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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians
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Cambridge University Press A Global History of History
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Cambridge University Press The Western Time of Ancient History Historiographical Encounters with the Greek and Roman Pasts
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Cambridge University Press History and Biography
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Cambridge University Press Acton and History
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Cambridge University Press Community in Historical Perspective
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Cambridge University Press The Continuities of German History
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Cambridge University Press Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History 17901890 80 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 80
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Cambridge University Press History and Historiography in Classical Utilitarianism 18001865
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Cambridge University Press Conflict Diaspora and Empire
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Cambridge University Press The Authoritative Historian
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Cambridge University Press Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data
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Cambridge University Press Hajj across Empires
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Cambridge University Press The Dangerous Art of Text Mining
Book SynopsisText mining is the art of counting words over time. The Dangerous Art of Text Mining celebrates the bold new insights into politics, culture, and historical change that can result – and argues that, without help from the humanities, data science can distort the past and lead to perilous errors.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. A Ropes Course for Exploring the Territory: 1. Why textual data from the past is dangerous; 2. From fantasy to engagement; 3. Words are keys and words are barriers; 4. Critical search, a theory; 5. To predict or to describe?; Part II. The Many Windows of the House of the Past: 6. The many windows of the house of the past; 7. Of memory; 8. The distinctiveness of certain eras; 9. The measure of influence; 10. Of rock and fire; 11. Whither modernity; 12. What computers can explain and when to stop: a case study in the political history of climate change; Part III. Critical Thinking with Data Makes Stronger Disciplines: 13. A world map of culture, purged of bias; 14. The future of the art.
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Cambridge University Press The Dangerous Art of Text Mining
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Cambridge University Press Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas
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Cambridge University Press Historians Autobiographies as Historiographical
Book SynopsisThis book analyses the autobiographies of historians from a global perspective and looks at all eras, from antiquity to the present day. It includes 20 autobiographies: Lucian of Samosata''s memories in antiquity; Vico''s, Gibbon''s and Adams'' intellectual self-accounting in modernity; autobiographical revelations and social activism of 20th century women historians such as Steedman, Conway, and Gerda Lerner; classical Chinese and Islamic traditions through the autobiographies of Sima Quian and Ibn Khaldun; the perplexities inherent in the modernisation of Japan (Fukuzama Yukichi), China (Gu Jiegang), India (Nirad Chaudhuri) and Egypt (Taha Hussein); and traumatic post-colonial experiences in Africa (Bethwell Ogot), Latin America (Carlos Eire) and Southeast Asia (Wang Gungwu). The book proposes a literary and historical approach to these autobiographies, emphasising its historiographical dimension and value.
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Cambridge University Press V. S. Naipaul and World Literature
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Cambridge University Press Claiming the Peoples Past
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Cambridge University Press Decolonizing Roman Imperialism
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Cambridge University Press The Bell Beaker Phenomenon in Europe
Book SynopsisThis Element offers a synthetic account of the available evidence structured on a regional basis. The central thesis developed here is that the Bell Beaker Phenomenon can adequately be described as a metapopulation, a concept borrowed from population ecology. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Cambridge University Press The Bell Beaker Phenomenon in Europe
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Cambridge University Press Teaching History in Higher Education
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Cambridge University Press Historiographic Reasoning
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Cambridge University Press The Five Ages of Antifascism
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Cambridge University Press A Critical Genealogy of Humanism
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Cambridge University Press Testimony and Historical Knowledge
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Cambridge University Press Myths History Wars and IndigenousSettler Reconciliation in Canada and Other Settler States
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Cambridge University Press The History Written on the Classical Greek Body The Wiles Lectures
Book SynopsisExposes the distortions systematically introduced by historians through relying on texts without looking at what was and was not written on the body. It shows that in classical Athens, on the basis of visual evidence, the categories advertised in texts do not match those which could be operated in life.Trade Review"His aim is not to produce a history of the Greek body, but rather to use the body as a lens to bring into focus the biases and distortions inherent in more traditional text-centered histories." -- Zachary Biles, New England Classical JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Writing history on the classical body; 2. The appearance of the classical Greek body; 3. The distinguished body; 4. The citizen body; 5. Foreign bodies; 6. Dirty bodies; 7. Godsbodies; 8. Telling bodies.
