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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...
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A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century
by John Burrow Publisher Comments This unprecedented book by one of Britain’s most admired historians describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of history has had in the Western world over the past 2,500 years. Treating the practice of history not as an...
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History as Mystery
by Michael Parenti 
Publisher Comments Essays on how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege, and how historians are influenced by the professional and class environment in which they work. "Michael Parenti, always...
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On History
by Eric Hobsbawm Publisher Comments A collection of essays about history and how it is recorded, a quarter of which are previously unpublished. Professor Eric Hobsbawm is the well-known author of "The Age Of Revolution, The Age Of Capital, The Age Of Empire" and "The Age Of Extremes...
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Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
by Eric Foner Publisher Comments “Who Owns History? testifies to Eric Foner’s lifelong personal commitment to writing histories that advance the struggle for racial equality and economic justice.” —David Glassberg, The Sunday Star-LedgerHistory has become a...
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The Culture Struggle
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....
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The End of History and the Last Man
by Francis Fukuyama Publisher Comments Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential...
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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...
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Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower
by Jon Wiener Publisher Comments A noted investigative journalist examines the various history scandals of the last few years, focusing on well-publicized cases including the Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin cases, in which the noted historians were accused of plagiarism....
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Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History : National and International Perspectives (00 Edition)
by Peter (ed.) Stearns Publisher Comments Including single-authored titles, primary source collections, and readers, The History of Disability series will address the full range of topics in disability history: policies and laws, political movements and organizations, medical treatment anf views,...
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Histories: French Constructions of the Past (New Press Postwar French Thought)
by Jacques Revel Publisher Comments New Press's four-volume Postwar French Thought Series charts the radical intellectual transformations that have taken place in post-World War II France. HISTORIES, the first volume in the series, focuses on the changing field of historiography. It...
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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...
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Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900 (Eurasian Populations and Family History Series)
by Tommy Bengtsson Publisher Comments A pioneering work in comparative history and social science that compares population behavior in response to adversity in Europe and Asia....
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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...
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The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
by John Lewis Gaddis Publisher Comments What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book....
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History in Crisis 2ND Edition Recent Directions
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 history?...
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Fifty Key Thinkers on History (Routledge Key Guides)
by Marnie Hughes-warrington Publisher Comments "Fifty Key Thinkers on History" is a superb guide to historiography through the ages. The cross-section of debates and thinkers covered is unique in its breadth, taking in figures from ancient China, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages, to...
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Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life
by Eric Hobsbawm Publisher Comments Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, “I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and...
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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...
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Troublemaker: The Life and History of A.J.P. Taylor
by Kathleen Burk Publisher Comments One of the most influential British historians of the twentieth century, A. J. P. Taylor was also the most popular, delivering history to a huge audience by means of legendary television lectures he gave live and unscripted. This engaging biography...
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