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Who will write our history? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive / by Kassow, Samuel D.

Table of Contents: “…From "Bichuch" to Warsaw -- Borochov's disciple -- History for the people -- Organizing the community : self-help and relief -- A band of comrades -- The different voices of Polish Jewry -- Traces of life and death : texts from the archive -- The tidings of Job -- A historian's final mission.…”
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Crusade against slavery Edward Coles, pioneer of freedom / by Leichtle, Kurt E., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…"Dust in the balance" : an introduction -- River and opportunity -- Man of property -- Release -- Beginning -- A rough land of great promise -- Contest and convention -- A prairie firestorm -- The chasm -- The complaint -- The emancipator -- The devastating truth of Madison's will -- The aging historian -- The preacher -- Prodigal Virginian -- The woodlands.…”
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Crusade against slavery Edward Coles, pioneer of freedom / by Leichtle, Kurt E., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…"Dust in the balance" : an introduction -- River and opportunity -- Man of property -- Release -- Beginning -- A rough land of great promise -- Contest and convention -- A prairie firestorm -- The chasm -- The complaint -- The emancipator -- The devastating truth of Madison's will -- The aging historian -- The preacher -- Prodigal Virginian -- The woodlands.…”
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Who will write our history? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive / by Kassow, Samuel D.

Table of Contents: “…From "Bichuch" to Warsaw -- Borochov's disciple -- History for the people -- Organizing the community : self-help and relief -- A band of comrades -- The different voices of Polish Jewry -- Traces of life and death : texts from the archive -- The tidings of Job -- A historian's final mission.…”
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A companion to Renaissance and Baroque art

Table of Contents: “…The viewer, the critic, and the historian : reception and interpretation as cultural discourse.…”
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A companion to Renaissance and Baroque art

Table of Contents: “…The viewer, the critic, and the historian : reception and interpretation as cultural discourse.…”
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Marsilius of Padua and 'the truth of history' by Garnett, George

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Providential history from the fall of man to the conversion of Constantine -- Providential history from the reign of Constantine -- Christian providential history : a dialectic of perfection and perversion -- The history of the Holy Roman Empire -- Canon law and the conflict between emperor and pope -- The historian's use of his canon law sources.…”
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Rise and decline of civilizations : lessons for the Jewish people / by Wald, Salomon

Table of Contents: “…Questions of definition and methodology -- part II. Historians on rise and decline -- part III. Macro-historical conditions of rise, golden age, and decline -- part IV. …”
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Rise and decline of civilizations : lessons for the Jewish people / by Wald, Salomon

Table of Contents: “…Questions of definition and methodology -- part II. Historians on rise and decline -- part III. Macro-historical conditions of rise, golden age, and decline -- part IV. …”
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Marsilius of Padua and 'the truth of history' by Garnett, George

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Providential history from the fall of man to the conversion of Constantine -- Providential history from the reign of Constantine -- Christian providential history : a dialectic of perfection and perversion -- The history of the Holy Roman Empire -- Canon law and the conflict between emperor and pope -- The historian's use of his canon law sources.…”
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Stravinsky inside out by Joseph, Charles M.

Table of Contents: “…Truths and illusions : rethinking what we know -- Rediscovering the American Apollon musagète : Stravinsky, Coolidge, and the forgotten Washington connection -- Fathers and sons : remembering Sviatoslav Soulima -- The would-be Hollywood composer : Stravinsky, the literati, and "the dream factory" -- Television and The flood : anatomy of an "inglorious flop" -- Film documentaries : the composer on and off camera -- Letters, books, private thoughts : reading between the lines -- Boswellizing an icon : Stravinsky, Craft, and the historian's dilemma.…”
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Stravinsky inside out by Joseph, Charles M.

Table of Contents: “…Truths and illusions : rethinking what we know -- Rediscovering the American Apollon musagète : Stravinsky, Coolidge, and the forgotten Washington connection -- Fathers and sons : remembering Sviatoslav Soulima -- The would-be Hollywood composer : Stravinsky, the literati, and "the dream factory" -- Television and The flood : anatomy of an "inglorious flop" -- Film documentaries : the composer on and off camera -- Letters, books, private thoughts : reading between the lines -- Boswellizing an icon : Stravinsky, Craft, and the historian's dilemma.…”
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Looking South the evolution of Latin Americanist scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975 / by Delpar, Helen

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Beginnings -- Laying the foundations -- Early historians -- The rise of anthropology -- Geography and the other social sciences -- Latin Americanists and the world of policy making -- Maturity and institutionalization -- A decade of expansion, 1935-1945 -- Marking time, 1945-1958 -- The boom years, 1958-1975 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.…”
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Looking South the evolution of Latin Americanist scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975 / by Delpar, Helen

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Beginnings -- Laying the foundations -- Early historians -- The rise of anthropology -- Geography and the other social sciences -- Latin Americanists and the world of policy making -- Maturity and institutionalization -- A decade of expansion, 1935-1945 -- Marking time, 1945-1958 -- The boom years, 1958-1975 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.…”
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The politics of memory the writing of partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries / by Esser, Raingard

Table of Contents: “…The jewel in the crown : Amsterdam and her historians -- Tot Lof van Haarlem : memories in competition -- Nijmegen : city of the Batavians -- Antverpiae antiquitatum -- Faded glory : Leuven -- Crusader kings and warrior saints : Geraardsbergen -- Centre and peripheries : Holland, Zeeland, Gelderland, Drenthe and Overijssel and Flanders -- On the border : Brabantia Sacra or Der Staten Brabant.…”
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The politics of memory the writing of partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries / by Esser, Raingard

Table of Contents: “…The jewel in the crown : Amsterdam and her historians -- Tot Lof van Haarlem : memories in competition -- Nijmegen : city of the Batavians -- Antverpiae antiquitatum -- Faded glory : Leuven -- Crusader kings and warrior saints : Geraardsbergen -- Centre and peripheries : Holland, Zeeland, Gelderland, Drenthe and Overijssel and Flanders -- On the border : Brabantia Sacra or Der Staten Brabant.…”
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Blood & irony Southern white women's narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 / by Gardner, Sarah E.

Table of Contents: “…Everywoman her own historian -- Pen and ink warriors, 1861-1865 -- Countrywomen in captivity, 1865-1877 -- A view from the mountain, 1877-1895 -- The imperative of historical inquiry, 1895-1905 -- Righting the wrongs of history, 1905-1915 -- Moderns confront the Civil War, 1916-1936 -- Everything that rises must converge.…”
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Blood & irony Southern white women's narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 / by Gardner, Sarah E.

Table of Contents: “…Everywoman her own historian -- Pen and ink warriors, 1861-1865 -- Countrywomen in captivity, 1865-1877 -- A view from the mountain, 1877-1895 -- The imperative of historical inquiry, 1895-1905 -- Righting the wrongs of history, 1905-1915 -- Moderns confront the Civil War, 1916-1936 -- Everything that rises must converge.…”
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Technology matters questions to live with / by Nye, David E., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- Is technology predictable? -- How do historians understand technology? -- Cultural uniformity, or diversity? …”
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Technology matters questions to live with / by Nye, David E., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- Is technology predictable? -- How do historians understand technology? -- Cultural uniformity, or diversity? …”
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