Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Kellerer, Sidonie / Faye, Emmanuel (Hrsg.), "Werkzeuge oder Waffen?": Begriffe und Methoden in der Philosophie und den Geschichtswissenschaften. 244 S. 2026:5 (F. Meiner, GW) <764-81>
ISBN 978-3-7873-5089-6 paper ¥10,338.- (税込) EUR 39.00

Welche Autoritat hat ein philosophischer Text? Und wie kam es dazu, dass ihm diese Autoritat zugesprochen wurde? Unter welchen Bedingungen steht philosophischer Erkenntnisfortschritt und welchen Kriterien muss der Umgang mit der Ueberlieferung genugen? Was mit Blick auf den philosophiegeschichtlichen Kanon wie eine Selbstverstandlichkeit wirkt, wird in diesem Band einer kritischen Prufung unterzogen: Die Beitrage versammeln sich hinter der These, dass Teile der Philosophiegeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts von einer ≫Hermeneutik der Gewalt≪ gepragt sind. Wie Begriffe dabei nicht nur als ≫Werkzeuge≪, sondern auch als ≫Waffen≪ eingesetzt, gezielte Neu- und Umpragungen vorgenommen werden und interpretatorische Willkur an den Tag gelegt wird, wird u. a. an den Werken Heideggers, Gadamers, Voegelins, Schmitts und Kosellecks nachzuvollziehen versucht. Demgegenuber wirbt der Sammelband fur Praxen der philosophischen Verstandigung, die sowohl geschichtliche Bedingtheit als auch wissenschaftlich-methodische Grundsatze eines Textes beleuchten, wenn es um die Frage geht, wie ein philosophischer Text gelesen, interpretiert, tradiert und schliesslich kanonisiert wird. Mit einem Vorwort von Emmanuel Faye, einer Einleitung von Sidonie Kellerer sowie Beitragen von Manfred Bauschulte, Christian Berner, Emmanuel Faye, Francois Lecoutre, Gunter Mensching, Alfred Noll, Louis Pinto, Julio Quesada, Francois Rastier und Erhard Schuttpelz.

Riebeling, Zachary, Thinking Traumatic Histories. (Elements in Historical Theory and Practice) 75 pp. 2026:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <763-1372>
ISBN 978-1-009-49617-9 hard ¥17,000.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00
ISBN 978-1-009-49615-5 paper ¥5,563.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00

This Element investigates the challenges and possibilities of writing histories of trauma. Interpreting trauma as not only an event but also as an analytical framework and an apparatus for working on suffering, it explores how the historiography of trauma intersects with pressing matters of postcolonialism, historical subjectivity, and modernity. It is designed to illuminate the pressing theoretical matters that histories of trauma touch upon, whether explicitly or implicitly. Drawing from histories of trauma as well as foundational theoretical work in literary studies and memory studies, it argues that thinking traumatic histories requires a commitment on the part of historians to theoretical self-reflexivity, to querying not just the past or the archive for the traces of trauma, but the concept itself in its historical and historiographical modulations.

ホブズボームの時代－革命の歴史家の生涯
Chabal, Emile, The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian. 496 pp. 2026:8 (Belknap Pr., US) <762-1206>
ISBN 978-0-674-73776-1 hard ¥7,892.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Kraus, Hans-Christof, Geschichtsforschung - Geschichtsschreibung - Geschichtspolitik: Studien zur Geschichte der Historiographie und der Geisteswissenschaften. Kleine Schriften III. 609 S. 2025:11 (Duncker, GW) <762-1207>
ISBN 978-3-428-19152-9 paper ¥21,180.- (税込) EUR 79.90 *

≫Historical Research ? Historiography ? History and Politics. Studies on the History of Historiography and the Humanities≪: This volume presents a series of studies on the history of modern historiography since the 19th century in Germany, as well as in Great Britain and France. The focus is on the question of the connections between historiography and politics, with particular attention to the closely related contemporary biases and narrow perspectives from which the historical disciplines are never completely free.

考古学－歴史記述と理論
Murray, Tim, Archaeology: Historiography and Theory. 336 pp. 2026:1 (Springer, GW) <762-1006>
ISBN 978-3-032-11845-5 hard ¥34,459.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book examines our understanding of the ways in which we produce and consume archaeological knowledge and proposes that this should play a greater role in our attempts to describe and comprehend the nature and purpose of archaeology, and the nature of archaeological knowledge. During the past fifty years prehistoric archaeologists have sought to promote or oppose several redefinitions of archaeological goals and approaches that have emphasized, variously, the liberating or constraining power of critical self-reflection. While practitioners have continued to expand the storehouse of archaeological data, they have also been engaged in active investigation of archaeological goals and approaches, and in intensifying debate over what it is proper or relevant for practitioners to do. Prehistoric archaeology is now much more than a method of data collection and analysis which is transformed into culture history (or exemplifications of material culture theory) by the acts of comparison and interpretation. The central premise of this book is that the kind of understanding sought here should significantly improve our ability to work towards convincing solutions to many of the practical puzzles and problems with which we currently concern ourselves. The author also argues that this understanding will help to redefine the terms under which the collectivity of archaeological practitioners can be considered to be a functioning community.

Lagerspetz, Olli / Ahlskog, Jonas (ed.), Philosophy as Cultural Self-Understanding: Peter Winch, R. G. Collingwood and the Human Sciences. (Routledge Approaches to History) 174 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <761-67>
ISBN 978-1-032-57450-9 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book argues for the value of reading Peter Winch (1926-1997), one of the important philosophers of the 20th century and known especially for his work on Wittgenstein and the philosophy of the social sciences, paired with R. G. Collingwood (1889-1942), famous for his philosophy of history.Both Winch's and Collingwood's seminal works made a deep impact on debates on the aims and methods of the human sciences. Moreover, their similarity on those topics rested on a shared vision of philosophy in general. This is the first book-length treatment of the two philosophers together. The authors make use of untapped manuscript sources and posthumous material published only in the last decades to show that Winch and Collingwood were much closer than expected, and to lay to rest some pervasive misunderstandings. Underneath their shared views on the autonomy of the human sciences was a contextualising approach to logic, language and metaphysics.An accessible articulation of Winch's and Collingwood's thinking on key points, this volume is valuable reading for students and scholars interested in the philosophy of history and social science, presenting a vision of philosophy as an intellectual and existential pursuit.

C.ギンズブルグ著　M.ブロックとの対話
Ginzburg, Carlo, Dialogue avec Marc Bloch. (Grands debats) 110 p. 2025:10 (Pr. U. de Lyon, FR) <761-1671>
ISBN 978-2-7297-1493-2 paper ¥2,651.- (税込) EUR 10.00

Pihlainen, Kalle, Parahistory and the Popular Past: Acts of Historical Production. (Routledge Approaches to History) 224 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <761-1673>
ISBN 978-0-367-36844-9 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

Parahistory and the Popular Past challenges the tired debate over historical fact versus fiction by focusing on what really matters: how different forms of representation create meaning and establish responsibility. Moving beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries, this book diagnoses a fundamental tension between history's objectives and the generic forms available to achieve them. It develops a pragmatic, present-minded historical consciousness that foregrounds ethical responsibility while engaging with contemporary communicative realities.Through detailed investigations of narrative conventions, genre and historical experience, the book distinguishes between the historical and practical past. Theoretical insights are deepened through sustained analyses of works like Josef Skvorecky's The Engineer of Human Souls, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive and George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo. With these analyses, the book develops reading practices to deal with the autonomy of artistic works, demonstrating how they construct complex meanings and reshape audience responsibility. By reconceptualizing the field in terms of a broad history culture, it positions professional history and parahistory as related meaning-making practices, shifting focus from boundary-policing toward the ethical implications of representation for contemporary readers and publics.This book is essential reading for historians, literary scholars and anyone interested in how we make sense of the past.

Waligore, Timothy, Reparations and Redress for Historical Injustice. (Elements in Historical Theory and Practice) 75 pp. 2026:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <761-1674>
ISBN 978-1-009-70924-8 hard ¥17,000.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00
ISBN 978-1-009-18429-8 paper ¥5,563.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00

This Element introduces various justifications for reparations and redress for historical injustice discussed in political theory and philosophy. It examines multiple real-world cases to illustrate and test theories. It is accessible to students and scholars unfamiliar with the field, while providing new arguments for experts in the field, and organizing the debate around reparations in new ways. The Element is divided into four main sections. The first three sections examine different temporal orientations of justice: backward-looking, forward-looking, and structural injustice over time. The fourth section examines Indigenous perspectives and settler colonial theory, which complicate and problematize the temporal orientations and arguments from the other sections. The discussion in this Element is organized around two recurring theses. First, approaches relying on primarily forward-looking justifications could be made more plausible and compelling by incorporating backward-looking elements (and vice versa). Second, past injustice can change what should (publicly) count as justice.

ドイツの歴史思想における人種、文化、政治　1785～1815年
Golf-French, Morgan, Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785-1815. (Studies in German History) 320 pp. 2026:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <759-1432>
ISBN 978-0-19-898979-0 hard ¥32,146.- (税込) GB￡ 104.00

In this book, Morgan Golf-French offers a new interpretation of late Enlightenment German historiography in relation to ideas about race, culture, and politics. By paying close attention to the institutions within which these ideas were articulated, Golf-French reveals their complex and idiosyncratic development in the work of the prominent-and controversial-historians August Ludwig Schloezer, Christoph Meiners, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, and Charles de Villers. As the book shows, these ideas and their authors not only shaped the major controversies of the time, from the rise of abolitionism to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, but produced tropes and arguments of lasting significance in European thought. The book argues that the ideas about race and culture which emerged in the years preceding the French Revolution were crucial in shaping German responses to the crises years of 1789-1815. Readers will discover both the contemporary significance of these ideas in early modern Germany and important insights into their long-term impact. As the book argues, the Enlightenment should be understood on its own terms, as an important phase in European intellectual history ultimately bound to the world of ancien regime^R Europe.

ヘーゲルの歴史・政治学・哲学論
Browning, Gary, Hegel on History, Politics and Philosophy. (International Political Theory) 229 pp. 2025:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-23>
ISBN 978-3-032-01778-9 hard ¥34,459.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This collection reviews Hegel in relation to the key themes of history, politics and philosophy. It shows how Hegel is a historical thinker, whose theories aredeveloped via a philosophical consideration of historical development at a number of levels. Hegel's expertise in the history of philosophy leads him torecognize the distinctiveness of the present, while building upon philosophical predecessors. This perspective sheds light on Hegel's distinctive reading of thepolitical, which is both insightful and timely. Hegel's reading of political economy emerges out of his conception of modernity and remains relevant to contemporary conceptions of civil society. Likewise Hegel's focus upon the international remains of great moment in that he shows the interplay between internal and external forms of sovereignty. Hegel's global perspective on international politics remains of relevance today and it bears upon his understanding of internal state sovereignty and history. This volume ends with a synoptic reading of Hegel today, which reviews him critically in the light of his problematic reading of race, sex and Eurocentrism. The essays in this volume reflect Gary Browning's engagement with Hegel over a number of years, and, collectively, they show how Hegel's political theory is linked to his reading of history and philosophy, and they make a case for the continued relevance of Hegel's political and international theory.

時代の転換点－時代区分と時間への欧州の視点
Gutgarts, Anna / Steinberg, Oded / Collas, Marcus (eds.), Zeitenwenden: European Perspectives on Periodization and Time. (Time and Periodization in History 2) 250 S. 2025:12 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <758-1176>
ISBN 978-3-11-148021-3 hard ¥26,495.- (税込) EUR 99.95

カント、アドルノ、歴史の形態
Allen, William S., Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History. 264 pp. 2025:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <757-55>
ISBN 979-87-651-3396-5 hard ¥27,819.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History sets the works of Theodor Adorno, Immanuel Kant and Peter Weiss in dialogue, revealing how an interrogation of the aesthetics of 'the whole' and the conception of history in Western thought reveals new ways of thinking about history and historically.To conceive of history as such it is necessary to conceive it as a whole, but doing so carries implications about its development and direction. Furthermore, such an idea makes it difficult to consider its parts without subsuming them to the whole, thereby making individuals merely instrumental to achieving the aims of history. William S. Allen brings the thought of Kant, Adorno and Weiss to bear on these tensions, tracing how Adorno's reconsideration of history through his readings of Kant's Critique of Judgement are distinct from formulations offered by other thinkers (Marx, Hegel, Lyotard). Allen establishes that Kant's Critique of Judgement is not only a sustained analysis of the development of forms, whether aesthetic or organic, but also a tacit interrogation of the form of the whole and the possibilities of thinking it. Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History argues that Adorno has taken up this interrogation more than any other thinker and through his aesthetics has introduced an alternative thought, which has been modified and extended in the work of Peter Weiss in his last novel, The Aesthetics of Resistance. Within this thought lies the possibility of thinking history without the whole, without unity or purpose, which is a possibility that may offer new insights in the face of imminent environmental, economic and political collapse.

Akker, Chiel van de, Knowledge and Narrative. (Elements in Historical Theory and Practice) 2025:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <757-1850>
ISBN 978-1-009-53971-5 hard ¥17,000.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00 *
ISBN 978-1-009-10834-8 paper ¥5,563.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00 *

This Element is concerned with narrative as a mode of knowing. It draws attention to the epistemic value of historical narrative qua narrative. This it does not only in an abstract sense, but also with the help of recent works of history. Special attention is given to narrative sentences and narrative theses. A narrative thesis redescribes the actions and events the historian is concerned with and allows for the temporal whole or unity we associate with narrative, with its beginning, middle, and end. A thesis, it is argued, is indispensable and qualifies the work of historians as narrative. The concern with narrative has not lost any of its relevance, for the simple reason that it informs us about history as an academic discipline and the knowledge it produces. For as long as historians decide what events are important in their past and for what reason, they will rely on narrative.

歴史学とビッグヒストリーの哲学ハンドブック
Tucker, Aviezer / Cernin, David (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History. (Bloomsbury Handbooks) 528 pp. 2025:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <757-1853>
ISBN 978-1-350-40919-4 hard ¥40,183.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This handbook examines the philosophy of the historical sciences and their synthesis in concepts like Big or Deep History. Written by interdisciplinary philosophers, historians, and scientists, it acts as a valuable guide for anybody interested in scientific knowledge of the deep past, Big History, and the philosophy of science.The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History is the first philosophical reference work to recognize that History is not what it used to be: the historical sciences, Deep History, Big History, and even the history of the Anthropocene have now expanded the scope of historiography beyond that of literate civilizations to cover all scientific inferences about the past, from the Big Bang through the history of the planet and the history of life to the history of humanity. Different views about the scope of History have ontological, epistemic, methodological, explanatory, ethical, and educational reasons and implications. The historical sciences and the knowledge they have generated are founded on theories of knowledge of the past, epistemology of history. The contributions in this book consider whether there are common epistemic properties to all the historical sciences that distinguish them from non-historical or theoretical sciences.The first part of the handbook examines the recent expansion of the scope of the historical sciences in Big History, natural history, global history, and environmental history, and older broader concepts of history like universal history and philosophy of history. The second part of the handbook addresses the ontology and epistemology of the past, including the basic concepts of the historical sciences such as origins, the end of history, determination and underdetermination, contingency and necessity, historical predictions and counterfactuals, and historical pseudoscience. The third part examines the philosophies of the special historical sciences, historical linguistics, textual criticism, geology, evolutionary biology, systematics, archaeology, cosmology, history of the environment, and most significantly, their integrations and combinations - for example, how genetics, archaeology, and historical linguistics have generated a whole new knowledge of deep human history.This collection offers an overview of what the philosophy of the historical sciences is and is becoming for students and experts alike.

Pozo, Gonzalo, The Heretic: The Life and Work of Isaac Deutscher. 256 pp. 2026:6 (Verso, UK) <757-135>
ISBN 978-1-78873-396-0 paper ¥6,182.- (税込) GB￡ 20.00

Polish and British, non-Jewish Jew, critic, journalist, essayist, historian. above all, Marxist thinker, Isaac Deutscher (1907-67), was both one of the most celebrated and most controversial intellectuals of Cold War. Best known for his biographies of Stalin (1949) and Trotsky (1953-62), he was born in an observant Yiddish-speaking family in Chrzanow, a shtetl only a few miles away from Auschwitz. Still in his teens, he moved to Warsaw where he published poetry and literary journalism. A member of the Communist party from late 1926, his open opposition to Stalinist orthodoxy resulted in his expulsion in 1932. His clear-eyed anticipation of a joint Nazi-Soviet invasion, pushed him to abandon Poland for London in 1939. After a successful career at the news desks at The Economist and The Observer, he turned himself into a freelance historian, thinker and internationally-renowned expert on Russian and Eastern European affairs. His voluminous writing, his clairvoyance and courage, and his compelling style, made him an essential intellectual resource during the fifties and sixties, and left a lasting impact on the New Left even after his death. Based on extensive international research, The Heretic draws on new archival material and interviews, offering the most comprehensive study of Deutscher's life and work to date. Focusing on his political and intellectual evolution, Gonzalo Pozo maps Deutscher's numerous international dialogues and controversies both on the left and on the right, and critically interrogates his historical and ethical actuality for our time.

歴史社会学研究ハンドブック
van Leeuwen, Marco H. D. (ed.), Research Handbook on Historical Sociology. (Research Handbooks in Sociology) 592 pp. 2026:4 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-1487>
ISBN 978-1-0353-0106-5 hard ¥77,275.- (税込) GB￡ 250.00

This insightful Research Handbook provides an in-depth survey of global historical sociology. Expert contributors explore this rich, interdisciplinary field, which sits at the crossroads between history, sociology, and other social sciences including economics, demography, geography, and political science.In an engaging and accessible style, expert scholars and practitioners discuss past and state-of-the-art research, exploring theory, research design, data, empirical results, and ways forward in their field. Key themes include social inequality, social solidarity, institutions, family, and demography. In particular, chapters highlight how both the spatial and temporal aspects of historical sociology are integral to understanding societies. While quantitative datasets are growing increasingly bigger and more encompassing, the contributing authors emphasize the continued need for theoretical approaches to bridge the gaps between quantitative and qualitative methods.The Research Handbook on Historical Sociology is an essential resource for students and academics in sociology, history, and economics, as well as researchers and practitioners across the social sciences looking to understand social change over time.

Chen, Xianda, A Study of Marx's View of History: To the Depths of History. (Understanding China) 259 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-58>
ISBN 978-981-9519-65-1 hard ¥31,808.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book summarizes the process of Marx's foundation of the view of history into two turning points, namely, from alienation to alienated labor, and then from alienated labor to the materialistic view of history. Meanwhile, this book makes an in-depth analysis of the ideas about the materialistic view of history in recent years, which is conducive to further clarifying the ideas of Marxist learners and researchers. Besides, this book, on the basis of the human exploration of historical laws, analyzes how Marx broke through the limitations of previous historical views and went deep into history, that is, the process of discovering the laws of history itself, thus profoundly revealing the important reference value of Marx's view of history in the transformation of human historical views. It is also conducive to building a bridge of communication between Chinese and Western philosophy, promoting international exchanges and cooperation, and enriching the ideological connotation of contemporary Marxism.