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Cambridge University Press The Rise of Heritage
Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated book explains the origins of our modern fascination with heritage. Drawing on archival sources from Germany, France and Britain, it uncovers for the first time the fascinating story of international competition, rivalry and collaboration which lay behind the rise of preservation in Europe and the world.Trade Review'This book should be required reading for all scholars interested in nineteenth-century collecting. Astrid Swenson has produced a lucid and persuasive synthesis of the emergence of historical preservation in Britain, France and Germany, ranging from the debates on vandalism and restitution during the French Revolution through to the flurry of international congresses in the fin-de-siècle. In the process, she subtly challenges the orthodoxies about the unique complexion of each nation's heritage culture - namely the statist French, the civic-minded German bourgeoisie or the individualist and aristocratic British …This is an extraordinarily learned, multi-faceted and important study that reminds us of what was, and is, at stake in the decision to preserve the past.' Tom Stammers, Journal of the History of Collections'Swenson's book is expertly researched, clearly written and offers an empirically rich approach to transnational heritage … in its mastery of British, French and German sources, its ambitious scope and its contribution to our understanding of heritage, the book is a major achievement, and will interest those working on heritage studies, architectural history, transnational history and modern European history.' Chris Pearson, The English Historical Review'Swenson's prodigious archival work in three languages has unearthed convincing evidence to support her contention that we must revise facile characterizations of preservation movements on the basis of supposed national difference … Swenson's chapters on international exhibitions, fairs, and expositions detail how the growing sense among intellectuals and activists of the need to 'preserve the past' as a responsibility of 'Western Civilization' led cultural nationalists to attempt to demonstrate at various events that their nation was at the apex of that civilization. This is an important and well-made argument, echoing other scholars who have found clear connections between nationalist and internationalist movements in domestic history in the mid- and later nineteenth century …' Stephen Heathorn, The Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. National Heritage Movements: 1. In search of origins; 2. The heritage-makers; Part II. International Meeting-Points: 3. Exhibition mania; 4. 'Peace and goodwill among nations'; Part III. Transnational Campaigns: 5. 'A Morris dance 'round St Mark's'; 6. 'A yardstick for a people's cultural attainment'; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press History and Identity
Book SynopsisThis introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice shows how issues of identity have shaped how we write history. Stefan Berger charts how a new self-reflexivity about what is involved in the process of writing history entered the historical profession and the part that historians have played in debates about the past and its meaningfulness for the present. He introduces key trends in the theory of history such as postmodernism, poststructuralism, constructivism, narrativism and the linguistic turn and reveals, in turn, the ways in which they have transformed how historians have written history over the last four decades. The book ranges widely from more traditional forms of history writing, such as political, social, economic, labour and cultural history, to the emergence of more recent fields, including gender history, historical anthropology, the history of memory, visual history, the history of material culture, and comparative, transnational and global history.Table of Contents1. Introduction: History and identity; 2. The new political history; 3. The new social, economic and labour history; 4. The new cultural history; 5. Gender history; 6. Historical anthropology; 7. The history of memory; 8. The history of concepts; 9. The visual turn; 10. The history of material culture; 11. Transnational, comparative and global history; 12. Conclusion: Problematizing history and identity; Bibliography; Index.
