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Reflecting on his career, Stephen E. Ambrose - one of the country's most influential historians - confronts America's failures and struggles as he explores both its moral and pragmatic triumphs. To America celebrates the men and women who invented the United States and made it exceptional. Taking a few swings at today's political correctness, Ambrose grapples with the country's historic sins of racism, its neglect and ill treatment of Native Americans,...
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Basic Books
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2022.
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The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of historians to provide textured analysis...
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Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, uncovering the source of the inaccuracies and exploding the...
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Simon & Schuster
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2019.
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Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians. In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects they've come to so intimately know and understand: David McCullough on John Adams, Jon Meacham on Thomas Jefferson, Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton,...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
In Ancient Greek Historians, eminent British scholar J. B. Bury sets out to trace the genesis and development of the historical literature of the Greeks. The work is arranged chronologically, with several chapters addressing the legend-based writing of early Greek historiography before discussing the more scientific approach to history writing taken by major figures...
10) The Lost Cause
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President Abraham Lincoln once said, "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt! “
President Jefferson Davis once said, "I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.“
More than 150 years later, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most significant events in United...
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No es sólo la historia o las humanidades, es el mundo el que está cambiando, en ocasiones de forma estimulante; en otras, de una manera que nos sobresalta. Muy pocos son los que pueden presumir de comprender esa mutación. En medio de la transformación digital, zarandeados por el remolino del cambio, la sensación de confusión y desconcierto es inevitable.
Este volumen se ofrece como ayuda, como guía para comprender algunos de los fenómenos...
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This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing history are undergoing radical transformation. To do so, it explores the legacy and impact of deconstruction on American historical work; the current fetishization of lived experience, materialism, and the "real;" new trends in philosophy of history; and the persistence of ontological realism as the dominant...
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Los cabildos municipales fueron los primeros instrumentos de organización y acción política utilizados en América durante el proceso de conquista y representaban directamente a los primeros fundadores y pobladores de las ciudades. A lo largo de la época colonial, su papel de esqueleto administrativo sobre el cual la monarquía hispánica asentó su presencia en el continente americano fue evolucionando. Así, durante el siglo XVIII la mayor parte...
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Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert.
Theodor Birt (1852/1933) war ein deutscher Altphilologe und Schriftsteller. Als Pseudonym benutzte er auch den Namen des Humanisten Beatus Rhenanus.
Er gehörte dem altphilologischen Zweig des Philologisch-Historischen Vereins an, der später über...
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ADVERSITY — KEEPING THE FAITHBOOK 2FAITH CHRONICLESGalatians 2:20 - I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the FAITH of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
One would be hard-pressed to fully explain the impact that the Strauss Family descendants had in the State of Texas, as well as thousands upon thousands of other immigrants from...
16) Cranioklepty
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The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness. Fully illustrated with some surprising images, this is a fascinating and authoritative history of ideas carried along on the guilty pleasures of an anthology of real-after-life gothic tales. Beginning dramatically with the opening of Haydn's grave in October 1820, cranioklepty takes...
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Cultura es cualquier creación, material o inmaterial, realizada por los seres humanos; es todo artificio, lo que nos separa de la naturaleza, lo que nos protege, recubre o reprime. Hablamos, pues, de elaboraciones que sirven para construir un entorno humano; o para destruirlo. Pero la cultura es también un repertorio de códigos, lo que nos forma y deforma: los marcos de nuestras acciones, los significados de nuestros actos. La historia cultural...
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This volume arises out of special concerns of historians who are also Christians. What case can be made for connecting historical work and religious convictions? What is the relation of faith to history? What difference could Christian perspectives make in historical study? Thirteen respected scholars-including some who have changed the face of history writing in the twentieth century-here take up a diversity of subjects in giving a provisional answer...
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Peter Turchin is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Quantitative Analysis of Movement and Complex Population Dynamics (Princeton).
Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists have made great strides in understanding dynamical processes in the physical and biological worlds using a...
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«La historiografía medieval, entre la historia y la literatura» es un repaso apasionante de los contenidos y las formas que adoptó la escritura de la historia en la Edad Media. En la primera parte del libro se repasan los principales géneros históricos practicados por los historiadores medievales: los anales, las genealogías, las autobiografías y las crónicas. En la segunda parte se realiza un sugerente paralelismo entre los problemas teóricos...
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