東アジアの歴史記述必携
Wang, Q. Edward (ed.), The Routledge Companion to East Asian Historiography. (Routledge Companions) 518 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <755-750>
ISBN 978-1-032-60269-1 hard ¥75,729.- (税込) GB￡ 245.00 *

The Routledge Companion to East Asian Historiography offers a comprehensive exploration of the rich and dynamic traditions of historical writing in East Asia, tracing their evolution across two millennia. Rooted in the influential Chinese historiographical tradition and enriched by the distinctive contributions of Korean and Japanese scholars, the book examines how these practices have adapted to cultural, political, and intellectual shifts.The volume's four thematic sections explore the origins and evolution of historical writing, modernity's transformative impact, and the diverse methodologies shaping contemporary scholarship. Key topics include the establishment of official historiography in imperial China, the innovative practices of the Song dynasty, and the influence of Western ideas and Marxist frameworks from the twentieth century. Emerging areas, such as social, environmental, gender, and global history, are examined, alongside comparative studies bridging East Asian and Western traditions. From ancient chronicles to modern interpretations shaped by nationalism, Marxism, scientism, and globalization, the volume highlights the interplay between tradition and innovation that defines East Asian historical culture.As the first of its kind, this companion serves as both an essential textbook and a scholarly reference for students and researchers interested in East Asian history, global historiography, social history, intellectual history, and postmodernism.

Eskildsen, Kasper Risbjerg, Things of the Past: A Modern Yearning. (Elements in Historical Theory and Practice) 75 pp. 2025:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <755-1363>
ISBN 978-1-009-67089-0 hard ¥17,000.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00 *
ISBN 978-1-009-34295-7 paper ¥5,563.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00 *

This Element explores the yearning for things of the past, from early modern antiquarianism to the contemporary art market. It tells a global story about scholars who, driven by this yearning, roamed the world and amassed many of its historical artefacts. Their motivation was not just pleasure or profit. They longed for a past that had been lost and strived to reconstruct world history anew. This rewriting of history unleashed heated debates, all over the world and raging for centuries. The debates concerned not only the past but also the present and the future. Many believed that, by revealing a strange and foreign past, the material remains opened a path to modernity. So, the Element investigates not only the history of historical scholarship, and its obsession with things, but also our relationship to the past as modern human beings.

歴史理論の重要問題　第2版
Paul, Herman, Key Issues in Historical Theory. 2nd ed. 198 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <755-1364>
ISBN 978-1-032-97462-0 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-97463-7 paper ¥12,978.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99 *

Key Issues in Historical Theory is a fresh, clear and well-grounded introduction to a vibrant field of inquiry. With examples from novels, music, journalism and politics, the book expertly engages the reader in discussions of what history is, how people relate to the past and how they are formed by the past. Over 11 thematically-based chapters, Herman Paul discusses subjects such as: * history, memory and trauma* historical experience and narrative* moral and political dimensions of history * historical reasoning and explanation * truth, plausibility and objectivity Key Issues in Historical Theory convincingly shows that historical theory is not limited to reflection on professional historical studies, but offers valuable tools for understanding autobiographical writing, cultural heritage and political controversies about the past. This thoroughly revised edition is brought up-to-date with new examples, while also covering recent debates on presentism, post-truth and the Anthropocene. With text boxes providing additional focus on a range of key topics, this is an accessible and innovative guide to the field of historical theory.

M.ブロックのために！－歴史学は社会科学である
Pebarthe, Christophe, Pour Marc Bloch!: L'histoire est une science sociale. (Documents) 168 p. 2025:6 (le Bord de l'eau, FR) <753-2160>
ISBN 978-2-38519-149-8 paper ¥3,711.- (税込) EUR 14.00

Sager, Eric W., The Thinking Historian: A Search for History as Understanding. (The Politics of Historical Thinking 7) 150 S. 2025:2 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <752-1308>
ISBN 978-3-11-156327-5 hard ¥21,193.- (税込) EUR 79.95
ISBN 978-3-11-157085-3 paper ¥7,143.- (税込) EUR 26.95

What is history? What are historians doing, when we create our histories? The need for answers is more urgent than ever. We live in an era when history is often rejected or ignored, and when all teachers of history confront formidable challenges. In the culture of screen capitalism and social media, historical knowledge is evaded in an expanding present-minded consciousness. How can history be defended, and what is it that we are defending? This book argues that history is a mode of thinking, a form of imaginative reasoning with its own informal logic. In non-technical language and using examples from important works of history, the book defines core elements in historical thinking. These include contingency, complexity, temporality, parts and wholes, consilience, perspectives, analogy, and abduction. These elements are subsumed into the concept of imaginative reasoning. The overall argument echoes the work of hermeneutic philosophers. History is a disciplined imagination, tempered and empowered by its forms of reasoning. It embraces ethical imperatives that the historian has a duty to declare. Equipped with such understanding, historians may answer the many rejections of history and secure its place in our shared futures.

Fischer, Liz, Network Analysis for Book Historians: Digital Labour and Data Visualization Techniques. (Book Culture) 172 pp. 2050:1 (Arc Humanities Pr., UK) <752-1>
ISBN 978-1-80270-268-2 hard ¥34,001.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00 *

Researchers and archivists have spent decades digitizing and cataloguing, but what does the future hold for book history? This book explores the potential of network analysis as a method for medieval and early modern book history. Presented through case studies of the Cotton Library, the Digital Index of Middle English Verse, and the Pforzheimer Collection, this book offers a blueprint for drawing on extant scholarly resources to visualize relationships between people, text, and books. Such visualizations serve as a new form of reference work with the potential to offer new, broad insights into the history of book collecting, compilation, and use. This volume gives a realistic look at the decision-making involved in digital humanities work, and emphasizes the value of so-called "mechanical" labour in scholarship.

Gaussen, David, Alexis Monteil: l'historien de tous les Francais. 272 p. 2025:4 (Gaussen, FR) <751-1220>
ISBN 978-2-35698-266-7 paper ¥5,832.- (税込) EUR 22.00

対話における政治社会史－H.ローゼンベルクとH.-U.ヴェーラーの往復書簡
Gironda, Vito Francesco / Hettling, Manfred (Hrsg.), Politische Sozialgeschichte im Dialog: Der Briefwechsel zwischen Hans Rosenberg und Hans-Ulrich Wehler. 672 S. 2025:9 (Vandenhoeck, GW) <751-1221>
ISBN 978-3-525-31167-7 hard ¥18,291.- (税込) EUR 69.00 *

Der Anspruch, Geschichte als ?Historische Sozialwissenschaft“ zu betreiben, hat seit den spaeten 1960er Jahren entscheidend zur Etablierung der Sozialgeschichte in Westdeutschland beigetragen. Massgeblichen Anteil daran hatten Hans-Ulrich Wehler an der neugegruendeten Universitaet Bielefeld und der 1933 emigrierte Hans Rosenberg, die persoenlich, fachlich und politisch eng miteinander verbunden waren. Der Briefwechsel dieser zwei international bekannten deutschen Historiker ist eine herausragende Quelle fuer die Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Sozialgeschichte in Deutschland und fuer die strategischen Planungen und institutionellen Gruendungen einer sich kritisch nennenden Geschichtswissenschaft. Die oft anschaulich und oftmals selbst- und fremdkritisch geschriebenen Briefe ermoeglichen Einblicke in die hinter ihren Werken stehenden Historikerpersoenlichkeiten und in die Entstehungsprozesse ihrer Studien. Eine ausfuehrliche Einleitung mit zwei laengeren Biographien der Briefschreiber, die Vito Gironda und Manfred Hettling auf der Grundlage neuer, unveroeffentlichter Quellen erarbeitet haben, ermoeglicht eine fundierte Einbettung in die Entwicklung der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft. Die Briefe und ihre ausfuehrliche Einordnung in den fachlichen und biographischen Kontext vertiefen und differenzieren unser Wissen ueber die Geschichtswissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert und entmythologisieren das Bild der Sozialgeschichte Bielefelder Praegung.

Hughes-Warrington, Marnie / Martin, Anne et al., Artificial Historians. 238 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <750-1443>
ISBN 978-1-032-22994-2 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-22986-7 paper ¥12,978.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99 *

This book offers readers an introduction to the world of artificial histories and historians. It looks behind the interfaces of AI and explores everyday platforms and prize-winning history books to identify how people and algorithms make histories and how they might make histories in the future.Every moment around the globe, histories are made about ordinary people who use digital devices. These histories are not made by professional historians or even by humans but by artificial intelligence that scours our digital footprints for patterns. AI histories not only shape recommendations about what we might buy or stream but also our access to education, healthcare, and justice. The outcomes of recommendation systems are not just a technology problem or an ethics problem. This book argues that this is also a history problem, and it needs to be understood as one if we are to make fairer or more just systems. It shows us that the deep history of history making-including Australian Aboriginal and First Nations histories-can help us to navigate the future of history in AI.Presenting readers with a range of familiar and accessible examples, Artificial Historians is a valuable resource for students, scholars, and all those interested in global historiography, technology, and artificial intelligence.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.

概念の歴史を書き記す
Ihalainen, Pasi / Marjanen, Jani (eds.), Writing Conceptual Histories. (Writing History) 296 pp. 2025:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <750-1444>
ISBN 978-1-350-28717-4 hard ¥23,182.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-28718-1 paper ¥7,724.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99 *

Writing Conceptual Histories introduces conceptual history as a research perspective and as a lens through which we can study the past and present. This book provides students and researchers with an overview of, and easy access to, central concepts of conceptual history and its practical applications.With an introduction that relates conceptual history to historical semantics, rhetoric, intellectual history and discourse analysis, a glossary explaining central analytical concepts, and inspiring case studies of various types of conceptual history, the volume serves readers interested in the theory of conceptual history and those seeking concrete methods for analysis.Writing Conceptual Histories adopts an innovative case study approach showcasing novel histories of democracy, ideologies, science and technology studies, human rights, compassion, sexual identity, climate change and crisis. The case studies concretely present different ways of writing conceptual history, guiding readers on how to write conceptual history and encouraging them to experiment with a variety of methods.The volume boasts a variety of pedagogical features, including:- A glossary of key terms and concepts- A unique case study approach to theory and method- Recommended readings at the end of each chapter

Turner, Aaron (ed.), The Essence of History. (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy) 216 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-1445>
ISBN 978-1-032-83630-0 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00 *

This book brings together historical thinkers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to offer original interpretations of the essence of history. It addresses why the essence of history itself cannot be so easily thematised or conceptualised.Restating the question of the essence of history is necessary as it has been largely forgotten today. Since antiquity, history has been inextricably bound up with the problem of truth. Contemporary philosophy of history and historiography have branched out in many different directions. This complexity has made it nearly impossible for historical thinkers to engage outside of their own field. The relentless advancement of historical thought has almost completely neglected the question of the essence of history. The chapters in this volume respond to questions such as: What is history? What, in the "progress" of historical thought from antiquity to modernity, did we lose along the way? And what does it mean, if it means anything at all, to have history, to be historical?The Essence of History will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in philosophy of history, historical theory and historiography, and ancient history.

Chorell, Torbjoern Gustafsson, Social Bonds and Historical Time. 184 pp. 2025:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <750-1051>
ISBN 978-1-350-47722-3 hard ¥26,273.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

This book analyses the social dimension of historical time, and explores how we emotionally and intellectually bind ourselves to the past, and project these ties onto our present and future.Gustafsson Chorell argues that historical time is inherently social, and that the nexus of past, present, and future is constructed through social mechanisms. Beginning with the concept of the 'historical imaginary', this book examines the theoretical shift from future-oriented to present-oriented models of time, and integrates insights from intellectual history, philosophy, and social theory.This book demonstrates how a variety of social bonds - such as emotion, generation, and authority - can affect how historical time is demarcated. Analysing key concepts such as 'desire' for the past, the impact of grief and nostalgia, and the role of history in shaping expectations for the future, the volume highlights the enduring significance of sociality, even under new regimes of historicity - such as the Anthropocene. Ultimately, Gustafsson Chorell offers a comprehensive view of how past, present, and future are interconnected - and highlights the continued importance of thinking carefully about the relationship between time and history.

Nianqun, Yang, The Self in History: Reflection on and Interpretation of Contemporary Historiography. 549 pp. 2025:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-929>
ISBN 978-981-9655-72-4 hard ¥47,714.- (税込) EUR 179.99

This book aims to share with a wider audience a research approach that encompasses a global perspective, analyzes the dynamics and complexities of events, and transcends the barriers of disciplinary specialization through reflecting on and interpreting contemporary Chinese historical research. This is specifically reflected in the examination of the political dynamics and social development under contemporary ideological shifts at a macro-level, and at the micro-level, delving into social observation with a problem-oriented mindset to hone the historical researcher's problem awareness and insight beyond localized events.

