This work examines controversies over textbook content around the globe: how and why do specific representations of war evolve? What are the international and national forces affecting how writers, publishers and state censors depict the past? And how do these forces differ from country to country?
This practical book provides a fascinating - and often moving - account of Professor Williams' adventures into the past of his own family and communit..
Using examples from antiquity to the present, this timely and relevant volume argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical s..
Appropriate for undergraduate history students researching and writing dissertations, and postgraduate research students. This is the first practical ..
Moving pictures have had a great influence on human culture, and this book focuses on using moving images as historical evidence. Studying history mea..
This vital guide provides an educational companion for all those reading about the Holocaust. It will challenge student use of primary resources and e..
This book traces the philosophical precursors of postmodernism and identifies the roots of current concerns. Beverley Southgate describes the core con..
Manifestos for History is a thought provoking and controversial text that through a star studded collection of essays presents a wide ranging discussi..
Edited by Alun Munslow and presented in concise digestible essays, the collection covers a broad range of contemporary interests and ideas and offers ..
Fifty Key Works of History and Historiography introduces some of the most important texts ever written by those who have sought to understand, capture..
Fifty Key Thinkers on History is an essential guide to the most influential historians, theorists and philosophers of history. The entries offer compr..
Examines the way in which the past was rediscovered, retrieved and represented in post-revolutionary France, concentrating upon the Restoration and th..
What became of the Puritan gentry after the civil war? Trevor Cliffe examines the struggle of the Puritan families of England to preserve the old valu..