The new edition of G. R. Elton’s classic work is a wide-ranging, succinct and practical introduction for all students an......more
Ten Days That Shook the World" by John Reed, This guide provides an individual bank account of Russian Revolution of 191......more
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Historical knowledge, this noted Dutch historian declares, should be a result of free investigation and criticism. Since......more
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Historians Against History was first published in 1967. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-......more
Professor Baker recounts and analyses the relations of the English Renaissance historians to other writers of their time......more
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The papers brought together in this volume bear witness to the growing vigour and diversity of eighteenth-century studie......more
In this book, J.H. Plumb investigates the way that humankind has moulded the past to give sanction to their institutions......more
In the fourth volume of this comprehensive study, Jefferson acquires the vast territory of Louisiana for the United Stat......more
If one laughs when David Hackett Fischer sits down to play, one will stay to cheer. His book must be read three times: t......more
This volume presents an array of studies on many aspects of the eighteenth century: on the novel, history, the history o......more
New Approaches to Latin American History incorporates methods and concepts from the social sciences without abandoning a......more
The power of imagination to construct those mythos which alone, according to Barres, give sense and value to our absurd ......more
"Professor Hughes offers an earnest warning: ’Unless there is some emotional tie, some elective affinity linking the stu......more
This book closes an obvious gap in nineteenth-century historiography by carefully analysing British policy and public op......more
This book throws open an entirely new window upon Australian history. Almost a century before Captain Cook voyaged along......more
"Every working historian, from the novice to the veteran, from the untrained amateur to the professionally prepared, can......more
Walter Prescott Webb became one of the best known interpreters of the American West following the publication of The Gre......more
Within the context of the debate between idealism and empiricism, this book studies the ideas of six representative Cana......more
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The characteristic form taken by English Marxism since the war has been the study of history. No writer exemplifies its ......more
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The first English translation of Ecrits sur l’histoire-a collection of essays written over a twenty-year period followin......more
Studies the burgeoning field of psychohistory - from Freud, its primogenitor, to its present-day academic practitioners ......more
Celebrated for bringing a personal touch to history in her Pulitzer Prize-winning epic The Guns of August and other clas......more
Edmund Fryde provides a general account of the attempt to revive and surpass the standards of classical historiography a......more
This book argues that history and sociology share the same vital preoccupation: the desire to unravel the puzzle of huma......more
The archaeology of the period A.D. 500-1000 has taken off in the Mediterranean (where prehistoric and classical studies ......more
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No one has been more influential in the contemporary practice of art history than Erwin Panofsky, yet many of his early ......more
The ashes of Herbert Norman now lie in the British cemetery at Rome, near those of Shelley and Keats. His distinguished ......more
This volume contains two important works by Roger North (1651?--1734): his General Preface and Life of Dr John North. Th......more
No one has been more influential in the contemporary practice of art history than Erwin Panofsky, yet many of his early ......more
Five historians uncover the ties between people’s daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They......more
Western rationalism-nature, of course, and genesis-was Max Weber s dominant historical interest. It was the grand theme ......more
LaCapra offers an intriguing collection of essays to support both his enthusiasm for intellectual history . . . and his ......more
The dynamic aspect of biological systems--the birth, growth, and death of individual organisms, the evolution of one for......more
Although history was once considered a component of the study of literature, the two fields have grown steadily apart si......more
Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee’s A Study of History is a ten-vol......more
The aspiration to relate the past "as it really happened" has been the central goal of American professional historians ......more
Drawing on archival studies, revisionist historians have taken issue with the traditional view that Tsar Paul I was mad ......more
Herodotus was the first writer in the West to conceive the value of creating a record of the recent past. He found a way......more
Shelby Foote once said that he did not know of anything he had learned about the writing of novels that couldn’t also be......more
In these lively, timely, and contentious essays J.L. Granatstein takes on one of the ’hoary central myths’ of Canadian h......more
The enthusiastic response to the Dictionary has prompted this second substantially enlarged, revised and updated edition......more
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Since its first publication, History has become recognized as a masterful exposition of the state of historical scholars......more
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During the nineteenth-century, the writing of history in English-speaking Canada changed from promotional efforts by ama......more
In this provocative and forcefully written book, Steven Mailloux takes issue with the validity of a number of distinctio......more
In this provocative and forcefully written book, Steven Mailloux takes issue with the validity of a number of distinctio......more
Arnold J. Toynbee’s voluminous studies of world history embraced every civilization and religion of the past and present......more
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Acknowledgments Introduction I. Memory, History, and Cultural Authority Headnotes 1. Oral History and Hard Times: A Revi......more
The great inquiry into the nature of Aztec civilization began at the very moment of its destruction in the name of the S......more
Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur’s earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the lev......more
Outlines the political pressures that have shaped the writing and interpretation of modern world history in post-1949 Ch......more
This provocative essay uses as a starting place the work of two towering figures in Canadian intellectual history: Harol......more
Winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize In this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America s most significant ......more
Willa Baum once again shares her enormous knowledge of oral history in her second AASLH book, focusing this time on what......more
This volume contains seventy-five interviews with Fordham administrators, faculty, and staff who share their rememberanc......more
The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians provides an authoritative and readable source book for students and specialists. ......more
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What is it that oral historians do? Prior to the publication of Envelopes of Sound oral history was regarded as an archi......more
The concept of race is central to one of the most powerful ideological formations in history, Dominick LaCapra argues in......more
This volume marks the transformation of the International Journal of Oral History from a journal publication to an annua......more
An examination of the controversies that surround education, tradition and history in an international context. The auth......more
In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify ho......more
Although historiography is a frequently used term, its content is far from unequivocal. For the purposes of this bibliog......more
Caught in the whirlwind of the postindustrial revolution, many members of today’s labor force look upon the changing job......more
This work, by the co-founder of the "Annales School" deals with the uses and methods of history. It is useful for studen......more
A leading intellectual member of France’s Freudian school, Michel de Certeau combined principles from the disciplines of......more
In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian s craft. Examining ......more
"LaCapra offers an intriguing collection of essays to support both his enthusiasm for intellectual history... and his co......more
Collections of essays surveying the historical discipline at the end of the 1970s heralded the new approached being deve......more