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Hardback. Considers the ways in which historical narratives summon up a past and lay down a future in the ever-multiplying intellectual debates of contemporary public culture. This book looks at some struggles to control public history, examining popular newspaper accounts of events - misrepresentation from the "bottom up" - in geopolitics and art. Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3, 3 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801882142
- ISBN
- 9780801882142
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.26€ 53.83
€ 59.26
€ 53.83
Hardcover. This work describes how John Lingard (1771-1851) postulated and applied for the first time in England, the main principles and methodology of modern source criticism in his "History of England" (1819-30). His work is compared and contrasted with other English historians, Num Pages: 308 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DB; DN; HBAH; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 32. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902210933
- ISBN
- 9781902210933
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.22
€ 124.22
Hardback. A look at a critical period in American Studies Editor(s): Isensee, Reinhard; Milich, Klaus; Pease, Donald E.; Rowe, John Carlos. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBAH; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Dartmouth College Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781512600025
- ISBN
- 9781512600025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.46€ 71.85
€ 87.46
€ 71.85
Paperback. Offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally during the early modern era, from c.1400 to c.1800. Editor(s): Rabasa, Jose; Sato, Masayuki; Tortarolo, Edoardo; Woolf, Daniel. Series: Oxford History of Historical Writing. Num Pages: 752 pages, 8 maps and 13 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 234 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1120.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198738008
- ISBN
- 9780198738008
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Condition: New
€ 82.03
€ 82.03
Hardback. Written over a 25-year span, these essays explore the ways in which the rural, regional, political, and cultural history of colonial and nineteenth-century Mexico has been approached by scholars. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBAH; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804768603
- ISBN
- 9780804768603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.47
€ 162.47
Hardback. This is the first book-length study to chart how the dramatic events of 30 generations ago have been understood, shaped and manipulated by writers in successive periods since and to show how modern images of the crusades are as much a product of our own and intervening times as of the bloody wars of the cross themselves. Series Editor(s): Richardson, Roger. Series: Issues in Historiography. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBWC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719073205
- ISBN
- 9780719073205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.59
€ 139.59
Paperback. Argues that the writing and teaching of history are literary rather than scientific, comprising knowledge that is neither wholly objective nor subjective. This title traces a decline in history teaching throughout higher education, matched by a corresponding reduction in the number of history students. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 196 x 14. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300181692
- ISBN
- 9780300181692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.97
€ 24.99
€ 18.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBAH; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Black Rose Books Canada
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551642123
- ISBN
- 9781551642123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.75
€ 24.99
€ 21.75
Paperback. Drawing on extensive research among the records of the American Historical Association and a multitude of other sources, the author traces the slow fragmentation of the field from 1880 to the divisions of the 1940s manifest today in the diverse professions of academia, teaching, and public history. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBAH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226923932
- ISBN
- 9780226923932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 30.83
€ 38.99
€ 30.83
Hardback. This volume aims to encourage thinking about the problems of philosophical interest which history presents, and how they might naturally grow out of historical questions. It looks at a wide range of topics, such as truth, objectivity, explanation, communication and narrative. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631199397
- ISBN
- 9780631199397
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.72
€ 116.72
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856685699
- ISBN
- 9780856685699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.90
€ 33.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Provides a biography of Anna Pankratova, a woman from Odessa who became a leading labour historian and academic administrator in the Soviet Union, from the 1920s to her death. This work portrays her as a victim and a victimizer. It also includes excerpts from two Soviet texts. One of them is her historic speech on the menace of Stalinist legacies. Series: Donald W. Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia. Num Pages: 152 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; GTB; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295985206
- ISBN
- 9780295985206
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.41
€ 29.99
€ 26.41
Paperback. Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. This illustrated volume talks about Scully's incalculable contribution. It selects twenty essays that reveal the Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s. Editor(s): Levine, Neil. Num Pages: 400 pages, 313 halftones. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 208 x 258 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1196.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691074429
- ISBN
- 9780691074429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.84€ 46.53
€ 59.84
€ 46.53
Offers vivid memories of Thomas Dionysius Clark's personal and academic journey, a journey that took him from Mississippi to Kentucky and North Carolina, to leadership of the nation's major historical organizations, and to visiting professorships in Austria, England, Greece, and India, as well as in universities throughout the United States. Num Pages: 448 pages, 75 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; 3JJ; BGA; HBAH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 907.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813124018
- ISBN
- 9780813124018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.49
€ 43.49
Hardback. More than a decade after the breakdown of the Soviet Empire and the reunification of Europe, historiographies and historical concepts still stood very much apart. This book talks about how there were no common efforts for joint interpretations and no attempts to reach a common understanding of central notions and concepts. Editor(s): Hildermeier, Manfred. Series: German Historical Perspectives. Num Pages: 123 pages, Bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1D; HBAH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 123
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845452735
- ISBN
- 9781845452735
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.32
€ 155.32
Toward A Global Community Of Historians: The International Historical ...
