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Histories of Madness
Av David Wright
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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This Element's contribution explores the historiography of madness in the Modern era, including landmark publications in the overlapping fields of the history of psychiatry and the history of lunatic asylums. As this examination of almost 200 academic works will demonstrate, the field is vast and …
The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age
Av Ian Milligan
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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Historians make research queries on Google, ProQuest, and the HathiTrust. They garner information from keyword searches, carried out across millions of documents, their research shaped by algorithms they rarely understand. Historians often then visit archives in whirlwind trips marked by thousands …
Testimony and Historical Knowledge
Authority, Evidence and Ethics in Historiography
Häftad, 2025
291 kr
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This Element explores the relation between historiography and testimony as a question about what it means to know and understand the past historically. In contrast with the recent rapprochement between memory accounts and history in historical theory, the Element argues for the importance of …
The History of Knowledge
Av Johan Östling, David Larsson Heidenblad
Häftad, 2024
282 kr
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This Element provides a pedagogical overview of the history of knowledge, including its main currents, distinguishing ideas, and key concepts. However, it is not primarily a state-of-the-art overview but rather an argumentative contribution that seeks to push the field in a certain direction - …
The Theory and Philosophy of History
Global Variations
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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This Element argues for a broad and inclusive understanding of the 'theory and philosophy of history', a goal that has proven elusive. Different intellectual traditions have competing, often incompatible definitions of what could or should count as proper 'theory/philosophy of history'. By …
Plural Pasts
Historiography between Events and Structures
Häftad, 2023
317 kr
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What is history about? This Element shows that answers centred on the keyword 'past events' are incomplete, even if they are not simply wrong. Interweaving theoretical and historical perspectives, it provides an abstract overview of the thematic plurality that characterizes contemporary academic …
A History of Big History
Av Ian Hesketh
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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Big History is a seemingly novel approach that seeks to situate human history within a grand cosmic story of life. It claims to do so by uniting the historical sciences in order to construct a linear and accurate timeline of 'threshold moments' beginning with the Big Bang and ending with the …
Progress and the Scale of History
Av Tyson Retz
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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The idea of progress is a product of historical thinking. It is a bold interpretation of history that combines understandings of the past, perceptions of the present and expectations of the future. This Element examines the shifting scale of this past, present and future configuration from …
A History of Political Science
Av Mark Bevir
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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This Element denaturalises political science, stressing the contestability and contingency of ideas, traditions, subfields, and even the discipline itself. The history of political science is less one of scholars testing and improving theories by reference to data than of their appropriating and …
Conceptualizing the History of the Present Time
Av María Inés Mudrovcic
Häftad, 2024
311 kr
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In this work, I explore four meanings of 'contemporary,' emphasizing its designation as a historical field. I argue that disagreements about when the presento or the contemporary era begins stem from historians assuming a linear, chronological, and absolute conception of time. Following scholars …
Pragmatism and Historical Representation
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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No prominent pragmatist philosopher to date has offered us a fully developed theory of history or historical interpretation. Nevertheless, a number of pivotal arguments and suggestions made by the pragmatists appeared to many both insightful and pertinent enough to offer a distinctive promise of a …
Archaeology as History
Telling Stories from a Fragmented Past
Häftad, 2023
405 kr
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This Element volume focuses on how archaeologists construct narratives of past people and environments from the complex and fragmented archaeological record. In keeping with its position in a series of historiography, it considers how we make meaning from things and places, with an emphasis on …
The Fabric of Historical Time
Av Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, Marek Tamm
Häftad, 2023
410 kr
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Historical time is a notoriously elusive notion. Yet, as societies attempt to make sense of rapidly changing worlds, it gains a new significance in the twenty-first century. This Element sketches a theory of historical time as based on a distinction between temporality and historicity. It …
Knowledge and Narrative
Häftad, 2025
282 kr
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This Element is concerned with narrative as a mode of knowing. It draws attention to the epistemic value of historical narrative qua narrative. This it does not only in an abstract sense, but also with the help of recent works of history. Special attention is given to narrative sentences and …
Confronting Evil in History
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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Evil is sometimes thought to be incomprehensible and abnormal, falling outside of familiar historical and human processes. And yet the twentieth century was replete with instances of cruelty on a massive scale, including systematic torture, murder, and enslavement of ordinary, innocent human …
Dealing with Dark Pasts
A European History of Auto-Critical Memory in Global Perspective
Av Itay Lotem
