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Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present
by Fritz R Stern  Synopsis 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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History Lesson: A Race Odyssey
by Mary Lefkowitz Publisher Comments In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that Greek culture had been stolen from Africa and that Jews were responsible for the slave trade...
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen Publisher Comments The national bestseller and winner of the American Book Award, thoroughly updated for the first time since its initial publication to include textbooks written since 2000 and featuring a new chapter on what textbooks get wrong about 9/11 and Iraq. Since...
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The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History
by Gordon S. Wood Publisher Comments Reflections on the historian's craft and its place in American culture, from a master craftsman History is to society what memory is to the individual: without it, we don't know who we are, and we can't make wise decisions about where we should be going....
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On Deep History and the Brain
by Daniel Lord Smail Publisher Comments 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...
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History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History
by Dana Lindaman Synopsis - China - France - Russia - Saudi Arabia - Canada - Mexico - North Korea - Egypt - Cuba - Great Britain - South Africa - Iran - India...
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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...
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On History
by Fernand Braudel Publisher Comments The first English translation of Ecrits sur l'histoire—a collection of essays written over a twenty-year period following publication of Braudel's masterwork, La, Méditerranée—On History sets forth Braudel's reflections on the...
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Postmodernism and History (Theory and History)
by Willie Thompson Publisher Comments Willie Thompson offers a clear, jargon-free introduction to postmodernist theory and its significant impact on the study of history. This is a hotly-debated topic, and much of the literature is both polemical and inaccessible to the novice. Thompson...
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Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism
by Hayden White Synopsis Tropics of Discourse develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism....
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A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (Swerve Editions)
by Manuel De Landa 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...
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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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Mapping Colonial Conquest - Australia and Southern Africa
by Book News Annotation In this volume concerning the comparative study of colonial cartography, Australia and southern Africa have been selected by Etherington (history, U. of Western Australia) as focal points because of lacunae in the literature, because their...
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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
by Nicholas Basbanes 
Powells.com Staff Pick Nicholas Basbanes opens this marvelous book with the story of biblioklept extraordinaire Stephen Carrie Blumberg. Over the span of 25 years, Blumberg toured the continent visiting libraries and stealing their books. When he was finally caught, he...
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Practicing History: Selected Essays
by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments From thoughtful pieces on the historian's role to striking insights into America's past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. Here is a...
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What is History
by Edward Hallett Carr Synopsis '...[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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Oral History Manual (02 Edition)
by Barbara W. Sommer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-125) and index....
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Lies Across America 2ND Edition
by James W Loewen Publisher Comments In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of sites all over...
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Twayne's Oral History #0015: Doing Oral History
by Donald A. Ritchie Synopsis The spoken word is an invaluable asset which strengthens human experience of the past and adds vigor to the documentation of historical accounts. This series presents major events in American history through the rich personal testimonies of those who...
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On History & Other Essays
by Michael Oakeshott Publisher Comments In five essays, including three on historiography, one of the greatest minds in English political thought in the twentieth century explores themes central to the human experience: the nature of history, the rule of law, and the quest for power that is...
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