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  • What is History For?

    by Beverley Southgate ...
    An experienced author of history and theory presents this examination of the purpose of history at a time when recent debates have rendered the question 'what is history for?' of utmost importance.Charting the development of historical studies and examining how history has been used, this study is exceptional in its focus on the future of the subject as well as its past. It is argued that history ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Postmodernism in History

    Fear or Freedom?

    by Beverley Southgate ...
    This original and thought-provoking study looks at the context of postmodernist thought in general cultural terms as well as in relation to history. Postmodernism in History traces philosophical precursors of postmodernism and identifies the roots of current concerns. Beverley Southgate describes the core constituents of postmodernism and provides a lucid and profound analysis of the current state ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • 'A New Type of History'

    Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past

    by Beverley Southgate ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    Linking fiction with history and historical theory, 'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past focuses on a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists – Tolstoy, Proust, John Cowper Powys, Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, Penelope Lively, and James Hamilton-Paterson – who have criticized scientifically based history and proposed alternative ways of ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • History Meets Fiction

    by Beverley C. Southgate ...
    Series series History: Concepts,Theories and Practice
    Is history factual, or just another form of fiction?Are there distinct boundaries between the two, or just extensive borderlands?How do novelists represent historians and history?The relationship between history and fiction has always been contentious and sometimes turbulent, not least because the two have traditionally been seen as mutually exclusive opposites.However, new hybrid forms of writing ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Why Bother with History?

    Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Motivations

    by Beverley C. Southgate ...
    . Why Bother With History?argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Examining the motivations of past historians, the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that historians' importance lies in their own adoption of a moral standpoint, from which a story of the past can be told, that facilitates the attainment of a future ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD

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  • On Politics

    A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present

    by Alan Ryan ...
    Finally in a one-volume paperback edition, On Politics is one of the most ambitious and hugely readable histories of political philosophy in nearly a century.Praised widely upon hardcover publication, Alan Ryan’s “masterpiece” (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) blends history and philosophy to examine three thousand years of political thought. Drawing on three decades of research, Ryan insightfully ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • LUZON –French Morocco (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)

    by Dale Andrade ...
    Series series The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II
    LUZON –French Morocco (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)-This ebook Included TOC for Reader.-This sample in this ebook ;World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

    A History of Capitalism

    by Joyce Appleby ...
    "Splendid: the global history of capitalism in all its creative—and destructive—glory.”—The New York Times Book ReviewWith its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system seems universal and timeless. The framework for our lives, it is a source of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes drastic, out of control. Yet what is now ubiquitous was not always so. Capitalism ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Lies, Damned Lies and History

    A Catalogue of Historical Errors and Misunderstandings

    by Graeme Donald ...
    From cats, spats and catacombs to the Wall Street shuffle, Lies, Damned Lies and History is an entertaining look at how historical events didn't always unfold as we think they did. Graeme Donald takes the reader on a journey, century-by-century, showing how the truth we take for granted is a far cry from the facts. This is not a book for those who like their history sugar-coated, but for those who ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Telling the Truth about History

    by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob ...
    "A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."—Booklist ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

    by Gary W. Gallagher, Alan T. Nolan ...
    A "well-reasoned and timely" ( Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography.Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states' rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to ... Read more

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  • The Materialist Conception of History

    by Georgi Plekhanov ...
    Gorgi Valentinovitch Plekhanov (1856-1918) was an important Russian Marxist, often cited by Lenin, who was of a generation of young revolutionaries. In this work Plekhanov compares the materialist conception, ie, Marxist, how it happens and how it should be studied human history, with other concepts. The actuality of Plekhanov's reflections is impressive. ... Read more

    $2.81 CAD