Free Download Peter C. Rollins, "Hollywood As Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context"
English | 1997 | pages: 299 | ISBN: 0813109515, 0813114861 | PDF | 195,6 mb
Motion picture images have influenced the American mind since the earliest days of film, and many thoughtful people are becoming ever more concerned about that influence, as about the pervasive influence of television. In eras of economic instability and international conflict, the film industry has not hesitated to use motion pictures for definite propaganda purposes. During less troubled times, the American citizen's ability to deal with political and social issues has been enhanced or thwarted by images absorbed in the nation's theatres. Hollywood As Historian tracks the interaction of Americans with important motion picture productions. Considered are such topics as racial and sexual stereotyping, censorship of films, comedy as a tool for social criticism, the influence of great men and their screen images, and the use of film to interpret history. Opportunities for future study are suggested for those who wish to conduct their own examinations of American film in a cultural context.

Free Download The Historian of Islam at Work: Essays in Honor of Hugh N. Kennedy
by Letizia Osti and Maaike Van Berkel
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9004525238 | 694 Pages | True PDF | 8.2 MB

Free Download Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale By Judith T. Zeitlin
1997 | 348 Pages | ISBN: 0804729689 | PDF | 8 MB
This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.

Free Download The U.S. Army Combat Historian and Combat History Operations
by Kathryn Roe Coker;Jason Wetzel;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1636243290 | 209 pages | True PDF EPUB | 41.46 MB

Fighting for Afghanistan A Rogue Historian at War by Sean M Maloney | 2.67 MB
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Free Download Robert A. Rosenstone, "Adventures of a Postmodern Historian: Living and Writing the Past"
English | ISBN: 1474274226 | 2016 | 224 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Robert Rosenstone was among the first 'postmodern' historians, and remains one of the most renowned. In this honest, revealing and often funny memoir, he shows us how he got there and why.

Free Download Adam Crymble, "Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age "
English | ISBN: 0252085698 | 2021 | 258 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Charting the evolution of practicing digital history

Free Download Clyde Barrow, "More than a Historian: The Political and Economic Thought of Charles A.Beard"
English | ISBN: 1138512354 | 2018 | 312 pages | EPUB | 879 KB
Charles A. Beard (1874-1948) was one of America's most influential historians and political scientists. He played a major role in founding the disciplines of history and political science, helped shape the teaching of social studies in the nation's public schools, and was one the nation's most popular public intellectuals. Yet in the second half of the twentieth century, Beard's reputation has been eroded by relentless criticism. Clyde W. Barrow argues that Beard's work has renewed relevance in light of recent theoretical debates about the new institutionalism, the crisis of the welfare state, and American foreign policy messianism. Barrow's takes Beard seriously as a political theorist, while challenging many misconceptions. For example, Beard's method of economic interpretation has been dismissed as Marxist, but Barrow carefully reconstructs the sources of Beard's thinking to demonstrate that his method owes more to historical and institutional economics and that his concept of state-society relations was in fact derived from Madison's Tenth Federalist. Barrow reconstructs Beard's theory of American political development using his concept of realistic dialectics, which viewed the clash between democracy (Jeffersonianism) and capitalism (Hamiltonianism) as the engine of American political development. During the 1930s, Beard suggested that the United States was making the transition to a higher form of social and industrial democracy that would supersede the contradiction of American political development. Notably, Beard was a critic of the New Deal and the liberal welfare state, because they failed to reconstruct the economic relations that reproduce inequalities of income, status, and power.Beard went on to voice his concern that at crucial junctures in American history, class struggle is diverted into international conflicts as popular leaders back down from a direct confrontation with the dominant capitalist elite. He analyzes American foreign policy as an extension of domestic economic policy and, in particular, a result of the failures of domestic economic policy. Beard's conception of American history plays itself out in a tragic cycle of imperialism and diversion that left him a disenchanted realist. This incisive study will be of interest to those intrested in the evolution of historical thinking.

The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1009159453 | 493 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
In this volume an international group of scholars revisits the themes of John Marincola's ground-breaking Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography. The nineteen chapters offer a series of case studies that explore how ancient historians' approaches to their projects were informed both by the pull of tradition and by the ambition to innovate. The key themes explored are the relation of historiography to myth and poetry; the narrative authority exemplified by Herodotus, the 'father' of history; the use of 'fictional' literary devices in historiography; narratorial self-presentation; and self-conscious attempts to shape the historiographical tradition in new and bold ways. The volume presents a holistic vision of the development of Greco-Roman historiography and the historian's dynamic position within this practice.

The Aviation Historian – Issue 41 – October 2022
English | 134 Pages | PDF | 21.78 MB