Bücher der Reihe Routledge Readers in History

Guides readers through European and North American developments in history-writing since the eighteenth century. This title starts with enlightenment history and moves through subjects such as moral history, national history, the emergence of history as a profession, and the impact of scientific principles on history.

Drawing on theory and practice from five continents The Public History Reader offers clearly written accessible introductions to debates in public history. It places people, such as practitioners, bloggers, archivists, local historians, curators or those working in education, at the heart of history-making and discusses practical examples of artists, collectors, novelists, activists, curators, those paid to write history and those who do it for fun. Hilda Kean and Paul Martin address the historical imagination through such concepts as `embodiment¿ and `nostalgiä whilst using practical examples to demonstrate them. The Reader explores public history as an everyday practice rather than simply as an academic discipline. It is embedded in the idea that historical knowledge is discovered and accrued from everyday encounters people have with their environments and points to the continuing dialogue that the present has with the past, exploring why this has burgeoned on a popular level in recent years.Public History Reader is, therefore, a perfect resource for all students of Public History and all those interested in understanding the role of the past in our lives today.

Gathers together some of the key pieces on Victorian history, society and culture, drawing on the modern trends in looking at the Victorian Age. This work also includes sections on periodization, politics and consumerism.

An exciting collection of essays revealing the tremendous diversity of women's experiences in Ireland's past. For the first time, this unique book draws together key articles published in the field over the last two decades.

Postmodernism too often seems to be an evasive body of ideas rather than a clear cut concept. Yet it can be referred to as an intellectual project with specific roots and a historical development. "The Postmodernism Reader" traces the origins, evolvement and the politics of postmodernism through the key writings of postmodernist thinkers.