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After the Fact: American Historians and Their Methodsby James West Davidson, Mark H. LytleISBN 0394321294 (0-394-32129-4)
Hardcover, Knopf
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After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detectionby James West Davidson, Mark H. LytleISBN 0072294264 (0-07-229426-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Education
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the Fact : The Art of Historical Detection'Book summary:For more than twenty years, "After the Fact" has been a popular and best-selling approach to guiding students through American History and the methods used to generate it. In fifteen dramatic episodes that move chronologically through American history, this book examines such topics as oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels. [via]
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- After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection: ISBN 0072294272 (0-07-229427-2)
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Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection: ISBN 0070156093 (0-07-015609-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection: ISBN 0070156115 (0-07-015611-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection: ISBN 0072818522 (0-07-281852-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill - After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection: ISBN 0394329651 (0-394-32965-1)
Hardcover, Knopf - After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection: ISBN 0394523229 (0-394-52322-9)
Hardcover, Knopf - After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection: ISBN 0394552873 (0-394-55287-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - After the Fact : The Art of Historical Detection: ISBN 0072294264 (0-07-229426-4)
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After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detectionby Mark H. Lytle, James West DavidsonISBN 0394354753 (0-394-35475-3)
Softcover, Knopf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection'Book summary:This text uses 15 dramatic episodes in American history to show students how historians go about the business of interpreting the past. It discusses historical methods within the context of an historical narrative so that students may learn about American history at the same time as seeing how historians use a variety of evidence (diaries, letters, photographs and records) and methods to explain the past. This edition contains a new chapter on the Vietnam experience that examines how Hollywood incorporated the horror of My Lai into their mythic formulations and how dramatic films can be used as historical evidence. Some chapters have been substantially revised or rewritten to take into account recently published material - "The Invisible Pioneers" (chapter 5), "Sacco and Vanzetti" (chapter 10), "The Decision to Drop the Bomb" (chapter 12). [via]
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After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detectionby Mark Hamilton Lytle, James West DavidsonISBN 0070156107 (0-07-015610-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection'Book summary:Volume 1 of a 2-volume work that uses 15 dramatic episodes in American history to show students how historians go about the business of interpreting the past. It discusses historical methods within the context of an historical narrative so that students may learn about American history at the same time as seeing how historians use a variety of evidence (diaries, letters, photographs and records) and methods to explain the past. [via]
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The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiographyby Arnaldo MomiglianoISBN 0520078705 (0-520-07870-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Gender and the Politics of Historyby Joan Wallach ScottISBN 0231118570 (0-231-11857-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practiceby Bonnie G. SmithISBN 0674002040 (0-674-00204-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice'Book summary:In this pathbreaking study of the gendering of the practices of history, Bonnie Smith resurrects the amateur history written by women in the nineteenth century--a type of history condemned as trivial by "scientific" male historians. She demonstrates the degree to which the profession defined itself in opposition to amateurism, femininity, and alternative ways of writing history. The male historians of the archive and the seminar claimed to be searching for "genderless universal truth," which in reality prioritized men's history over women's, white history over nonwhite, and the political history of Western governments over any other. Meanwhile, women amateurs wrote vivid histories of queens and accomplished women, of manners and mores, and of everyday life.
Following the profession up to 1940, The Gender of History traces the emergence of a renewed interest in social and cultural history which had been demeaned in the nineteenth century, when professional historians viewed themselves as supermen who could see through the surface of events to invisible meanings and motives. But Smith doesn't let late twentieth-century historians off the hook. She demonstrates how, even today, the practice of history is propelled by fantasies of power in which researchers imagine themselves as heroic rescuers of the inarticulate lower classes. The professionals' legacy is still with us, as Smith's extraordinary work proves.
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Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophyby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelISBN 1573924806 (1-57392-480-6)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy'Book summary:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was not only a great philosopher but a great historian of philosophy. He invented the idea of the philosophical tradition as a discussion among philosophers extending over centuries centering on a few main philosophical problems. The conceptual scheme, widely accepted in histories of philosophy, emerged in Hegel's lectures at the same time as German idealism itself. This new abridgment of a well-known edition makes the main insights of Hegel's famous Lectures on the History of Philosophy widely available in an inexpensive edition.
