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Reclaiming Byzantium: Russia, Turkey and the Archaeological Claim to the Middle East in the 19th Century by Pinar UEre 9780755637232
$62.95There is a long-held feeling in Russia that Moscow is the true heir to the Christian Byzantine Empire. In 1894, Imperial Russia opened one of the world's leading centres for Byzantine archaeology in Istanbul, the Russian Archaeological Institute - its... -
Performances by Dening, Greg 9780522847000
$40.83...history is my passion. Writing it, teaching it, reading it fills the days and years of my life. In all passions, there is pain and pleasure. Greg Dening In this collection of writings some new, some previously published Greg Dening reflects on his... -
The Death of the Past by J. H. Plumb 9780333060506
RRP: $175.48$175.25In this book, J.H. Plumb investigates the way that humankind has moulded the past to give sanction to their institutions of government, their social structure and morality. The past has also been called upon to explain the nature of our destiny in order... -
The Inside of History: Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigne and Romantic Historiography by John B. Roney 9780313288074
$162.32Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigne, Genevan historian of Christianity, offered Protestants in post-French revolutionary Europe historical reflections on the origins of their religious and political organizations. Best known for his 13-volume history of the... -
International Annual of Oral History, 1990: Subjectivity and Multiculturalism in Oral History by Ronald J. Grele 9780313283277
$118.46This volume marks the transformation of the International Journal of Oral History from a journal publication to an annual. The objective of the publication remains the same: providing a forum for articles on oral history methodologies and research... -
The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community by Richard F. Hamilton 9780300206425
$45.73From the time of the ancient Greeks, thinkers have known the earth is round. Yet popular legend has persisted that Columbus proved this fact for the first time, and scholarship abounds with similar perpetuated errors. Why do social... -
Fortunes of History: Historical Inquiry from Herder to Huizinga by Donald R. Kelley 9780300205022
$63.88In Fortunes of History Donald R. Kelley offers an authoritative examination of historical writing during the "long nineteenth century"-the years from the French Revolution to those just after the First World War. He provides a comprehensive... -
Last Rites by John R. Lukacs 9780300114386
$100.56A master historian offers an eloquent and personal auto-history of his life and his ideas Twenty years ago, John Lukacs paused to set down the history of his own thoughts and beliefs in Confessions of an Original Sinner, an adroit blend of autobiography... -
Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition by J. Arch Getty 9780300169294
$143.68In old Russia, patron/client relations, "clan" politics, and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and personal rather than legal, and office holding was far less important than... -
Garcilaso Inca de la Vega: An American Humanist, A Tribute to Jose Durand by Jose Anadon 9780268011826
RRP: $161.85$97.05Widely read and translated, Garcilaso is a key figure for understanding the development of mestizo culture in Latin America and his works have sparked many heated debates. This new collection of articles advances that discussion through contributions by... -
Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation by John Fea 9780268029036
$76.99At the end of his landmark 1994 book, The Soul of the American University, historian George Marsden asserted that religious faith does indeed have a place in today's academia. Marsden's contention sparked a heated debate on the role of religious faith... -
Beyond the Canon: History for the Twenty-first Century by Maria Grever 9780230516502
RRP: $87.73$87.69'Beyond the Canon' deals with recent politicized processes of canonization and its implications for historical culture in a globalizing and postcolonial world. The volume discusses the framing and transmission of historical knowledge and its consequences... -
Hollywood and the American Historical Film by J. E. Smyth 9780230230934
$66.75This 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 Organization of American Historians and the Writing and Teaching of American History by Richard S. Kirkendall 9780199790579
RRP: $59.46$56.30The field of American history has undergone remarkable expansion in the past century, all of it reflecting a broadening of the historical enterprise and democratization of its coverage. Today, the shape of the field takes into account the interests,... -
Mapping Landscapes in Transformation: Multidisciplinary Methods for Historical Analysis by Thomas Coomans 9789462701731
RRP: $78.00$75.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462701731Author Thomas CoomansFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 785g -
Historians on History by John Tosh 9781405801683 [USED COPY]
RRP: $54.58$11.21A follow-up to the bestselling The Pursuit of History, this Reader brings together the reflections of a number of major historians on the nature and purpose of their craft. They illuminate the different governing assumptions - political, social, personal... -
The New Nature of History: Knowledge, Evidence, Language by Arthur Marwick 9780333922620 [USED COPY]
RRP: $58.48$4.95This new title is a totally rewritten version of The Nature of History, first published in 1970, with revised editions in 1981, and again in 1989. Addressing the key questions of what history is, and why and how one studies it, this is a positive... -
Writing the History of the African Diaspora by Toyin Falola 9781009442114
RRP: $33.15$28.70This 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... -
