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Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History by Michael Brenner 9780691139289
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £47.10Prophets of the Past is the first book to examine in depth how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. Michael Brenner reveals that perhaps no other national or religious group has used their shared history for so many different... -
Between Thucydides and Polybius: The Golden Age of Greek Historiography by Giovanni Parmeggiani 9780674428348
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £17.01Historians like Ephorus, Theopompus, or Aristotle's great-nephew Callisthenes, to say nothing of Xenophon, counted among the most acclaimed in antiquity. But with the exception of Xenophon, their complete works have not survived, and thus they are... -
History after Hobsbawm: Writing the Past for the Twenty-First Century by John H. Arnold 9780198768784
RRP: £112.50Booksplease Price: £109.10What does it mean - and what might it yet come to mean - to write 'history' in the twenty-first century? History After Hobsbawm brings together leading historians from across the globe to ask what being an historian should mean in their particular fields... -
Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Revolution Transformed Academic Research, Governments, and Businesses by James W. Cortada 9781538173909
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £84.38This book tells the story of how information evolved since the mid-nineteenth century. It argues that information increased in quantity, became more specialized by discipline (e.g., mathematics, science, political science), and more organized... -
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past by Richard Cohen 9781982195786
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £22.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982195786Author Richard CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 156g -
Processing the Past: Changing Authorities in History and the Archives by Francis X. Blouin, Jr. 9780199740543
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £90.99Processing the Past explores the dramatic changes taking place in historical understanding and archival management, and hence the relations between historians and archivists. Written by an archivist and a historian, it shows how these changes have been... -
The Emergency and the Indian English Novel: Memory, Culture and Politics by Raita Merivirta 9780367728717
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £34.79This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses the Emergency as an event that prompted the writing of several notable novels attempting to preserve the silenced and fading memory of... -
Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture: Converting Nazi Perpetrators' Sites to Documentation Centers by Rumiko Handa 9780367217617
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £117.28Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carry notable and troubling pasts. In this comparative analysis, Rumiko Handa establishes the critical role... -
An Analysis of Lucien Febvre's The Problem of Unbelief in the 16th Century Joseph Tendler 9781912302536
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.83Febvre asked this core question in The Problem of Unbelief: "Could sixteenth-century people hold religious views that were not those of official, Church-sanctioned Christianity, or could they simply not believe at all?" The answer informed a wider debate... -
Spanish Romanticism and the Uses of History: Ideology and the Historical Imagination by Derek Flitter 9781900755979
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £117.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900755979Author Derek FlitterFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint European Humanities Research CentrePublisher European Humanities Research... -
Medical History by Ian Miller 9781352002911
Booksplease Price: £80.04This introductory textbook presents medical history as a theoretically rich discipline, one that constantly engages with major social questions about ethics, bodies, state power, disease, public health and mental disorder. Providing both instructors and... -
English Archives: An Historical Survey by Richard Olney 9781802078411
Booksplease Price: £110.73England is remarkable for the wealth and variety of its archival heritage - the records created and preserved by institutions, organisations and individuals. This is the first book to treat the history of English records creation and record-keeping from... -
The Political and Social Vocabulary of John the Deacon's 'Istoria Veneticorum' by Luigi A Berto
Booksplease Price: £106.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503531595Author Luigi A BertoFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 7389g -
Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia: The Written and The World, 711-1031 by Graham Barrett
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.50Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia is a study of the functions and conceptions of writing and reading, documentation and archives, and the role of literate authorities in the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian Peninsula between the... -
Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoacan from the Late Colony to the Revolution by Margaret Chowning
Booksplease Price: £86.79Unprecedented in the historiography of post-independence Mexico for its combination of rich archival detail and chronological scope, this book focuses on the wealthy men and women of the state of Michoacan from the last decades of colonial rule to the... -
The Emperor Caligula in the Ancient Sources by Anthony A. Barrett
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £84.35There can be few historical figures who have made such a powerful impact on the popular imagination as the Roman emperor Caligula (died AD 41). Yet an accurate reconstruction of his life and reign largely eludes us. This is paradoxical. The source... -
History, Literature, Critical Theory by Dominick LaCapra
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.84In History, Literature, Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his exploration of the complex relations between history and literature, here considering history as both process and representation. A trio of chapters at the center of the volume... -
Studies in the Eighteenth Century II: Papers Presented at the Second David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1970 by R F Brissenden
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442652279Author R F BrissendenFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 649g -
The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography by Joshua A. Fogel
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.23The Rape of Nanjing was one of the worst atrocities committed during World War II. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of wartime China. According to the International Military Tribunal, during the... -
Advances in Invertebrate (Neuro)Endocrinology: A Collection of Reviews in the Post-Genomic Era, Volume 2: Arthropoda by Saber Saleuddin
RRP: £82.99Booksplease Price: £71.58Advances in Invertebrate (Neuro)Endocrinology: A Collection of Reviews in the Post-Genomic Era (2-volume set) provides an informative series of reviews from expert scientists who are at the forefront of their research into the endocrinology of... -
