Historiography category: 1227 books
Famous Indian Chiefs
Their Battles, Treaties, Sieges, and Struggles with the Whites for the Possession of America (Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
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Upon a beautiful day in July, 1492, two brown-skinned Spaniards lay upon the wharf that jutted far out into the waters of the blue Mediterranean Ocean at Palos, Spain, and looked meditatively in the direction of the far West. From their dress it could be easily seen that...
by John Jung
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
This memoir describes the discoveries, many unexpected, when a Chinese American psychology professor retires and reinvents himself as a public historian of Chinese in America... a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the processes involved in researching, writing, publishing, and promoting books. Writers of books on any topic will find useful information, ideas, and inspiration.
World History
Journeys from Past to Present - VOLUME 2: From 1500 CE to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
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...
Commemoration as Conflict
Space, Memory and Identity in Peace Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
McDowell and Braniff explore the relationship between commemoration and conflict in societies which have engaged in peace processes, attempting to unpack the ways in which the practices of memory and commemoration influence efforts to bring armed conflict to an end and whether it can even reactivate conflict as political circumstances change.
by Dale Andrade
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
LUZON –French Morocco (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)
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World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By locating...
Lies, Damned Lies and History
A Catalogue of Historical Errors and Misunderstandings
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
This collection takes the reader on a journey, century-by-century, showing how the truth that is usually taken for granted is a far cry from the facts. Amusing anecdotes and little-known facts travels through history, while teasing cross-references show how obscure events are linked. This is not a...
Fordham
A History and Memoir, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Fordham University is the quintessential American-Catholic institution—and one now looked upon as among the best Catholic universities in the country. Its story is also the story of New York, especially the Bronx, and
Fordham’s commitment to the city during its rise, fall, and rebirth. It’s...
Haunting History
For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing history are undergoing radical transformation. To do so, it explores the legacy and impact of deconstruction on American historical work; the current fetishization...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging it...
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
The characteristic form taken by English Marxism since the war has been the study of history. No writer exemplifies its achievements better than Edward Thompson, whose Making of the English Working Class is probably the most influential single work of historical scholarship by a socialist today. An...
by Robert A. Rosenstone
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
History on Film/Film on History has established itself as a classic treatise on the historical film and its role in bringing the past to life. In the third edition of this widely acclaimed text, Robert A. Rosenstone argues that to leave history films out of the discussion of the meaning of the past...
by Giuseppe Zecchini
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Una trattazione sistematica e completa della storiografia romana, ovvero della storiografia in lingua latina e in lingua greca legata alla storia di Roma dalla sua nascita alla fine del III secolo a.C. sino al VI secolo d.C. Il manuale, organizzato in capitoli che corrispondono a determinati generi...
Cesare Borgia
Le campagne militari del cardinale che divenne principe
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Figlio di Rodrigo Borja y Borja (Borgia), il futuro papa Alessandro VI, Cesare, assunto il cappello cardinalizio nel 1493 all’età di 18 anni circa, smetterà l’abito talare per il desiderio di fama e gloria terrena e per la brama di un principato italiano, quello di Romagna, sottraendolo cosí...