Routledge Approaches to History
Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention
1st Edition
By Jaume Aurell
December 10, 2019
E. H. Carr wrote, "study the historian before you begin to study the facts." This book approaches the life, work, ideas, debates, and the context of key 20th- and 21st-century historians through an analysis of their life writing projects viewed as historiographical sources. Merging literary ...
How History Works: The Reconstitution of a Human Science
1st Edition
By Martin L. Davies
May 23, 2019
How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the humanities, exemplified by history, and offers a critique of the validity of historical knowledge. The book focusses on history’s academic, disciplinary ethos to offer a reconception of the discipline of history, arguing ...
Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography
1st Edition
By Tor Egil Førland
May 23, 2019
Bringing sophisticated philosophy to bear on real-life historiography, Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography rekindles and invigorates the debate on two perennials in the theory and methodology of history. One is the tension between historians' values and the ideal—or illusion—of ...
The Historiography of Transition: Critical Phases in the Development of Modernity (1494-1973)
1st Edition
Edited
By Paolo Pombeni
April 16, 2019
Defining a “historic transition” means understanding how the complex system of intellectual, social, and material structures formed that determined the transition from a certain “universe” to a “new universe,” where the old explanations were radically rethought. In this book, a group of historians ...
History, Ethics, and the Recognition of the Other: A Levinasian View on the Writing of History
1st Edition
By Anton Froeyman
March 22, 2019
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 writing history as an ethical, existential and emotional engagement with the people from the past. The conceptual and philosophical basis for this view ...
Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide: From Mythos to Techne
1st Edition
By Michael Kimaid
March 22, 2019
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 progress by channeling it to benefit particular political, economic and social interests, or by halting it altogether. By incorporating the ancient ...
The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise: Clio Takes the Stand
1st Edition
By Vladimir Petrović
March 22, 2019
This book scrutinizes the emergence of historians participating as expert witnesses in historical forensic contribution in some of the most important national and international legal ventures of the last century. It aims to advance the debate from discussions on whether historians should ...
The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present: Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Melanie Ilic, Dalia Leinarte
March 22, 2019
This collection examines practical and ethical issues inherent in the application of oral history and memory studies to research about the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Case studies highlight the importance of ethical good practice, including the reflexive ...
The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Jenny Andersson, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė
March 22, 2019
This book reconsiders the power of the idea of the future. Bringing together perspectives from cultural history, environmental history, political history and the history of science, it investigates how the future became a specific field of action in liberal democratic, state socialist and ...
The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past
1st Edition
By Kalle Pihlainen
March 22, 2019
Since the appearance of Hayden White’s seminal work Metahistory in 1973, constructivist thought has been a key force within theory of history and has at times even provided inspiration for historians more generally. Despite the radical theoretical shift marked by constructivism and elaborated in ...
The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism
1st Edition
By Rolf Torstendahl
September 18, 2018
This book examines the evolution of historical professionalism, with the development of an international community that shares a set of values regarding both methodological minimum demands and what constitutes new results. Historical professionalism is not a fixed set of skills, but a concept with ...
Popularizing National Pasts: 1800 to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Berger, Chris Lorenz, Billie Melman
May 24, 2017
Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of popular national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is ...