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The Look of the Past: Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice by Ludmilla Jordanova 9780521882422
RRP: £74.99£66.29How can we use visual and material culture to shed light on the past? Ludmilla Jordanova offers a fascinating and thoughtful introduction to the role of images, objects and buildings in the study of past times. Through a combination of thematic chapters... -
A Global History of History by Daniel Woolf 9780521875752
RRP: £74.99£66.89A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different... -
Allegorizing History: The Venerable Bede, Figural Exegesis and Historical Theory by Timothy J. Furry 9780227174241
RRP: £23.50£22.03What is history and how does it impact upon biblical interpretation and theology? 'Allegorizing History' seeks to answer this question by arguing that conceptions of the past and the purposes of history impact upon biblical interpretation and vice versa... -
History and the Christian Historian by Ronald Wells 9780802845368
RRP: £20.99£12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802845368Author Ronald WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoWeight(grams)... -
C. Vann Woodward, Southerner by John Herbert Roper 9780820341064
£31.23The most influential historian of our time, C. Vann Woodward has forged his place in American learning and culture from two sometimes opposing, sometimes complementary urges: to work for social justice and to reveal the past without bias. Underlying his... -
Shapers of Southern History: Autobiographical Reflections by Anne Firor Scott 9780820352527
£91.03This volume gathers personal recollections by fifteen eminent historians of the American South. Coming from distinctive backgrounds, traveling diverse career paths, and practicing different kinds of history, the contributors exemplify the field's... -
Transnational History by Pierre-Yves Saunier 9780230271845
RRP: £85.00£84.96Although some historians have been researching and writing history from a transnational perspective for more than a century, it is only recently that this approach has gained momentum. But what is transnational history? How can a transnational approach... -
Gender and History by Susan Kingsley Kent 9780230292239
RRP: £85.00£84.96What is gender and who has it? History, theory and gender are inextricably linked, but how exactly do they fit together? How do historians use theories about gender to write history? In this jargon-free introduction, Susan Kingsley Kent presents a... -
Pattern and Repertoire in History by Bertrand M Roehner 9780674418455
RRP: £54.95£48.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674418455Author Bertrand M RoehnerFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 875g -
Fashioning History: Current Practices and Principles by Professor Robert F. Berkhofer, III 9780230608689
RRP: £99.99£99.71This book offers historians and aspiring historians a learned, absorbing, and comprehensive overview of current fashions of method, interpretation, and meaning in the context of postmodernism that has washed over the historical profession in the last two... -
Gender and Memory in the Globital Age by Anna Reading 9780230368644
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book asks how 21st century technologies such as the Internet, mobile phones and social media are transforming human memory and its relationship to gender. Each epoch brings with it new media technologies that have transformed human memory. Anna... -
The Repentant Abelard: Family, Gender, and Ethics in Peter Abelard's Carmen ad Astralabium and Planctus by Juanita Feros Ruys 9780312240028
RRP: £44.99£44.97The Repentant Abelard is both an innovative study and English translation of the late poetic works of controversial medieval philosopher and logician Peter Abelard, written for his beloved wife Heloise and son Astralabe. This study brings to life long... -
Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling: Readings, Reflections and Ruminations by Richard J Cox 9780980200478
RRP: £40.00£35.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980200478Author Richard J CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Litwin BooksPublisher Litwin BooksWeight(grams) 642g -
People and their Pasts: Public History Today by Paul Ashton 9780230546691
RRP: £89.99£89.87In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present. Chapters explore forms of public history in which people's experience and... -
International Handbook of Historical Studies: Contemporary Research and Theory by George G. Iggers 9780313213670
£72.57Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313213670Author George G. IggersFormat HardbackPage Count 452Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940: Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk by Sandhya L. Polu 9780230354609
RRP: £44.99£44.97Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of... -
Developments in Modern Historiography by Henry Kozicki 9780333585979
RRP: £89.99£89.87Collections of essays surveying the historical discipline at the end of the 1970s heralded the new approached being developed, approaches that promised a rich diversity and cosmopolitan pluralism in the face of the uncertainty of historical reality. The... -
A Selected Bibliography of Modern Historiography by Attila Pok 9780313272318
£72.57Although historiography is a frequently used term, its content is far from unequivocal. For the purposes of this bibliography, Attila Pok defines modern historiography as the history of historical science as it was established at the beginning of the... -
A Guide to Quantitative History by Robert Darcy 9780275952372
£48.28This book introduces statistical techniques for the particular needs of historians. The approach is practical and applied; alternative ways of resolving methodological problems are worked through. The emphasis is on applying the fundamentals of... -
Editing Early Modern Texts: An Introduction to Principles and Practice by Michael Hunter 9780230008076
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book provides an approachable exposition of the rationale of textual editing with special reference to texts from between 1550-1800. The volume explains how manuscript and printed texts were produced, indicating the implications of this for their... -
No Fixed Abode: A History of Responses to the Roofless and the Rootless in Britain by R. Humphreys 9780333738467
RRP: £89.99£89.87Homelessness is now a much greater problem than twenty years ago. In Britain today around half-a-million homeless people form a regrettable permanent 'underclass'. This book spells out their similarities with the spurned vagrant of bygone days. It traces... -
The Origins of Modern Historiography in India: Antiquarianism and Philology, 1780-1880 by Rama Sundari Mantena 9780230341012
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of 'sources,' the forging of a new... -
Historian and Scientist by Gaetano Salvemini 9780674431744
RRP: £54.95£54.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674431744Author Gaetano SalveminiFormat HardbackPage Count 211Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 340g -
Resisting History: Religious Transcendence and the Invention of the Unconscious by Rhodri Hayward 9780719095375
RRP: £19.99£17.61How can historians make sense of visions, hauntings and demonic possession? Do miraculous events have any place in a world governed by cause and effect? In Resisting history, Rhodri Hayward examines the cumulative attempts of theologians, historians and... -
The Past as History: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Modern Europe by Stefan Berger 9780230500099
£90.87The book provides a synthesis of the development of the genre of national history writing in Europe, in particular it seeks to illuminate the relationship between history writing and the construction of national identities in modern Europe.Book... -
Remembering Diana: Cultural Memory and the Reinvention of Authority by Victor Jeleniewski Seidler 9780230320260
£45.37Analysing the events surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, Vic Seidler considers the public outpourings of grief and displays of emotion which prompted new kinds of identification and belonging in which communities came together... -
Frontiers of History: Historical Inquiry in the Twentieth Century by Donald R. Kelley 9780300120622
£55.26This book, the third volume of Donald Kelley's monumental survey of Western historiography, covers the twentieth century, especially Europe. As in the first two volumes, the author discusses historical methods and ideas of all sorts to provide a detailed... -
The Cultural Politics of Austerity: Past and Present in Austere Times by Rebecca Bramall 9780230360471
RRP: £44.99£44.97This timely book examines austerity's conflicted meanings, from austerity chic and anti-austerity protest to economic and eco-austerity. Bramall's compelling text explores the presence and persuasiveness of the past, developing a new approach to the... -
Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine by Roger Cooter 9780300186635
£59.66A noted medical historian explores the roles played by various intellectual frameworks and trends in the writing of history A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter's contributions... -
Tsar Paul and the Question of Madness: An Essay in History and Psychology by Hugh Ragsdale 9780313266089
£83.64Drawing on archival studies, revisionist historians have taken issue with the traditional view that Tsar Paul I was mad and was assassinated because of the clear danger he posed to the state. Professor Ragsdale contends that the question of Paul's mental... -
Fragrant Harbours - Distant Rivers by John, T Downes 9780951287255
£9.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951287255Author John, T DownesFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint CFZ PressPublisher CFZ PressWeight(grams) 381g -
The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580 - 1720 by Gerald MacLean 9780333973646
£45.37This book follows four Seventeenth-century Englishmen on their journeys around the Ottoman Empire while the British were, for the first time in history, becoming important players in the Mediterranean. This book shows that hostility between East and West... -
Inside Out, Inside In: Essays in Comparative History by Robert C. Gregg 9780333741153
RRP: £89.99£89.87Inside Out, Outside In takes familiar historical narratives and provides alternative readings for them. It endeavours to expand the parameters of comparative history by focusing on the economic, social, political and historiographical connections among... -
Changing Views on British History by Elizabeth Chapin Furber 9780674332928
£55.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674332928Author Elizabeth Chapin FurberFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 780g -
Thinking History Globally by Diego Olstein 9780230361027
RRP: £99.99£80.03The book brings together many recent trends in writing history under a common framework: thinking history globally. By thinking history globally, the book explains, applies, and exemplifies the four basic strategies of analysis, the big C's: comparing,... -
Polybius' Histories by Brian C. McGing 9780195310320
RRP: £102.50£79.92Polybius' Histories is one of classical antiquity's great political narratives. Written in 40 books (of which only the first five are preserved in full), it originally set out to explain the dramatic rise of Rome in the half century from the war against... -
History and Progress: In Search of European and American Identity by Margarita Mathiopoulos 9780275927929
£83.64Concisely written and compelling, this book offers a provocative look at European-American relations. It focuses on the tradition of common political ideas, the original roots of common European and American thought, the decision by the two continents... -
Fashioning History: Current Practices and Principles by Professor Robert F. Berkhofer, III 9781137270283
RRP: £99.99£99.71This book offers historians and aspiring historians a learned, absorbing, and comprehensive overview of current fashions of method, interpretation, and meaning in the context of postmodernism that has washed over the historical profession in the last two... -
Shemlan: A History of the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies by James Craig 9780333689677
RRP: £89.99£89.87Shemlan, a small, once unknown village in the hills overlooking Beirut, became notorious throughout the Middle East when Bertram Thomas chose it as the location for the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS) in 1947. The knowledge that a western... -
A Historian's Handbook by James A. Huston 9780759690318
£16.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759690318Author James A. HustonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 417g