Arthur Meier Schlesinger (1888-1965) was one of the most influential historians of the first half of the twentieth century. He encouraged new approaches to the study of history, and he played a founding role in the study of the city in American culture. His classic work, The Rise of the City, was first published in 1933 and was reprinted repeatedly during the next forty years. Beginning in the rural South and West and concluding with the triumph ...

Man's history is being shaped according to the difficulties it encounters. These have offered us problems and claimed their solutions from us, the penalty of non-fulfilment being death or degradation. ...

Drawing on a number of disciplines, nine scholars examine the major issues addressed by rural history.
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A brilliant history of the land into which more historical and cultural events were crowded than perhaps into any area of equal size. For Syria has invented or transmitted to mankind such benefits as monotheistic religion, philosophy, law, trade, agriculture, and the alphabet. ...

This book is intended to form an easy introduction to the study of the Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions. It contains a short account of the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics, and a sketch of the hieroglyphic system of writing and of the general principles which underlie the use of picture signs to express thought. The main facts of Egyptian grammar are given in a series of short chapters, and these are illustrated by numerous brief ...

The author of this volume has a deliberate and very earnest purpose in view. He regards skepticism, with all allied forms of philosophical thought and method such as eclecticism, as likely to claim a far greater sphere of energy in the future than it has in the past. This, too, is in the domain not of theology only, but of philosophy and science as well. For these reasons he regards this work as possessing the extremely useful merit of ...

This comprehensive anthology of newly translated writings presents some of Aron's most important essays in 20th-century intellectual history and political commentary. ...

Two volumes in one. In vol. I the Sources of the Albigensian Heresy are traced, and its tenets and system described. In vol. II an account is given of its suppression by Crusade and Inquisition, the former an adaptation of military measures originally taken against enemies outside the Church; the latter, a development of legal measures against enemies within the State. ...

There are several periods of Egyptian history, lasting in some cases two or three hundred years, about which very little is known, and even of the periods that are better known the information is very partial. With such gaps in the existing knowledge, a final statement regarding the earliest or latest production of use of any material is impossible, and all that can be done is to give the dates for which the various materials have been recorded. ...

Most accounts of the Spanish transition to democracy have been celebratory exercise rather than a project of reform. This book strives to present memory as a performative exercise of democratic agents with different and necessarily fragmented recollections. ...