History category: 194783 books
Integrating History and Philosophy of Science
Problems and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Though the publication of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions seemed to herald the advent of a unified study of the history and philosophy of science, it is a hard fact that history of science and philosophy of science have increasingly grown apart. Recently, however, there has been a series...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus also is a history of legal transplants and cultural borrowings, which national legal histories as products of nineteenth-century historicism have until...
by Gavin Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
"Slavery and American Economic Development is a small book with a big interpretative punch. It is one of those rare books about a familiar subject that manages to seem fresh and new." -- Charles B. Dew, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"A stunning reinterpretation of southern economic...
Staging Philanthropy
Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Staging Philanthropy is a history of women's philanthropic associations during Germany's "long" nineteenth century. Challenged by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic occupation and war, dynastic groups in Germany made community welfare and its defense part of newly-gendered social obligations,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and experiences of its people. The Cambridge History offers a comprehensive, multi-authored history of South African literature in all eleven...
The Latest Catastrophe
History, the Present, the Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific traumas and bitter controversies. Frequently, today’s historians can find themselves researching the same events that they themselves lived through. This book reflects on...
A Critical History of the Economy
On the birth of the national and international economies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Drawing on recent debates in critical International Political Economy, this book mobilizes the idea that the economy does not exist separately from society and politics to develop a detailed intellectual history of how the economy came to be seen as an independent domain.
In contrast...
After the Imperial Turn
Thinking with and through the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2003
From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, After the Imperial Turn assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. In light of the turn toward scholarship focused on imperialism and postcolonialism, this provocative collection investigates whether the nation remains...
Peopling the Russian Periphery
Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Though usually forgotten in general surveys of European colonization, the Russians were among the greatest colonizers of the Old World, eventually settling across most of the immense expanse of Northern Europe and Asia, from the Baltic and the Pacific, and from the Arctic Ocean to Central Asia. This...
by Wade Pickren, Alexandra Rutherford
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
A fresh look at the history of psychology placed in its social, political, and cultural contexts
A History of Modern Psychology in Context presents the history of modern psychology in the richness of its many contexts. The authors resist the traditional storylines of great achievements by eminent...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This is a professionally-formatted, free flowing ebook reproduction of two unique guides produced by the Department of Defense that provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security...
American Empire
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its head
American Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic history and the imperial histories of Britain...
World History
A Concise Thematic Analysis, Volume Two
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level.
An engaging narrative that contextualizes history and does not drown students in a sea of facts
Offers...
Global History
A Short Overview
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
This short book offers a clear and engaging introduction to the history of humankind, from the earliest movements of people to the contemporary epoch of globalization. Cowen traces this complex history in a manner which offers both a compelling narrative and an analytical and comparative treatment....