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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Lessons of History	Will Durant,Ariel Durant	Written by the authors of the 10 volume The Story of Civilization, this short (fewer than 120 pages) work notes "events and comments that might illuminate present affairs, future probabilities, the…	OL1073956W
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
Lonergan and the philosophy of historical existence	Thomas J. McPartland	"Lonergan and the Philosophy of Historical Existence explores the implications of Lonergan's approach to the philosophy of history in a number of distinct but related contexts, covering a variety of …	OL12241792W
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
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
Big history and the future of humanity	Fred Spier	""Big History" places the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and the Universe. In doing so, the emerging field of historical study provides us with an overview of the known past in its…	OL15470372W
Histories and fallacies	Carl R. Trueman	How do we know the stories told by historians are true? To what extent can we rely on their interpretations of the past? Histories and Fallacies is a primer on the conceptual and methodological probl…	OL15488688W
Herbert Butterfield	Kenneth B. McIntyre	"The most original historian of his generation." That is how the celebrated British academic Noel Annan described Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), a profound and prolific writer who made important co…	OL16471191W
Historiography in the twentieth century	Georg G. Iggers	Intellectual historian Georg G. Iggers examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiography. He faces the basic assumptions upon which historical research and writing…	OL1746279W
Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man	Nayef Al-Rodhan	464 p. : 22 cm	OL17547751W
War and Peace and War	Peter Turchin	Like Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Peter Turchin in War and Peace and War uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to make a highly original argument about the rise and fall of empires. …	OL1812348W
Historical Ontology	Ian Hacking	With the unusual clarity, distinctive and engaging style, and penetrating insight that have drawn such a wide range of readers to his work, Ian Hacking here offers his reflections on the philosophica…	OL1888386W
Re-thinking history	Keith Jenkins	History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer nowadays. And yet, at the same time, history has never been mo…	OL1960706W
Twilight of history	Shlomo Sand	"The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history today. Drawing on his four decades as a professional historian, Shlomo Sand interrogates the academic disc…	OL19714630W
Postmodernism for historians	Callum G. Brown	Postmodernism isn't some kind of optional plug-in for your world view. It is a powerful explanation of how ideas work. If you want to explore ideas with an informed perspective on how they function, …	OL2008223W
Fortunes of history	Kelley, Donald R.	"In Fortunes of History Donald R. Kelley offers an authoritative examination of historical writing during the "long nineteenth century" - the years from the French Revolution to those just after the …	OL2640634W
Why history matters	John Tosh	xi, 173 pages ; 20 cm	OL469175W
Continuity, quantum, continuum, and dialectic	Mark E. Blum	Continuity, quantum, continuum, and dialectic are foundational logics of Western historical thought. The historiographical method to discern them is a critique of historical reason. I demonstrate th…	OL5362369W
The Abyss of Freedom	Slavoj Žižek,Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling	In the last decade, F. W. J. von Schelling has emerged as one of the key philosophers of German Idealism, the one who, for the first time, undermined Kant's philosophical revolution and in so doing o…	OL646922W
Total Truth	Nancy R. Pearcey	Does God belong in the public arena of politics, business, law, and education? Or is religion a private matter only-personally comforting but publicly irrelevant? In today's cultural etiquette, it is…	OL8638425W