This introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice shows how issues of identity have shaped how we write history. Stefan Berger charts how a new s
For people who live in small communities transformed by powerful outside forces, narrative accounts of culture contact and change create images of collective id
Visions of the past are crucual to the way that any community imagines itself and constructs its identity. This edited volume contains the first significant stu
This is a short history of the political life of this island over a very long period, showing how history can speak clearly to current political debates.
A collection of essays on indigenous South and North American and Afro-American peoples in periods ranging from early colonial times to the present, illustratin