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Handbook of Oral History
AltaMira Press 2006; US$ 53.95In recent decades, oral history has matured into an established field of critical importance to historians and social scientists alike. Handbook of Oral History captures the current state-of-the-art, identifies major strands of intellectual development, and predicts key directions for future growth in theory, research, and application. more...
I Wish I'd Been There
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.95I Wish I?d Been There brings together twenty of our most distinguished historians? responses to the question ?What scene or incident in American history would you most liked to have witnessed?and why?? The answers illuminate crucial moments in our past and give readers a front-row seat at some of American history?s most dramatic events.The Salem... more...
A Companion to Western Historical Thought
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2008; US$ 204.95This broad survey introduces readers to the major themes, figures, traditions and theories in Western historical thought, tracing its evolution from biblical times to the present. Surveys the evolution of historical thought in the Western World from biblical times to the present day. Provides students with the background to contemporary historical... more...
Science and History
Springer 2008; US$ 129.99Professor Joseph Agassi has published his "Towards an Historiography of Science" in 1963. It received many reviews by notable academics. This work includes responses to these reviews and contains many additional chapters. more...
Theory as History
BRILL 2010; US$ 141.00The twelve essays in this book demonstrate the importance of bringing history back into historical materialism. They combine the discussion of Marx's categories with historical work on a wide range of themes and periods (the early middle ages, 'Asiatic' regimes, agrarian capitalism, etc.). more...
Writing Gender History
A&C Black 2004; US$ 24.70How has feminist scholarship changed history? Writing Gender History explores the evolution of historical writing about women and gender from the 1930s until the early twenty-first century. With chapters on the history of Europe, the USA, colonial India and Africa, the disucssion moves from women's history to gender history, and then to poststructuralist... more...
Histories and Fallacies
Crossway 2010; US$ 13.99A primer for dealing with conceptual and methodological problems in history and presents classic historical problems as a way to examine what history is, what it means, and how it can be told and understood. more...
Individual Choice and the Structures of History
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 50.00Perceptive study of Tocqueville's works, revealing his deep involvement with the philosophy of history. more...
The Theory and Practice of History
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 36.95Leopold von Ranke, who was born in 1795, is considered to be one of the founders of the modern practice of writing history. This collection of his writings, edited and introduced by Georg G. Iggers, was first published in 1973 and remains the leading collection of Ranke?s writings in the English language. Now updated with the needs of current... more...









