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The history of books became an acknowledged academic discipline in the 1980s. Contributions to the field have come from textual scholarship, codicology, bibliography, philology, palaeography, art history, social history and cultural history. Its key purpose is to demonstrate that the book as an object, not just the text contained within it, is ...
This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. History books by century (28 C) History books by topic (29 C) History books by type (7 C)
Histories. The Histories ( Greek: Ἱστορίαι, Historíai; [a] also known as The History [1]) of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature. [2] Although not a fully impartial record, it remains one of the West's most important sources regarding these affairs.
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind ( Hebrew: קיצור תולדות האנושות, Qitzur Toldot ha-Enoshut) is a book by Yuval Noah Harari, first published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011 based on a series of lectures Harari taught at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in English in 2014.
The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an 11-volume set of books covering both Eastern and Western civilizations for the general reader, with a particular emphasis on European (Western) history. The series was written over a span of four decades. The first six volumes of The Story of Civilization ...
Books about economic history (7 C, 86 P) History books about ethnic groups (6 C, 17 P) History books about exploration (14 P)
Book History is the official publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. It was established in 1998 and is published annually by the Johns Hopkins University Press . Book History is an academic journal devoted to the history of the book, i.e. the history of the creation, dissemination, and reception of ...
HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album containing the first non- Motown greatest hits album and ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995. It was Jackson's fifth album released through Epic Records, and the first on his label MJJ Productions.