Contingency and the Limits of History: How Touch Shapes Experience and Meaning by Liane Carlson
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £42.91Central to the historicizing work of recent decades has been the concept of contingency, the realm of chance, change, and the unnecessary. Following Nietzsche and Foucault, genealogists have deployed contingency to show that all institutions and ideas... -
Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective by Nepia Mahuika
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £77.13Indigenous peoples have our own ways of defining oral history. For many, oral sources are shaped and disseminated in multiple forms that are more culturally textured than just standard interview recordings. For others, indigenous oral histories are not... -
Writing Ancient History: An Introduction to Classical Historiography Luke Pitcher 9781845119577
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £119.52'History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon', said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especially ancient history, is a practice that often prompts more discord than assent. In his new textbook, Luke Pitcher... -
Creating Verbatim Theatre from Oral Histories by Clare Summerskill
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £36.75Offering a roadmap for practicing verbatim theatre (plays created from oral histories), this book outlines theatre processes through the lens of oral history and draws upon oral history scholarship to bring best practices from that discipline to theatre... -
Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian by Leonora Neville 9780190939892
RRP: £30.49Booksplease Price: £22.55Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the throne, and writing the Alexiad, an epic history of her father Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) that is a key historical source for the era of the First... -
Poetry for Historians: Or, W. H. Auden and History by Carolyn Steedman
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.48This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry - and historians and poets - in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth century to the present day. Blending historiography and theory, it proceeds by asking: what is the point... -
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter 9780393049343
RRP: £45.50Booksplease Price: £39.79Ever since the Enlightenment, race theory and its inevitable partner, racism, have followed a crooked road, constructed by dominant peoples to justify their domination of others. Filling a huge gap in historical literature that long focused on the... -
Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History by Dan Edelstein
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £38.03Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Dan... -
Memory, Trauma, and History: Essays on Living with the Past by Michael Roth 9780231145695
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.97In these essays, Michael S. Roth uses psychoanalysis to build a richer understanding of history, and then takes a more expansive conception of history to decode the cultural construction of memory. He first examines the development in nineteenth-century... -
Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism by Sol Goldberg
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.55This volume is designed to assist university faculty and students studying and teaching about antisemitism, racism, and other forms of prejudice. In contrast with similar volumes, it is organized around specific concepts instead of chronology or... -
Selected Letters from Pliny the Younger's Epistulae: Commentary by Jacqueline Carlon by Jacqueline M. Carlon
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £31.31This anthology offers a comprehensive introduction to Pliny the Younger's Epistulae for intermediate and advanced Latin students, with the grammatical, lexical, and historical support to enable them to read quickly and fluidly. As the only selection of... -
Doing Digital History: A Beginner's Guide to Working with Text as Data by Jonathan Blaney
Booksplease Price: £18.36This book is a practical introduction to digital history. It offers advice on the scoping of a project, evaluation of existing digital history resources, a detailed introduction to how to work with large text resources, how to manage digital data and how... -
Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and the Archives by Francis X. Blouin, Jr. 9780199964086
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £23.03Processing the Past explores the dramatic changes taking place in historical understanding and archival management and in the relations between historians and archivists. Written by an archivist and a historian, it shows how these changes have been... -
The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians John Cannon (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) 9780631147084
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £39.96The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians provides an authoritative and readable source book for students and specialists. It includes entries on over 450 historians, dating from Herodotus to the present. Individuals have not necessarily been chosen on... -
On History by Fernand Braudel
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £26.47A translation of Fernand Braudel's "Ecrits sur l'histoire", published in 1969. The main themes of the work are: the importance of a "rapprochement" between history and the social sciences; the inseparability of study of past and present; the dubious... -
Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten by Kate Brown
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.70"Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?" asks the opening chapter of Kate Brown's surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. In turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte,... -
Eight Eurocentric Historians by J.M. Blaut
Booksplease Price: £33.81This volume examines and critiques the work of a diverse group of Eurocentric historians who have strongly shaped our understanding of world history. Building upon the foundations laid in his previous book, The Colonizer's Model of the World, which... -
Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives by Peter N. Stearns 9780814781425
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.14A rethinking of teaching methodology in history classrooms As issues of history and memory collide in our society and in the classroom, the time is ripe to rethink the place of history in our schools. Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History represents a... -
The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History by Gordon S Wood 9780143115045
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £17.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115045Author Gordon S WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 323Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin BooksWeight(grams) 272g -
Akhenaten: A Historian's View by Ronald T. Ridley 9789774167935
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £40.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789774167935Author Ronald T. RidleyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint The American University in Cairo PressPublisher The American University in Cairo...