History category: 194783 books
The Evolution of the British Welfare State
A History of Social Policy since the Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
An established introductory textbook that provides students with a full overview of British social policy and social ideas since the late eighteenth century. Derek Fraser’s authoritative account is the essential starting point for anyone learning about how and why Britain created the first Welfare...
by William Lewins
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
A History of Banks for Savings in Great Britain and Ireland
The present volume is offered as a contribution to the history of a number of provident schemes, which, though quietly working in the country for many years, and affecting to no small extent the social condition of great masses...
by Carol Kammen
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
For over thirty years, Carol Kammen’s On Doing Local History has been a valuable guide to professional and “amateur” historians alike. First published in 1986, revised in 2003, this book offers not only discussion of practical matters, but also a deeper reflection on local, public history, what...
by Uzo Marvin
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Exports, slavery, and Patriarchy have been the three constants of Brazilian history. The export orientation of the colonial economy shaped Brazil's society. Even the name "Brazil," like the country itself, is suggestive of commerce and the pursuit of wealth. Brazil's name derives from the...
by John F. Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Bringing history teaching into the twenty-first century, Teaching History Online is a concise guide to developing and using internet resources in history instruction. It offers practical, jargon-free advice to help the history teacher develop online assignments, and provides an informed introduction...
Wonderful Things
A History of Egyptology: 1: From Antiquity to 1881
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2015
This is a professionally-formatted, free flowing ebook reproduction of unique, up-to-date guides produced by the Department of Defense that provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Kenya, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military...
Encyclopedia of Days
Start the Day with History
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Encyclopedia of Days uses daily events as a lens through which to view the broad panorama of history. Includes over six thousand entries for every day of the year, designed to both fascinate and educate.
Within its pages, you can learn that that Bjarni Herjulfson was the first European "discoverer"...
Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold
Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
South Carolina Historical Society George C. Rogers Jr. Book Award "A solid contribution."--Journal of American History "An insightful analysis of the rise of the phosphate and fertilizer industries in the South Carolina lowcountry."--Business History Review "Places the rise...
Doing Recent History
On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
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. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and...
Consumerism in World History
The Global Transformation of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
This second edition of Consumerism in World History draws on recent research of the consumer experience in the West and Japan, while also examining societies less renowned for consumerism, such as those in Africa.
By relating consumerism to other issues in world history, this book forces reassessment...
by Peter Ross, Juergen Beck
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
With these books an effort has been made to present the history of the whole of Long Island in such a way as to combine all the salient facts of the long and interesting story in a manner that might be acceptable to the general reader and at the same time include much of that purely antiquarian lore...
History's Greatest Lies: The Startling Truths Behind World Events our History Books Got Wrong
The Startling Truths Behind World Events our History Books Got Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The true stories behind historical events give readers a fascinating new look at our past. The revelations shock and amaze by exposing veiled motivations and convenient inaccuracies in well-documented actions by established leaders that often have a continuing effect on the world. Each of the fifteen...
Five Cities that Ruled the World
How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York Shaped Global History
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
In Five Cities that Ruled the World, theologian Douglas Wilson fuses together, in compelling detail, the critical moments birthed in history’s most influential cities —Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York.
Wilson issues a challenge to our collective understanding of history with...