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Napoleon Bonaparte pernah berujar, “China adalah raksasa yang sedang tidur. Biarkan terus lelap, karena bila terbangun, dia akan mengguncang dunia”. Faktanya di dataran yang luas, di belah sungai Kuning dan Sungai Panjang (Chang Jiang atau Yang Tze), Cina tak pernah tidur, Ia terus bergolak dan berevolusi. China adalah laboratorium sosial sekaligus perpustakaan besar yang memuat sejarah per…
Sukarno berkata, Aku persilakan Bung Hatta menyusun teks ringkas itu sebab bahasanya kuanggap yang terbaik. Sesudah itu kita persoalkan bersama-sama. Setelah kita memperoleh persetujuan, kita bawa ke muka sidang lengkap yangsudah nadir di ruangtengah. Aku menjawab, Apabila aku mesti memikirkannya, lebih baik Bung menuliskan, aku mendiktekannya. Semuanya setuju, kalimat per-tama diambil dari akh…
Perang salib meruopakan periode sejarah paling dahsyat karena melibatkan dua kekuatan ideologi untuk mempertahankan dominasi mereka di kawasan Mediterania, yaitu antara Islam dan Kristen. Buku ini memaparkan perang salib secara objektif dengan menyajikan kronologi tiap perang salib yang terjadi antara tahun 1096-1354. Perang salib terjadi di dua belahan dunia yaitu Yerusalem (disebut perang sal…
John Caius (1510–1573), second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, was an English scholar with an international reputation in his lifetime as a naturalist, historian and medical writer. His Autobibliography is a major contribution to the history of English culture in the middle years of the sixteenth century and has been translated into English for the first time in this book. …
This "brief history" presents the essential story of the subordination of African Americans in the U.S., captured in a 1968 cartoon by Pulitzer-prize-winning cartoonist John Fischetti. The drawing is of a black man handcuffed to a wall with cuffs labeled "White Racism." The caption reads, "Why don’t they lift themselves up by their own bootstraps like we did?" Bootstraps shows just how little…
Beginning with the American Revolution and spanning over two hundred years of American journalism, A Narrative History of the American Press provides an overview of the events, institutions, and people who have shaped the press, from the creation of the First Amendment to today. Gregory A. Borchard’s introductory text helps readers develop an understanding of the role of the press in both the…
Expertly steering readers through the often tumultuous and exhilarating history of the United States, from its early modern Native American roots to twenty-first-century neoliberalism and the shifting political climate of the past decade, this highly readable textbook provides a compelling overview of American development over the last five centuries. This book avoids either celebratory or c…
Hitler and Nazi Germany: A History is a brief but comprehensive survey of the Third Reich based on current research findings that provides a balanced approach to the study of Hitler’s role in the history of the Third Reich. The book considers the economic, social, and political forces that made possible the rise and development of Nazism; the institutional, cultural, and social life of the T…
This book surveys the labyrinthine relationship between Stephen King and American History. By depicting American History as a doomed cycle of greed and violence, King poses a number of important questions: who gets to make history, what gets left out, how one understands one's role within it, and how one might avoid repeating mistakes of the past. This volume examines King's relationship to Ame…