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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W Loewen Publisher Comments Americans have lost touch with their history, and in Lies My Teacher Told Me Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying eighteen leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Landscape and Memory (95 Edition) by Simon Schama Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 613-621) and index.... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $15.00 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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French Historical Revolution: The Annales School, 1929-89 (Key Contemporary Thinkers Series) by Peter Burke Publisher Comments A remarkable amount of the most innovative, significant, and lasting historical writing of the twentieth century has been produced in France, much of it the work of a group of historians associated with the journal Annales. Founded in 1929, Annales... (read more) Your price: $29.50 New - Trade Paper
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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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Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology by Jan Vansina Publisher Comments Oral traditions are historical sources of a special nature. Their special nature derives from the fact that they are unwritten sources couched in a form suitable for oral transmission, and that their preservation depends on the powers of memory of... (read more) Your price: $38.50 New - Trade Paper
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Tropics of Discourse : Essays in Cultural Criticism (85 Edition) by Hayden White Publisher Comments Tropics of Discourse develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism.... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Essential Historiography Reader (11 Edition) by Caroline Hoefferle Publisher Comments The Essential Historiography Reader, not only details the history of historical practice and explains historical theories and philosophies in language that is accessible to college undergraduates, it also provides excerpts to illustrate these... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price: $40.00 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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The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History by Tessa Morris-suzuki Publisher Comments Despite predictions of the "death of the past" and the "end of history," the past refuses to go away. In fact, the start of the twenty-first century has seen an upsurge of interest in popular representations of history on the large and small screen, and... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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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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Biography: A Brief History by Nigel Hamilton Publisher Comments For thousands of years we have recorded real lives--the lives of others, and of ourselves. For what purpose and for whom has this universal and timeless pursuit endured? What obstacles have lain in the path of biographers in the past, and what continues... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Recent Themes in World History and the History of the West: Historians in Conversation (Historians in Conversation) by Donald A. Yerxa Book News Annotation Yerxa (history, Nazarene College, Massachusetts) is the editor of Historically Speaking, a history periodical, and he has included this collection of essays and interviews that illustrate views from noted historians on the influence Western... (read more) Your price: $27.25 New - 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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Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern by Ernst Breisach Publisher Comments In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life by Martin L. Davies Publisher Comments Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life offers a controversial analysis, grounded both in philosophical argument and empirical evidence, of what history does in contemporary culture. It endorses and extends the argument that contemporary... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory by Anna (edt) Green Publisher Comments This crucial volume focusing on free speech, media, and law confronts complicated issues that are of interest not only to media law scholars, but to anyone concerned with the First Amendment. It questions whether freedom of speech is identical to freedom... (read more) Your price: $30.75 New - Trade Paper
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History of White People (11 Edition) by Nell Irvin Painter Publisher Comments Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Natural Experiments of History by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition,... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $13.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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