Routledge Approaches to History
The Fiction of History
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander Lyon Macfie
November 07, 2016
The Fiction of History sets out a number of themes in the relationship between history and fiction, emphasising the tensions and dilemmas created in this relationship and examining how various writers have dealt with these. In the first part, two chapters discuss the philosophy behind the ...
History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice
1st Edition
By Berber Bevernage
February 14, 2013
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 presence. ...
Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life
1st Edition
By Martin L. Davies
May 01, 2012
Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life offers a controversial analysis, grounded both in philosophical argument and empirical evidence, of what history does in contemporary culture. It endorses and extends the argument that contemporary society is, in historical terms, already ...