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“ron stapley”

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  • Debunking History

    152 Popular Myths Exploded

    by Ed Rayner, Ron Stapley ...
    History is full of myths, legends, fables, folklore, misinformation and misconceptions. Whether they have come about inadvertently or deliberately, many have become part of the public imagination. This book presents some of the most popular and enduring of these myths from the time of the American and French revolutions to the two world wars and beyond. Arranged within well defined geographical or ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scandals in History

    by Ed Rayner, Ron Stapley ...
    Notions of what is scandalous vary from age to age, but our fascination with all things outrageous remains the same. Whether the sexual disgraces of the Victorian era or the political outrages of modern times, the shocking and the immoral never cease to cause a stir among the masses. Bestselling partnership Ed Rayner and Ron Stapley return with their latest collection of fascinating historical ... Read more

    $1.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

    by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ...
    From admired historian—and coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogans—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history.In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, "Well behaved women seldom make history." Today these words appear on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, greeting cards, and all sorts of Web sites and blogs. Ulrich explains how that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Theatres of Memory

    Past and Present in Contemporary Culture

    by Raphael Samuel ...
    When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of “heritage” that lies at the heart of every Western nation’s obsession with the past. Today, in the age of Downton Abbey and Mad Men, we are once again conjuring historical fictions to make sense of our everyday lives.In this remarkable book, Samuel looks ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • What Is Global History?

    by Sebastian Conrad ...
    The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global historyUntil very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • History Beyond the Text

    A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

    Edited by Sarah Barber, Corinna Peniston-Bird ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of interpretation and require historians to consider alternative theoretical and practical approaches.In order to help historians successfully move beyond traditional text, Sarah Barber and Corinna Peniston ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Deconstructing History

    by Alun Munslow ...
    In Deconstructing History, Alun Munslow examines history in the postmodern age. He provides an introduction to the debates and issues of postmodernist history. He also surveys the latest research into the relationship between the past, history and historical practice as well as forwarding his own challenging theories.The book discusses issues of both empiricist and deconstruction positions and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Screening the Sixties

    Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory

    by Oliver Gruner ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and ‘remembered’ the Sixties. From late 1970s hippie musicals such as Hair and The Rose through to recent civil rights portrayals The Help and Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Oliver Gruner explores the ways in which films have engaged with broad debates on America’s recent past. Drawing on extensive archival ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy

    Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States

    by Alain Bresson ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A revolutionary account of the ancient Greek economyThis comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy revolutionizes our understanding of the subject and its possibilities. Alain Bresson is one of the world's leading authorities in the field, and he is helping to redefine it. Here he combines a thorough knowledge of ancient sources with innovative new approaches grounded in recent ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Letters of C. Vann Woodward

    by C. Vann Woodward ...

    $32.99 USD

  • Journalism and Memory

    Edited by B. Zelizer, K. Tenenboim-Weinblatt ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Tracking the ways in which journalism and memory mutually support, undermine, repair and challenge each other, this fascinating collection brings together leading scholars in journalism and memory studies to investigate the complicated role that journalism plays in relation to the past. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present

    Edited by Dr Diego Machuca, Professor Baron Reed ...
    Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the entire history of skepticism. Divided chronologically into ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, and contemporary periods, and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters from leading philosophers, this comprehensive volume is the first of its kind.By exploring each of the distinct traditions and ... Read more

    $55.09 USD