An examination and critique of the work of a diverse group of Eurocentric historians who have strongly shaped our understanding of world history. Blaut focuses on such thinkers as Max Weber and Robert Brenner, and looks at the role they played in generating colonialist understandings of history.
Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
Suitable for those interested in historical methods and the search for the historical Jesus, this title proposes Bayes' Theorem as a solution to the problem of establishing reliable historical criteria. It explores the theorem's application to history and addresses numerous challenges and criticisms.
This book examines the contributions of William James, John Dewey, F.C.S. Schiller, C.S. Peirce, George Herbert Mead, and Jane Addams to a case for a pragmatist philosophy of history. Together, they expand our understanding on how we process the past, which impacts our present and our future.
Each of the men and women in these stories had the courage to meet and study their enemies, gather critical intelligence, and then relay those secrets at risk of being exposed-to do what they had to because that was their duty and the lives of others meant more to them than their own.
The White House and the Presidency--21 Presidents, 21 Rooms, 21 Inside Stories
Paul Brandus, White House journalist and creator of the popular "West Wing Report," exposes lesser-known stories from the White House. Imagine Nixon in the East Room worrying over the moon mission; Edith Wilson running the country from the Master Bedroom; or Obama nervously playing spades in the Private Dining Room awaiting news on Osama bin ......
Tracing the history of the new nations of Mexico and the United States, Seijas and Frederick show how the creation of U.S. dollars and Mexican pesos paralleled these countries' efforts to establish enduring political and economic systems, clearly illustrating why these nations closed the nineteenth century on very different historical ......
The first systematic inquiry into the Texas Rangers did not begin until 1935 with Walter Prescott Webb's publication The Texas Rangers. Since then numerous works have appeared on the Rangers, but no volume has been published before that covers the various historians of the Rangers and their approaches to the topic. Editors Bruce A. Glasrud and ......
Environmental Narratives in the Huainanzi and the Anthropocene analyzes the contemporary discourse of the Anthropocene using the Huainanzi ???, an eastern Eurasian text from the second century BCE. Written to preserve and strengthen the Han Empire (202 BCE-220 CE), the Huainanzi describes a mode of rulership premised on periodizing the present as ......
