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The Traitors Circle

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

by Jonathan Freedland ...

Narrated by Jonathan Freedland ...

Unabridged

12 hours 41 min

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE ARTISTA THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Magnificent . . . Important and impressive'DAILY TELEGRAPH'Astonishing . . . Freedland is a master'MICK HERRON'Remarkable . . . This is how the best history books will be wri... ... Read more

£24.99

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE ARTISTA THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Magnificent . . . Important and impressive'DAILY TELEGRAPH'Astonishing . . . Freedland is a master'MICK HERRON'Remarkable . . . This is how the best history books will be wri...
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Rosendorfer, Dt. Geschichte Vol. 1 bis 8

by Herbert Rosendorfer ...

Narrated by Gert Heidenreich ...

Series series Deutsche Geschichte - Ein Versuch
Abridged

33 hours

1850 Jahre Deutsche Geschichte erzählt mit bestechender Sachkenntnis und feinsinniger Beobachtungsgabe von einem der größten lebenden deutschsprachigen Literaten. Jetzt liegen erstmals alle 28 Einzel-CDs ungekürzt und gesammelt in einem einzigen repräsentativen Jubiläums-Download vor! Das sind im Einzelnen: 01: Von den Anfängen bis zum Wormser Konkordat 02: Von der Stauferzeit bis zu König Wenzel ... Read more

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1850 Jahre Deutsche Geschichte erzählt mit bestechender Sachkenntnis und feinsinniger Beobachtungsgabe von einem der größten lebenden deutschsprachigen Literaten. Jetzt liegen erstmals alle 28 Einzel-CDs ungekürzt und gesammelt in einem einzigen repräsentativen Jubiläums-Download vor! Das sind im Einzelnen: 01: Von den Anfängen bis zum Wormser Konkordat 02: Von der Stauferzeit bis zu König Wenzel
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Rosendorfer, Dt. Geschichte Vol. 1 bis 8

by Herbert Rosendorfer ...

Narrated by Gert Heidenreich ...

Series series Deutsche Geschichte - Ein Versuch
Abridged

33 hours

1850 Jahre Deutsche Geschichte erzählt mit bestechender Sachkenntnis und feinsinniger Beobachtungsgabe von einem der größten lebenden deutschsprachigen Literaten. Jetzt liegen erstmals alle 28 Einzel-CDs ungekürzt und gesammelt in einem einzigen repräsentativen Jubiläums-Download vor! Das sind im Einzelnen: 01: Von den Anfängen bis zum Wormser Konkordat 02: Von der Stauferzeit bis zu König Wenzel ... Read more

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1850 Jahre Deutsche Geschichte erzählt mit bestechender Sachkenntnis und feinsinniger Beobachtungsgabe von einem der größten lebenden deutschsprachigen Literaten. Jetzt liegen erstmals alle 28 Einzel-CDs ungekürzt und gesammelt in einem einzigen repräsentativen Jubiläums-Download vor! Das sind im Einzelnen: 01: Von den Anfängen bis zum Wormser Konkordat 02: Von der Stauferzeit bis zu König Wenzel
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Millennium

The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

by Tom Holland ...

Narrated by Tom Holland, Mark Meadows ...

Unabridged

17 hours 32 min

Bestselling historian and broadcaster Tom Holland gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000'An exhilarating sweep across European history either side of the year 1000; riveting' ALLAN MASSIE, SPECTATOR'I relished the blood and thunder narrative - the work of a great storyteller at his best' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, EVENING STANDARD'A splendid, highly ... Read more

£19.99

Bestselling historian and broadcaster Tom Holland gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000'An exhilarating sweep across European history either side of the year 1000; riveting' ALLAN MASSIE, SPECTATOR'I relished the blood and thunder narrative - the work of a great storyteller at his best' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, EVENING STANDARD'A splendid, highly
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Medieval Horizons

Why the Middle Ages Matter

by Ian Mortimer ...

Narrated by Ian Mortimer ...

Unabridged

10 hours 23 min

Brought to you by Penguin.We tend to think about the Middle Ages as a dark and backward time, characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. We believe that life was unchanging over the period, so if a peasant fell asleep in in the year 1000 and woke up six hundred years later, he would return to a world that was instantly recognisable. We hold that change is facilitated by science and ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.We tend to think about the Middle Ages as a dark and backward time, characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. We believe that life was unchanging over the period, so if a peasant fell asleep in in the year 1000 and woke up six hundred years later, he would return to a world that was instantly recognisable. We hold that change is facilitated by science and
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Winters in the World

A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

by Eleanor Parker ...

Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon ...

Unabridged

8 hours 18 min

Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seasons in medieval England.Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs, and traditions linked to the different seasons. Drawing on a wide variety of source material, including poetry, histories, and ... Read more

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Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seasons in medieval England.Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs, and traditions linked to the different seasons. Drawing on a wide variety of source material, including poetry, histories, and
... Read more
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A Less Boring History of the World

by Dave Rear ...

Narrated by Miles Jupp ...

Unabridged

4 hours 55 min

Refreshes the parts other history books can’t reach...A bit ropy on the Renaissance?In the dark about the Enlightenment?Or, in fact, do you need a revision course on the entire history of the world and want to read a witty, irreverent, definitely not boring romp through everything that has ever happened on planet earth – from 15 billion years BC to the present day?Good.A Less Boring History of the ... Read more

£9.99

Refreshes the parts other history books can’t reach...A bit ropy on the Renaissance?In the dark about the Enlightenment?Or, in fact, do you need a revision course on the entire history of the world and want to read a witty, irreverent, definitely not boring romp through everything that has ever happened on planet earth – from 15 billion years BC to the present day?Good.A Less Boring History of the
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Voices of a People’s History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition

by Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove ...

Narrated by Robert Fass, Prentice Onayemi, Allyson Johnson, Vivienne Leheny, Jennifer Ikeda, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Raphael Corkhill, Vikas Adam, various narrators, Justin D. Torres ...

Unabridged

31 hours 15 min

Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her thirty-five-year prison sentence; Naomi Klein, speaking ... Read more

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Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her thirty-five-year prison sentence; Naomi Klein, speaking
... Read more
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On This Day in History

by Dan Snow ...

Narrated by Dan Snow ...

Unabridged

12 hours 7 min

'History is an infinite reservoir of stories, examples, warnings, explanations, jokes, rebukes and inspiration . . . You can't understand the present if you can't understand the past' DAN SNOW3000 years of the most important stories from the past in 365 days -- from the Ides of March to D-Day, from Britain's favourite historian.In ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY Dan Snow, Britain's favourite historian, ... Read more

£21.99

'History is an infinite reservoir of stories, examples, warnings, explanations, jokes, rebukes and inspiration . . . You can't understand the present if you can't understand the past' DAN SNOW3000 years of the most important stories from the past in 365 days -- from the Ides of March to D-Day, from Britain's favourite historian.In ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY Dan Snow, Britain's favourite historian,
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Daylight Robbery

How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future

by Dominic Frisby ...

Narrated by Dominic Frisby ...

Unabridged

8 hours 48 min

'Fuel for the post-Christmas lunch argument' Financial TimesDeath and taxes are our inevitable fate. We've been told this since the beginning of civilisation. But what if we stopped to question our antiquated system? Is it fair? And is it capable of serving the needs of our rapidly-changing, modern society?In Daylight Robbery, Dominic Frisby traces the origins of taxation, from its roots in the ... Read more

£13.99

'Fuel for the post-Christmas lunch argument' Financial TimesDeath and taxes are our inevitable fate. We've been told this since the beginning of civilisation. But what if we stopped to question our antiquated system? Is it fair? And is it capable of serving the needs of our rapidly-changing, modern society?In Daylight Robbery, Dominic Frisby traces the origins of taxation, from its roots in the
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White Pine

The Natural and Human History of a Foundational American Tree

by John Pastor ...

Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

Unabridged

6 hours 26 min

America was built on white pine. From the 1600s through the Civil War and beyond, it was used to build the nation's ships and houses, barns, and bridges. Yet this popularity came at a cost: by the end of the nineteenth century, clear cutting had decimated much of America's white pine forests. In White Pine, ecologist and writer John Pastor takes listeners on walk through history, connecting the ... Read more

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America was built on white pine. From the 1600s through the Civil War and beyond, it was used to build the nation's ships and houses, barns, and bridges. Yet this popularity came at a cost: by the end of the nineteenth century, clear cutting had decimated much of America's white pine forests. In White Pine, ecologist and writer John Pastor takes listeners on walk through history, connecting the
... Read more
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The Frontiers of Knowledge

What We Know About Science, History and The Mind

by A. C. Grayling ...

Narrated by Richard Goulding ...

Unabridged

13 hours 43 min

Brought to you by Penguin.In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5% of the universe; pre-history is still being revealed, with thousands of historical sites yet to be explored; and the ... Read more

£13.99

Brought to you by Penguin.In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5% of the universe; pre-history is still being revealed, with thousands of historical sites yet to be explored; and the
... Read more
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Alte Geschichte: Die Germanen

by Bruno Bleckmann ...

Narrated by Bruno Bleckmann ...

Series series uni auditorium
Abridged

51 min

Nach der Varusschlacht und einigen Folgekämpfen unterließen es die Römer, das Gebiet rechts des Rheines zur Provinz zu machen. Die Germanen blieben außerhalb des Reichsverbandes, was zu tiefgreifenden Folgen für die deutsche und die europäische Geschichte führte. Die Germanen sind zwar nicht die "alten Deutschen", aber doch wesentlicher Teil der deutschen Vorgeschichte. Die Vorlesung stellt ... Read more

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Nach der Varusschlacht und einigen Folgekämpfen unterließen es die Römer, das Gebiet rechts des Rheines zur Provinz zu machen. Die Germanen blieben außerhalb des Reichsverbandes, was zu tiefgreifenden Folgen für die deutsche und die europäische Geschichte führte. Die Germanen sind zwar nicht die "alten Deutschen", aber doch wesentlicher Teil der deutschen Vorgeschichte. Die Vorlesung stellt
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Zeit - Postmoderne

Vorlesung von Prof. Dr. Karlheinz A. Geißler

by Karlheinz A. Geißler ...

Narrated by Karlheinz A. Geißler ...

Series series uni auditorium
Abridged

1 hour 10 min

WAS IST ZEIT? Es gibt unterschiedliche Zeitverständnisse. Mit den jeweils herrschenden Zeitvorstellungen wird in der Gesellschaft Ordnung gemacht und auch die Individuen strukturieren mit ihrem Zeitverständnis ihr Leben und dessen Verlauf. In der Postmoderne wird das Zeitverständnis und das Zeithandeln weitgehend von den Non-Stop-Technologien bestimmt. Das Zeithandeln richtet sich in erster Linie ... Read more

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WAS IST ZEIT? Es gibt unterschiedliche Zeitverständnisse. Mit den jeweils herrschenden Zeitvorstellungen wird in der Gesellschaft Ordnung gemacht und auch die Individuen strukturieren mit ihrem Zeitverständnis ihr Leben und dessen Verlauf. In der Postmoderne wird das Zeitverständnis und das Zeithandeln weitgehend von den Non-Stop-Technologien bestimmt. Das Zeithandeln richtet sich in erster Linie
... Read more
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Libertés urbaines

by Patrick Boucheron ...

Narrated by Patrick Boucheron ...

