Articles
Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method contains new and exclusive article content on a wide range of carefully selected topics within five distinctive sections on the resource. These articles are consistently structured to enable users to understand the origins, significance and legacy of the subject in question. The article collection is intended to present a diverse range of voices and global coverage of the subject as far as possible. All articles are commissioned and reviewed by a prestigious academic editor team, with an additional layer of peer review provided by the Editor-in-Chief and further resource development guidance provided by the distinguished editorial advisory board.
You can find all the articles here Article coverage broken down by section as it stands is as follows:
- Essays on Theory, Method and Historiography: Abuse of History; Affect Theory and History of Emotions; African Nationalist Historiography; Autobiography; Big History; Causality; Conceptual History; Counterfactual History; Critical Heritage; Environmental History; Epistemology; Evidence/Proof; Fact; Global History in China; Historical Analogies, Historia magistra vitae; Historical Culture; History and Anthropology; History of Historiography; Historical sociology/history and sociology; History of Ideas; Intellectual Honesty and the Purpose of History; Marxism and its Influence; Memory/Memory Studies; Micro-history; Narrative; (New) Imperial History; Objectivity; Philosophy of Historiography; Philosophy of History: Speculative Approaches; Memory Laws; History; Professionalisation of History; Public History; Regime of Historicity; Regional History; The Material Turn in Historical Writing; The Myth of Origins in South Asian National Histories; The Role of Antiquity in Medieval Historiography; The Role of Cliometrics in History and Economics; Urban History; What is Historiography and Why Does It Matter?; What is History and Why Does It Matter?
- Key Thinkers: Adu Boahen; Arthur C. Danto; B. Ogot; Bala Usman; Bolanle Awe; Catherine Hall; Catherine Macaulay; Cheikh Anta Diop; Hannah Arendt; Karl Marx; Ibn Khaldoun; Nietzsche; G. W. F. Hegel; Gyula Szekfue; J. F. Ade Ajayi; Arai Hakuseki; Joan Wallach Scott; Johan Huizinga; Johann Gustav Droysen; K. O. Dike; Lynn Hunt; Liang Qichao; Obaro Ikime; Philipp de Mezieres; R G Collingwood; Reinhart Koselleck; Ssu-ma Ch'ien; Wilhelm von Humboldt; William Dray; Zhang Xuecheng
- Using Primary Sources: Autobiography; Diaries (Early Modern); Ecclesiastical Records; Fashion; Film; Folklore; Letters (Modern); Mass Observation; Museum Objects; Newspapers; Oral History; Portraits; Slave Narratives; Statistics
- Key Concepts: Afrocentricity; Agency; Anachronism; Citizenship related to History Education; Class; Contingency; Covering Laws; Diaspora; Empathy; Equality; Event/Eventual History; Experience; Gender; Genocide; Heritage; Hermeneutics; Historical Culture; Historical Thinking; Historicity; Historical Consciousness; Histoire Croisée; History and Shared Authority; Identity/Collective Identities; Immediacy/Hyper Immediacy; KZ Syndrome/PTSD; Multiperspectivity and History Education; Narrative Template; Popular Culture; Power; Re-enactment; Representation; Secularization; Pleasurescape; Social Movements; Time
- Classic Texts in Context: Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People; Collingwood, An Autobiography; Chunqiu, Annals; Droysen, Historik; Herodotus, Histories; Kalhaṇa, Rājataraṅgiṇī; Livy, History of Rome; Ranke, History of the Latin and Teutonic Nations; Marx, Capital; Tacitus, Annals; Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Hundreds of new articles will be added in the coming years as we look to build the most comprehensive exploration of the discipline possible.
This unparalleled four-volume survey of historiography examines the nature and significance of history writing from ancient worlds to the present day. Taking a global approach, it presents and contextualizes classic works that portray the traditions of historical writing around the world. The collection also incorporates key essays and articles from the 18th century to the present that analyze the continuities and transformations that have existed and taken place within those traditions.
The four volumes cover the ancient and medieval eras, the Renaissance period through to the 18th century, the rise of the Rankean school and ‘scientific history’ in the West, and new developments in worldwide historiography from the 1990s to the present day. As well as substantial contextualizing editor introductions for each volume, there are 60 individual essays and extracts included across the set, with notions of time, antiquarianism, the Annales School and postcolonialism all key topics at the heart of this vital collection.
Editor: Q. Edward Wang is Professor of History at Rowan University, USA. He won a Faculty Research Achievement Award at Rowan in 2013 and received Changjiang Professorship at Peking University in China, which he has held since 2007. He has published extensively on historical theory, history of historiography, Asian cultural and intellectual history and comparative history and historiography including A Global History of Modern Historiography (co-authored with Georg G. Iggers & Supriya Mukherjee, 2008 & 2017) and Marxist Historiographies: A Global Perspective (co-edited with Georg G. Iggers, 2015), amongst others.
Volume 1: Ancient and Medieval Traditions
Part I. Classic Models in the West - Thucydidean Epistemology: Between Philosophy and History, Hunter R. Rawlings III
- The Battle Exhortation in Ancient Historiography. Fact or Fiction?, Mogens Herman Hansen
- Tacitus and Women’s Usurpation of Power, Francesca Santoro L’Hoir
- Theology as a Historiographical Tool in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy
- Satire and Historiography: The Reception of Classical Models and the Construction of the Author’s Persona in Lucian’s ‘De Historia Conscribenda’, Melina Tamiolaki
- The Conduct of Vitellius in Cassius Dio’s ‘Roman History’, Caillan Davenport
Part II. Christianity and History - The Emotions of God in the Theology of St. Augustine, Joseph M. Hallman
- Historical Writing, Historical Thinking and Historical Consciousness in the Middle Ages, Hans-Werner Goetz
Part III. Traditions Established around the World - Turning Points in Islamic Historical Practice, R. Stephen Humphreys
- Is There a Shi’a Philosophy of History? The Case of Mas’udi, Maysam J. al Faruqi
- The Official Historiographical Operation of the Song Dynasty, Sung Chia-Fu
- Theology as a Historiographical Tool in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy
- Satire and Historiography: The Reception of Classical Models and the Construction of the Author’s Persona in Lucian’s ‘De Historia Conscribenda’, Melina Tamiolaki
- World History Sacred and Profane: The Case of the Medieval Christian and Islamic World Chronicles, Ernst Breisach
- East and West: Ibn Khaldoun and the Sciences of History, Róbert Simon
Volume 2: Transition and Transformation
Part I. History in the Renaissance - Barefoot Boy Makes Good: A Study of Machiavelli’s Historiography, Mark Phillips
- Guicciardini and the Humanist Historians, Donlad J. Wilcox
Part II. From Ars Historica to Ars Critica - Sceptical History and the Myth of the Historical Revolution, Andrew Hadfield
- Image as Evidence in Seventeenth-Century Europe, Peter Burke
- Image as Evidence in Seventeenth-Century Europe, Peter Burke
- Pierre Bayle and the Structures of Doubt, Oscar Kenshur
Part III. Antiquarianism as a Global Trend - Sceptical History and the Myth of the Historical Revolution, Andrew Hadfield
- Beyond East and West: Antiquarianism, Evidential Learning and Global Trends in Historiography, Q. Edward Wang
Part IV. Philosophizing History - Giambattista Vico and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns, Joseph M. Levine
- Montesquieu’s Philosophy of History, David Carrithers
- The Epochal Concept of ‘Early Modernity’ and the Intellectual History of Late Imperial China, On-Cho Ng
Part V. Women in Historiography - Representations of Women in Tudor Historiography: John Bale and the Rhetoric of Exemplarity, Krista Kesselring
- Enlightenment and the Uses of Women, Barbara Taylor
Part VI. Transformation of Historical Writing - From Hystories to the Historical: Five Transitions in Thinking about the Past, 1500 – 1700, Daniel R. Woolf
- The Rise of Non-Muslim Historiography in the Eighteenth Century, Johan Strauss
- University of Göttingen and the Transformation of Historical Scholarship, Georg G. Iggers
Volume 3: Scientific Models: From the West to the World
Part I. The Annales School and Its Impact - Between Marx and Braudel: Making History, Knowing History, Carlos Antonio Aguirre
- The ‘Annales’ in Global Context, Peter Burke
Part II. Nationalism as Ideology - Historical Narratives and the Meaning of Nationalism, Lloyd Kramer
- The Role of Professional Historical Scholarship in the Creation and Distortion of Memory, Georg G. Iggers
- The Changing Conceptions of National History in Twentieth-Century China, Ying-Shih Yü
Part III. Nationalism as Practice - Modern Serbian Historiography between Nation-Building and Critical Scholarship: The Case of Ilarion Ruvarac, Michael Antolovic
- The Tyranny of Narrative: History, Heritage, and Hatred in the Modern Middle East, Neil A. Silberman
- The Tyranny of Narrative: History, Heritage, and Hatred in the Modern Middle East, Neil A. Silberman
- The King of Controversy: History and Nation-Making in Late Colonial India, Kumkum Chatterjee
Part IV. Knowledge of History Reconsidered - The Subject and Power, Michel Foucault
- Toward a History of Reading, Robert Darnton
- On the Methods of the History Workshop, David Selbourne
Part V. History and Society - Labor History, Social History, ‘Alltagsgeschichte’: Experience, Culture, and the Politics of the Everyday – A New Direction for German Social History?, Geoff Eley
- Losses, Gains and Opportunities: Social History Today, Jürgen Kocka
- Social History Present and Future, Peter N. Stearns
Part VI. Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective - Gender: A Useful Category for Historical Analysis, Joan Scott
- Chinese History: A Useful Category of Gender Analysis, Gail Hershatter and Wang Zheng
Volume 4: Challenges and Criticisms: From the 1990s to the Present
Part I. Beyond Eurocentrism - Orientalism Reconsidered, Edward W. Said
- Subaltern Studies as Postcolonial Criticism, Gyan Prakash
- The West, Capitalism, and the Modern World-System, Immanuel Wallerstein
Part II. Globalizing Historiography - Globalizing History and Historicizing Globalization, Jerry Bentley
- Is There History after Eurocentrism? Globalism, Postcolonialism, and the Disavowal of History, Arif Dirlik
- The History of Africanization and the Africanization of History, Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
Part III. Innovations in Methodology - History without a Cause? Grand Narratives, World History, and the Postcolonial Dilemma, Barbara Weinstein
- Transformations between History and Memory, Aleida Assman
- Worrying about Emotions in History, Barbara Rosenwein
- The Self and Its History, Lynn A. Hunt
Part IV. Knowledge of History Reconsidered - The Subject and Power, Michel Foucault
- Toward a History of Reading, Robert Darnton
- On the Methods of the History Workshop, David Selbourne
Part IV. Toward a Posthuman Future - The Anthropocene: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives, Will Steffen, Jacques Grinevald, Paul Crutzen and John McNeill
- The Climate of History: Four These, Dipesh Chakrabarty
- World History in Context, David Christian
- Posthumanist History, Ewa Domanska
eBooks
Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method contains 61 academic eBooks focused around historiography, historical methods and history theory. These include
Using Non-Textual Sources,
Global History,
Globally,
History in Times of Unprecedented Change,
Ancient Historians,
Theories of History,
The New Ways of History and
An Introduction to Historical Comparison.
