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1. History Bundle RC

   Series: Routledge Classics

   Published August 31st 2011 by Routledge
2. Napoleon

   By Georges Lefebvre

   Series: Routledge Classics

   With a new introduction by Andrew Roberts. 'A penetrating interpretation...No one with a serious interest in the Napoleonic period can afford to ignore it. ' - Times Literary Supplement Whether viewed as an inspired leader or obsessed tyrant, Napoleon has divided opinion for over 200 years. Few...

   Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge
3. How the Irish Became White

   By Noel Ignatiev

   Series: Routledge Classics

   '…from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, Amherst The Irish came to America in...

   Published September 10th 2008 by Routledge
4. RC History Bundle

   Series: Routledge Classics

   Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge
5. Learning to Curse

   Essays in Early Modern Culture

   By Stephen Greenblatt

   Series: Routledge Classics

   Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from which it sprang. His approach - 'New Historicism' - drew from history, anthropology, Marxist theory, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis and in...

   Published February 25th 2007 by Routledge
6. Judgements on History and Historians

   By Jacob Burckhardt

   Series: Routledge Classics

   Western Civilisation was in its pomp when Jacob Burckhardt delivered his Judgements on History and Historians; European Empires spanned the globe, while the modern age was being forged in the nationalist revolutions of 1848. As a tutor to the young Friedrich Nietzsche as well as one of the first...

   Published January 31st 2007 by Routledge
7. The Use and Abuse of History

   Or How the Past is Taught to Children, 2nd Edition

   By Marc Ferro

   Series: Routledge Classics

   Use and Abuse of History has become a key text of current historiography; this is a book that poses fundamental and disturbing questions about the use and abuse of history. Engaging and challenging, this book confronts the reader with the many 'histories' that exist and have existed around the...

   Published August 20th 2003 by Routledge
8. Rethinking History

   3rd Edition

   By Keith Jenkins

   Series: Routledge Classics

   History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer. If you want to explore this tantalising subject, where do you start? What are the critical skills you need to begin to make sense of the past? The perfect...

   Published February 5th 2003 by Routledge
9. The Century of Revolution 1603-1714

   2nd Edition

   By Christopher Hill

   Series: Routledge Classics

   In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the best concise history of the period, Century of Revolution. Stimulating, vivid and provocative, his graphic depiction of the turbulent era examines ordinary English men and women as well as kings and queens. Hill argued...

   Published October 11th 2001 by Routledge
10. The Great War

    1914–1918, 2nd Edition

    By Marc Ferro

    Series: Routledge Classics

    A landmark history of the war that firmly places the First World War in the context of imperialism and gives due weight to the role of non-Europeans in the conflict....

    Published October 11th 2001 by Routledge