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Jonestown: "Don't Drink the Kool-Aid" (The complete story behind the mysterious Jim Jones & his exodus to Guyana) by Will Savive 9780615865942
RRP: £9.05£8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615865942Author Will SaviveFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint del-Grande Publishing Inc.Publisher del-Grande Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 435g -
Transnational Challenges to National History Writing by Matthias Middell 9780230500075
RRP: £89.99£89.87This collection of essays argues that there is an pre-history, that is, a longer tradition of the transnationalization of historical culture and historical science. It seeks to substantiate the claim that history writing reflected the globality of its... -
A Guide to Quantitative History by Robert Darcy 9780275948979
£83.64This 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... -
History the Betrayer: A Study in Bias by Edward H. Dance 9780837172378
£65.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837172378Author Edward H. DanceFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
The Real, the True, and the Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation by Eric L Berlatsky 9780814256145
£27.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256145Author Eric L BerlatskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 395g -
History and Belief: Foundations of Historical Understanding by R.E. Frykenberg 9780802807397
RRP: £30.99£19.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802807397Author R.E. FrykenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
Reclaiming Byzantium: Russia, Turkey and the Archaeological Claim to the Middle East in the 19th Century by Pinar UEre 9780755637232
£32.28There 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
£20.94...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: £89.99£89.87In 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
£83.24Jean 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
£60.75This 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
£23.45From 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
£32.76In 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
£51.57A 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
£73.68In 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: £83.00£49.77Widely 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
£39.48At 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: £44.99£44.97'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
£34.23This 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: £30.49£28.87The 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: £40.00£38.80Apologies 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 -
What is History? by E. H. Carr 9780140135848 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.09Who is to say how things really were? In formulating a modern answer to the question 'What is History?' Professor Carr shows that the 'facts' of history are simply those which historians have selected for scrutiny. Millions have crossed the Rubicon, but... -
The New Nature of History: Knowledge, Evidence, Language by Arthur Marwick 9780333922620 [USED COPY]
RRP: £29.99£2.09This 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: £17.00£14.72This 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: £14.00£11.82Apologies 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: £17.00£14.72This 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: £25.99£21.99What 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: £17.00£14.72This 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: £80.00£72.17The 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: £26.99£22.80The 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: £17.00£14.72Big 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: £17.00£14.72In 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: £16.95£12.59Apologies 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... -
How Historians Work: Retelling the Past - From the Civil War to the Wider World by Judith Lee Hallock 9781933337432
RRP: £24.95£17.56History 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: £9.25£8.62Apologies 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... -
Allegorizing History by Timothy J Furry 9781498265737
RRP: £35.20£27.22Apologies 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 -
Vital Historical Records of Jackson County, Missouri, 1826-1876: Volume 2: Family Burying Grounds and Early Cemeteries by David W Jackson 9781734368611
RRP: £12.00£10.22Apologies 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 -
Representation: The Birth of Historical Reality from the Death of the Past by Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit 9780231215909
RRP: £117.00£103.99What 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... -
Nothing Happened: A History by Susan A. Crane 9781503613478
RRP: £23.99£19.45The past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense out of our memories and their sources. But what does it mean to look at the past and to remember that "nothing happened"? Why might we... -
The Priestly Kingdom: Social Ethics as Gospel by John Howard Yoder 9780268016289
RRP: £19.99£17.54In 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...