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by David Hume
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
A Scottish historian, philosopher, economist, diplomat and essayist known today especially for his radical philosophical empiricism and scepticism.
He wrote The History of England which became a bestseller, and it became the standard history of England in its day.
Contents The History...
The Poverty of Clio
Resurrecting Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past. In this provocative book, Francesco Boldizzoni calls for the reconstruction of economic history, one in which history...
History Matters
Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Written for everyone interested in women's and gender history, History Matters reaffirms the importance to feminist theory and activism of long-term historical perspectives. Judith M. Bennett, who has been commenting on developments in women's and gender history since the 1980s, argues that the achievement...
The Pursuit of History
Aims, methods and new directions in the study of history
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions - what is the point of studying history? How do we know about the past? Does an objective historical truth exist and can we ever access it?
In answering these...
History of Psychology
A Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
History of Psychology: A Cultural Perspective easily distinguishes itself from other texts in a number of ways. First, it examines the field within the rich intellectual and cultural context of everyday life, cross-cultural influences, and contributions from literature, art, and other disciplines....
Outside In
The Transnational Circuitry of US History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Outside In presents the newest scholarship that narrates and explains the history of the United States as part of a networked transnational past. This work tells the stories of Americans who inhabited the border-crossing circuitry of people, ideas, and institutions that have made the modern world...
by Confucius
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This carefully crafted ebook: “Classic of History (Part 1 & 2: The Book of Thang & The Books of Yü)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Originally called Shu (Book), The Classic of History got the name in the Han Dynasty, meaning a book of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The term 'consumption' covers the desire for goods and services, their acquisition, use, and disposal. The study of consumption has grown enormously in recent years, and it has been the subject of major historiographical debates: did the eighteenth century bring a consumer revolution? Was there a...
by Henry Hallam
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Few historical works have stood the test of time better than Hallam's Constitutional History. It was written nearly a century ago—the first edition was published in 1827—and at a time when historians were nothing if not stout party men. The science of history, as we now know it, was in its infancy;...
From my Hilltop
A living history of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
From my Hilltop – a living history of South Africa Narrated by Professor A. Marula By Stan Daneman Professor Marula’s story…
From my hill top I have looked down on the living history of South Africa. From my early days understanding the Rules of the Southern African plains I realized...
by Chai-Shin Yu
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Throughout its 4,000-year history, Korea has created a vibrant and unique culture. Unfortunately, many believe it developed solely due to Chinas influence, thus leaving no room for an independent history and culture. This is simply wrong.
The New History of Korean Civilization explores the...
History and Culture of Liberia, History of Liberia, Republic of Liberia, Liberia
Liberian Government, History and Culture,, Ethnic differences, Tourism, history of Liberian war, Religion in Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Liberia is a small country in West Africa, this country has known political unrest in recent years, an American colony, this country origin is very historical base on the people that made up Liberia, the slavery aftermath refracts to her existence, but how? Find out more on Liberia and her political...
by Edward Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
The history of England, like the land and its people, has been specially insular, and yet no land has undergone deeper influences from without. No land has owed more than England to the personal action of men not of native birth. Britain was truly called another world, in opposition to the world...
1916 and All That
A History of Ireland from Back Then Until Right Now
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
An irreverent, vibrant, satirical, and largely untrue history of IrelandIrish history started when people arrived on the island. At least, that is when history really got going. Before that things were rather quiet . . . So begins C.M. Boylan's wonderfully irreverent take on the history of Ireland....