£27.99
Cambridge University Press The Greeks and their Past
Book SynopsisInvestigates the field of memory in the literature of the fifth century BCE. Covers poetry and oratory as well as the works of the first Greek historians, Herodotus and Thucydides, and offers a fresh assessment of the rise of Greek historiography.Trade Review'Grethlein has written a remarkably broad, erudite, and often original study.' Victor Bers, American Journal of Philology'This is an ambitious, lucid, well-researched and well-organized book … [It] provides a stimulating argument and one based on much careful analysis of ancient texts and knowledge of the extensive relevant modern scholarship … One looks forward for more from Jonas Grethlein in the future on these and similar challenging topics.' Carolyn Dewald, Classical Journal'… a valuable read on Hellenic memory as ideological tool.' Donald Lateiner, The HistorianTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Clio polytropos: Non-historiographical Media of Memory: 2. Epinician poetry: Pindar, Olympian 2; 3. Elegy: the 'New Simonides' and the past in earlier elegies; 4. Tragedy: Aeschylus, Persae; 5. Epideictic oratory: Lysias, Epitaphios Logos; 6. Deliberative oratory: Andocides, De pace; Part II. The Rise of Greek Historiography: 7. Herodotus; 8. Thucydides; 9. Epilogue: historical fevers, ancient and modern; Appendix: lengthy historical narratives in Tyrtaeus and Mimnermus?
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Cambridge University Press Bolingbrokes Defence of the Treaty of Utrecht
Book SynopsisThis 1932 book consists of numbers 68 from Henry Bolingbroke's Letters on the Study and Use of History. The letters provide an account of the events leading up to the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, justifying the Treaty whilst at the same time admitting to the inadequacy of some the terms.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Letter VI; Letter VII; Letter VIII.
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Cambridge University Press Guide to Byzantine Historical Writing
Book SynopsisThis handy reference guide makes it easier to access and understand histories written in Greek between 600 and 1480 CE. Covering classicizing histories that continued ancient Greek traditions of historiography, sweeping, fast-paced ''chronicle'' type histories, and dozens of idiosyncratic historical texts, it distills the results of complex, multi-lingual, specialist scholarship into clear explanations of the basic information needed to approach each medieval Greek history. It provides a sound basis for further research on each text by describing what we know about the time of composition, content covered by the history, authorship, extant manuscripts, previous editions and translations, and basic bibliography. Even-handed explanations of scholarly debates give readers the information they need to assess controversies independently. A comprehensive introduction orients students and non-specialists to the traditions and methods of Byzantine historical writing. It will prove an invaluablTrade Review'The venerable tradition of Roman history writing flourished long after the capital's move to Constantinople and the emergence of a Greek-speaking literary class to record its medieval fortunes. The surviving source material reflects a variety of voices - from church leaders and monks to bureaucrats, scholars, generals, and members of the imperial family - who wrote from their own distinctive perspective about the times in which they lived. Neville offers a concise introduction to a complex historiographic field by focusing on 52 important authors between the 7th and 15th centuries. … Medievalists and nonspecialists alike will be well served by this engaging introduction to the literary tradition of a rich historical world. Recommended.' M. Rautman, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Theophylakt Simokatta; 2. Paschal Chronicle; 3. George Synkellos; 4. Chronicle of Theophanes; 5. Patriarch Nikephoros; 6. Scriptor Incertus de Leo V; 7. Chronicle of 81; 8. Megas Chronographos; 9. George the Monk; 10. Peter of Alexandria; 11. Genesios; 12. Theophanes Continuatus; 13. Constantinian excerpts; 14. John Kaminiates; 15. Symeon the Logothete; 16. Leo the Deacon; 17. Chronicle of Monemvasia; 18. Chronicon Bruxellense; 19. Psellos; 20. John Xiphilinos; 21. Michael Attaleiates; 22. John Skylitzes and Scylitzes Continuatus; 23. George Kedrenos; 24. Nikephoros Bryennios; 25. Anna Komnene; 26. John Kinnamos; 27. John Zonaras; 28. Constantine Manasses; 29. Michael Glykas; 30. Eustathios of Thessaloniki; 31. Joel; 32. Niketas Choniates; 33. George Akropolites; 34. Theodore Skoutariotes; 35. George Pachymeres; 36. Nikephoros Gregoras; 37. Ephraim; 38. Constantine Akropolites the Grand Logothete; 39. Chronicle of Morea; 40. Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos; 41. John VI Kantakouzenos; 42. Michael Panaretos; 43. Chronicle of Ioannina; 44. Chronicle of Tocco; 45. John Kananos; 46. John Anagnostes; 47. Leontios Machairas; 48. Sylvester Syropoulos; 49. Doukas; 50. George Sphrantzes; 51. Michael Kritovoulos; 52. Laonikos Chalkokondyles; Appendix 1; Appendix 2.
