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New Directions in Thai Studies

This book considers recent developments in Thai history and historiography, examining why Thai studies had suffered under a combination of protectionism, uncritical learning, and unwillingness to engage w…

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Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History

The distinction between ancient and modern modes of historical thought is characterized by the growing complexity of the discipline of history in modernity. Consequently, the epistemological and methodolo…

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The Cambridge History of the Holocaust: Volume 1, Contexts: Origins, Comparisons, Entanglements

The Cambridge History of the Holocaust offers a comprehensive and innovative overview of the complex field of Holocaust history from a variety of interpretive perspectives. The first volume begins with es…

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Zev Handel
Chinese Characters Across Asia

A fascinating story of writing across cultures and time While other ancient nonalphabetic scripts-Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs-are long extinct, Chinese characters, inve…

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Andrii Portnov
Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian Harvard Miracle

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian "Harvard Miracle" is the first English-language intellectual biography of Omeljan Pritsak, the co-founder of the Harvard Ukrainian R…

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Perry Anderson
Disputing Disaster

In Disputing Disaster , Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fi…

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The Power of Blood

The ancient world was a world where blood flowed freely - from often large-scale public animal sacrifices, to violence in the arena, to menstruation in cramped living conditions and many other occasions. …

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Tzahi Weiss
Rethinking the Beginning of the Kabbalah

The Kabbalistic literature, with its enigmatic secrets, vivid mythical depictions, and profound mystical content, along with its exhortations and admonitions to study its contents with great caution, is a…

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César J Ayala, Laird W Bergad
Agrarian Puerto Rico

Fundamental tenets of colonial historiography are challenged by showing that US capital investment into this colony did not lead to the disappearance of the small farmer. Contrary to well-established narr…

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Birgit Tremml-Werner
Negotiating Imperialism

In this study of Japan's imperial historiography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Birgit Tremml-Werner examines the use of history to promote expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. Foc…

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Post-colonial Burial and Grieving Rituals of the Caribbean

This book brings together anthropological and historical studies that analyze burial rituals within the Caribbean through the theoretical lens of syncretism and the hybridization of post-colonial and cont…

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Carlos Sanhueza-Cerda
The Day Laborers of Science. Technical Work at the Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1852-1927)

This book fills a significant gap in the historiography of science by examining the overlooked contributions of non-astronomical personnel in the early National Astronomical Observatory of Chile. Drawing …

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Micha¿ Jakub Wagner
Revisiting the Eclipse of Darwinism

This book focuses on a critical reexamination of two prominent categories used in modern historiography of biology - "the eclipse of Darwinism" and the "modern synthesis". The main obj…

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Jonas Ahlskog
Testimony and Historical Knowledge

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 me…

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William R. Handley
Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West

Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West contributes to discussions in the environmental humanities and western U.S. studies about how we read past cultural history in the light of our determined yet …

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Victor Monnin
Critical History for Tomorrow's Paleontology

This Element argues for the benefits of integrating the perspectives of a new historiography of paleontology in the training of upcoming paleontologists and in the paleontological community's culture more…

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Morgan Golf-French
Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785-1815

In this book, Morgan Golf-French offers a new interpretation of late Enlightenment German historiography in relation to ideas about race, culture, and politics. By paying close attention to the institutio…

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Prarthana Purkayastha
The Archives and Afterlives of Nautch Dancers in India

In a time of colonial subjugation, subaltern, illicit and courtesan dancers in India radically disturbed racist, casteist and patriarchal regimes of thought. The criminalized 'nautch' dancer, vilified by …

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Collective Memory and Collective Identity

"Collective memory" has attracted the attention and discussion of scholars internationally across academic disciplines over the past 40-50 years in particular. It and "collective identity&q…

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Jonas Ahlskog
Testimony and Historical Knowledge

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 me…

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