Unabridged

1 hour 35 min

Le parcours d'un professeur au Collège de France engagé dans la cité.Penser la ville médiévale à l'échelle du monde.Une réflexion sur la pratique émancipatrice de l'historien.Partant de l'adage médiéval " l'air d de la ville rend libre ", qui rend compte du fait que les hommes s'émancipent des dépendances anciennes par le seul fait qu'ils entrent en ville, Patrick Boucheron retrace le parcours qui ... Read more

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Le parcours d'un professeur au Collège de France engagé dans la cité.Penser la ville médiévale à l'échelle du monde.Une réflexion sur la pratique émancipatrice de l'historien.Partant de l'adage médiéval " l'air d de la ville rend libre ", qui rend compte du fait que les hommes s'émancipent des dépendances anciennes par le seul fait qu'ils entrent en ville, Patrick Boucheron retrace le parcours qui
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Puget's Sound

A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound

by Murray Morgan ...

Narrated by Bob Souer ...

Unabridged

14 hours 34 min

With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, "the City of Destiny," and southern Puget Sound, where many major events of Washington's history took place. Drawing upon original journals and reports, Morgan builds Puget's Sound around individuals, interweaving portraits of well-known ... Read more

£21.99

With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, "the City of Destiny," and southern Puget Sound, where many major events of Washington's history took place. Drawing upon original journals and reports, Morgan builds Puget's Sound around individuals, interweaving portraits of well-known
... Read more
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Children's Nursery Rhymes - Part One

The Dark History & Origins of Kid's Nursery Rhymes

by Albert ...

Narrated by Jack ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Children's Nursery Rhymes
Unabridged

1 hour 47 min

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, They Laughed at Galileo:The historical significance of children’s rhymes is often lost on most adults, let alone the children who learn them by heart almost as soon as they learn to say anything at all. For all of us, the first things we are taught, ... Read more

£2.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, They Laughed at Galileo:The historical significance of children’s rhymes is often lost on most adults, let alone the children who learn them by heart almost as soon as they learn to say anything at all. For all of us, the first things we are taught,
... Read more
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Mythos Südsee

Die Entdeckung des Blauen Kontinents Pazifik

by Ulrich Offenberg ...

Narrated by Claus Brockmeyer, Christian Baumann ...

Abridged

2 hours 33 min

Es begann mit einer theatralischen Inszenierung: 1513 tauchte der Spanier Vasco Nuenz de Balboa sein Schwert in die Fluten des Stillen Ozeans und nahm damit symbolisch die Südsee für seinen König in Besitz. Der Edelmann ahnte damals nicht, dass er den größten Ozean der Erde entdeckt hatte. Ein Gebiet mit 20.000 Inseln, so groß wie die Oberfläche des Mondes. Ihm folgten Portugiesen, Holländer und ... Read more

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Es begann mit einer theatralischen Inszenierung: 1513 tauchte der Spanier Vasco Nuenz de Balboa sein Schwert in die Fluten des Stillen Ozeans und nahm damit symbolisch die Südsee für seinen König in Besitz. Der Edelmann ahnte damals nicht, dass er den größten Ozean der Erde entdeckt hatte. Ein Gebiet mit 20.000 Inseln, so groß wie die Oberfläche des Mondes. Ihm folgten Portugiesen, Holländer und
... Read more
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Магия Нового года. Легенды, обычаи и тайны новогоднего волшебства со всего света

by Коллектив авторов ...

Narrated by Алина Белоусова ...

Series series Новый год
Unabridged

3 hours 33 min

Каждый Новый год мы украшаем елку, готовим подарки, режем любимые салаты и загадываем желания под бой курантов. Но почему мы вообще это делаем? Откуда взялся главный праздник страны и традиции, к которым мы возвращаемся каждый год? Эта книга — настоящий путеводитель в мир новогодней магии. Винтажное оформление, чудесные рисунки и яркие фотографии увлекут за собой в атмосферу праздника, а ... Read more

£9.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

Каждый Новый год мы украшаем елку, готовим подарки, режем любимые салаты и загадываем желания под бой курантов. Но почему мы вообще это делаем? Откуда взялся главный праздник страны и традиции, к которым мы возвращаемся каждый год? Эта книга — настоящий путеводитель в мир новогодней магии. Винтажное оформление, чудесные рисунки и яркие фотографии увлекут за собой в атмосферу праздника, а
... Read more
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Die neuen Weltwunder (Ungekürzt)

by Bernd Ingmar Gutberlet ...

