Writing History in the Global Era
By: Lynn Hunt
3.46
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
George Orwell wrote that “history is written by the winners.” Even if that seems a bit too cut-and…
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1. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
By: David S. Landes
3.96
Format: 531 pages, Paperback
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one o… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- world history
"As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground."-David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
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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"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. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- academic
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
4. The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution
By: Gary B. Nash
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Urban Crucibleboldly reinterprets colonial life and the origins of the American Revolution. Thr… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a… read more
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- history
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- school
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- grad school
- nonfiction
6. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- academic
7. A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837
By: Paul E. Johnson
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millenniumremains a landmark work--br… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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8. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
By: William Cronon
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
9. In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
By: Robert G. Hoyland
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Hardcover
In just over a hundred years--from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Cal… read more
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- nonfiction
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10. The Houses of History: A Criticial Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory
By: Anna Green
4.00
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Every piece of historical writing has a theoretical basis on which evidence is selected, filtered, … read more
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11. 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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12. A Pocket Guide to Writing in History
By: None
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Its concise yet comprehensive coverage of every step of the research and writing process--with deta… read more
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13. The History Manifesto
By: David Armitage , None
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
How should historians speak truth to power - and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years bett… read more
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14. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
By: Alfred W. Crosby
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the wo… read more
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15. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
By: Edward E. Baptist
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but… read more
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16. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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17. The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
By: Karl Jacoby
3.78
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award "An American 'Odyssey… read more
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18. 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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19. Writing History in the Global Era
By: Lynn Hunt
3.46
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
George Orwell wrote that “history is written by the winners.” Even if that seems a bit too cut-and… read more
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- social science
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- grad school
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- essays
20. Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
By: Catherine McNeur
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
With pigs roaming the streets and cows foraging in the Battery, antebellum Manhattan would have bee… read more
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21. A Concise History of History: Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge Concise Histories)
By: Daniel Woolf
3.53
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
This short history of history is an ideal introduction for those studying or teaching the subject a… read more
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