Historiography

The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian pe...

First published in 1997, this volume responds to attention in recent years which has been belatedly directed towards reviving World War II issues i...

Adam Smiths An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was the product of the rich tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment but ...

Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictio...

Democratic Vernaculars is a comprehensive, culturally inclusive, and thematically unified history of the communicative, audience-centered rhetorica...

This edited collection explores the axis where monstrosity and borderlands meet to reflect the tensions, apprehensions, and excitement over the rad...

This edited volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to art and design that not only reframes but also repositions agendas and actions to address ...

In recent years, Baghdad has been viewed as a battleground for political conflicts; this interpretation has heavily influenced writings on the city...

This volume critically investigates how art historians writing about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centurie...

Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art addresses how researchers can challenge stereotypical notions of Islam and Islamic art while avoiding the c...

Originally translated and published in 1906, this volume is a full translation of Langlois and Seignobos' Introduction to the Study of History and ...

First published in 2005, this encyclopedia demonstrates that the millennium from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance was a period of gr...

In its retrieval and (re)construction, the past has become interwoven with the images and structure of cinema. Not only have mass mediaespecially f...

This book examines the evolution of historical professionalism, with the development of an international community that shares a set of values rega...

Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East. First published in 2006...

This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion considers Surrealisms many ...

History, Politics, and the American Past assesses the connection between historiography and politics in America on the basis of an important method...

The goal of this project is to locate the origins and development of modern thought in the United States and East Asia in the late nineteenth and e...

Written over several decades and collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science ...

In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius...

This edited volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to art and design that not only reframes but also repositions agendas and actions to address ...

This title was first published in 2000: A manifestation of mass hysteria, a compensation for physical or emotional deprivation, or an alternative t...