歴史的時代区分の今日性
Picht, Barbara / Trueper, Henning (Hrsg.), Epochenwenden: Zur Aktualitaet historischer Periodisierung. (Literatur- und Kulturforschung. Schriftenreihe des ZfL 3) 312 S. 2025:9 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <749-1433>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5880-5 hard ¥7,422.- (税込) EUR 28.00

Neue Epochensetzungen statt Ende der Epochen? Konjunkturen und Veraenderungen eines Begriffs werden interdisziplinaer auf den Pruefstand gestellt. Der Abgesang auf Epochen ist in den Geisteswissenschaften seit laengerem unueberhoerbar: zu konstruiert, zugleich zu naiv, in einer Zeit staendiger Beschleunigung altbacken, in der Unermesslichkeit des ?Anthropozaens? obsolet. Gleichwohl herrscht in den Wissenschaften ebensowenig ein Mangel an aufgefrischten oder neuen Epochensetzungen wie im oeffentlichen Diskurs, wo Zaesuren beobachtet, behauptet oder herbeigewuenscht werden, um politische Ziele zu erreichen. Beispiele sind die juengste Ausrufung einer ?Zeitenwende? wie andere, aeltere Setzungen von ?Wenden?, die mal mehr, mal weniger plausibel erscheinen. Dazu zaehlen die Wende von 1989 ? zumal im Kontrast mit der Formel von der ?geistig-moralischen Wende? der BRD ein knappes Jahrzehnt davor ?, oder die Verkehrs-, Energie- oder Klimawenden in den vergangenen Jahren. Die Autorinnen und Autoren untersuchen aus interdisziplinaerer Perspektive und unter Einbezug globalgeschichtlicher Fragestellungen den heutigen Umgang mit dem Konstrukt ?Epoche?. Sie gehen dabei auch der Vermutung nach, dass die neueren Konjunkturen der Epochenbildung auf eine Veraenderung im Denken darueber zurueckzufuehren sind, was es heisst, Epochen zu setzen, und zu welchen Zwecken dies geschieht.

Coltofean, Laura / Arnold, B. / Bartosiewicz, L. (eds.), Connecting People and Ideas: Networks and Networking in the History of Archaeology. (Themes in Contemporary Archaeology) 232 pp. 2025:3 (Springer, GW) <749-1198>
ISBN 978-3-031-81005-3 hard ¥39,761.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book presents new research into social networks and the various networking modes that formed during the history of archaeology in distinct geographical settings in Europe, North America, and South Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The diverse range of international experts in this edited collection demonstrate that networks can be found everywhere in archaeology, making it a highly interconnected research field. Using a wide array of examples from diverse geopolitical, cultural, and social contexts, the volume reveals how essential social networks and networking have been to the development of archaeology; to the production, transfer, exchange, and dissemination of archaeological and cross-disciplinary knowledge; and to the formation, upward mobility, barrier transcendence, research, and association of archaeological practitioners. The book is of interest to students and scholars of history of archaeology, history of science, museum studies and interdisciplinary studies.

Ferreyra, Carla, A Proposal for the Expanded Fruition of Cultural Heritage Sites: CAME, a Methodology for Their Digitization. 174 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <749-1199>
ISBN 978-3-031-88822-9 hard ¥31,808.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book presents a comprehensive methodology, integrating analysis, digitization, and the preservation of cultural heritage. It investigates three potential UNESCO World Heritage Sites, in Italy, Germany and South Africa, and employs a blend of documentary research and advanced digital surveying and data processing techniques. The volume shows how these efforts yielded actionable strategies to meet society's evolving demands for surveying, recovery, and conservation. The book documents the work behind the overarching objective which was to digitize, analyze, categorize, and store all collected data within a BIM framework, with the aim of streamlining collaboration, enhancing management efficiency, and optimizing processes. It demonstrates the utilization of digital tools in not only amplifying traditional scientific-technological approaches to heritage protection, but also its role in reshaping the perception, comprehension, and communication of heritage. This fosters the development of more sustainable conservation strategies.

Godin, Christian, L'histoire en phase terminale. 432 p. 2025:3 (PUF, FR) <748-1217>
ISBN 978-2-13-087489-8 paper ¥6,627.- (税込) EUR 25.00

アメリカの女性史の形成　1900～2000年
Tomas, Jennifer Banning, Reclaiming Clio: Making American Women's History, 1900-2000. 496 pp. 2025:12 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <748-1052>
ISBN 978-1-4696-8600-4 hard ¥27,060.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4696-8601-1 paper ¥10,135.- (税込) US$ 44.95 *

Women's history traveled a long and fascinating path before it became a respected and recognized academic field in twentieth-century America. This book explores the field's development as a multiracial and multigenerational effort, going beyond the careers of individual women historians to focus on how the discipline itself took shape. Focusing on the crucial period between 1900 and 1968, Jennifer Banning Tomas shines a light on the work performed by archivists and professional historians that gave women's history its own identity and legitimacy. The women in Reclaiming Clio laid the groundwork for the field's remarkable expansion during the final wave of twentieth-century feminism after 1970, when a genuine movement for women's history emerged. Their contributions made the later success of women's history possible. Tomas reveals the dedication and vision that turned women's history into the thriving, influential field it is today.

Gerson, Stephane (ed.), Scholars and Their Kin: Historical Explorations, Literary Experiments. 248 pp. 2025:2 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1543>
ISBN 978-0-226-82081-1 hard ¥25,932.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-82083-5 paper ¥6,765.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Spotlights historians who have embraced the methodological, practical, and ethical challenges of writing about the most slippery of subjects: their own families. Historians have often been discouraged from writing about their relatives, subjects who are deemed too close for objective analysis. But new work by scholars interested in their own families raises fascinating questions about subjectivity-and how historians might put it to use. It also invites historians to abandon traditional aspects of academic writing and draw, instead, on literary forms more equipped to highlight the relationships between scholar and material, feeling and reason. Scholars and Their Kin embraces diverse approaches to such writing, bringing into the open the personal, professional, and historiographic complexities that ensue when scholars write intimate yet self-aware histories about their families. The first book devoted to this genre, which editor Stephane Gerson terms "personal family history," this anthology features ten essays and an afterword by scholars working in this vein. The contributors-varied in their disciplines, themes, and nationalities-reflect on their motivations and methodological choices, the politics of family history, and the institutional constraints they have sometimes faced. Making full use of the creative possibilities of voice and form, they expand the literary ambitions of personal family history, provide readers with narrative models, and address questions of shame, responsibility, love, gendered and racial violence, family archives, as well as the tall tales, myths, misrepresentations, memories, and omissions that suffuse family lives. Scholars and Their Kin will interest historians, scholars in other disciplines, and readers interested in family histories that open broader worlds.

