Books in the Routledge Readers in History series

The Cultural History Reader is the very first collection of the distinctive contributions made by cultural historians across the spectrum of historiographical methods and offers a unique view of the insights to be gained from analyses of how cultural factors have shaped people's experience of the world and guided their actions.Featuring eleven thematic sections examining everything from childhood to technology; war to popular culture, this book bridges disparate themes and presents detailed analyses on a variety of cultural responses to history. A key title for any student of history.

The American Urban Reader, Second Edition, brings together exciting and cutting-edge work on the history of urban forms and ways of life in the United States, from pre-colonial Native American Indian cities, colonial European settlements, and western expansion to metropolitan regions, growing suburbs, and post-industrial cities.

The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive, international anthology combining major, 'classic' articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral history. Twenty-seven new chapters introduce the most significant developments in oral history in the last decade to bring this invaluable text up to date, with new pieces on emotions and the senses, on crisis oral history, current thinking around traumatic memory, the impact of digital mobile technologies, and how oral history is being used in public contexts, with more international examples to draw in work from North and South America, Britain and Europe, Australasia, Asia and Africa.Arranged in five thematic sections, each with an introduction by the editors to contextualise the selection and review relevant literature, articles in this collection draw upon diverse oral history experiences to examine issues including:Key debates in the development of oral history over the past seventy yearsFirst hand reflections on interview practice, and issues posed by the interview relationshipThe nature of memory and its significance in oral historyThe practical and ethical issues surrounding the interpretation, presentation and public use of oral testimonieshow oral history projects contribute to the study of the past and involve the wider community.The challenges and contributions of oral history projects committed to advocacy and empowermentWith a revised and updated bibliography and useful contacts list, as well as a dedicated online resources page, this third edition of The Oral History Reader is the perfect tool for those encountering oral history for the first time, as well as for seasoned practitioners.

The Witchcraft Reader offers a wide range of historical perspectives on the subject of witchcraft in a single, accessible volume, exploring the enduring hold that it has on human imagination.

A comprehensive selection of historiographical debates. This work includes articles and extracts from a wide range of sources and authors reflecting all sides of the postmodern debate in history. It should be a useful reference and course book for undergraduate and graduate students.

This comprehensive reader provides an overview of research in the study of the Second World War and includes chapters by some of the best known and most innovative scholars working today. It gives attention to the fighting of the war throughout the world.

This reader uses global history to view the history of the world through key themes that transcend national boundaries, with a collection of key previously published pieces.

Offers an introduction to the history of sexuality in Europe. This book examines the concept of sexual grammar which enables the reader to understand sexual desires, acts and relationships in the past that do not fit modern categories. It is suitable for all students of the history of sexuality.

The twentieth century was, for Russia, one of the most challenging in its history. the country experienced war, revolution and systemic collapse, all of which brought serious challenges especially in international affairs. Only by examining the whole century can Modern Russia be properly understood and key questions as to the impact of war, revolution, collapse, the Cold War ad Russia's post-Soviet development be addressed.The Twentieth Century Russia Reader is, thus, a key resource for students of Russian history across this turbulent period. It contains key articles on history and politics from across the period; from the last Tsar, the Russian Revolution, the Soviet Union and World War Two, right up to the post-Soviet period.The Reader covers a huge subject in an accessible and clear manner. Alistair Kocho-Williams includes a comprehensive introduction explaining trends in the historiography and giving rationale for the inclusion of material, as well as prefaces to each section and article with an explanation of the debates and how material relates to them. It is essential reading for all students of Russian history.

Guides readers through European and North American developments in history-writing since the eighteenth century. This title starts with enlightenment history and moves through subjects such as moral history, national history, the emergence of history as a profession, and the impact of scientific principles on history.

This collection not only gathers together some of the most important, influential and controversial work which has come to be labelled 'new imperial history', but also presents key examples of innovative recent writing across the broader fields of imperial and colonial studies.

Drawing on theory and practice from five continents The Public History Reader offers clearly written accessible introductions to debates in public history. It places people, such as practitioners, bloggers, archivists, local historians, curators or those working in education, at the heart of history-making and discusses practical examples of artists, collectors, novelists, activists, curators, those paid to write history and those who do it for fun. Hilda Kean and Paul Martin address the historical imagination through such concepts as `embodiment¿ and `nostalgiä whilst using practical examples to demonstrate them. The Reader explores public history as an everyday practice rather than simply as an academic discipline. It is embedded in the idea that historical knowledge is discovered and accrued from everyday encounters people have with their environments and points to the continuing dialogue that the present has with the past, exploring why this has burgeoned on a popular level in recent years.Public History Reader is, therefore, a perfect resource for all students of Public History and all those interested in understanding the role of the past in our lives today.

Drawing on theory and practice from five continents The Public History Reader offers clearly written accessible introductions to debates in public history. It places people, such as practitioners, bloggers, archivists, local historians, curators or those working in education, at the heart of history-making and discusses practical examples of artists, collectors, novelists, activists, curators, those paid to write history and those who do it for fun. Hilda Kean and Paul Martin address the historical imagination through such concepts as `embodiment¿ and `nostalgiä whilst using practical examples to demonstrate them. The Reader explores public history as an everyday practice rather than simply as an academic discipline. It is embedded in the idea that historical knowledge is discovered and accrued from everyday encounters people have with their environments and points to the continuing dialogue that the present has with the past, exploring why this has burgeoned on a popular level in recent years.Public History Reader is, therefore, a perfect resource for all students of Public History and all those interested in understanding the role of the past in our lives today.

Gathers together some of the key pieces on Victorian history, society and culture, drawing on the modern trends in looking at the Victorian Age. This work also includes sections on periodization, politics and consumerism.

An exciting collection of essays revealing the tremendous diversity of women's experiences in Ireland's past. For the first time, this unique book draws together key articles published in the field over the last two decades.

Postmodernism too often seems to be an evasive body of ideas rather than a clear cut concept. Yet it can be referred to as an intellectual project with specific roots and a historical development. "The Postmodernism Reader" traces the origins, evolvement and the politics of postmodernism through the key writings of postmodernist thinkers.

A fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to the complex nature, limits, aspects and dynamics of Fascism as both ideology and practice

Renaissance Thought is a fascinating collection of essays focussing on humanism and thought and other key aspects of Renaissance culture such as philogy, political thought and scholastic and platonic philosophy.

The Enlightenment Reader brings together the work of major Enlightenment thinkers to illustrate the full importance and achievements of this great period of change.

The question of what the nature of history is, is a key issue for all students of history. It is recognized by many that the past and history are different phenomena and that the way the past is actively historicized can be highly problematic and contested.

Drawing together seminal texts from philosophers and historians, including Hayden White, David Carr and Frederick Olafson, this volume presents the great debate over the narrative character of history from the 1960s onwards.

A comprehensive selection of historiographical debates. This work includes articles and extracts from a wide range of sources and authors reflecting all sides of the postmodern debate in history. It should be a useful reference and course book for undergraduate and graduate students.

Gathers together key articles that have shaped the dynamic historiography, and introduces students to the major shifts and turning points in this dialogue. This is a guide to developments in feminist history, and is useful to students of history.