{"product_id":"30-great-books-that-made-history-hardback-9781509562404","title":"30 Great Books That Made History (Hardback) 9781509562404","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003e30 Great Books That Made History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJaume Aurell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509562404, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 September 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e276 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.544 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Although certain works of history are often described as 'classics', Aurell is the first scholar to offer a serious discussion of the criteria for such a description. His book is indispensable.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeter Burke, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Jaume Aurell's obviously subjective, but well-founded choice to present thirty works representative of all the world's historical cultures is an excellent demonstration that historical writing feeds on its own memory: even if the questions posed to the past and the methods used to resolve them are evolving at a rapid pace, historians mustn't be amnesiac!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean-Claude Schmitt, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Global in reach, spanning twenty-five centuries, Aurell's incisive essays provide a brilliant introduction to the historian's craft as well as to the philosophy of history. Blending narrative and analysis seamlessly, Aurell makes each of his thirty historians come alive.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarlos Eire, Yale University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eToday, many readers could easily list thirty classic authors, or thirty classic works of art, literature, music, philosophy, or science. But would they be able to name thirty classic works of history? In spite of history's outsized influence in the world of ideas, the books that made - and-remade - the history we know so well are often forgotten. \u003cp\u003eIn this panoramic book, distinguished historian Jaume Aurell sets out to introduce readers to a new canon of historical writing. Taking a global approach, he places the work of Herodotus, Thucydides, Gibbon, Michelet and Braudel alongside masterpieces from a myriad of periods and civilizations, from Sima Qian, Anna Komnene, al-Masudi and Fukuzawa Yukichi to Edmundo O'Gorman, C. L. R. James and Natalie Zemon Davis. At the same time, Aurell argues that we should not see these books as a definitive canon - instead, any canon should be seen as a list-in-progress to be contested and debated anew with each generation. It is only by being exposed to these diverse and deeply significant works that we can fully perceive the shape of the discipline, and carve out a new appreciation for the art of history writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Greek Ethnography: Herodotus' \u003ci\u003eHistories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Greek Politics: Thucydides' \u003ci\u003eThe Peloponnesian War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Jewish Drama: \u003ci\u003eThe Bible\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Chinese Dynaties: Sima Qian's \u003ci\u003eRecords of the Grand Historian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Indian Genealogies: \u003ci\u003eItihasa-Puranas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Christian Great Narratives: Eusebius' \u003ci\u003eEcclesiastical History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. Islamic Cosmovisions: al-Masudi's \u003ci\u003eMeadows of Gold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Byzantine Chronicles: Anna Komnene's \u003ci\u003eAlexiad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. Icelandic Genealogies: Snorri Sturluson's \u003ci\u003eHeimskringla\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. Iberian Autobiographies: James I of Aragon's \u003ci\u003eBook of Deeds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. Renaissance: Francesco Guicciardini's \u003ci\u003eHistory of Italy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12. Enlightenment: Edward Gibbon's \u003ci\u003eDecline and Fall of the Roman Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13. Romanticism: Jules Michelet's \u003ci\u003eHistory of the French Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14. Historicism: Leopold von Ranke's \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Latin and Teutonic Nations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15. Liberalism: Thomas Macaulay's \u003ci\u003eThe History of England\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16. Westernizing Japan: Fukuzawa Yukichi's \u003ci\u003eAn Outline of a Theory of Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e17. Preserving Africa: Carl Christian Reindorf's \u003ci\u003eThe History of the Gold Coast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e18. Revisioning China: Gu Jiegang's \u003ci\u003eGushibian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e19. Projecting India: Jawaharlal Nehru's \u003ci\u003eGlimpses of World History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e20. Rethinking Latin America: Edmundo O'Gorman's \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e21. Modernism: Henry Adams's \u003ci\u003eThe Education of Henry James\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e22. Impressionism: Johan Huizinga's \u003ci\u003eThe Waning of the Middle Ages\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e23. Annales: Marc Bloch's \u003ci\u003eThe Royal Touch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e24. Structuralism: Fernand Braudel's \u003ci\u003eThe Mediterranean\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e25. Postmodernism: Hayden White's \u003ci\u003eMetahistory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e26. Race: C. L. R. James's \u003ci\u003eThe Black Jacobins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e27. Class: Edward Thompson's \u003ci\u003eThe Making of the English Working Class\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e28. Women: Natalie Zemon Davis's \u003ci\u003eThe Return of Martin Guerre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e29. Subaltern: Ranajit Guha's \u003ci\u003ePeasant Insurgency in Colonial India\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e30. 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