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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Arnaldo Momigliano was one of the foremost classical historiographers of the twentieth century. This collection of twenty-one carefully selected essays is remarkable both in the depth of its scholarship and the breadth of its subjects. Moving with ease across the centuries, Momigliano supplements powerful readings of writers in the Greek, Jewish, and Roman traditions, such as Tacitus and Polybius, with writings that focus on later historians, such...
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University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"This study of the ancient historian's work is "excellent... [A] rigorous and engaging introduction not only to Herodotus, but to many other Greek authors" ( Times Literary Supplement ). In the fifth century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empirical observations and arranging them systematically. Herodotus and the Question Why offers a comprehensive examination...
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Otago University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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In this volume, leading historians reflect on writing about New Zealand's past. They also test how that past is investigated and framed. Their essays tell us much about New Zealand's many pasts and how historians have imagined them, and indicate particular concerns with what the country is now and the current role of history as a discipine within our nation. They ask questions and venture some answers. The introductory essay by the editors surveys...
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English
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With Stephen E. Ambrose's untimely death in October of 2002, America lost its most popular historian. He breathed fresh life into topics that remained obscure to the average person, and injected passion into the events from which history textbooks so often drained the drama. Ambrose's final book is a stirring collection of reflections that covers such wide-ranging subjects as the Battle of New Orleans, the transcontinental railroad, Crazy Horse and...
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English
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Remembering and reconstructing the past inevitably involves forgetting-and nowhere more so than in the complex relationship between the United States and Japan since the end of World War II. In this provocative and probing series of essays, John W. Dower-one of our leading historians of postwar Japan and author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Embracing Defeat-explores the uses and abuses to which this history has been subjected and, with deliberation...
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English
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
In Ancient Greek Historians, eminent British scholar J. B. Bury sets out to trace the genesis and development of the historical literature of the Greeks. The work is arranged chronologically, with several chapters addressing the legend-based writing of early Greek historiography before discussing the more scientific approach to history writing taken by major figures...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
For more than 2000 years, those wishing to rule Rome and leaders inspired by their example have claimed they, and only they, could restore their society's past glory and make it great again. They left millions of victims in their wake. The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone from American journalists in the twenty-first century AD to Roman politicians at the turn of the third century BC have...
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Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
How has the place we live in changed, developed, and grown over the centuries? That is the basic question local historians seek to answer. The answer is to be found in the sources of information that previous generations have left us. The records of parish, county, and diocesan administration, of the courts, of the national government, and of private estates, all have something to tell us about the history of the locality we are interested in. So...
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Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A history of the Irish migrant experience across the globe, as told through real-life stories from throughout the centuries. Ireland is known worldwide as a country that produced emigrants. The existence of the Irish "diaspora" is the subject of this fifth installment of the Irish Perspectives series. From the early Christian era, Irish missionaries traveled across Europe. From the early modern period, Irish soldiers served across the world in...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Popular television programmes highlight the satisfaction that can be gained from investigating the history of houses, and there is always plenty of interest in the subject, with archives becoming ever more accessible with access to the internet. As the subject covers a broad field, the authors have set out to include advice on those aspects that usually apply to a project and others that will be of particular use for beginners. The reader is guided...
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
How true is the history we learned in school? Did the English intend the Irish to starve as a result of the Great Famine? Did a haughty Marie Antoinette indeed urge the masses to eat cake? History is full of myths, legends, fables, folklore, misinformation, and misconceptions. Whether they have come about inadvertently or deliberately, many have become part of the public imagination. This book presents some of the most popular and enduring of these...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
Description
The complete story of the sinking of the Titanic, told by Walter Lord in two acclaimed and riveting chronicles of the ship's doomed maiden voyage In just two hours and forty minutes, 1,500 souls were lost at sea when the RMS Titanic succumbed to the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Based on interviews with sixty-three survivors, A Night to Remember tells the story of that fateful night, offering a meticulous and engrossing look at one of the twentieth...
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Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Essays on how chaos, totalitarianism, and trauma have shaped Ukraine's culture: "A milestone of the scholarship about Eastern European politics of memory." -- Wulf Kansteiner, Aarhus University In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms were disrupted by political systems seeking to repress...
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Español
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No es sólo la historia o las humanidades, es el mundo el que está cambiando, en ocasiones de forma estimulante; en otras, de una manera que nos sobresalta. Muy pocos son los que pueden presumir de comprender esa mutación. En medio de la transformación digital, zarandeados por el remolino del cambio, la sensación de confusión y desconcierto es inevitable.
Este volumen se ofrece como ayuda, como guía para comprender algunos de los fenómenos...
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Español
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Los cabildos municipales fueron los primeros instrumentos de organización y acción política utilizados en América durante el proceso de conquista y representaban directamente a los primeros fundadores y pobladores de las ciudades. A lo largo de la época colonial, su papel de esqueleto administrativo sobre el cual la monarquía hispánica asentó su presencia en el continente americano fue evolucionando. Así, durante el siglo XVIII la mayor parte...
20) The Lost Cause
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President Abraham Lincoln once said, "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt! “
President Jefferson Davis once said, "I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.“
More than 150 years later, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most significant events in United...
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