Search Results for: “Professor of History David Underdown (Yale University)”

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to write history from the margins — from the factory floor, the enslaved quarters,...

A provocative, original and compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not...

A titanic history of the three great oceans - the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian - and of mankind's relationship with the sea from the first voyagers to the...

A comprehensive and authoritative history that explores the significance of one of the most famous buildings and institutions in England Westminster Abbey was one of the most powerful churches in...

Author: David LowBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsLow's The Fearful Fifties: A History Of The Decade chronicles a pivotal era, meticulously...

A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey...

'A brilliant concept, executed with enviable elegance' Lucy Worsley'A gem of a book. Thanks to Daisy Dunn's elegant and lively retelling of history, the women of the ancient world are...

Where have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular place? This evocative historical journey around the world shows us. After...

A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey...

An award-winning historian's "searing" (Wall Street Journal) account of America's internal slave trade-and its role in the making of AmericaSlave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery....

Few things have defined America as much as slavery. In the wake of emancipation the story of the Underground Railroad has become a seemingly irresistible part of American historical consciousness....

Over a remarkable career Bernard Bailyn has reshaped our understanding of the early American past. Inscribing his superb scholarship with passion and imagination honed by a commitment to rigor, Bailyn...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2845 Eighteen books on the American project — its history, its failures, its myths, and its arguments with itself — spanning Civil War...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2848 Eighteen books on the big questions facing the modern world — climate change, globalisation, the future of the internet, the emptying oceans,...

This comprehensive anthology of newly translated writings presents some of Aron's most important essays in 20th-century intellectual history and political commentary.. In this collection of essays written over a period...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis scholarly compilation presents a curated selection of foundational texts from the most influential...

It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged...

An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodA cornerstone of American economic scholarship, American Economic History by Harold Underwood Faulkner presents a sweeping and authoritative chronicle of the United...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback, worn spine. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Long before the first cities rose or the first words...

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Author: Philip TempleBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press, 2008Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis academic volume meticulously chronicles the rich architectural and social history of South and East Clerkenwell. It...

Author: Stephen GreenblattBinding: PaperbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1994Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis work of historical scholarship illuminates a pivotal era in European history, spanning from the late...

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In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays-many published here for the first time-Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and bestselling author David McCullough affirms the value of history, how we can be guided...

Author: Philip TempleBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press, 2008Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Reading copy with markingsCondition remarks: Minimal markings in grey lead. This authoritative volume, Survey Of London: Volume Xlvii:...

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Author: Susan Weber SorosBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press, 2007Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: HEAVYJames Athenian Stuart: The Rediscovery Of Antiquity by Susan Weber Soros chronicles the...

G.M.Trevelyan, as well as being a best-selling historian, was Regius Professor of History and Master of Trinity College Cambridge and Chancellor of the University of Newcastle. He was awarded the...

Author: Philip Temple; Colin Thom Binding: HardbackPublished: Yale , 2017Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative work of architectural history presents South-East Marylebone through a meticulous survey of its...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Long before independent cinema became a cultural institution, a raw, subversive movement was...

Updated to include events through the year 2000, the Millennial Edition of The Timetables of American History -- an entertaining, authoritative survey of our nation's history, presented in the popular...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the towering civilisations of Mesopotamia to the twilight of the medieval world, the Larousse Encyclopedia of Ancient and Medieval History is a monumental...

Author: Mark BakerBinding: PaperbackPublished: The University of Melbourne, The History Department, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis academic collection, History On The...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the crossroads of history, philosophy, and political thought,...

This introductory text is written for students faced with the question "what is history?' Polemical in tone, the book argues against a skills-based approach to history in favour of a...

"In the best John Feinstein tradition" ( Booklist ) the greatest college basketball story in decades--the Butler Bulldogs and their improbable run to two straight NCAA National Championship games--now updated...

'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' The Times'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and as a writer, to illuminate abstruse and abstract ideas with human charm' ObserverIn...

Author: David N. LivingstoneFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 552 pagesPublished: Princeton University Press, United States, 2024How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity.Scientists, journalists, and...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsIn Historian’s Quest, Gabriel Jackson offers a deeply personal and intellectually rigorous account of his two-decade journey into the heart...

Author: John HarrisBinding: PaperbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1994Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis scholarly work chronicles the profound influence of the Palladian...