historiographical Survey -- In the Shadow of Death by Moonlight -- APPENDIX: The Valour and the Horror Controversy and the Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Volume 3 -- CONTRIBUTORS…”
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The essential tension : selected studies in scientific tradition and change / Thomas S. Kuhn. by Kuhn, Thomas S.

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Preface -- I. Historiographic Studies -- 1. The Relations between the History and the Philosophy of Science -- 2. …”
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Soldiers, bombs and rifles : military history of the 20th century / edited by Paola Lo Cascio, Alberto Pellegrini and Antoni Segura i Mas.

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Cromwell and the Interregnum. by Smith, David

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Between artifacts and texts : historical archaeology in global perspective / Anders Andrén. by Andrén, Anders, 1952-

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Japanese historiography and the gold seal of 57 C.E. : relic, text, object, fake / by Joshua A. Fogel. by Fogel, Joshua A., 1950-

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Windows into men's souls : religious nonconformity in Tudor and early Stuart England / Kenneth L. Campbell. by Campbell, Kenneth L.

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