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The Lessons of History by Will Durant Publisher Comments A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past (Critical Perspectives on the Past) by Samuel S Wineburg Publisher Comments Whether he is comparing how students and historians interpret documentary evidence or analyzing children's drawings, Wineburg's essays offer rough maps of how ordinary people think about the past and use it to understand the present. These essays... (read more) List Price $28.25 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History in Crisis?: Recent Directions in Historiography by Norman J Wilson Publisher Comments This book explores the possibilities remaining for historical study in the face of the current trends, including postcolonialism, postmodernism, and deconstruction, among others. The volume examines key topics such as what was history and what is... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present by Fritz R Stern Publisher Comments This is a book by historians about history, personal reflections on an ancient but ever varying discipline. As the present work will show, modern historians have written in a variety of genres, but the multiplicity of style cannot obscure the two basic... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Versions of History from Antiquity to the Enlightenment by Donald Kelly Book News Annotation There are many problems verifying arms reduction under existing treaties and, more importantly, under the treaties now being negotiated with the Soviet Union. These proceedings of the London (UK) Workshop on Verification of Nuclear and Conventional... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Culture Struggle (06 Edition) by Michael Parenti Publisher Comments One of America's most astute and engaging political analysts turns his attention to how culture is perceived. Richly informed and well written with style and dashes of ironic humor, this is a buffet of ideas that explain the world.... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Which Road to the Past?, Two Views of History by Robert W Fogel Publisher Comments Two distinguished historians, one an advocate of the new scientific or cliometric history and the other a traditional historian, debate the validity of their respective methods of studying the past. While they differ sharply on many issues, in the end... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Studies on the History of Society & Culture #0006: New Cultural History by Lynn Hunt Publisher Comments "An important and provocative argument for the 'new cultural history,' an approach to history that stresses the importance of meaning in social action and the complexity of recovering the dynamics of expression and interpretation in the past."--Michael... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Times & Life: A Historian's Progress Through a Contentious Age by Morton Keller Publisher Comments “To be a reasonably successful member of a not notably distinguished generation,” says Morton Keller in his introduction to My Times and Life “is hardly to be among the best-situated claimants for public attention or admiration.”... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 $17.75 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History : National and International Perspectives (00 Edition) by Peter (ed.) Stearns Publisher Comments As issues of history and memory collide in our society and in the classroom, the time is ripe to rethink the place of history in our schools. Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History represents a unique effort by an international group of scholars to... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Historian's Fallacie by David Hackett Fischer Publisher Comments Chapter OneFalicies of Qustion-FramingAre we to be disgusted with science because it has not fulfilled our hopes or redeemed its promises? And are we, for this reason, to announce the "bankruptcy" of science, as is so often and so flippantly done? But... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Whig Interpretation of History by Herbert Butterfield Publisher Comments It is not as easy to understand the past as many who have written it would have us believe. The historians who look at it from the Protestant, progressive, "19th Century gentleman" viewpoint are defined by Professor Butterfield as "the Whig historians... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - 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 Sale - Hardcover
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Capitalism and the Historians by Friedrich Aug Hayek Publisher Comments The views generally held about the rise of the factory system in Britain derive from highly distorted accounts of the social consequences of that system—so say the distinguished economic historians whose papers make up this book. The authors... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.95 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: $7.98 Sale - 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 $33.75 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Historian's Toolbox: A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History by Robert Cha Williams Synopsis What is history and how do we learn about it? This book addresses the theory and practice of history and how it has evolved over the century. It goes on to reveal the tricks of the trade, offering concrete examples and practical advice on the study... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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What Is History Now? (02 Edition) by David (ed.) Cannadine Publisher Comments E.H. Carr's What is History?, first published in 1961, was the most influential book to examine writing and thinking about history this century. To commemorate the book's forthieth anniversary, David Cannadine has gathered an all-star cast of... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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History as Mystery by Michael Parenti Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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