Routledge Approaches to History
Cultural Histories of Democracy: Studies in Political Culture Since the 19th Century – Germany and Beyond
1st Edition
By Thomas Mergel
January 27, 2026
Over the last two decades German political history has changed fundamentally. It has reinvented itself as cultural history and sought to apply symbolic, linguistic, and praxeological approaches. This book brings for the first time in English, Thomas Mergel’s inquiries into the history of democracy ...
The Historiography of German Reunification: Endeavours of Construction
1st Edition
By Tilo Schabert
December 31, 2025
The Historiography of German Reunification presents a critical paradigm for both the deconstructing and constructing processes of catching events in the past by a representation of those events in the form of a scholarly, sustained story. The supporting argument is this: all historiography ...
Disability Studies Meets Microhistory: The Secret Life of Bíbí in Berlín
1st Edition
By Guðrún Valgerður Stefánsdóttir, Sólveig Ólafsdóttir, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
December 25, 2025
This volume explores the life of Bjargey “Bíbí” Kristjánsdóttir (1927–1999), an Icelandic woman with intellectual disabilities, through analysis of her autobiography and personal archive on the basis of the research disciplines of critical disability studies and microhistory. Bíbí, who grew up in ...
The Biographical Landscapes of Raphael Lemkin
1st Edition
By Piotr Madajczyk
October 27, 2025
The book is the first biography of Raphael Lemkin to draw on a comprehensive body of research into Lemkin as a person and his background and will be of interest to both non-specialists and academics. Drawing on archival materials, a nuanced description is provided of the ethnically mixed ...
Towards a Critique of Methodological Presentism in Migration Research: A Focus on Denmark
1st Edition
By Garbi Schmidt
September 22, 2025
This book investigates the benefits of integrating history, sociology, and ethnography to better understand migration and its consequences, using Denmark’s history of migration as a case study. Although migration research is an interdisciplinary field, much research on migration still occurs in ...
Ujamaa and Ubuntu: Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective
1st Edition
By Bo Stråth
July 31, 2025
For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge. It is a language ordering time and space with words, such as enlightenment, reason, rationality, modernization, and the most recent by-word, globalization. However, it is a ...
Plurihistoricity: On the Historical Cultures of Extinction, Justice, and the Historical Profession
1st Edition
By Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
July 25, 2025
This book situates historical scholarship within a plurihistoricity of contemporary historical culture, exploring conflicting conceptions of historical change in technological utopias of human enhancement, in prospects of human extinction, in societal responses to the Anthropocene, and in the ...
The Lost Human and the Real End of History: The English Revolution and the Capitalist Roots of Environmental Crisis
1st Edition
By George Yerby
June 30, 2025
This book analyses the transformation in 16th- and 17th- century English economic life that overturned the traditional restraints of the medieval economy for the commercial ethos that governs the modern world, and the resulting imbalance which opened the way to the environmental breakdown of today....
When Jews Argue: Between the University and the Beit Midrash
1st Edition
Edited
By Ethan B. Katz, Sergey Dolgopolski, Elisha Ancselovits
June 27, 2025
This book re-thinks the relationship between the world of the traditional Jewish study hall (the Beit Midrash) and the academy: Can these two institutions overcome their vast differences? Should they attempt to do so? If not, what could two methods of study seen as diametrically opposed possibly ...
The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education: The Available Means
1st Edition
By Anthony Edward Zupancic
April 14, 2025
At its very center, The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education: The Available Means is a study of the subtle, organic ways that rhetoric can work to cultivate a particular character. This is an extension of the current work in composition studies, which focus on the ways...
Historical Narratives: Constructable, Evaluable, Inevitable
1st Edition
By Mariana Imaz-Sheinbaum
January 30, 2025
This book explains some of the psychological processes that go into narrative construction and why it is that we have so much variability of historical accounts about a single historical event. A central focus of this book is how historians go from having unconnected units of data to having a ...
Polish Theory of History and Metahistory in Topolski, Pomian, and Tokarczuk: From Hayden White and Beyond
1st Edition
By Jan Pomorski
November 28, 2024
This book traces the development of the Polish theory of history, analysing how Jerzy Topolski, Krzysztof Pomian, and Olga Tokarczuk have both built upon and transgressed the metahistorical theories of American historian Hayden White. Poland’s reception of White’s work has gone through different ...