Historiography category: 1227 books

Biografia essenziale di Aristotele (Stagira, 384 a.C. o 383 a.C. – Calcide, 322 a.C.), filosofo, scienziato e logico greco antico. Discepolo di Platone, unitamente a Socrate è considerato uno dei padri del pensiero filosofico occidentale, che da lui ha ereditato problemi, termini, concetti e metodi....

Biografia essenziale di Arnaldo da Brescia (Brescia, 1090 – Roma, 18 giugno 1155), religioso italiano. Fu un riformatore religioso caratterizzato da notevole eloquenza e forte avversione per l'istituzione tradizionale ecclesiastica. I punti fondamentali del suo radicale programma di riforma, da...

Carlo Ginzburg’s brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a bold stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skepticism. It looks deeply into questions raised by decades of post-structuralism: What constitutes historical truth? How do we draw a boundary between truth and...

In May, 1845, Sir John Franklin sailed from England with the ships Erebus and Terror, on an expedition to attempt the discovery of a "North-West Passage," or water-communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, to the north of the American Continent. No intelligence was received from him after...

No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion.

First published ten years ago, award-winning historian Ray Raphael’s Founding Myths has since established itself as a landmark of historical myth-busting. With Raphael’s trademark wit and flair, Founding Myths exposed the errors and inventions in America’s most cherished tales, from Paul Revere’s...

From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called “The Oral History of Our Time.” Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian...

The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes. Rome's war against the Gallic tribes lasted from 58 BC to 50 BC and culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52...

Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be...

We have entered an age of forgetting. Our world, we insist, is unprecedented, wholly new. The past has nothing to teach us. Drawing provocative connections between a dazzling range of subjects, from Jewish intellectuals and the challenge of evil in the recent European past to the interpretation of...

     Since his death along the bluffs overlooking the Little Bighorn River, in Montana, on June 25, 1876, over five hundred books have been written about the life and career of George Armstrong Custer.   The earliest works portrayed Custer as a romantic, knightly figure, a paragon of virtue and...

            We have reached a decisive point in the history of Italy and its relations to the rest of Europe. The Visigoth dealt a mortal blow to the Roman State: the Hun and the Vandal mocked its dying agonies; the Ostrogoth tried, but tried in vain, to resuscitate its life, breathing...

Volume 7 of the Great Events of World History, featuring: DANTE COMPOSES THE "DIVINA COMMEDIA", by Richard Church THIRD ESTATE JOINS IN THE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE, by Henri Martin WAR OF THE FLEMINGS WITH PHILIP THE FAIR OF FRANCE, by Eyre Crowe FIRST SWISS STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY, by F. Baker...

In this path-breaking book Linda Colley reappraises the rise of the biggest empire in global history. Excavating the lives of some of the multitudes of Britons held captive in the lands their own rulers sought to conquer, Colley also offers an intimate understanding of the peoples and cultures of...