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Is History Fiction?
University of NSW Press 2010; US$ 31.95The relationship between history and fiction has always been a controversial one. Can we ever know that a historical narrative is giving us a true account of what actually happened? Provocative and fascinating, this book is an original and insightful examination of the ways in which history is and might be written. It traces Historys... more...
The Rise of Historical Criticism
ReadHowYouWant 2008; US$ 4.99The Rise of Historical Criticism, published in complete form in 1908, is a mature essay by Oscar Wilde, evaluating the history and current state of criticism. The writer goes back in history and tries to remould the art of criticism with allusions to various critics, genres, and periods. Filled with wit and sublimity, the essay is a comprehensive piece... more...
The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 47.38In 1995, the EU 15 and twelve Mediterranean states concluded the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. This agreement involves cooperation in political, economic and cultural matters. It aims at creating a common area of peace, stability and prosperity. This study discusses the concept of the EU as a 'normative' actor and questions its validity. In doing... more...
Let the Drums be Your Heart
D & M Publishers 2009; US$ 11.99Let the Drums be Your Heart brings together the work of more than forty aboriginal writers from all over Canada. concerned with family and days gone by, romance and adventure, tragedy and danger, these poems, short stories, articles and life stories ring with native pride and determination. As editor Joel T. Maki points out in his introduction,... more...
A Study of History
Oxford University Press, USA 1987; US$ 18.99Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History has been acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship. A ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations, it is a work of breath-taking breadth and vision. D.C. Somervell's abridgement, in two volumes, of this magnificent enterprise, preserves the method, atmosphere,... more...
Arbeit an der Geschichte
Campus Verlag 2010; US$ 23.13Hauptbeschreibung Die Beiträge des Bandes widmen sich der umfassenden Frage, was die Theorie für die Geschichtsschreibung leisten kann. Brauchen Historiker überhaupt Theorien? Und welche Rolle spielen speziell Theorien von Repräsentation in der Geschichtswissenschaft? Es kommen unter anderem Autoren zu Wort, die an historischen Fallbeispielen zeigen,... more...
Globalgeschichte
Campus Verlag 2007; US$ 23.13Hauptbeschreibung Im Zeitalter der Globalisierung muss auch die Geschichte neue Wege gehen und über die Grenzen der jeweils eigenen Nation hinausblicken. Entsprechend bildet die neue Reihe »Globalgeschichte « ein Forum für Bücher, die Beziehungen zwischen verschiedenen Gesellschaften und Regionen sowie ihre globalgeschichtliche Einbettung seit dem... more...
Pimlico History Of 20th Century
Random House 2011; US$ 22.67How has the world changed in the last century? As we look back across a hundred years of turbulence, Clive Ponting provides a major reassessment of what the twentieth century hgas meant to people throughout the world. THE PIMLICO HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY analyses the fundamental forces of population, industry and their consequences for the... more...
Popular Controversies in World History: Investigating History's Intriguing Questions
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 380.00Covering prehistoric times to the modern era, this fascinating resource presents pro-and-con arguments regarding unresolved, historic controversies throughout the development of the world. more...
DK Eyewitness Books: Medieval Life
DK Publishing 2011; US$ 16.99The Middle Ages ran from the end of the Dark Ages to the Renaissance in the 15th century. Eyewitness Medieval Life gives the reader an in-depth look at life during that era, in both the town and the country, and for the peasants as well as the aristocracy. Discover the hardships of life on the land, and the magnificent tournaments of the royal court.... more...