In this student-oriented text, Professor Tom Rockmore selects the most significant material in a one-volume abridgment. A short introduction explains the purpose and principles of the selections and assesses the continued importance of the work. This is followed by selections that include parts of the introduction to the discussion of Greek philosophy, as well as the sections on Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; the introduction to modern philosophy; and then the sections on Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and the "Final Result." [via]More editions of Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy:
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Historian's Craftby Marc BlochISBN 0394705122 (0-394-70512-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Historian's Craft'Book summary:This work, by the co-founder of the "Annales School" deals with the uses and methods of history. It is useful for students of history, teachers of historiography and all those interested in the writings of the Annales school. [via]
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Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thoughtby David Hackett FischerISBN 0061315451 (0-06-131545-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Historiesby Herodotus, George RawlinsonISBN 1853264660 (1-85326-466-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Histories'Book summary:Since the release of the film version of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, there has been renewed interest in the Histories of Herodotus--the book the dying patient treasures so much.
The writings of Herodotus are the ground zero of Western history. He lived during the fifth century B.C.E, and his Histories chronicle the events of the Persian Wars, which were within living memory when he wrote. He was the first writer to examine real, rather than mythical history, and although his work lacks the rigor of later histories, it has a breathtaking scope. Herodotus is a wonderful storyteller, and in recalling the wars with Persian invaders, he ranges across the ancient world, mixing politics with natural history and anthropology. These are traveler's tales, and a great deal of their appeal to a modern audience lies in the way Herodotus describes the cultures that influence his story. The societies of Scythians, Arabs, and Egyptians are depicted in detail, from their political structures to their dining habits. Herodotus created a sense of history for his people, and he gives us a picture of a distant past that reminds us of the vast continuum of civilization. [via]
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, & Modernby Ernst BreisachISBN 0226072789 (0-226-07278-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challengeby Georg G. IggersISBN 0819567663 (0-8195-6766-3)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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History: A Very Short Introductionby John H. ArnoldISBN 019285352X (0-19-285352-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History: A Very Short Introduction'Book summary:There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's addition to Oxford's popular Very Short Introductions series is a stimulating essay about how people study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and then explores the ways in which these questions have been answered in the past. Such key concepts as causation, interpretation, and periodization are introduced by way of concrete examples of how historians work, thus giving the reader a sense of the excitement implicit in discovering the past--and ourselves.
The aim throughout History: A Very Short Introduction is to discuss theories of history in a general, pithy, and accessible manner, rather than delve into specific periods. This is a book that will appeal to all students and general readers with an interest in history or historiography.
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Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume in this series provides trenchant and provocative--yet always balanced and complete--discussions of the central issues in a given discipline or field. Every Very Short Introduction gives a readable evolution of the subject in question, demonstrating how the subject has developed and how it has influenced society. Eventually, the series will encompass every major academic discipline, offering all students an accessible and abundant reference library. Whatever the area of study that one deems important or appealing, whatever the topic that fascinates the general reader, the Very Short Introductions series has a handy and affordable guide that will likely prove indispensable. [via]More editions of History: A Very Short Introduction:
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History And Historians: A Historical Introductionby Mark GilderhusISBN 0132286785 (0-13-228678-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History And Historians: A Historical Introduction'Book summary:For undergraduate and graduate courses in Historiography and Historical Method. Also an ideal supplemental text for Western Civilization and Intellectual History courses. This text is a concise, brief, and accessible introductory text presenting a thorough, balanced, and comprehensive overview of Western historical thinking from ancient times through the present. Reaching to readers of all levels, it covers major areas such as historiography, philosophy of history, and historical methodology, as well as material on contemporary "culture wars" and current debates on post modernism. [via]
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History and Historians: A Historiographical Introductionby Mark GilderhusISBN 0130115827 (0-13-011582-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction'Book summary:For undergraduate courses in Philosophy of History and Historiography. Ideal supplemental text for American History or Western Civilization or similar survey courses. As a survey of historical thinking in the West from ancient times to the present, this accessible text focuses on historiography, philosophy of history, and historical methodology, introducing the main issues to beginning students with thorough and balanced discussions. [via]