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Cambridge University Press A Concise History of History
Book SynopsisThis short history of history is an ideal introduction for those studying or teaching the subject as part of courses on the historian''s craft, historical theory and method, and historiography. Spanning the earliest known forms of historical writing in the ancient Near East right through to the present and covering developments in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, it also touches on the latest topics and debates in the field, such as ''Big History'', ''Deep History'' and the impact of the electronic age. It features timelines listing major dynasties or regimes throughout the world alongside historiographical developments; guides to key thinkers and seminal historical works; further reading; a glossary of terms; and sample questions to promote further debate at the end of each chapter. This is a truly global account of the process of progressive intercultural contact that led to the hegemony of Western historiographical methods.Trade Review'A Concise History of History presents a truly global approach to the writing of history from ancient times to the present, integrating historiographical traditions from across the world into a pluralistic story. In a clear authorial voice shaped by years of teaching, Woolf examines history's multivocal past and speculates about its future.' Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee'In a field not over endowed with student texts, this is the ideal introduction. Daniel Woolf has produced a survey of historiography which is truly global, while conveying the richness of the western tradition. To convey all this in such lucid prose and such a concise edition is a remarkable achievement.' John Tosh, University of Roehampton'Daniel Woolf's A Concise History of History is lucid, balanced and accessible as well as wide-ranging in both space and time. It makes an ideal introduction to the subject for undergraduates and can be read with pleasure by anyone who wished to become aware of the variety of human approaches to the past.' Peter Burke, University of Cambridge'Woolf's coverage is most impressive and his ability to provide an engaging overview of global historians at a reasonable price makes this book a contender for required reading in all introductory history courses.' Norman Wilson, International Network for the Theory of History'… this book deserves a wide readership, not only as an excellent introduction to the history of the Netherlands, as it is constituted today, but as a fine example of how to write a concise and comprehensive national history.' Wayne te Brake, The Journal of Modern History'... Woolf presents a very well researched, broadly based on the latest research literature and a very understandable written introduction to global history of historiography.' Stefan Haas, translated from Historische Zeitschrift'Woolf ultimately provides a tour de force of global historiography. While the West certainly looms large in his work, Woolf's simultaneous treatment of Chinese, Japanese, Islamic and Indian traditions counterbalances the West's general ubiquity in global historiography … A Concise History of History would make an excellent textbook for any undergraduate course requiring a substantive examination of Indo-Asia-Pacific historiography.' Viktor M. Stoll, Journal of Pacific HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The earliest forms of historical writing; 2. History in Eurasia to the mid-fifteenth century; 3. The sense of the past, 1450–1700; 4. Enlightenment, revolution and reaction, c.1700–1830; 5. Disciplining the past: professionalization, imperialism and science, 1830–1945; 6. Transitions: historical writing from the inter-war period to the present; 7. Where do we go from here? Reflections, new directions and prognostications.
£71.24
Cambridge University Press The Greeks and Their Histories
Book SynopsisLike every society, the Greek communities needed a unifying concept of their past, an 'intentional history'. In direct interaction with poets, they formed an aesthetic network in which myths were considered as historical events. This volume considers how Greeks' histories were consciously employed to help shape political and social realities.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The locus of intentional history: reference-group – producers – media; 2. Greek myths as a history of the Greeks: motifs – forms – structures; 3. Greek historiography between past and present; 4. Greek historiography between fiction and fact; Concluding perspectives.
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OUP India Sparks
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The University of Chicago Press The Calling of History
Book SynopsisSir Jadunath Sarkar was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association. This book examines Sarkar's career - and poignant obsolescence - as a way in to larger questions about the discipline of history and its public life.Trade Review"This is a wonderful book: at once a deep study of what modernity meant to some complex and fascinating Indian intellectuals, a rich analysis of a major scholar's assumptions and practices, and a compelling read. The Calling of History will be an unforgettable experience for anyone who shares Sarkar's, and Chakrabarty's, interest in historical research and writing." (Anthony Grafton, Princeton University)
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The University of Chicago Press The Combing of History
Book SynopsisHow is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? This exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of history, revealing the economic, social and political forces at play in history's production.
