Routledge Approaches to History

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1. History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence

   Time and Justice

   By Berber Bevernage

   Series: Routledge Approaches to History

   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....

   Published November 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Imprisoned by History

   Aspects of Historicized Life

   By Martin L. Davies

   Series: Routledge Approaches to History

   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...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Popularizing National Pasts

   1800 to the Present

   Edited by Stefan Berger, Chris Lorenz, Billie Melman

   Series: Routledge Approaches to History

   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...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause

   A Journey from Language to Experience

   By Peter Icke

   Series: Routledge Approaches to History

   The contemporary Dutch historical theorist/philosopher Frank Ankersmit, an erstwhile advocate and promulgator of what has become known as "the linguistic turn" in historical theory, is very well known within the discipline. His early position with regard to the historical text is frequently...

   Published November 14th 2011 by Routledge
5. Integrity and Historical Research

   Edited by Tony Gibbons, Emily Sutherland

   Series: Routledge Approaches to History

   There have been serious debates between historians, novelists and filmmakers as to how best present historical narratives. When writers and filmmakers talk of using historical research with integrity, what exactly do they mean? Integrity and Historical Research examines this question in detail. The...

   Published August 24th 2011 by Routledge
6. Narrative Projections of a Black British History

   By Eva Ulrike Pirker

   Series: 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 of a Black British History considers narratives that construct, or engage with, aspects of a black British history. Part I poses the question of what...

   Published May 25th 2011 by Routledge