Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents Page -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The study of the urbanisation of the North-Western provinces -- Chapter 1 Object and Aims -- 1.1 Ancient cities: ancient definitions -- Figure 1: The north-western provinces of the Roman Empire: Gaul Narbonensis, the Western Alps -- i.e. the provinces of Alpes Graiae, Alpes Cottiae, and Alpes Maritimae -- the Three Gauls, Germania Inferior, and Britannia. -- Introduction -- 1.2 The object of research -- 1.2.1 A juridical definition -- 1.2.2 Morphology and size -- 1.2.3 A functional definition
Rebecca E. Karl interrogates the concept and practice of "the economic" as it was understood in China in the 1930s and the 1980s and 90s, showing how the use of Eurocentric philosophies, narratives, and conceptions of the economic that exist outside lived experiences fail to capture modern China's complex history
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In recent years, historians have debated fervently on the reason for the decline of British Labour History as an academic discipline. Most certainly the challenge of Thatcherism to the working classes and trade unions in the 1980s, and the fragmentation of Labour history into gender studies, industrial studies and women's history, have contributed to its apparent decline. Post-modernists' challenges to the concept of class, culture and community have done their damage. As a result "Labour his.
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SUMMARY: The article explores the ways in which historians of Ukraine are trying to make sense of modern political developments: the Maidan revolution and the Russo-Ukrainian war. It argues that much of the historical commentary on the Ukrainian events is shaped by the essentialist understanding of both identity and history. Scrutinizing the use of evidence, references to history, and moral judgment in recent texts of historians discussing Ukraine, the author argues that attempts to find explanations for a contemporary crisis in the cultures and structures of the past are not only historically inaccurate but also much less insightful than experiments with applying only the methods of historical inquiry, removed from any teleological explanatory frameworks. Pointing to the gaps in our knowledge of Ukraine, the author also urges historians to be more circumspect and considerate when dealing with still unfolding events that affect millions of our contemporaries.
В статье обсуждается сложившаяся недавно ситуация: историки Украины выступают в качестве экспертов современной политической ситуации, анализируя революцию Евромайдана и российско-украинскую войну. Автор приходит к выводу, что большая часть комментариев историков пронизана эссенциалистским пониманием идентичности и исторического процесса. Исследуя работу со свидетельствами, обращение к историческим примерам и моральные оценки в недавних текстах историков, обсуждающих Украину, автор приходит к следующему выводу: попытки найти объяснение современному кризису в культурах и структурах прошлого не только исторически некорректны, но и мало что объясняют. Гораздо продуктивнее использование методов и моделей исторического исследования, очищенных от любых телеологических объясняющих схем. Указывая на лакуны в наших знаниях об Украине, автор также призывает историков быть более осмотрительными и тактичными, когда они пишут о разворачивающихся на наших глазах событиях, затрагивающих миллионы наших современников.
The importance of energy to the functioning of any economy has meant that energy industries are amongst the most regulated of industries. What might appear to be purely private decisions are made within a complex and evolving web of government regulations. Petropolitics: Petroleum Development, Markets and Regulations, Alberta as an Illustrative History provides an economic history of the petroleum industry in Alberta as well as a detailed analysis of the operation of the markets for Alberta oil and natural gas, and the main governmental regulations (apart from environmental regulations) faced by the industry. The tools used within this study are applicable to oil and gas industries throughout the world.Winner, 2014 Book of the Year, Petroleum History Society
The "two-state solution" is the official policy of Israel, the United States, the United Nations, and the Palestinian Authority alike. However, international relations scholar Mehran Kamrava argues that Israel's "state-building" process has never risen above the level of municipal governance, and its goal has never been Palestinian independence. He explains that a coherent Palestinian state has already been rendered an impossibility, and to move forward, Palestine must redefine its present predicament and future aspirations. Based on detailed fieldwork, exhaustive scholarship, and an in-depth examination of historical sources, this controversial work will be widely read and debated by all sides.
