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That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (Ideas in Context) by Peter Novick Publisher Comments The aspiration to relate the past "as it really happened" has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization by Teofilo F Ruiz Publisher Comments "This is a beautifully written and deeply personal meditation on the horrors of Western history. A senior historian with an existential sensibility, Ruiz is keenly attuned to the terrors lurking in our awareness of time's relentless passing. Reflecting... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History T (Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America) by Claire Bond Potter Publisher Comments Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Hardcover
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Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History and Other Questions by Harvey J Kaye Publisher Comments In "Why do Ruling Classes Fear History," and Other Questions, Harvey Kaye shows how our present-day political and economic elites stand in a long line of governing classes which have been eager to declare an end to the making of history.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Style in History by Peter Gay Publisher Comments In this original and lucid guide to the proper reading of Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt--great historians who were also great stylists--Peter Gay demonstrates that style is an invaluable clue to the historian's insight.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction by Mark T Gilderhus Publisher Comments For undergraduate and graduate courses in Historiography, Philosophy of History, and Historical Methods. Also an ideal supplemental text for Western Civilization and Intellectual History courses. This concise, best-selling volume presents a... (read more) List Price $31.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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What is History by Edward Hallett Carr Publisher Comments '...[Carr] tackles half a dozen of the most fundamental questions concerning the interpretation of human social experience. He handles each of these with such mastery as we seldom see, and his little book is one of those rare works which one can with... (read more) List Price $14.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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On the Teaching and Writing of History: Responses to a Series of Questions by Bernard Bailyn Publisher Comments Bailyn, a professor at Harvard and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, writes of the impossibility of teaching history without bias, and that history itself is constantly open to new interpretations and viewpoints.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch Publisher Comments A history so funny, so true, so scary, it's bound to be called a conspiracy. "Meticulous in its research, forensic in its reasoning, robust in its argument, and often hilarious in its debunking, Voodoo Histories is a highly entertaining rumble with the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On History: Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali in Conversation by Oliver Stone Publisher Comments In working together on two challenging new documentaries—South of the Border and the forthcoming The Untold History of the United States series for Showtime—filmmaker Oliver Stone engaged with author and filmmaker Tariq Ali in a probing, hard... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Dangerous Games: the Uses and Abuses of History (09 Edition) by Margaret Macmillan Publisher Comments Margaret MacMillan, an acclaimed historian and “great storyteller” (The New York Review of Books), explores here the many ways in which history-its values and dangers-affects us all, including how it is used and abused. The New York Times... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life by Eric Hobsbawm Publisher Comments Eric Hobsbawm has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest living historians. Called "a lyrical, pungent, and provocative memoir" by Publishers Weekly, Interesting Times offers a personal tour through what Hobsbawm terms "the most extraordinary and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On History by Eric Hobsbawm Publisher Comments Available for the first time in an affordable paperback edition, "On History" presents key essays of history by "one of the few genuinely great historians of our century" ("New Republic").... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In Defense of History by Richard J Evans Publisher Comments E. H. Carr's What Is History?, a classic introduction to the field, may now give way to a worthy successor. In his compact, intriguing survey, Richard J. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. To materials... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Telling the Truth about History by Joyce Appleby Publisher Comments We have lost our grip on historical truth. Popular films depict subterranean conspiracies that shape historical events and public knowledge of those events. Best-selling narrative histories dissolve the border between fact and fiction, allowing the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Vision and Method in Historical Sociology by Theda Skocpol Publisher Comments Examines the careers and contributions of nine major scholars who have been influential in the development of historical sociology. Covers the work of Marc Bloch, Karl Polanyi, S. N. Eisenstadt, Reinhard Bendix, Perry Anderson, E. P. Thompson, Charles... (read more) List Price $58.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Historical Truth and Lies about the Past: Reflections on Dewey, Dreyfus, de Man, and Reagan by Alan B Spitzer Publisher Comments Historians have king struggled with the questions of historical relativism, objectivity, and standards of proof and evidence. Spitzer, an intellectual historian, focuses on the contradiction between theory and practice by presenting case studies of four... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Short Guide to Writing about History by Richard Marius Publisher Comments A “must have” for students taking any history course that requires writing, A Short Guide to Writing About History stresses thinking and writing like a historian. This engaging and practical little text helps the readers get beyond merely... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History?: And Other Questions by Harvey Kaye Book News Annotation Kaye (social change and development, U. of Wisconsin-Green Bay) calls on intellectuals of the Left to renew the struggle for liberty and equality, in essays originally written as lectures, articles, and reviews. He examines the value of knowledge and... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Eurocentrism by Samir Amin About the Author Samir Amin was born in Egypt in 1931 and received his Ph.D. in economics in Paris in 1957. He is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His numerous works include Eurocentrism: Second Edition, The World We Wish to See, The Liberal Virus... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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