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The Use of History A. L. Rowse 9781138640047
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book, originally published in 1963, discusses the place of history in education and general culture, methods of teaching and how to tackle reading. It deals with problems that are among the most pressing intellectual issues of the twentieth century... -
Central Asia and the New Global Economy: Critical Problems, Critical Choices: Critical Problems, Critical Choices by Boris Z. Rumer
RRP: £96.99£84.05Central Asia's new states have been buffeted by financial ill winds from East Asia and Russia and by Islamic revolutionary movements from the south. In the context of widespread and deepening impoverishment, endemic corruption, gaping inequalities, and... -
History as Art and as Science: Twin Vistas on the Past by H. Stuart Hughes
RRP: £26.00£24.85"Professor Hughes offers an earnest warning: 'Unless there is some emotional tie, some elective affinity linking the student to his subject of study, the results will be pedantic and perfunctory.' In other words, it is only a step from the sublime... -
History on the Ground Maurice Beresford 9781138187740
RRP: £36.99£32.53Taking the evidence of maps and documents, this book, originally published in 1957, describes 6 journeys inthe field: to parish boundaries, Elizabethan villages, the planted medieval towns and to parks of all periods. Reviews'This is an important... -
Peasants without the Party: Grassroots Movements in Twentieth Century China Lucien Bianco 9781563248405
RRP: £37.99£33.78Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.The leading specialist on China's twentieth century... -
Chronicles, Consuls, and Coins: Historiography and History in the Later Roman Empire by R.W. Burgess
RRP: £43.99£38.84The papers collected in this volume focus on the sources for reconstructing the history of the third to fifth centuries AD. The first section, 'Historiography', looks at a small group of chronicles and breviaria whose texts are fundamental for our... -
History and Historical Research by C. G. Crump
RRP: £36.99£32.53Aimed at students of history, this volume, originally published in 1928, examines the issues of impartiality and objectivity in the study of history. It also discusses the skills necessary for any would-be historian including the knowledge of foreign... -
History and Criticism by Dominick LaCapra
RRP: £26.99£23.32"LaCapra offers an intriguing collection of essays to support both his enthusiasm for intellectual history... and his concern about the 'excesses' he finds in techniques and practices of the new social history. Admitting that the essays are...About the... -
Making Mongol History: Rashid Al-Din and the Jami? Al-Tawarikh Stefan Kamola 9781474421423
RRP: £105.00£85.27This book examines the life and work of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318), the most powerful statesman working for the Mongol Ilkhans in the Middle East.Book InformationISBN 9781474421423Author Stefan KamolaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Edinburgh... -
Imagined Empires: Eastern and Southeastern Europe (19th-20th Century) by Stamatopoulos
RRP: £61.00£55.75This collective volume enhances the discourse on the ideological prerequisites for the emergence of Balkan nationalisms. The Balkans offer classic examples of how empires imagine they can transform themselves into national states (Ottomanism) and how... -
Unsolved History: Investigating Mysteries of the Past by Joe Nickell
RRP: £14.00£12.98What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change. Joe Nickell demonstrates the techniques used in solving some of the world's most perplexing mysteries, such as the authenticity of Abraham Lincoln's celebrated Bixby letter, the 1913... -
A Theory of History by Agnes Heller
RRP: £45.99£40.53This radical analysis of the role and importance of historiography interprets the philosophy and theory of history on the basis of historicity as a human condition. The book examins the norms and methods of historiography from a philosophical point of... -
Faithful Narratives: Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity by Andrea Sterk
RRP: £27.99£24.14Historians of religion face complex interpretive issues when examining religious texts, practices, and experiences. Faithful Narratives presents the work of twelve eminent scholars whose research has exemplified compelling strategies for negotiating the... -
History, Ethics, and the Recognition of the Other: A Levinasian View on the Writing of History by Anton Froeyman
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book introduces a new way of looking at the writing of history. Rather than as the production of knowledge or the telling of stories, it sees writing history as an ethical, existential and emotional engagement with the people from the past. The... -
Sediments of Time: On Possible Histories by Reinhart Koselleck
RRP: £116.00£100.22Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns,... -
The Generation: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Communists of Poland by Jaff Schatz
RRP: £42.00£33.44This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Double Helix History by Jerome De Groot
RRP: £36.99£32.53Double Helix History examines the interface between genetics and history in order to investigate the plausibility of 'new' knowledge derived from scientific methods and to reflect upon what it might mean for the practice of history. Since the mapping of... -
History: Its Purpose and Method by G. J. Renier
RRP: £36.99£32.53This treatise of historical methodology, originally published in 1950 is based upon a liberal conception of history which excludes no narrator of past events from the ranks of historians. It defines history as the accurate story which preserves the... -
The Grand Design of God: The Literary Form of the Christian View of History by C. A. Patrides
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book, originally published in 1972, offers a stimulating account of the Christian tradition of historiography as it is reflected in works of literature and history. The discussion ranges from the pre-Christian The Iliad up to the 1970s. The author... -
Modern Arab Historiography: Historical Discourse and the Nation-State by Youssef M. Choueiri
RRP: £45.99£40.13Inclusing a new introduction and conclusion, this revised second edition deals with a vital yet neglected ingredient in modern Arab culture. It is the only scholarly study of Arab historiography. It covers the periods 1820-1920 (Pioneers and Amateurs)... -
Charting the Past: The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England by Jeremy Black
