Routledge Approaches to History
The Enlightenment and the Fate of Knowledge: Essays on the Transvaluation of Values
1st Edition
By Martin Davies
August 02, 2021
The Enlightenment is generally painted as a movement of ideas and society lasting from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, but this book argues that the Enlightenment is an essential component of modernity itself. In the course of the study, Martin Davies offers an original ...
Public Uses of Human Remains and Relics in History
1st Edition
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By Silvia Cavicchioli, Luigi Provero
June 30, 2021
The principal theme of this volume is the importance of the public use of human remains in a historical perspective. The book presents a series of case studies aimed at offering historiographical and methodological reflections and providing interpretative approaches highlighting how, through the ...
The Material of World History
1st Edition
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By Tina Mai Chen, David S. Churchill
June 30, 2021
This volume considers the confluence of World History and historical materialism, with the following guiding question in mind: given developments in the field of historical materialism concerned with the intersection of race, gender, labour, and class, why is it that within the field of World ...
Historians Without Borders: New Studies in Multidisciplinary History
1st Edition
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By Lawrence Abrams, Kaleb Knoblauch
March 31, 2021
This text explores a variety of themes developed from successive years of the University of California, Davis, multidisciplinary graduate conference. It draws out connections on a wide array of topics among the arts, humanities, and sciences in history for multidisciplinary study. This text ...
Teleology and Modernity
1st Edition
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By William Gibson, Dan O'Brien, Marius Turda
March 31, 2021
The main and original contribution of this volume is to offer a discussion of teleology through the prism of religion, philosophy and history. The goal is to incorporate teleology within discussions across these three disciplines rather than restrict it to one as is customarily the case. The ...
'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past
1st Edition
By Beverley Southgate
December 18, 2020
Linking fiction with history and historical theory, 'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past focuses on a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists – Tolstoy, Proust, John Cowper Powys, Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, Penelope Lively, and James ...
A Personalist Philosophy of History
1st Edition
By Bennett Gilbert
September 30, 2020
Historical study has traditionally been built around the placement of the human at the center of inquiry. The de-stabilized concepts of the human in contemporary thought challenge this configuration. However, the ways in which these challenges provoke new historical perspectives both expand and ...
Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons
1st Edition
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By Andreas Leutzsch
September 30, 2020
Historical parallels, analogies, anachronisms and metaphors to the past play a crucial role in political speeches, historical narratives, iconography, movies and newspapers on a daily basis. They frame, articulate and represent a specific understanding of history and can be used not only to ...
Universal History and the Making of the Global
1st Edition
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By Hall Bjørnstad, Helge Jordheim, Anne Régent-Susini
August 14, 2020
By examining the history of universal history from the late Middle Ages until the early nineteenth century we trace the making of the global. Early modern universal history can be seen as a response to the epistemological crisis provoked by new knowledge and experience. Traditional narratives were ...
Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money: A Global History
1st Edition
By Bin Yang
May 07, 2020
Originating in the sea, especially in the waters surrounding the low-lying islands of the Maldives, Cypraea moneta (sometimes confused with Cypraea annulus) was transported to various parts of Afro-Eurasia in the prehistoric era, and in many cases, it was gradually transformed into a form of money ...
Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance
1st Edition
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By Alexandre Dessingué, Jay Winter
December 12, 2019
Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance analyses the intricate connections between silence, acts of remembrance and acts of forgetting, and relates the topic of silence to the international research field of Cultural Memory Studies. It engages with the most recent work in the field...
History and Sociology in France: From Scientific History to the Durkheimian School
1st Edition
By Robert Leroux
December 10, 2019
In the late 19th century and early part of the 20th, with the coming of age of sociology in France, the idea that there could be a “science” of history was the subject of much and varied debate. The methodological problems surrounding historical knowledge that were debated throughout this period ...