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  • Historical Truth and Lies About the Past

    Reflections on Dewey, Dreyfus, de Man, and Reagan

    de Alan B. Spitzer ...
    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 politically charged debates about the past: the response to the report of the commission chaired by John Dewey that evaluated the accusations made ... Leer más

    $28.49 USD

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  • History, Literature, Critical Theory

    de Dominick LaCapra ...
    In History, Literature, Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his exploration of the complex relations between history and literature, here considering history as both process and representation. A trio of chapters at the center of the volume concern the ways in which history and literature (particularly the novel) impact and question each other. In one of the chapters LaCapra revisits ... Leer más

    $24.69 USD

  • Revolution at the Gates

    Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917

    de V.I. Lenin ...
    Series series The Essential Zizek
    The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK, but Lenin? Doesn’t he stand for the big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire twentieth-century?Lenin, however, deserves wider consideration than this, and his writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political figure. They reveal his ability to grasp the significance of an extraordinary ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Coleshanger

    Recollections from an English village

    de Norman Williams ...
    “If it can be said a village has a life, then this is a biography.” Norman Williams (1908-1969)“Coleshanger people are pretty bad,” said Uncle Edward. “They won’t cross water after sunset. And they have to be in bed by midnight, otherwise they think that they'll be turned into baboons and apes. They also worship the flea.”Written in 1952, Coleshanger is a humorous, whimsical and charming recount ... Leer más

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  • The African Dispersal in the Deccan

    de Shanti Sadiq Ali ...
    One of the few studies of kind, this book provides a historical overview of the African heritage in Indiafrom medieval to modern time. It focusses on the African dispersal in the Deccan region covering modern Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, the Coromandel Coast and western coastal India. Beginning with their inception into the Deccan as slaves or mercenaries in local armies, we see how the ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • World History

    Journeys from Past to Present - VOLUME 1: From Human Origins to 1500 CE

    de Candice Goucher, Linda Walton ...
    World History: Journeys from Past to Present uses common themes to present an integrated and comprehensive survey of human history from its origins to the present day. By weaving together thematic and regional perspectives in coherent chronological narratives, Goucher and Walton transform the overwhelming sweep of the human past into a truly global story that is relevant to the contemporary issues ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Writing the Story of Texas

    Edición de Patrick L. Cox, Kenneth E., Jr. Hendrickson ...
    Series series Charles N. Prothro Texana Series
    The history of the Lone Star state is a narrative dominated by larger-than-life personalities and often-contentious legends, presenting interesting challenges for historians. Perhaps for this reason, Texas has produced a cadre of revered historians who have had a significant impact on the preservation (some would argue creation) of our state’s past. An anthology of biographical essays, Writing the ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade

    de Elizabeth Lapina ...
    In Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade, Elizabeth Lapina examines a variety of these chronicles, written both by participants in the crusade and by those who stayed behind. Her goal is to understand the enterprise from the perspective of its contemporaries and near contemporaries. Lapina analyzes the diversity of ways in which the chroniclers tried to justify the ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Fortunes of History

    Historical Inquiry from Herder to Huizinga

    de Professor Donald R. Kelley ...
    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 First World War. He provides a comprehensive analysis of the theories and practices of British, French, German, Italian, and American schools of historical thought, their principal figures, and their ... Leer más

    $37.79 USD

  • The Legacy of Thomas Paine in the Transatlantic World

    Edición de Sam Edwards, Marcus Morris ...
    As early as 1892, Moncure Conway, the author of the first scholarly Paine biography, noted that whilst Paine’s life up to 1809 was certainly fascinating, his subsequent life – that is, his afterlife – was even more thrilling. Vilified by Theodore Roosevelt as a "filthy little atheist," yet employed by Ronald Reagan in his campaign to make America "great again," Paine’s words and ideas have been ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Nationalizing the Past

    Historians as Nation Builders in Modern Europe

    Edición de S. Berger, C. Lorenz ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Historians traditionally claim to be myth-breakers, but national history since the nineteenth century shows quite a record in myth-making. This exciting new volume compares how national historians in Europe have handled the opposing pulls of fact and fiction and shows which narrative strategies have contributed to the success of national histories. ... Leer más

    $98.09 USD

  • The Work of History

    Constructivism and a Politics of the Past

    de Kalle Pihlainen ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    Since the appearance of Hayden White’s seminal work Metahistory in 1973, constructivist thought has been a key force within theory of history and has at times even provided inspiration for historians more generally. Despite the radical theoretical shift marked by constructivism and elaborated in detail by its proponents, confusion regarding many of its practical and ethical consequences persists, ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD