Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind’s urge to move. ’Fascinatin......more
Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is, by far, the most celebrated military theorist, whose prestige has reached new height......more
One of Seneca’s most well-known works is also a moral essay that brings powerful reflections on death, human nature, and......more
If history were music, then the genre of this book would be punk. For nearly 400 years, it has been widely accepted that......more
An "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship qu......more
The past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense ......more
"History", suggests Robert Gildea, "is a battlefield." Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have a......more
A new picture of China’s rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishm......more
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"Isaac Deutscher’s celebrated biographies of Stalin and Trotsky had always been conceived as a part of a larger project ......more
A historian and a political economist investigate the occult forces that control history. If historians measure the pass......more
Nottingham or Snotta-inga-ham, as it was originally called, has a long and rich history with many stories and fables wri......more
The Idea of History (1946) is a book of philosophy that explores the nature of history and the historian’s interpretatio......more
This scholarly work explores the art of historical essay writing and offers practical guidance for writers and researche......more
This thought-provoking essay examines the ways in which the study of history can be both helped and hindered. A great re......more
Published in 1926, this book by historian Edward Potts Cheyney examines the nature, methods, and purpose of history. Che......more
A pioneering work in the field of historiography, Zaba’s Method of Studying Universal History offers a radical new appro......more
"The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou" is an enthralling account written by Erne......more
"The Rise of Canada: From Barbarism to Wealth and Civilization, Vol-1" is an enlightening historical account written by ......more
This book, newly updated, contains now several html tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first......more
The book contains an intimate History of the Ist World War, which gripped and shook the entire world like never before. ......more
A philosophical history of that strange but prolific hybrid--The Writer as Walker. From the peripatetic philosophers of ......more
This is the first book about how the Pennsylvania anthracite story is told in the postindustrial age, and it places this......more
The decision to go to war is the most momentous action an American president can take. Sending young men and women into ......more
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William Shakespeare made Henry IV, Part 1 during or before 1597. It is the second play in a tetralogy known as ’Shakespe......more
Henry IV, Part 2 (1598) is one of Shakespeare’s authentic plays and the third portion of Shakespeare’s Lancastrian Tetra......more
Henry VI, Part 1 is a solid festival of early English patriotism that stands out the English from the French, depicted h......more
"Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron Chernow In a forcefu......more
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From Banks’s brewery’s yeasty stink to groaty pudding to spicy curry, Sebastian Groes and R. M. Francis have assembled a......more
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Since the 1970s, California-based bioacoustician and musician Bernie Krause (born 1938) has recorded more than 5,000 hou......more
The War on Our History Confederate memorials toppled . . . Columbus statues attacked with red paint. They started with s......more
Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has sold more than 2.5 million copies. It is pushed by Hollywood c......more
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Every great book has a great backstory. Here well-known historians describe their journeys of writing books that have in......more
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A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called "jim-dandy pop history," by the bestselling, American B......more
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A historical account of how we order our lives with a linear conception of time and a theoretical investigation of how w......more
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With dangerous forms of nationalism on the rise, Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, repudiates nat......more
After centuries of colonial domination and a twentieth century riddled with dictatorships, indigenous peoples in Bolivia......more
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Global histories tend to be written from the limited viewpoint of a single author and a single perspective, which result......more
"When listeners to my radio show ask me for one book to read in order to understand the Middle East conflict and Israel’......more
Let s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clich s: We are surrounded by more r......more
We justify our actions in the present through our understanding of the past. But we live in a time when politicians lie ......more
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What is history and how should it be written? An important new anthology containing the seminal texts on the writing of ......more
A deconstruction of the modern history book as artifact, How to Read a History Book explains who writes history books, h......more
In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations speciali......more
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From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for t......more
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Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today s global world and how it should be written. George Or......more
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In this now classic book, internationally famed journalist Ian Buruma examines how Germany and Japan have attempted to c......more
Globalization is emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force. In Writing History in the Global Era, hist......more
When Queen Victoria died, two gentlemen were commissioned with the monumental task of editing her vast correspondence. I......more
Among the first written accounts of the concentration camps--a major literary and historical discovery. While in a Russi......more
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The story of the HMS Hood, the last great warship of the British Royal Navy, told by the bestselling author of Hannibal.......more
Why was Sir Winston Churchill participating in The Boer War? What is Verisimilitude? Who is making a difference in Colum......more
The tenth-anniversary edition of the book that showed "why we must move past historical nonsense so that a truer, more d......more