Series: Writing History

Emotions make history, and they have a history. They influence historical events such as revolutions, riots, and protest movements. At the same time, they are shaped by historical experiences tied to family upbringing, educational and cultural institutions, work, and the home. Writing the History of Emotions shows how emotions like love, trust, honour, pride, shame, empathy, and greed have impacted...

Writing Conceptual Histories introduces conceptual history as a research perspective and as a lens through which we can study the past and present. This book provides students and researchers with an overview of, and easy access to, central concepts of conceptual history and its practical applications. With an introduction that relates conceptual history to historical semantics, rhetoric, intellectual history and...

Over the past two decades, transnational history has become an established term describing approaches to the writing of world or global history that emphasise movement, dynamism and diversity. Writing Transnational History investigates the emergence of the ‘transnational’ as an approach, its limits, and parameters. It focuses particular attention on the contributions of postcolonial and feminist studies in reformulating transnational historiography...

Writing Queer History introduces and surveys the ways in which historians and others have researched and written about the lesbian, gay, and queer past. It pinpoints some of the key themes, issues, and questions they have sought to address, looks at the kinds of sources they have used, and suggests ways in which queer theory since the early 1990s has...

Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture. Looking at archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The book addresses the role of museums, the impact of the digital age and the representations of objects in...