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- History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction: ISBN 0130448249 (0-13-044824-9)
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Softcover, Prentice Hall - History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction: ISBN 0133900975 (0-13-390097-5)
Softcover, Prentice-Hall - History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction: ISBN 013393232X (0-13-393232-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction: ISBN 0130115827 (0-13-011582-7)
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The Idea of Historyby Jan Van Der Dussen, R.G. Collingwood, W. J. Van Der DussenISBN 0198239572 (0-19-823957-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Idea of Historyby R.G. Collingwood, W. J. Van Der Dussen, Jan Van Der DussenISBN 0192853066 (0-19-285306-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Idea of History'Book summary:The Idea of History is the best-known work of the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. Collingwood. It was originally published posthumously in 1946, having been mainly reconstructed from Collingwood's manuscripts, many of which are now lost. This important work examines how the idea of history has evolved from the time of Herodotus to the twentieth century, and offers Collingwood's own view of what history is. For this revised edition, Collingwood's most important lectures on the philosophy of history are published here for the first time. These texts have been prepared by Jan van der Dussen from manuscripts that have only recently become available. The lectures contain Collingwood's first comprehensive statement of his philosophy of history; they are therefore essential for a full understanding of his thought, and in particular for a correct interpretation of The Idea of History itself. Van der Dussen contributes a substantial introduction in which he explains the background to this new edition and surveys the scholarship of the last fifty years. [via]
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In Defense of Historyby Richard J. EvansISBN 0393319598 (0-393-31959-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Defense of History'Book summary:In the 19th and 20th centuries, historiographers established scientific methods and standards for the historical profession. History's claims to objective knowledge have recently been critiqued by post-foundationalists who argue that facts cannot exist outside of the "prison house" of language. Richard Evans's In Defense of History not only defends historians from these fashionable barbs, but shows how the discipline is adapting to this assault on its empiricist base.
Like most historians, Evans confronts accusations that history is either dead or mere ideology designed to prop up bourgeois institutions by answering that the past "really happened, and we really can, if we are very scrupulous and careful and self-critical ... reach some tenable conclusions about what it all meant." Evans defends time-honored methods for proving the validity of facts, upholding faith in the notion that causality can be reasonably deduced from the proper chronological arrangement of events. Verification and causation, he points out, do not simply mean that change is initiated by singular people or monolithic institutions, and he rebukes those who portray recent writing in social history in such medievalist terms. Unlike conservative diatribists against postmodernism, Evans believes that the "linguistic turn" can help break historians from the narrowness of theoretical orthodoxy. While critical of postmodern excesses, he supports conjoining various methods of intellectual inquiry so as to deepen the relevance of history in an overly skeptical age. "Why should we not too," he asks, "raid the various genres of historical writing which have been developed over the past couple of centuries to enrich our own historical practice today?" --John Anderson [via]
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Introduction to the Philosophy of Historyby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, T.M. KnoxISBN 0198249918 (0-19-824991-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to the Lectures on the History of Philosophy'Book summary:"An elegant and intelligent translation. The text provides a perfect solution to the problem of how to introduce students to Hegel in a survey course in the history of Western philosophy." -- Graham Parkes, University of Hawaii [via]
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- Introduction to the Philosophy of History: ISBN 0872200566 (0-87220-056-6)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc - Introduction to the Philosophy of History: With Selections from the Philosophy of Right: ISBN 0872200574 (0-87220-057-4)
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Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Centuryby Norman F. CantorISBN 0688123023 (0-688-12302-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century
In this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages-with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies-was born in the twentieth century. The medieval world was not simply excavated through systematic research. It had to be conceptually created: It had to be invented, and this is the story of that invention.
Norman Cantor focuses on the lives and works of twenty of the great medievalists of this century, demonstrating how the events of their lives, and their spiritual and emotional outlooks, influenced their interpretations of the Middle Ages. Cantor makes their scholarship an intensely personal and passionate exercise, full of color and controversy, displaying the strong personalities and creative minds that brought new insights about the past.
A revolution in academic method, this book is a breakthrough to a new way of teaching the humanities and historiography, to be enjoyed by student and general public alike. It takes an immense body of learning and transmits it so that readers come away fully informed of the essentials of the subject, perceiving the interconnection of medieval civilization with the culture of the twentieth century and having had a good time while doing it! This is a riveting, entertaining, humorous, and learned read, compulsory for anyone concerned about the past and future of Western civilization.
