Historiography

Exploring the ways in which the GDR has been remembered since its demise in 1989/90, this volume asks how memory of the former state continues to s...

Contributing to current debates about the globality and mediatisation of memories, Media and Memory in New Shanghai interrogates the city's spectac...

McDowell and Braniff explore the relationship between commemoration and conflict in societies which have engaged in peace processes, attempting to ...

This edited volume documents the current reflections on the 'Right to be Forgotten' and the interplay between the value of memory and citizen right...

Commemorating traumatic events means attempting to activate collective memory. By examining images, metonymic invocations, built environments and d...

Offering a cross-media exploration of Israeli media on Holocaust Remembrance Day, one of Israel's most sacred national rituals, over the past six d...

Media and Nostalgia is an interdisciplinary and international exploration of media and their relation to nostalgia. Each chapter demonstrates how n...

Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memo...

This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary Polish cinemas engagement with histories of Polish violence against their Jewish neighbours d...

This book is about the losers of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy. Although the violence of the Meiji Restoration...

The past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense out of our memories and the...

Ge Zhaoguang, an eminent historian of traditional China and a public intellectual, takes on fundamental questions that shape the domestic and inter...

Written in the early seventeenth century, the Hustynja Chronicle represents the first attempt of early modern chroniclers to write a systematic his...

Exploring the breadth and complexities of history as a field of study, History in Practice demystifies what historians actually do and the tasks th...

The final volume in the series synthesizes the research conducted by the Heidelberg Collaborative Research Center 933 (SFB 933). Systematized into ...

Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters ...

This annotated translation of To the Far North presents the diary of a twenty-seven-year-old Russian physician who was part of the 1900 expedition ...

This annotated translation of To the Far North presents the diary of a twenty-seven-year-old Russian physician who was part of the 1900 expedition ...

A Sarong for Clio testifies to an ongoing intellectual dialogue between its ten contributors and Craig J. Reynolds, who inspired these essays. Conc...

Liberating Histories makes an original, scholarly contribution to contemporary debates surrounding the cultural and political relevance of historic...

Popularizing the Past tells the stories of five postwar historians who changed the way ordinary Americans thought about their nations history.   Wh...

Chinas past and present have been in a continuous dialogue throughout history, one that is heavily influenced by time and language: the temporal or...

After the techno-futurism of the 1950s and the utopian 1960s vision of a great society, the 1970s saw Americans turning to the past as a source for...

After the techno-futurism of the 1950s and the utopian 1960s vision of a great society, the 1970s saw Americans turning to the past as a source for...

The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the la...

Historical study has traditionally been built around the placement of the human at the center of inquiry. The de-stabilized concepts of the human i...

Threatened Knowledge discusses the practices of knowing, not-knowing, and not wanting to know from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. In tim...

Providing an innovative conceptualization to extremist political movements founded upon world-historic populations and vanguard party organizations...

This international collection of historical work explores the breadth and creativity of women's struggles for human rights, citizenship and social ...

Martin Luther King, Jr., was not an advocate of homosexual rights, nor was he an enemy; however both sides of the debate have used his words in the...