Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345303639Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of...

The first book to examine plantations in their global variations through the history of knowledge.Few institutions feature as prominently in contemporary notions of colonialism, racism, and environmental degradation as the modern plantation. The...

Eric Foner has done more to shape the public and professional understanding of American history than any other scholar. The preeminent historian of the Civil War era, Foner's keynote has been American freedom and the recurring battles over its meanings...

"If historical scholarship has often proved irrelevant to the world outside university walls, history itself has burst into the public domain. Over the last decade, we have witnessed intense national debates over how to present historic events to a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781976600470Author Dean RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

Volume 151 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 15 Lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2006. From consideration of Einstein, to discussions of coercion and consent in Nazi Germany, and judicial independence.Book InformationISBN...

This series is designed to meet the needs of students of ancient and medieval history and others who wish to broaden their study by reading source material, but whose Latin and Greek is not sufficent to allow them to do so in the original language...

Bringing together essays on uses of history as both a practical activity and an approach to thinking about the present, this collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with history in pasts both distant and near.Reckoning with History begins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561640041Author Ann L HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This fifth volume advances the frontier of transnational history into early modern times. The six chapters of this volume...

Since Aristotle's famous declaration that the speculative sciences originated with the emergence of a leisure class, it has been accepted as a truism that intellectual activity requires political stability and leisure in order to flourish. Paradoxically,...

Co-published with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, each of the author's articles in this collection was published separately during the decade of the 1970s. Covering both domestic and diplomatic history, they reflect a conservative outlook and a...

Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary...

Since Aristotle's famous declaration that the speculative sciences originated with the emergence of a leisure class, it has been accepted as a truism that intellectual activity requires political stability and leisure in order to flourish. Paradoxically,...

Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587 is set in the Hanlin Academy in Ming dynasty China. Most students are members of the Grand Secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, the body of top-ranking graduates of the civil service...

Volume 125 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 15 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780197263242Author Professor P.J. Marshall, CBE, FBAFormat HardbackPage Count 484Imprint Oxford University...

In this very personal book Stephen Ambrose celebrates his friendships with his father and brothers, boys from his youth, his sons, and among men he found through his work as a historian; his comrades. Ambrose writes about Dwight Eisenhower's remarkable...

In The Trial of Galileo the new science, as brilliantly propounded by Galileo Galilei, collides with the elegant cosmology of Aristotle, Aquinas and medieval Scholasticism. The game is set in Rome in the early decades of the seventeenth century. Most of...

Volume 124 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 19 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.Book InformationISBN 9780197263204Author Professor P.J. Marshall, CBE, FBAFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Oxford...

"For myself, however, it is the human element, the recollected words, the remembered faces, which give life to the printed record."James Hayes's many writings have made a major contribution to knowledge about life in rural Hong Kong. This book presents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788497774031Author Virginia FellowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 343Imprint ObeliscoPublisher ObeliscoWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683340331Author Muriel V MurrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

In this volume distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the work of Tacitus in its historical and literary context and also show how his text was interpreted in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Discussed here, for...

Worlds of Knowledge in Women's Travel Writing rediscovers the works of a wide range of authors from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. A stowaway on a voyage circumnavigating the globe; a nineteenth-century visitor to schools in Japan; an Indian...

Specialist essays on Indian history, peasants, and politics, edited proceedings of workshops and conferences honoring Hauser, U. of Va.About the AuthorWilliam R. (Vijay) Pinch is Professor of History of Wesleyan University and the author of Peasants and...

From mining to sex work and from the classroom to the docks, violence has always been a part of work. This collection of essays highlights the many different forms and expressions of violence that have arisen under capitalism in the last two hundred...

Each chapter in this interdisciplinary volume updates a landmark essay from the journal ""Comparative Studies in Society and History"". The authors set out comparative projects, discuss the difficulties of identifying baseline processes, and reflect on...

South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country's development, even as he came to struggle with its Eurocentrism. As a transnational scholar working in postcommunist...

The history of sexuality has been the subject of increased interest in recent years and more widely acknowledged importance in the interpretation of past mentalites. Yet historians have only recently begun to study sexual practices in any depth,...

Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America's land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus's second edited collection of insightful essays about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161610547Author Kevin M. Vander SchelFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 676g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553213713Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City, 1775-1776 draws students into the chaos of a revolutionary New York City, where Patriot and Loyalist forces fight for advantage among a divided populace. Confronted with issues like bribery, the loss...

The Mediterranean, or 'Middle Sea', has long been regarded as the symbolic centre of European civilization. The binding water between Turkey, the Middle East, the trading communities of North Africa, and the European powerhouses Italy, France and Greece,...

After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family's cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered his best magazine essays into one collection called In These Hills. In thirty-three essays he provides a moving and elegiac...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408116Author Caroline Walker BynumFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 38mm

Why do things change at certain times and not at others? The contributions collected in this volume approach this question from the perspective of threat. Defined as the self-alerting which goes on within societies and social groups, threats open up...

In 1751, John Holker (1719-1786), an English textile manufacturer exiled in France, undertook an industrial espionage mission to England to collect samples of English textiles on behalf of the French king, Louis XV. On his return, the samples were...

Nations need identities. These are created from perceptions of how societies have evolved. In this, history plays a central role. Insisting on reliable history is therefore crucial to more than just a pedagogic cause. Delicate relationships between the...