History category: 194783 books
by Edward Westermarck
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
It is in the firm conviction that the history of human civilization should be made an object of as scientific a treatment as the history of organic nature that I write this book. Like the phenomena of physical and psychical life those of social life should be classified into certain groups, and each...
by Jamie Byrom, Michael Riley
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Think more deeply and work more independently at A level History through a carefully thought-out enquiry approach from SHP.
Enquiring History: It makes you think!
The OFSTED report on school history suggests that the current generation of A Level students have been poorly served by exam-based...
A Field of Their Own
Women and American Indian History, 1830–1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
One hundred and forty years before Gerda Lerner established women’s history as a specialized field in 1972, a small group of women began to claim American Indian history as their own domain. A Field of Their Own examines nine key figures in American Indian scholarship to reveal how women came to...
by Harold Innis
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Harold A. Innis helped to found the field of Canadian economic history. He is best known for the "staples thesis" which dominated the discourse of Canadian economic history for decades.
This volume collects Innis’ published and unpublished essays on economic history, from 1929 to...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This short monograph reviews the history of biological warfare (BW) from prehistory to the present. It covers what we know about the practice of BW and briefly describes the programs that developed BW weapons based on the best available research. To the extent possible, it primarily draws on the work...
Rereading German History (Routledge Revivals)
From Unification to Reunification 1800-1996
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
In Rereading German History, first published in 1997, Richard J. Evans draws together his seminal review essays on the political, economic, cultural and social history of Germany through war and reunification. This book provides a study of how and why historians – mainly German, American, British...
by M. Spongberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence to suggest that women have engaged in historical writing since ancient times.
This study traces the history of women's historical writing,...
by Kojin Karatani
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Kojin Karatani wrote the essays in History and Repetition during a time of radical historical change, triggered by the collapse of the Cold War and the death of the Showa emperor in 1989. Reading Karl Marx in an original way, Karatani developed a theory of history based on the repetitive cycle of...
Scottish History
A Concise Overview of the History of Scotland From Start to End
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Explore the History of Scotland From Start to End...
Are you interested in the romance and drama of Scottish history?
Are tales of Robert the Bruce and the wars against England just footnotes in your wider historical knowledge?
This book provides a concise and impressive chronicle!
Scotland...
English History
A Concise Overview of the History of England from Start to End
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Explore the History of England From Start to End...
Are you fascinated by English history?
Are you studying for an exam or just have a passing interest in the subject?
This book is a must read for anyone who wants to know a bit more!
England is a fascinating and intriguing...
Welsh History
A Concise Overview of the History of Wales from Start to End
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Explore the History of Wales From Start to End...
Do you have an interest in the fascinating history of Wales?
Are there gaps in your knowledge and you would like to know more?
This book will fill in those gaps and give you a better knowledge!
Wales is a country within...
by Y. Topolski
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
No discipline has been more praised or more criticized than the writing of history. Cioero claimed that history teaches men how to live. Aris totle denied it the very name of science and regwded poetry as the higher wisdom. At various times history has been assigned a command ing or a demeaning...
Teaching History with Film
Strategies for Secondary Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Visit any school in the United States and chances are that you will find at least one of the social studies teachers showing a film about history. Along with the textbook, movies are one of the most prominent teaching aids in the history classroom. Yet, when middle and high school history teachers...
Literature as History
Autobiography, Testimonio, and the Novel in the Chicano and Latino Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2016
Historical documents—and, for that matter, historical sources—exist in many forms. The traditional archival sources such as official documents, newspapers, correspondence, and diaries can be supplemented by personal archives, oral histories, and even works of fiction in order for historians to...