Historiography
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The American Patriot’s Almanac: Daily Readings on America
$19.99 Add to cartRead here the storied history of these United States.
The stories in this book are part of what Abraham Lincoln called the “mystic chords of memory.” They are the symbols that define the essence of th
- Author: Bennett, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1595555668
- Language: English
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Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia: A Brief History
$19.95 Add to cartThe Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia: A Brief History first appeared in 1963, a little book by a man with no training as either a writer or a historian. Since then, this volume has become an ess… [more below]
- Author: Tams Jr, W. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0937058556
- Language: English
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History of White People
$57.99 Add to cartOur story begins in Greek and Roman antiquity, where the concept of race did not exist, only geography and the opportunity to conquer and enslave others. Not until the eighteenth century did an obsess
- Author: Painter, Nell Irvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0393049345
- Language: English
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Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
$40.00 Add to cartA “supremely entertaining” (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the world’s history–from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns–and how their biases influence our understand… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1982195789
- Language: English
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
$28.32 Add to cartA fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called “jim-dandy pop history,” by the bestselling, American Book Award-winning author
“The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cau
- Author: Loewen, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974339
- Language: English
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Native Historians Write Back: Decolonizing American Indian History
$45.00 Add to cartNo matter what you know about Lewis and Clark, the Hopi Snake Dance, the occupation of Wounded Knee village, or the Seminole Freedmen claim, you have never before seen those and myriad other historic … [more below]
- Author: Miller, Susan a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0896726991
- Language: English
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The Story of America: Essays on Origins
$20.95 Add to cartFrom celebrated writer Jill Lepore, a literary and political history of American origin stories
In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates America- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0691159599
- Language: English
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Exploration: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWe live in an age of globalization on every conceivable level, but globalization has a deeper history than politicians and pundits often allow, and nothing is more significant to its history than expl… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Weaver, Stewart A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 20 2015
- ISBN10: 0199946957
- Language: English
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Proving History: Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
$28.00 Add to cartThis in-depth discussion of New Testament scholarship and the challenges of history as a whole proposes Bayes’s Theorem, which deals with probabilities under conditions of uncertainty, as a solution t… [more below]
- Author: Carrier, Richard C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1616145595
- Language: English
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Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization
$35.99 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples’ human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Robert A., Jr.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0230338763
- Language: English
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1368: China and the Making of the Modern World
$28.00 Add to cartA new picture of China’s rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world.
The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A
- Author: Akhtar, Ali Humayun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1503627470
- Language: English
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In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire
$28.99 Read moreIn this “first-rate work of historical research and storytelling” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), four sites of American history are revealed as places where truth was written over by oppressive fic… [more below]
- Author: Puglionesi, Alicia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1982116757
- Language: English
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The Past is a Foreign Country – Revisited
$39.00 Add to cartThe past remains essential – and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man’s attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest… [more below]
- Author: Lowenthal, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 676
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0521616859
- Language: English
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The Enduring Relevance of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
$10.99 Add to cartSoon after its publication in 1972, Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (HEUA) gained global popularity among progressive students, scholars and activists, and people concerned with Afric
- Author: Hirji, Karim F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0995222398
- Language: English
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Zionism: An Emotional State
$27.95 Add to cartEmotion lies at the heart of all national movements, and Zionism is no exception. For those who identify as Zionist, the word connotes liberation and redemption, uniqueness and vulnerability. Yet for … [more below]
- Series: Key Words in Jewish Studies
- Author: Penslar, Derek J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: June 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0813576091
- Language: English
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The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places
$19.99 Add to cartA “passionate amalgam of science and autobiography” that will leave you hearing — and seeing — nature as never before (New York Times Book Review).
Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of t- Author: Krause, Bernie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 031608686X
- Language: English
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This America: The Case for the Nation
$16.95 Add to cartAt a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America, a follow-up to her much-celebrated history of the United States, These… [more below]
- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1631496417
- Language: English
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Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
$37.95 Add to cartWith a new introduction by author Le Roy Ladurie, this special paperback edition offers a fascinating history of a fourteenth-century village, Montaillou, in the mountainous region of southern France,… [more below]
- Author: Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: October 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0807616133
- Language: English
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Telling the Truth about History
$25.99 Add to cartThis text examines the problem of historical truth. Seeking the roots of contemporary historical study in the Enlightenment, the authors argue that a model of historical research, based on neutrality … [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback
- Author: Appleby, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0393312860
- Language: English
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Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation Against America
$19.99 Add to cartHoward Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has sold more than 2.5 million copies. It is pushed by Hollywood celebrities, defended by university professors who know better, and assigned in h… [more below]
- Author: Grabar, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1684511526
- Language: English
