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  • Minooka: the Story of My Hill

    by Michael Bracey ...
    This is a history/reflection book on a small town in Pennsylvania. The town is full of character and characters-- all real. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

    by Tony Judt ...
    **“Exhilarating . . . brave and forthright.” —The New York Times Book Review“Perhaps the greatest single collection of thinking on the political, diplomatic, social, and cultural history of the past century.” —Forbes**We have entered an age of forgetting. Our world, we insist, is unprecedented, wholly new. The past has nothing to teach us. Drawing provocative connections between a dazzling range ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Angels and Ages

    A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life

    by Adam Gopnik ...
    In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of man’s place in the world. Here Gopnik reveals these two men as they really were: family men and social climbers, ambitious ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Worrying

    A Literary and Cultural History

    by Professor Francis O'Gorman ...
    Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner lifeand its ordinary pains. Francis O'Gormancharts the emergence of our contemporaryidea of worry in the Victorian era and itsestablishment, after the First World War,as a feature of modernity. For some writersbetween the Wars, worry was the “diseaseof the age.”Worrying examines the everyday kind ofworry-the fearful, ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Philosophy of Historiography

    by John Lange ...
    A philosophical examination of the study of history, from its logic and semantics to its metaphysical and epistemological implications.This book is intended for the highly intelligent reader, who is interested in considering the difficulties, problems, and challenges of understanding and writing about the human past. It is popularly enough written, hopefully, to be a joy to read, and scholarly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exploration

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stewart A. Weaver ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We live in an age of globalization on every conceivable level, but globalization has a deeper history than politicians and pundits often allow, and nothing is more significant to its history than exploration. Wherever trade or faith or empire followed, explorers usually led. Their motives were as many-sided and various as their actions; their legacies are contested and mixed. But none can doubt ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History

    Essays from the North

    by Emily S. Rosenberg, Emilia Viotti da Costa, Steve J. Stern ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True to the intellectual vision of Brazilian historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, one of Latin America’s most distinguished scholars, the contributors actively revisit the political—as both a theme of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Sources and Methods in African History

    Spoken Written Unearthed

    by Dennis Cordell, Edwin Wilmsen, Gerard Chouin, James Denbow, James Giblin, Jamie Monson, Jan Jansen, Kevin Roberts, Kristin Mann, Laura J. Mitchell0, Christian Jennings2, Matt Childs3, Meredith McKittrick4, Paul Lovejoy5, Russell Lohse6, Steven Steven Salm7, Thomas Spear8, Akin Ogundiran9, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch0, Christopher DeCorse1, Constanze Weise2, Cynthia Brantley3, David Henige4 ...
    Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing.This book is both a snapshot of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Making of Manners and Morals in Twelfth-Century England

    The Book of the Civilised Man

    by Fiona Whelan ...
    How different are we from those in the past? Or, how different do we think we are from those in the past? Medieval people were more dirty and unhygienic than us – as novels, TV, and film would have us believe – but how much truth is there in this notion? This book seeks to challenge some of these preconceptions by examining medieval society through rules of conduct, and specifically through the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Ends of History

    Questioning the Stakes of Historical Reason

    Edited by Amy Swiffen, Joshua Nichols ...
    The Ends of History? considers how, despite the fact that events in the past 20 years have called Francis Fukuyama’s infamous announcement of the end of history into question, the issue of the end of history is now a matter of renewed interest and debate.Two decades ago we were confronted by the end of the Soviet Union and collapse of the geo-political divisions that had defined much of the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Constructing History 11-19

    Edited by Arthur Chapman, Hilary Cooper ...
    This book describes and exemplifies strategies for teaching history across the 11-19 age range in rigorous and enjoyable ways. It illustrates active learning approaches embedded in pupil-led enquiries, through detailed case studies which involve students in planning and carrying out historical enquiries, creating accounts and presenting them to audiences, in ways that develop increasingly ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Memories Of 1957

    by Kerry Butters ...
    Series series This Year in History Collection
    Memories of 1957 by Kerry Butters is a reference Book from that year, included in it are things in the News, Famous Births and Deaths etc. Great for birthday presents. Look out for other years in the series or maybe buy your own birth year. Look out for other years in the series by the same Author. 1916 - Present. Ideal for Birthdays, Anniversaries Etc.Front Cover - Laika the space dog. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus