Historiography

Jacob Katz was one of the greatest Jewish historians of the 20th century. In this volume, ten scholars critically discuss Katz's work with an appreciation for Katz's importance in reshaping the way Jewish history is studied.Book InformationISBN...

Information has a rich but under explored history. The information age of the late twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new history of information and, in this timely collection of essays, a team of international scholars from a variety of...

A classic volume by a noted philosopher, available again. John William Miller (1895-1978) taught at Williams College, where from 1945 to 1960 he was Mark Hopkins Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. His extraordinary teaching is described in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393004199Author EASTFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995244306Author Eva Maria PortilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Mariposa BooksPublisher Mariposa BooksWeight(grams) 168g

The Indian Man examines the life of James Mooney (1861-1921), the son of poor Irish immigrants who became a champion of Native peoples and one of the most influential anthropology fieldworkers of all time. As a staff member of the Smithsonian Institution...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692321706Author T a PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Brownstone Literary WorksPublisher Brownstone Literary WorksWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615833231Author Michael HaroldFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint California State PressPublisher California State PressWeight(grams) 100g

This book reconstructs a lost milieu of historical writing. The civil rights and black power movements expanded popular awareness of the history and culture of African Americans. But, as Stephen Hall notes, African American authors, intellectuals,...

This is the first book to explore abolitionist autobiographies in the post - Civil War era.In ""Abolitionists Remember"", Julie Roy Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period...

Historians have long struggled with the questions of historical relativism, objectivity, and standards of proof and evidence. Intellectual historian Alan Spitzer focuses on the contradiction between theory and practice by presenting case studies of four...

No matter what you know about Lewis and Clark, the Hopi Snake Dance, the occupation of Wounded Knee village, or the Seminole Freedmen claim, you have never before seen those and myriad other historic episodes from these perspectives. In this...

Five historians uncover the ties between people's daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996781084Author Larraitz AriznabarretaFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint EkinPublisher EkinWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981840871Author Herman Wiley RonnenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Heritage Witness Reflections PublishingPublisher Heritage Witness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692736869Author B J BryanFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Beautiful Wrinkles PressPublisher Beautiful Wrinkles PressWeight(grams) 313g

How do ancient historians pursue their craft? From the evidence of coins, pottery shards, remains of buildings, works of art, and, above all, literary texts-all of which have survived more or less accidentally from antiquity-they fashion works of history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971928824Author Anwar GayFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint National Museum of African American ReligionsPublisher National Museum of African American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692031599Author Zanita HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Karen S./ScrogginsPublisher Karen S./ScrogginsWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615772325Author Charlotte M ShapiroFormat PaperbackImprint Charlotte M. ShapiroPublisher Charlotte M. ShapiroWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615510040Author Dick SheppardFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint R&d Scientific CorporationPublisher R&d Scientific CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989676144Author Bert EntwistleFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Black Mule PressPublisher Black Mule PressWeight(grams) 336g

​This book offers a platform for the analysis of commemorative and archiving practices as they were shaped, expanded, and developed during the Covid-19 lockdown periods in 2020 and the years that followed. By offering an extensive global view of these...

This annotated translation of To the Far North presents the diary of a twenty-seven-year-old Russian physician who was part of the 1900 expedition to the Chukotka Peninsula to find gold. No other account so richly details life along the North Pacific Rim...

This annotated translation of To the Far North presents the diary of a twenty-seven-year-old Russian physician who was part of the 1900 expedition to the Chukotka Peninsula to find gold. No other account so richly details life along the North Pacific Rim...

This edited volume encompasses a range of themes and approaches relevant to the field of South African history today, as viewed from the perspective of practicing historians at the cutting edge of research in the discipline. The collection features the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389409Author David CogswellFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners

This is a collection of essays on current questions of historiography, illustrated with reference to Islamic historiography. The main concerns are conceptions of time and temporality, the uses of the past, historical periodisation, historical...

This volume celebrates the 40th anniversary of the journal "American Studies in Scandinavia", which began publication in 1967. This book is an invitation to develop a dialogue across the Atlantic. For too long European scholars have watched...

Skrift og historie hos Orderik Vitalis (Writing and History in Orderik Vitalis) elucidates the transition to written proceedings in the early Norman and Nordic cultures and places the process within the larger picture of the historical evolution. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788391825051Author Pawel JaniszewskiFormat HardbackPage Count 2Imprint Fundacja im. Rafala TaubenschlagaPublisher Fundacja im. Rafala Taubenschlaga

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788274772045Author Finn FuglestadFormat PaperbackPage Count 151Imprint Oslo Academic PressPublisher Oslo Academic PressWeight(grams) 296g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825367091Author Valerie EddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503534930Author Nils Holger PetersenFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503532103Author Pierre DelsaerdtFormat PaperbackPage Count 513Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 957g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503511559Author BOLVIGPage Count 460Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1201g

After the techno-futurism of the 1950s and the utopian 1960s vision of a “great society,” the 1970s saw Americans turning to the past as a source for both nostalgic escapism and serious reflection on the nation’s history. While some popular works...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895431766Author Jocelyne DorayFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503523590Author Patricia SkinnerFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

The 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...