RRP: £66.00£56.93Eighteenth-century England was a place of enlightenment and revolution: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, religion, and the arts. But even as England propelled itself into the future, it was preoccupied with notions of... -
Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890-1970 Ian Tyrrell 9780226821948
RRP: £28.00£27.39From lagging book sales and shrinking job prospects to concerns over the discipline's "narrowness," myriad factors have been cited by historians as evidence that their profession is in decline in America. Ian Tyrrell's "Historians in Public" shows that... -
Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History Kenneth Cmiel 9780226611853
RRP: £31.00£26.73Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to the "mind of God." As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google's divine omniscience traffics indifferently in news, maps, weather, and porn. This book, begun... -
Thinking in the Past Tense: Eight Conversations Alexander Bevilacqua 9780226601175
RRP: £68.00£65.36The study of intellectual history might be second only to the novel in the number of mournful obituaries it has received over the years. But--if the vibrancy on display in Thinking in the Past Tense is any indication--reports of the death of intellectual... -
The Alternative Story of the Division of the Kingdom by Zipora Talshir
RRP: £22.00£20.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652420060Author Zipora TalshirFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint SimorPublisher SimorWeight(grams) 498g -
World History through Case Studies: Historical Skills in Practice David Eaton 9781350042612
RRP: £24.99£21.93This innovative textbook demystifies the subject of world history through a diverse range of case studies. Each chapter looks at an event, person, or place commonly included in comprehensive textbooks, from prehistory to the present and from across the... -
History and Ethnicity Elizabeth Tonkin 9781138194717
RRP: £45.99£40.13These essays examine the importance of historical consicousness and the role of historiography in 'ethnic' situations, exploring the many ways in which ethnic groups select history, write or rewrite it, rescue appropriate or ignore it, forget or traduce... -
Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention by Jaume Aurell
RRP: £39.99£35.06E. H. Carr wrote, "study the historian before you begin to study the facts." This book approaches the life, work, ideas, debates, and the context of key 20th- and 21st-century historians through an analysis of their life writing projects viewed... -
Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography by Tor Egil Forland
RRP: £41.99£36.75Bringing sophisticated philosophy to bear on real-life historiography, Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography rekindles and invigorates the debate on two perennials in the theory and methodology of history. One is the tension between... -
History, Politics, and the Novel by Dominick LaCapra
RRP: £33.00£29.05Although history was once considered a component of the study of literature, the two fields have grown steadily apart since the sixteenth century. Today few literary theorists and critics study history, and even fewer historians follow the work of their... -
The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in History and Theory, by Anna Green
RRP: £80.00£56.69The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This innovative critical reader provides accessible introductions to fourteen schools of thought, from the empiricist to the... -
Garcilaso Inca de la Vega: An American Humanist, A Tribute to Jose Durand by Jose Anadon
RRP: £27.99£24.14Widely 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... -
An Analysis of Lucien Febvre's The Problem of Unbelief in the 16th Century Joseph Tendler 9781912128853
RRP: £6.50£6.29Febvre asked this core question in The Problem of Unbelief: "Could sixteenth-century people hold religious views that were not those of official, Church-sanctioned Christianity, or could they simply not believe at all?" The answer informed a wider debate... -
Conceptual History in the European Space by Willibald Steinmetz
RRP: £110.00£64.42The result of extensive collaboration among leading scholars from across the European continent, Conceptual History in the European Space represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. It brings together ambitious thematic studies... -
Truth Has A Power Of Its Own Howard Zinn 9781620975176
RRP: £17.99£12.30Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of never-before-published conversations with Howard Zinn, conducted by the distinguished broadcast journalist Ray Suarez in 2007, that covers the course of American history from Columbus to the War... -
Roman Historiography: An Introduction to its Basic Aspects and Development by Andreas Mehl
RRP: £101.95£88.68Roman Historiography: An Introduction to its Basic Aspects and Development presents a comprehensive introduction to the development of Roman historical writings in both Greek and Latin, from the early annalists to Orosius and Procopius of Byzantium. *... -
Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography Marnie Hughes-Warrington 9780367023553
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book introduces students to ethics in historiography through an exploration of how historians in different times and places have explained how history ought to be written and how those views relate to different understandings of ethics.No two... -
Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again by Matthew Rowley
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book explores how polarised interpretations of America’s past influence the present and vice versa. A focus on competing Protestant reactions to President Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan evidences a fundamental divide over how America... -
Hard Rain: Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History by Alessandro Portelli
RRP: £92.00£71.81Bob Dylan's iconic 1962 song "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. A visionary warning of impending apocalypse, it sets symbolist imagery within a structure that recalls a centuries-old form... -
The Historian's Contribution to Anglo-American Misunderstanding: Report of a Committee on National Bias in Anglo-American History Text Books by Ray Allen Billington
£111.61This book examines text books used in English and American schools and determines the way in which national bias has been instilled into school children by the use of history books. This study reveals that the deliberate distortion common a generation...