Historiography

A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of h...

Cornelius Nepos' De viris illustribus was a collection of biographies of distinguished Romans and foreigners, originally arranged in at least sixte...

Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism provides an in-depth study of the relationships between archives, knowledge and power. Exploring a ...

Before Bemberg: Argentine Women Filmmakers calls into question the historiography of Argentine women filmmakers that has centered on María Luisa Be...

At the beginning of the 20th century, changes in taste and expectations of the public led private museums in Europe and North America to embark on ...

A generation of historians has been captivated by the notorious views on gender found in the mid-sixth century Secret History by the Byzantine hist...

Rereading Huizinga: Autumn of the Middle Ages, a Century Later explores the legacy and historiographical impact of Johan Huizingas 1919 masterwork ...

Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra ...

The American Revolution in New Jersey lasted eight long years, during which many were caught in the middle of a vicious civil war. Residents living...

Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives of Northern Italy, The Night Battles recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the...

What happens when historiographythe way historical events are committed to writingshapes historical events as they occur? How do we read biography ...

This fascinating volume is a major contribution to our understanding of the Russian Revolution, from World War I to consolidation of the Bolshevik ...

By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United S...

Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the de...

This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing h...

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

Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several o...

Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a new historicist impulse to situate every event, person,...

Charlemagne and Rome is a wide-ranging exploration of cultural politics in the age of Charlemagne. It focuses on a remarkable inscription commemora...

The Spring and Autumn is an annals text composed of brief records covering the period 722479 BCE and written from the perspective of the ancient Ch...

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

There can be few historical figures who have made such a powerful impact on the popular imagination as the Roman emperor Caligula (died AD 41). Yet...