Making History Now


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Making History Now And Then


Making History Now And Then
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Author : D. Cannadine
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-06-17

Making History Now And Then written by D. Cannadine and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-17 with History categories.


Collects twelve previously unpublished essays by one of Britain's most eminent historians, David Cannadine, including his inaugural and valedictory lectures at the Institute of Historical Research. A unique volume discussing the study and nature of History itself and a range of key topics and periods in British and Imperial History.



Making History


Making History
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Author : Christopher Culpin
language : en
Publisher: Collins
Release Date : 1997

Making History written by Christopher Culpin and has been published by Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History, Modern categories.


Treaty of Versailles - Russian Revolution - Rise of Hitler - League of Nations - Cold War - Israel and the Arab world - United Nations - Britain 1906-1919 - Lenin - Stalin - Germany & the Second World War - China before & after 1949 - Israel & the Arab world - India & Pakistan.



The History Makers


The History Makers
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Author : Richard Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 2021-06

The History Makers written by Richard Cohen and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06 with History categories.


THE HISTORY MAKERS is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama -continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today.There are many stories we can spin about years gone by, but which accounts come to be told, and by whom? A single author can deeply shape our understanding through the prism of his or her own beliefs. Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses (such as the writers of the Bible, major novelists, dramatists, journalists and political propagandists) influence what become the accepted records of human experience. Is there, he asks, even such a thing as "objective" history? And what is it to call someone a historian in the first place?The depth of Cohen's inquiry and the delight he takes in his subjects - even the practitioners of what he calls "Bad History," those thieves of history who twist reality to glorify themselves and conceal their or their country's behaviour - make this an unusually authoritative and supremely entertaining volume.Cohen investigates the published works and private utterances of our greatest historical thinkers to discover the agendas that informed their views of the world, and which in so many ways have informed ours. From the origins of history-writing, when such an idea seemed itself revolutionary, through to television and the digital age, THE HISTORY MAKERS abounds in captivating figures brought to vivid life, from Thucydides and Tacitus to Voltaire and Gibbon, from Winston Churchill to Mary Beard. Rich in character, complex truths and surprising anecdotes, the result is a unique exploration of both the aims and craft of history-making that will lead us to think anew about our past and ourselves.



Making History


Making History
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Author : Jorma Kalela
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-11-18

Making History written by Jorma Kalela and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-18 with History categories.


Everyone has a personal connection to the past, independent of historical inquiry. So, what is the role of the historian? Making History argues that historians have damagingly dissociated the discipline of history from the everyday nature of history, defining their work only in scholarly terms. Exploring the relationship between history and society, Kalela makes the case for a more participatory historical research culture, in which historians take account of their role in society and the ways in which history-making as a basic social practice is present in their work. Making History not only asks provocative questions about the role of the historian, it also provides practical guidance for students and historians on planning research projects with greater public impact. This book is vital reading for all historians, lay and professional, and will be an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on historiography and research methods.



Measuring Time Making History


Measuring Time Making History
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Author : Lynn Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01

Measuring Time Making History written by Lynn Hunt and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Philosophy categories.


Time is the crucial ingredient in history, and yet historians rarely talk about time as such. These essays offer new insight into the development of modern conceptions of time, from the Christian dating system (BC/AD or BCE/CE) to the idea of “modernity” as a new epoch in human history. Are the Gregorian calendar, world standard time, and modernity itself simply impositions of Western superiority? How did the idea of stages of history culminating in the modern period arise? Is time really accelerating? Can we—should we—try to move to a new chronological framework, one that reaches back to the origins of humans and forward away or beyond modernity? These questions go to the heart of what history means for us today. Time is now on the agenda.



Making History Now


Making History Now
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Author : David Cannadine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

Making History Now written by David Cannadine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Education categories.


Conferencia de David Cannadine, recién nombrado director del Instituto de Estudios Históricos de Londres, en la que hace una dura crítica a universidades tan prestigiosas como las de Oxford y Cambridge. Según él, no forman parte de la élite académica, ya que su enorme burocracia interna, la falta de fondos y, en especial, la desilusión de muchos investigadores han dado paso a otras universidades como las de Harvard, Yale y Princeton. Su peor crítica, y también la más certera, se refería a la prueba periódica a que son sometidas todas las universidades británicas y que mide sus "índices de producción académica", el no de libros publicados por cada centro y del que depende la cuantía de los fondos que reciben. En realidad se trata de una tabla de excelencia a añadir a las ya existentes desde la primaria. Reconoce el autor de esta conferencia que las Universidades son más grandes y más ricas en Estados Unidos y que han sabido ganarse mejor al sector privado.



