History category: 194783 books
The Soviet Union
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
An acclaimed historian explores the dynamic history of the twentieth century Soviet Union
In ten concise and compelling chapters, The Soviet Union covers the entire Soviet Union experience from the years 1904 to 1991 by putting the focus on three major themes: warfare, welfare, and empire....
History, Empathy and Conflict
Heroes, Victims and Victimisers
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book argues that popular culture has been transformed in a silent revolution from emphasising history’s heroes to its victims. While city squares and stations were named in the nineteenth century after military victories, now the equivalent airports are named after the victims of violence....
History and GIS
Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) – either as “standard” GIS or custom made Historical GIS (HGIS) – have become quite popular in some historical sub-disciplines, such as Economic and Social History or Historical Geography.
“Mainstream” history, however, seems to be rather unaffected...
The Routledge History of Sex and the Body
1500 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The Routledge History of Sex and the Body provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of sexuality from 1500 to the present day. The history of sex and the body is an expanding field in which vibrant debate on, for instance, the history of homosexuality, is developing. This book...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The articles in this collection were all selected from the first five volumes of the Journal of Dialectics of Nature published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 1979 and 1985. The Journal was established in 1979 as a comprehensive theoretical publication concerning the history, philosophy...
History Teaches Us to Hope
Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Before his death in 1870, Robert E. Lee penned a letter to Col. Charles Marshall in which he argued that we must cast our eyes backward in times of turmoil and change, concluding that "it is history that teaches us to hope." Charles Pierce Roland, one of the nation's most distinguished and...
by Susan Ware
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In 1607, Powhatan teenager Pocahontas first encountered English settlers when John Smith was brought to her village as a captive. In 1920, the ratification of the 19th Amendment gave women the constitutional right to vote. And in 2012, the U.S. Marine Corps lifted its ban on women in active combat,...
by William Harrison Mace
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The material out of which the child pictures history lies all about him. When he learns to handle objects or observes men and other beings act, he is gathering material to form images for the stories you tell him, or those he reads. So supple and vigorous is the child's imagination that he can put this...
Evolutionary History
Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
We tend to see history and evolution springing from separate roots, one grounded in the human world and the other in the natural world. Human beings have, however, become probably the most powerful species shaping evolution today, and human-caused evolution in other species has probably been the most...
by David G. Troyansky
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
In Aging in World History, David G. Troyansky presents the first global history of aging. At a time when demographic aging has become a source of worldwide concern, and more people are reaching an advanced age than ever before, the history of old age helps us understand how we arrived at the treatment...
The Last Pharaohs
Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated--separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs, the first detailed history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, departs radically from previous studies by putting the Ptolemaic...
Questioning History
16 Essential Questions That Will Deepen Your Understanding of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Since the days of the Ancient Greeks, history has been perceived as the academic study of the past. Unfortunately, it has generally been taught as a litany of rigid, boring facts intended to be accepted rather than questioned. This has been reinforced for decades by weighty textbooks that overwhelm...
by Emudiaga Ebbah
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This small book is titled A History of Urbanization in Sapele. The history of Sapele is not like the history of head hunters or heroes making their trip to a mythical land of Canaan. It is not the history of heroes who are associated with tribal or family grouping which at one time in history have...
Encounters Old and New in World History
Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This collection of essays asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historical profession and offering concrete suggestions to develop more interaction between the academy and the public. The twelve contributors, each with their...