Routledge Approaches to History
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...
The Aesthetics of History
1st Edition
By Alun Munslow
August 29, 2022
This book offers an understanding and analysis of the aesthetics of historying through the specific concepts and process of the fabricated, factitious, factional, factious, factitive, factive, factualist, fictitious, fictive and the figurative. These concepts create the(ir) connection(s) between "...
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 ...
Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories
1st Edition
Edited
By Louie Dean Valencia-García
December 13, 2021
In Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories, historians, sociologists, neuroscientists, lawyers, cultural critics, and literary and media scholars come together to offer an interconnected and comparative collection for understanding how contemporary far-right, neo-fascist, ...
Historia Ludens: The Playing Historian
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander von Lünen, Katherine J. Lewis, Benjamin Litherland, Pat Cullum
December 13, 2021
This book aims to further a debate about aspects of "playing" and "gaming" in connection with history. Reaching out to academics, professionals and students alike, it pursues a dedicated interdisciplinary approach. Rather than only focusing on how professionals could learn from academics in history...
In Praise of Historical Anthropology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications to the Study of Power and Colonialism
1st Edition
By Alexandre Coello de la Rosa, Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste
September 30, 2021
In Praise of Historical Anthropology is based on a fundamental conviction: the study of society cannot be undertaken without considering the weight of history and separations between disciplines in academics need to be bridged for the benefit of knowledge. Anthropology cannot be limited to ...
Information and Power in History: Towards a Global Approach
1st Edition
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By Ida Nijenhuis, Marijke van Faassen, Ronald Sluijter, Joris Gijsenbergh, Wim de Jong
September 30, 2021
The relationship between information and power is a relevant subject for all times. Today’s perceived ‘information revolution’ has caused information to become a separate object of study during the last two decades for several disciplines. As the contemporary perspective is dominant, information ...
The Enlightenment and the Fate of Knowledge: Essays on the Transvaluation of Values
1st Edition
By Martin Davies
August 02, 2021
The Enlightenment is generally painted as a movement of ideas and society lasting from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, but this book argues that the Enlightenment is an essential component of modernity itself. In the course of the study, Martin Davies offers an original ...
Public Uses of Human Remains and Relics in History
1st Edition
Edited
By Silvia Cavicchioli, Luigi Provero
June 30, 2021
The principal theme of this volume is the importance of the public use of human remains in a historical perspective. The book presents a series of case studies aimed at offering historiographical and methodological reflections and providing interpretative approaches highlighting how, through the ...
The Material of World History
1st Edition
Edited
By Tina Mai Chen, David S. Churchill
June 30, 2021
This volume considers the confluence of World History and historical materialism, with the following guiding question in mind: given developments in the field of historical materialism concerned with the intersection of race, gender, labour, and class, why is it that within the field of World ...