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What Is History? (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,847 ratings — published 1961
The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It. (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as historiography)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,189 ratings — published 1949
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,175 ratings — published 2002
In Defense of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,442 ratings — published 1997
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as historiography)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,554 ratings — published 1995
The Idea of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.95 — 739 ratings — published 1946
Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought (Perfect Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.86 — 449 ratings — published 1970
History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by (shelved 51 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,230 ratings — published 2000
That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.59 — 622 ratings — published 1988
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.46 — 410 ratings — published 1983
Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.95 — 463 ratings — published 1973
On History (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.99 — 603 ratings — published 1997
The Uses and Abuses of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,235 ratings — published 2008
Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.42 — 495 ratings — published 1997
Gender and the Politics of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.85 — 543 ratings — published 1988
Telling the Truth About History (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.34 — 485 ratings — published 1994
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as historiography)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,398 ratings — published 1978
A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.78 — 458 ratings — published 2007
The Whig Interpretation of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.81 — 431 ratings — published 1931
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as historiography)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,017 ratings — published 1983
Thinking About History (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as historiography)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,026 ratings — published 2017
The Pursuit of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.44 — 805 ratings — published 1984
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.89 — 903 ratings — published 2000
The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.94 — 378 ratings — published 2008
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as historiography)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,250 ratings — published -430
The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.56 — 500 ratings — published 1999
Re-thinking History (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.72 — 598 ratings — published 1991
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.97 — 76,775 ratings — published 1995
From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.59 — 331 ratings — published 2015
From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.30 — 360 ratings — published 2001
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as historiography)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,584 ratings — published 1976
Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought.)
by (shelved 19 times as historiography)
avg rating 4.19 — 283 ratings — published 1985
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as historiography)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,769 ratings — published 1963
The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School, 1929-1989 (Key Contemporary Thinkers)
by (shelved 19 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.79 — 408 ratings — published 1990
A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.49 — 140 ratings — published 2005
The Philosophy of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,837 ratings — published 1831
Writing History in the Global Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.46 — 261 ratings — published 2014
The Practice of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.58 — 120 ratings — published 1967
A Global History of Modern Historiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.22 — 79 ratings — published 2008
The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.96 — 239 ratings — published 1994
Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.92 — 193 ratings — published 2005
New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as historiography)
avg rating 4.01 — 962 ratings — published 1725
History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.33 — 299 ratings — published 1991
The Lessons of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as historiography)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,743 ratings — published 1968
What is History, Now? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as historiography)
avg rating 4.09 — 532 ratings — published 2021
Oral Tradition as History (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.70 — 80 ratings — published 1965
Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.87 — 319 ratings — published 2002
A Concise History of History: Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge Concise Histories)
by (shelved 13 times as historiography)
avg rating 3.50 — 86 ratings — published
The Poverty of Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as historiography)
avg rating 4.01 — 183 ratings — published 1978
Histories and Fallacies: Problems Faced in the Writing of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as historiography)
avg rating 4.10 — 590 ratings — published 2010
“Women did not stand by and watch these changes occur. They participated, tangentially and head on, in debates about history writing that effected change.”
― British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820
― British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820
“If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts;
Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void”
― Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures
Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void”
― Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures
