History category: 194783 books
by Nikolas Eristavi
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject History - World History - Early and Ancient History, grade: 90, University of San Francisco, course: Roman History, language: English, abstract: In the early history of the Italian peninsula, as its territories were being settled, the...
What Should the U.S. Army Learn From History? - Determining the Strategy of the Future through Understanding the Past
Persisting Concerns and Threats, Parallels and Analogies With the Present Days (What Changes and What Does Not), Recommendations for the U.S. Army…
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This monograph examines the potential utility of history as a source of education and possible guidance for the U.S. Army. The author considers the worth in the claim that since history (more accurately termed the past) is all done and gone, it can have no value for today as we try to look forward....
by Brett Bowden
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This book explores and explains the reasons why the idea of universal history, a form of teleological history which holds that all peoples are travelling along the same path and destined to end at the same point, persists in political thought. Prominent in Western political thought since the middle...
American Military History
A Documentary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
A collection of primary documents that explore the many facets of the American military from the colonial period to the present
The second edition of American Military History offers an exceptional collection of primary documents relating to history of the military of the United States from...
by Brett L. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan's relationships with its minorities,...
The Politics of History
Writing the History of the American Revolution, 1783-1815
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This is an analysis of the American Revolutionary generation's attempt to create a national history that would justify the Revolution and develop a sense of nationhood. Shaffer pursues a number of themes and establishes a connection between the historians' republican ideology, political concerns and...
Toward an Intellectual History of Women
Essays By Linda K. Kerber
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
As a leading historian of women, Linda K. Kerber has played an instrumental role in the radical rethinking of American history over the past two decades. The maturation and increasing complexity of studies in women's history are widely recognized, and in this remarkable collection of essays, Kerber's...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This book examines the German air force (GAF) monograph project, also known as the Karlsruhe project, through which the US Air Force employed former Luftwaffe generals to record the history...
by IDP Research Division
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
The fifteenth of May 2016 marked the sixty eighth anniversary of the catastrophe, which has brought about the worst calamity that could befall a nation in the whole history, namely the tragedy of the Palestinian people. Fifty years, during which Israel has implemented its plots and schemes to force...
by Stewart Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Stories of disasters at sea, whether about Roman triremes, the treasure fleet of the Spanish Main, or great transatlantic ocean liners, fire the imagination as little else can. From the historical sinkings of the Titanic and the Lusitania to the recent capsizing of a Mediterranean cruise ship, the...
A History of the Netherlands
From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Books offering an overview of Dutch history are few and far between in the English-speaking world. Friso Wielenga's A History of the Netherlands: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day fills this gap. It offers a modern, integrated outline of Dutch history from the period in which the country...
French Studies in History
Vol. II-The Departures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The early years of this century saw a rapid renewal in the subject as well as the methodology of history. This process was both influenced an reoriented by a rich, but often difficult dialogue with the other social sciences. It was thus that the territory of the historian was extended to cover areas...
by Sir G. R. Elton
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A classic account of the Reformation, revealing the issues and preoccupations which seemed central to the age and portraying its leading figures with vigour and realism.
The book is an analysis of the religious, economic, cultural and political history of Europe during the period of the Reformation....
Time's Reasons
Philosophies of History Old and New
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 1989
This original work caps years of thought by Leonard Krieger about the crisis of the discipline of history. His mission is to restore history's autonomy while attacking the sources of its erosion in various "new histories," which borrow their principles and methods from disciplines outside...