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Free Download The Militant Historian: The Concept of History in the Work of Alain Badiou
by Kerry William Purcell
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1350381055 | 249 Pages | True PDF | 3.9 MB

Free Download Gavin Kelly, "Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian "
English | ISBN: 0521842999 | 2008 | 392 pages | PDF | 215 MB
Ammianus Marcellinus is usually regarded as our most important source for the history of the second half of the fourth century AD, while his literary qualities are neglected. This book demonstrates what a subtle and manipulative writer Ammianus is; attention is paid particularly to his rich and variegated intertextuality with earlier classical literature and history. Questioning the prevailing interest in the historian’s life as the key to his work, Dr Kelly evaluates the historiographical function of the vivid and thrilling autobiographical passages. The range of Ammianus’ allusions is surveyed, including his use of classical examples, his relationship with historical source-texts and the workings of internal echoes within the history. His interactions with other texts are seen as carefully controlled and meaningful; and both his allusive techniques and writing in general, it is argued, are better viewed as reflecting a classical, rather than a late antique, aesthetic.

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Family Historian 7 has now been released. The new version brings a wealth of new features and improvements. Family Historian is a powerful, award-winning genealogy program with comprehensive features designed to meet the needs of the beginner and expert alike.

Free Download Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know by Greg Jenner, Dan Schreiber, Janina Ramirez
English | October 28, 2021 | ISBN: B091D1CDQR | 11 hours and 4 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 307 Mb
Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino heist? Who was the richest person of all time? When was the first Monday? What were history’s weirdest medical procedures that actually worked? How much horse manure was splattered on the streets of Tudor London? How fast was the medieval Chinese postal system? What did The Flintstones get right about the Stone Age? Who gets to name historical eras, and what will ours be called in 100 years’ time? How do we know how people sounded in the past? How old is sign language?
In Ask a Historian, the author, BBC podcaster and public historian Greg Jenner provides answers to things you always wondered about but didn’t know who to ask. Responding to 50 genuine questions from the public, Greg whisks you off on an entertaining tour through the ages, revealing the best and most surprising stories, facts and historical characters from the past. Bouncing through a wide range of subjects – from ancient jokebooks, African empires and bizarre tales of medicinal cannibalism, to the invention of meringues, mirrors and menstrual pads – Ask a Historian spans the Stone Age to the Swinging Sixties and offers up a deliciously amusing and informative smorgasbord of historical curiosities, devoured one morsel at a time.
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Free Download Adam B. Ulam, "Understanding the Cold War: A Historian’s Personal Reflections"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0765808854 | PDF | pages: 433 | 1.8 mb
Understanding the Cold War is the story of a man and an epoch. Its telling moves between detailed personal history and an Olympian assessment of the origins, significant events, and outcome of the Cold War. Professor Ulam describes his hometown, family, and early education, as well as his departure, with his brother, for the U.S. just days before the Nazi invasion of Poland would have trapped them. Then follows reminiscences of his college and Harvard years, all rich with anecdote and insight, and his thoughts as an acknowledged expert on Soviet affairs. The volume offers basic antidotes to simplistic explanations. Whether discussing the Kirov assassination or the Moscow Trials of the so-called Trotskyist Bloc, or the nationalist basis of disputes between China and Russia during the Vietnam War period, Ulam avoids the sensational and the speculative in favor of the the empirical and the evidentiary.

Free Download Pierre Bourdieu, "The Sociologist and the Historian"
English | ISBN: 0745679595 | 2015 | 100 pages | AZW3 | 197 KB
In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadcast on French public radio. Published here for the first time, these conversations are an accessible and engaging introduction to the work of these two great thinkers, who discuss their work and explore the similarities and differences between their disciplines with the clarity and frankness of the spoken word.

Free Download The Historian’s Toolbox; A Student’s Guide to the Theory and Craft of History
by Robert C. Williams
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032755970 | 245 pages | True PDF | 9.32 MB

Free Download The Historian of Islam at Work: Essays in Honor of Hugh N. Kennedy
by Letizia Osti and Maaike Van Berkel
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9004525238 | 694 Pages | True PDF | 8.2 MB

Free Download Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale By Judith T. Zeitlin
1997 | 348 Pages | ISBN: 0804729689 | PDF | 8 MB
This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai’s Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.

Free Download M. I. Finley: An Ancient Historian and his Impact
by Daniel Jew, Robin Osborne
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1107149266 | 354 Pages | True PDF | 29 MB