Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This broad survey introduces readers to the major themes, figures, traditions and theories in Western historical thought, tracing its evolution from biblical times to the present.Surveys the evolution...
Author: Kern, Stephen Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As sites of documentary preservation rooted in various national and social contexts, artifacts of culture, and places of uncovering, archives provide tangible evidence of memory for individuals, commu...
Author: Spier, Fred Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Big History and the Future of Humanity presents an original theoretical approach that makes “big history” – the placing of the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and t...
Author: Spier, Fred Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Big History and the Future of Humanity presents an original theoretical approach that makes “big history” – the placing of the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and t...
Author: Rawski, Thomas G. / Carter, Susan B. / Cohen, Jon S. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: These 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 historic...
Author: Kelley, Donald R. Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Fortunes of History Donald R. Kelley offers an authoritative examination of historical writing during the "long nineteenth century"--the years from the French Revolution to those just after the Fir...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: French Historians 1900-2000: The New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France examines the lives and writings of 40 of France’s great twentieth-century historians.Blends biography with cri...
Author: Klein, Kerwin Lee Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From History to Theory describes major changes in the conceptual language of the humanities, particularly in the discourse of history. In seven beautifully written, closely related essays, Kerwin Lee ...
Author: Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Updated with new material to reflect the latest developments in the field, Gender in History: Global Perspectives, 2nd Edition, provides a concise overview of the construction of gender in world cultu...
Author: McKitterick, Rosamond Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The writing and reading of history in the early Middle Ages form the key themes of this book. The primary focus is on the remarkable manifestations of historical writing in relation to historical memo...
Author: Lamont, William Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Using a range of historical problems as case studies and the work of particular historians, this collection of essays introduces students to the nature of historical method and the realities of "doing...
Author: Henige, David Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Historians know about the past because they examine the evidence. But what exactly is evidence, how do historians know what it meansand how can we trust them to get it right? Historian David Hen...
Author: Burckhardt, Jacob Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc. Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Renowned for his Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy and Reflections on History (published by Liberty Fund), Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) has well been described as "the most civilized his...
Author: Oakley, Francis Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From despots to powerless figureheads, and from the Neolithic era to the present, this book traces the history of kingship around the world and the tenacity of its connection with the sacred.Considers...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Making History" is a comprehensive textbook which explores the practice of history, historical tradition and the theories which surround it. Discussing the development and growth of history as a disc...
Author: Smail, Daniel Lord Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When does history begin? What characterizes it? This brilliant and beautifully written book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a ...
Author: Smail, Daniel Lord Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a little book about 50,000 years of human history that finally connects modern history, and medieval history, and ancient history, and what's still called prehistory . Offering a fascinating d...
Author: Brenner, Michael Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Prophets of the Past is the first book to examine in depth how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. Michael Brenner reveals that perhaps no other national or religious group has u...
Author: Brenner, Michael Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Prophets of the Past is the first book to examine in depth how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. Michael Brenner reveals that perhaps no other national or religious group has u...
Author: Chakrabarty, Dipesh Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of c...
Author: Bevington, David Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: An in-depth exploration, through his plays and poems, of the philosophy of Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a "great mind".Written by a leading Shakespearean scholarDiscusses an arra...
Author: Phillips, Mark Salber Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A deepening interest in both social and interior experience was a distinguishing feature of the cultural life of eighteenth-century Britain, influencing writers in all genres from fiction to philosoph...
Author: Winter, Jay / Prost, Antoine Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Since the Armistice, a vast literature has been produced on the First World War and its repercussions. For the first time, two leading historians from the United States and France have produced a full...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Oral History Reader is an international anthology of the key writings about the theory, method and use of oral history. The collection covers key debates in the postwar development of oral history...
Author: Diakonoff, Igor M. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a broad and ambitious study of the entire history of humanity which takes as its point of departure Marx's theory of social evolution. However, Professor Diakonoff's theory of world history di...
Author: Boldizzoni, Francesco Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past. In this provoc...
Author: Nickell, Joe Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: What 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...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Tacitus brings much needed clarity and accessibility to the notoriously difficult language and yet indispensable historical accounts of Tacitus. The companion provides both a broad intr...
Description: A Companion to Tacitus brings much needed clarity and accessibility to the notoriously difficult language and yet indispensable historical accounts of Tacitus. The companion provides both a broad intr...
Author: Kern, Stephen Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on...
Author: Kern, Stephen Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on...
Author: Klein, Kerwin Lee Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: From History to Theory describes major changes in the conceptual language of the humanities, particularly in the discourse of history. In seven beautifully written, closely related essays, Kerwin Lee ...
Author: Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Updated with new material to reflect the latest developments in the field, Gender in History: Global Perspectives, 2nd Edition, provides a concise overview of the construction of gender in world cultu...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Homes and Homecomings an international group of scholars provide inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics of homes and homecomings. Using innovative methodological and theoretical appr...
Description: In Homes and Homecomings an international group of scholars provide inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics of homes and homecomings. Using innovative methodological and theoretical appr...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: There have been serious debates between historians, novelists and filmmakers as to how best present historical narratives. When writers and filmmakers talk of using historical research with integrity,...
Description: There have been serious debates between historians, novelists and filmmakers as to how best present historical narratives. When writers and filmmakers talk of using historical research with integrity,...
Author: Peacock, Andrew C.S. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Tarikhnamah is a history of the world and the oldest surviving work of Persian prose. This book examines it as a political and cultural document and why it became such an influential work in the I...
Author: Pirker, Eva Ulrike Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Since the mid-1990s, the black experience in Britain has begun to be (re)negotiated intensely, with a strong focus on history. Narrative Projections of a Black British History considers narratives tha...
Author: Pirker, Eva Ulrike Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Since the mid-1990s, the black experience in Britain has begun to be (re)negotiated intensely, with a strong focus on history. Narrative Projections of a Black British History considers narratives tha...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Gabrielle Spiegel presents an essential new collection of key articles that examine the current status of the debate over the "linguistic turn" and attempt to rethink the practice of history in light ...
Author: Smith, Anthony D. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This major new work by Professor Anthony D. Smith challenges the notion of nationalism as a product of modernity.Major new work by a leading historical sociologistChallenges the prevailing idea of nat...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The question of what the nature of history is, is now a key issue for all students of history. It is now recognized by many that the past and history are different phenomena and that the way the past ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of the writings of Leopold von Ranke was first published in 1973 and remains the leading collection of Ranke's writings in the English language. Now updated with the needs of...
Author: McCullagh, C. Behan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The Truth of History" questions how modern historians, confined by the concepts of their own cultures, can still discover truths about the past. Through an examination of the constraints of history, ...
