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The biography of one of the greatest British historians - but also of a uniquely strange and various man
In his enormously long life (he was ...
Few works can claim to form the foundation stones of one entire academic discipline, let alone two, but Thucydides's celebrated History of the Peloponnesian ...
The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to ...
The Age of Revolution is the first of four works by Eric Hobsbawm that collectively synthesize the ideas he developed over a lifetime spent studying ...
Mahmood Mamdani's 1996 Citizen and Subject is a powerful work of analysis that lays bare the sources of the problems that plagued, and often ...
The fun way to research your family history Genealogy For Dummies, 8th Edition covers everything you need to know about starting a genealogical research project-including ...
The power of Frank Dikoetter's ground-breaking work on the disaster that followed China's attempted `Great Leap Forward' lies not in the detail of ...
Few works of history make as well-structured a case for the importance of studying continuity, rather than change, than Albert Hourani's A History of ...
`Reconstruction' is the name given to the period that, beginning shortly before the end of the American Civil War and running until 1877, saw the ...
One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in ...
Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also ...
In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an ...
American scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which seeks to understand ...
General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics ...
Keith Thomas's classic study of all forms of popular belief has been influential for so long now that it is difficult to remember how ...