Erdmann, Karl Dietrich, Kocka, Jurgen, Mommse...
Hardcover. This book traces and analyzes the changes of historians' problems, topics, and methods, as reflected at their International Congresses and in the work of their international organization. It describes the cleavages, debates, and forging of ties among historians from different parts of the world and ideological camps. Editor(s): Kocka, Jurgen; Mommsen, Wolfgang J.; Blansdorf, Agnes. Translator(s): Nothnagle, Alan L. Num Pages: 430 pages, 4 appendices, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 29. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571814340
- ISBN
- 9781571814340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.68
€ 168.68
Hardcover. Series: South Asia in Motion. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJF; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804796088
- ISBN
- 9780804796088
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.19
€ 117.19
Paperback. A classic essay on the distortions of history that occur when historians impose a rigid point of view on the study of the past. Num Pages: 144 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 134 x 197 x 10. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1965
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Co.
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393003185
- ISBN
- 9780393003185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.11
€ 18.99
€ 17.11
Hardback. The application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to issues in history is among the most exciting developments in both digital and spatial humanities. Describing a variety of applications, this book includes essays that highlight the methodological and substantive implications of a spatial approach to history. Editor(s): Gregory, Ian N.; Geddes, Alistair. Series: The Spatial Humanities. Num Pages: 234 pages, 46 b 4 tables. BIC Classification: HBAH; RGW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253011800
- ISBN
- 9780253011800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.16
€ 95.16
Hardback. Leonardo Bruni is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. Gary Ianziti undertakes a systematic work-by-work investigation of the full range of Bruni's output in history and biography, and assesses in detail the impact of the Greek historians on humanist methods of historical writing. Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBAH; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 34. Weight in Grams: 764.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674061521
- ISBN
- 9780674061521
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.38€ 58.11
€ 64.38
€ 58.11
Hardback. Featuring a foreword by the eminent historian Anthony Grafton, this fascinating book draws upon a diverse range of sources-ancient histories, medieval theology, Renaissance art, literature, legal thought, and early modern mathematics and social science-to uncover the meaning of the past and its relationship to the present. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFH; HBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421402789
- ISBN
- 9781421402789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74€ 60.12
€ 66.74
€ 60.12
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA; HP; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801443855
- ISBN
- 9780801443855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.32
€ 67.32
paperback. Provides an overview of the power of written discourse in the historical formation of Latin American societies, and highlights the central role of cities in deploying and reproducing that power. Starting with the colonial period, this title undertakes a historical analysis of the hegemonic influences of the written word. Editor(s): Chasteen, John Charles. Translator(s): Chasteen, John Charles. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; HBA; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822317661
- ISBN
- 9780822317661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.38
€ 27.99
€ 25.38
New perspectives on the genre and context of history-writing in the ancient world and its focus on war and empire. Editor(s): Stoneman, Richard; Muller, Sabine; Howe, Timothy. Num Pages: 304 pages, b/w and colour. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; HBAH; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 870.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxbow Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785702990
- ISBN
- 9781785702990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.47
€ 78.47