Historiography

In A Brief History of History, acclaimed historian Jeremy Black seeks to reinvigorate and redefine our ideas about history. The stories we tell abo...

Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterr...

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first ...

An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this authoritative book, the first of its kind in En...

During the first centuries of the Roman Empire, Greek intellectuals wrote a great many texts modeled on the dialect and literature of Classical Ath...

As omnipresent as it is ungraspable, time has always inspired and eluded attempts to comprehend it. For the early Christians, for the twenty-first-...

This book is rooted in the authors experience as an interviewer and researcher in the Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project the biggest Europ...

As the first book to examine conceptual history in Africa, this is a significant contribution that takes us beyond discourse analysis and other com...

The New World History is a comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship in this rapidly expanding field...

In 1922-23, Chinese students in Victoria, British Columbia, went on strike to protest a school boards attempt to impose segregation. Their resistan...

What is nationalism and how can we study it from a historical perspective? Writing the History of Nationalism answers this question by examining el...

Over recent decades, almost every area of historical study has seen its global turn from consumption to finance, from politics to migration, from ...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 This volume brings together 25 defining texts in global history. These pieces cover approaches to the subje...

Hugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the 20th century. His scholarly interests ranged widely - from the Puritan Revolution to...

The field of Global History has experienced an unprecedented boom in the last two decades and carved itself deeply into the practice of historical ...

With its innovative format, Debating New Approaches to History addresses issues currently at the top of the disciplines theoretical and methodologi...

In The Absolute Power Complex from Constantine to Stalin: The Collective Unconscious of Catholic and Orthodox Countries Mino Vianello advances a ne...

Violence has long been noted to be a fundamental aspect of the human condition. Traditionally, however, philosophical discussions have tended to ap...

A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynas...

When, why and how did Spain fall from its pre-eminent position as a leading world power in the seventeenth century? These fundamental questions hav...

The Allied agreement after the Second World War did not only partition Germany, it divided the nation along the fault-lines of a new bipolar worl...

‘Monumental and eye-opening’ Reza Aslan 'A revelation […and…] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent '[A] massive achieveme...

This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry – and historians and poets – in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth...

Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future—and their relationship to the present—been reord...

Richard Drake presents a new interpretation of Charles Austin Beard's life and work. The foremost American historian and a leading public intellect...

Due to the influence of postmodernism, historical anti-realism has come to exercise a massive influence in contemporary philosophy of history. Edit...

In the mid- to late-1930s, while he was a student at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan wrote a series of eight essays on the philo...

Offering a unique perspective on the very notions and practices of storytelling, history, memory, and language, Clio’s Laws collects ten essays (so...

The Enlightenment has been blamed for some of the most deadly developments of modern life: racism and white supremacy, imperialist oppression, capi...