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Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past by Sarah Parcak 9781250231345
RRP: £18.99£12.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250231345Author Sarah ParcakFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougal -
Lost Voices from the Titanic: The Definitive Oral History by Nick Barratt 9781848091511
RRP: £15.99£10.66Starting 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... -
Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture by Jerome de Groot 9781138905320
RRP: £41.99£36.75Consuming History examines how history works in contemporary popular culture. Analysing a wide range of cultural entities from computer games to daytime television, it investigates the ways in which society consumes history and how a reading of this... -
Marxism and History: A Critical Introduct by S. H. Rigby 9780719056123 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.65This critically aclaimed book, now in its second edition is firmly established as an essential guide to this recent historiographical debate.Adopted as a set book by the Open University.An indispensable guide to Marxist historiography for undergradu. . ... -
Marxism and History: A Critical Introduct by S. H. Rigby
RRP: £25.00£17.92This critically aclaimed book, now in its second edition is firmly established as an essential guide to this recent historiographical debate.Adopted as a set book by the Open University.An indispensable guide to Marxist historiography for undergradu. . ... -
The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides by Ryan Balot
£47.32The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides contains newly commissioned essays on Thucydides as an historian, thinker, and writer. It also features chapters on Thucydides' intellectual context and ancient reception. The creative juxtaposition of historical,... -
Totalitarianism: The Basics by Phillip W. Gray 9781032183732
RRP: £18.99£16.87Totalitarianism: The Basics is an easy-to-read introduction into the main concepts, ideologies, and regimes associated with totalitarianism.Starting with an overview of how scholars have attempted to define totalitarianism, Phillip W. Gray begins with an... -
Interpreting Early Modern Europe by C. Scott Dixon
RRP: £39.99£35.46Interpreting Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive collection of essays on the historiography of the early modern period (circa 1450-1800).Concerned with the principles, priorities, theories, and narratives behind the writing of early modern history,... -
Future Stories: A user's guide to the future by David Christian
RRP: £20.00£14.29'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,... -
The Debate on the Norman Conquest by Marjorie Chibnall 9780719049132
RRP: £19.99£17.82The debate on the Norman Conquest is still ongoing. Because of the great interest that has always been shown in the subject of conquest and its aftermath, interpretations have been numerous and conflicting; students bewildered by controversies may find... -
China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter 9780674984264
RRP: £23.95£18.21A 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... -
Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources by Laura Sangha 9781138823648
RRP: £39.99£35.06Understanding 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 Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism by R. H. Hilton
£17.16The debate on the transition from feudalism to capitalism, originally published in Science and Society in the early 1950s, is one of the most famous episodes in the development of Marxist historiography since the war. It ranged such distinguished... -
Singular Pasts: The "I" in Historiography by Enzo Traverso 9780231203982
RRP: £92.00£71.81Today, history is increasingly written in the first person. A growing number of historical works include an autobiographical dimension, as if writing about the past required exploring the inner life of the author. Neither traditional history nor... -
Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by David Hayton
RRP: £30.00£21.71Acclaimed after the Second World War as England's greatest historian, Sir Lewis Namier was an eastern European immigrant who came to idealise the English gentleman and enjoyed close friendship with leading figures of his day, including Winston Churchill... -
Telling the Truth about History by Joyce Appleby 9780393312867
RRP: £20.00£16.54This text examines the problem of historical truth. Seeking the roots of contemporary historical study in the Enlightenment, the authors argue that a model of historical research, based on neutrality and objectivity, served historians well until World... -
Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy by Edward Baring
RRP: £47.95£38.64In the most wide-ranging history of phenomenology since Herbert Spiegelberg's The Phenomenological Movement over fifty years ago, Baring uncovers a new and unexpected force-Catholic intellectuals-behind the growth of phenomenology in the early twentieth... -
History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past by Jason Steinhauer 9783030851163
RRP: £22.99£16.96The Internet has changed the past. Social media, Wikipedia, mobile networks, and the viral and visual nature of the Web have inundated the public sphere with historical information and misinformation, changing what we know about our history and History... -
History and Memory by Geoffrey Cubitt 9780719060786
RRP: £19.99£17.82In recent years, 'memory' has become a central, though also a controversial, concept in historical studies - a term that denotes both a new and distinctive field of study and a fresh way of conceptualizing history as a field of inquiry more generally. ... -
On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian by John Marincola
RRP: £14.99£10.95What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology, translated and edited by Professor John Marincola, contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in the ancient world.The study of history was invented in... -
History and Social Theory by Peter Burke 9780745634074
RRP: £17.99£16.04What 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... -
The Emperor Caligula in the Ancient Sources by Anthony A. Barrett 9780198854579
RRP: £20.00£18.81There can be few historical figures who have made such a powerful impact on the popular imagination as the Roman emperor Caligula (died AD 41). Yet an accurate reconstruction of his life and reign largely eludes us. This is paradoxical. The source... -
What is History Now? by Mr David Cannadine 9780333986462
£90.27Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich by Christopher Clark
RRP: £25.00£19.59From the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of timeThis groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of... -
History, Memory and Public Life: The Past in the Present by Anna Maerker 9781138905849
RRP: £36.99£32.53History, Memory and Public Life introduces readers to key themes in the study of historical memory and its significance by considering the role of historical expertise and understanding in contemporary public reflection on the past.Divided into two... -
The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism by Colin Crouch
RRP: £16.99£15.22The 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... -
Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus by Richard C. Carrier 9781616145590
RRP: £19.99£15.42This 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... -
Thucydides: The Reinvention of History by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: £21.99£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118299Author Donald KaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 258g -
Lenin's Childhood by Isaac Deutscher 9781804292778
RRP: £10.99£8.94When he died suddenly in 1967, Isaac Deutscher had completed only the compelling first chapter of a long-anticipated biography of Lenin, published here. It covers Lenin's family background, birth and early years in the backwater town of Simbirsk up to... -
Connecting History: Higher USA, 1918-1968 by Alec Jessop
£21.93Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told... -
Essays in Indian History - Towards a Marxist Perception by Irfan Habib
RRP: £22.00£19.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381693Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 144mm * 22mm -
A History of the Yoruba People by Stephen Adebanji Akintoye 9782359260052
RRP: £54.95£46.75Apologies 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)... -
Republicanism – An Introduction by Hammersley
RRP: £17.99£16.04Republicanism is a centuries-old political tradition, yet its precise meaning has long been contested. The term has been used to refer to government in the public interest, to regimes administered by a collective body or an elected president, and even... -
The Idea of History: With Lectures 1926-1928 by R. G. Collingwood
RRP: £56.99£53.61The Idea of History is the best-known work of the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R. G. Collingwood. Published posthumously in 1946, it examines how the idea of history has evolved from the time of Herodotus to the twentieth... -
Economics and the Historian by Thomas G. Rawski
RRP: £29.00£22.54These essays provide a thorough introduction to economics for historians. The authors, all eminent scholars, show how to use economic thinking, economic models, and economic methods to enrich historical research. They examine such vital issues as... -
Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory by Andreas Huyssen 9780804745611
RRP: £21.99£18.01Memory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York-three late-twentieth-century cities that have... -
Natural Experiments of History by Jared Diamond
RRP: £21.95£18.47Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In... -
Truth Has a Power of Its Own: Conversations About A People's History by Howard Zinn
RRP: £12.99£8.63American history told from the bottom up by Howard Zinn himself-and the perfect all-ages introduction to his eye-opening viewpoint, published on Zinn's hundredth birthdayTruth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of conversations with the... -
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester 9780008484392
RRP: £16.99£13.08'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times 'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and... -
The Birth of Territory by Stuart Elden 9780226202570
RRP: £28.00£27.79Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial concepts...