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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Since the end of the Second World War, the political rationale to remember the past has shifted from previous focus on states' victories, as these began commemorating their own historical crimes. This Element follows the rise of 'auto-critical memory', or the politics of remembrance of a country's …
Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data
Lessons from an Interdisciplinary Project
Av Ruth Ahnert, Emma Griffin m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
317 kr
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Living with Machines is the largest digital humanities project ever funded in the UK. The project brought together a team of twenty-three researchers to leverage more than twenty-years' worth of digitisation projects in order to deepen our understanding of the impact of mechanisation on …
Reparations and Redress for Historical Injustice
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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This Element introduces various justifications for reparations and redress for historical injustice discussed in political theory and philosophy. It examines multiple real-world cases to illustrate and test theories. It is accessible to students and scholars unfamiliar with the field, while …
Myths, History Wars, and Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada and Other Settler States
Av David Bruce Amichand MacDonald
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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Many western settler states are undertaking processes to improve Indigenous-settler relations. The primary focus is Canada, with some discussion of Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the United States of America. This Element highlights myths promoted by explorers, settlers, and the state about …
Censorship of History
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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Censorship is the dark side of historical writing. Because much censorship is shrouded in secrecy, the subject tends to stay outside mainstream histories of historical writing. Consequently, many such histories offer unduly optimistic accounts of historical writing. They assume that historians …
Historiographic Reasoning
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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Historiographic reasoning from evidentiary inputs is sui generis. Historiography is neither empirical, nor self-knowledge, nor a genre of fiction or ideology. Historiographic reasoning is irreducible to general scientific or social science reasoning. The book applies Bayesian insights to explicate …
Things of the Past
A Modern Yearning
Häftad, 2025
291 kr
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This Element explores the yearning for things of the past, from early modern antiquarianism to the contemporary art market. It tells a global story about scholars who, driven by this yearning, roamed the world and amassed many of its historical artefacts. Their motivation was not just pleasure or …
A Human Rights View of the Past
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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The idea of human rights has been much criticized from a historical perspective but curiously enough its theoretical and practical contributions to the study of time, memory, and history have never been systematically explored. How is it to look at the past from a human rights perspective? How can …
The History of Contingency and Future-Oriented Thought
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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The future is contingent. It can unfold differently, hinging on chance or choice within the present. This Element tells the story of how these twin concepts have developed across human history. Arcing from our earliest ancestors, through al-Ghazālī, to S. J. Gould, the Element demonstrates how …
Gender, Theory, and History
On the Knowledge and Politics of Bodies
Av María Inés La Greca
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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The category of gender has a special relation to history as an academic practice, as a form of writing, and as a way of understanding humanity as such. This Element reconstructs the trajectory of debates over gender to trace its emergence as an analytical category through the work of feminist …
Historians' Autobiographies as Historiographical Inquiry
A Global Perspective
Av Jaume Aurell
Häftad, 2025
327 kr
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This Element analyses the autobiographies of historians from a global perspective and looks at all eras, from antiquity to the present day. It includes twenty autobiographies: Caesar's and Lucian of Samosata's memories in antiquity; an autobiography of a medieval king such as Peter IV of Aragon; …
Writing the History of Global Slavery
Häftad, 2023
317 kr
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This Element shows that existing models of global slavery derived from sociology and modelled closely on antebellum American slavery being normative should be replaced a global slavery that is less American and more global. It argues that we can understand the global history of slavery if we …
Writing the History of the African Diaspora
Av Toyin Falola
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This Element is an analysis of the African Diaspora. It will define the African Diaspora and how the concepts behind the term came to be socially and historically engineered. The African diaspora is then placed into a broader historical context where the diverse, global, and overlapping histories …
History of the Humanities
A New Field of Study
Av Herman Paul
Inbunden, 2026
918 kr
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This Element is a newcomer's guide to the history of the humanities. Surveying the types of work in which historians of the humanities engage, it shows that (1) they expand horizons by inviting scholars to look beyond their own discipline; (2) they tell stories that provide historical answers to …
History of the Humanities
A New Field of Study
Av Herman Paul
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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This Element is a newcomer's guide to the history of the humanities. Surveying the types of work in which historians of the humanities engage, it shows that (1) they expand horizons by inviting scholars to look beyond their own discipline; (2) they tell stories that provide historical answers to …
