Search Results - "historian"

Reluctant rebels the Confederates who joined the Army after 1861 / by Noe, Kenneth W., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…"When our rights were threatened" -- Duty, honor, country : "Patriotism is a fine word for historians" -- Slavery : "The principle cause of the war" -- pt. 2. …”
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Going to the sources : a guide to historical research and writing / by Brundage, Anthony, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…The Ever-Changing Shape and Texture of the Past -- The Nature and Variety of Historical Sources -- Finding Your Sources : The Online Library Catalog and Beyond -- Getting the Most Out of History Books : Critical Reading and Assessment -- Beyond Textual Sources : Historians' Use of Other Media -- Exploring Changing Interpretations : The Historiographical Essay -- Engaging with Primary Sources : The Research Paper -- Conclusion: The Open-Ended Nature of History -- Appendix A: Published Bibliographies -- Appendix B: Major Databases for Bibliographic Searching -- Appendix C: Footnote/Endnote Formatting -- Appendix D: Bibliography Formatting -- Appendix E: Commonly Used Abbreviations.…”

John Brown in memory and myth / by Daigh, Michael, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…The lehrejahre -- How the true world finally became a fable -- Rationality ex post facto -- New millennium homes -- The prejudices of philosophers and historians -- Peoples and nations -- The stillest hour -- The land of education -- Part II. …”
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John Brown in memory and myth / by Daigh, Michael, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…The lehrejahre -- How the true world finally became a fable -- Rationality ex post facto -- New millennium homes -- The prejudices of philosophers and historians -- Peoples and nations -- The stillest hour -- The land of education -- Part II. …”
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Presidential leadership : from Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman / by Ferrell, Robert H.

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"I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish, from right to left" the poetics of Boris Slutsky / by Grinberg, Marat, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Historiography -- The Ur-suite of 1940/41: "poems about Jews and Tatars" -- The poet-historian: transplantation added -- A blessed curse: The midrash of 1947-53 -- Looking at the burned planet: the post-holocaust verse -- The resurrected remnant: of horses and metapoetics -- Pt. 2. …”
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"I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish, from right to left" the poetics of Boris Slutsky / by Grinberg, Marat, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Historiography -- The Ur-suite of 1940/41: "poems about Jews and Tatars" -- The poet-historian: transplantation added -- A blessed curse: The midrash of 1947-53 -- Looking at the burned planet: the post-holocaust verse -- The resurrected remnant: of horses and metapoetics -- Pt. 2. …”
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Literary celebrity, gender, and Victorian authorship, 1850-1914 by Easley, Alexis, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Harriet Martineau: gender, national identity, and the contemporary historian; rooms of the past: Victorian women writers, history, and the reconstruction of domestic space -- Part III: Celebrity and fin de siecle print culture. …”
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Presidential leadership : from Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman / by Ferrell, Robert H.

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Literary celebrity, gender, and Victorian authorship, 1850-1914 by Easley, Alexis, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Harriet Martineau: gender, national identity, and the contemporary historian; rooms of the past: Victorian women writers, history, and the reconstruction of domestic space -- Part III: Celebrity and fin de siecle print culture. …”
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The land beyond the mists essays on identity and authority in precolonial Congo and Rwanda / by Newbury, David S.

Table of Contents: “…Bushi and the historians : historiographical themes in eastern Kivu -- Recent historical research in the area of Lake Kivu : Rwanda and Zaire -- Lake Kivu regional trade in the nineteenth century -- Kamo and lubambo : dual genesis traditions on Ijwi Island -- The campaigns of Rwabugiri -- Rwabugiri and Ijwi -- King and chief on Ijwi Island -- The clans of Rwanda : a historical hypothesis -- Bunyabungo : the western frontier in Rwanda, ca. 1750-1850 -- What role has kingship? …”
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The land beyond the mists essays on identity and authority in precolonial Congo and Rwanda / by Newbury, David S.

Table of Contents: “…Bushi and the historians : historiographical themes in eastern Kivu -- Recent historical research in the area of Lake Kivu : Rwanda and Zaire -- Lake Kivu regional trade in the nineteenth century -- Kamo and lubambo : dual genesis traditions on Ijwi Island -- The campaigns of Rwabugiri -- Rwabugiri and Ijwi -- King and chief on Ijwi Island -- The clans of Rwanda : a historical hypothesis -- Bunyabungo : the western frontier in Rwanda, ca. 1750-1850 -- What role has kingship? …”
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The Play and Place of Criticism by Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000

Table of Contents: “…Critical dogma and the new critical historians. Platonism, Manichaeism, and the resolution of tension. …”
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The Play and Place of Criticism by Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000

Table of Contents: “…Critical dogma and the new critical historians. Platonism, Manichaeism, and the resolution of tension. …”
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The unsustainable American state

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- American state building: the theoretical challenge / Desmond King, Robert C. Lieberman -- A historian's reflection on the unsustainable American state / Lizabeth Cohen -- Taking stock / Stephen Skowronek.…”
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The power of knowledge : how information and technology made the modern world / by Black, Jeremy, 1955-

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The unsustainable American state

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- American state building: the theoretical challenge / Desmond King, Robert C. Lieberman -- A historian's reflection on the unsustainable American state / Lizabeth Cohen -- Taking stock / Stephen Skowronek.…”
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The power of knowledge : how information and technology made the modern world / by Black, Jeremy, 1955-

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Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928–1931 /

Table of Contents: “…Cultural revolution as class war / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Society, state, and ideology during the first five-year plan / Moshe Lewin -- Educational strategies and cultural revolution : the politics of Soviet development / Gail Warshofsky Lapidus -- The construction of the Stalinist psyche / David Joravsky -- Rural scholars and the cultural revolution / Susan Gross Solomon -- Marxist historians during the cultural revolution : a case study of professional in-fighting / George M. …”
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Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928–1931 /

Table of Contents: “…Cultural revolution as class war / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Society, state, and ideology during the first five-year plan / Moshe Lewin -- Educational strategies and cultural revolution : the politics of Soviet development / Gail Warshofsky Lapidus -- The construction of the Stalinist psyche / David Joravsky -- Rural scholars and the cultural revolution / Susan Gross Solomon -- Marxist historians during the cultural revolution : a case study of professional in-fighting / George M. …”
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