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Riding the Iron Rooster is a travel book by Paul Theroux primarily about his travels through China in the 1980s. One of his aims was to disprove the Chinese proverb, You can always deceive foreigners". It won the 1989 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award."
To attempt an introduction to a Guide to Devon and Cornwall is rather like trying to describe an apple and an orange in the same breath From an appropriate distance the two objects have a strong resemblance, the nearer you approach them the more different from each other they prove to be. No two adjoining counties in England are, I fancy, so dissımılar. It is even difficult for the casual tou…
Tus is a book about both the method, and the meaning, of history. It is, first of all, an introduction to the use of oral sources by the historian. But the very use of these sources raises fundamental issues, and I have decided to take these at the beginning, moving step by step towards the more practical later chapters. At the same time, I have tried to write with many different types of reade…
Of course the younger generation are always critical of their elders. They always imagine that the world has only been awaiting their arrival and intervention to become a better and a happier place. But it needs a great deal more than that, a great deal more than such a mild troubling of the waters, to account for a change so abrupt and so decisive as that we are now considering. One day, the F…
This book is the result of many years' effort to deal effectively with the problems involved in the first part of a survey course in world history. The chief problem, as every instructor will recognize, is how to provide an interpretation of major past civilizations while at the same time giving enough facts to make the interpretation meaningful. The student needs both fact and interpretation; …
THE CRITICISM OF CYCLICAL METAHISTORY since the second World War may pbscure its predominant place in the historiography of world history in the first half of twentieth century.
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in a rich blend of intellectual history and philosophy,the authors present the major themes and personages that figure in both the theory of and history.they survey the questions and problems,concerns and motivations that have been the lot of the historian from the beginning