Joseph A. Amato

Joseph A. Amato’s Followers (6)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Joseph A. Amato


Born
in Detroit, Michigan, The United States
August 31, 1938

Died
January 24, 2025

Website


Joseph A. Amato was an American author and scholar. Amato was a history professor and university dean of local and regional history. He has written extensively on European intellectual and cultural history, and the history of Southwestern Minnesota. Since retiring, he has continued publishing history books, as well as five poetry collections and his first novel.

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.55 · 223 ratings · 38 reviews · 33 distinct works • Similar authors
Dust: A History of the Smal...
3.29 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Rethinking Home: A Case for...
by
3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
On Foot: A History of Walking
3.58 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
When Father and Son Conspir...
3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Jacob's Well: A Case for Re...
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Surfaces: A History
3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Great Jerusalem Articho...
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Mounier and Maritain: A Fre...
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1975 — 4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Southwest Minnesota : the L...
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Servants of the Land: God, ...
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
More books by Joseph A. Amato…
Quotes by Joseph A. Amato  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“The family historian must master the art of storytelling. What, after all, is truth without anecdote, history without events, explanation without narration--or yet life itself without a story? Stories are not just the wells from which we drink most deeply but at the same time the golden threads that hold and bind--Ariadne's precious string that leads us through the labyrinth that connects living present and the living past.”
― Joseph A. Amato, Jacob's Well: A Case for Rethinking Family History
tags: genealogy, history, stories, writing
2 likes
Like

“Woven of fad and fancy, commerce and technology, war and revolution, freedom and necessity, our individual histories testify to the singular but crooked paths along which we traveled to the present.”
― Joseph A. Amato, Jacob's Well: A Case for Rethinking Family History
tags: genealogy, history
0 likes
Like

“And as much as history serves as a medium for discovering the past, it also is, we confess, a means to invent it.”
― Joseph A. Amato, Jacob's Well: A Case for Rethinking Family History
tags: history
0 likes
Like