From the late nineteenth century until World War II, competing spheres of professional identity and practice redrew the field of history, establishing fundamental differences …
In this unique collection, the memoirs of eleven historians provide a fascinating portrait of a formative generation of scholars. Born around the time of World War II, these …
Richard Hofstadter (1916-70) was America's most distinguished historian of the twentieth century. The author of several groundbreaking books, including The American Political …
Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgson's The Venture of Islam was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, …
Modern man sees with one eye of faith and one eye of reason. Consequently, his view of history is confused. For centuries, the history of the Western world has been viewed from the …
Prasenjit Duara offers the first systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and …
Popularizing the Past tells the stories of five postwar historians who changed the way ordinary Americans thought about their nation's history. What s the matter with history? For …
In 1961, John F. Kennedy referred to the Papuans as "e;living, as it were, in the Stone Age."e; For the most part, politicians and scholars have since learned not to call …
Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, …
Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe …
