Historiography category: 1227 books
Practicing History
New Directions in Historical Writing after the Linguistic Turn
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This essential collection of key articles offers a re-evaluation of the practice of history in light of current debates. Critical thinkers and practicing historians present their writings, along with clear and thorough editorial material, to examine the complex ideas at the forefront of historical...
China and Global Capitalism
Reflections on Marxism, History, and Contemporary Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
In this concise historical and conceptual analysis of China's evolving position in a world defined predominantly by global capitalist development, Lin offers a critical review of relevant debates and discusses the imperative and feasibility of a socialist Chinese model, reconstructed, as an alternative to standardized modernity at an impasse.
by Sam Wineburg
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive....
Psychological Machinery
Experimental Devices in Early Psychological Laboratories
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
The book covers the topic of experimental instrumentation at the turn of the 20th century. The authors introduce the role of instruments in the process of establishing psychology as a science. They concentrate on identifying historical devices and problems with rediscovering their functionality. The...
Founding Visions
The Ideas, Individuals, and Intersections that Created America
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Lance Banning was one of the most distinguished historians of his generation. His first book, The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology, was a groundbreaking study of the ideas and principles that influenced political conflict in the early American Republic. His revisionist masterpiece,...
Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition)
Power and the Production of History
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Foreword by Hazel V. Carby
A modern classic about power and the making of history, with a new foreword by a prominent scholar
Placing the West’s failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debates over the Alamo and Christopher...
Hitler's Followers (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)
Studies in the Sociology of the Nazi Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
When originally published in 1991, this book was the first systematic, detailed evaluation of the social structure of the Nazi Party in several regions of Germany during its so-called Kampfzeit phase.
Based on extensive archival material, much of it left untouched since the end of the war until...
Quantitative Methods for Historians
A Guide to Research, Data, and Statistics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The pioneering texts in quantitative history were written over two decades ago, but as a command of methodological context, computer experience, and statistical literacy have become increasingly important to the study of history, the need for an introductory text addressing these matters has increased....
by Sonja Cameron, S. Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
Information and communications technology is now an essential tool for the historian and for anyone engaging in historical study. Today's 'history workstation' includes computers, modems, scanners, printers, digital cameras and a wide range of software applications to access the World Wide Web and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
New Approaches to Latin American History incorporates methods and concepts from the social sciences without abandoning a distinctively historical approach. A collection of original essays by distinguished younger scholars, it proposes original concepts and methods for analyzing crucial problems in Latin...
British Colonisation of Northern Nigeria, 1897-1914
A Reinterpretation of Colonial Sources
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
“In this densely detailed and interpretatively nuanced study, Mahmud Modibbo Tukur lays bare the very foundations of the colonial state in what is now northern Nigeria. This is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the foundations of contemporary Nigeria and how we came to be what we are.”...
by Denis Fahey
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Are you curious about Irish history? You'll find the answers in A Factbook of Irish HistoryDid you know that Brian Boru's daughter was married to the Viking King of Dublin? Ever wonder what Red Hugh O'Donnell looked and sounded like? Do you know what tumblers did for a living?Think...
Global and Transnational History
The Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
It is no exaggeration to say that the study of history has been transformed significantly during the last twenty-odd years. Akira Iriye, the world authority on transnational history, examines the emergence and growth of global and transnational history, away from more traditional, nation-centred perspectives.
The Reporting of Captain Thunderbolt the Gentleman Bushranger
His Story in Newspaper Articles 1856 - 1941
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
The Reporting of Captain Thunderbolt the Gentleman Bushranger, is a compilation of newspaper articles published from 1856 to 1941, which tell the story of the life and death of Frederick Wordsworth Ward, ‘Captain Thunderbolt’, and his companions in intricate detail as it was read by the nation...