Historiography

What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology, translated and edited by Professor John Marincola, contains all the sem...

Representing the Dynasty in Flavian Rome investigates the problem of contemporary historiography and regime representation in Flavian Rome through ...

During the last fifty years, the writing of history underwent two massive transformations. First, powered by Marxism and other materialist sociolog...

Rome's annual elections were central to the relationship between its citizenry and political leadership, and canvassing for office played no small ...

Ce travail examine l''ethnographie suisse entre 1880 et 1950 sous le double angle de l''organisation de la recherche et des pratiques scientifiques...

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

Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are se...

Widely acclaimed for its accessibility and engaging approach to the subject, the fourth edition of The Methods and Skills of History combines theor...

The definitive translation of a masterpiece in ancient Chinese historiographyIn the early eighth century, frustrated with the authorities but still...

Fred Flintstone lived in a sunny Stone Age American suburb, but his ancestors were respectable, middle-class Victorians. They were very amused to t...

How can memory be mobilized for social justice? How can images and monuments counter public forgetting? And how can inherited family and cultural t...

In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere ...

The third edition of Writing History provides students and teachers with a comprehensive overview of how the study of history is informed by a bro...

This is the first translation of a classic work (Bahth fi nnsh' at 'ilm al ta' rikh 'inda l-'Arab) by the eminent Arab historian A. A. Duri. Publis...

C. Vann Woodward was one of the most prominent and respected American historians of the twentieth century. He was also a very gifted and frequent w...

Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in three instalments from 1776 to 1788, is widely regarded as the gr...

This handy reference guide makes it easier to access and understand histories written in Greek between 600 and 1480 CE. Covering classicizing histo...

In Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity's promise of progress and the sobering reality of our present day through st...

Forgetful Remembrance examines the paradoxes of what actually happens when communities persistently endeavour to forget inconvenient events. The qu...