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“nina caputo”

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  • On the Word of a Jew

    Religion, Reliability, and the Dynamics of Trust

    by Nina Caputo, Mitchell B Hart ...
    Fourteen essays examining the dynamics of trust and mistrust in Jewish history from biblical times to today.What, if anything, does religion have to do with how reliable we perceive one another to be? When and how did religious difference matter in the past when it came to trusting the word of another? In today's world, we take for granted that being Jewish should not matter when it comes to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Faithful Narratives

    Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity

    Edited by Andrea Sterk, Nina Caputo ...
    Historians of religion face complex interpretive issues when examining religious texts, practices, and experiences. Faithful Narratives presents the work of twelve eminent scholars whose research has exemplified compelling strategies for negotiating the difficulties inherent in this increasingly important area of historical inquiry. The chapters range chronologically from Late Antiquity to modern ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • The Story of America

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  • One in a Thousand

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    This short microhistory details the life and death of Eddie McKay, a varsity athlete at Western University, who flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. Graham Broad switches creatively from telling McKay's fascinating story to teaching valuable lessons on how to do history: why the past matters, why historians take different approaches, how to pose historical questions, how to ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Followers (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)

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    by Detlef Muhlberger ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
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  • Women's Words

    The Feminist Practice of Oral History

    Edited by Sherna Berger Gluck, Daphne Patai ...
    Women's Words is the first collection of writings devoted exclusively to exploring the theoretical, methodological, and practical problems that arise when women utilize oral history as a tool of feminist scholarship. In thirteen multi-disciplin ary esays, the book takes stock of the implicit presuppositions , contradictions, and prospects of oral h ... Read more

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  • The Making of a Chinese City

    History and Historiography in Harbin

    by Soren Clausen, Stig Thogersen ...
    The history of Harbin, ruled by the Russians, by an international coalition of allied powers, by Chinese warlords, by the Soviet Union and finally by the Chinese Communists - all in the course of 100 years - is presented here as an example of Chinese local-history writing. ... Read more

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  • Generations and Collective Memory

    by Amy Corning, Howard Schuman ...
    When discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuman, and in Generations and Collective Memory, they draw on an impressive range of research to show how generations share memories of formative ... Read more

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  • The Grand Design of God

    The Literary Form of the Christian View of History

    by C. A. Patrides ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Historiography
    This book, originally published in 1972, offers a stimulating account of the Christian tradition of historiography as it is reflected in works of literature and history. The discussion ranges from the pre-Christian The Iliad up to the 1970s. The author considers subjects such as the Mystery Plays in the medieval synthesis, the nature of the evidence provided by the Renaissance authors in England ... Read more

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    This book uses a previously overlooked Neo-Latin treatise, Cicero Illustratus, to provide insight into the status and function of the Ciceronian tradition at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and consequently to more broadly illuminate the fate of that tradition in the early Enlightenment. Cicero Illustratus itself is the first subject for inquiry, mined for what its deliberately erudite ... Read more

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  • Returning the Gaze

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