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The uses and abuses of history The uses and abuses of history Margaret Olwen Macmillan History can be a very useful tool in understanding why we and those we must deal with think and react in certain ways. But in the wrong hands it can be dangerous and used to foster a sense of grievan… OL12255208W
Crying in the Middle Ages Crying in the Middle Ages Elina Gertsman "Sacred and profane, public and private, emotive and ritualistic, internal and embodied, medieval weeping served as a culturally charged prism for a host of social, visual, cognitive, and linguistic … OL16168292W
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz,Laural Merlington,Debbie Reese,Jean Mendoza Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once … OL17640485W
These Truths These Truths Jill Lepore "In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian ... Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed rec… OL18201116W
Turning points in historiography Turning points in historiography Georg G. Iggers,Q. Edward Wang Examining turning points in historical thought in a variety of cultures, the essays here deal with reorientations in historical thinking in the pre-modern period since antiquity, mainly in ancient Gr… OL19908210W
African words, African voices African words, African voices Stephan Miescher,Luise White African Words, African Voices considers African history as an art incorporating the experience and testimony of ordinary Africans. It is a provoative volume that evokes the richness and relevance of … OL20545119W
Aboriginal history Aboriginal history Kristin Burnett,Geoff Read "Combining contemporary articles with historical documents, this engaging reader examines the rich history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples. The 30 articles - half of which are original to this volume … OL21448091W
Glamorous sorcery Glamorous sorcery David Rollo "Through the analysis of magic as a metaphor for the mysterious workings of writing, Glamorous Sorcery sheds light on the power attributed to language in shaping perceptions of the world and conferri… OL221190W
Catholicism and history Catholicism and history Owen Chadwick Continual and sometimes heated interest is shown in the control by governments over documents in their possession, and in the time during which access to them is denied - and not only on the part of … OL2697825W
Le vol de l'histoire Le vol de l'histoire Jack Goody La question ? C'est le "vol de l'histoire ", c'est-à-dire la mainmise de l'Occident sur l'histoire du reste du monde. A partir d'événements qui se sont produits à son échelle provinciale, l'Europe a … OL31211505W
Benjamin Shambaugh and the intellectual foundations of public history Benjamin Shambaugh and the intellectual foundations of public history Rebecca Conard "Rebecca Conard draws upon an unpublished, mid-1940s biography by research historian Jacob Swisher to trace the forces that shaped Benjamin Shambaugh's early years, his administration of the State Hi… OL3282585W
Red, white, and blue letter days Red, white, and blue letter days Matthew Dennis "The Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Labor Day, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday, and other celebrations matter to Americans and reflect the state of Ameri… OL4322569W
Ancient history Ancient history Neville Morley Ancient History: Key Thems and Approaches is a sourcebook of writings on ancient history. It presents over 500 of the most important stimulating and provocative arguments by modern writers on the sub… OL449936W
Matai ṿe-ekh humtsa ha-ʻam ha-Yehudi? Matai ṿe-ekh humtsa ha-ʻam ha-Yehudi? Shlomo Sand,José María Amoroto Salido "Quand le peuple juif fut-il créé? Est-ce il y a quatre mille ans, ou bien sous la plume d'historiens juifs du XIXe siècle qui ont reconstitué rétrospectivement un peuple imaginé afin de façonner une… OL5191911W
Writing the pioneer woman Writing the pioneer woman Janet Floyd "Focusing on a series of autobiographical texts published and private, well known and obscure, Writing the Pioneer Woman examines the writing of domestic life on the nineteenth-century North American… OL5955941W
Heroines and history Heroines and history Colin MacMillan Coates "Heroines and History is a co-authored, comparative study of the images of Madeleine de Vercheres and Laura Secord, symbols respectively of French-Canadian and English-Canadian loyalism and nationali… OL6016740W
Una historia de la Guerra Civil que no va a gustar a nadie Una historia de la Guerra Civil que no va a gustar a nadie Juan Eslava Galán ¿Otro libro sobre la Guerra Civil? Pues sí, otro, pero con una diferencia: no marea con datos innecesarios y relata por derecho lo ocurrido en aquellos tres años de locura homicida sin catequizar sob… OL683439W
The holocaust in history The holocaust in history Michael R. Marrus On various aspects of Islam. OL7974784W
The Professionalization of History in English Canada The Professionalization of History in English Canada Donald Wright This book studies the professionalization of history in English Canada from the late nineteenth century to the early 1960s. Among its topics are the masculinization of history (that is, the delibera… OL8487290W
Writing Women's History Writing Women's History Ruth Roach Pierson,Karen Offen,Jane Rendall WRITING WOMEN'S HISTORY offers an unrivalled introduction to different approaches to women's history across the world. Seven theoretical essays address such themes as the relationship between feminis… OL9429080W
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