Historiography category: 1227 books
The Bose Brothers and Indian Independence
An Insider’s Account
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
This book chronicles the roles of Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose in the Indian freedom struggle. It draws from first-hand accounts of Amiya Nath Bose who was close to them as family, political ally and also was a confidant and trusted envoy.
The book takes us through the turbulent political...
by Frank R. Ankersmit
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm...
Divergent Paths
Hegel in Marxism and Engelsism
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2006
Divergent Paths is the first volume of a groundbreaking three-volume work. Its purpose is to explore the relationship between Hegel and Marx; to define the relationship between Hegel and Engels; and to distinguish between the theories of Marxism and Engelsism. Marx used Feuerbach towards the critique...
by Terry Pinkard
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Hegel’s philosophy of history—which most critics view as a theory of inevitable progress toward modern European civilization—is widely regarded as a failure today. Terry Pinkard’s spirited defense of the Hegelian view, based on a subtle understanding of human subjectivity, will play a central role in contemporary reevaluations of Hegel’s work.
Reckoning with Pinochet
The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet’s legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America’s “dirty war” dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence while building a loyal social base. Hero to...
The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-1938
Complicating the Picture
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
First published in 2007, The Nanking Atrocity remains an essential resource for understanding the massacre committed by Japanese soldiers in Nanking, China during the winter of 1937-38. Through a series of deeply considered and empirically rigorous essays, it provides a far more complex and nuanced...
Latin America
The Allure and Power of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
“Latin America” is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America:...
The Arabs and the Holocaust
The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
An unprecedented and judicious examination of what the Holocaust means—and doesn't mean—in the Arab world, one of the most explosive subjects of our time
There is no more inflammatory topic than the Arabs and the Holocaust—the phrase alone can occasion outrage. The terrain is dense with...
Power in the 21st Century
Conversations with John Hall
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Michael Mann is one of the most influential sociologists writing today. His three-volume work The Sources of Social Power, the third volume of which has just been completed, has transformed our way of thinking about power and has rewritten the history of human societies. No one interested in understanding...
House of Shivaji
Studies and Documents on Maratha History: Royal Period
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This volume contains writings on the 'Royal Period' (1626-1700), as distinguished from the 'Peshwa Period' of Maratha history, and added a long life of Malik Ambar (from original Persian sources) and biographies of four eminent Marathi historical research-pioneers, Rajwade, Sane, Khare and Parasnis. The...
Debunking History
152 Popular Myths Exploded
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
How true is the history we learned in school? Did the English intend the Irish to starve as a result of the Great Famine? Did a haughty Marie Antoinette indeed urge the masses to eat cake? History is full of myths, legends, fables, folklore, misinformation, and misconceptions. Whether they have come...
L'Honda Anomala
Il rapimento Moro, una lettera anonima e un ispettore con le mani legate
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Dicembre 2010, Questura di Torino. Un ispettore della Digos scopre, tra i documenti in possesso del suo sovrintendente, una lettera anonima mai vista prima. Poche righe su un foglietto che alludono a responsabilità quanto meno scomode, e che delineano scenari davvero inquietanti, relativamente alla...
by Joyce Appleby
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
"Splendid: the global history of capitalism in all its creative—and destructive—glory.”—The New York Times Book Review
With its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system seems universal and timeless. The framework for our lives, it is a source of constant change, sometimes...
by Diego Olstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The book brings together many recent trends in writing history under a common framework: thinking history globally. By thinking history globally, the book explains, applies, and exemplifies the four basic strategies of analysis, the big C's: comparing, connecting, conceptualizing, and contextualizing, using twelve different branches of history.