History category: 194783 books
The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume IV
Global Western Anglicanism, c. 1910-present
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
The Oxford History of Anglicanism is a major new and unprecedented international study of the identity and historical influence of one of the world's largest versions of Christianity. This global study of Anglicanism from the sixteenth century looks at how was Anglican identity constructed and contested...
'A New Type of History'
Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Linking fiction with history and historical theory, 'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past focuses on a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists – Tolstoy, Proust, John Cowper Powys, Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, Penelope Lively, and James Hamilton-Paterson...
A History of Psychology
The Emergence of Science and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
A History of Psychology: The Emergence of Science and Applications, Sixth Edition, traces the history of psychology from antiquity through the early 21st century, giving students a thorough look into psychology’s origins and key developments in basic and applied psychology.
This new edition...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Most of the existing research on economic history relies either solely or ultimately on calculations of material interest to explain the major events of the modern world. However, care must be taken not to rely too heavily on materialism, with its associated confidence in perfectly rational actors...
Teaching U.S. History Thematically
Document-Based Lessons for the Secondary Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book offers the tools teachers need to get started with an innovative approach to teaching history, one that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students’ lives today, and meets Common Core State Standards (grades 7–12).
The author provides over...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Using Australian history as a case study, this collection explores the ways national identities still resonate in historical scholarship and reexamines key moments in Australian history through a transnational lens, raising important questions about the unique context of Australia’s national narrative....
The History of Modern Spain
Chronologies, Themes, Individuals
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The History of Modern Spain is a comprehensive examination of Spain's history from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. Bringing together an impressive group of leading figures and emerging scholars in the field from the UK, Canada, the United States, Spain and other European countries,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Long regarded as a center for middle-American values, Indiana is also a cultural crossroads that has produced a rich and complex legal and constitutional heritage. The History of Indiana Law traces this history through a series of expert articles by identifying the themes that mark the state’s legal...
Earth's Deep History
How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this discovered? How was the evidence for...
Women in Transnational History
Connecting the Local and the Global
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Women in Transnational History offers a range of fresh perspectives on the field of women’s history, exploring how cross-border connections and global developments since the nineteenth century have shaped diverse women’s lives and the gendered social, cultural, political and economic histories...
The Calling of History
Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
A leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association. By the end of his lifetime, however, he had been marginalized by the Indian history establishment,...
by Aaron Gulyas
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Popular media has become a common means by which students understand both the present and the past. Consequently, more teachers are using various forms of popular culture as pedagogical tools in the history classroom. Among the many materials available to teachers in the digital age are public-domain...
The Renaissance Inventors
With History Projects for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Why was the Renaissance such an important period of time in Western history? Who were the innovators who thought of the inventions we still use today?
In The Renaissance Inventors with History Projects for Kids, readers 10 through 15 explore the period of European history from the fourteenth...
Desire
A History of European Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
A sweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present, Desire: A History of European Sexuality follows changing attitudes to two major concepts of sexual desire – desire as dangerous, polluting, and disorderly, and desire as creative, transcendent, even revolutionary – through...