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The Killing of History: How a Discipline Is Being Murdered by Literary Criticismby Keith WindschuttleISBN 0646206389 (0-646-20638-9)
Hardcover, Access Pub Network
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The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Pastby Keith WindschuttleISBN 1893554120 (1-893554-12-0)
Softcover, Encounter Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past'Book summary:Australian scholar Keith Windschuttle is one of the fieriest participants in the debate about the practice of history. In The Killing of History he decries the growth of so-called cultural studies in place of the old-fashioned facts-and-chronologies approach. Windschuttle's passion sometimes carries him a bit too far, but he lands many solid punches, such as when he takes on the heavily published French scholar Michel de Certeau, who has called writing a tool of the power elite. "For someone who thinks writing is a form of oppression," Windschuttle twits, "he has done a lot of writing." Elsewhere Windschuttle attacks efforts to explain away such matters as human sacrifice among the Aztecs, saying that to accept such behavior is akin to "accepting the cultures of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia as equal but different." [via]
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The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Pastby John Lewis GaddisISBN 0195171578 (0-19-517157-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past'Book summary:What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today.
Gaddis points out that while the historical method is more sophisticated than most historians realize, it doesn't require unintelligible prose to explain. Like cartographers mapping landscapes, historians represent what they can never replicate. In doing so, they combine the techniques of artists, geologists, paleontologists, and evolutionary biologists. Their approaches parallel, in intriguing ways, the new sciences of chaos, complexity, and criticality. They don't much resemble what happens in the social sciences, where the pursuit of independent variables functioning with static systems seems increasingly divorced from the world as we know it. So who's really being scientific and who isn't? This question too is one Gaddis explores, in ways that are certain to spark interdisciplinary controversy.
Written in the tradition of Marc Bloch and E.H. Carr, The Landscape of History is at once an engaging introduction to the historical method for beginners, a powerful reaffirmation of it for practitioners, a startling challenge to social scientists, and an effective skewering of post-modernist claims that we can't know anything at all about the past. It will be essential reading for anyone who reads, writes, teaches, or cares about history. [via]More editions of The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past:
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Lectures on the Philosophy of World Historyby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, H.B. Nisbet, Duncan ForbesISBN 0521205662 (0-521-20566-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lectures on the Philosophy of World History'Book summary:An English translation of Hegel's introduction to his lectures on the philosophy of history, based directly on the standard German edition by Johannes Hoffmeister, first published in 1955. The previous English translation, by J. Sibree, first appeared in 1857 and was based on the defective German edition of Karl Hegel, to which Hoffmeister's edition added a large amount of new material previously unknown to English readers, derived from earlier editors. In the introduction to his lectures, Hegel lays down the principles and aims which underlie his philosophy of history, and provides an outline of the philosophy of history itself. The comprehensive and voluminous survey of world history which followed the introduction in the original lectures is of less interest to students of Hegel's thought than the introduction, and is therefore not included in this volume. [via]
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Lies My Teacher Told Meby James W. LoewenISBN 0613706471 (0-613-70647-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies My Teacher Told Me'Book summary:The national bestseller and winner of the American Book Award, thoroughly updated for the first time since its initial publication to include textbooks written since 2000 and featuring a new chapter on what textbooks get wrong about 9/11 and Iraq.
Since its initial publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell one million copies in its various editions.
What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education" beginning with the pre-Columbian period and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the My Lai massacre.
In this revised and updated edition, James Loewen surveys six new high school history textbooks written since the first edition of Lies was published. In his inimitable style, he adds material to each chapter noting where the new books have gotten more accurate and where they are still fatally flawed. Loewen also writes at length about the way these textbooks treat the 2001 terrorist attacks and our "response" in Iraq. In fact, while researching this new edition Loewen made the front page of the New York Times in 2006 when he discovered that publishers were passing off as original virtually identical passages on important recent events in a number of history books. And in yet another example of the failure of American history textbooks, he found that "celebrity" historians whose names appear as authors in some cases have never read, let alone written, the texts attributed to them. [via]More editions of Lies My Teacher Told Me:
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrongby James W. LoewenISBN 156584100X (1-56584-100-X)
Hardcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong'Book summary:Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship
Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. In ten powerful chapters, Loewen reveals that:
- The United States dropped three times as many tons of explosives in Vietman as it dropped in all theaters of World War II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture Native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola, not to find the mythical fountain of youth
- Woodrow Wilson, known as a progressive leader, was in fact a white supremacist who personally vetoed a clause on racial equality in the Covenant of the League of Nations
- The first colony to legalize slavery was not Virginia but Massachusetts
From the truth about Columbus's historic voyages to an honest evaluation of our national leaders, Loewen revives our history, restoring to it the vitality and relevance it truly possesses. [via]
