Publisher's Synopsis
Encyclopaedia of Research Methodology in History brings together leading organization scholars and business historians to examine the opportunities and challenges of incorporating historical research into the study of firms and markets. It encourages those researching the past to think creatively about the wide range of methods currently in use, to understand how these methods are used and what historical insights they can provide. History is the study of the past, particularly how it relates to humans. It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. The text History: Theory and Analysis focuses on contemporary history in the thinking, history of dermatology, historical sociology, nominalism in history, history of humanism and hermeneutics, and life history theory. First chapter introduces the concept of history as contemporary history in the thinking of Benedetto Croce. Second chapter focuses on history of psoriasis. The relationship between sociology and history has been discussed in third chapter. Fourth chapter deals with nominalism in history, its application, and its historiographical implications. In fifth chapter, the examination of Angel Island poems in many ways demonstrates varied applications for the historical narrations and provides critical historical resources through multiple representations of historical imaginations with cross-time and cross-space figurativeness and metaphors. The aim of sixth chapter is to test speculative approach to capture the foundations of the moral order in postcolonial African societies, particularly the significance of European colonization, which ended be- tween the late 1950s and early 1990s. The myth of the discovery of America in Chilean music history has been discussed in seventh chapter. Eighth chapter offers a reconstruction of the historical evolution of legal comparison from the ancient to post-modern times. The aim of ninth chapter is to contribute to the on-going debate about self-redescription in the history of African philosophy using the method and theory of redescription. Borderland theory as a conceptual framework for comparative local USA and Canadian history has been presented in tenth chapter. Eleventh chapter aims at understanding why and through which modalities the cooperative relationship between Mozambique and Italy has taken its exceptional character and lasting commitment. Last chapter focuses on life history theory and evolutionary psychology.