Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and...
When political geography changes, how do reorganized or newly formed states justify their rule and create a sense of shared history for their people? Often, the essays in Selective Remembrances reveal,...
View ArticleThe 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our...
“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble,nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. “It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.” In this bold and brilliantly argued...
View ArticleFifty Key Thinkers on History (Routledge Key Guides)
Fifty Key Thinkers on History is a superb guide to historiography through the ages. The cross-section of debates and thinkers covered is unique in its breadth, taking in figures from ancient China,...
View ArticleThe Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity
In this study, Stephanie Budin demonstrates that sacred prostitution, the sale of a person’s body for sex in which some or all of the money earned was devoted to a deity or a temple, did not exist in...
View ArticleHistory, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great...
History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America examines the subjects, motives, and personal and intellectual origins of conservative historians who were also successful public...
View ArticleInvented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions
Were the Chinese the first to discover America in 1421? Did Jesus and Mary Magdalene have children together? Did extraterrestrials visit the earth during prehistory and teach humans how to build...
View ArticleThe Myth of Southern Exceptionalism
More than one-third of the population of the United States now lives in the South, a region where politics, race relations, and the economy have changed dramatically since World War II. Yet historians...
View ArticleThe Wandering Heretics of Languedoc (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and...
How should historians read sources which record inquisitorial trials in the Middle Ages? How can we understand the fears felt by those on trial? By analysing six volumes of depositions in the trial of...
View ArticleThe Pursuit of History (5th Edition)
The essential introduction to the practice of history – now revised and brought up-to-date for the twenty-first century. This edition contains updated information on history in the media, plus even...
View ArticleThe Influence Of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 – Alfred Thayer Mahan
The history of Sea Power is largely, though by no means solely, a narrative of contests between nations, of mutual rivalries, of violence frequently culminating in war. The profound influence of sea...
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