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Lost Histories
Vision Paperbacks 2006; US$ 16.99Looks at some great mysteries of the past, telling the stories of the tomb raiders and glory seekers who have sought to solve them. This work also examines legends and historical facts to sort truth from myth. more...
Is History Fiction?
University of NSW Press 2005; US$ 32.95Is History Fiction? explores in fresh and innovative ways the perennial question, What is History? How can we in the present know the past? In a wonderful journey that starts with the classical Greeks and travels through the centuries to more recent forms of history that are framed by Marxism, postmodernism and feminism, John Docker and Ann Curthoys... more...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt TRG
Saddleback Publishing 2008; US$ 10.95President Franklin Delano Roosevelt forever changed the way people in the United States think about government and its leaders. He along with his first lady Eleanor, led America with courage and vision through terrible times. Together they influenced the lives of every American, and their influence is still evident today. See how this unique man overcame... more...
Manifestos for History
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 36.95Written by some of the world?s leading historians and theorists of history, Manifestos for History draws together a series of manifestos that address the question of what kinds of histories we ought to be considering and making in and for the twenty-first century. With a foreword by Joanna Bourke and an afterword by Hayden White, these manifestos... more...
Herbert Butterfield and the Interpretation of History
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 120.00This book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history. In a carefully nuanced way it lays bare the unspoken motivations and hidden tensions in Butterfield's debate with himself and with a host of contemporary historians in the period between 1924-79. more...
Reading Primary Sources
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 39.95How does the historian approach primary sources? How do interpretations differ? How can they be used to write history? Reading Primary Sources goes a long way to providing answers for these questions. In the first part of this unique volume, the chapters give an overview of both traditional and new methodological approaches to the use of sources,... more...
Dangerous Games
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.00Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. History is used... more...
Zinvol, Leerbaar, Haalbaar
Amsterdam University Press 2005; US$ 10.50Geschiedenis en geschiedenisonderwijs staan in het middelpunt van de belangstelling. Over de wijze waarop het onderwijs didactisch zou moeten worden vormgegeven publiceerde het Instituut voor Geschiedenisdidactiek (IVGD) in december 2004 een nieuw handboek. Bij de presentatie van dat boek vond een colloquium plaats over geschiedenisonderwijs en de... more...
Frühmittelalterliche Studien (2007)
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 249.00Frühmittelalterliche Studien is considered by the editors as a forum of comprehensive medieaval studies. The yearbook is intended to help to overcome the division of a diverse tradition, which bears witness to the same inseparable contexts expressed in different ways, into conventional specialist fields of work of a conventional subject... more...
The History
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 3.99The History by Herodotus is a classic masterpiece that is considered to be the very first work of history. The narrative details the war that took place between Persians and Greek city-states. The conflict between the two factions has been described on an ideological basis. An engrossing insight into the rise of Persian Empire. Informative! more...