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Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europeby Hayden V. WhiteISBN 0801817617 (0-8018-1761-7)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Metahistory:the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europeby Hayden V. WhiteISBN 0801814693 (0-8018-1469-3)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Orientalismby Edward W. SaidISBN 039474067X (0-394-74067-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orientalism'Book summary:For generations now, Edward W. Said's "Orientalism" has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this "Penguin Modern Classics" edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before his death in 2003. In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. He traces this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to the West's romantic and exotic picture of the Orient. Drawing on his own experiences as an Arab Palestinian living in the West, Said examines how these ideas can be a reflection of European imperialism and racism. Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian-American cultural critic and author, born in Jerusalem and educated in Egypt and the United States. His other books include "The Question of Palestine", "Culture and Imperialism" and "Out of Place: A Memoir". If you enjoyed "Orientalism", you might like Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth", also available in "Penguin Modern Classics". "Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious". ("Observer"). "Beautifully patterned and passionately argued". ("New Statesman"). "Very exciting ...his case is not merely persuasive, but conclusive". (John Leonard, "New York Times"). "Magisterial". (Terry Eagleton). [via]
The Past Is a Foreign Countryby David LowenthalISBN 0521294800 (0-521-29480-0)
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Philosophy of Historyby George HegelISBN 1594624224 (1-59462-422-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophy of History'Book summary:Hegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the "philosophy of history." With this work, he created the history of philosophy as a scientific study. He reveals philosophical theory as neither an accident nor an artificial construct, but as an exemplar of its age.[via]More editions of Philosophy of History:
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The Philosophy of Historyby G.W.F. Hegel, J. SibreeISBN 0879756314 (0-87975-631-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Philosophy of History'Book summary:Within the body of his work, Hegel's philosophy of history stands as a fascinating example of this influential German thinker's efforts to capture the multidimensional character of a broad theoretical framework. Hegel describes history as the evolution of freedom--as societies and cultures grow in awareness of, and appreciation for, the interaction of individuals with the rational goals and purposes of the greater whole. [via]
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Poppyby Moira Butterfield, Frances ThatcherISBN 0439208548 (0-439-20854-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poppy'Book summary:Poppy is a Teddy Fairy who lives on a red flower. She meets a beetle who feels he isn¹t special at all. But after playing a game with Poppy9who shows him his special talents for flying, climbing, and hopping9he can¹t help but feel proud. With Poppy¹s help, Beetle has learned to believe in himself! [via]
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Practicing History: Selected Essaysby Barbara W. TuchmanISBN 0345303636 (0-345-30363-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Practicing History: Selected Essays'Book summary:From thoughtful pieces on the historian's role to striking insights into America's past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent "practicing history." [via]
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The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern Historyby John Tosh, Sean LangISBN 1405823518 (1-4058-2351-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods, And New Directions in the Study of Modern History'Book summary:This famous study examines important questions about historians and their work - Why do we study history? How do we construct our knowledge of the past? What are the limitations of historical evidence? and What different kinds of history are being written today? The subjects covered in the book are difficult and sometimes controversial and John Tosh has proved himself an admirable guide in this justly-celebrated work. His cool eye and lively pen make the issues clear and involving; and he makes the reader vividly aware of just how far our historical knowledge is conditioned by the character of the sources and by the methods of the historians who work on them. [via]
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Reason in History: A General Introduction to the Philosophy of Historyby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelISBN 0023513209 (0-02-351320-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reason in History: A General Introduction to the Philosophy of History'Book summary:Library of Liberal Arts title. [via]
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Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of Historyby Michel-Rolph TrouillotISBN 0807043117 (0-8070-4311-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History'Book summary:Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history. [via]
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Telling the Truth About Historyby Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob, Lynn HuntISBN 0393312860 (0-393-31286-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Telling the Truth About History'Book summary:This book, by three major American historians, grapples with the problem of historical truth. Seeking the roots of contemporary historical study in the Enlightenment, the authors argue that a model of historical research, based on neutrality and objectivity, served historians well until World War II. Then postmodernism suggested history could not tell us the truth about the past, and the rise of social history produced a huge flood of statistics, which swamped the search for historical truth. Accepting that much of history teaching has been flawed, the authors nevertheless argue for an affirmation of historical knowledge against the doubts of the sceptics and the relativists, and guide us through the shoals of political correctness and multiculturalism. [via]
