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Use and Abuse of History
Pieter Geyl
Hardcover - $103.95
Historical knowledge, this noted Dutch historian declares, should be a result of free investigation and criticism. Since it deals with facts, not imagination, it cannot be cast into a predetermined mold to fit a unified pattern of arbitrary principle ...
History and Historians : A Historiographical Introduction
Mark T. Gilderhus
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History and Historians A Historiographical Introduction Sixth Edition Mark T. Gilderhus This concise, best-selling volume presents a thorough and comprehensive overview of Western historical thinking from ancient times until the ...
Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method
Carlo Ginzburg
Paperback - $54.95
"In the diversity of methods and objects of analysis it offers, Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method offers a fresh perspective on this Italian historian who has become such an essential point of reference in many domains of cultural study today." ...
History, Rhetoric, and Proof
Carlo Ginzburg
Paperback - $35.95
Historian Carlo Ginzburg uses the occasion of his Menachem Stern Lectureship to present a provocative and characteristically brilliant examination of the relation between rhetoric and historiography. In four lectures, based on a wide range of texts - ...
Wooden Eyes : Nine Reflections on Distance
Carlo Ginzburg
Hardcover - $89.95
Ginzburg, "the preeminent Italian historian of his generation [who] helped create the genre of microhistory" ("New York Times"), ruminates on how perspective affects what we see and understand. 26 illustrations.
The Narrators of Barbarian History : (A.D. 550-800) Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon
Walter Goffart
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Treats the four writers who provide the principal narrative sources for our early knowledge of the Ostrogoths, Franks, Anglo-Saxons, and Lombards.
The Theft of History
Jack Goody
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Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing. Goody also examines the consequent 'the ...
Bring Out Your Dead : The Past as Revelation
Anthony Grafton
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The work of the Renaissance humanists comes to life in this exploration of European letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Grafton defines the current state of the art of scholarship on early modern European cultural and intellectual h ...
