Historiography category: 1227 books
History's Babel
Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880 - 1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
From the late nineteenth century until World War II, competing spheres of professional identity and practice redrew the field of history, establishing fundamental differences between the roles of university historians, archivists, staff at historical societies, history teachers, and others.
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Confessing History
Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
At the end of his landmark 1994 book, The Soul of the American University, historian George Marsden asserted that religious faith does indeed have a place in today’s academia. Marsden’s contention sparked a heated debate on the role of religious faith and intellectual scholarship in academic journals...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
This authoritative and comprehensive guide to key people and events in Anglo-Jewish history stretches from Cromwell's re-admittance of the Jews in 1656 to the present day and contains nearly 3000 entries, the vast majority of which are not featured in any other sources.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series of multi-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to the role of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds.
Presents an inter-disciplinary collection of readings that reveal new insights into...
State Formation and the Establishment of Non-Muslim Hegemony
Post-Mughal 19th-century Punjab
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Explores one of the most crucial factors leading to the non-Islamic paradigm in the political and social fabric of Punjab—the emergence of a Sikh ‘space’ from the time of advent of the gurus.
This book examines the Punjab state under Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his rightful domination...
Charting the Past
The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
This book argues that in the 18th century Britain used its present as a way of interpreting the significance of its past. One can easily trace this way of viewing history straight through to the recent Brexit vote. This book shows how and why this process began.
Well-known and highly regarded...
Style and Story
Literary Methods for Writing Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
There are two basic rules for writing nonfiction, says historian and award-winning author Stephen J. Pyne. Rule 1: You can’t make stuff up. Rule 2: You can’t leave out known stuff that affects our understanding. Follow these rules, and you are writing nonfiction. Writing for different audiences...
by Stephen Frederic Dale
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The Arab Muslim Ibn Khaldun developed a method of evaluating historical evidence that allowed him to explain the underlying causes of events such as the cyclical rise and fall of North African dynasties. As Stephen Dale shows, this work was the first structural history and historical sociology, four centuries before the European Enlightenment.
by Anna Reading
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This book asks how 21st century technologies such as the Internet, mobile phones and social media are transforming human memory and its relationship to gender. Each epoch brings with it new media technologies that have transformed human memory. Anna Reading examines the ways in which globalised digital...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The digital age is affecting all aspects of historical study, but much of the existing literature about history in the digital age can be alienating to the traditional historian who does not necessarily value or wish to embrace digital resources. History in the Digital Age takes a more conceptual...
Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History
Essays from the North
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2001
Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True to the intellectual vision of Brazilian historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, one of Latin America’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
After emerging from the tumult of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the field of Asian American studies has enjoyed rapid and extraordinary growth. Nonetheless, many aspects of Asian American history still remain open to debate. The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History offers the first...
History Wars
The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1996
From the "taming of the West" to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics. What kind of history Americans should read, see, or fund is no longer merely a matter of professional interest to teachers,...
On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left
Political Cults Right and Left
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This is the first book to document the extent of political cults on both the right and left and explain their significance for mainstream political organizations. The authors outline the defining characteristics of cults in general, and analyze the degree to which a variety of well-known movements...