B.H.ローゼンワイン著　高齢者の歴史案内
Rosenwein, Barbara H., Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age. 224 pp. 2025:7 (Reaktion Books, UK) <746-1517>
ISBN 978-1-83639-091-6 hard ¥6,182.- (税込) GB￡ 20.00 *

One of Daily Telegraph's Greatest Books of 2025.Winter Dreams is an evocative history of the ways the old have thought, felt and expressed themselves over two millennia, tracking the experience of ageing through artistic, literary and historical records. While old age is often depicted as 'sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything', Barbara H. Rosenwein shows that the elderly have always retained their emotional depth and desires. She explores how these have changed over time, as societies' views of the elderly and of a 'good' old age have changed. And through careful exegesis, she allows the elderly, so often absent from the historical record, to speak to us. We live in a rapidly ageing society, yet ageism is rampant and death and dying are taboo subjects. Rosenwein's book is a finely wrought testimony to the value of ageing and the richness of our Winter Dreams.

Simon, Zoltan Boldizsar, Plurihistoricity: On the Historical Cultures of Extinction, Justice, and the Historical Profession. (Routledge Approaches to History) 304 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-1518>
ISBN 978-1-032-59720-1 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-59722-5 paper ¥12,978.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99 *

This book situates historical scholarship within a plurihistoricity of contemporary historical culture, exploring conflicting conceptions of historical change in technological utopias of human enhancement, in prospects of human extinction, in societal responses to the Anthropocene, and in the imperative of bringing colonial patterns of historical injustice to justice.Contemporary societies increasingly reclaim history from the academic pursuit of historiography. On the one hand, societal engagement in history is growing palpably. History is literally everywhere: in the fallen statues of past political regimes, in trajectories of environmental degradation, and in technological prospects of space expansion. On the other hand, societal demand for history seems to diminish rather than strengthen the authority of professionalized historical studies. What do these societal historicities stand for? How do they create pasts that matter? What futures do they desire or attempt to avoid? How do they view the historical transitions into those futures? And what is the societal role of historical scholarship and scholarly conceptions of history in the plurihistoricity of contemporary historical culture?By addressing these questions, Simon's book is essential reading for everyone interested in the present and future of viewing the world historically.

De Baets, Antoon, A Human Rights View of the Past. (Elements in Historical Theory and Practice) 80 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-564>
ISBN 978-1-009-54785-7 hard ¥17,000.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00 *
ISBN 978-1-009-34594-1 paper ¥5,563.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00 *

The idea of human rights has been much criticized from a historical perspective but curiously enough its theoretical and practical contributions to the study of time, memory, and history have never been systematically explored. How is it to look at the past from a human rights perspective? How can historical writing benefit from applying a human rights logic? In tackling these questions, the Element first clarifies what a human rights view of the past is. The constituent dimensions of the past - time, memory, and history - are then reviewed, indicating what a human rights perspective can add to the study of each. Finally, the benefits accruing froma human rights view of the past to historical theory and practice are highlighted.

Lotem, Itay, Dealing with Dark Pasts: A European History of Auto-Critical Memory in Global Perspective. (Elements in Historical Theory and Practice) 88 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-1339>
ISBN 978-1-009-50740-0 hard ¥17,000.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00 *
ISBN 978-1-009-11414-1 paper ¥5,563.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00 *

Since the end of the Second World War, the political rationale to remember the past has shifted from previous focus on states' victories, as these began commemorating their own historical crimes. This Element follows the rise of 'auto-critical memory', or the politics of remembrance of a country's own dark past. The Element explores the idea's gestation in West Germany after the Second World War, its globalisation through initiatives of 'transitional justice' in the 1990s, and present-day debates about how to remember the colonial past. It follows different case studies that span the European continent - including Germany, France, Britain, Poland and Serbia - and places these in a global context that traces the circulation of ideas of auto-critical memory. Ultimately, as it follows the emergence of demands for social and racial justice, the Element questions the usefulness of memory to achieve the goals many political actors ascribe to it.

Johnson, Peter, Revisions and Reconstructions in the Thought of R. G. Collingwood: From Pre-History to Economics. 232 pp. 2025:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <743-55>
ISBN 978-1-350-49845-7 hard ¥26,273.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Opening new ground in neglected aspects of R.G. Collingwood's philosophy, Peter Johnson presents essays on Collingwood as a pre-historian, economist, Christian and commentator of Edward Gibbon together with an investigation into the connection between his later works. The chapters shed light on Collingwood's distinctive account of pre-history, the relationship between his last great works The Principles of History and The New Leviathan, and his views on money in comparison to those of J.M. Keynes. They also consider his assessment of Edward Gibbon as a historian and his use of biblical citation in relation to the work of Thomas Hobbes. Johnson's insightful reflections and in-depth analysis of a range of areas in Collingwood's thinking connect them through historical and conceptual themes relevant to contemporary debates about his philosophy. Uniting important and unique perspectives for understanding the scope and depth of Collingwood's philosophy, Johnson's detailed examination of previously underexplored topics will be welcomed by students and scholars across philosophy of history, pre-history, economic theory, intellectual history and philosophical hermeneutics.

Williamson, Christine / Crook, Penny (eds.), Archaeology, History, Philosophy and Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tim Murray. (Outstanding Contributions to Archaeology) 280 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <743-1250>
ISBN 978-3-031-77101-9 hard ¥37,110.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This festschrift volume celebrates Tim Murray's significant and wide-ranging contribution to archaeological thought and practice. It includes 27 papers by Tim Murray's colleagues, research collaborators and students-former and current. Together these comprise a substantive and reflective contribution to Archaeology, History, Philosophy and Cultural Heritage in Australia, Oceania, China, India, the United Kingdom, Northern Europe, and North America. The collected papers in this volume tie together Murray's research into the history (or historiography) of archaeological thought, and his commitment to understanding the material culture of the past to 'write history'. They provide a cross-section of philosophical enquiries and substantive research: from epistemological studies of shared lexicons and important debates in the history of archaeological thought, to the minutae of material culture studies. Several papers explcitly and implicitly explore one of Murray's great interests: the role of heritage preservation in our exploration of the past, including dedicated tertiary training programs for Indigenous Australians to manage, research and protect their own Country. The book is divided into four parts: History, Archaeology, Philosophy and Heritage, offering an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the past. This volume would be of interest to archaeologists, historians, philosophers of archaeology, and heritage scholars.

