Rewriting Histories
About the Book Series
Rewriting Histories focuses on historical themes where standard conclusions are facing a major challenge. Each book presents ten to fifteen papers (edited and annotated where necessary) at the forefront of current research and interpretation, offering students an accessible way to engage with contemporary debates.
The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath
2nd Edition
Edited
By Omer Bartov
January 02, 2015
Containing an almost entirely new selection of texts, this second edition of The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath presents a critical and important study of the Holocaust. Many of the pieces challenge conventional analyses and preconceived notions about the Holocaust, whether regarding...
Early North America in Global Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Morgan, Molly Warsh
September 05, 2013
Early North American history is a field in flux. In the last thirty years, the field of Atlantic History has transformed scholarly studies of colonial America, bringing to light the many connections linking the Americas to Africa and Europe. Recently, though, historians have begun to question the ...
Global Environmental History: An Introductory Reader
1st Edition
Edited
By John R. McNeill, Alan Roe
December 14, 2012
Global Environmental History introduces this rapidly developing field through a broad and thought-provoking range of expert contributions. Environmental history is a subject especially suited to global and transnational approaches and, over the course of the present generation, an increasing ...
North American Borderlands
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian DeLay
December 07, 2012
Since the early colonial period, historians have been fascinated with North America’s borderlands – places where people interacted across multiple, independent political and legal systems. Today the scholarship on these regions is more robust and innovative than ever before. North American ...
Haitian History: New Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Alyssa Sepinwall
August 27, 2012
Despite Haiti's proximity to the United States, and its considerable importance to our own history, Haiti barely registered in the historic consciousness of most Americans until recently. Those who struggled to understand Haiti's suffering in the earthquake of 2010 often spoke of it as the poorest ...
Globalizing Feminisms, 1789- 1945
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen Offen
January 22, 2010
This definitive Reader presents a coherent, comprehensive, comparative, and much-needed collective history of women’s activism throughout the world. Including key pieces on the history of feminism from an international group of scholars, the book charts feminists’ attempts to restore a balance...
Origins of the Black Atlantic
1st Edition
Edited
By Laurent Dubois, Julius S. Scott
September 14, 2009
Between 1492 and 1820, about two-thirds of the people who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were Africans. With the exception of the Spanish, all the European empires settled more Africans in the New World than they did Europeans. The vast majority of these enslaved men and women worked on ...
Comparative Fascist Studies: New Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Constantin Iordachi
August 18, 2009
Owing to its mass appeal, revolutionary and violent nature, strong political impact, and multiple reverberations in contemporary politics, fascism was one of the most complex, and hotly debated movements of the twentieth century. Comparative Fascist Studies: New Perspectives brings together some of...
The New South: New Histories
1st Edition
By J. William Harris
December 13, 2007
William Harris, the editor of Routledge’s The Old South: New Studies of Society and Culture, aims in The New South to introduce students to the historiography of this later volatile period of southern history, which starts from the racial segregation prevalent after the end of the Civil War and ...
The Old South: New Studies of Society and Culture
1st Edition
By J. William Harris
December 04, 2007
In this, the re-titled second edition of Society and Culture in the Slave South, J. William Harris selects the most recent and original scholarship in the field of the antebellum South published since 1992, when the first edition appeared. The present volume illustrates both the continuities and ...
From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas F.X. Noble
April 12, 2006
This prestigious collection of essays by leading scholars provides a thorough reassessment of the medieval era which questions how, when and why the Middle Ages began, and how abruptly the shift from the Roman Empire to Barbarian Europe happened. Presenting the most current work including ...
The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies
2nd Edition
Edited
By Gary Kates
November 18, 2005
This fascinating book studies all aspects of the French Revolution, from its origins, through its development, right up to the consequences of this major historical event. Bringing together key texts at the forefront of new research and interpretation, Gary Kates challenges orthodox assumptions ...