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.
Practicing History: New Directions in Historical Writing after the Linguistic Turn
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabrielle M. Spiegel
June 23, 2005
This essential collection of key articles offers a re-evaluation of the practice of history in light of current debates. Critical thinkers and practicing historians present their writings, along with clear and thorough editorial material, to examine the complex ideas at the forefront of historical ...
Origins of the Cold War: An International History
2nd Edition
Edited
By Melvyn P. Leffler, Melvyn leffler, David S. Painter
June 13, 2005
The Cold War dominated the world political arena for forty-five years. Focusing on the international system and on events in all parts of the globe, Melvyn P. Leffler and David S. Painter have brought together a truly international collection of articles that provide a fresh and comprehensive ...
Medieval Religion: New Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Constance Hoffman Berman
April 19, 2005
Constance Hoffman Berman presents an indispensable collection of the most influential and revisionist work to be done on religion in the Middle Ages in the last two decades. Bringing together an authoritative list of scholars from around the world, this book is a comprehensive ...
Revolutionary Russia: New Approaches to the Russian Revolution of 1917
1st Edition
Edited
By Rex A. Wade
May 12, 2004
This collection presents the major recent writings on the Russian Revolution and its context. It brings together key texts to illustrate new interpretive approaches and covers the central topics and themes. Together, the chapters in this volume form a coherent representation of both the events and ...
Decolonization: Perspectives from Now and Then
1st Edition
Edited
By Prasenjit Duara
December 16, 2003
Decolonization brings together the most cutting-edge thinking by major historians of decolonization, including previously unpublished essays and writings by leaders of decolonizing countries including Ho Chi-Minh and Jawaharlal Nehru. The chapters in this volume present a move away from Western ...
The Renaissance: Italy and Abroad
1st Edition
Edited
By John Jeffries Martin
January 14, 2003
Including the most recent scholarship on the history of the Renaissance, this book examines politics, society, identity, gender, religion and science, and focuses on not only Italian developments in this crucial period of change, but also on aspects in Germany, France and England. With ...
Twentieth-Century China: New Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
December 20, 2002
Twentieth Century China: New Approaches is an important revisionist study of China's recent past. The chapters throw light on a variety of subjects within the field, which has recently undergone considerable change. The three major parts of this reader take into account the historical shape of the ...
Global Feminisms Since 1945
1st Edition
Edited
By Bonnie G. Smith
August 30, 2000
Global Feminisms Since 1945 is an innovative historical introduction to the issues of contemporary feminism, with a truly global perspective. It is a concise anthology considering the similarities and differences between feminisms in West and East, North and South, and highlighting class, racial, ...
Stalinism: New Directions
1st Edition
Edited
By Sheila Fitzpatrick
November 11, 1999
Stalinism is a provocative addition to the current debates related to the history of the Stalinist period of the Soviet Union. Sheila Fitzpatrick has collected together the newest and the most exciting work by young Russian, American and European scholars, as well as some of the seminal articles ...
The Revolutions of 1989
1st Edition
Edited
By Vladimir Tismaneanu
March 31, 1999
The Revolutions of 1989 is a collection of both classic and recent articles examining the causes and consequences of the collapse of communism in East and Central Europe, the most important event in recent world history. It includes discussion of: * the economic, political and social nature of ...
Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By William Beinart, Saul Dubow
May 09, 1995
As South Africa moves towards majority rule, and blacks begin to exercise direct political power, apartheid becomes a thing of the past - but its legacy in South African history will be indelible. this book is designed to introduce students to a range of interpretations of one of South Africa's ...
Reformation to Revolution
1st Edition
By Margo Todd
January 12, 1995
Few periods of English history have been so subject to `revisionism' as the Tudors and Stuarts. This volume offers a full introduction to the complex historiographical debates currently raging about politics and religion in early modern England. It * draws together thirteen articles culled from ...