History category: 194783 books
Meaning in History
The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Modern man sees with one eye of faith and one eye of reason. Consequently, his view of history is confused. For centuries, the history of the Western world has been viewed from the Christian or classical standpoint—from a deep faith in the Kingdom of God or a belief in recurrent and eternal life-cycles....
Dare to Struggle
The History and Society of Greece
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
WHY SHOULD YOU READ A GREEK HISTORY? Because you simply cannot consider yourself an educated person unless you know something about the society of ancient Greece.
Because the Greeks discovered the foundation elements of Western society: constitutionalism, rationalism, humanism and the individual.
Because...
The Sacred History
How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
This collection of stories and illustrations—all about the wonders of the spiritual realm—takes you on a captivating ride from the great myths of ancient civilization to astounding discoveries of the modern era.
Written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret History of the...
by Eva Ulrike Pirker
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Since the mid-1990s, the black experience in Britain has begun to be (re)negotiated intensely, with a strong focus on history. Narrative Projections of a Black British History considers narratives that construct, or engage with, aspects of a black British history. Part I poses the question of what...
Bodies in Contact
Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2005
From portrayals of African women’s bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean “comfort women” forced into prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Second World War, the essays collected in Bodies...
History and Its Limits
Human, Animal, Violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the limitations of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra focuses on the problem of understanding extreme...
A History of Pain
Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting status of national identity. In the context of Chinese culture, films such as Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of Sadness and Lou Ye's Summer Palace and novels...
Discovering History in China
American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early nineteenth century to today.
Cohen critiques...
Uncertain Empire
American History and the Idea of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Historians have long understood that the notion of "the cold war" is richly metaphorical, if not paradoxical. The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union was a war that fell ambiguously short of war, an armed truce that produced considerable bloodshed. Yet scholars in the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
These two unique guides produced by the Department of Defense provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Venezuela, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters, religion, traditions, urban and rural life, ethnic groups, crime,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Written by some of the world’s leading historians and theorists of history, Manifestos for History draws together a series of manifestos that address the question of what kinds of histories we ought to be considering and making in and for the twenty-first century. With a foreword by Joanna Bourke and...
by Kerwin Lee Klein
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
From History to Theory describes major changes in the conceptual language of the humanities, particularly in the discourse of history. In seven beautifully written, closely related essays, Kerwin Lee Klein traces the development of academic vocabularies through the dynamically shifting cultural, political,...
Refiguring History
New Thoughts On an Old Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
In this engaging sequel to Rethinking History, Keith Jenkins argues for a re-figuration of historical study. At the core of his survey lies the realization that objective and disinterested histories as well as historical 'truth' are unachievable. The past and questions about the nature of history...
by Frances Colenso
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The Zulu War-by possibly its most authentic historians.
Most written histories intend to be accurate, but they often suffer from the bias of perspective, and whilst this history of the Anglo-Zulu War is no exception, it is exceptional in that it is decidedly not a view of the conflict from an Imperial...