Historiography category: 1227 books
Canadian Historical Writing
Reading the Remains
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Canadian Historical Writing presents an archaeology of contemporary Canadian historical writing within the theory and practice of historiography. Drawing on international debates within the fields of literary studies and history, the book focuses on the roles played by time, evidence, and interpretation in defining the historical.
The Biographical Turn
Lives in history
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The Biographical Turn showcases the latest research through which the field of biography is being explored. Fifteen leading scholars in the field present the biographical perspective as a scholarly research methodology, investigating the consequences of this bottom-up approach and illuminating its...
Braudel Revisited
The Mediterranean World 1600-1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean region...
The Theory and Practice of History
Edited with an introduction by Georg G. Iggers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Leopold von Ranke, who was born in 1795, is considered to be one of the founders of the modern practice of writing history. This collection of his writings, edited and introduced by Georg G. Iggers, was first published in 1973 and remains the leading collection of Ranke’s writings in the English...
How History Works
The Reconstitution of a Human Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the humanities, exemplified by history, and offers a critique of the validity of historical knowledge. The book focusses on history’s academic, disciplinary ethos to offer a reconception of the discipline of history, arguing...
Untold Histories of the Middle East
Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Much traditional historiography consciously and unconsciously glosses over certain discourses, narratives, and practices. This book examines silences or omissions in Middle Eastern history at the turn of the twenty-first century, to give a fuller account of the society, culture and politics.
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Warring over Valor
How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism. The book offers...
The Magic of Concepts
History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In The Magic of Concepts Rebecca E. Karl interrogates "the economic" as concept and practice as it was construed historically in China in the 1930s and again in the 1980s and 1990s. Separated by the Chinese Revolution and Mao's socialist experiments, each era witnessed urgent discussions about how...
Theories of History
History Read across the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
In a unique approach to historical representations, the central question of this book is 'what is history?' By describing 'history' through its supplementary function to the field of history, rather than the ground of a study, this collection considers new insights into historical thinking and historiography...
Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies
From Documentation to Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
E. H. Carr wrote, "study the historian before you begin to study the facts." This book approaches the life, work, ideas, debates, and the context of key 20th- and 21st-century historians through an analysis of their life writing projects viewed as historiographical sources. Merging literary studies...
Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics
War and World Order in the Age of the Crusades
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Over the past two decades or so, medieval geopolitics have come to occupy an increasingly prominent place in the collective imagination—and writings—of International Relations scholars. Although these accounts differ significantly in terms of their respective analytical assumptions, theoretical...
Creative Pasts
Historical Memory and Identity in Western India, 1700-1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
The "Maratha period" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this period for...
by Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
Fifty Key Thinkers on History is a superb guide to historiography through the ages. The cross-section of debates and thinkers covered is unique in its breadth, taking in figures from ancient China, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages, to contemporary Europe, America, Africa and Australia; from...
Evidence and Meaning
A Theory of Historical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
As one of the premier historical thinkers of his generation, Jörn Rüsen has made enormous contributions to the methods and theoretical framework of history as it is practiced today. In Evidence and Meaning, Rüsen surveys the seismic changes that have shaped the historical profession over the last...