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  • Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust

    A new history in the words of the men and women who survived

    by Lyn Smith ...
    Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours.The great majority of Holocaust survivors suffered considerable physical and psychological wounds, yet even in this dark time of human history, tales of faith, love and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Reappraisals

    Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

    by Tony Judt ...
    **“Exhilarating . . . brave and forthright.” —The New York Times Book Review“Perhaps the greatest single collection of thinking on the political, diplomatic, social, and cultural history of the past century.” —Forbes**We have entered an age of forgetting. Our world, we insist, is unprecedented, wholly new. The past has nothing to teach us. Drawing provocative connections between a dazzling range ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • Lies Across America

    What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

    Sales Track: Perennially bestselling author James Loewen, whose Lies My Teacher Told Me has sold nearly two million copies; Lies Across America has sold over 20,000 copies to date in paperback New relevance as the nation struggles over the memorials of the Civil War in places like Charlottesville, in its ongoing reckoning with white supremacy, this book is more important than ever, and has already ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

    Carlo Ginzburg considers how we assign historical context to events.More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century Italian painting, Freud’s wolf-man, and other topics. In the influential ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • White Freedom

    The Racial History of an Idea

    by Tyler Stovall ...
    The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedomThe era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922–2001

    The seminal history of Ireland’s most unusual century, thoroughly updated for the new millennium.With its starting point the bloody creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History explores how Irish identity has shifted across eighty years of unprecedented change and violence. What was the legacy of De Valera and Sinn Fein – or of remaining neutral during the ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • The Philosophy of Historiography

    by John Lange ...
    A philosophical examination of the study of history, from its logic and semantics to its metaphysical and epistemological implications.This book is intended for the highly intelligent reader, who is interested in considering the difficulties, problems, and challenges of understanding and writing about the human past. It is popularly enough written, hopefully, to be a joy to read, and scholarly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black History Handbook

    This Precise Guide Will Let You Learn The Black History Facts, Black Power Movement, Accurate Harriet Tubman Facts, Thurgood Marshall Information, The Harlem Renaissance History And A Whole Lot More!

    From 1955 to 1965 there was a war right in the middle of America.  No, it wasn’t a war like World War II or the Revolutionary War.  It was a war for the heart and soul of this country to determine once and for all if America was really going to be a land of equal opportunity for all.   It is a war that eventually took on the name of “The Civil Rights Movement.” We must make no mistake, this was ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Christina Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric

    The groundbreaking biography of one of the most progressive, influential and entertaining women of the seventeenth century, Christina Alexandra, Queen of Sweden.In 1654, to the astonishment and dismay of her court, Christina Alexandra announced her abdication in favour of her cousin, Charles. Instrumental in bringing the Thirty Years War to a close at the age of 22, Christina had become one of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 翦商:殷周之变与华夏新生

    by 李硕 ...
    内容简介从这本书开启中国史的阅读!"李硕中国史"开篇之作本书主要讲述华夏文明的萌生与转型。从距今四千年前夏朝(二里头文化)的出现,到三千年前商朝的灭亡、西周建立,时间跨度一千余年。从新石器时代以来,华北地区形成了杀人献祭的原始宗教。第一王朝夏朝(二里头)也沿袭了这种人祭文化,并在随后的商朝登峰造极。周族僻处西部,本没有人祭传统,但他们曾投靠商朝,为商朝捕猎用于献祭的羌人。周文王因受到商纣王怀疑,被作为人牲拘禁在殷都,最后,文王的长子伯邑考被纣王献祭。文王学习了商人的易卦占算技术,发展出《易经》的卦、爻辞体系--记录周文王亲历和认知的诸多事件,最终目的是推算"翦商"的战略。武王灭商后,曾模仿商人的人祭行为;武王死后,由周公辅政,彻底禁绝了人祭宗教,销毁了有关商代人祭的文献记录,并制造出一套没有人祭的理想化历史叙事,以及基于"德"的世俗政治与道德体系。周公的这些举措,开创了新的华夏文明 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • History as Wonder

    Beginning with Historiography

    History and Wonder is a refreshing new take on the idea of history that tracks the entanglement of history and philosophy over time through the key idea of wonder.From Ancient Greek histories and wonder works, to Islamic curiosities and Chinese strange histories, through to European historical cabinets of curiosity and on to histories that grapple with the horrors of the Holocaust, Marnie Hughes ... Read more

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  • History Wars

    The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past

    From the "taming of the West" to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics.What kind of history Americans should read, see, or fund is no longer merely a matter of professional interest to teachers, historians, and museum curators. Everywhere now, history is increasingly being held hostage, but to what end ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Devil’s Historians

    How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past

    Amy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant examine the many ways in which the medieval past has been manipulated to promote discrimination, oppression, and murder. Tracing the fetish for “medieval times” behind toxic ideologies like nationalism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, misogyny, and white supremacy, Kaufman and Sturtevant show us how the Middle Ages have been twisted for political purposes in every ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Who Will Write Our History?

    Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto

    In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundereds of thousands as they suffered starvation, disease, and deportation by the Nazis ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Socialist Heritage

    The Politics of Past and Place in Romania

    This prize-winning study of post-WWII Romania examines the fraught relationship between national heritage and Socialist statecraft.In Socialist Heritage, ethnographer and historian Emanuela Grama explores the socialist state’s attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the ongoing legacy of that project. While many argue that the socialist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe aimed to erase ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On History

    Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation

    These prominent filmmakers, “two of our most provocative and radical voices,” discuss American historical events that have been forgotten—or hidden (Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation).In working together on two challenging documentaries—South of the Border and the Untold History of the United States series for Showtime—filmmaker Oliver Stone engaged with author and filmmaker Tariq Ali in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Going to the Sources

    A Guide to Historical Research and Writing

    It’s been almost 30 years since the first edition of Going to the Sources: A Guide to Historical Research and Writing was first published. Newly revised and updated, the sixth edition of this bestselling guide helps students at all levels meet the challenge of writing their first (or their first "real") research paper.Presenting various schools of thought, this useful tool explores the dynamic, ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Allure of the Archives

    by Arlette Farge ...
    Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C

    $20.99 USD

  • Marcus Aurelius: A Guide for the Perplexed

    Series series Guides for the Perplexed
    This book is a clear and concise introduction to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. His one major surviving work, often titled 'meditations' but literally translated simply as 'to himself', is a series of short, sometimes enigmatic reflections divided seemingly arbitrarily into twelve books and apparently written only to be read by him. For these reasons Marcus is a particularly ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • We Cannot Escape History

    States and Revolutions

    by Neil Davidson ...
    Essays on nationalism, revolution, and other relevant topics from the author of The Origins of Scottish Nationhood.Prize-winning scholar and author Neil Davidson explores classic themes of nation, state, and revolution in this collection of essays.Ranging from the extent to which nationalism can be a component of left-wing politics to the difference between bourgeois and socialist revolutions, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Custer’s Last Stand: Portraits in Time

    Since his death along the bluffs overlooking the Little Bighorn River, in Montana, on June 25, 1876, over five hundred books have been written about the life and career of George Armstrong Custer. The earliest works portrayed Custer as a romantic, knightly figure, a paragon of virtue and chivalry. Custer was the valorous paladin killed in the cause of Christian civilization and American Manifest ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • JFK in Ireland: Four Days that Changed a President

    by Ryan Tubridy ...
    In his first book, award-winning radio and TV presenter Ryan Tubridy tells the fascinating story of the iconic president John F Kennedy's visit to Ireland.The idolized, handsome and glamorous John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the great-grandson of Irish immigrants and the first and only Irish-Catholic American elected as President of the United States. He relished his Irish heritage and in June 1963 ... Read more

    $2.49 USD

  • Promiscuous Knowledge

    Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History

    “[A] lively account of the cultural and intellectual history of how Americans have lived with image and information since the mid-nineteenth century.” —Peter Simonson, author of Refiguring Mass CommunicationSergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to “the mind of God.” As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google’s divine omniscience traffics in ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Historiography

    An Introduction

    Modern Historiography is the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era, from James Boswell and Thomas Carlyle through to Lucien Febure and Eric Hobsbawm and surveys:the Enlightenment and Counter EnlightenmentRomanticismthe voice of Science and the process of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD