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“prof ross wilson”

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  • The Language of the Past

    by Prof. Ross Wilson ...
    The Language of the Past analyzes the use of history in discourses within the political, media and the public sphere. It examines how particular terms, phrases and allusions first came into usage, developed and how they are employed today. To speak of something or someone as representing the 'stone age', or characterize an institution as 'byzantine', to describe a business relationship as 'feudal' ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Historians In Trouble

    Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower

    by Jon Wiener ...
    Historians in Trouble is investigative journalist and historian Jon Wiener's "incisive and entertaining" (New Statesman, UK) account of several of the most notorious history scandals of the last few years.Focusing on a dozen key controversies ranging across the political spectrum and representing a wide array of charges, Wiener seeks to understand why some cases make the headlines and end careers, ... Read more

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  • The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists

    Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age

    by T. Messer-Kruse ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists is the culmination of seven years of research into the 1886 Haymarket bombing and subsequent trial. It not only overturns the prevailing consensus on this event, it documents in detail how the basic facts, as far as they can be determined, have been distorted, obscured, or suppressed for seventy years. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Framing Public Memory

    by Charles E. Morris III, Kendall R. Phillips, Bradford Vivian, Amos Kiewe, Barry Schwartz, Horst-Alfred Heinrich, Edward S. Casey, Charles E. Scott, Rosa A. Eberly, Professor Barbara Biesecker0, Professor Stephen Howard Browne1, Barbie Zelizer2 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memoriesThe study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications. As scholars probe acts of collective remembrance, they have shed light on the cultural processes of memory. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • What is Intellectual History?

    by Richard Whatmore ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is intellectual history?Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and translators between historic societies and our own, while their critics have often derided them as narrow-mindedly studying the ideas of dead white men. Some consider the discipline to be among the most ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography

    by Wm.Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 5 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Colonialism and Decolonization in National Historical Cultures and Memory Politics in Europe

    Modules for History Lessons

    Edited by Uta Fenske, Daniel Groth, Klaus-Michael Guse, Bärbel P. Kuhn ...
    Colonialism and decolonization are historical phenomena that are part of the historical experience of many European countries. This volume offers students and teachers a new understanding of how colonialism and decolonization fit into our shared European past and contains teaching materials for history classes in European schools. The contributions have been produced by the EU project CoDec, ... Read more

    $69.39 USD

  • Regimes of Memory

    Edited by Katharine Hodgkin, Susannah Radstone ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
    A focus on memory has come to prominence across a wide range of disciplines. History, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies have placed memory at the heart of their interrogations of subjectivity, narrative, time and imagination. At the same time, memory has emerged as a central theme and preoccupation in popular literature, film and television, and the emergence of memory as ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Class Struggles

    by Dennis L. Dworkin ...
    Series series History: Concepts,Theories and Practice
    In the 1960s and 1970s the study of history and sociology was heavily influenced by Marxism and theories of class. But the collapse of Communism and significant changes in culture and society threw the study of class into crisis. Its most basic premises were called into question.More recently accelerating globalisation, proliferating multinational corporations and unbridled free-market capitalism ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Revisionist Histories

    by Marnie Hughes-Warrington ...
    Revision and revisionism are generally seen as standard parts of historical practice, yet they are underexplored within the growing literature on historiography. In this accessibly written volume, Marnie Hughes-Warrington discusses this paucity of work on revision in history theory and raises ethical questions about linear models and spatial metaphors that have been used to explain it.Revisionist ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Truth of History

    by C. Behan McCullagh ...
    Modern relativism and postmodern thought in culture and language challenge the 'truth' of history. This book considers how all historians, confined by the concepts and forms of argument of their own cultures, can still discover truths about the past.The Truth of History presents a study of various historical explanations and interpretations and evaluates their success as accounts of the past. C. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD