Historiography

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...

Nearly thirty years ago, Monika Vrzgulová took part in the very first oral history research project aimed at Holocaust survivors in Slovakia. That ...

The history and philosophy of scientific ideas and the role poisis and imagination play in our understanding of science and progress are widely exp...

This volume brings together eleven case studies that address how the night became visible in the long and global eighteenth century through differe...

This volume investigates competing ideas, images, and stereotypes of a European East, exploring its role in defining European and national concepti...

Beginning with the American Revolution and spanning over two hundred years of American journalism, A Narrative History of the American Press provid...

Nicholas of Cusa is known as one of the most original philosophers of the 15th century, but by training he was a canon lawyer who received his degr...

This title was first published in 2000. Rethinking Prejudice offers the first philosophical monograph on the concept of prejudice. It takes its sta...

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

The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History offers a broad survey of cutting-edge intersections between digital technologies and ...

Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies researches the development of knowledge economies in Early Modern Europe. Starting with the...

This book maps out the state of China Studies in seven Southeast Asian countries from different perspectives. It looks at the history, current stat...

In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius...

This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history. Examining artworks by Kader Atti...

Imaginary Friendship is the first in-depth study of the onset of the American Revolution through the prism of friendship, focusing on future US pre...

New materialism challenges the mechanistic models characteristic of early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive and inert. Inst...

First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the l...

First published in 2000, Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia covers the people, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that co...

Adam Smiths contribution to economics is well recognised, but scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works....

Previous works on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) have approached the topic from the point of view of the U.S. and its allies, while Cuban experien...

Devastated by two decades of war and ravaged by the spread of the plague, large parts of Italy fell quickly into the hands of a group known to hist...

In this volume, contributors present narratives and explore the way they influence the perception of the past. While acknowledging the debate about...

First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the l...

The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian pe...

First published in 1997, this volume responds to attention in recent years which has been belatedly directed towards reviving World War II issues i...

Adam Smiths An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was the product of the rich tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment but ...

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