Historics : why history dominates contemporary society / Martin L. Davies. by Davies, Martin L.

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Historical dictionaries and historical dictionary research : papers from the International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology, at the University of Leicester, 2002 /...

Table of Contents: “…-- Roget's Thesaurus, deconstructed -- From Incipit to Iconophor -- The History of a Multi-dialectal Catalan Dictionary: the Diccionari Català-Valencia-Balear -- Culture and the Dictionary: Evidence from the First European Lexicographical Work in China -- Historical Dictionaries -- Polysemy and the Dictionary of Old English -- Aspects of Polysemy in the Middle English Dictionary -- Polysemy and Synonymy and how these Concepts were Understood from the Eighteenth Century onwards in Treatises, and Applied in Dictionaries of English -- Culinary Exchanges: an Investigation of the Etymologies of some Loanwords in the Third Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary -- Citations in the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal -- Ordering a Historical Dictionary: the Example of Shakespeare's Informal English -- Index.…”
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The Discovery of Historicity in German Idealism and Historism edited by Peter Koslowski. by Koslowski, Peter, 1952-2012

Table of Contents: “…Introduction by Peter Koslowki -- German Idealism's Philosophy of History and its Contemporary Critique -- The Theory of History in German Historism -- German Theory and Philosophy of History Today.…”
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Historical morphology / edited by Jacek Fisiak.

Table of Contents: “…Contains twenty-three papers prepared for presentation at the International Conference on Historical Morphology held at Boszkowo, Poland, 15-18 March 1978.…”
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Regimes of historicity : presentism and experiences of time / François Hartog ; translated by Saskia Brown. by Hartog, François

Table of Contents: “…-- Introduction : orders of time and regimes of historicity -- Making history : Sahlins's Islands -- From Odysseus's tears to Augustine's meditations -- Chateaubriand, between the old and the new regimes of historicity -- Memory, history, and the present -- Heritage and the present.…”
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Historical literatures : writing about the past in Engand, 1660-1740 / Noelle Gallagher.

Table of Contents: “…Satire and panegyric as forms of historical writing ; Metonymy : Edmund Waller, Andrew Marvell, and the advice-to-a-painter poem ; Metaphor : John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel and historical allegory -- 4. …”
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Historical perspectives : from the hasmoneans to bar kokhba in light of the dead sea scrolls.

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Historical archaeology : back from the edge / edited by Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Martin Hall, and Siân Jones.

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The Historic Imaginary : Politics of History in Fascist Italy. by Fogu, Claudio

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Historical knowledge : in quest of theory, method and evidence / edited by Susanna Fellman and Marjatta Rahikainen.

Table of Contents: “…On historical writing and evidence -- The method of clues and history theory -- The silences of the archives, the renown of the story -- Our words, and theirs : a reflection on the historian's craft, today -- Microhistory and the recovery of complexity -- Revisiting microhistory from the perspective of comparisons -- Source pluralism as a method of historical research.…”
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Historic capital : preservation, race, and real estate in Washington, D.C. / Cameron Logan. by Logan, Cameron, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Race and Resistance: Gentrification and the Critique of Historic Preservation -- 5. Whose Neighborhood? Whose History? …”
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The historical uncanny : disability, ethnicity, and the politics of Holocaust memory / Susanne C. Knittel. by Knittel, Susanne C.

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Historical processes / Donald A. Dawson, Edwin A. Perkins. by Dawson, Donald A. (Donald Andrew), 1937-

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Historical Judgement. by Gorman, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…The philosophy of a discipline; Respect for historiography; Modelling a discipline: the truth of historical theory; Description and prescription; Justification in the second-order context: Popper and Hempel; Justification in the second-order context: Kuhn; Rival historiographies of science; 3. …”
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Historical pragmatics : pragmatic developments in the history of English / edited by Andreas H. Jucker.

Table of Contents: “…HISTORICAL PRAGMATICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction; The Historical Perspective in Pragmatics; Part I: Pragmaphilology; The Openness of Medieval Texts; They Had Their Points Punctuation and Interpretation in English Renaissance Literature; Punctuation: And -- 'Pragmatics'; A Close Reading of William Caxton's Dialogues" ... to lerne Shortly frenssh and englyssh"; Wills and Will-Making in 16th and 17th Century England Some Pragmatic Aspects.…”
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The historical romance / Helen Hughes. by Hughes, Helen, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The structures of historical romance -- chapter 3 The readers of historical romance -- chapter 4 Evolution versus revolution The inevitability of the bourgeois state -- chapter 5 English heritage -- chapter 6 Class, the gospel of work and 'hazard' -- chapter 7 'Brute heroes' and 'spirited heroines' -- chapter 8 History, best-sellers and the media.…”
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Historical Muscat : an Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer. by Peterson, John

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Historical sociopragmatics / edited by Jonathan Culpeper.

Table of Contents: “…Historical Sociopragmatics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; About the Authors; Historical sociopragmatics; Structures and expectations; The sociopragmatics of a lovers' spat; Altering distance and defining authority; Variation and change in patterns of self-reference in early English correspondence; Identifying key sociophilological usage in plays and trial proceedings (1640-1760); Index.…”
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Historical present : Medievalism and modernity / Walter Kudrycz. by Kudrycz, Walter

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Historical linguistics : toward a twenty-first century reintegration / Don Ringe and Joseph F. Eska. by Ringe, Donald A., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Figures; Tables; Preface; What this book tries to do; Methodological preliminaries: the nature of hypotheses; Authorship; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Special challenges of historical linguistics; Meeting the challenges: the uniformitarian principle; Selection of illustrative examples; Transcription; 1 The nature of human language and language variation; Language is species-specific; A biological parallel: birdsong; Universal Grammar; The Principles and Parameters model; Learning from inadequate evidence; Consequences of the model; 2 Language replication and language change.…”
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