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The Lessons of History
The Lessons of History
by Will Durant
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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)

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Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past (Critical Perspectives on the Past)
Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past (Critical Perspectives on the Past)
by Samuel S Wineburg
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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)

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History in Crisis?: Recent Directions in Historiography
History in Crisis?: Recent Directions in Historiography
by Norman J Wilson
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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)

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Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present
Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present
by Fritz R Stern
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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)

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Versions of History from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Versions of History from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
by Donald Kelly
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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)

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Culture Struggle (06 Edition)
Culture Struggle (06 Edition)
by Michael Parenti
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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)

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Which Road to the Past?, Two Views of History
Which Road to the Past?, Two Views of History
by Robert W Fogel
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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)

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Studies on the History of Society & Culture #0006: New Cultural History
Studies on the History of Society & Culture #0006: New Cultural History
by Lynn Hunt
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"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)

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My Times & Life: A Historian's Progress Through a Contentious Age
My Times & Life: A Historian's Progress Through a Contentious Age
by Morton Keller
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“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)

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What is History
What is History
by Edward Hallett Carr
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'...[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)

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Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History : National and International Perspectives (00 Edition)
Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History : National and International Perspectives (00 Edition)
by Peter (ed.) Stearns
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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)

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Historian's Fallacie
Historian's Fallacie
by David Hackett Fischer
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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)

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The Whig Interpretation of History
The Whig Interpretation of History
by Herbert Butterfield
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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)

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The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization
The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization
by Teofilo F Ruiz
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"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)

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Capitalism and the Historians
Capitalism and the Historians
by Friedrich Aug Hayek
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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)

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Telling the Truth about History
Telling the Truth about History
by Joyce Appleby
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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)

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Historical Truth and Lies about the Past: Reflections on Dewey, Dreyfus, de Man, and Reagan
Historical Truth and Lies about the Past: Reflections on Dewey, Dreyfus, de Man, and Reagan
by Alan B Spitzer
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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)

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The Historian's Toolbox: A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History
The Historian's Toolbox: A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History
by Robert Cha Williams
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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)

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What Is History Now? (02 Edition)
What Is History Now? (02 Edition)
by David (ed.) Cannadine
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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)

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History as Mystery
History as Mystery
by Michael Parenti
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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)

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