Routledge Approaches to History
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...
Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause: A Journey from Language to Experience
1st Edition
By Peter Icke
October 14, 2024
The contemporary Dutch historical theorist/philosopher Frank Ankersmit, an erstwhile advocate and promulgator of what has become known as "the linguistic turn" in historical theory, is very well known within the discipline. His early position with regard to the historical text is frequently ...
Integrity and Historical Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Tony Gibbons, Emily Sutherland
October 14, 2024
There have been serious debates between historians, novelists and filmmakers as to how best present historical narratives. When writers and filmmakers talk of using historical research with integrity, what exactly do they mean? Integrity and Historical Research examines this question in detail. The...
Narrative Projections of a Black British History
1st Edition
By Eva Ulrike Pirker
October 14, 2024
Since the mid-1990s, the black experience in Britain has begun to be (re)negotiated intensely, with a strong focus on history. Narrative Projections of a Black British History considers narratives that construct, or engage with, aspects of a black British history. Part I poses the question of what ...
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 ...