Historiography

Ancestry played a continuous role in the construction and portrayal of Roman emperorship in the first three centuries AD.

The nineteenth century is a key period in the history of the interpretation of the Greek gods.

The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume 1: A Broken Chain?

The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume 1: A Broken Chain?

The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it.

The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it.

The Oxford History of Historical Writing is a five-volume series that explores representations of the past from the beginnings of writing to the present day and from all over the world.

The fifth volume of The Oxford History of Historical Writing offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally since 1945.

Studies on the Text of Caesar's Bellum civile is a companion volume to Damon's revised Oxford Classical Texts edition of Caesar's Bellum civile, his account of his civil war with Pompey.

Plutarch's focus on the great leaders of the classical world, his anecdotal style, and his self-presentation as a good-natured friend and wise counsellor have appealed over the centuries to a wide audience, persons as diverse as Beethoven and Benjamin Franklin, Shakespeare and Harry Truman.

This study offers the first extensive analysis of the function and significance of urban panegyric in the Central Middle Ages, a flexible literary genre which enjoyed a marked and renewed popularity in the period 1100 to 1300.

Today there is much talk of a 'crisis of trust'; a crisis which is almost certainly genuine, but usually misunderstood.

Today there is much talk of a 'crisis of trust'; a crisis which is almost certainly genuine, but usually misunderstood.

Imperial Apocalypse describes the collapse of the Russian Empire during World War One.

A War of Peoples, 1914-1919 provides a new perspective on the First World War, offering a concise narrative of the war from the first military actions in July 1914 until the signing of the peace treaty by Germany in July 1919.

This historical commentary examines books 79(78)-80(80) of Cassius Dio's Roman History, which cover the period from the death of Caracalla in A.

This historical commentary examines books 79(78)-80(80) of Cassius Dio's Roman History, which cover the period from the death of Caracalla in A.

It has long been known that the origins of the early modern dynasties of the Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals, Mongols, and Shibanids in the sixteenth century go back to "e;Turco-Mongol"e; or "e;Turcophone"e; war bands.

It has long been known that the origins of the early modern dynasties of the Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals, Mongols, and Shibanids in the sixteenth century go back to "e;Turco-Mongol"e; or "e;Turcophone"e; war bands.

Indigenous peoples have our own ways of defining oral history.

Indigenous peoples have our own ways of defining oral history.

In Diodorus Siculus and the World of the Late Roman Republic, Charles E.

The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides contains newly commissioned essays on Thucydides as an historian, thinker, and writer.

Hasidism is one of the most important religious and social movements to have developed in Eastern Europe, and the most significant phenomenon in the religious, social and cultural life of the Jewish population in Eastern Europe from the eighteenth century up to the present day.

Hasidism is one of the most important religious and social movements to have developed in Eastern Europe, and the most significant phenomenon in the religious, social and cultural life of the Jewish population in Eastern Europe from the eighteenth century up to the present day.

This book, the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity of those involved-Muslims, Christians, and Jews; women, men, and children; black, brown, and white; the unknown and the notable; locals, refugees, the displaced, and the interned; soldiers, officers, bureaucrats, volunteer fighters, and the forcibly recruited.

After emerging from the tumult of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the field of Asian American studies has enjoyed rapid and extraordinary growth.

In Diodorus Siculus and the World of the Late Roman Republic, Charles E.

The essays in this book demonstrate the breadth and vitality of American intellectual history.

The essays in this book demonstrate the breadth and vitality of American intellectual history.

Oral History is part of the Understanding Qualitative Research series, which is designed to provide researchers with authoritative guides to understanding, presenting, and critiquing analyses and associated inferences.

On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army attacked and captured the Chinese capital city of Nanjing, planting the rising-sun flag atop the city's outer walls.

For anyone interested in history, the physical traces of the past, especially historical places, hold a special fascination.

Afrocentrism has been a controversial but popular movement in schools and universities across America, as well as in black communities.

This book describes the vibrant activity of survivors who founded Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers in Europe immediately after the Second World War.

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly WatersFor generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors.

Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age.

From the Wolfson Prize-winning author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic BritainBetween the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history changed.

Each of Foster's books has generated vigorous discussion, but in THE IRISH STORY he breaks fresh ground even by his own standards.

Churchill fought the war twice over - as Prime Minister and again as its premier historian.

Robert Irwin s history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present.

What is history and how should it be written?

This book examines the development of the Russian radical right in exile between 1918 and 1945.

This book investigates the economic organization of ancient societies from a comparative perspective.

This book examines why, on the eve of the pamphlet's 175th anniversary, the Communist Manifesto left so faint an imprint on Europe's most revolutionary year of 1848, when it has had such a huge impact on posterity.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of core areas of investigation and theory relating to the history of women and science.

Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph.

This book offers the first full-length study of the education of children living within the Gaeltacht, the Irish-speaking communities in Ireland, from 1900 to the present day.

Innovation in money is just as important as innovation in any other sphere of activity; money is always a "e;work in progress.

This book considers issues of social and ecological significance through a masculinities lens.