Routledge Approaches to History
Historians Without Borders: New Studies in Multidisciplinary History
1st Edition
Edited
By Lawrence Abrams, Kaleb Knoblauch
March 31, 2021
This text explores a variety of themes developed from successive years of the University of California, Davis, multidisciplinary graduate conference. It draws out connections on a wide array of topics among the arts, humanities, and sciences in history for multidisciplinary study. This text ...
Teleology and Modernity
1st Edition
Edited
By William Gibson, Dan O'Brien, Marius Turda
March 31, 2021
The main and original contribution of this volume is to offer a discussion of teleology through the prism of religion, philosophy and history. The goal is to incorporate teleology within discussions across these three disciplines rather than restrict it to one as is customarily the case. The ...
'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past
1st Edition
By Beverley Southgate
December 18, 2020
Linking fiction with history and historical theory, 'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past focuses on a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists – Tolstoy, Proust, John Cowper Powys, Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, Penelope Lively, and James ...
A Personalist Philosophy of History
1st Edition
By Bennett Gilbert
September 30, 2020
Historical study has traditionally been built around the placement of the human at the center of inquiry. The de-stabilized concepts of the human in contemporary thought challenge this configuration. However, the ways in which these challenges provoke new historical perspectives both expand and ...
Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons
1st Edition
Edited
By Andreas Leutzsch
September 30, 2020
Historical parallels, analogies, anachronisms and metaphors to the past play a crucial role in political speeches, historical narratives, iconography, movies and newspapers on a daily basis. They frame, articulate and represent a specific understanding of history and can be used not only to ...
Universal History and the Making of the Global
1st Edition
Edited
By Hall Bjørnstad, Helge Jordheim, Anne Régent-Susini
August 14, 2020
By examining the history of universal history from the late Middle Ages until the early nineteenth century we trace the making of the global. Early modern universal history can be seen as a response to the epistemological crisis provoked by new knowledge and experience. Traditional narratives were ...
Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money: A Global History
1st Edition
By Bin Yang
May 07, 2020
Originating in the sea, especially in the waters surrounding the low-lying islands of the Maldives, Cypraea moneta (sometimes confused with Cypraea annulus) was transported to various parts of Afro-Eurasia in the prehistoric era, and in many cases, it was gradually transformed into a form of money ...
Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexandre Dessingué, Jay Winter
December 12, 2019
Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance analyses the intricate connections between silence, acts of remembrance and acts of forgetting, and relates the topic of silence to the international research field of Cultural Memory Studies. It engages with the most recent work in the field...
History and Sociology in France: From Scientific History to the Durkheimian School
1st Edition
By Robert Leroux
December 10, 2019
In the late 19th century and early part of the 20th, with the coming of age of sociology in France, the idea that there could be a “science” of history was the subject of much and varied debate. The methodological problems surrounding historical knowledge that were debated throughout this period ...
Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention
1st Edition
By Jaume Aurell
December 10, 2019
E. H. Carr wrote, "study the historian before you begin to study the facts." This book approaches the life, work, ideas, debates, and the context of key 20th- and 21st-century historians through an analysis of their life writing projects viewed as historiographical sources. Merging literary ...
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 ...
Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography
1st Edition
By Tor Egil Førland
May 23, 2019
Bringing sophisticated philosophy to bear on real-life historiography, Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography rekindles and invigorates the debate on two perennials in the theory and methodology of history. One is the tension between historians' values and the ideal—or illusion—of ...