Routledge Approaches to History
Disability Studies Meets Microhistory: The Secret Life of Bíbí in Berlín
1st Edition
By Guðrún Valgerður Stefánsdóttir, Sólveig Ólafsdóttir, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
August 13, 2024
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 ...
Clarifying the Past: Understanding Historical Commissions in Conflicted and Divided Societies
1st Edition
By Cira Pallí-Asperó
May 27, 2024
Clarifying the Past provides a comprehensive analysis of state-sponsored historical commissions operating in conflicted and divided societies, developing a theoretical and methodological framework within the historical dialogue paradigm, key to understanding the work of such commissions. The ...
Combining Political History and Political Science: Towards a New Understanding of the Political
1st Edition
Edited
By Carlos Domper Lasús, Giorgia Priorelli
May 27, 2024
This book shows how a multidisciplinary approach combining conceptual and methodological tools from political history and political science can help to develop a deeper understanding of contemporary political phenomena including democracy, populism, war, and forced migrations, among others. ...
Ideas and Methodologies in Historical Research
1st Edition
By Vladimer Luarsabishvili
May 27, 2024
This book explores the versatile nature of historical methodology and its use in interdisciplinary research. Based on the historical overview of the appearance of one sort of historical ideas and disappearance of another, the book aims to demonstrate a wide range of possibilities of research in the...
Nation and the Writing of History in China and Britain, 1880–1930
1st Edition
By Asier Hernández Aguirresarobe
May 27, 2024
Nation and the Writing of History in China and Britain explores, through a comparative approach, the reception of the nationalist worldview and its effects on the practice of history in China and Britain. This book proposes that nationalism, rather than a political doctrine, is a way of making ...
Key Metaphors for History: Mirrors of Time
1st Edition
By Javier Fernández-Sebastián
April 03, 2024
This book casts a fresh look at what to date has been a relatively unexplored question: the enormous value and usefulness of the metaphor in the understanding and writing of history (and at the historical culture reflected by these metaphors). Mapping a wide range of tropes present in ...
How to Write About the Holocaust: The Postmodern Theory of History in Praxis
1st Edition
By Theodor Pelekanidis
January 29, 2024
How to Write About the Holocaust is a contribution to ongoing debates in historiography and Holocaust studies. More specifically, it combines the theoretical framework that has developed in historiography in the last half a century with the demands of Holocaust representation. The first part of the...
The Politics of Time in China and Japan: Back to the Future
1st Edition
By Viren Murthy
January 29, 2024
Drawing on a wide range of texts and using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume shows how Chinese and Japanese intellectuals mobilized the past to create a better future. It is especially significant today given a world where, amidst tensions within Asia and the rise of China, East Asian ...
The Biographical Landscapes of Raphael Lemkin
1st Edition
By Piotr Madajczyk
November 03, 2023
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 ...
Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand: Related Histories
1st Edition
Edited
By Malcolm Allbrook, Sophie Scott-Brown
January 09, 2023
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, family history is the place where two great oceans of research are meeting: family historians outside the academy, with traditionally trained, often university-employed historians. This collection is both a testament to dialogue and an analysis of the ...
Humanism: Foundations, Diversities, Developments
1st Edition
By Jörn Rüsen
January 09, 2023
The book describes humanism in a systematic and historical perspective. It analyzes its manifestation and function in cultural studies and its role in the present. Within the book, special attention is given to the intention of contemporary humanism to overcome ethno-centric elements in the ...
National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Comparison
1st Edition
Edited
By Niels F. May, Thomas Maissen
January 09, 2023
National history has once again become a battlefield. In internal political conflicts, which are fought on the terrain of popular culture, museums, schoolbooks, and memorial politics, it has taken on a newly important and contested role. Irrespective of national specifics, the narratives of new ...