Making History Not Reliving It


Making History Not Reliving It
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Author : Mark Worrall
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2013-12-01

Making History Not Reliving It written by Mark Worrall and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.


£80 million in debt and with financial meltdown a matter of weeks away, in July 2003 Chelsea Football Club were saved from almost certain penury by Roman Abramovich, a reclusive young billionaire that few people outside his native Russia had heard of. Making History, Not Reliving It recounts the first decade of Roman’s rule in London mirrored against a backdrop of an ever-changing, social-media-driven, angst and envy-ridden world where the revolving door of change seems to spin as fast as that of the manager’s at Stamford Bridge. Granular season-by-season detail of exactly how Chelsea amassed three league titles, four FA Cups, two League Cups, a Champions League and a Europa League in ten eventful years is entertainingly supplemented with news and entertainment bulletins and rounded off with enlightening and diverse points of view provided by a broad cross section of supporters unified by their blissful enjoyment of the desperate jealousy of rival fans now only able to relive the history that their own precious club’s once made.



Making History


Making History
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Author : Richard Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-03-17

Making History written by Richard Cohen and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-17 with History categories.


MAKING HISTORY is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama - continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today. In this authoritative and entertaining book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses (such as the writers of the Bible, major novelists, dramatists, journalists and political propagandists) influence what become the accepted records of human experience. Is there, he asks, even such a thing as 'objective' history? The depth of Cohen's inquiry and the delight he takes in his subjects includes the practitioners of what he calls 'Bad History,' those thieves of history who twist reality to glorify themselves and conceal their or their country's behaviour. Cohen investigates the published works and private utterances of our greatest historical thinkers to discover the agendas that informed their views of the world, and which in so many ways have informed ours. From the origins of history-writing, when such an idea seemed itself revolutionary, through to television and the digital age, MAKING HISTORY abounds in captivating figures brought to vivid life, from Thucydides and Tacitus to Voltaire and Gibbon, from Winston Churchill to Mary Beard. Rich in character, complex truths and surprising anecdotes, the result is a unique exploration of both the aims and craft of history-making. It will lead us to think anew about our past and ourselves.



Making History Matter


Making History Matter
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Author : Robert Dawidoff
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2000

Making History Matter written by Robert Dawidoff and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.


This collection of Robert Dawidoff's essays and journalism is peopled by the likes of the Founding Fathers, Fred Astaire, Henry and William James, Sophie Tucker, Trent Lott, and Cole Porter. Drawing together this unlikely cast of characters, Dawidoff probes into the role of outsider groups as well as intellectual and political elites in the formation of American culture. As a scholar of intellectual and cultural history, Dawidoff takes the stance that historians ought to take an active role in our democratic culture, informing and participating in public discourse. He argues for a broad reach when it comes to cultural expression, resisting the polarization of formal intellectual history and folk or commercial popular culture. In his view and in his book, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Katharine Hepburn are equally worthy topics for a historian's consideration, providing that they are treated with equal seriousness of purpose and analytic rigor. In "The Gay Nineties" section that closes the book, he traces key events in the continual struggle for gay and lesbian civil rights and takes on such unresolved issues as safer sex, needle exchange programs to control HIV transmission, and the public controversy around the portrayal of gay and lesbian television characters. Divided into sections that deal with the patriarchs of American political and intellectual culture, expressive culture, and a historian's public voice, this book is a model of engaged and engaging writing. Accessible and witty, Making History Matter will appeal to general and academic readers interested in American history as well as gay and lesbian political and cultural issues. Author note: Robert Dawidoff is John D. and Lillian Maguire Distinguished Chair and Professor of History at Claremont Graduate University. He is most recently the author (with Michael Nava) of Created Equal: Why Gay Rights Matter to America and The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage: High Culture V. Democracy in Adams, James and Santayana.



People Making History


People Making History
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Author : Peter S. Garlake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985

People Making History written by Peter S. Garlake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.


Zimbabwean history is covered in two books from a socialist perspective. Written in accessible language, Book 1 describes pre-colonial African history, enlivened by many drawings, photographs, original sources and maps which are integrated into the text. Book 2 applies a people-centred approach and examines Africa from colonization to the present day, in the context of international history. The course follows a thematic approach, balanced by a sense of chronology.