Historiography category: 1227 books
by Frederick C. Schneid
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
It is only in the past two decades that English-speaking scholars have fully breached European language barriers, permitting a comprehensive reexamination of the Napoleonic Wars beyond the limitations of English-, French-, and German-dependent works. This new volume in the Essential Bibliography Series...
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
What if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not nailed his complaints to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517, or if the South had won the American Civil War? The questioning of apparent certainties or "known...
Empire in Question
Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Featuring essays written by the influential historian Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s, Empire in Question traces the development of a particular, contentious strand of modern British history, the “new imperial history,” through the eyes of a scholar who helped to shape the field. In her...
Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857
Volume III: Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the Revolt of 1857 from a variety of original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in British...
by Prasenjit Duara, Viren Murthy, Andrew Sartori
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
A Companion to Global Historical Thought provides an in-depth overview of the development of historical thinking from the earliest times to the present, across the world, directly addressing the issues of historical thought in a globalized context.
Provides an overview of the development of historical...
Culture, Ideology and Politics (Routledge Revivals)
Essays for Eric Hobsbawm
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
First published in 1982, this book is inspired the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm, and has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationship to political and religious belief. It explores some of the oldest question in Marxist historiography, for example the...
Periodization and Sovereignty
How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "medieval" and a "modern" period has survived, even flourished, in academia. Periodization and Sovereignty demonstrates that this survival is no innocent affair. By examining periodization...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The result of extensive collaboration among leading scholars from across Europe, Conceptual History in the European Space represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. It brings together ambitious thematic studies that combine the pioneering methods of historian Reinhart...
Comparative and Transnational History
Central European Approaches and New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Since the 1970s West German historiography has been one of the main arenas of international comparative history. It has produced important empirical studies particularly in social history as well as methodological and theoretical reflections on comparative history. During the last twenty years however,...
Languages of Belonging
Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Despite its centrality to the political life of India and Pakistan, Kashmir has met with rather perfunctory treatment from historians of South Asia. The few works of history and politics that have appeared on this region, moreover, insist on defining Kashmiri culture, history and identity in terms of...
by Claire Norton, Mark Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Liberating Histories makes an original, scholarly contribution to contemporary debates surrounding the cultural and political relevance of historical practices. Arguing against the idea that specifically historical readings of the past are necessary or are compelled by the force of past events themselves,...
The Atlantic Region to Confederation
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is...
Rethinking the Nature of Fascism
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Many of the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism. Essays discuss the most recent debates on the subject and how changes in the social sciences over the past forty years have impacted on the study of fascism from various perspectives.
Global Perspectives on Global History
Theories and Approaches in a Connected World
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
In recent years, historians across the world have become increasingly interested in transnational and global approaches to the past. However, the debates surrounding this new border-crossing movement have remained limited in scope as theoretical exchanges on the tasks, responsibilities and potentials...