Routledge Approaches to History
Religion, History and Identity Construction
1st Edition
By Tamer Balcı
July 10, 2026
Religion, History and Identity Construction covers the historiographical shift from universalistic monogenist narratives to chauvinistic polygenist narratives in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers a detailed study of the intellectual thought and socio-political conditions that ...
The Politics of Personal Experience: Writing a History of Munchausen Syndromes
1st Edition
By Chris Millard
March 25, 2026
How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences with Munchausen Syndrome and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP), this book analyzes how various historians have managed “the personal” and their scholarship. It shows how ...
Philosophy as Cultural Self-Understanding: Peter Winch, R. G. Collingwood and the Human Sciences
1st Edition
By Olli Lagerspetz, Jonas Ahlskog
March 11, 2026
This book argues for the value of reading Peter Winch (1926–1997), one of the important philosophers of the 20th century and known especially for his work on Wittgenstein and the philosophy of the social sciences, paired with R. G. Collingwood (1889–1942), famous for his philosophy of history. Both...
Parahistory and the Popular Past: Acts of Historical Production
1st Edition
By Kalle Pihlainen
March 04, 2026
Parahistory and the Popular Past challenges the tired debate over historical fact versus fiction by focusing on what really matters: how different forms of representation create meaning and establish responsibility. Moving beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries, this book diagnoses a ...
Transnational Comparisons in Nineteenth-Century History: Theory and Case Studies
1st Edition
By Enrico Dal Lago
February 05, 2026
Comparative history is one of the most important methodologies of historical investigation taught in universities across the world. Recently, it has been enriched by the work of several scholars who combine the methodologies of comparative history and transnational history very effectively. This is...
Cultural Histories of Democracy: Studies in Political Culture Since the 19th Century – Germany and Beyond
1st Edition
By Thomas Mergel
January 27, 2026
Over the last two decades German political history has changed fundamentally. It has reinvented itself as cultural history and sought to apply symbolic, linguistic, and praxeological approaches. This book brings for the first time in English, Thomas Mergel’s inquiries into the history of democracy ...
The Historiography of German Reunification: Endeavours of Construction
1st Edition
By Tilo Schabert
December 31, 2025
The Historiography of German Reunification presents a critical paradigm for both the deconstructing and constructing processes of catching events in the past by a representation of those events in the form of a scholarly, sustained story. The supporting argument is this: all historiography ...
Disability Studies Meets Microhistory: The Secret Life of Bíbí in Berlín
1st Edition
By Guðrún Valgerður Stefánsdóttir, Sólveig Ólafsdóttir, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
December 25, 2025
This volume explores the life of Bjargey “Bíbí” Kristjánsdóttir (1927–1999), an Icelandic woman with intellectual disabilities, through analysis of her autobiography and personal archive on the basis of the research disciplines of critical disability studies and microhistory. Bíbí, who grew up in ...
The Biographical Landscapes of Raphael Lemkin
1st Edition
By Piotr Madajczyk
October 27, 2025
The book is the first biography of Raphael Lemkin to draw on a comprehensive body of research into Lemkin as a person and his background and will be of interest to both non-specialists and academics. Drawing on archival materials, a nuanced description is provided of the ethnically mixed ...
Towards a Critique of Methodological Presentism in Migration Research: A Focus on Denmark
1st Edition
By Garbi Schmidt
September 22, 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 ...