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Documents of the English Reformation: Third Edition by Gerald Bray
RRP: £109.00£105.28The Reformation era has long been seen as crucial in developing the institutions and society of the English-speaking peoples, and study of the Tudor and Stuart era is at the heart of most courses in English history. The influence of the Book of Common... -
Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology by Andrew Linzey
RRP: £28.00£21.80This comprehensive and diverse anthology, the only one of its kind, illuminates the complex evolution of moral thought regarding animals and includes writings from ancient Greece to the present. Animal Rights reveals the ways in which a variety of... -
The Scientific Revolution: An Historiographical Inquiry by H. Floris Cohen 9780226112800
RRP: £52.00£50.11In this historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, the author examines the body of work on the intellectual, social and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen critically surveys a wide range of scholarship since the 19th century,... -
The Origins of History Herbert Butterfield 9781138187832
RRP: £47.99£42.13A distillation of the thought and research to which Herbert Butterfield devoted the last twenty years of his life to, this book, originally published in 1981, traces how differently people understood the relevance of their past and its connection with... -
Kingship: The Politics of Enchantmant Francis Oakley (Williams College, Massachusetts) 9780631226963
RRP: £37.95£33.62From despots to powerless figureheads, and from the Neolithic era to the present, this book traces the history of kingship around the world and the tenacity of its connection with the sacred. Considers the many forms that kingship took during this... -
Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa by Marshall Sahlins
RRP: £21.00£20.71Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the ethnocentric idea that Thucydides' historiography was universally valid, applicable to all societies at all times. Here,... -
Pietro Bembo on Etna: The Ascent of a Venetian Humanist: The Ascent of a Venetian Humanist by Gareth D. Williams
RRP: £32.49£30.21This book is centered on the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), on his two-year stay in Sicily in 1492-4 to study the ancient Greek language under one of its most distinguished contemporary teachers, the Byzantine emigre Constantine Lascaris,... -
Make and Let Die: Untimely Sovereignties by Kathleen Biddick 9780988234048
RRP: £22.00£18.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988234048Author Kathleen BiddickFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
Truth Has a Power of Its Own: Conversations About A People's History by Howard Zinn
RRP: £12.99£8.87American history told from the bottom up by Howard Zinn himself-and the perfect all-ages introduction to his eye-opening viewpoint, published on Zinn's hundredth birthdayTruth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of conversations with the... -
The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History by Gordon S Wood 9780143115045
RRP: £24.00£16.66Apologies 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 -
Totalitarianism: The Basics Phillip W. Gray 9781032183732
RRP: £18.99£16.87Totalitarianism: The Basics is an easy-to-read introduction into the main concepts, ideologies, and regimes associated with totalitarianism.Starting with an overview of how scholars have attempted to define totalitarianism, Phillip W. Gray begins with an... -
Narration, Identity, and Historical Consciousness by Jurgen Straub 9781845450397
RRP: £27.95£22.58A generally acknowledged characteristic of modern life, namely the temporalization of experience, inextricable from our intensified experience of contingency and difference, has until now remained largely outside psychology's purview. Wherever questions... -
Approaching Historical Sources in their Contexts: Space, Time and Performance Sarah Barber (University of Lancaster, UK) 9780815364818
RRP: £35.99£31.69In Approaching Historical Sources in Their Contexts, 12 academics examine how space, time and performance interact to co-create context for source analysis.The chapters cover 2000 years and stretch across the Americas and Europe. They are grouped into... -
Making History: The Historian and Uses of the Past by Jorma Kalela 9780230276826
£34.23Everyone has a personal connection to the past, independent of historical inquiry. So, what is the role of the historian? Making History argues that historians have damagingly dissociated the discipline of history from the everyday nature of history,... -
Conspiracy Summit Dossier: An In-Depth Whistle Blower's Guide To The Strangest And Most Bizarre Cosmic And Global Conspiracies! by Adam Gorightly 9781606110560
RRP: £21.95£18.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606110560Author Adam GorightlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Inner Light - Global CommunicationsPublisher Inner Light - Global... -
Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life Deborah Gorham (Carleton University) 9780631147152
RRP: £80.95£71.37This is a biographical study of the English writer and social activist Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth .About the AuthorDeborah Gorham was born in New York, but has lived for many years in Ottawa, Canada, where she is Professor of History at... -
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
RRP: £32.00£22.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679735120Author Simon SchamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1009gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
What is History? by Edward Hallett Carr 9780394703916
£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394703916Author Edward Hallett CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA Children's BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 4: 1800-1945 by Stuart Macintyre
£63.31Volume 4 of The Oxford History of Historical Writing offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally from 1800 to 1945. Divided into four parts, it first covers the rise, consolidation, and crisis of European historical thought, and... -
Writing History in the Global Era Lynn Hunt (UCLA) 9780393239249
RRP: £20.99£19.35George Orwell wrote that "history is written by the winners". Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but that viewpoints change, sometimes radically. The history of workers, women and... -
Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages by Rosamond McKitterick 9780268035006
RRP: £22.99£20.01Historical writing of the early middle ages tends to be regarded as little more than a possible source of facts, but Rosamond McKitterick establishes that early medieval historians conveyed in their texts a sophisticated set of multiple perceptions of... -
An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology and the Nameless Others by Edith Wyschogrod 9780226920450
RRP: £32.00£31.11What are the ethical responsibilities of the historian in an age of mass murder and hyper-reality? Can one be postmodern and still write history? For whom should history be written? The author explores these questions through the figure of the... -
The Future of History by John R. Lukacs 9780300181692
£21.31A master historian explores the critical future of history writing and teaching For more than sixty years, John Lukacs has been writing, teaching, and reading about the past. In this inspired volume, he turns his attention to the future. Throughout The... -
To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian by Stephen E. Ambrose 9780743202756 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£3.09In To America, Stephen Ambrose, one of America's most influential historians, reflects on his long career as and explains what an historian's job is all about. When Stephen Ambrose became intersted in American history at age 18, there was much that... -
Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History by Antoinette Burton 9780822336778 [USED COPY]
RRP: £95.00£29.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Writing the Holocaust by Jean-Marc Dreyfus 9780340991893
£30.33Writing the Holocaust provides students and teachers with an accessibly written overview of the key themes and major theoretical developments which continue to inform the nature of historical writing on the Holocaust. Holocaust studies is at a paradox:... -
Hollywood and the American Historical Film by J. E. Smyth 9780230230927
RRP: £110.00£109.56This definitive interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars probes the theoretical and historical contexts of films made about the American past, from silent film to the present. The book offers a fresh assessment of studio era historical filmmaking... -
The Priestly Kingdom: Social Ethics as Gospel by John Howard Yoder 9780268016272
£108.58In this volume of essays John Howard Yoder projects a vision of Christian social ethics rooted in historical community and illuminated by scripture. Drawing upon scriptural accounts of the early church, he demonstrates the Christian community's constant... -
The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth: Nationalism and Impartiality in American Historical Writing, 1784-1860 by Eileen Ka-May Cheng 9780820338774
£30.83American historians of the early national period, argues Eileen Ka-May Cheng, grappled with objectivity, professionalism, and other "modern" issues to a greater degree than their successors in later generations acknowledge. Her extensive... -
Plural Pasts: Historiography between Events and Structures by Arthur Alfaix Assis 9781009005166
RRP: £17.00£14.72What is history about? This Element shows that answers centred on the keyword 'past events' are incomplete, even if they are not simply wrong. Interweaving theoretical and historical perspectives, it provides an abstract overview of the thematic... -
History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan by Reba N. Soffer 9780199208111
£110.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Puzzles of the Past: An Introduction to Thinking about History by Michael T. Isenberg 9780890962169
£20.91Michael Isenberg casts aside the traditional textbook approach and presents the study of history as a series of puzzles to ponder, with neither right nor wrong answers. Thinking about history, from this point of view, becomes an exciting intellectual... -
The Moral Economy and Popular Protest: Crowds, Conflict and Authority by Andrew Charlesworth 9780333671849
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After the Last Post: The Lives of Indian Historiography by Dr Benjamin Zachariah 9780192867865
RRP: £81.00£73.28This book is about the production and consumption of specifically Indian history, framed by concerns with postmodernism and postcolonialism. Several parallel themes crosscut the book's central focus on the discipline of history: its intellectual history,... -
Writing the History of the African Diaspora by Toyin Falola 9781009475686
RRP: £49.99£49.85This Element is an analysis of the African Diaspora. It will define the African Diaspora and how the concepts behind the term came to be socially and historically engineered. The African diaspora is then placed into a broader historical context where the... -
What Is a Classic in History?: The Making of a Historical Canon by Jaume Aurell 9781009469968
RRP: £80.00£72.17What is a classic in historical writing? How do we explain the continued interest in certain historical texts, even when their accounts and interpretations of particular periods have been displaced or revised by newer generations of historians? How do... -
Writing the History of Global Slavery by Trevor Burnard 9781009467957
RRP: £49.99£49.85This Element shows that existing models of global slavery derived from sociology and modelled closely on antebellum American slavery being normative should be replaced a global slavery that is less American and more global. It argues that we can... -
Plural Pasts: Historiography between Events and Structures by Arthur Alfaix Assis 9781009462525
RRP: £49.99£49.85What is history about? This Element shows that answers centred on the keyword 'past events' are incomplete, even if they are not simply wrong. Interweaving theoretical and historical perspectives, it provides an abstract overview of the thematic... -
Conceptualizing the History of the Present Time by María Inés Mudrovcic 9781009517836
RRP: £49.99£49.85In this work, I explore four meanings of 'contemporary,' emphasizing its designation as a historical field. I argue that disagreements about when the presento or the contemporary era begins stem from historians assuming a linear, chronological, and... -
The History of Knowledge by Johan Östling 9781009486903
RRP: £49.99£49.85This Element provides a pedagogical overview of the history of knowledge, including its main currents, distinguishing ideas, and key concepts. However, it is not primarily a state-of-the-art overview but rather an argumentative contribution that seeks to...