Historiography category: 1227 books
State and Revolution in Cuba
Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Between 1920 and 1940, Cuba underwent a remarkable transition, moving from oligarchic rule to a nominal constitutional democracy. The events of this period are crucial to a full understanding of the nation's political evolution, yet they are often glossed over in accounts that focus more heavily on...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Throughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helping individuals and societies make sense of often dramatic periods of change. Centered on onomastics—the study of names—in the German-speaking...
History and Popular Memory
The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, the French took comfort in the story of Joan of Arc and her heroic efforts to rid France of foreign occupation....
Confessions of a Mormon Historian
The Diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997: Volume 1, Church Historian, 1971-75
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Leonard Arrington (1917–99) was born an Idaho chicken rancher whose early interests seemed not to extend much beyond the American west. Throughout his life, he tended to project a folksy persona, although nothing was farther from the truth.
He was, in fact, an intellectually oriented, academically...
by Howard Zinn
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
This book presents a series of case studies and thought-provoking essays arguing for a radical approach to history and providing a revisionist interpretation of the historian's role. In a new introduction, the author responds to critics of his original work and comments further on the radicalization of history.
Essaying the Past
How to Read, Write, and Think about History
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Part research manual, part study guide, and part introduction to the study of history, Essaying the Past guides the reader through the nuts and bolts of producing good historical prose, offering key strategies and useful tips.
Includes expert advice on writing about history, conducting good research,...
The Making of the "Rape of Nanking"
History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army attacked and captured the Chinese capital city of Nanjing, planting the rising-sun flag atop the city's outer walls. What occurred in the ensuing weeks and months has been the source of a tempestuous debate ever since. It is well known that the Japanese military...
by Gareth Huw Davies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Today all you can see of the famous River Fleet is a collection of streams running pure and free on Hampstead Heath. They are the same streams that once fed the second most famous river in Britain, after the Thames, which it joined just 5 miles distant in the bustling heart of London.
Its final 2...
The Headless State
Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2007
In this groundbreaking work, social anthropologist David Sneath aggressively dispels the myths surrounding the history of steppe societies and proposes a new understanding of the nature and formation of the state. Since the colonial era, representations of Inner Asia have been dominated by images...
by Bryn Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2017
A case study in the craft of historical fiction. My experience, as a novelist, between the primary sources and the historians. This essay is both an interpretation of The Secret History of the Mongols, and a commentary on one creative writer’s interactions with the body of secondary work on this...
by Andrew Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing—making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of the social world—both...
by Fred Spier
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Big History and the Future of Humanity presents an original theoretical approach that makes “big history” – the placing of the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and the Universe -- accessible to general readers while revealing insights into what the future may hold for humanity.
Provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The field of American history has undergone remarkable expansion in the past century, all of it reflecting a broadening of the historical enterprise and democratization of its coverage. Today, the shape of the field takes into account the interests, identities, and narratives of more Americans than...
by James Raven
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages.
Students, teachers, researchers and general readers will benefit from the book's...