Routledge Approaches to History
Towards a Critique of Methodological Presentism in Migration Research: A Focus on Denmark
1st Edition
By Garbi Schmidt
September 23, 2025
This book investigates the benefits of integrating history, sociology, and ethnography to better understand migration and its consequences, using Denmark’s history of migration as a case study. Although migration research is an interdisciplinary field, much research on migration still occurs in ...
Ujamaa and Ubuntu: Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective
1st Edition
By Bo Stråth
July 31, 2025
For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge. It is a language ordering time and space with words, such as enlightenment, reason, rationality, modernization, and the most recent by-word, globalization. However, it is a ...
Plurihistoricity: On the Historical Cultures of Extinction, Justice, and the Historical Profession
1st Edition
By Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
July 25, 2025
This book situates historical scholarship within a plurihistoricity of contemporary historical culture, exploring conflicting conceptions of historical change in technological utopias of human enhancement, in prospects of human extinction, in societal responses to the Anthropocene, and in the ...
The Lost Human and the Real End of History: The English Revolution and the Capitalist Roots of Environmental Crisis
1st Edition
By George Yerby
June 30, 2025
This book analyses the transformation in 16th- and 17th- century English economic life that overturned the traditional restraints of the medieval economy for the commercial ethos that governs the modern world, and the resulting imbalance which opened the way to the environmental breakdown of today....
When Jews Argue: Between the University and the Beit Midrash
1st Edition
Edited
By Ethan B. Katz, Sergey Dolgopolski, Elisha Ancselovits
June 27, 2025
This book re-thinks the relationship between the world of the traditional Jewish study hall (the Beit Midrash) and the academy: Can these two institutions overcome their vast differences? Should they attempt to do so? If not, what could two methods of study seen as diametrically opposed possibly ...
The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education: The Available Means
1st Edition
By Anthony Edward Zupancic
April 14, 2025
At its very center, The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education: The Available Means is a study of the subtle, organic ways that rhetoric can work to cultivate a particular character. This is an extension of the current work in composition studies, which focus on the ways...
Historical Narratives: Constructable, Evaluable, Inevitable
1st Edition
By Mariana Imaz-Sheinbaum
January 30, 2025
This book explains some of the psychological processes that go into narrative construction and why it is that we have so much variability of historical accounts about a single historical event. A central focus of this book is how historians go from having unconnected units of data to having a ...
Capitalist Cold: Emotions and the Economy in Europe and the United States
1st Edition
Edited
By Agnes Arndt, Kerstin Maria Pahl
January 24, 2025
The capitalist system has often been described by its critics as a heartless economic structure corroding social bonds and symbolic values. Its defenders and analysts likewise use narratives that position emotions as central to the economy. This book enquires into the history of these framings. To ...
Polish Theory of History and Metahistory in Topolski, Pomian, and Tokarczuk: From Hayden White and Beyond
1st Edition
By Jan Pomorski
November 28, 2024
This book traces the development of the Polish theory of history, analysing how Jerzy Topolski, Krzysztof Pomian, and Olga Tokarczuk have both built upon and transgressed the metahistorical theories of American historian Hayden White. Poland’s reception of White’s work has gone through different ...
Reframing Indigenous Biography
1st Edition
Edited
By Shino Konishi, Malcolm Allbrook, Tom Griffiths
November 11, 2024
This book explores the history, practice, and possibilities of writing about the lives of First Nations’ peoples in Australia as well as Aotearoa New Zealand, North America, and the Pacific. This interdisciplinary collection recognises the limitations of Western biographical conventions for writing...
The Theory of Collective Reconciliation: A Trinity of Recognition, Responsibility and Reparation
1st Edition
By Vahagn Avedian
September 09, 2024
What does reconciliation mean and entail? Is collective reconciliation for entire societies or nations possible? This book aims to present it as a highly achievable albeit difficult and complex goal requiring political and collective commitment, resources, and – most importantly – the will to ...
Lebanese Historical Thought in the Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Hayat El Eid Bualuan
August 26, 2024
This study of Lebanese historical thought and its role in national identity formation in the eighteenth century focuses on a sample of historians, mainly Christians, who lived and wrote during the Shihabi Emirate from 1697 till the Egyptian invasion in 1831. These historians, who represent ...