Books in the Routledge Approaches to History series

Beyond Memory analyses the intricate connections between silence, acts of remembrance and acts of forgetting, and relates the topic of silence to the international research field of Cultural Memory Studies. It engages with the most recent work in the field by viewing silence as a remedy to the traditionally binary approach to our understanding of remembering and forgetting. With an introduction by the editors discussing Memory Studies, and concluding remarks by Astrid Erll, this collection demonstrates that acceptance and consideration of silence as having both a performative and aesthetic dimension is an essential component of history and memory studies.

Defining a "historic transition" means understanding how the complex system of intellectual, social, and material structures formed that determined the transition from a certain "universe" to a "new universe," where the old explanations were radically rethought.

Venerated and studied, or else repudiated and rediscovered, human remains ensure continuity with the past. This volume intends to reconstruct the complexity of the cult and symbols they have generated and the uses assigned to them in Italy in different historical periods.

The main and original contribution of this volume is to offer a discussion of teleology through the prism of religion, philosophy and history. The goal is to incorporate teleology within discussions across these three disciplines rather than restrict it to one as is customarily the case.

A Personalist Philosophy of History argues for a robust concept of personhood in our experience of the past as a way to resolve the conflict of destabilising human centrality.

To rethink theories of history, iconology and collective memory, the authors of this volume discuss a variety of cases from Hong Kong, China and Europe.

This text explores themes of the UCD multidisciplinary graduate conference. It is a unique exercise in the promotion of junior scholarly achievement and multidisciplinary research.

Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of popular national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is European in the full sense of this term. One of its fortes is the inclusion of Eastern Europe. The cross-national angle of Popularizing National Pasts is apparent in the scope of its comparative project, as well as that of the longue durée it covers. Apart from essays on Britain, France, and Germany, the collection includes studies of popular histories in Scandinavia, Eastern and Southern Europe, notably Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Armenia, Russia and the Ukraine, as well as considering the US and Argentina. Cross-national comparison is also a central concern of the thirteen case studies in the volume, which are, each, devoted to comparing between two, or more, national historical cultures. Thus temporality –both continuities and breaks- in popular notions of the past, its interpretations and consumption, is examined in the long continuum. The volume makes available to English readers, probably for the first time, the cutting edge of Eastern European scholarship on popular histories, nationalism and culture.

Defining a ¿historic transition¿ means understanding how the complex system of intellectual, social, and material structures formed that determined the transition from a certain ¿universe¿ to a ¿new universe,¿ where the old explanations were radically rethought. In this book, a group of historians with specializations ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries and across political, religious, and social fields, attempt a reinterpretation of ¿modernity¿ as the new ¿Axial Age.¿

This innovative and original collection of essays brings together writings by an international team of historians to examine the ethical and methodological issues that arise in the conduct and "good practice" of oral history and memory studies research in the specific context of the former Soviet-dominated socialist bloc in Eastern Europe.

This book goes beyond the cultural histories of dystopia and utopia and into the problem of how societal futures are produced. Through a unique collection of national and transnational cases, it covers the struggle around future visions and prediction in the global Cold War era.

This volume considers the confluence of World History and the method of historical materialism, exploring the question of why - despite developments in the field of historical materialism concerned with the intersection of race, gender, labour, and class - historical materialism has been marginalized within the field of World History.

The Fiction of History sets out a number of themes in the relationship between history and fiction, emphasising the tensions and dilemmas created in the relationship. The first part discusses the philosophy behind the connection and distinction between fiction and history and whether history is fiction. Part two talks about the relationship between history and literature. Part three looks at television and film (as well as other media). The final part looks at a particular theme that has prominence in both history and literature, postcolonial studies, focusing on the issues of fictions of nationhood and civilization and the historical novel in postcolonial contexts.

Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of popular national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their political and societal uses, expanding outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is European in the full sense of this term, making available to English readers the cutting edge of Eastern European scholarship on popular histories, nationalism, and culture.

Integrity and Historical Research offers a stimulating discussion about the ethical use of historical research material by writers and filmmakers. What does using another¿s research with integrity really entail?

Offers an analysis, grounded both in philosophical argument and empirical evidence, of what history does in contemporary culture.