Historiography

This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge.The tensions between competing paradigms,...

At once memoir and meditation, Keeping Time records one professional historian's struggle to live in history even as he studies it, writes about it, and teaches it. Exploring the omnipresence of the past in American life today, Peter N. Carroll weaves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996521307Author William B FriedricksFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Business Publications Corporation Inc.Publisher Business Publications...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615567488Author C Stephen BadgleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Badgley Pub CoPublisher Badgley Pub CoWeight(grams) 708gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Appeared originally in the winter and spring 1971 issues of Ddalus.Book InformationISBN 9780393094022Author Felix GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 724g

Historians know about the past because they examine the evidence. But what exactly is ""evidence,"" how do historians know what it means - and how can we trust them to get it right? Historian David Henige tackles such questions of historical reliability...

At a time when rapidly evolving technologies, political turmoil, and the tensions inherent in multiculturalism and globalization are reshaping historical consciousness, what is the proper role for historians and their work? By way of an answer, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989596732Author Herman Wiley RonnenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Heritage Witness Reflections PublishingPublisher Heritage Witness...

""Starting with popular objections to America's entry into World War I and ending with recent academic debates between Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldhagen over the legacy and meaning of the Holocaust, Schuldiner provides readers with a longer...

Taking interdisciplinary and diverse approaches, these thirteen essays explore the multifaceted relationship between performance and history. By considering performance as both a useful frame for understanding historical practices and a mode of...

In this concise volume, historian David Bebbington offers a summary of various theories of history from ancient times down to the present. Patterns in History provides Christian students of history with a trusted guide in what Mark Noll has described as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984036110Author Jack R WestbrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Orsb PublishingPublisher Orsb PublishingWeight(grams) 358g

In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdisciplinary study of the Native literary response to racist writing in the Canadian historical and literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981840857Author Herman Wiley RonnenbergFormat PaperbackImprint Heritage Witness Reflections PublishingPublisher Heritage Witness Reflections...

For Greg Dening, history saturates every moment of our cultural and personal existence. Throughout this text the author shows his awareness that the actual past remains fundamentally irreplicable. He asserts all histories to be culturally crafted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940490666Author Jacob LassnerFormat HardbackPage Count 171Imprint American Oriental SocietyPublisher American Oriental SocietyWeight(grams) 574g

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 attempted to...

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...