What is History

The Goerge Macauly Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in The University of Cambridge January-March 1961

E H Carr

History

In answering the question, what is history?, E. H. Carrs acclaimed and influential bestseller shows that the fa

empiricism, historiography

The Historian’s Craft

Marc Bloch

History

In this classic work, distinguished French economic historian, Marc Bloch, discusses the techniques of historic

economics, french, historiography

Feudal Society

Marc Bloch

History

Marc Bloch said that his goal in writing Feudal Society was to go beyond the technical study a medievalist woul

economics, french, historiography, medieval

The Varieties of History

From Voltaire to the Present

Fritz Stern

History

This book contains not only an excellent selection of passages which characterize the ideas and the work of lea

collection, historiography

An Introduction to Contemporary History

Geoffrey Barraclough

History

Professor Barraclough isolates in this Pelican some of the main themes of contemporary history. His purpose is

historiography, modern, politics

The Collapse of Complex Societies

New Studies in Archaeology

Joseph A Tainter

History

Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the

archaeology, historiography

Philosophical Dictionary

Voltaire

Philosophy

Voltaires Philosophical Dictionary is a series of short essays, hortatory and propagandist, over an enormously

atheism, enlightenment, french, historiography, polemics

A Study Of History

Volumes I-VI

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

History

Arnold Toynbees A Study of History has been acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholars

christian, historiography, history, socialism

A Study Of History

Volumes VII-X

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

History

Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbees A Study of History is a

christian, historiography, history, socialism

Madness and Civilization

A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Michel Foucault

Philosophy

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle

french, historiography, postmodern, structuralist

The Idea of History

R G Collingwood

History

The Idea of History is the best-known work of the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. C

historiography, history, liberal

The Philosophy of History

Goerg Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy

Hegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the philosophy of history — a nov

german, historiography, history, idealism, materialism