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That Noble Dream: The Objectivity Question and the American Historical Professionby Peter NovickISBN 0521357454 (0-521-35745-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'That Noble Dream: The Objectivity Question and the American Historical Profession'Book summary:The aspiration to relate the past "as it really happened" has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity was elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the past century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writing of hundreds of American historians, this book is a richly textured account of what American historians have thought they were doing, or ought to be doing, when they wrote history--how their principles influenced their practice and practical exigencies influenced their principles. Published with the support of the Exxon Education Foundation. [via]
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Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticismby Hayden V. WhiteISBN 0801827418 (0-8018-2741-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism'Book summary:"Tropics of Discourse" develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work, which also offers original interpretations of a number of literary themes, including the Wild Man and the Noble Savage. White's commentary ranges from a reappraisal of Enlightenment history to a reflective summary of the current state of literary criticism. [via]
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The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Presentby Fritz Richard SternISBN 039471962X (0-394-71962-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present'Book summary:"I cannot imagine a more engaging and instructive introduction to the fascinations of historical writing than Fritz Stern's classic The Varieties of History." Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. City University of New York
"This book contains not only an excellent selection of passages which characterize the ideas and the work of leading historians from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, but the book in its entirety provides a stimulating survey of the entire development of modern historiography." Felix Gilbert, The Institute for Advanced Study
"It is by all odds the best kind of introduction to the study and, what is more, to the enjoyment, of history." Crane Brinton [via]More editions of The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present:
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What Is History?by Edward Hallett CarrISBN 039470391X (0-394-70391-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Is History?'Book summary:The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge January - March 1961. New York Times Book Review: "... a work of rare distinction which nobody can afford to miss." [via]
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Whig Interpretation of Historyby H. ButterfieldISBN 0393003183 (0-393-00318-3)
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Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing Worldby Eric FonerISBN 0809097052 (0-8090-9705-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World'Book summary:A thought-provoking new book from one of America's finest historians[via]
"History," wrote James Baldwin, "does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do."
Rarely has Baldwin's insight been more forcefully confirmed than during the past few decades. History has become a matter of public controversy, as Americans clash over such things as museum presentations, the flying of the Confederate flag, or reparations for slavery. So whose history is being written? Who owns it?
In Who Owns History?, Eric Foner proposes his answer to these and other questions about the historian's relationship to the world of the past and future. He reconsiders his own earlier ideas and those of the pathbreaking Richard Hofstadter. He also examines international changes during the past two decades--globalization, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of apartheid in South Africa--and their effects on historical consciousness. He concludes with considerations of the enduring, but often misunderstood, legacies of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This is a provocative, even controversial, study of the reasons we care about history--or should.More editions of Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World:
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The Writing of Historyby Michel De Certeau, Tom ConleyISBN 0231055757 (0-231-05575-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Writing of History'Book summary:A leading intellectual member of France's Freudian school, Michel de Certeau combined principles from the disciplines of religion, history, and psychoanalysis in order to redefine historiography and rethink the categories of history. In The Writing of History, de Certeau examines the West's changing conceptions of the very role and nature of history itself, from the seventeenth-century attempts to formulate a "history of man" to Freud's Moses and Monotheism with which de Certeau interprets historical practice as a function of mankind's feelings of loss, mourning, and absence. Exhaustively researched and stunningly innovative, The Writing of History is a crucial introduction to de Certeau's work and is destined to become a classic of modern thought. (Voice Literary Supplement ) [via]
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Historiasby Not AvailableISBN 8446002833 (84-460-0283-3)
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Los Nueve Libros De La Historiaby HerodotusISBN 8426421997 (84-264-2199-7)
Hardcover, Lumen
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Lectures on the Philosophy of World Historyby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Duncan Forbes, Hugh Barr NisbetISBN 0521281458 (0-521-28145-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lectures on the Philosophy of World History'Book summary:An English translation of Hegel's introduction to his lectures on the philosophy of history, based directly on the standard German edition by Johannes Hoffmeister, first published in 1955. The previous English translation, by J. Sibree, first appeared in 1857 and was based on the defective German edition of Karl Hegel, to which Hoffmeister's edition added a large amount of new material previously unknown to English readers, derived from earlier editors. In the introduction to his lectures, Hegel lays down the principles and aims which underlie his philosophy of history, and provides an outline of the philosophy of history itself. The comprehensive and voluminous survey of world history which followed the introduction in the original lectures is of less interest to students of Hegel's thought than the introduction, and is therefore not included in this volume. [via]
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