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A History of Histories
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 18.00Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the present. With a light step and graceful narrative,... more...
A Man of Contradictions
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 21.86He proclaimed himself a genius and raged against the slightest criticism from fellow scholars; he was a Marxist who despised the 'Idiot People'; he could be generous and affectionate yet hurled insults at his friends; he inveighed against Puritanism but was himself in many ways a Puritan: A. L. Rowse was a man of many contradictions. In this clear-sighted... more...
The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 38.00Pocock explores the relationship between the study of law and the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen. more...
History Under Debate
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 54.95Examine new trends in the writing of new history?and what they mean to information science! History has been devalued, causing a lack of career prospects for historians, a decrease in vocations to the history profession, and historical discontinuity between generations. History Under Debate: International Reflection on the Discipline is a recap... more...
Writing History at the Ottoman Court
Indiana University Press 2013; US$ 21.99Ottoman historical writing of the 15th and 16th centuries played a significant role in fashioning Ottoman identity and institutionalizing the dynastic state structure during this period of rapid imperial expansion. This volume shows how the writing of history achieved these effects by examining the implicit messages conveyed by the texts and illustrations... more...
Fashioning History
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 30.00This book offers historians and aspiring historians a learned, absorbing, and comprehensive overview of current fashions of method, interpretation, and meaning in the context of postmodernism that has washed over the historical profession in the last two decades. more...
Writing History
A&C Black 2010; 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...
Building New Bridges - Bātir des nouveaux ponts
University of Ottawa Press 2005; US$ 16.99Questions of methodology and the use of sources are fundamental to all academic disciplines. In recent years, this topic has become far more challenging as scholars are increasingly adopting an interdisciplinary approach to achieve richer and deeper analyses, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Building New Bridges / Bātir de nouveaux... more...
The Science of History in Victorian Britain
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2011; US$ 99.00Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources monographs, lectures, correspondence from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses. more...
The New Ways of History
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 95.00Making sense of the past is always a challenge for the historian. Common to all periods and specialisms is the attempt to find new modes of historical narrative. This wide-ranging overview of recent trends and the changing agenda of historical questions compares new approaches - chronological, thematic, regional - not only in the various historical... more...









