History: Theory, Method & Historiography Products

Edited by Peter Simonson, David W. Park

The International History of Communication Study maps the growth of media and communication studies around the world. Drawing out transnational flows of ideas, institutions, publications, and people, it offers the most comprehensive picture to date of the global history of communication research…

Paperback – 2015-10-23
Routledge

Edited by Daniela Baratieri, Mark Edele, Giuseppe Finaldi

This book locates totalitarianism in the vastly complex web of fragmented pasts, diverse presents, and differently envisaged futures to enhance understanding of the fraught era in European history. It explores empirical ways to the resurgence of the concept of totalitarian dictatorship.…

Paperback – 2015-10-16
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Modern European History

By Nancy MacKay

For the past ten years, Nancy MacKay’s Curating Oral Histories (2006) has been the one-stop shop for librarians, curators, program administrators, and project managers who are involved in turning an oral history interview into a primary research document, available for use in a repository. In this…

Paperback – 2015-10-15
Routledge
Practicing Oral History

Edited by Pascal Delheye

The field of sport history is a relatively new research domain, situated at the intersection of a number of disciplines and sub-disciplines.　 This interdisciplinarity has created interesting avenues for growth and fresh thinking but also inherent problems of coherence and identity.　　 Making Sport…

Paperback – 2015-10-12
Routledge
Routledge Research in Sports History

By Barbara W Sommer

It has been half a century since the last book that addressed how historical societies can utilize oral history. In this brief, practical guide, internationally known oral historian Barbara W. Sommer applies the best practices of contemporary oral historians to the projects that historical…

Paperback – 2015-09-30
Routledge
Practicing Oral History

By John Hart

Herodotus has shaped our knowledge of life, religion, war and politics in ancient Greece immeasurably, as well as being one of the most entertaining of all Classical Greek authors: fascinating, perceptive, accessible and not at all pretentious. Herodotus and Greek History, first published in 1982,…

Paperback – 2015-09-29
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Heather N. Keaney

This book is a comparative analysis of the medieval Sunni historiography of the caliphate of Uthman b. Affan and the revolt against him. By comparing treatments of Uthman in pietistic literature and universal chronicles, the work traces the gradual silencing of more critical accounts in favor of…

Paperback – 2015-09-08
Routledge
Routledge Research in Medieval Studies

By Carol McKirdy

In addition to the problem of language, conducting oral histories with immigrant narrators often requires special considerations: past violence, cultural sensitivity, and lack of trust. Yet, these narrators are often witnesses to, or participants in, important historical events, or can describe…

Paperback – 2015-08-31
Routledge
Practicing Oral History

By M.C. Lemon

Although much has been written of the nature of history and its disciplinary problems, less attention has been paid to the history of thought. M.C. Lemon's rigorously philosophical work first re-asserts the discipline of history in general as narrative based, before pursuing the methodological…

Paperback – 2015-08-21
Routledge

Edited by Q. Edward Wang, Georg G. Iggers

Marxist Historiographies is the first book to examine the ebb and flow of Marxist historiography from a global and cross-cultural perspective. Since the eighteenth century, few schools of historical thought have exerted a more lasting impact than Marxism, and this impact extends far beyond the…

Paperback – 2015-08-05
Routledge

By Jerome De Groot

Remaking History considers the ways that historical fictions of all kinds enable a complex engagement with the past. Popular historical texts including films, television and novels, along with cultural phenomena such as superheroes and vampires, broker relationships to ‘history’, while also…

Paperback – 2015-08-04
Routledge

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…

Paperback – 2015-07-23
Routledge