Key Metaphors for History

Javier Fernández-Sebastián

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• This book casts a fresh look at what to date has been a relatively unexplored question: the enormous value and usefulness of the metaphor in the under... Lees meer

Humanism

Jörn Rüsen

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• The book describes humanism in a systematic and historical perspective. It analyzes its manifestation and function in cultural studies and its role in... Lees meer

History, Ethics, and the Recognition of the Other

Anton Froeyman

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History | nr. 17
• This book introduces a new way of looking at the writing of history. Rather than as the production of knowledge or the telling of stories, it sees wri... Lees meer

The Politics of Time in China and Japan

Viren Murthy

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• Drawing on a wide range of texts and using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume shows how Chinese and Japanese intellectuals mobilized the past ... Lees meer

Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money

Bin Yang

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• Originating in the sea, especially in the waters surrounding the low-lying islands of the Maldives, Cypraea moneta (sometimes confused with Cypraea an... Lees meer

Popularizing National Pasts

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of popular national histories, their representations, the meanings... Lees meer

Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• Historical parallels, analogies, anachronisms and metaphors to the past play a crucial role in political speeches, historical narratives, iconography,... Lees meer

The Fiction of History

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History | nr. 6
• The Fiction of History sets out a number of themes in the relationship between history and fiction, emphasising the tensions and dilemmas created in t... Lees meer

The Fiction of History

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• The Fiction of History sets out a number of themes in the relationship between history and fiction, emphasising the tensions and dilemmas created in t... Lees meer

Africa, Empire and World Disorder

A G Hopkins

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• This volume brings together important articles from the Cambridge historian A. G. Hopkins and reflect the enlargement and evolution of historical stud... Lees meer

How History Works

Martin L Davies

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the humanities, exemplified by history, and offers a critique of the validity ... Lees meer

The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism

Rolf Torstendahl

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History | nr. 8
• This book examines the evolution of historical professionalism, with the development of an international community that shares a set of values regardi... Lees meer

Polish Theory of History and Metahistory in Topolski, Pomian, and Tokarczuk

Jan Pomorski

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• This book traces the development of the Polish theory of history, analysing how Jerzy Topolski, Krzysztof Pomian, and Olga Tokarczuk have both built u... Lees meer

The Primacy of Method in Historical Research

Jonas Ahlskog

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History | nr. 40
• How does history relate to the past? According to leading historical theorists, the relation to the past in history is reducible to evidential, psycho... Lees meer

'A New Type of History'

Beverley Southgate

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• Linking fiction with history and historical theory, 'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past focuses on a selection of n... Lees meer

Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• Historical parallels, analogies, anachronisms and metaphors to the past play a crucial role in political speeches, historical narratives, iconography,... Lees meer

The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education

Anthony Edward Zupancic

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• At its very center, The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education: The Available Means is a study of the subtle, organic ways... Lees meer

Archives and Human Rights

Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio, Antonio González Quintana

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? Arch... Lees meer

Narrative Projections of a Black British History

Eva Ulrike Pirker

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• Since the mid-1990s, the black experience in Britain has begun to be (re)negotiated intensely, with a strong focus on history. Narrative Projections o... Lees meer

Writing Russia

Melissa-Ellen Dowling

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History | nr. 46
• Writing Russia offers the first systematic analysis of Anglophone national histories of Russia. By deconstructing preeminent historical works on the h... Lees meer

Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide

Michael Kimaid

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• This book is about how modernity affects our perceptions of time and space. Its main argument is that geographical space is used to control temporal p... Lees meer

The Enlightenment and the Fate of Knowledge

Martin L Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• The Enlightenment is generally painted as a movement of ideas and society lasting from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, but this ... Lees meer

National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History | nr. 44
• National history has once again become a battlefield. In internal political conflicts, which are fought on the terrain of popular culture, museums, sc... Lees meer

Imprisoned by History

Martin L Davies

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Approaches to History
• Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life offers a controversial analysis, grounded both in philosophical argument and empirical evidence, o... Lees meer