History - Essays

The thirteen Qumran scholars present recent overviews and syntheses in various areas of scrolls study, making The Community of the Renewed Covenant the broadest, most authoritative, and up-to-date book available on the Dead Sea Scrolls. These essays provide descriptions of the major areas of...

This book brings together David Cannadine's most important reflections on how history has been written and made in Britain in the twentieth century. Empire, monarchy, parliament, the economy, culture, heritage and tradition: Cannadine casts his eye over some of the central topics of our...

Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Hailed as "the world's foremost Islamic scholar" (Wall Street Journal), as "a towering figure among experts on the culture and religion of the Muslim world" (Baltimore Sun), and as...

Written during the worst years of the Second World War, The Peace is Ernst J?ger's noble attempt to see a way forward for Europe and Western Civilization after decades of civil war and destruction. More than a document of historical interest, it is a...

This is a series of essays primarily on Cold War terrorism. The scope ranges from Leninism up to the point the twin towers were destroyed in a terrorist attack. It will be of particular interest to those seeking information on pre 9/11 terrorism.Author: Patrick...

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A fascinating insight into notable political speeches that were never delivered, showing what could have been if history had gone down a different path. For almost every delivered speech, there exists an undelivered opposite. These "second speeches" provide alternative histories of what could have...

A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy, Lord Halifax becomes British prime minister in 1940 instead of Churchill: seemingly minor twists of fate on which world-shaking events might have hinged. Alternative history has long been...

The Vikings Reimagined explores the changing perception of Norse and Viking cultures across different cultural forms, and the complex legacy of the Vikings in the present day. Bringing together experts in literature, history and heritage engagement, this highly interdisciplinary collection aims to reconsider the...

Europe in the Sixteenth Century 1494-1598 (Period IV); Periods of European History, is many of the old books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is never forgotten we...

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Exploring the dialectic between historical determinism and the exercise of free will, from the Enlightenment to WWII, by the former Secretary of StateThis volume presents Henry Kissinger's (born 1923) senior thesis from Harvard University, written in 1950 when he was 27 years old and...

How history is written: an anthology of classic texts from Thucydides and Machiavelli to Nietzsche and E.H. CarrThe admonition that we should learn from history is a well-known truism, but what does that actually mean? In other words, what is history? This anthology compiles...

Rosengarten explores the narrative operations of Rego's work by mobilising both psychoanalytic theory and social history. She confronts, as case studies, three complex figure paintings from different moments in Rego's oeuvre: The Policeman's Daughter (1987), The Interrogator's Garden (2000), and The First Mass in...

Rethinking American Disasters is a pathbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. Proceeding from the premise that there is no such thing as a "natural" disaster, the collection invites...

History isn't just a subject: it's the subject. So why aren't we treating it that way? Part personal essay, part investigation featuring commentary from leading educators and historians, The Vanishing Past is a heartfelt defence of a subject we malign at our peril and...

...Because Ideas Have Consequences. Since its founding 20 years ago, The Texas Pilgrim simply has been a monthly personal letter of commentary with an objective to engage readers in a dialogue on the critical issues of our time and the ideas that drive public...

Hindsight hurts. * The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, having the American colonies pay for their own defense--which instead starts a revolution. * In 1929, President Herbert Hoover decides to let the economy fix itself...and the Great Depression gets greater. * Nixon tapes...

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A leading voice in technology studies shares a collection of essential essays on the preservation of software and history of games.Since the early 2000s, Henry Lowood has led or had a key role in numerous initiatives devoted to the preservation and documentation of virtual...

Fresh Voices from the Periphery is evidence that history matters - not only the study of the past - but also by shedding light on how events of the past have impacted lives in the present. You are holding in your hands a collection...

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James Meredith: Breaking the Barrier is an illustrated collection of essays commemorating the 60th anniversary of James Meredith's historic 1962 enrollment at the University of Mississippi. Ten former students, journalists, historians and eye-witnesses tell the story of James Meredith's turbulent but successful path to...

Essays and tales on America's obsession with race.Author: Dan SchneiderISBN-10: 1797822578ISBN-13: 9781797822570Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/22/2019Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d

The economic history of early India is a rich and diverse area of study, covering agricultural developments, trade, markets, occupation and professional groups, urbanization and the institutions that govern the economy. Recent research has expanded our understanding of the processes of transformation of the...

From the Burning Archive: Essays and Fragments, 2015-2022 collects the writing on culture, history and literature first published as an experimental blog. The posts have been revised and edited, and arranged by themes of history, social fragmentation, the infinite conversation of literature, and unravelling...

The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses is a collection of Theodore Roosevelt's published commentaries and public addresses on what is necessary for a vital and healthy political, social and individual life. In ""The Strenuous Life"" he argues that strenuous effort and overcoming hardship were...

Beta Delta of Alpha Chi Sigma (A History) narrates the story of the Beta Delta chapter of the Alpha Chi Sigma fraternity at the Missouri University of Science and Technology from the birth of an idea to the establishment of a mature and significant...

Beta Delta of Alpha Chi Sigma (A History) narrates the story of the Beta Delta chapter of the Alpha Chi Sigma fraternity at the Missouri University of Science and Technology from the birth of an idea to the establishment of a mature and significant...

One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis (1949-2018) transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays defined the emerging fields of gender and emotions history and reframed traditional understandings of the founding fathers and the U.S. Constitution....

Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587 is set in the Hanlin Academy in Ming dynasty China. Most students are members of the Grand Secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, the body of top-ranking graduates of the civil service examination who serve...

Greenwich Village, 1913 immerses students in the radical possibilities unlocked by the modern age. Exposed to ideas like women's suffrage, socialism, birth control, and anarchism, students experiment with forms of political participation and bohemian self-discovery. Author: Mary Jane TreacyISBN-10: 1469670690ISBN-13: 9781469670690Publisher: University of North...

Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City, 1775-1776 draws students into the chaos of a revolutionary New York City, where Patriot and Loyalist forces fight for advantage among a divided populace. Confronted with issues like bribery, the loss of privacy, and collapsing economic...

In Modes of Comparison: Theory and Practice, the contributors highlight how theoretical problems have brought forth new ideas on comparison and how comparison has become pivotal in the human sciences. Many of the chapters in this interdisciplinary volume update landmark essays from the journal...

"Time Maps extends beyond all of the old clich駸 about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a brilliant and elegant exercise in model building that provides new...

A collection of humanity's most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive. This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas - and not just any old ideas, ideas from across time and space...

On October 27, 2018, three congregations were holding their morning Shabbat services at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood when a lone gunman entered the building and opened fire. He killed eleven people and injured six more in the deadliest...

This volume brings together essays written over three decades on Bolivian history and politics. The book opens with a contemporary survey of the new government of the MAS headed by Evo Morales. Subsequent chapters review the neoliberal experiments of the 1980s and 1990s, the...

From the early 1800s on, we encounter the first French writers to become interested in life in Newfoundland. This anthology provides an image of Newfoundland that was shaped over many years of writings by countless French voyagers--sailors and naval officers, diplomats, scientists, journalists, artists,...

"It might be the best book on animals I've ever read. It's also the only one that's made me laugh out loud."--Helen MacDonald for The New York Times Book Review Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the...