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This book traces the development of historiography from the days of Herodotus to those of postmodernism. It covers the ancient, medieval and the modern aspects of the subject and offers easy comprehension, clear and precise guidance and immediate utility. The author provides a balanced view of competing ideas and leads... more
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Prachi Deshpande
[Paperback 2013]
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The "Maratha period" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this period for a variety of political projects... more
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So far histories of historiography have concentrated almost exclusively on the West. This is the first book to offer a history of modern historiography from a global perspective. Tracing the transformation of historical writings over the past two and half centuries, the book portrays the transformation of historical writings under... more
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Mike Haynes ,
Jim Wolfreys
[Paperback 2007]
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A group of respected historians confront the conservative, revisionist trends in historical enquiry that have been dominant in the last twenty years. A group of respected historians confront the conservative, revisionist trends in historical enquiry that have been dominant in the last twenty years.... more
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Arnold Toynbee ,
D C Somervell
[Paperback 1987]
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Of Somervell's work, Toynbee wrote, 'The reader now has at his command a uniform abridgement of the whole book, made by a clear mind that has not only mastered the contents but has entered into the writer's outlook and purpose.' Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History has been acknowledged as... more
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Arnold Toynbee ,
D C Somervell
[Paperback 1987]
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Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement of Arnold Toynbee's 'A Study of History' preserves the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the original. This volume includes sections on Universal States, Universal Churches, Heroic Ages, Contacts Between Civilizations in Space, Contacts Between Civilizations in Time,... more
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Jeremy Black ,
Donald M Mac Raild
[Paperback 2009]
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Daniel Neuman ,
Shubha Chaudhuri
[Hardcover 2006]
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"Bards, Ballads and Boundaries" presents an atlas of one of the worlds richest historical musical traditions. The Atlas is a cartography and catalogue of musicians and music-making in the Western districts of Rajasthan State in contemporary India. Based on extensive statistical and cultural data, it provides an ethnographic survey of... more
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Stefan Berger ,
Heiko Feldner ,
Kevin Passmore
[Paperback 2010, 2nd Edition]
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Writing History is designed to provide the necessary material for general courses in historiography, identifying in turn the evolution of 'traditional' approaches, the challenge of the 'linguistic turn', and contemporary perspectives that inform our current understandings. "Writing History" 2nd edition provides students and teachers with a comprehensive overview of the... more
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Touradj Atabaki
[Hardcover 2009]
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David E Nye
[Paperback 2004]
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After 1776, the American colonies started to reimagine themselves as a unified community. Technologies--the axe, the mill, the canal, the railroad, and the irrigation dam--had an important role in the resulting national narratives. Nye explores the stories that clustered around these technologies and rediscovers the American story of origins. 26... more
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David P Henige
[Hardcover 2006]
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Historians know about the past because they examine the evidence. But what exactly is "evidence," how do historians know what it means--and how can we trust them to get it right? Historian David Henige tackles such questions of historical reliability head-on in his skeptical, unsparing, and acerbically witty "Historical Evidence... more
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John Tosh
[Paperback 2010, 5th Edition]
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Why do we study history? How do we construct our knowledge of the past? How objective can it be? What are its limitations? Can we apply to it the methodology of social science? What different kinds of history are being written today? Answering these key questions, John Tosh's new edition... more
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N N Bhattacharyya
[Hardcover 1996, 1st Edition]
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About the Book : In the present volume which deals in the studies on the religious systems of ancient India the term historiography has been used to denote the history of researches on various systems both in its heuristic and interpretative aspects. It is against the background of the academic... more
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Daya Krishna General Ed
[Hardcover 2005, 2nd Edition]
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About the Book : A prolonged enquiry into the problems relating to the Historiography of Civilizations which creatively uses the concepts derived from both the Indian and the western traditions to understand man's most complex and enduring creation, that is, civilization. Silpa, Sastra, Samskara, Purusartha, Svapna, Smrti and Vasana provide... more
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V Shekhawat
[Hardcover 2007, 2nd Edition]
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About the Book : The present work attempts to construct an integral history of sciences in India. Researches in philosophy of modern sciences over the last half a century have given rise to new insights in historiography which the author exploits for construction of a rational history. The origin of... more
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Jonathan A Silk
[Hardcover 2009, 1st Edition]
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Riven by Lust explores the tale of a man accused of causing the fundamental schism in early Indian Buddhism, but not before he has sex with his mother and kills his father. In tracing this Indian Buddhist Oedipal tale, Jonathan Silk follows it through texts in all of the major... more
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Donna Jordan
[Hardcover 2012, 1st Edition]
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About the Book : Sakti's Revolution: Origin and Historiography of Indic Fierce Goddesses chronicles the historical evolution of Hindu and Buddhist Fierce, Kali-like goddesses and their devotees, from the Indus Valley civilization, c. third millennium BCE, to the present. The author documents and analyzes the undercurrents of misogyny, greed, and... more
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Elie Podeh
[Hardcover 2001]
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Israeli history textbooks in the past contained many biases, distortions, and omissions concerning the depiction of Arabs and the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Today these misrepresentations are gradually being corrected. This study encourages the depiction of a balanced portrait in all textbooks. By reviewing curricula and textbooks used in... more
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Paul A Shackel
[Hardcover 2000]
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