Historiography

Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent the next seven years producing his massive "H...

Why aren’t ordinary Russians more outraged by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine? Inside the Kremlin’s own historical propaganda narratives, Russia’s inva...

‘A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter’ New York Times ...

The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses i...

In 1961, John F. Kennedy referred to the Papuans as “living, as it were, in the Stone Age.” For the most part, politicians and scholars have since ...

When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for ano...

Pink Triangle Legacies traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a wide...

Silent Teachers considers for the first time the influence of Ottoman scholarly practices and reference tools on oriental learning in early modern ...

"A fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat... the champion of the hardest, narrowest, and most inflexible dogmatism... part learned doctor, part inqu...

Edward II’s reign presents the dramatic narrative of a wilful king who faced baronial resistance and suffered military failures in both Scotland an...

This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the historian and public moralist E. A. Freeman since the publication of W. R. W. Stephens’ L...

This book introduces students and professional historians to the main areas of concern in the history of emotions. It discusses how the emotions in...

The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first centuryThe Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, schol...

Nevertheless comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pascal. The ambivalent connection between the two parts is embodied by the comma (,) in the sub...