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What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. Gaddis points out that while...
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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View the life and works of the Chinese historian Sima Guang as a window into neo-Confucianism: the revived form of Confucianism that emerged in the 11th century. You'll learn how this historian took the lessons of the Analects and adapted them to fit new social, economic, and political complexities.
5) Herodotus
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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Presents an English translation of Herodutus' fifth-century study of the ancient world, looking at relationships and conflicts between Greek and non-Greek people of the Near East.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Generations of historians have struggled over - and disagreed about - the fundamental questions of when and why the Roman Empire fell. This episode critically evaluates a wide range of possible answers to these complex and enduring questions.
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Times Books
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Renowned New Deal historian Leuchtenburg offers a frank, thoughtful portrait of the lifelong public servant, and shrewdly assesses Hoover's policies and legacy in the face of one of the darkest periods of American history--the Great Depression.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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500 Years in 20 minutes Explores the rich heritage and distinct qualities that typify the food Americans eat. The narrator, executive chef, and historian weave a story of food history from 1519 until today - in the South NE, Midwest, Pacific and SW of the USA. (Updated 2006)
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian-but not an historian of the Jews-is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with...
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"To help us reconnect with the food that sustains our lives, the author has spent four years going around the world...and sourcing ingredients within local food ecosystems -- experiences taking place in over twenty countries that include milking a water buffalo to make mozzarella for pizza in Italy; harvesting oysters in Long Island Sound and honey from wild bees in Kenya; and making patis in the Philippines, beer in Malta, and sea salt in Iceland....
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Viking
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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With Goliath attempting to replace Thursday at every opportunity with synthetic Thursdays, and a call from the Bookworld to hunt down Pagerunners who have jumped into the Realworld, Thursday's convalescence is going to be anything but restful as the week ahead promises to be one of the Next family's oddest.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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The Last Conversation: Eisenstein's Carmen Ballet takes its name from a miniature ballet created in 1947 by the famous Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein. A distillation of the final scene of Bizet's opera Carmen, Eisenstein's duet for two Bolshoi dancers was one of the last creative acts of this 20th century artistic giant. This documentary video follows the re-creation of Eisenstein's ballet, reconstructed by noted dance historian and author...
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Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"Despatches in this volume include Air Operations in Burma and Bay of Bengal 1 January to 22 May 1942 by General Wavell, the despatch on air operations in South-East Asia November 1943 to May 1944, by Air Chief Marshal Sir R.E.C. Peirse, the despatch on air operations in South-East Asia from June 1944 to May 1945, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, and the despatch on air operations in South East Asia between May 1945 and September 1945, by Air...
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Yale University Press (Ignition)
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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A renowned military historian closely examines the first month of World War I in France. On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks . . Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone -- the worst catastrophe in French military history. Refugees streamed into France as the German army...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Sense and sensation is a lavish exploration of the arts in eighteenth-century London. Written and presented by the eminent historian John Brewer, and drawn from his highly-acclaimed book 'The Pleasures of the Imagination', the film considers the world of commerce and celebrity in which Georgian culture was created. A world, Brewer argues, that has many parallels with today. John Brewer relates the remarkable stories of entrepreneur Jonathan Tyers,...
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