A History of Histories

Author: John Burrow
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307268527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 525

Book Description
Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the present. With a light step and graceful narrative, he gathers together over 2,500 years of the moments and decisions that have helped create Western identity. This unique approach is an incredible lens with which to view the past. Standing alone in its ambition, scale and fascination, Burrow's history of history is certain to stand the test of time.

Reflections on the History of Art

Author: Ernst Hans Gombrich
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520061897
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Essays discuss Greek and Chineese art, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Dutch genre painting, Rubens, Rembrandt, art collecting, museums, and Freud's aesthetics

The Routledge History of Twentieth-Century United States

Author: Jerald Podair
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317485661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States is a comprehensive introduction to the most important trends and developments in the study of modern United States history. Driven by interdisciplinary scholarship, the thirty-four original chapters underscore the vast range of identities, perspectives and tensions that contributed to the growth and contested meanings of the United States in the twentieth century. The chronological and topical breadth of the collection highlights critical political and economic developments of the century while also drawing attention to relatively recent areas of research, including borderlands, technology and disability studies. Dynamic and flexible in its possible applications, The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States offers an exciting new resource for the study of modern American history.

Richer of Saint-Remi

Author: Justin Lake
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813221250
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Building upon, but also moving beyond, previous scholarship that has focused on Richer's political allegiances and his views of kingship, this study by Justin Lake provides the most comprehensive synthesis of the History, examining Richer's use and abuse of his sources, his relationship to Gerbert, and the motives that led him to write.

Herodotus, Histories, Book V

Author: Philip S. Peek
Publisher: Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
ISBN: 9780806161037
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Book V of the Histories focuses on the Persians and their expansion into Thrakia and Makedonia, as well as their conflict with the Greeks of Ionia.

The Impact of History?

Author: Pedro Ramos Pinto
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317537211
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
Driven by the increasing importance of discussions around 'impact' and its meaning and implications for history, The Impact of History? brings together established and new voices to raise relevant questions, issues and controversies for debate. The chapters are articulated around the themes of public history, the politics of history, the role of history in the shaping of learning and the situation of history in the changing world of education. While this subject is driven differently by the research bodies and councils of different countries, similar debates about the value and place of the academy in society are taking place in the UK, the USA and Europe as well as in other parts of the world. Chapters cover diverse areas of history from this perspective including: public history national histories new technologies and the natural sciences campaigning histories the impact agenda. This collection is a political and intellectual intervention at a time when scholars and readers of history are being asked to explain why history matters and it seeks to intervene in the debates on ‘impact’, on education and on the role of the past in the shaping of our future. Bringing together leading authors from a wide range of fields, The Impact of History? is an accessible and engaging yet polemical and thought-provoking overview of the role of history in contemporary society.

Natural Histories

Author: American Museum of Natural History
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781454912149
Category : Illustrated books
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Highlights 40 masterworks of illustrated scientific art from the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History.

Histories and Fallacies

Author: Carl R. Trueman
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1581349238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
"Histories and Fallacies is a primer on the conceptual and methodological problems in the discipline of history."--from publisher description.

The Histories Book 9: Calliope

Author: Herodotus
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681462982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 71

Book Description
Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who lived in the fifth century BC (c.484 - 425 BC). He has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. The Histories-his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced-is a record of his "inquiry", being an investigation of the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars and including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information. The Histories, were divided into nine books, named after the nine Muses: the "Muse of History", Clio, representing the first book, then Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania and Calliope for books 2 to 9, respectively.

A History of Histories

Author: John Wyon Burrow
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN: 0375413111
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 546

Book Description
An analysis of the study of the past and its implications in the Western world, from ancient times to the present day, looks at the work of individual historians and how they presented the past in terms of their perspectives, beliefs, and historical periods.