Historiography

128 books

The Observer's Selection Series cover
The Observer's Selection Series 迈克尔·霍华德 / Mary Evans / 蒂莫西·布莱宁 / Mark Mazower / Michael Stürmer / Gordon S. Wood / Felipe Fernández-Armesto CITIC Press · 2018 The Observer's Selection is a small-format history series under CITIC Press Group's New Thought Library, gathering seven concise works by leading West…
The Collected Works of Chen Yinke (Commemorative Edition, 10 Volumes) cover
The Collected Works of Chen Yinke (Commemorative Edition, 10 Volumes) Chen Yinke / Jiang Tianshu Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 The Collected Works of Chen Yinke brings together the scholarly writings of Chen Yinke (1890–1969). Compiled, collated, and edited under the direction…
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Rating 4.0
March 1917: One Month That Changed the World Will England CITIC Press · 2022 On March 5, 1917, Woodrow Wilson declared in his second inaugural address that "we are no longer a herd of provincials." America stood on the threshol…
A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar cover
A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar Robert Sewell / Domingos Paes / Fernán Núñez Originally titled A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar—A Contribution to the History of India, this book was first published in London in 1900 by Swan Sonn…
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Rating 3.4
The Thirteenth Year of Qianlong Gao Wangling SinoMaps Press (China Cartographic Publishing House) · 2019 The Thirteenth Year of Qianlong is the first volume of historian Gao Wangling's "Qianlong Trilogy," focusing on the first thirteen years of the Qianlo…
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History of the Northern Dynasties (Complete in Ten Volumes) Li Yanshou Zhonghua Book Company · 1974 The History of the Northern Dynasties, in one hundred chapters, was compiled by Li Yanshou of the Tang dynasty and is a comprehensive history in the a…
War: From Apes to Robots—The Clash of Civilizations and the Course of Evolution cover
War: From Apes to Robots—The Clash of Civilizations and the Course of Evolution Ian Morris CITIC Press · 2015 This is a work of big history by American historian and Stanford University professor Ian Morris, originally published in English as War! What Is It G…
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Volume 1 Thomas Carlyle Chapman and Hall · 1858 This is the first volume of History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by the Scottish writer and historian Thomas Carlyle. The c…
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Rating 3.8
China's Modernization: A Historical Trajectory Since 1850 李怀印 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025 This is a book that can handle the big questions. Where did China's modernization begin, what trajectory has it followed, how exactly does it differ f…
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Rating 4.0
General History of China (12 Volumes in 22 Books) Bai Shouyi Shanghai People's Publishing House · 1999 General History of China is a large multi-volume history of China edited under the general editorship of historian Bai Shouyi, comprising 12 volumes i…
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Rating 4.5
Chronological Tables of Chinese History (Hardcover) 万国鼎 / 万斯年 / 陈梦家 Zhonghua Book Company · 2018 Chronological Tables of Chinese History is an accurate, concise reference of Chinese historical chronology, covering the pre-Common-Era period from th…
Khubilai Khan's Challenge: The Mongol Empire and the Great Turning Point in World History cover
Rating 4.2
Khubilai Khan's Challenge: The Mongol Empire and the Great Turning Point in World History 杉山正明 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2017 In 1259, the Mongol Great Khan Möngke died suddenly at the front lines of the conquest of the Southern Song. His younger brother Khubilai thus gained …
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Rating 4.3
These Truths: A History of the United States 吉尔·莱波雷 New Star Press · 2024 This is a general history of the United States by Jill Lepore, professor of American history at Harvard University and former president of the America…
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Judging Europe: Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution in World War II István Deák CITIC Press · 2018 This book is a study by the American historian István Deák, professor emeritus at Columbia University, of the experience of occupied Europe during Wor…
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Remembering Teachers and Friends: Yu Ying-shih's Nostalgic Collection Yu Ying-shih Peking University Press · 2013 This is a nostalgic collection edited by Yu Ying-shih for the Peking University Press "Yu Ying-shih Works Series," compiled by Peng Guoxiang and gathe…
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His Majesty and the General Unarm Mo Ziqiao Jinjiang Literature City · 2015 Modern high schooler Bi Xiazhen is a history flunky everyone knows, connected to the Han only by his surname and admiring Emperor Wu of Han too little…
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Rating 2.0
National Geographic Magazine, November 1964 (Vol. 126, No. 5) Jürgen Bisch / Frank B. Freidel / Eugene M. Shoemaker / Helge Instad / Melville Bell Grosvenor National Geographic Society · 1964 This issue is the November 1964 number of National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 126, No. 5, edited by Melville Bell Grosvenor and published by the Nation…
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From Bismarck to Hitler Sebastian Haffner Yilin Press · 2015 From Bismarck to Hitler is a late work by the German political commentator and modern historian Sebastian Haffner, originally published in German as V…
Records of the Grand Historian (Revised Edition of the Revised Twenty-Four Histories with Modern Punctuation and Collation, Ten Volumes) cover
Rating 4.8
Records of the Grand Historian (Revised Edition of the Revised Twenty-Four Histories with Modern Punctuation and Collation, Ten Volumes) Sima Qian / 裴骃 / Sima Zhen / Zhang Shoujie Zhonghua Book Company · 2014 The Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) is China's first comprehensive chronological history in the biographical style, written by the Western Han …
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World's Finest Comics #81 Edmund Hamilton / Dick Sprang / Stan Kay / Wyn Mortimer DC Comics · 1956 This issue of World's Finest Comics (#81) went on sale in March–April 1956, with a cover date of March 1956, making it an early Silver Age single-issu…