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Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its History Marc B. Shapiro (Professor Marc Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania) 9781904113607
£31.16Changing the Immutable focuses on how segments of Orthodox society have taken upon themselves to rewrite the past, by covering up and literally cutting out that which does not fit in with their contemporary world-view. For reasons ranging from... -
In Our Day: An Oral History of Dublin's Bygone Days by Kevin C. Kearns
RRP: £23.99£17.21For over fifty years, Kevin C. Kearns trekked the rough-and-tumble streets of the heart of Dublin, hoping to record and preserve the city's vanishing oral history. Armed only with a Sony tape recorder, the ordinary people he encountered - street traders,... -
The Five Hundred Year Rebellion by Benjamin Dangl
RRP: £14.95£10.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353465Author Benjamin DanglFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle For Britain: A New History in the Words of the Men and Women on Both Sides Joshua Levine 9780091910044
RRP: £16.99£12.28Drawing material from the Imperial War Museum's extensive aural archive, Joshua Levine brings together voices from both sides of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain to give us a unique, complete and compelling picture of this turbulent time.In June 1940,... -
The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation by Hayden V. White 9780801841156
RRP: £24.00£21.51Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption-in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the... -
Writing Material Culture History by Dr Anne Gerritsen
RRP: £26.99£25.96Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture. Looking at archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides students with a fundamental understanding of the... -
A History of the Yoruba People by Stephen Adebanji Akintoye 9782359260052
RRP: £54.95£46.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782359260052Author Stephen Adebanji AkintoyeFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Amalion PublishingPublisher Amalion PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts by Reinhart Koselleck
RRP: £27.99£24.13Reinhart Koselleck is one of the most important theorists of history and historiography of the last half century. His work has implications for contemporary cultural studies that extend far beyond discussions of the practical problems of historical... -
The Oral History Reader by Robert Perks
RRP: £47.99£42.81The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive, international anthology combining major, 'classic' articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral history. Twenty-seven new chapters introduce the most... -
Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Hayden White 9781421415604
RRP: £26.50£24.06Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the surface level of... -
History and Identity: How Historical Theory Shapes Historical Practice by Stefan Berger
RRP: £27.99£24.67This introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice shows how issues of identity have shaped how we write history. Stefan Berger charts how a new self-reflexivity about what is involved in the process of writing history entered the... -
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Historian by Blair Worden
RRP: £21.99£20.92Hugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the 20th century. His scholarly interests ranged widely - from the Puritan Revolution to the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet he was also fascinated by the events of his own lifetime and wrote widely... -
For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies by Robert Irwin
RRP: £15.99£11.61Robert Irwin's history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the basic chronology of Harun... -
Sediments of Time: On Possible Histories by Reinhart Koselleck 9781503605961
RRP: £27.99£24.52Sediments 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,... -
Dublin Tenement Life by Kevin C. Kearns 9780717140749
RRP: £18.99£13.82This book is totally unique. It is based on the original and wholly authentic testimonies of survivors of the old Dublin tenements. For nearly 150 years, the wretched, squalid tenements of Dublin were widely judged to be the worst slums in all of Europe... -
Exploration: A Very Short Introduction by Stewart A. Weaver 9780199946952
RRP: £8.99£6.82For as long as there have been civilizations, there has been the urge to venture outside of them, either in search of other civilizations or in search of novelty. Exploration: A Very Short Introduction surveys this quintessential human impulse, tracing... -
Historical Theory by Mary Fulbrook 9780415179874
RRP: £37.99£33.38Practising historians claim that their accounts of the past are something other than fiction, myth or propaganda. Yet there are significant challenges to this view, most notably from postmodernism. In Historical Theory, a prominent historian develops a... -
Remaking History: The Past in Contemporary Historical Fictions by Jerome de Groot
RRP: £41.99£36.75Remaking History considers the ways that historical fictions of all kinds enable a complex engagement with the past. Popular historical texts including films, television and novels, along with cultural phenomena such as superheroes and vampires, broker... -
The Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr
RRP: £20.00£19.40Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, "The Irony of American History" is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr's... -
The Fabric of Historical Time by Zoltán Boldizsár Simon 9781009108331
RRP: £17.00£14.72Historical time is a notoriously elusive notion. Yet, as societies attempt to make sense of rapidly changing worlds, it gains a new significance in the twenty-first century. This Element sketches a theory of historical time as based on a distinction... -
Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus by Richard C. Carrier 9781616145590
RRP: £19.99£15.66This in-depth discussion of New Testament scholarship and the challenges of history as a whole proposes Bayes's Theorem, which deals with probabilities under conditions of uncertainty, as a solution to the problem of establishing reliable historical... -
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography by Robin Winks 9780199246809
RRP: £72.00£58.06The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth... -
China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter 9780674984264
RRP: £23.95£18.38A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearChinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the "victory"-a key foundation of China's rising nationalism... -
The Princeton Guide to Historical Research by Zachary Schrag 9780691198224
RRP: £22.00£18.03The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first centuryThe Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age,... -
The Invention of the White Race: The Origins of an American Ordeal by Theodore W Allen
RRP: £20.00£17.09When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. Historical debate about the origin of racial slavery has focused on the status of the... -
Future Stories: A user's guide to the future by David Christian
RRP: £20.00£14.51'David Christian's approach to understanding history can help all of us learn to prepare for the future' - Bill GatesA user's guide to the future: from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism,... -
Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History by Antoinette Burton
RRP: £23.99£21.56Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them-about the effect that the researcher's race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that... -
Roman Republics by Harriet I. Flower
RRP: £28.00£24.00From the Renaissance to today, the idea that the Roman Republic lasted more than 450 years--persisting unbroken from the late sixth century to the mid-first century BC--has profoundly shaped how Roman history is understood, how the ultimate failure of... -
A History of Art History by Christopher Wood
RRP: £30.00£24.06An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late... -
Lost Voices from the Titanic: The Definitive Oral History Nick Barratt 9781848091511
RRP: £15.99£10.82Starting from its original conception and design by the owners and naval architects at the White Star Line through construction at Harland and Wolff's shipyards in Belfast, Nick Barratt explores the pre-history of the Titanic. He examines the aspirations... -
History Beyond the Text: A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources by Sarah Barber
RRP: £39.99£35.06Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of interpretation and require historians to consider... -
Global Intellectual History by Samuel Moyn 9780231160490
RRP: £25.00£19.59Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront... -
History and Social Theory Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) 9780745634074
RRP: £17.99£16.29What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a pre-eminent cultural historian here offers a far-reaching response to these deceptively simple questions. In this classic text, now... -
Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources Laura Sangha 9781138823648
RRP: £39.99£35.33Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources is an introduction to the rich treasury of source material available to students of early modern history. During this period, political development, economic and social change, rising literacy levels, and the... -
The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism Colin Crouch (University of Warwick) 9780745652214
RRP: £16.99£15.46The financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades. Colin Crouch argues in this book that it will shrug off this... -
Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World by John Baines 9781800500266
£35.62Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in ancient civilizations across the world. The contributors are leading experts in Ancient Near Eastern... -
How to Study History Norman F. Cantor (New York University) 9780882957098
RRP: £20.95£18.50We have set down in this book the basic rules and principles of historical study that a student should bear in mind as he enters upon his first college history course. In our experience as college teachers of history, we have found that students need to... -
What is Intellectual History? Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews) 9780745644936
RRP: £14.99£13.78What is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and translators between historic societies and our own, while... -
Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time by Francois Hartog
RRP: £22.00£17.36Francois Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts,... -
History's People: Personalities and the Past by Professor Margaret MacMillan
RRP: £9.99£7.32What difference do individuals make to history? Are we all swept up in the great forces like industrialisation or globalisation, or is the world we inhabit shaped just as much by real people - leaders for example - and the decisions that they make? For...