Historiography

A Companion to Tacitus brings much needed clarity and accessibility to the notoriously difficult language and yet indispensable historical accounts...

Institutions, networks and communities standardized the historical discipline and profession in the nineteenth and twentieth century, in both the o...

An accessible yet thorough look at how historians and social scientists have thought and written about the history of the present-day European Unio...

An accessible yet thorough look at how historians and social scientists have thought and written about the history of the present-day European Unio...

Following his earlier surveys of 19th and 20th Century British Prime Ministers, Dick Leonard turns his attention to their 18th Century predecessors...

The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses i...

Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgsons The Venture of Islam was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societie...

An exploration of hypothetical turning points in history from Ancient Greece to September 11 What if history, as we know it, had run another course...

Twelve years have gone by since the passing of George L. Mosse, yet his work still provides essential tools for historical analysis and influences ...

How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imperative in our current sociopolitical context? ...

While there is an growing body of work on space and place in many disciplines, less attention has been paid to how a spatial approach illuminates t...

This collection of essays explores how historians of theatre apply ethical thinking to the attempt to truthfully represent their subject - whether ...

Institutions, networks and communities standardized the historical discipline and profession in the nineteenth and twentieth century, in both the o...

The first systematic inquiry into the Texas Rangers did not begin until 1935 with Walter Prescott Webbs publication The Texas Rangers. Since then n...

Big Data in History introduces the project to create a world-historical archive, tracing the last four centuries of historical dynamics and change....

In The Fantasy of Feminist History, Joan Wallach Scott argues that feminist perspectives on history are enriched by psychoanalytic concepts, partic...

In The Great Enterprise, Henry H. Em examines how the project of national sovereignty shaped the work of Korean historians and their representation...

This volume investigates the different attitudes of historians and other social scientists to questions of causality. It argues that historical the...

Canadian Historical Writing presents an archaeology of contemporary Canadian historical writing within the theory and practice of historiography. D...

History doesn't have to mean only an effort to know the past. It can be instead, according to Kierkegaard, a willful and personal choice regarding ...

In historical terms, the Old Diplomacy is not really that old many of its concepts and methods date to the mid-nineteenth century while the practic...

Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists h...