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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
De Historiografia Linguistica e historia de las lenguas	Ignacio Guzman Betancourt	A traves de los ensayos contenidos en este volumen, se persigue mostrar, dentro de una dimension diacronica, algunos rasgos linguisticos de las lenguas vernaculas de Mexico y Brasil, siempre desde la…	OL10220647W
Historical essays	Thomas Carlyle	"Thomas Carlyle, renowned nineteenth-century essayist and social critic, came to be thought of as a secular prophet by many of his readers and as the "undoubted head of English letters" by Ralph Wald…	OL1064513W
Lies My Teacher Told Me	James W. Loewen,Rebecca Stefoff	Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half …	OL106813W
Solomon's temple spiritualiz'd	John Bunyan	The use of Solomon's Temple is described as a foreshadow of salvation through Jesus Christ. John Bunyan used his extensive scripture knowledge to detail seventy Old Testament sacrificial elements and…	OL107171W
State, pluralism, and the Indian historical tradition	Satish Chandra	Collection of seminal essays on evolution of state, role of towns and urbanism in medieval period; includes India's martime tradition.	OL11016807W
A Study of History	Arnold J. Toynbee,D.C Somervell	A masterful attempt to describe a universal history. Staggering depth of scholarship and breath of thought.	OL1108523W
Historical analysis	Richard E. Beringer	Responding to the rapidly increasing use of interdisciplinary approaches to evaluate historical events and ideas, this volume addresses itself to both historical methodology and modern historiography…	OL120374W
Die Generation danach	Margit Reiter	"Der Nationalsozialismus ist in Deutschland und Österreich Teil jeder Familiengeschichte. Die Zeithistorikerin Margit Reiter untersucht nun erstmals, wie der Nationalsozialismus in Österreichischen…	OL12233607W
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
El primer liberalismo español y los procesos de emancipación de América, 1808-1824	Roberto Breña	580 pages ; 22 cm	OL12301801W
Kult poczatkow	Wiktor Werner	Wiktor Werner. Kult początków Historyczne zmagania z czasem, religia i geneza. Szkice z historii historiografii polskiej i obcej 1.1 Założenia wstępne. Związek historiograficznego pojęcia genezy…	OL12688162W
Die Ambivalenz der Moderne im Nationalsozialismus	Riccardo Bavaj	Die Frage nach Modernisierungstendenzen des Nationalsozialismus beschäftigt Öffentlichkeit und Wissenschaft gleichermaßen. Geleitet von der Einsicht in die Ambivalenz der Moderne, gibt Riccardo Bavaj…	OL12759625W
Velikai︠a︡ Khorvatii︠a︡	A. V. Maĭorov	208 p. ; 25 cm.	OL12801067W
Il filo e le tracce	Carlo Ginzburg,Carlo Ginzburg	"Carlo Ginzburg's brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a bold stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skepticism. It looks deeply into questions raised by decades of…	OL13417890W
Türk tarih tezi ve Mu kıtası	Kemal Şenoğlu	Under the influence of James Churchward and his theory on the allegedly lost civilization of Mu, in the 1930s Ataturk sent Tahsin Mayatepek to Mexico as an ambassador, so that he could carry out a co…	OL13599780W
Scotland as we know it	Richard Zumkhawala-Cook	"Popular representations of Scottish national, ethnic, and cultural identity are in abundance not only in Scotland, but also in the United States, Canada, and throughout the Anglophone settler nation…	OL13600275W
Dead last	Phillip G. Payne	Warren Harding, the 29th American president, was generally considered to be a personal and political failure. This book analyzes the ways in which Harding's personal and political reputations have b…	OL13646821W
What is Military History?	Michael F. Pavkovic,Stephen Morillo	Presents a clear, readable introduction to the popular field of military history. Concise chapters explain the fundamental features of the field, including: the history of military history; the key i…	OL13666772W
Life of Josephus	Flavius Josephus	Refocusing our attention from the personal character and psychological motives of Josephus (which we cannot know) to the work itself (which is before us), Steve Mason brings this narrative to life in…	OL137601W
Sacred history and national identity	Jason Nice	"The late sixteenth century saw a redrawing of the borders of north-west Europe. Wales and Brittany entered into unions with neighboring countries England and France. Nice uses Brittany and Wales' re…	OL13806997W