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English | 2011 | pages: 229 | ISBN: 0691144001 | PDF | 1,1 mb
The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics-an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists-has exerted on the study of our economic past. In this provocative book, Francesco Boldizzoni calls for the reconstruction of economic history, one in which history and the social sciences are brought to bear on economics, and not the other way around.

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by Shuji Cao
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9004682651 | 634 Pages | True PDF | 16 MB

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English | ISBN: 9814339946 | 2012 | 280 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Tracing the prolonged transformation of modern China from 1949 to 1976-or from the founding of People's Republic of China to the end of the Cultural Revolution-this account chronicles the economic and political history of modern China. It provides rich details on China's economic growth pattern, the process of industrialization, and its unique five-year-plan system, and elaborates on China's political life based on penetrating analyses and profound historical events.

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Brompton Books | 1997 | ISBN: 0861245512 | English | 200 pages | PDF | 157.19 MB
Illustrated with old b/w fotographs and a lot of colour fotographs and colour cutaway drawings.

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2012 | 239 Pages | ISBN: 0521747902 | PDF | 7 MB
In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern Europe into the study of nationalism, describing it as an unintended and unavoidable consequence of the legacy of Roman imperialism in the Middle Ages. Hirschi identifies the earliest nationalists among Renaissance humanists, exploring their public roles and ambitions to offer new insight into the history of political scholarship in Europe and arguing that their adoption of ancient role models produced massive contradictions between their self-image and political function. This book demonstrates that only through understanding the development of the politics, scholarship and art of pre-modern Europe can we fully grasp the global power of nationalism in a modern political context.

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English | 2006 | pages: 162 | ISBN: 1904456472 | PDF | 10,9 mb
Who was the first black queen? How much do you know about China's history? Most people's knowledge of world history is hazy and incomplete at best. This No-Nonsense Guide to World History gives a full picture, revealing the hidden histories and communities left out of conventional textbooks-from the civilizations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America to the history of women.

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2016 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0190621842 | EPUB | 12 MB
Between 2011 and 2015, the Opinion section of The New York Times published Disunion, a series marking the long string of anniversaries around the Civil War, the most destructive, and most defining, conflict in American history. The works were startling in their range and direction, some taking on major topics, like the Gettysburg Address and the Battle of Fredericksburg, while others tackled subjects whose seemingly incidental quality yielded unexpected riches and new angles. Some come from the country's leading historians; others from those for whom the war figured in private ways, involving an ancestor or a letter found in a trunk. Disunion received wide acclaim for featuring some of the most original thinking about the Civil War in years. For millions of readers, Disunion came to define the Civil War sesquicentennial. Now the historian Ted Widmer, along with Clay Risen and George Kalogerakis of The New York Times, has curated a collection of these pieces, covering the entire history of the Civil War, from Lincoln's election to Appomattox and beyond. Moving chronologically and thematically across all four years of hostilities, this comprehensive and engrossing work examines secession, slavery, battles, and domestic and global politics. Here are previously unheard voices-of women, freed African Americans, and Native Americans-alongside those of Lincoln, Grant, and Lee, portrayed in human as well as historical scale. David Blight sheds light on how Frederick Douglass welcomed South Carolina's secession-an event he knew would catapult the abolitionist movement into the spotlight; Elizabeth R. Varon explores how both North and South clamored to assert that the nation's "ladies," symbolic of moral purity, had sided with them; Harold Holzer deciphers Lincoln's official silence between his election to the presidency and his inauguration-what his supporters named "masterful inactivity"-and the effects it had on the splintering country. More than any single volume ever published, Disunion reveals the full spectrum of America's bloodiest conflict and illuminates its living legacies.

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English | ISBN: 0691222622 | 2022 | 2296 pages | PDF | 177 MB
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English | ISBN: 022603111X | 2015 | 352 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In The Mountain, geographers Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz trace the origins of the very concept of a mountain, showing how it is not a mere geographic feature but ultimately an idea, one that has evolved over time, influenced by changes in political climates and cultural attitudes. To truly understand mountains, they argue, we must view them not only as material realities but as social constructs, ones that can mean radically different things to different people in different settings.

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English | 2003 | pages: 226 | ISBN: 0306812436, 1975982983 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
The Mongols erupted out of Central Asia in 1206 and soon controlled an empire stretching from Poland to Korea; although remembered as a destructive force, they united a great part of the world under one rule, and their combined arms and mobile tactics have had considerable influence on subsequent military thinkers.Jeremia Curtin, born 1835, was an American translator and folklorist. He died in 1906.