Historiography category: 1227 books
by Dan Stone
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
The Holocaust is one of the most intensively studied phenomena in modern history. The volume of writing that fuels the numerous debates about it is overwhelming in quantity and diversity. Even those who have dedicated their professional lives to understanding the Holocaust cannot assimilate it all....
by Michael E. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2008
In this fresh appraisal of communism and anti-communism, with an emphasis on the American case, respected scholar Michael E. Brown examines the methods, controversies and difficulties involved in writing the history of communism. Arguing that one important way of understanding communism—other than...
Marxist Historiographies
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Marxist Historiographies is the first book to examine the ebb and flow of Marxist historiography from a global and cross-cultural perspective. Since the eighteenth century, few schools of historical thought have exerted a more lasting impact than Marxism, and this impact extends far beyond the Western...
Annalists and Historians
Western Historiography from the VIIIth to the XVIIIth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This book, originally published in 1977, is a survey of European historiography from its origins in the historians of Greece and Rome, through the annalists and chroniclers of the middle ages, to the historians of the late eighteenth century. The author concentrates on those writers whose works fit...
Critical Discourse Analysis in Historiography
The Case of Hong Kong's Evolving Political Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The book shows how the study of the evolving discourse employed during a political process spanning more than a decade can provide insights for critical discourse analysis, on the one hand, and understanding of a real world political process on the other, thereby demonstrating the potential role for critical discourse analysis in historiography.
by Huaiqi Wu
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This book systematically traces the development of Chinese historiography from the 2nd century B.C. to the 19th century A.D. Refusing to fit the Chinese historical narration into the modern Western discourse, the author highlights the significant questions that concern traditional historians, their...
Civil War and Narrative
Testimony, Historiography, Memory
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book explores the representation of intra-state conflicts. It offers a distinctive approach by looking at narrative forms and strategies associated with civil war testimony, historiography and memory. The volume seeks to reflect current research in civil war in a number of disciplines and covers...
Medieval Islamic Historiography
Remembering Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This book is a comparative analysis of the medieval Sunni historiography of the caliphate of Uthman b. Affan and the revolt against him. By comparing treatments of Uthman in pietistic literature and universal chronicles, the work traces the gradual silencing of more critical accounts in favor of those...
Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857
Volume VI: Perception, Narration and Reinvention: The Pedagogy and Historiography of the Indian Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the revolt of 1857 from a variety of original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in...
by Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Revision and revisionism are generally seen as standard parts of historical practice, yet they are underexplored within the growing literature on historiography. In this accessibly written volume, Marnie Hughes-Warrington discusses this paucity of work on revision in history theory and raises ethical...
Images and Contexts
The Historiography of Science and Modernity in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
This volume situates the historiography of science in India within a social theory of science. It deals with paradigm shift within science studies, the move away from a West-centric theory of science, and future trends and possibilities. The book takes up several strands from the corpus of writing...
Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography
The ‘Plupast' from Herodotus to Appian
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Historians often refer to past events which took place prior to their narrative's proper past - that is, they refer to a 'plupast'. This past embedded in the past can be evoked by characters as well as by the historian in his own voice. It can bring into play other texts, but can also draw on lieux...
History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence
Time and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something ‘absent’ or ‘distant.’ Victims of historical injustice, however, in contrast, often claim that the past got ‘stuck’ in the present and that it retains a haunting...
The Sea
Thalassography and Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The Seabrings together a group of noted contributors to evaluate the different ways in which seas have served as subjects in historiography and asks how this has changed---and will change---the way history is written. The essays in this volume provide exemplary demonstrations of how a sea-based history-writing...