The Human Body and the Telling of History
Histories of the body have been powerfully shaped by the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault who examined the ways in which the body was sh...
Making History
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Making History aims to give students an understanding of the role and importance of historiography (the particular ‘spin’ or interpretation in history) and an awareness of significant historiographical changes in the discipline of history as a whole.
The Relevance of Environment in History
Analyses of space and place often intersect with history making. An increasing awareness of climate change has made some Australian historians particu...
The Importance of Women's History
Women’s history closely aligns with cultural and social history in its inclusive approach. It emerged alongside the cultural turn in the 1990s as key-...
How Materials can be Used to Make History
The cultural ‘turn’ of the 1990s remains one of the most powerful influences in modern history writing. Cultural historians often emphasise everyday l...
The Telling of Civil Rights
The history of civil rights in the US has been dominated by debates on the role of Martin Luther King. Some historians have argued for a longer histor...
Postcolonialism and Making History
Postcolonial histories generally focus on the relationship between the colonizing country and the colonized peoples (in this case, Japan and Koreans) ...
Global History and World History
Global histories began to appear in the 1990s though they emerged in response to the grand world histories of William McNeill some years earlier. They...
The Transnational Approach to History
Transnational history challenges the rigid framework of national history. It examines history from the perspective of the global circulation of ideas ...
How is Chinese History Distinctive?
The historian was defined as scribe and astrologer in ancient China. He played a sophisticated role within the dynastic political culture of the Chine...
The Origin of Ancient History
The great Greek historians, Herodotus (c. 484-420 BCE) and Thucydides (c.460-400 BCE) provided some of the most important models for historians until ...