Yule-Tide in Many Lands by Mary P Pringle 9791041982813
RRP: $27.30$22.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791041982813Author Mary P PringleFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CultureaPublisher CultureaWeight(grams) 159g -
The History of Knowledge by Johan Östling 9781009048545
RRP: $33.15$28.70This 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... -
What Is a Classic in History?: The Making of a Historical Canon by Jaume Aurell 9781009469951
RRP: $50.68$42.88What 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 9781009406277
RRP: $33.15$28.70This 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... -
The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History by Jo Guldi 9781009262989
RRP: $156.00$140.73The Dangerous Art of Text Mining celebrates the bold new research now possible because of text mining: the art of counting words over time. However, this book also presents a warning: without help from the humanities, data science can distort the past... -
The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History by Jo Guldi 9781009262996
RRP: $52.63$44.46The Dangerous Art of Text Mining celebrates the bold new research now possible because of text mining: the art of counting words over time. However, this book also presents a warning: without help from the humanities, data science can distort the past... -
A History of Big History by Ian Hesketh 9781009005197
RRP: $33.15$28.70Big History is a seemingly novel approach that seeks to situate human history within a grand cosmic story of life. It claims to do so by uniting the historical sciences in order to construct a linear and accurate timeline of 'threshold moments' beginning... -
Conceptualizing the History of the Present Time by María Inés Mudrovcic 9781009048552
RRP: $33.15$28.70In 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... -
Telling of the Anthracite: A Pennsylvania Posthistory by Philip Mosley 9781620069516
RRP: $33.05$24.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620069516Author Philip MosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Oxford SouthernPublisher Oxford SouthernWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
The Age of Unreason: Dissecting the Infamy of the Morgan Affair and Its Aftermath by John W Bizzack 9798555492135
RRP: $50.70$39.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798555492135Author John W BizzackFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 203g -
How Historians Work: Retelling the Past - From the Civil War to the Wider World by Judith Lee Hallock 9781933337432
RRP: $48.65$34.20History does not simply happen. Most often it is the result of years of graduate training, assiduous research, and careful writing. Without historians we would be ignorant of our history. Yet, far too often we focus on the final product and ignore the... -
Marvels and Mysteries of the Mahabharata by Abhijit Basu 9789352013470
RRP: $18.04$16.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789352013470Author Abhijit BasuFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Platinum Press Inc.Publisher Platinum Press Inc.Weight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
The Earliest Mythicist References by Christopher M Hansen 9798672828671
RRP: $19.50$15.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798672828671Author Christopher M HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 140g -
Allegorizing History by Timothy J Furry 9781498265737
RRP: $68.64$53.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498265737Author Timothy J FurryFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Pickwick PublicationsPublisher Pickwick PublicationsWeight(grams) 404g -
Tales and Legends of Bruges - Part I by Andy Borgonjon 9798692632555
RRP: $48.65$37.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798692632555Author Andy BorgonjonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g -
The Klingler and Walbolt Family Histories: The Narrative by Ronald Collins 9781537252933
RRP: $77.90$63.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781537252933Author Ronald CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Nemesis: The Jouvenelian vs. the Liberal Model of Human Orders by C a Bond 9798441951838
RRP: $25.33$22.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798441951838Author C a BondFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 127g -
Vital Historical Records of Jackson County, Missouri, 1826-1876: Volume 2: Family Burying Grounds and Early Cemeteries by David W Jackson 9781734368611
RRP: $23.40$19.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734368611Author David W JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Orderly Pack Rat thePublisher Orderly Pack Rat theWeight(grams) 216g -
Human Property Hanging in the Family Tree Yields a Harvest by Ann Lee 9781478195825
RRP: $27.28$23.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478195825Author Ann LeeFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Inn by the Sea by Dan A Ellis 9781975683603
RRP: $29.25$23.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781975683603Author Dan A EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Representation: The Birth of Historical Reality from the Death of the Past by Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit 9780231215909
RRP: $228.15$202.78What makes historical writing distinctive? In Representation, Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit—the preeminent figure in the philosophy of history today—offers a deeply original way of understanding the practice of historical writing and a powerful vindication... -
Nation Building: Volume I The Portrait of a Movement: (The Transition to Nation Building) by Mark Carven Olds Mno 9781523431410
RRP: $48.65$37.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523431410Author Mark Carven Olds MnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...