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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

    $16.39 USD

  • The Secular Enlightenment

    by Margaret Jacob ...
    A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people’s everyday livesThe Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and freemasons to ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Secular Enlightenment

    by Margaret Jacob ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics, pantheists, pornographers, readers ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    International History, National Identity, Collective Memory

    by Patrick Finney ...
    ‘This is comparative history on a grand scale, skilfully analysing complex national debates and drawing major conclusions without ever losing the necessary nuances of interpretation.’Stefan Berger, University of Manchester, UKRemembering the Road to World War Two is a broad and comparative international survey of the historiography of the origins of the Second World War. It explores how, in the ... Read more

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  • The Debate on the English Reformation

    Second edition

    by Rosemary O’Day ...
    Series series Issues in Historiography
    Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of The debate on the English Reformation combines a discussion of successive historical approaches to the English Reformation with a critical review of recent debates in the area, offering a major contribution to modern historiography as well as to Reformation studies. It explores the way in which successive generations have found the Reformation ... Read more

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  • Experiments in Rethinking History

    Edited by Alun Munslow, Robert A. Rosenstone ...
    From two of the world’s leading postmodern historians, this thoroughly original collection of articles allows students and researchers to understand and learn important new ways of thinking and writing about the past.This book includes a thorough two-part introduction on theory and practice as well as introductory material in each section that allows the reader to fully engage with the theoretical ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Clio's Battles

    Historiography in Practice

    by Jeremy Black ...
    A survey of the variety of readings we have of the past and of how those readings are used in the present day to validate, discredit, unite, or divide.To write history is to consider how to explicate the past, to weigh the myriad possible approaches to the past, and to come to terms with how the past can be and has been used. In this book, prize-winning historian Jeremy Black considers both ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The South African Gandhi

    Stretcher-Bearer of Empire

    by Ashwin Desai, Goolem Vahed ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South African refrain. Contemporary South African leaders, including Mandela, have consistently lauded him as being part of the epic battle to ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Using Computers in History

    A Practical Guide to Data Presentation, Analysis and the Internet

    by M.J. Lewis, Roger Lloyd-Jones ...
    Using Computers in History is designed to introduce students to historical computing through practical workshop exercises. With topics such as the pattern of nineteenth century emigration from the UK, the performance of the American and German economies in the 1930s and the Lancashire cotton industry, Lloyd-Jones and Lewis explain and illustrate the possible uses of the computer for the historian ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles

    Powerful Times

    Edited by A. Reading, T. Katriel ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles from ten countries. The book reminds us of the enduring cultural scripts for human agency, solidarity, resilience and human kindness. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Dunning School

    Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction

    Edited by John David Smith, J. Vincent Lowery ...
    From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857–1922). Known as the Dunning School, these students wrote the first generation of state studies on the Reconstruction—volumes that generally sympathized with white southerners, interpreted radical Reconstruction as a mean ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Kierkegaard on the Philosophy of History

    by G. Patios ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    History doesn't have to mean only an effort to know the past. It can be instead, according to Kierkegaard, a willful and personal choice regarding the creation of the future. Kierkegaard offers us an amazing new approach to the problem of what is history and who makes it. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD