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Imprisoned by History

Aspects of Historicized Life

By Martin Davies

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…

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November 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99520-7 (Routledge)

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Discourse and Culture

The Creation of America, 1870-1920

By Alun Munslow

Written history is literary artifact: taking this as its starting point, Discourse and Culture argues that the Foucauldian concept of the shifting scale of linguistic…

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September 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55303-2 (Routledge)

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Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India

By Naheem Jabbar

A critical examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing.

In the years preceding formal Independence from British colonial rule, Indians found themselves responding to the panorama of…

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June 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48847-1 (Routledge)

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At the Limits of History

Essays on Theory and Practice

By Keith Jenkins

"Why bother with history? Keith Jenkins has an answer. He helps us re-think the "end of history", as signalled by postmodernity. Readers may disagree with…

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June 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47236-4 (Routledge)

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The History on Film Reader

Edited by Marnie Hughes-Warrington

Historical film studies is a burgeoning field, with a large and ever growing number of publications from across the globe. The History on Film Reader

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April 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46219-8 (Routledge)

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History and Material Culture

A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

Edited by Karen Harvey

Sources are the raw material of history, but where the written word has traditionally been seen as the principal source, today historians are increasingly recognizing…

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March 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45932-7 (Routledge)

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Trials of Irish History

Genesis and Evolution of a Reappraisal

By Evi Gkotzaridis

Bringing her original insights into theory and philosophy to bear upon the controversial question of revision in Irish history, Evi Gkotzaridis presents the first historical…

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January 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54412-2 (Routledge)

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Teaching History Online

By John F. Lyons

Bringing history teaching into the twenty-first century, Teaching History Online is a concise guide to developing and using internet resources in history instruction. It offers…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48222-6 (Routledge)

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History Beyond the Text

A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

Edited by Sarah Barber, Corinna Peniston-Bird

Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42962-7 (Routledge)

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Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia

Edited by Tobias Rettig, Karl Hack

Colonial armies were the focal points for some of the most dramatic tensions inherent in Chinese, Japanese and Western clashes with Southeast Asia. The international…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48635-4 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Women’s History and Local Community in Postwar Japan
By Curtis Anderson Gayle
To be published December 8th 2009

Material Powers: Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn
Edited by Tony Bennett, Patrick Joyce
To be published February 9th 2010

Triumph Revisited: Historians Battle for the Vietnam War
Edited by Andrew Wiest, Michael Doidge
To be published April 20th 2010

The Great Saljuqs: A History
By Osman Aziz Basan
To be published May 1st 2010

Remembering the Road to World War Two: International History, National Identity, Collective Memory
By Patrick Finney
To be published June 1st 2010

Untold Histories of the Middle East: Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries
Edited by Amy Singer, Christoph Neumann, Selcuk Somel
To be published June 1st 2010

Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics: War and World Order in the Age of the Crusades
By Andrew Latham
To be published June 1st 2010

Oral History: Theory into Practice
By Lynn Abrams
To be published June 1st 2010

American History Goes to the Movies: Hollywood and the American Experience
By W. Bryan Rommel Ruiz
To be published August 15th 2010

Max Weber: Collected Methodological Writings
Edited by Sam Whimster
To be published October 31st 2010