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Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
""History," wrote James Baldwin, "does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do."" "Rarely has Baldwin's insight been more forcefully confirmed than in our current conflict-ridden times. History itself has become a matter of public controversy as Americans...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
The popular historian shares his views of his own life and on the history of America, in a series of reflections on the Founding Fathers, Native Americans, Theodore Roosevelt, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, and the writing of history.
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Language
English
Description
"At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the American West is a region of great views and great friction, vigorous economic expansion and equally vigorous social conflict. In Something in the Soil, Patricia Nelson Limerick continues the project she began with The Legacy of Conquest, traveling far outside the usual academic circles in order to bring past and present into a spirited encounter. Whether her topic is the rapid growth in the West today,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In A Nation Forged by Crisis, historian Jay Sexton contends that our national narrative is not one of halting yet inevitable progress, but of repeated disruptions brought about by shifts in the international system. Sexton shows that the American Revolution was a consequence of the increasing integration of the British and American economies; that a necessary precondition for the Civil War was the absence, for the first time in decades, of foreign...
Author
Publisher
Longman
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
1. Historical awareness2. The uses of history3. The raw materials4. Using the sources5. The themes of mainstream history6. Writing and interpretation7. The limits of historical knowledge8. History and social theory9. History by numbers10. Theories of meani
ng11. History by word of mouth
"This study examines important questions about historians and their work. In this fourth edition the main text is made more accessible through a number of new features:...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Language
English
Description
This book began as an attempt to bring more life to the reading and learning of history. As practicing historians, we have been troubled by a growing disinterest in or even animosity toward the study of the past. How is it that when we and other historians have found so much that excites curiosity, other people find history irrelevant and boring? Perhaps, we thought, if lay readers and students understood better how historians go about their work...
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Language
English
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The first volume of Decline and Fall was published in 1776, and by the time the final volume appeared in 1787, Gibbon had produced an exhaustive, million-and-a-half-word account of a 'revolution, which shall ever be remembered and is still felt by the nations of the earth'.
This panoramic work, covering 13 centuries from 180 A.D. to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, has been described as 'a bridge that carries one from the ancient world to the...
Author
Series
Monograph volume 121
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A vital account of how some of China's most important writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to challenge the Chinese Communist Party on its most sacred ground, its monopoly on history" --
"The tectonic plates that form China have left it a checkerboard of mountains and rivers and memories. From the south, the Indian plate pushes up into the Eurasian, creating the Himalayas and the vast Tibetan plateau that almost...
Series
Publisher
McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This volume presents current controversies that surround controversial issues in United States history since 1945 in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. The issues are arranged in chronological order and can be easily incorporated into any American history survey course. It doesn't concentrate on when events happened, rather focusing on why, and on specific events rather than on the significance...
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of historians to provide textured analysis...
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