Historiography

This volume offers a stimulating new perspective on the history of historical studies. Through the prism of scholarly personae, it explores why his...

'An extraordinary book ... exceptionally fascinating, always readable and penetratingly intelligent' David Abulafia'As rich, funny and teemingly pe...

From the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of timeThis gro...

The first comprehensive account to explore the beginnings of early Christian history writing, tracing its origin to the Gospel of Mark and Luke-Act...

The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by...

In Unspeakable Histories, William Guynn focuses on the sensation of encountering past events through film. Film is capable, he argues, of triggerin...

In Unspeakable Histories, William Guynn focuses on the sensation of encountering past events through film. Film is capable, he argues, of triggerin...

When John Brown led twenty-one men in an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859, he envisioned a biblical uprising of m...

Latin America is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this...

Frederick Mote, one of the twentieth century's most prominent Sinologists, has written a historian's memoir that uses observation and personal expe...

Forrest McDonald is considered one of the most original and influential historians writing on the American Founding period. With interviewer Bill J...

A scholar of Hellenistic and Prussian history, Droysen developed a historical theory that at the time was unprecedented in range and depth, and ...

Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centurie...

Robert L. Benson (19251996), professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, was one of the most learned and original medievalis...

Contemporary Spain and Portugal share a historical experience as Iberian states which emerged within the context of al-Andalus. These centuries of ...

When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of he...

This brief, provocative, and accessible book offers snapshots of seven pernicious myths in military history that have been perpetrated on unsuspect...

This brief, provocative, and accessible book offers snapshots of seven pernicious myths in military history that have been perpetrated on unsuspect...

The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than ...

Often neglected by historians, actions in Missouri and Kansas had an important influence on the course of the Civil War, with profound effects f...

Scholars across the humanities and social sciences who study public memory study the ways that groups of people collectively remember the past. One...