Historiography category: 1227 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
While there is an growing body of work on space and place in many disciplines, less attention has been paid to how a spatial approach illuminates the societies and cultures of the past. Here, leading experts explore the uses of space in two respects: how space can be applied to the study of history, and how space was used at specific times.
Who Will Write Our History?
Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle...
Nostradamus
How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
We all know the name Nostradamus, but who was he really? Why did his predictions become so influential in Renaissance Europe and then keep resurfacing for nearly five centuries? And what does Nostradamus's endurance in the West say about us and our own world?
In Nostradamus: How an Obscure...
by Nell Irvin Painter
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
A New York Times bestseller: “This terrific new book . . . [explores] the ‘notion of whiteness,’ an idea as dangerous as it is seductive.”—Boston Globe
Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more...
Unsolved History
Investigating Mysteries of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
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 Lincoln's celebrated Bixby letter, the 1913 disappearance of writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce,...
Shakespeare's Ideas
More Things in Heaven and Earth
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
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 scholar
Discusses an array of topics, including sex and gender, politics and political theory, writing and...
by Emma James
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Did you know that there is a US President related to Brad Pitt? Did you know the only president that never lived in Washington and that there is a US president who was never voted into office?
This book provides you with fascinating and engaging information about US Presidents, from Washington...
Calls and Responses
The American Novel of Slavery since Gone with the Wind
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery and the experience of those involved in it. Complicating the common assumption that authentic black-authored fiction about slavery is starkly opposed...
Historians in Trouble
Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Historians in Trouble is investigative journalist and historian Jon Wiener’s "incisive and entertaining" (New Statesman, UK) account of several of the most notorious history scandals of the last few years.
Focusing on a dozen key controversies ranging across the political spectrum...
by John Lukacs
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
In this brilliant, strikingly original book, historian John Lukacs delves to the core of Adolf Hitler's life and mind by examining him through the lenses of his surprisingly diverse biographers.
Since 1945 there have been more than one hundred biographies of Hitler, and countless other books...
by Mark Connelly
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
`We Can Take It!' shows that the British remember the war in a peculiar way, thanks to a mix of particular images and evidence. Our memory has been shaped by material which is completely removed from historical reality. These images (including complete inventions) have combined to make a new history....
The Book of Firsts
150 World-Changing People and Events, from Caesar Augustus to the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
The Book of Firsts is an entertaining, enlightening, and highly browsable tour of the major innovations of the past twenty centuries and how they shaped our world.
Peter D’Epiro makes this handy overview of human history both fun and thought-provoking with his survey of the major “firsts”—inventions,...
History Is a Contemporary Literature
Manifesto for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Ivan Jablonka’s History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that both social-scientific inquiry and literary explorations contribute to our understanding of the world....