Munslow examines history in the postmodern age. He provides an introduction to the debates and issues of postmodernist history. He also surveys the latest re......
"Aspects of Greek History, 750 - 323 BC" is an up-to-date textbook on ancient Greek history that, topic- by-topic, uses a wealth of original sources to inter......
This GuideBook introduces and assesses Hegel's influential work, Introduction to the Philosophy of History, explaining both key concepts and Hegel's continui......
Prophets of the Past is the first book to examine in depth how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. Michael Brenner reveals that perhaps......
Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the c......
Historians know about the past because they examine the evidence. But what exactly is Âevidence, how do historians know what it meansÂand how can we trust t......
In Fortunes of History Donald R. Kelley offers an authoritative examination of historical writing during the "long nineteenth century"--the years from the Fr......
The Oral History Reader is an international anthology of the key writings about the theory, method and use of oral history. The collection covers key debates......
"Making History" is a comprehensive textbook which explores the practice of history, historical tradition and the theories which surround it. Discussing the ......
The place of 'theory' in the study of the past is controversial. According to some historians, the use of ideas and concepts from disciplines like economics ......
This is a book for anyone interested in history, what it is and where it comes from. Engaging and challenging, it confronts us with the many "histories" that......
Gabrielle Spiegel presents an essential new collection of key articles that examine the current status of the debate over the "linguistic turn" and attempt t......
These essays provide a thorough introduction to economics for historians. The authors, all eminent scholars, show how to use economic thinking, economic mode......
The vexed relationship between the two parts of Italy, often referred to as the Southern Question, has shaped that nation's political, social, and cultural l......
In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the ......
This is a little book about 50,000 years of human history that finally connects modern history, and medieval history, and ancient history, and what's still c......
This is a broad and ambitious study of the entire history of humanity which takes as its point of departure Marx's theory of social evolution. However, Profe......
The history of the early 'Abbasid Caliphate has long been studied as a factual or interpretive synthesis of various accounts preserved in the medieval Islami......
Suraiya Faroqhi's scholarly contribution to the field of Ottoman history has been prodigious. Her latest book represents a summation of that scholarship, an ......
This ambitious work has two novel goals: to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, and to connect Southeast Asian to wor......