History

The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva recently posted an interview with Jussi Hanhimäki, one of the authors of International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond, now in its third edition. He discusses the hugely successful book and what’s new to this edition. Read excerpts from the article, or read the full article here. Learn more about the book here.

Teaching history at the university level does not have to be limited to a broad chronological framework.

David Rollason, author of Early Medieval Europe 300-1050: The Birth of Western Society, discusses the larger aims of teaching history and how the study of early medieval Europe can help students not only in the classroom but also in future studies. Read the full article here.

Edited by Ken MacMillan 

"Ken MacMillan’s Stories of True Crime is both a treasury of early modern true crime stories and a valuable resource for instructors and students of early modern legal, social and cultural history. The author has painstakingly selected, edited, transcribed and annotated a broad range of early modern criminal accounts: some indeed sensational and bloody, others more prosaic, but all of them compelling and instructive, shedding light on both the legal and larger social and cultural contexts of crime and punishment in late Elizabethan and Stuart England." -Andrea McKenzie, University of Victoria, Canada 

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By C.H. Lawrence 

"C. H. Lawrence’s classic study presents the evolution of monastic life and thought from primitive fourth-century eastern foundations to the variety of medieval orders. Enhancing our understanding of saints’ lives, monastic rules, and pilgrimage narratives, it is a rich resource for students and scholars alike." -Ruth Harwood Cline, Georgetown University, USA 

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Originally published in 1969, Franklin J. Franco’s Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation was the foundational study on the role of Afro-descendants in Dominican society. Now, more than 40 years later, Routledge puts in the hands of new generations the very first translation in English of this popular book.  

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“sociabilities and socialities are inherently emotional”

Susan Broomhall, editor of Spaces for Feeling: Emotions and Sociabilities in Britain, 1650-1850 explores the origins of this collection analyzing how emotions made and created sites of sociality and sociability in the later early modern period. 

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