At a time when it’s all too easy to see history in black-and-white terms, historian Jacques R. Pauwels urges readers to ......more

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Memory Studies will be the first major reference work in the rapidly developing field of Me......more

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"A brilliant book...illuminates a forgotten world." --The Times, Best of the Year "Heretic tells a moreish intellectual ......more

The purpose of this small book is threefold. It aims to furnish an outline survey of the entire body of Irish placenames......more

This book encapsulates the various historical contexts within which Nalanda assumed its significance and attained its ma......more

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This book brings a selection of the influential writings of Marc Bloch into the English language, largely for the very f......more

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing......more

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing......more

A group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World War In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out ......more

Syria down to Saladin is the first comprehensive historical study of post-Umayyad Syria based on Ibn ꜤAsākir’s Tā’rīkh m......more

This book brings together contributions from female authors on feminicide and violence against women. Steilneset Memoria......more

Our lives are collections of information--from mundane official documents, poignant family photos, and random artifacts ......more

This edited book discusses the historical role of textbooks in promoting national ideology. It brings together chapters ......more

The unknown history of the GPS, created as a military technology for accurate bombing during wartime, now turned daily n......more

A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year From "one of the most thoughtful ancient historians in Britain over mo......more

This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing d......more

This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing d......more

The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the classic tale of a sixteenth-century miller facing the Roman Inquisition. The Che......more

Explores how and why people manipulated borders in the early modern Atlantic world Claiming Land, Claiming Water shares ......more

The Mongol Empire changed the world, but early chronicles of its conquests, written from regional perspectives and widel......more

Richard Pipes was a longtime Harvard University professor, historian of Imperial and Soviet Russia, and influential Sovi......more

A daring reassessment of the critical method that reshaped the humanities and an invitation to imagine new ways of doing......more

A daring reassessment of the critical method that reshaped the humanities and an invitation to imagine new ways of doing......more

This Element introduces various justifications for reparations and redress for historical injustice discussed in politic......more

This volume in The Medieval Globe book series explores a fundamental problem of European historiography within a global ......more

Quentin Skinner is one of the world’s leading historians. His work includes pioneering studies of Machiavelli and Hobbes......more

How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences......more

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Jean-Pierre Filiu, acclaimed historian of Gaza, is intimately familiar with the land’s people and places; he speaks the ......more

Drawing on a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume investigates the concepts and practices of comparison ......more

Addressing polarized narratives of authoritarian control and societal resistance, this volume reconsiders the totalitari......more

This volume offers the first annotated English translation of Ḍiyāʾal-Dīn Baranī’s The Accounts of the Barmakids, based ......more

Aligning Heaven and Earth in Early Islam focuses on the construction of historical knowledge during the first centuries ......more

The study of the religious, cultural, and political movements now known as the Crusades is one of the most well-establis......more

This book seeks to advance a more systematic analysis of the relationship between collective memory and the economy. It ......more

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This book examines the pivotal role of television and social media in shaping public consciousness during the Israeli-Ar......more

This section of al-Ḫabar ʿan al-basar, the last work of the fifteenth-century historian al-Maqrīzī, presents an overview......more

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History is a comprehensive examination of oral history which addresses a wide range of p......more

Authenticity has become a key concept in the culture of history and memory in the 21st century. This open access book ex......more

Writing Queer History introduces and surveys the ways in which historians and others have researched and written about t......more

The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural texts in......more

The 3rd edition of Public History: A Practical Guide explores history in the public sphere and examines the variety of s......more

Comparative history is one of the most important methodologies of historical investigation taught in universities across......more

Placing the West’s failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust......more

A clarion call for taking back the American Revolution from the far right, published for the 250th anniversary of the De......more

Raul Hilberg (1926-2007) was a pioneer of Holocaust historiography. After sifting through tens of thousands of perpetrat......more

Bringing together leading scholars and activists, this edited collection calls for a return to the ’mode of production d......more

This collection of essays brings together codicological, historiographical and art-historical studies of Medieval Persia......more

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While the Armenian Genocide has received significant international recognition, the related experiences of Greeks and As......more

Using the contents of BBC Scotland’s television archive pertaining to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign......more

This fascinating history of the Earldom of Orkney, which was established in the Viking Age, records the adventures, feud......more

This open access collection is a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and contributions of cultural history to conte......more

Many western settler states are undertaking processes to improve Indigenous-settler relations. The primary focus is Cana......more

This book examines the relationship between the emergence of Byzantine archaeology and British colonialism during the pe......more

This book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of uses to which it was put.......more

This is the first academic research about the historiography of China film history. The author spent several years in de......more

This book takes as its main thread the struggle and cyclical alternation between the New Historiography (rooted in China......more

This book documents, via oral history, experiences of the emotions of parenthood during the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing ......more

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This ground-breaking work offers a detailed exploration of the diagnosis and treatment of yellow fever by British milita......more

From the early fourth century, the veneration of saints and relics spread rapidly across Christendom from the British Is......more

The Historiography of German Reunification presents a critical paradigm for both the de-constructing and constructing pr......more

This book undertakes a critical examination of monuments, heritage, and memory, analysing their intersections with colon......more

Through a collection of essays that reflect the complexity of the island’s historical past as it operates today, Public ......more

This volume explores the life of Bjargey "Bíbí" Kristjánsdóttir (1927-1999), an Icelandic woman with intellectual disabi......more

This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Ho......more

This project is in dialogue with a number of recent transnational attempts to rethink political and intellectual history......more

This book is a historiographical study of the economic history of the Qing dynasty that systematically examines the rese......more