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This book offers the first systematic analysis of Anglophone national histories of Russia. By deconstructing historical works on the history of Russia, it provides insight into representations of Russia in the West and advances approaches to historiography.
This book offers an understanding and analysis of the aesthetics of historying through the specific concepts and process of the fabricated, factitious, factional, factious, factitive, factive, factualist, fictitious, fictive and the figurative.
This book shows how a multidisciplinary approach combining conceptual and methodological tools from political history and political science can help to develop a deeper understanding of contemporary political phenomena including democracy, populism, war, and forced migrations, among others.
Clarifying the Past provides a comprehensive analysis of state-sponsored historical commissions operating in conflicted and divided societies, developing a theoretical and methodological framework within the historical dialogue paradigm, key to understand the work of such commissions.
Nation and the Writing of History in China and Britain explores, through a comparative approach, the reception of the nationalist worldview and its effects on the practice of history in China and Britain.
This book explores the versatile nature of historical methodology and its use in interdisciplinary research.
This book features a mix of chapters in the field of gaming, playing and history, offering insights from both theoreticians and practitioners of gaming and history. Topics include gamification in history education and heritage or (mis)representations of history in computer games.
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.
This collection is about the emerging relationship between family history and the discipline of history, and the potential of each to revitalise the other. How have historians responded to this resurgence of interest in the personal and the local, and how has it influenced historical inquiry?
Offers an analysis, grounded both in philosophical argument and empirical evidence, of what history does in contemporary culture.
In this volume, scholars ranging from historians to neuroscientists show how contemporary far-right movements have proposed revisions and counter-narratives to accepted understandings of history, fact, and narrative.
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.
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