History: theory & methods
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History: theory & methods
Hardback. Two-thirds of Africans, both free and enslaved, who came to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Spanish America and Brazil. Yet Afro-Latin Americans have been excluded from narratives of their hemisphere's history. George Reid Andrews redresses this omission by making visible the lives and labors of black Latin Americans in the New World. Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBAH; HBJK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674737594
- ISBN
- 9780674737594
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€ 47.99€ 40.13
€ 47.99
€ 40.13
Paperback. Examines a broad variety of topics including oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels. This book introduces readers to the detective work and analytical approaches historians use when they are actually doing history. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBA; HBJK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Education - Europe United States
- Edition
- 6 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780073385488
- ISBN
- 9780073385488
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Condition: New
€ 171.34
€ 171.34
Paperback. Offers a methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. This title identifies the social epistemologies that guided perception and practice, revealing the problematic racial ontologies of that confused epistemic space. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 halftones. 1 maps. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJM; HBLL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691146362
- ISBN
- 9780691146362
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. The question 'what if?' has always fascinated historians. Richard J. Evans imagines what could have been, and how alternate pasts could have shaped alternate futures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349140179
- ISBN
- 9780349140179
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.81
€ 14.99
€ 11.81
Hardcover. The great historians of our day take you on an exhilarating tour through the crucial moments in American history.. "Easy reading and very informative. "- Civil War News "All the interviews are fascinating. "- Tampa Tribune-Times "Fascinating.. Highly recommended. Num Pages: 256 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBAH; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 539.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc New York
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471327158
- ISBN
- 9780471327158
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 30.45
€ 38.99
€ 30.45
Paperback. A new generation of scholars addresses the current themes and questions in interpreting American history Editor(s): Foner, Eric; McGirr, Lisa; American Historical Association. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBAH; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 596.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439902448
- ISBN
- 9781439902448
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.10
€ 40.99
€ 36.10
Paperback. This work describes how four major American thinkers practiced philosophy non-reductively by incorporating the arts and other human activities. It analyzes Peirce, Dewey, Santayana and Buchler, showing how the importance they placed on the human can cure what is missing from recent philosophy. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBAH; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847683109
- ISBN
- 9780847683109
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Condition: New
€ 60.20
€ 60.20
Hardback. Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBA; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801435263
- ISBN
- 9780801435263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.73
€ 107.73
Paperback. Through the figure of the "heterological historian", this text creates a framework for the understanding of history and the ethical duties of the historian. It also weighs the impact of modern archival methods, such as film and the Internet, which add new constraints to the writing of history. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 304 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: HBA; HPQ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226920450
- ISBN
- 9780226920450
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.29
€ 42.99
€ 33.29
Hardback. This volume aims to encourage thinking about the problems of philosophical interest which history presents, and how they might naturally grow out of historical questions. It looks at a wide range of topics, such as truth, objectivity, explanation, communication and narrative. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631199397
- ISBN
- 9780631199397
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Condition: New
€ 122.05
€ 122.05
Paperback. aeo Includes annotated further reading at the end of each chapter. aeo Explains why and how philosophy, history and the social sciences converge. aeo Incorporates a wide range of philosophical reference from the pre--Socratics to the Postmodernists. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631199410
- ISBN
- 9780631199410
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Condition: New
€ 49.88
€ 49.88
Paperback. As the end of the 20th century approaches, many predict that it will mirror the 19th-century decline into decadence. The author of this text finds a closer analogy with the culture wars of France in the 1690s - a battle of the books known as the "Quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns". Num Pages: 236 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; HBA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226141381
- ISBN
- 9780226141381
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.83
€ 52.99
€ 40.83
Hardback. A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives. Num Pages: 260 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 756.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844020
- ISBN
- 9781843844020
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Condition: New
€ 97.32
€ 97.32
Paperback. Translator(s): Evrigenis, Ioannis D.; Pellerin, Daniel. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 166
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872207158
- ISBN
- 9780872207158
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.45
€ 26.99
€ 20.45
Paperback. Part of a trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature, this book contains eleven essays that covers 1990 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: HBA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520078284
- ISBN
- 9780520078284
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Paperback. Presents Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War that is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the ethnocentric idea that Thucydides' historiography was universally valid, applicable to all societies at all times. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19 halftones, 9 maps, 13 line drawings. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226103822
- ISBN
- 9780226103822
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.94
€ 27.99
€ 22.94
Hardcover. This book studies both what Appian had to say and how he said it; and engages in a dialogue about the value of Appian's text as a source of history, the relationship between that history and his own times, and the impact on his narrative of the author's own opinions. Editor(s): Welch, Kathryn. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBAH; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 860.
- Publisher
- The Classical Press of Wales
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910589007
- ISBN
- 9781910589007
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Condition: New
€ 91.78
€ 91.78
Paperback. A highly provocative and original volume that examines the issues, themes, and difficulties emerging out of the new anthropological concern with history. Num Pages: 428 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; HBAH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231079211
- ISBN
- 9780231079211
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Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 35.96
€ 49.99
€ 35.96
Hardcover. This text presents a coherent framework for the study of memory in past societies. It is a concise book explicitly designed to serve as an introduction to the central issues in the study of memory, authored by noted archaeologists working in a variety of contexts and geographic areas. Editor(s): Dyke, Ruth Van (Colorado College USA); Alcock, Susan E. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20. BIC Classification: HBA; HDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631235842
- ISBN
- 9780631235842
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Condition: New
€ 145.98
€ 145.98
Paperback. * Serves as an accessible introduction to central issues in the study of memory, including authority and identity, and the role memory plays in their creation and transformation. * Presents a collection of newly commissioned essays that provide a coherent framework for the study of memory in past societies. Editor(s): Dyke, Ruth Van (Colorado College USA); Alcock, Susan E. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20. BIC Classification: HBA; HDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 171 x 15. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631235859
- ISBN
- 9780631235859
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Condition: New
€ 55.83
€ 55.83
Paperback. This anthology compares scholarly findings from around the world to comment on the creation, definition, and use of archival evidence in the writing of history Editor(s): Burton, Antoinette. Num Pages: 408 pages, 10 b+w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 3J; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822336884
- ISBN
- 9780822336884
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. Interviews twelve experts on oral history to discuss the medium's status within the social sciences in light of recent technological breakthroughs. This title addresses many of the challenges of oral history, from its inherent subjectivity to whether it should be treated as a discipline or simply a method for research. Editor(s): Vanek, Miroslav. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 145 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788024622262
- ISBN
- 9788024622262
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.29
€ 19.99
€ 17.29
Paperback. Addresses the difficult and complex question of defining the limits of history. This title draws together the key pieces of the author's work, encompassing the ever controversial issue of postmodernism and history, questions on the end of history and radical history into the future. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415472364
- ISBN
- 9780415472364
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Condition: New
€ 58.61
€ 58.61
Paperback. Marks the author's breakthrough in criticism from the literary and aesthetic into social theory and the philosophy of history. This title provides his first entry into what he calls his theory of Dramatism; and, an important section on the nature of ritual. Num Pages: 434 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HBA; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520041486
- ISBN
- 9780520041486
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.28
€ 40.99
€ 29.28