Historiography

In 2012, Norman Davies set off on a global circumnavigation. 'Native Lands' is his account of the places he visited and the history he found there, from Abu Dhabi to Singapore, the settlement of Tasmania to the short-lived Republic of Texas. As in 'Vanished Kingdoms', Davies's historical gaze pen...

This edited volume contains 16 cutting edge explorations of key themes in history across the globe by leading scholars, essential to an understanding of the current state of historical scholarship and to envisaging the future of the discipline.

In a lively challenge to mainstream historical myths, Michael Parenti shows how history is the winner's story, and historians prisoners of their own professional and class environment.

This is an engrossing book about a woman's place in history, and a dauntless and farsighted heroine determined not just on receiving recognition for her own literary effort, but also the recognition of the achievement of all women.

This title provides an impassioned, controversial plea for us to recognize the importance of writing history - from world-famous historian David Cannadine. The book is an agonized attempt to understand how so much of the writing of history has been driven by a fatal desire to dramatize difference...