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The University of Chicago Press Time Travelers
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Random House USA Inc What is History Vintage
Book SynopsisWho is to say how things really were? In formulating a modern answer to the question 'What is History?' Professor Carr shows that the 'facts' of history are simply those which historians have selected for scrutiny. Millions have crossed the Rubicon, but the historians tell us that only Caesar's crossing was significant. All historical facts come to us as a result of interpretative choices by historians influenced by the standards of their age. Yet if absolute objectivity is impossible, the role of the historian need in no way suffer; nor does history lose its fascination. With lucidity, Carr casts a light on the proper function of the historian and the vital importance of history in modern society. “This is an admirably stimulating and intrepid book, a bold excursion into a region of central importance where most contemporary philosophers and historians, unaccountably, either fear or disdain to tread.”—Isaiah Berlin, New Statesman
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The University of Michigan Press Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe
Book SynopsisThis first volume in this groundbreaking new series is a comparative study of practices of historical research in early modern Europe and China. In recent decades, as the history of scholarship has burgeoned into a respected field of academic study, antiquarianism has emerged as an important precursor of the modern historical sciences and their associated museum culture.Trade ReviewThis volume is the first to juxtapose the autochthonous traditions of antiquarianism of Early Modern Europe and Late Imperial China. Rather than asking only what the West might be able to learn about China, it self-consciously and quite successfully seeks to open up new perspectives on both sides of the comparison. It moreover breaks important ground in suggesting historically traceable links between evidential learning in China and European traditions of 'Herodotean' historiography." —Lothar von Falkenhausen, University of California, Los Angeles"This splendid collection of essays is at once a major addition to the literature on the history of scholarship in Western Europe, a burgeoning field in its own right, and a model effort at comparative cultural history . . . The collection as a whole sheds light on areas little known even to erudite scholars." —Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
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The University of Michigan Press The Sea
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The University of Michigan Press Teaching History in the Digital Age
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Alfred A. Knopf The World
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families • From the author of The Romanovs“Succession meets Game of Thrones.” —The Spectator • “The author brings his cast of dynastic titans, rogues and psychopaths to life...An epic that both entertains and informs.” —The Economist, Best Books of the YearAround 950,000 years ago, a family of five walked along the beach and left behind the oldest family footprints ever discovered. For award-winning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, these poignant, familiar fossils serve as an inspiration for a new kind of world history, one that is genuinely global, spans all eras and all continents, and focuses on the family ties that connect every one of us.In this epic, ever-surprising
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Harper Perennial Inventing the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisINVENTING THE MIDDLE AGES The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth CenturyIn this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages-with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies-was born in the twentieth century. The medieval world was not simply excavated through systematic research. It had to be conceptually created: It had to be invented, and this is the story of that invention. Norman Cantor focuses on the lives and works of twenty of the great medievalists of this century, demonstrating how the events of their lives, and their spiritual and emotional outlooks, influenced their interpretations of the Middle Ages. Cantor makes their scholarship an intensely personal and passionate exercise, full of color and controversy, displaying the strong personalities and creative minds that brought new insights about the past. A revolutio
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The University of Alabama Press The Historian behind the History
Book SynopsisThe Historian behind the History brings together for the first time a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama's history program. In the interviews, ten notable southern historians and mentors illuminate the state of historiography, their experiences in the profession, and their thoughts about graduate education and southern history. The student-edited journal Southern Historian includes one interview each year; interviews from the journal's first ten years are gathered here for the first time. The interviews are with some of the most respected southern historians and cover a range of southern history. The historians and their main topics include:Richard J. M. Blackett on antebellum and African American historyDan T. Carter on Reconstruction, Civil Rights, and George WallacePete Daniel on the New Deal and the Cold War SouthLaura F. Edwards on the Early Republic, the Civ
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