Narrated by Kerstin Hoffmann ...

Unabridged

1 hour 8 min

Weltwissen leicht gemacht! Jedem sind die sieben Weltwunder des Altertums ein Begriff, und an alle knüpft sich Wissen über die Weltgeschichte. Doch zu allen Zeiten - ob prähistorisch oder zeitgeschichtlich - haben die Menschen Bauwerke errichtet, steinerne Zeugen einer bestimmten Kultur und Epoche. Ob das Kolosseum in Rom, die Chinesische Mauer, die Felsenstadt Petra, das Taj Mahal in Agra oder ... Read more

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Weltwissen leicht gemacht! Jedem sind die sieben Weltwunder des Altertums ein Begriff, und an alle knüpft sich Wissen über die Weltgeschichte. Doch zu allen Zeiten - ob prähistorisch oder zeitgeschichtlich - haben die Menschen Bauwerke errichtet, steinerne Zeugen einer bestimmten Kultur und Epoche. Ob das Kolosseum in Rom, die Chinesische Mauer, die Felsenstadt Petra, das Taj Mahal in Agra oder
... Read more
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America's First Constitution: The Articles of Confederation

by John Dickinson and Various Authors ...

Narrated by AI Voice ...

Unabridged

25 min

This program is read by an AI-based synthesized voice. ... Read more

£3.99

This program is read by an AI-based synthesized voice.
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Radical Volunteers

Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee

by Katherine J. Ballantyne ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

Unabridged

9 hours 32 min

Radical Volunteers tells the largely unknown story of southern student activism in Tennessee between the Brown decision in 1954 and the national backlash against the Kent State University shootings in May 1970. As one of the first statewide studies of student activism—and one of the few examinations of southern student activism—it broadens scholarly understanding of New Left and Black student ... Read more

£18.99

Radical Volunteers tells the largely unknown story of southern student activism in Tennessee between the Brown decision in 1954 and the national backlash against the Kent State University shootings in May 1970. As one of the first statewide studies of student activism—and one of the few examinations of southern student activism—it broadens scholarly understanding of New Left and Black student
... Read more
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The History Book

Big Ideas Simply Explained

by DK ...

Narrated by Gordon Griffin ...

Series series DK Big Ideas
Unabridged

18 hours 11 min

Discover the key themes and big ideas behind more than 80 of the world's most important historical events - from the dawn of civilization to the 21st century.From the origins of Homo sapiens to the Space Race, and from the French Revolution to the Digital Revolution, this instalment in the bestselling Big Ideas series offers an essential exploration of the human timeline up to and including the ... Read more

£16.99

Discover the key themes and big ideas behind more than 80 of the world's most important historical events - from the dawn of civilization to the 21st century.From the origins of Homo sapiens to the Space Race, and from the French Revolution to the Digital Revolution, this instalment in the bestselling Big Ideas series offers an essential exploration of the human timeline up to and including the
... Read more
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The Ever-Changing Past

Why All History is Revisionist History

by James M. Banner, Jr. ...

Narrated by Bob Souer ...

Unabridged

11 hours

History is not, and has never been, inert, certain, merely factual, and beyond reinterpretation. Taking listeners from Thucydides to the origin of the French Revolution to the Civil War and beyond, James M. Banner, Jr. explores what historians do and why they do it.Banner shows why historical knowledge is unlikely ever to be unchanging, why history as a branch of knowledge is always a search for ... Read more

£14.99

History is not, and has never been, inert, certain, merely factual, and beyond reinterpretation. Taking listeners from Thucydides to the origin of the French Revolution to the Civil War and beyond, James M. Banner, Jr. explores what historians do and why they do it.Banner shows why historical knowledge is unlikely ever to be unchanging, why history as a branch of knowledge is always a search for
... Read more

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