A "supremely entertaining" (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the world’s history--from Julius Caesar to......more

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

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict critically analyses therelationship between cultural heritag......more

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A COMPANION TO GLOBAL HISTORICAL THOUGHT A Companion to Global Historical Thought provides an overview of the developmen......more

Though many archival digital objects were not "born digital," film archives are now important locations for digital rese......more

Though many archival digital objects were not "born digital," film archives are now important locations for digital rese......more

L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix honours and celebrates the inestimable contributions that Professor Nicholas Cronk......more

For all of the recent debates over the methods and theoretical underpinnings of the historical profession, scholars and ......more

On the surface, historical scholarship might seem thoroughly incompatible with political engagement: the ideal historian......more

Human beings have an overwhelming tendency to overemphasize the significance of the present without considering context ......more

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

Wie kann Geschichte jenseits eines chronologisch ausgerichteten Zeitsstrahls aussehen? Die interdisziplinären Beiträge b......more

Written by one of the country’s most renowned rulers, A Description of Moldavia provides unique insight into the geograp......more

Developing Theatre in the Global South proposes a fundamental re-examination of the historiography of theatre in emergin......more

Developing Theatre in the Global South proposes a fundamental re-examination of the historiography of theatre in emergin......more

Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title examines how the concept of Europe......more

Offers a rich interpretation of the region’s vexed history through a detailed study of the commemorative practices enact......more

An engrossing account of the myth and legend of George S. Patton and what his reputation illuminates about American cult......more

General George S. Patton’s legendary image was carefully crafted during World War II and continues to shape our understa......more

Now in its fifth edition, The Historian’s Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual proces......more

Now in its fifth edition, The Historian’s Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual proces......more

Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is, by far, the most celebrated military theorist, whose prestige has reached new height......more

An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing its innovations and tr......more

The encounter of indigenous history-making tradition with Western historical practice has been long neglected in Southea......more

Focusing on the career of the Soviet historian M.N. Pokrovskii, the author examines the evolution of historical writing ......more

This volume convenes eight noted scholars with varied positions at the interface of formal and historical literary criti......more

Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind’s urge to move. ’Fascinatin......more

This book explores the multifaceted dimensions of the Girmitya diaspora and post-memory. The intersections of dis/re-loc......more

While the social and cultural history of the early modern military has greatly advanced in the last few decades, the rel......more

This edited volume encompasses a range of themes and approaches relevant to the field of South African history today, as......more

"This book examines authority in discourse from ancient to modern historians, while also presenting instances of current......more

The first systematic inquiry into the Texas Rangers did not begin until 1935 with Walter Prescott Webb’s publication The......more

Environmental Narratives in the Huainanzi and the Anthropocene analyzes the contemporary discourse of the Anthropocene u......more

Making Makers presents a comprehensive history of a seminal work of scholarship which has exerted a persistent attractio......more

This Manuscript is an analysis of the African Diaspora. It will define the African Diaspora and how the concepts behind ......more

This Manuscript is an analysis of the African Diaspora. It will define the African Diaspora and how the concepts behind ......more

While the tale of Roberto Busa and the Index Thomisticus has become an origin myth for Digital Medieval Studies, less at......more

​This book explores the intersections of affect, memory and privilege among Bogota’s upper middle class. Combining appro......more

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

Ahmad bin Yahuya al-Baladhuri’s History of the Arab Invasions is perhaps the most important single source for the histor......more

This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to rece......more

This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to rece......more

Oral History at a Distance is the first publication to explore both the ideas behind and application of oral history in ......more

This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowicz’s life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth......more

This volume is a collection of papers presented at a workshop commemorating the 20th anniversary of Reinhold Bichler’s m......more

This book aims to address a neglected field of research by providing evidence-based insights into how contemporary visit......more

What makes historical writing distinctive? In Representation, Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit--the preeminent figure in the ph......more

What makes historical writing distinctive? In Representation, Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit--the preeminent figure in the ph......more

This book contributes to a worldwide history of textual criticism and critical editions of ancient scientific texts. It ......more

A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s, Millard Meiss (1904-1975) developed a......more

This book explores the versatile nature of historical methodology and its use in interdisciplinary research. Based on th......more

This book shows how a multidisciplinary approach combining conceptual and methodological tools from political history an......more

This book is devoted to the inhabitants of the Spanish-Portuguese borderlands during the early modern period. It seeks t......more

Reflecting the growing interest of historians in memory studies, this edited collection examines the relationship betwee......more

This book addresses the emergence of ’protest memory’ as a powerful contemporary shaper of ideas and practices in cultur......more

Bringing together a fascinatingly diverse yet closely related group of subjects, Where Words and Images Meet asks us to ......more

While humanists agreed on identifying the main requirement of the historical genre with truthfulness, they disagreed on ......more

Lessons of history are often referred to in public discourse, but seldom in scholarly discussions. This book seeks to ch......more

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

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Imagining Ireland’s Pasts describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centurie......more

An "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship qu......more

Illustration and Heritage explores the re-materialisation of absent, lost, and invisible stories through illustrative pr......more

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ’An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year’ Su......more

This annotated translation of To the Far North presents the diary of a twenty-seven-year-old Russian physician who was p......more

Milwaukee in Stone and Clay follows directly in the footsteps of Raymond Wiggers’s previous award-winning book, Chicago ......more

A series of essays that use archival records of legal processes to piece together a picture of daily life across varied ......more

To date there has been no plotting of punk scholarship which speaks to ’time’, yet there are some clear bodies of work p......more

This book casts a fresh look at what to date has been a relatively unexplored question: the enormous value and usefulnes......more

History Below the Global aims to foster an entangled knowledge of global history, and to place ’others’ at the centre st......more

The fastest way to success in any endeavor of life is to study the wisdom of people who have been where you want to go--......more

History Below the Global aims to foster an entangled knowledge of global history, and to place ’others’ at the centre st......more