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History After the Three Worlds : Post-Eurocentric Historiographies
Arif Dirlik
Paperback - $67.95
This ambitious volume provides a comparative perspective on the challenges facing the discipline of history as Eurocentrism fades as a lens for viewing the world. Exploring the state of history and the struggle over its ownership throughout the world ...
Postmodernity's Histories : The Past as Legacy and Project
Arit Dirlik
Paperback - $65.95
Challenges to the conventional study of history have been raised by the recent paradigm of globalization and by new intellectual transformations linked to postmodernism and postcolonialism. In this book the noted historian Arif Dirlik argues for a ne ...
Philosophy of History
William H. Dray
Paperback - $49.95
B>" This update of the original version focuses on six central problems in the critical philosophy of history and explores the connections among them. Starting with the fundamentals of each philosophical topic in history and then delving into the spe ...
A Crooked Line : From Cultural History to the History of Society
Geoff Eley
Paperback - $48.95
"Eley brilliantly probes transformations in the historians' craft over the past four decades. I found "A Crooked Line" engrossing, insightful, and inspiring."
--Lizabeth Cohen, author of" A Consumers' Republic"
""A Crooked Line "brilliantly ca ...
The Limits of History
Constantin Fasolt
Hardcover - $86.95
History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather flatters us with the belief in our ability to recreate the world in our image. It is a form of self-assertion that brooks no ...
The Use and Abuse of History : Or How the Past Is Taught to Children
Marc Ferro
Paperback - $33.95
This is a book for anyone interested in history, what it is and where it comes from. Engaging and challenging, it confronts us with the many "histories" that exist and have existed around the world, from the Zulu kingdoms to Communist China. A pionee ...
History's Memory : Writing America's Past, 1880-1980
Ellen Fitzpatrick
Paperback - $46.95
This reinterpretation of a century of American historical writing challenges the notion that the politics of the recent past alone explains the politics of history. Fitzpatrick offers a wise historical perspective on today's heated debates, and recla ...