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  • Historyby John Arnold

    Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 9.99

    This essay about how we study and understand history invites us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ways these questions have been answered in the past. Concepts such as causation, interpretation, and periodization, are introduced. more...

  • The Routledge Companion to Historical Studiesby Alun Munslow

    Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 36.95

    The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies provides a much-needed critical introduction to the major historians and philosophers together with the central issues, ideas and theories which have prompted the rethinking of history that has gathered pace since the 1990s. With twenty-nine new entries, and many that have been substantially updated,... more...

  • Deconstructing Historyby Alun Munslow

    Taylor and Francis 1997; US$ 39.95

    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... more...

  • The Landscape of Historyby John Lewis Gaddis

    Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 14.99

    What is history, and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? John Lewis Gaddis answers these and other questions in this short text, providing a searching look at the historian's craft. more...

  • Lost Historiesby Joel Levy

    Vision Paperbacks 2006; US$ 16.99

    Looks 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?by Ann Curthoys; John Docker

    University of NSW Press 2005; US$ 32.95

    Is 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...

  • 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Askby Thomas E. Jr Woods

    Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.00

    Guess what? The Indians didn?t save the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them to grow corn. Thomas Jefferson thought states? rights?an idea reviled today?were even more important than the Constitution?s checks and balances. The ?Wild? West was more peaceful and a lot safer than most modern cities. And the biggest scandal of the Clinton years didn?t... more...

  • Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacyby Andrew Peacock

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95

    The Tarikhnamah is a history of the world and the oldest surviving work of Persian prose. This book examines it as a political and cultural document and why it became such an influential work in the Islamic world. more...

  • EMINENT ECONOMIC HISTORIANSby John S. Lyons; Louis P. Cain; Samuel H. Williamson

    Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 160.00

    This volume marks fifty years of an innovative approach to writing economic history often called "The Cliometrics Revolution." The book presents memoirs of personal development, intellectual lives and influences, new lines of historical research, long-standing debates, a growing international scholarly community, and the contingencies that guide and... more...

  • The 10 Big Lies About Americaby Michael Medved

    Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00

    ?It ain?t so much the things we don?t know that get us into trouble,nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. ?It?s the things we know that just ain?t so.? In this bold and brilliantly argued book, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on ten of the biggest fallacies that millions of Americans believe about our... more...