Routledge Approaches to History
Integrity and Historical Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Tony Gibbons, Emily Sutherland
October 14, 2024
There have been serious debates between historians, novelists and filmmakers as to how best present historical narratives. When writers and filmmakers talk of using historical research with integrity, what exactly do they mean? Integrity and Historical Research examines this question in detail. The...
Narrative Projections of a Black British History
1st Edition
By Eva Ulrike Pirker
October 14, 2024
Since the mid-1990s, the black experience in Britain has begun to be (re)negotiated intensely, with a strong focus on history. Narrative Projections of a Black British History considers narratives that construct, or engage with, aspects of a black British history. Part I poses the question of what ...
The Theory of Collective Reconciliation: A Trinity of Recognition, Responsibility and Reparation
1st Edition
By Vahagn Avedian
September 09, 2024
What does reconciliation mean and entail? Is collective reconciliation for entire societies or nations possible? This book aims to present it as a highly achievable albeit difficult and complex goal requiring political and collective commitment, resources, and – most importantly – the will to ...
Lebanese Historical Thought in the Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Hayat El Eid Bualuan
August 26, 2024
This study of Lebanese historical thought and its role in national identity formation in the eighteenth century focuses on a sample of historians, mainly Christians, who lived and wrote during the Shihabi Emirate from 1697 till the Egyptian invasion in 1831. These historians, who represent ...
Clarifying the Past: Understanding Historical Commissions in Conflicted and Divided Societies
1st Edition
By Cira Pallí-Asperó
May 27, 2024
Clarifying the Past provides a comprehensive analysis of state-sponsored historical commissions operating in conflicted and divided societies, developing a theoretical and methodological framework within the historical dialogue paradigm, key to understanding the work of such commissions. The ...
Combining Political History and Political Science: Towards a New Understanding of the Political
1st Edition
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By Carlos Domper Lasús, Giorgia Priorelli
May 27, 2024
This book shows how a multidisciplinary approach combining conceptual and methodological tools from political history and political science can help to develop a deeper understanding of contemporary political phenomena including democracy, populism, war, and forced migrations, among others. ...
Ideas and Methodologies in Historical Research
1st Edition
By Vladimer Luarsabishvili
May 27, 2024
This book explores the versatile nature of historical methodology and its use in interdisciplinary research. Based on the historical overview of the appearance of one sort of historical ideas and disappearance of another, the book aims to demonstrate a wide range of possibilities of research in the...
Nation and the Writing of History in China and Britain, 1880–1930
1st Edition
By Asier Hernández Aguirresarobe
May 27, 2024
Nation and the Writing of History in China and Britain explores, through a comparative approach, the reception of the nationalist worldview and its effects on the practice of history in China and Britain. This book proposes that nationalism, rather than a political doctrine, is a way of making ...
How to Write About the Holocaust: The Postmodern Theory of History in Praxis
1st Edition
By Theodor Pelekanidis
January 29, 2024
How to Write About the Holocaust is a contribution to ongoing debates in historiography and Holocaust studies. More specifically, it combines the theoretical framework that has developed in historiography in the last half a century with the demands of Holocaust representation. The first part of the...
The Politics of Time in China and Japan: Back to the Future
1st Edition
By Viren Murthy
January 29, 2024
Drawing on a wide range of texts and using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume shows how Chinese and Japanese intellectuals mobilized the past to create a better future. It is especially significant today given a world where, amidst tensions within Asia and the rise of China, East Asian ...
Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand: Related Histories
1st Edition
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By Malcolm Allbrook, Sophie Scott-Brown
January 09, 2023
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, family history is the place where two great oceans of research are meeting: family historians outside the academy, with traditionally trained, often university-employed historians. This collection is both a testament to dialogue and an analysis of the ...
Humanism: Foundations, Diversities, Developments
1st Edition
By Jörn Rüsen
January 09, 2023
The book describes humanism in a systematic and historical perspective. It analyzes its manifestation and function in cultural studies and its role in the present. Within the book, special attention is given to the intention of contemporary humanism to overcome ethno-centric elements in the ...