History: Theory & Methods

This volume introduces key terms of public history and makes them accessible via the most important subject areas and central research perspectives...

Historiography is one of the most systematic accounts of the fate of culture. It is also a record of the humanreflexive and reflective metaphors of...

What does Australia's military history reveal about us?In Beyond The Broken Years fifty years after The Broken Years, Bill Gammage's classic on Wo...

In the early Middle Ages Naples underwent huge changes. She was able to acquire complete independence from the Byzantine Empire and to emerge as on...

The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume 1: A Broken Chain? pursues a central theme in English historical thinking over seven centuries. Cove...

This volume, an original combination of biography, cultural history, and media studies, investigates the first moment in history when philanthropy ...

This collection is published in the Crusades Subsidia series in honour of Professor Adrian J. Boas, an archaeologist, historian and scholar who has...

Smash the Pillars builds on the efforts by scholars and activists to decolonize Dutch history and memory, as they resist the epistemological violen...

This book addresses early modern concepts of the body and the self focussing on three self-narratives authored by the nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trap...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

Through a wide range of international and interdisciplinary case studies, this book develops the notion of legacy, and in particular, living legacy...

This book offers an examination of responses to Edmund Burke from the last decades of the eighteenth century to the present day, ending with the qu...

Why is the philosopher Hegel returning as a potent force in contemporary thinking? Why, after a long period when Hegel and his dialectics of histor...

This book is a theoretical study of China's maritime development and maritime humanities and social sciences, as well as a study of China's maritim...

The debate about the return of cultural assets to former colonial territories is highly topical and at the same time much older than most assume. ...

This book considers the position and historiography of the western Balkans in modern Europe. It challenges the linear narrative that the region was...

Talking Back to the Indian Act is a comprehensive how-to guide for engaging with primary source documents. The intent of the book is to encourage r...

The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of A...

This book focuses on the interpretations of Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit that have proved influential over the past decades. Current readers of H...