Historiography

The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. What is the finest sight in th...

In this incisive (Vanity Fair) and authoritative (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America's top historians set the record straig...

Knud Ejler Løgstrups The Ethical Demand is the most original influential Danish contribution to moral philosophy in this century. This is the first...

The publication in 1632 of Galileos Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican marked a crucial moment in the scientific re...

Have the courage to use your own understanding! - that is the motto of enlightenment. - Immanuel KantThe Enlightenment is one of the most important...

Learn to craft the perfect historical research paper with this approachable and practical guide Essaying the Past: How to Read, Write, and Think ab...

In Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys Patterson provides an analysis of the social structure of medieval Ireland, focusing on the pre-Norman period. ...

This is the first book on the genesis, impact and reception of the most-widely read History of England of the early 18th century: Paul Rapin Thoyra...

Enlightenment critics from Dryden through Johnson and Wordsworth conceived the modern view that art and especially literature entails a double refl...

The Enlightenment has been blamed for some of the most deadly developments of modern life: racism and white supremacy, imperialist oppression, capi...

This book translates the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles, those of Ahmad al-Yaqubi (d. ca. 910), Ali al-Masudi (d....

The application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to issues in history is among the most exciting developments in both digital and spatial hu...

At the start of World War I, Transylvania was a multi-ethnic province that was still incorporated within the borders of the Austro-Hungarian Monarc...

Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth centurys most influential thinkers whose work has unsettled and transformed the field of social philosophy...

This study in German offers profound insights into the life and thoughts of Wang Guowei (1877-1927). Like many intellectuals who strongly perceived...

This is a study of ekphrasis, the art of making listeners and readers 'see' in their imagination through words alone, as taught in ancient rhetoric...

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one o...

The clash between scholarship and politicsbetween truth and propagandawas ruthless for historians in Istpart, the Russian Communist Central Committ...