Historiography

Dimitris Stamatopoulos undertakes the first systematic comparison of the dominant ethnic historiographic models and divergences elaborated by Greek...

The claim, often made, that India--uniquely among civilizations--lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question, according to...

This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry and historians and poets in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth c...

'A book with a ferocious pace and more black humour than one could imagine' Evening Standard**As heard on BBC Radio 4 The World Tonight**America lo...

No English king is more famous-or infamous! than Henry VIII, popularly celebrated as the formidable and arrogant figure portrayed by Hans Holbein t...

This study presents and probes the political motivations and interests of EP Thompson (1924-1993). Thompson began his political life, as a member...

This is a particularly vivid biography of a remarkable individual, an Indonesian historian and public intellectual who was both a public figure and...

Britain has scarcely begun to come to terms with its recent upheavals, from the crisis over Brexit to the collapse of Labour's 'red wall'. What can...

Hayden White is widely considered to be the most influential historical theorist of the twentieth century. The Ethics of Narrative brings together ...

This volume introduces, for the first time in English, the work of one of the major schools of historiography in South Korea. Centered at Yonsei Un...

Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letterspetitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to m...

This book examines the relationship between class and culture in 1930s Britain. Focusing on the reading and cinema-going tastes of the working clas...

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

Historians have long engaged in passionate debate about collective memory and the building of national identities. This book focuses on one nationa...

Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands engages with the evolving historiography around the concept of belonging in the Russian and Ottoma...

Should modern Chinese history be approached from the center looking out or from the margins looking in? The contributors to this book have explored...

Weaving together literary and scholarly insights, History and Its Objects will prove indispensable reading for historians and cultural historians, ...

In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across r...

This collective volume enhances the discourse on the ideological prerequisites for the emergence of Balkan nationalisms. The Balkans offer classic ...

This book--the first of a three-volume overview of comparative and transnational historiography in Europe--focuses on the complex engagement of var...

Scholars have long been puzzled by why Muslim landowners in Central Asia, called begs, stayed loyal to the Qing empire when its political legitimac...

This book examines the relationship between class and culture in 1930s Britain. Focusing on the reading and cinema-going tastes of the working clas...

Hayden White is widely considered to be the most influential historical theorist of the twentieth century. The Ethics of Narrative brings together ...

On Historys Trail: Speeches and Essays of the Texas State Historian, 20092012 contains twenty-nine speeches and essays from Light Townsend Cumminss...

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently...

The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a cont...

Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it...

On 13 September 1759, General James Wolfe, having led the British troops up the St Lawrence to victory in the Battle of Quebec, died on the Heights...