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The Idea of History: With Lectures 1926-1928

The Idea of History: With Lectures 1926-1928

by R. G. Collingwood

The Idea of History is the best-known work of the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. Collingwood. It was originally published posthumously in 1946, having been mainly reconstructed from Collingwood's manuscripts, many of which are now lost. This important work examines how the idea of history has evolved from the time of Herodotus to the twentieth century, and offers Collingwood's own view... (more)

In Defense of History

by Richard J. Evans

A master practitioner gives us an entertaining tour of the historian's workshop and a spirited defense of the search for historical truth. E. H. Carr's What Is History?, a classic introduction to the field, may now give way to a worthy successor. In his compact, intriguing survey, Richard J. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. To materials that are frustratingly... (more)

In Defence of History

by Richard J. Evans

In this volume, English historian Richard Evans offers a defence of the importance of his craft. At a time of deep scepticism about our ability to learn anything from the past, even to recapture any serious sense of past cultures and ways of life, Evans shows us why history is both possible and necessary. His demolition of the wilder claims of post-modern historians, who deny the possibility of any realistic grasp... (more)

Reason and Revolution

by Herbert Marcuse

"Dr. Marcuse's book deserves a warm welcome. It is the first coherent and sympathetic account in English for many years past of what a great and original thinker set out to do." -- The Times Literary Supplement It is of the very definition of any "classic" work that it not only introduce a new depth and direction of thought, but that its original insights endure. Such is the case with Herbert Marcuse's REASON... (more)

Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought

Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought

by David Hackett Fischer

"If one laughs when David Hackett Fischer sits down to play, one will stay to cheer.His book must be read three times: the first in anger, the srcond in laughter, the third in respect....The wisdom is expressed with a certin ruthlessness. Scarcly a major historian escapes unscathed. Ten thousand members of the AmericanHistorical Association will rush to the index and breathe a little easier to find their names... (more)

Civilization and Its Discontents

by Sigmund Freud

During the summer of 1929, Freud worked on what became this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought. It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind—the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as the... (more)

Civilization on Trial

by Arnold J Toynbee

The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present (Vintage)

The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present (Vintage)

The Poverty of Historicism (Routledge Classics)

The Poverty of Historicism (Routledge Classics)

by Karl Popper

Hailed on publication in 1957 as "probably the only book published this year that will outlive the century," this is a brilliant of the idea that there are fixed laws in history and that human beings are able to predict them.

That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (Ideas in Context)

That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (Ideas in Context)

by Peter Novick

The aspiration to relate the past "as it really happened" has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity was elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the past century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writing of... (more)

Historical Controversies and Historians

by William Lamont

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The German Ideology (Part 1 and Selections from Parts 2 and 3 and Supplementary Texts)

The German Ideology (Part 1 and Selections from Parts 2 and 3 and Supplementary Texts)

by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx

Text: English, German (translation)

The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering Our Past

The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering Our Past

by Keith Windschuttle

The Killing of History reveals how the trendy academics have garbled the European discovery of America, the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and other topics in an attempt to deny that truth and knowledge about the past are possible. What emerges is an important lesson in the separation of fact from fiction that will do much to rescue history as we know it--and teach it.

Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings

Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings

by Johann Gottfried Herder

Historians of ideas, and students of nationalism in particular, have traced the origins of much of our current vocabulary and ways of thinking about the nation back to Johann Gottfried Herder. This volume provides a clear, readable, and reliable translation of Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit , supplemented by some of Herder's other important writings on politics and history. The... (more)

In the Past Lane: Historical Perspectives on American Culture

In the Past Lane: Historical Perspectives on American Culture

by Michael G. Kammen

Michael Kammen is widely regarded as one of our most important--and most diversely talented--cultural historians. David Brion Davis has said, "No other historian of <his> generation has such a broad and concrete grasp of 'American culture' in all its manifestations, from constitutional law to formal painting and popular culture." This engaging volume stands as rich and compelling evidence of that assertion.... (more)

The nature of history (History and historiography)Arthur Marwick

The nature of history (History and historiography)

by Arthur Marwick

A study of the nature of history and its place in modern society.

Main Trends in History: Main Trends in the Social And Human Science (Main trends in the social and human sciences)

Main Trends in History: Main Trends in the Social And Human Science (Main trends in the social and human sciences)

by Geoffrey Barraclough

This work places present-day historical studies in a new and comprehensive perspective. Anyone who wishes to understand the past in the light of current knowledge and interpretations will profit from reading this book. It summarises the developments associated with the explosion of new directions that young scholars have reached in re-interpreting old ideas. The author also examines the ferment that has... (more)

Mystic Chords Of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

Mystic Chords Of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

by Michael G. Kammen

With the same exacting scholarship, brilliant cultural analysis, and stylish prose that won him a Pulitzer Prize for A Machine That Would Go of Itself, Kammen examines the paradox of American tradition. How, he asks, did the " land of the future" acquire a past? And how has our collective memory of that past been distorted--and, at times, manufactured? 145 photos.

In the light of historyJ. H Plumb