Results 231 to 240 of about 7,576,134 (299)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.

Modern History

2015
Abstract This chapter discusses the modern history of the privity rule, focusing on the major cases. Any doubt that the privity rule formed part of the modern common law was laid to rest in Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd v Selfridge and Co Ltd.
Michael Furmston, Gregory Tolhurst
openaire   +2 more sources

Modernity, Post-Modernity and the Philosophy of History

Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1994
L'A. etudie les enjeux du debat sur la modernite ouvert par Lyotard, Habermas, Rorty et d'autres, concernant: 1) une philosophie substantive de l'histoire, 2) une interpretation narrativiste de cette philosophie, 3) la signification du debat sur la modernite du point de vue de la post ...
openaire   +1 more source

Sports History and Modern British History

Sport in History, 2011
Martin Daunton, Wealth and Welfare: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1851–1951 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). Pp. xv + 656. £29.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-198-73209-9.
openaire   +2 more sources

MODERNISM AND MODERN ART HISTORY

Art History, 1981
The Story of Modern Art by Norbert Lynton, Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1980, 382 pp., 212 ills, 85 colour pls, £13.95The Shock of the New; Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes, London: BBC Publications, 1980, 69 ills, 192 colour pls, £15 ...
openaire   +1 more source

Gendering modern Japanese history

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture, 2019
In the past quarter-century, gender has emerged as a lively area of inquiry for historians and other scholars, and gender analysis has suggested important revisions of the "master narratives" of national histories - the dominant, often celebratory tales ...
Barbara Molony, K. Uno
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A History of Modern Africa

, 2019
• Adopts a long-term approach to current issues, stressing the importance of nineteenth-century and deeper indigenous dynamics in explaining Africa's later twentieth-century challenges • Places a greater focus on African agency, especially during the ...
Richard J. Reid
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Comparative Method and the History of the Modern Humanities

History of Humanities, 2017
This article studies the modern development of the comparative method in the humanities and social sciences within Europe and the United States, and specifically addresses comparative subfields of philology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology ...
Devin Griffiths
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What Happened in History


PROFESSOR V. GORDON GHILDE, who died in the Blue Mountains of his native Australia in 1957 soon after retiring from the Directorship of the London University Institute of Archaeology, was one of the great pre-historians of the world.
Gordon Childe, G. Clark, Gordon Ghilde
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Nation in History


In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and nationalism in history.
A. Smith
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Modernity and History

Diogenes, 1983
Does modernity still have a future? The news from the modern world suggests a negative answer. It is true, the project of modernity, in the fourth century after its inception, has still not been brought to its completion. Modern man has not yet succeeded in establishing himself as maître et possesseur de la ...
openaire   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy