Historiography

Liberating Histories makes an original, scholarly contribution to contemporary debates surrounding the cultural and political relevance of historic...

Popularizing the Past tells the stories of five postwar historians who changed the way ordinary Americans thought about their nations history.   Wh...

Chinas past and present have been in a continuous dialogue throughout history, one that is heavily influenced by time and language: the temporal or...

After the techno-futurism of the 1950s and the utopian 1960s vision of a great society, the 1970s saw Americans turning to the past as a source for...

After the techno-futurism of the 1950s and the utopian 1960s vision of a great society, the 1970s saw Americans turning to the past as a source for...

The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the la...

Historical study has traditionally been built around the placement of the human at the center of inquiry. The de-stabilized concepts of the human i...

Threatened Knowledge discusses the practices of knowing, not-knowing, and not wanting to know from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. In tim...

Providing an innovative conceptualization to extremist political movements founded upon world-historic populations and vanguard party organizations...

This international collection of historical work explores the breadth and creativity of women's struggles for human rights, citizenship and social ...

Martin Luther King, Jr., was not an advocate of homosexual rights, nor was he an enemy; however both sides of the debate have used his words in the...

With thirty-four original chapters from three dozen top scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema provides a thoughtful and provocative re-exa...

Explores early modern interpretations of Roman Scotland Examines an important aspect of the development of Scottish identity, a subject being bro...

What is history and how does it impact upon biblical interpretation and theology? 'Allegorizing History' seeks to answer this question by arguing t...

The second generation of Pacific historians, who began their careers in the 1970s and 1980s, is gradually fading from the academic scene. They have...

Winner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever writt...

Read the definitive essay collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Adversary, dubbed 'France's greatest writer of non-fiction' (N...