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  • An Analysis of Richard J. Evans's In Defence of History

    Collections series The Macat Library
    Richard Evans wrote In Defence of History at a time when the historian's profession was coming under heavy attack as a result of the ‘cultural turn’ taken by the discipline during the late 1980s and the 1990s. Historians were being forced to face up to postmodern thinking, which argued that, because all texts were the product of biased writers who had incomplete information, none could be ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

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    The Macat Analysis of Richard Evans's In Defence of History

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    Postmodernist thinkers consider history to be not very far removed from a work of fiction, something dependent on historians’ own interpretations of the past. Evans, however, argues that we can trust history and it is possible to be objective about what happened and what caused it to happen. Historians, he argues, are constrained but also enabled by the surviving evidence. He shows how an ... En savoir plus

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  • In Defence of History

    "A lucid, muscular, and often sly reflection" on the worth and purpose of historical scholarship by the award-winning author of The Third Reich Trilogy ( Kirkus).In this volume, the renowned historian Richard J. Evans offers a fervent and deeply insightful defense of his craft and its importance to civilization. At a time when fact and historical truth are under unprecedented assault, Evans shows ... En savoir plus

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  • Marx

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Peter Singer ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Karl Marx is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, whose theories have shaped and directed political, economic, and social thought for 150 years. Considering Marx's life and impact, renowned philosopher Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. Presenting Marx as a philosopher primarily concerned with human ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • A Darwinian Left

    Politics, Evolution and Cooperation

    par Peter Singer ...
    Collections series Darwinism Today series
    In this ground-breaking book, a renowned bioethicist argues that the political left must radically revise its outdated view of human nature. He shows how the insights of modern evolutionary theory, particularly on the evolution of cooperation, can help the left attain its social and political goals.Singer explains why the left originally rejected Darwinian thought and why these reasons are no ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Old Books and New Histories

    An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture

    par Leslie Howsam ...
    Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines - history, literary studies, and bibliography - that focus respectively upon the book as a cultural transaction, a literary text, and a material artefact. Old Books and New Histories serves as a guide to this rich ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • A Crooked Line

    From Cultural History to the History of Society

    par Geoff Eley ...
    "Eley brilliantly probes transformations in the historians' craft over the past four decades. I found A Crooked Line engrossing, insightful, and inspiring."--Lizabeth Cohen, author of A Consumers' Republic"A Crooked Line brilliantly captures the most significant shifts in the landscape of historical scholarship that have occurred in the last four decades. Part personal history, part insightful ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Comparative Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Ben Hutchinson ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Critical Theory

    A Very Short Introduction

    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and ... En savoir plus

    $7.19 CAD

  • An Analysis of John Berger's Ways of Seeing

    Collections series The Macat Library
    Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and images. Berger first examines the relationship between seeing and knowing, discussing how our assumptions affect how we see a painting. He moves on to consider the role of women in artwork, particularly ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Pursuit of History

    Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of History

    par John Tosh ...
    This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions – what is the point of studying history? How do we know about the past? Does an objective historical truth exist and can we ever access it?In answering these central questions, John Tosh argues that, despite the impression of fragmentation created by Postmodernism ... En savoir plus

    $75.99 CAD

  • Memorylands

    Heritage and Identity in Europe Today

    Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a ’memoryland’ – littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how this ‘memory phenomenon’ is related to the changing nature of identities – especially European, national ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD