Historiography

What happens when historiographythe way historical events are committed to writingshapes historical events as they occur? How do we read biography ...

This fascinating volume is a major contribution to our understanding of the Russian Revolution, from World War I to consolidation of the Bolshevik ...

By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United S...

Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the de...

This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing h...

Originally published in 1976. This comprehensive study discusses in detail the philosophical, mathematical, physical, logical and theological aspec...

Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several o...

Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a new historicist impulse to situate every event, person,...

Charlemagne and Rome is a wide-ranging exploration of cultural politics in the age of Charlemagne. It focuses on a remarkable inscription commemora...

The Spring and Autumn is an annals text composed of brief records covering the period 722479 BCE and written from the perspective of the ancient Ch...

The clash between scholarship and politicsbetween truth and propagandawas ruthless for historians in Istpart, the Russian Communist Central Committ...

There can be few historical figures who have made such a powerful impact on the popular imagination as the Roman emperor Caligula (died AD 41). Yet...

A new generation of scholars addresses the current themes and questions in interpreting American history

In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere ...

A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter New York Times ...

Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia is a study of the functions and conceptions of writing and reading, documentation and archives, and th...

A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter New York Times ...

Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain explores the rise and nature of historicist thinking about such varied topics as life, race...

The Roman Empire traditionally presented itself as the centre of the world, a view sustained by ancient education and conveyed in imperial literatu...

This volume investigates a galaxy of diverse networks and intellectual actors who engaged in a broad political environment, from conservatism to th...

Illuminates the relationship between Hume the political thinker, Hume the historian, and Hume the political economist and highlights the social, ec...

-Selected papers on phenomenology offers the best work in this field by the acclaimed historian of philosophy, Karl Schuhmann (1941-2003), displayi...

A history of Kantian and post-Kantian thought and of a foundational stage of German orientalism. German orientalism has been understood, various...

This book combines a methodological guide with an extended case study to show how digital research methods can be used to explore how ethnicity, ge...

A study of an eminent historian of seventeenth-century Britain and his work, showing its continued importance for all those working on the period. ...

This title was first published in 2002. Germain Boffrand was one of the great French architects of the early eighteenth century. His work encompass...

An examination of medieval historican writings through the prism of violence. The concept of medieval historiography as usable past is here challe...

Questions about how theater history should be taught have in recent years provoked passionate discussions. Some scholars have argued that the emerg...

Comprehensively surveys Ethiopia and Eritrea's rich and dynamic tradition of historical writing, from the ancient Aksumite era to the present day. ...

Essays on the discipline of medieval history and its practitioners, from the late eighteenth century onwards. A hugely interesting set of essays, ...

No Straight Path tells the stories of ten successful female historians who came of age in an era when it was unusual for women to pursue careers in...

In this book, the distinguished historian Carl Schorske--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fin-de-Siecle Vienna--draws together a series of essa...

A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives. The past was ever present in later medieval England...

This book presents a historical account of the development of an acrolectal variety of the English language in colonial India. It highlights the ph...

Writing Welsh History is the first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years. By ...

A fresh look at William of Malmesbury which not only demonstrates his real greatness as a historian and his European vision, but also the breadth o...