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Paperback. An essay about how we study and understand history, this book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history. It explores the ways these questions have been answered in the past. It also introduces the concepts of causation, interpretation, and periodization, through examples of how historians work. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, black and white halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 113 x 10. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192853523
- ISBN
- 9780192853523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.21
€ 14.21
Paperback. John Vincent has often been accused of political incorrectness, but never in his writings about history. In this controversial and thought-provoking study of history, Professor Vincent goes to the very heart of the complex issues raised by the subject. Series: Continuum Compact Series. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214. An excellent, clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
- Number of pages
- 186
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- KRS0019038
- ISBN
- 9780826485427
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. A study of the relationship between past and present, and the relation between histories in different levels of generality. One after another Siegfried Kracauer examines various theories of history and exposes their strengths and weaknesses. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- Markus Wiener Publishing Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558760806
- ISBN
- 9781558760806
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.54
€ 38.54
Paperback. John Vincent has often been accused of political incorrectness, but never in his writings about history. In this controversial and thought-provoking study of history, Professor Vincent goes to the very heart of the complex issues raised by the subject. Series: Continuum Compact Series. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214. An excellent, clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KRS0019039
- ISBN
- 9780826485427
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333583104
- ISBN
- 9780333583104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.08
€ 68.08
Paperback. Presents the attacks on the United States in historical perspective. This volume comments on the dangers of seeing the events of September 11 as splitting the nation's history into "before" and "after." It argues eloquently that no useful understanding of the present is possible without an unobstructed view of the past. Editor(s): Rosenzweig, Roy. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 b&w illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; GTB; HBJK; HBLX; JFSR2; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781592132034
- ISBN
- 9781592132034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.34
€ 30.99
€ 28.34
Part of the "Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project" series, this first volume lays the groundwork for the Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project (JCHP), which was established as a joint research endeavour of the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Editor(s): Peilstocker, Martin; Burke, Aaron A. Series: Monographs. Num Pages: 294 pages, 100 black and white illustrations & colour insert, maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 286 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1134.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781931745819
- ISBN
- 9781931745819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.83
€ 77.83
Hardcover. This book demonstrates how Deleuze's philosophy provides us with a novel and important notion of historical creativity - that is, a way of thinking about history as an ontological force of creativity. Series: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBA; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 19. Weight in Grams: 506. Deleuze's Philosophy of Creativity. Series: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies. 224 pages. This book demonstrates how Deleuze's philosophy provides us with a novel and important notion of historical creativity - that is, a way of thinking about history as an ontological force of creativity. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBA; HPS. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 19. Weight: 506.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748645305
- ISBN
- 9780748645305
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.53€ 118.81
€ 122.53
€ 118.81
Hardcover. This volume investigates the different attitudes of historians and other social scientists to questions of causality. It argues that historical theorists after the linguistic turn have paid surprisingly little attention to causes in spite of the centrality of causation in many contemporary works of history. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372390
- ISBN
- 9781137372390
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.73
€ 67.73
Paperback. This volume investigates the different attitudes of historians and other social scientists to questions of causality. It argues that historical theorists after the linguistic turn have paid surprisingly little attention to causes in spite of the centrality of causation in many contemporary works of history. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 265 x 22. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137539946
- ISBN
- 9781137539946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.20
€ 72.20
Paperback. Translator(s): Livingstone, R. Num Pages: 397 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Publisher
- The Merlin Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 397
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780850361971
- ISBN
- 9780850361971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.43
€ 26.99
€ 23.43
Paperback. A series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality, Rosa Luxemburg as a Marxist, the changing function of Historic Marxism, class consciousness, and the substantiation and consciousness of the Proletariat. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1972
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd
- Edition
- MIT Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262620208
- ISBN
- 9780262620208
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Condition: New
€ 56.02€ 54.52
€ 56.02
€ 54.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254. 152 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HBAH. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 10. Weight: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801493249
- ISBN
- 9780801493249
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.88
€ 35.99
€ 32.88
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582784086
- ISBN
- 9780582784086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.10
€ 59.10
Hardcover. Nathan Coombs demonstrates that the Marxist science of history has been reimagined by a strand of contemporary French theory after Louis Althusser. Taking a comparative approach, Coombs explores the technical details of both traditions' historical sciences. Series: Taking on the Political. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748698998
- ISBN
- 9780748698998
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.53€ 114.65
€ 122.53
€ 114.65
Hardcover. Why do states similar in size, resources and capabilities significantly differ in their basic orientations and actions across major domains in foreign policy, security and defense? This book addresses this important question by analyzing the major differences between the foreign policies of France and Germany over extended periods of time. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DFG; HBJD; JPB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230243989
- ISBN
- 9780230243989
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.16
€ 128.16
paperback. Despite all of humanity's failures, futile efforts and wrong turnings in the past, Adorno did not let himself be persuaded that we are doomed to suffer a bleak future for ever. One of the factors that prevented him from identifying a definitive plan for the future course of history was his feelings of solidarity with the victims and losers. Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Num Pages: 370 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745630137
- ISBN
- 9780745630137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.32
€ 34.32
Hardback. Despite all of humanity's failures, futile efforts and wrong turnings in the past, Adorno did not let himself be persuaded that we are doomed to suffer a bleak future for ever. One of the factors that prevented him from identifying a definitive plan for the future course of history was his feelings of solidarity with the victims and losers. Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Num Pages: 372 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745630120
- ISBN
- 9780745630120
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.69
€ 78.69
Hardcover. Presents a collection of writings by the medieval historian, Sir Richard Southern. This title offers insight into the beliefs and ideas that underpinned Southern's work. It contains a series of reflections on medieval historical writing that Southern produced during his tenure as President of the Royal Historical Society. Editor(s): Bartlett, Richard J. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405123877
- ISBN
- 9781405123877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.38
€ 116.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 234 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801475153
- ISBN
- 9780801475153
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.67
€ 33.99
€ 30.67