1st Edition

History from Loss A Global Introduction to Histories written from defeat, colonization, exile, and imprisonment

Edited By Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Daniel Woolf Copyright 2023
270 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

History from Loss challenges the common thought that "history is written by the winners" and explores how history-makers in different times and places across the globe have written histories from loss, even when this has come at the threat to their own safety. A distinguished group of historians from around the globe offer an introduction to different history-makers’ lives and ideas, and... Read more
Introduction, Marnie Hughes-Warrington and Daniel Woolf; Chapter 1. Thucydides (ca. 460-339 BCE), Emily Greenwood; Chapter 2. Ammianus Marcellinus (ca 330-391 CE), Michael P. Hanaghan; Chapter 3. Gildas (fl. 5th or 6th century), Stephen J. Joyce; Chapter 4. Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241), Sverre Håkon Bagge; Chapter 5. Atâ-Malek Joveyni (1226-1283), Charles Melville; Chapter 6. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), Gary Ianziti; Chapter 7. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (c 1550-after 1615), Rolena Adorno; Chapter 8. Walter Ralegh (c. 1552-1618), Nicholas Popper; Chapter 9. Chimalpahin (b. 1579), Susan Schroeder; Chapter 10. John Milton (1608-1674), Nicholas McDowell; Chapter 11. Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674), Paul Seaward; Chapter 12. Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681), Sarah C. E. Ross; Chapter 13. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Brian Cowan; Chapter 14. Peter Oliver (1713-1791), Michael D. Hattem; Chapter 15. Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (1743-94), Simona Pisanelli; Chapter 16. Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (1753-1825), Jane Hathaway; Chapter 17. Mary Hays (1759–1843), Frances A. Chui; Chapter 18. Germaine de Staël (1766-1817), Biancamaria Fontana; Chapter 19. Jane Austen (1775-1817), Mary Spongberg; Chapter 20. Andrés Bello (1781-1865), Iman Mansour; Chapter 21. François-Xavier Garneau (1809-1866), Micheline Cambron; Chapter 22. Edward A. Pollard (1832-1872), Claire M. Wolnisty; Chapter 23. Gabriel Dumont (1837-1906), M. Max Hamon; Chapter 24. Gerhard Ritter (1888-1967), Christoph Cornelissen; Chapter 25. Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Antoon De Baets; Chapter 26. Chen Yinke (1890-1969) , Q. Edward Wang; Chapter 27. Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova (1897-1957), Iva Glisic; Chapter 28. Emanuel Ringelblum (1900-1944) and Oyneg Shabes, Samuel Kassow; Chapter 29. Romila Thapar (1931-), Sanne Van Der Kaaij-Gandhi; Chapter 30. Jakelin Troy (1960-), Ann McGrath; Afterword, Peter Burke

Biography

Marnie Hughes-Warrington is Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research and Enterprise at the University of South Australia and Honorary Professor of History at the Australian National University. She is the author of numerous historiography books, including Fifty Key Thinkers on History (three editions), History goes to the Movies (2007), History as Wonder (2018), and most recently, with Anne Martin, Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography (2022).

Daniel Woolf is Professor of History at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where he served for ten years as Principal and Vice-Chancellor. He is the author or editor of several books on the history of historical writing and on early modern British cultural history, including most recently A Concise History of History (2019), and has published essays in such journals as History and Theory, The Journal of the History of Ideas, Past and Present, and The American Historical Review.