Historiography

This volume presents a subfield overview on current research, trends, and commentary on the state of aeronautical archaeology and its development, ...

Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in...

With its many rites of initiation (religious, educational, professional or sexual), Elizabethan and Jacobean education emphasized both imitation an...

This is not a conventional biography but an attempt to explore the motives and intentions that underpin Talcott Parsons published work by exploring...

Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictio...

This title was first published in 2001. Modality and Anti-Metaphysics critically examines the most prominent approaches to modality among analytic ...

The social sciences have, ever since they were first established as academic disciplines, played a foundational role in most spheres of modern soci...

First published in 1997, this second edition of this bibliography contains more than half as many entries again as the original selection of 1966. ...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across t...

On 29 December, 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was brutally murdered in his own cathedral. News of the event was rapidly disseminat...

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

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines h...

This book examines British collectors of so-called Persian art (a broad umbrella term then covering a large portion of Islamic art) in the late 19t...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provid...

Almost nowhere are politics and history so intimately bound up as in Ireland. Over the course of several hundred years rival political and religiou...

The 20th and 21st Centuries have been characterized by theologians and philosophers rethinking theology and revitalizing the tradition. This unique...

Arnold Bake (18991963) was a Dutch pioneer in South Asian ethnomusicology, whose research impressed not only the most renowned Indologists of his t...

Though many archival digital objects were not born digital, film archives are now becoming important resources for digital scholarship as a consequ...

Though many archival digital objects were not born digital, film archives are now becoming important resources for digital scholarship as a consequ...

After more than four decades, the Viet Nam War continues to haunt our national memory, culture, politics, and military actions. In this probing int...

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the connections between memory and literature. Organized into six interrelated sections, the book ...

For better and worse, the future is often conceived in technological terms. Technology is supposed to meet the challenge of climate change or resou...

In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of the narrowly focused, policy-oriented research ubiquitous in the social sciences, this book revis...

This is the first study specifically concerned with thirteenth-century pipe rolls and shows how pipe rolls were compiled, what they contain, and ho...

While humanists agreed on identifying the main requirement of the historical genre with truthfulness, they disagreed on their notions of historical...

This edited volume takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has the notion of beauty trans...

A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s, Millard Meiss (19041975) developed a new and multi-faceted metho...

This book details the perspectives of women of African ancestry who witnessed a twentieth-century uprising in St. Kitts. They chronicle the story o...

This book presents a series of case studies and reflections on the historiographical assumptions, methods and approaches that shape the way in whic...