Routledge Approaches to History
Writing Russia: The Discursive Construction of AnOther Nation
1st Edition
By Melissa-Ellen Dowling
January 09, 2023
Writing Russia offers the first systematic analysis of Anglophone national histories of Russia. By deconstructing preeminent historical works on the history of Russia, this book provides insight into the hidden ideological underpinnings of the texts and their representations of Russia in the West. ...
Archives and Human Rights
1st Edition
By Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio, Antonio González Quintana
September 26, 2022
Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? Archives and Human Rights shows the close relationship between archives and human rights and discusses the emergence, at the international level, of the ...
Historical Experience: Essays on the Phenomenology of History
1st Edition
By David Carr
September 26, 2022
This volume brings together a collection of recent essays on the philosophy and theory of history. This is a field of lively interdisciplinary discussion and research, to which historians, philosophers and theorists of culture and literature have contributed. The author is a philosopher by training...
History in a Post-Truth World: Theory and Praxis
1st Edition
Edited
By Marius Gudonis, Benjamin T. Jones
August 01, 2022
History in a Post-Truth World: Theory and Praxis explores one of the most significant paradigm shifts in public discourse. A post-truth environment that appeals primarily to emotion, elevates personal belief, and devalues expert opinion has important implications far beyond Brexit or the ...
The Primacy of Method in Historical Research: Philosophy of History and the Perspective of Meaning
1st Edition
By Jonas Ahlskog
August 01, 2022
How does history relate to the past? According to leading historical theorists, the relation to the past in history is reducible to evidential, psychological, practical and retrospective concerns. In contrast, this volume claims that historical relations to the past are irreducible products of the ...
Africa, Empire and World Disorder: Historical Essays
1st Edition
By A. G. Hopkins
April 29, 2022
This volume brings together important articles from the Cambridge historian A. G. Hopkins and reflect the enlargement and evolution of historical studies during the last half century. The essays cover four of the principal historiographical developments of the period: the extraordinary revolution ...
How History Works: The Reconstitution of a Human Science
1st Edition
By Martin L. Davies
May 23, 2019
How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the humanities, exemplified by history, and offers a critique of the validity of historical knowledge. The book focusses on history’s academic, disciplinary ethos to offer a reconception of the discipline of history, arguing ...
The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism
1st Edition
By Rolf Torstendahl
September 18, 2018
This book examines the evolution of historical professionalism, with the development of an international community that shares a set of values regarding both methodological minimum demands and what constitutes new results. Historical professionalism is not a fixed set of skills, but a concept with ...
Popularizing National Pasts: 1800 to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Berger, Chris Lorenz, Billie Melman
May 24, 2017
Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of popular national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is ...
The Fiction of History
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander Lyon Macfie
November 07, 2016
The Fiction of History sets out a number of themes in the relationship between history and fiction, emphasising the tensions and dilemmas created in this relationship and examining how various writers have dealt with these. In the first part, two chapters discuss the philosophy behind the ...
History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice
1st Edition
By Berber Bevernage
February 14, 2013
Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something ‘absent’ or ‘distant.’ Victims of historical injustice, however, in contrast, often claim that the past got ‘stuck’ in the present and that it retains a haunting presence. ...
Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life
1st Edition
By Martin L. Davies
May 01, 2012
Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life offers a controversial analysis, grounded both in philosophical argument and empirical evidence, of what history does in contemporary culture. It endorses and extends the argument that contemporary society is, in historical terms, already ...