The Time of Troubles: A Historical Study of the Internal ...
 An essential work for history lovers: This book is written by Russia's late expert in the country's history, which is one of the reasons why this book is important to every medieval history student. It's quite easy to read- cause the author divides the [... more]
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The Degradation of American History
Amazon.com Review: David Harlan writes in The Degradation of American History that "during the last thirty years history as ethical judgment has been driven into exile by history as contextual reconstruction." He charges that the relativistic [... more]
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An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in ...
The Lone Star State Was Founded on Slavery: "Mexico lost Texas by vacillating over slavery." "Texans revolted against Mexican rule in order to protect slavery." Both of these inflammatory simplifications were advanced by contemporary [... more]
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Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender ...
Gender as a historical construction and analytical tool: After reading the reviews of this book I feel obligated to issue a contrasting view that many of the reviewers, oblivious to the gender system that invisibly yet inextricably contours their own [... more]
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The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions ...
Tosh explains an often obtuse topic well: Early in his book, Tosh explains that "(h)ow the past is known and how it is applied to present need are open to widely varying approaches." 'Pursuit of History' is a solid effort by Tosh to trace the [... more]
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Philosophies of History: From Enlightenment to ...
Book Description: This landmark anthology charts the intellectual foundations of historical study over the past 200 years. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 901 EAN: 9780631212379 ISBN: 063121237X Number Of Pages: 376 Publication Date: 2000-09-20 [... more]
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The New Nature of History: Knowledge, Evidence, Language
A labor of love by a loyal practitioner of history: When Arthur Marwick sat down to draft The New Nature of History he likely thought back to a time three decades earlier, when he penned The Nature of History (Alfred A. Knopf, 1971) to confront the " [... more]
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On Deep History and the Brain
Deep History and the Brain: This is a fairly short book that Harvard professor of history Daniel Smail describes as a series of connected essays. It is essentially an argument to include all of human history, not just written history, in academic survey [... more]
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The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual ...
Important read.: Impressive analysis. Conclusions are objective and based on in-depth research. Reuben's work is pointed toward the serious reader and thinker who is concerned with the climate within our educational and cultural institutions. Her work is [... more]
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The Professor and the Pupil: The Politics and Friendship ...
Dual Epiphanies: W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson are giants in black history and key influences on the civil rights movement, but each man's distinctive political viewpoints have been glossed over by subsequent historians. Their long professional and [... more]
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Historians on History (2nd Edition)
Invaluable resource for a survey of Historical Method: This work grew as an outgrowth of Tosh's 'Pursuit of History' and is essentially primary source material for the aforementioned work. It is comprised of excerpts from historiographical works on the [... more]
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The Pursuit of History (4th Edition)
Tosh explains an often obtuse topic well: Early in his book, Tosh explains that "(h)ow the past is known and how it is applied to present need are open to widely varying approaches." 'Pursuit of History' is a solid effort by Tosh to trace the [... more]
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