13 Best history books like History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography (2nd Edition) by Norman J. Wilson

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History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography (2nd Edition)

By: Norman J. Wilson

3.63

Format: None pages, Paperback

This book explores the possibilities remaining for historical study in the face of the current tren…

If you liked the history plot in History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography (2nd Edition) by Norman J. Wilson , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography

By: Martin W. Lewis , None , Kären Wigen

3.87

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reex… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History

By: David Christian

3.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the begi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, JR., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

By: David J. Garrow

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Based on more than 700 recorded conversations, including interviews w… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. 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
  • nonfiction
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5. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

By: David M. Kennedy

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depressi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction

7. Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long

By: Richard D. White Jr.

3.80

Format: None pages,

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8. The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition

By: Linda Gordon

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the … read more

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9. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy

By: Kenneth Pomeranz

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustain… read more

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10. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State

By: Lisa McGirr

4.50

Format: 144 pages,

Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamor… read more

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11. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights: 1919-1950

By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

4.67

Format: 107 pages, Hardcover

The civil rights movement that loomed over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal… read more

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12. Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History (Multicultural Education Series)

By: James W. Loewen

3.62

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this follow-up to his landmark bestseller, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American His… read more

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13. Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1

By: Kamome Shirahama

4.42

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A TOUCH OF MAGIC In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for grant… read more

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14. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800

By: John K. Thornton

3.85

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Focusing especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Modern Historiography Reader (Routledge Readers in History)

By: Adam Budd

3.67

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

In The Modern Historiography Reader , Adam Budd guides readers through European and North American … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation

By: E.D. Hirsch Jr.

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“Profound, vital and correct. Hirsch highlights the essence of our American being and the radical c… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen

By: Christopher Capozzola

3.91

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Ame… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State

By: Mary Poole

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The relationship between welfare and racial inequality has long been understood as a fight between … read more

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19. A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights

By: Elizabeth Borgwardt

3.30

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000

By: Adam Fairclough

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From the end of postwar Reconstruction in the South to an analysis of the rise and fall of Black Po… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography (2nd Edition)

By: Norman J. Wilson

3.63

Format: None pages, Paperback

This book explores the possibilities remaining for historical study in the face of the current tren… read more

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13 best-selling nonfiction books like History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography (2nd Edition) by Norman J. Wilson

Transform Your Habits

The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography

Martin W. Lewis , None , Kären Wigen

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History

David Christian

3.11

Transform Your Habits

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, JR., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

David J. Garrow

3.33

Transform Your Habits

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

John Lewis Gaddis

3.63

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20 best-selling history books like Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 by John K. Thornton

Transform Your Habits

Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World

Marcy Norton

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

Brett Rushforth

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography

Martin W. Lewis , None , Kären Wigen

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness

Paul Gilroy

4.03

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