Thinking About History
By: Sarah C. Maza
4.09
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating questio…
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1. De oudheid: Grieken en Romeinen in de context van de wereldgeschiedenis
By: Frits Gerard Naerebout , Henk W. Singor
3.38
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
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- history
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2. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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- history
- world history
- theory
- politics
- academic
- philosophy
- grad school
- nonfiction
"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
3. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
By: William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
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- nonfiction
- history
4. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more
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- history
- academic
5. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
By: Dipesh Chakrabarty
3.78
Format: 377 pages, Paperback
First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europeaddresses the mythi… read more
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- history
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6. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
By: None , Marisa J. Fuentes
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free wo… read more
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- grad school
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7. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers
By: Kate L. Turabian , Joseph M. Williams , Gregory G. Colomb , Wayne C. Booth , University of Chicago Press
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dewey. Bellow. Strauss. Friedman. The University of Chicago has been the home of some of the most i… read more
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8. Een Kennismaking met de Oude Wereld
By: Lukas De Blois , None
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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9. The Return of Martin Guerre
By: Natalie Zemon Davis
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered i… read more
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10. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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11. From Dissertation to Book
By: William P. Germano
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
All new Phd's hope that their dissertations can become books. But a dissertation is written for a c… read more
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12. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
By: John Robert McNeill
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Hardcover
This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of t… read more
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13. Writing History: A Guide for Students
By: William Kelleher Storey
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Bringing together practical methods from both history and composition, Writing History provides a w… read more
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14. The Allure of the Archives
By: Arlette Farge
3.91
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combi… read more
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15. Thinking About History
By: Sarah C. Maza
4.09
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating questio… read more
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- academia
- history
- world history
- theory
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- academic
- read for school
- philosophy
- grad school
- nonfiction
16. American History Now (Critical Perspectives On The P)
By: Eric Foner
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
American History Now collects eighteen original historiographic essays that survey recent scholarsh… read more
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- nonfiction
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17. Geschiedenis van Nederland. Van de Opstand tot heden.
By: Friso Wielenga
3.32
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
Hoewel de Nederlandse geschiedenis zich in een toenemende belangstelling mag verheugen, is het aant… read more
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18. Geschiedenis schrijven! Wegwijzer voor historici
By: Jeannette Kamp
3.23
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
'Geschiedenis schrijven! Wegwijzer voor historici' biedt (aankomende) historici heldere richtlijnen… read more
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19. Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)
By: Sam Wineburg
4.04
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are… read more
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"A history of unalloyed certainties is dangerous because it invites a slide into intellectual torpor. History as truth, issued from the left or the right, abhors shades of gray. It seeks to stamp out …"-Sam Wineburg, Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)
20. The Princeton Guide to Historical Research
By: Zachary M. Schrag
4.28
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first century The Princeton G… read more
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21. Historiography: An Introductory Guide
By: Eileen Cheng
3.52
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"What is historiography?" asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938. Professional historians… read more
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