History: Theory, Method & Historiography Books

New and Published Books

1. Engaging with a Legacy: Nehemia Levtzion (1935-2003)

   Edited by E. Ann McDougall

   Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism. The book illuminates his work, career and family life – including his own ‘life vision’ on...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Handbook of Communication History

   Edited by Peter Simonson, Janice Peck, Robert T Craig, John Jackson

   Series: ICA Handbook Series

   The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and world geographical regions. It attends to both the varieties of communication in world history and the historical investigation of those...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. The Ends of History

   Questioning the Stakes of Historical Reason

   Edited by Amy Swiffen, Joshua Nichols

   Over two decades ago we were confronted by the end of the Soviet Union and collapse of the geo-political divisions that had defined much of the twentieth century. From this particular end, the ‘end of history’was proclaimed. But is it still possible to argue that liberal democracy and free market...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Current Issues in Women's History

   By International Conference on Women's History

   Edited by Arina Angerman, Geerte Binnema, Annemieke Keunen, Vefie Poels, Jacqueline Zirkzee

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   This lively collection of essays, originally published in 1989, illustrated recent developments in the area, with chapters by contributors from many different countries and disciplines. Asking new questions and using sources in a challenging way, the contributors reflect 1980s debates about...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. Israeli Holocaust Research

   Birth and Evolution

   By Boaz Cohen

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   An exploration of the development of Holocaust research in Israel, this book ranges from the consolidation of Holocaust research as an academic subject in the late 1940s to the establishment of Yad Vashem and beyond. Research on the story of historiography is often a work on books, on the "final...

   Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. History in the Digital Age

   Edited by Toni Weller

   The digital age is affecting all aspects of historical study, but much of the existing literature about history in the digital age can be alienating to the traditional historian who does not necessarily value or wish to embrace digital resources. History in the Digital Age takes a more conceptual...

   Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. A History of History

   By Alun Munslow

   In a provocative analysis of European and American historical thinking and practice since the early 18th century, A History of History confronts several basic assumptions about the nature of history. Among these are the concept of historical realism, the belief in representationalism and the idea...

   Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Routledge Intermediate Yiddish Reader

   Learning Through Lives

   By Helen Beer

   Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
10. Authoring the Past

    Writing and Rethinking History

    Edited by Alun Munslow

    Please explain why you think about and write history as you do? Collecting together the responses to this question from 15 of the world’s foremost historians and theorists, Authoring the Past represents a powerful reflection on and intervention in the historiographical field. Edited by Alun...

    Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge