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  • '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

    $64.99 USD

  • 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

    $58.99 USD

  • 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

    $60.99 USD

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    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

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  • 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

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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

    $20.99 USD

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  • 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

    $1.99 USD

  • Unsolved History

    Investigating Mysteries of the Past

    by Joe Nickell ...
    "The stories are interesting and the scientific approaches used to investigate them are fascinating." ― The Paintsville Herald (Kentucky)What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change based on new evidence. In this book, former detective Joe Nickell demonstrates the techniques used in solving some of the world's most perplexing mysteries, such as the authenticity of Abraham Lincoln's ... Read more

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  • Historiography

    Ancient, Medieval, and Modern

    by Ernst Breisach ...
    A pioneering work that presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture.Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition of Ernst Breisach's Historiography narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, ... Read more

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  • History in the Digital Age

    Edited by Toni Weller ...
    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 look at how the digital age is affecting the field of history for both scholars and students. The ... Read more

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  • Following the Fleet – London’s Secret River

    by Gareth Huw Davies ...
    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 mile stretch is the reason much of old London is sited where it is. But people abused it, and polluted ... Read more

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