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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen Publisher Comments Winner of the American Book Award and the Oliver C. CoxAnti-Racism Award of The American Sociological Association Americans have lost touch with their history, and in Lies My Teacher Told Me Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying eighteen... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - 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 $17.75 Your price: $3.95 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) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Empire, Development & Colonialism: The Past in the Present by Mark (edt) Duffield Publisher Comments This collection explores the similarities, differences and overlaps between the contemporary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention and the historical artefacts and strategies of Empire. It includes views by historians and... (read more) List Price $99.25 Your price: $87.75 New - Hardcover
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Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History (Modern Library Chronicles) 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 bestselling... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 $40.25 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Past Imperfect (04 Edition) by Hoffer Publisher Comments Woodrow Wilson, a practicing academic historian before he took to politics, defined the importance of history: "A nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today." He, like many men of his generation, wanted to impose a... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Doing Oral History (2ND 03 Edition) by Donald A. Ritchie Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-303) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History by Dana Lindaman Publisher Comments By juxtaposing starkly contrasting versions of the historical events people take for granted, "History Lessons" affords readers a sometimes hilarious, often sobering look at what the world learns about America's past.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (97 Edition) by Manuel Delanda Publisher Comments Following in the wake of his groundbreaking War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a radical synthesis of historical development over the last one thousand years. More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Telling Lies About Hitler: the Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial (UK Edition) by Richard Evans Synopsis Richard Evans was the key expert witness in the David Irving trial in which the judge branded Irving a racist and anti-Semite. Evans explains here how he revealed Irving's methods of historical falsification and demonstrates Irving's connections with far-... (read more) Your price: $23.50 New - Mass Market
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Museum Studies (04 Edition) by Bettina Messias Carbonell Publisher Comments Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contextsprovides a comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture, philosophy and their adoring or combative publics. Brings together for the first time a wide... (read more) List Price $62.95 Your price: $48.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Re-Thinking History (Routledge Classics) by Keith Jenkins Publisher Comments History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer nowadays. And yet, at the same time, history has never been more popular - whether in the press, on the television or... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Ambiguities of History: The Problem of Ethnocentrism in Historical Writing Synopsis This book argues that history may, by definition, be an imperialist science or a quintessentially Western form of... (read more) Your price: $29.00 New - Trade Paper
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On Deep History and the Brain by Daniel Lord Smail Synopsis When does history begin? What characterizes it? This brilliant and beautifully written book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions by Ronald Fritze Publisher Comments Were the Chinese the first to discover America in 1421? Did Jesus and Mary Magdalene have children together? Did extraterrestrials visit the earth during prehistory and teach humans how to build pyramids and stone structures? These are only a few of the... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The Dustbin of History by Greil Marcus Publisher Comments impoverished as our present sense of the past.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hail to the Chiefs: Presidential Mischief, Morals, and Malarkey from George W. to George W. by Barbara Holland Publisher Comments This book, a top Ten selection for the January/February BookSense 76 List of the American Booksellers Association, is a devastatingly funny take on all of our presidents — from George Washington to George W Bush. Like Dorothy, in the Wizard of Oz... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Sources for Alexander the Great: An Analysis of Plutarch's 'Life' and Arrian's 'Anabasis Alexandrou' (Cambridge Classical Studies) by N. G. L. Hammond Publisher Comments Plutarch and Arrian are the ancient writers who tell us most about Alexander the Great. This book is the first attempt to analyze and evaluate in detail the sources of information they themselves drew on, a necessary first step to appreciating the value... (read more) Your price: $51.25 New - Trade Paper
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Conversations with Shelby Foote (Literary Conversations) by Shelby Foote Publisher Comments Collections of interviews with notable modern... (read more) Your price: $32.50 New - Trade Paper
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