Historiography

Marguerite Yourcenar is best known as the author of the 1951 novel Mémoires dHadrien, her recreation of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The ...

Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film builds upon decades of scholarship investigating history in visual culture by proposing...

Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film builds upon decades of scholarship investigating history in visual culture by proposing...

In recent years political history has been rediscovered by historians. In this volume the contributors approach the new political history in a cons...

Emotion lies at the heart of all national movements, and Zionism is no exception. For those who identify as Zionist, the word connotes liberation a...

Emotion lies at the heart of all national movements, and Zionism is no exception. For those who identify as Zionist, the word connotes liberation a...

Emotion lies at the heart of all national movements, and Zionism is no exception. For those who identify as Zionist, the word connotes liberation a...

How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter todayThe study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western ...

At the end of his landmark 1994 book, The Soul of the American University, historian George Marsden asserted that religious faith does indeed have ...

Michael H. McCarthy has carefully studied the writings of Bernard Lonergan (Canadian philosopher-theologian, 1904-1984) for over fifty years. In hi...

This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism ...

First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergsons Lévolution créatrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers ...

This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of dialectical images: Marx's locom...

American Labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole,...

American Labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole,...

The West and Beyond evaluates and appraises the state ofWestern Canadian history, acknowledging and assessing the contributionsof historians of the...

The greatest of Roman historians, Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56-117 CE) studied rhetoric in Rome. His rhetorical and oratorical gifts are evident t...

It is time to re-examine the French Revolution as a political resource. The historiography has so far ignored the question of popular sovereignty a...

This classic work marks the culmination of a definite stage in the socio-economic historiography from the late Middle Ages to the rise of the haute...

The first decades of the new century shake old certainties. In a whirlwind of profound changes, do we have more history or less? Does history overw...

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies The Shii Ismaili Muslims of Central Asia have a complex political history. This o...

Looking at the complex relationship between the discipline of history and the writing of lives, this key textbook provides an original and insightf...