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Serie: Elements in historical theory and practice
PaperbackEngels9781009447027
21-8-2025
This Element explores the relation between historiography and testimony about what it means to know and understand the past historically. The distinctiveness of history is elucidated by placing historical theory in dialogue with testimony and philosophy of history. Meer
GebondenEngels9781009565226
30-1-2025
This Element applies Bayesian insights to explicate historiographic reasoning as probable. It distinguishes epistemic transmission of knowledge from evidence from the generation of detailed historiographic knowledge from multiple coherent and independent evidentiary inputs in three modular stages. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781009607780
3-7-2025
This Element analyzes philosophical hermeneutics' impact on the humanities and social sciences, focusing on history. Topics include Dilthey's distinction between understanding and explanation, Heidegger's historicity, Gadamer's historical understanding, Ricoeur's view of historians, historical truth, and constructivism. Meer
GebondenEngels9781009607827
3-7-2025
This Element analyzes philosophical hermeneutics' impact on the humanities and social sciences, focusing on history. Topics include Dilthey's distinction between understanding and explanation, Heidegger's historicity, Gadamer's historical understanding, Ricoeur's view of historians, historical truth, and constructivism. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781009372411
5-2-2026
Gender has a special relation to history as an academic practice, as a form of writing, and as a way of understanding humanity. This Element reconstructs the trajectory of debates over gender to trace its emergence as an analytical category through the work of feminist thinkers. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781009406277
7-12-2023
This Element shows that existing models of global slavery derived from sociology rather than history. It argues that we can understand the global history of slavery in ways that historicise the study of history as an institution with a history that changes over time and space. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781009635370
11-12-2025
This Element is about historical practice and genetics that seeks to understand what is at stake in presenting, preserving, and articulating the past in the present. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781009048545
18-1-2024
This Element provides a pedagogical overview of the history of knowledge, including its main currents, distinguishing ideas, and key concepts. It is an argumentative contribution that seeks to push the field towards studying knowledge in society and knowledge in people's lives. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781009048552
30-5-2024
This Element explores four meanings of 'contemporary,' emphasizing its designation as a historical field. It argues that disagreements about when the contemporary era begins stem from historians assuming a linear, chronological, and absolute conception of time. Meer
GebondenEngels9781009467957
7-12-2023
This Element shows that existing models of global slavery derived from sociology rather than history. It argues that we can understand the global history of slavery in ways that historicise the study of history as an institution with a history that changes over time and space. Meer
GebondenEngels9781009475686
6-6-2024
This Element defines the African Diaspora and how the concepts behind the term came to be socially and historically engineered. The diverse histories of Africa's ancient-ongoing diasporas and their present circumstances are analyzed, bringing into conversation a progressively global and connected world. Meer
GebondenEngels9781009507400
16-1-2025
The political focus has shifted from recognizing states' victories to their own historical crimes. This Element explores the rise of 'auto-critical memory', its globalization, and current debates on remembering colonial pasts. Meer
GebondenEngels9781009486903
18-1-2024
This Element provides a pedagogical overview of the history of knowledge, including its main currents, distinguishing ideas, and key concepts. It is an argumentative contribution that seeks to push the field towards studying knowledge in society and knowledge in people's lives. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781009324502
30-1-2025
This Element applies Bayesian insights to explicate historiographic reasoning as probable. It distinguishes epistemic transmission of knowledge from evidence from the generation of detailed historiographic knowledge from multiple coherent and independent evidentiary inputs in three modular stages. Meer
GebondenEngels9781009670890
27-11-2025
This Element explores the modern yearning for things of the past. It tells a global story about scholars who, driven by this yearning, roamed the world and amassed many of its historical artefacts. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781009358781
12-3-2026
The future is contingent. It can unfold differently, hinging on chance or choice. This Element tells the story of how these twin concepts have developed across human history. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781009055109
6-2-2025
This Element aims to advance the understanding of history by focusing on the relationships between objectivity, perspective, representation, and individualizing comprehension in historical contexts. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781009055567
24-8-2023
This Element aims to provide readers with a reflexive and comprehensive overview of what it is that archaeologists do. The goal is to shift the reader's perspective of archaeology away from seeing it as a primarily data gathering field, to a clearer understanding of how archaeologists make and use the data they uncover. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781009442114
6-6-2024
This Element defines the African Diaspora and how the concepts behind the term came to be socially and historically engineered. The diverse histories of Africa's ancient-ongoing diasporas and their present circumstances are analyzed, bringing into conversation a progressively global and connected world. Meer
GebondenEngels9781009709392
21-8-2025
This Element explores the relation between historiography and testimony about what it means to know and understand the past historically. The distinctiveness of history is elucidated by placing historical theory in dialogue with testimony and philosophy of history. Meer