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

The past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense ......more

Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film builds upon decades of scholarship investigating history in ......more

The second generation of Pacific historians, who began their careers in the 1970s and 1980s, is gradually fading from th......more

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Why does the history of dogmatism deserve our attention? This open access book analyses uses of the term, following dogm......more

Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science explores the main themes, problems and challenges currently a......more

Historiography on the Vikings of the East - the Rus’ and the Varangians - has been both multiform and varied, but it has......more

The Irish Civil War ended in 1923. Eighty years on, documentary-maker Tom Hurley wondered if there were many people left......more

An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and societ......more

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This Element shows that existing models of global slavery derived from sociology and modelled closely on antebellum Amer......more

This Element shows that existing models of global slavery derived from sociology and modelled closely on antebellum Amer......more

This book is specifically dedicated to film history’s own history: It provides insights into the fabrication of film his......more

The essays of this book show that we do not have to choose between Luke as a theologian and Luke as a writer, between a ......more

Historical actors are as central to the history of knowledge as to all historical scholarship. Every country, every era ......more

The volume in hand throws light on historical encounters with troubled pasts in contemporary Dutch and Greek historiogra......more

This monograph presents a critical analysis of the body of historical writing on the history of the Jewish population in......more

Opening up Carolingian history to a new generation, this book draws on recently translated primary sources to examine th......more

We Can Take It explores how the memory of the Second World War continues to affect British contemporary life and why the......more

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In a young American republic seeking to define itself in relation to European cultural and political models past and pre......more

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A searching dialogue between two leading legal scholars exploring the place of law in global affairs. The modern world i......more

"A ground-breaking collection of essays regarding the history, implementation and challenges of using "antisemitism" and......more

"A ground-breaking collection of essays regarding the history, implementation and challenges of using "antisemitism" and......more

The Enlightenment has been blamed for some of the most deadly developments of modern life: racism and white supremacy, i......more

Enlightenment critics from Dryden through Johnson and Wordsworth conceived the modern view that art and especially liter......more

Enlightenment critics from Dryden through Johnson and Wordsworth conceived the modern view that art and especially liter......more

The Enlightenment has been blamed for some of the most deadly developments of modern life: racism and white supremacy, i......more

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From the nineteenth century onwards, historians described the Middle Ages as the "cradle" of the nation state--then, aft......more

The Middle Ages, in our cultural imagination, are besieged with ideas of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, k......more

Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defin......more

This book questions the place of Armenian visual and material culture in the period known as Late Antiquity, at a time w......more

The Tacitus Encyclopedia ist das einzige vollständige Referenzwerk seiner Art im Bereich der Tacitus-Studien. Das zweibä......more

A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and dis......more

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In many countries in Northern and Eastern Europe, the period after 1000 saw the emergence of new Christian kingdoms. Thi......more

A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Sh......more

This book situates Alfred the Great in his hagiographic context. For 150 years, the fables told in the ninth century abo......more

This volume approaches the broad topic of wonder in the works of Tacitus, encompassing paradox, the marvellous and the a......more

First published in 1995, Charles I is a psychological portrait of the ’monarch of the Civil Wars, ’ Charles I. Challengi......more

First published in 1990, Royal Mistresses provides an innovative way of looking at the development of British monarchy, ......more

Uncovering ancient texts and rethinking early Christian identity with the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles Sh......more

The second edition of this influential book addresses how the experiences and claims of non-European ’others’ have been ......more

HONORABLE MENTION, 2024 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award in Edited Collection!......more

The historical consciousness of medieval Jewry has engendered lively debate in the scholarly world. The focus in this bo......more

Intellectual biography of Holocaust historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz. From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York I......more

This volume brings together medievalist and early modernist specialists, whose research fields are traditionally divided......more

This volume presents a concise history of the reign of Edward II, as well as essential sources in translation that allow......more

In the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of art documentaries were produced, many of them being highly personal, poetic, reflexi......more

A philosophical history of that strange but prolific hybrid--The Writer as Walker. From the peripatetic philosophers of ......more

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Through a series of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary interventions, leading international scholars of history an......more

This set has been the fruit of the conference on ’Chinese Studies since the End of the Cultural Revolution’, which is it......more

Chapter 1. Exploring the Great Transformation of Modern China (Yaoji). - Chapter 2. The Reconstruction of Chinese Sociol......more

Focusing on stunning paintings and engravings from around the world, Powerful Pictures interrogates the driving forces b......more

What histories do objects like coins or gems help us to trace? How can we read photographs and paintings? How do fiction......more

The authors of the first serious scholarly works on Greek warfare were not free to write their surveys as they wished. I......more

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This book explores the connection between history and mythology by engaging with myths not as allegories or falsehoods, ......more

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 What are the humanities? As the cluster of disciplines historically grouped toget......more

A Memorial in the World offers a new appraisal of the reception and role of Constantine the Great and Ardashir I (the fo......more

What is the role of the historical and political novel in our lives? Is it just a story from the past, or does it shape ......more

Evil is sometimes thought to be incomprehensible and abnormal, falling outside of familiar historical and human processe......more

Andrea Fulvio’s Illustrium imagines and the Beginnings of Classical Archaeology is a study of the book recognized by con......more

This volume is a collection of papers that have been given at an international conference in December 2019 in Bregenz, A......more

Pieter Geyl (1887-1966) was undoubtedly one of the most internationally renowned Dutch historians of the twentieth centu......more

Contemporary Austria remains greatly influenced by post-1945 efforts to re-establish an Austrian state and forge a new "......more

This book maps key moments in the history of postwar art from a global perspective. The reader is introduced to a new gl......more

With the passing of Zane L. Miller in 2016, academia lost a renowned scholar and one of the key founders of new urban hi......more

A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes ......more

A central character in legends and histories of the Old West, Billy the Kid rivals such western icons as Jesse James and......more