オーラル・ヒストリー入門
Boyd, Douglas A., Oral History: A Very Short Introduction. (Very Short Introductions 783) 160 pp. 2025 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <743-1459>
ISBN 978-0-19-006762-5 paper ¥1,969.- (税込) *

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This Very Short Introduction is a general introduction to oral history from the interview to the archive. Douglas A. Boyd examines the oral history interview, recording techniques and strategies, technologies for making oral history accessible, and the legal and ethical implications throughout the work of oral history. Boyd also pays special attention to the role of the archive and the importance of memory. Equally important, this book also examines the world of digital possibilities for utilizing oral history for scholarly, public, community, and personal use. An area of explosive interest and growth, oral history is a complex discipline not just sequestered to storytelling. The interview is a complex combination of strategy and flexibility, remembering and forgetting, narrative and silence, and cannot escape individual biases and perspectives. This book offers readers a comprehensive and concise overview of oral history from one of the most important figures in the field. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

事例研究を通じた世界史　第2版
Eaton, David, World History through Case Studies: Historical Skills in Practice. 2nd ed. 360 pp. 2025:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <743-1460>
ISBN 978-1-350-34174-6 hard ¥23,182.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-34173-9 paper ¥7,724.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99 *

This innovative textbook demystifies the subject of world history through a diverse range of case studies. Each chapter looks at an event, person, or place from prehistory to the present and from across the globe - from the Kennewick Man to germ warfare, Japanese industrialization and modern-day soccer - and digs deeper, examining why historians disagree on the subject and why their debates remain relevant today. Through these case studies David Eaton 'unwraps the textbook', introducing key skills and debates and showing that past is not nearly as tidy as most textbooks suggest.This fully revised second edition includes updated historiography throughout plus:- New discussion questions and chapter learning objectives- Additional primary source texts, images and maps- Four new chapters on Gender and the Mongols, the Swahili Coast c.1100-1300, the Itaipu Dam and indigenous rights, and Ebola outbreaks in modern West Africa- A new companion website and online resources Posing provocative questions and demonstrating how historical interpretations can be influenced by contemporary concerns, World History through Case Studies shows how the study of history is relevant to a new generation of students and teachers.

〔英訳〕M.ブロック著作選集
Singh, Iona (ed. & tr.), The Selected Writings of Marc Bloch: Essays from the Annales School, 1914-1944. 176 pp. 2025:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <743-1462>
ISBN 978-1-350-51342-6 hard ¥26,273.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

This book brings a selection of the influential writings of Marc Bloch into the English language, largely for the very first time. Chronologically arranged to trace the developmental arc of Bloch's historical philosophy, the translations in The Selected Writings of Marc Bloch offer an illuminating insight into the theories of a pioneer historian and original founder of the renowned Annales school of French social history. The carefully curated translations in this volume reveal Bloch's thoughts on questions that historical studies has grappled with since the birth of the discipline. Why should history exist at all? What value does it have? What exactly is a science of history? What is the actual role of the historian in historical studies? This collection presents Bloch's precise understanding of the contours of the discipline of history, defined by the abuttal and transgression of its borders by other subjects. Consequently, it provides a theoretical underpinning for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary concepts via historical studies, pulling into its fold diverse themes such as customs, agriculture, economics, nutrition, technology, manners, art, fashion, and countless other topics explored by Bloch himself in the process.

Chazan, Michael / Macdonald, Danielle / Patton, K. (eds.), Learning Archaeology: A Problem-Based Approach. 384 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-751>
ISBN 978-1-032-39063-5 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-39062-8 paper ¥12,978.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99 *

Learning Archaeology is designed for undergraduate archaeology students, helping them develop interpretive skills in the classroom through problem-oriented, active learning exercises.This book brings together case studies drawn from real archaeological research so students can understand (and wrestle with) how archaeology is practiced, the kinds of questions that can be addressed with archaeological data (and their limits), and the often contested place of the discipline in the modern world. Experts working across the globe and on a variety of topics have written chapters addressing critical archaeological issues or questions using data and examples from their own research projects. Several chapters are co-authored by experienced practitioners working outside of the academy in archaeology and heritage-related fields, including Tribal or First Nations members. Importantly, each author or group of authors situates their archaeological problem within the social and political context of their practice. With ethical and socio-political considerations woven through each chapter, the book is structured into three sections-Excavation, Analytical Methods, and Archaeology in the Contemporary World-and provides both a comprehensive view of archaeological method and an understanding of the role that archaeological knowledge has in contemporary society.Learning Archaeology is for undergraduate archaeology students and suitable for use in introductory courses in archaeology.

Wrzosek, Wojciech, History - Culture - Metaphor. On Historical Thinking. (Studies in History, Memory and Politics 54) 312 pp. 2024:12 (P. Lang, SZ) <741-1363>
ISBN 978-3-631-92544-7 hard ¥19,943.- (税込) SFR 70.00

Historiography is one of the most systematic accounts of the fate of culture. It is also a record of human?reflexive and reflective metaphors of the world, simultaneously anthropomorphizing and humanizing it. Historical imagination captures the world in its classical form directly, and in its non-classical form indirectly, through the lens of anthropomorphization. This enables the adaptation of the world to the human dimension or, in other words, to be constructed on a human scale. Historiography and historical thinking, especially the traditional forms, are close to the figures of public discourse because they offer meanings commensurate with it. Additionally, they are openly imbued with values, making them susceptible to easy, casual and biased interpretations. Thanks to these features, historical thinking and historiography provide a framework for texpressing currently important values and the common and specific emotions centered around them.

Goudarouli, Eirini / Prescott, Andrew (eds.), Archival Materialities in a Digital Age. (Proceedings of the British Academy 269) 312 pp. 2025 (British Academy, UK) <738-8>
ISBN 978-0-19-726785-1 hard ¥30,600.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00 *

Materiality looms large in the world of archives, whether in storage, conservation, shape or materials of the records. Increasingly records are created digitally on a hitherto unimagined scale. How do born-digital records transform our understanding of the materiality of the archive? How do digital techniques provide new insights into the materiality of older archives? Archival Materialities in a Digital Age contains a series of authoritative studies by archivists and researchers who are grappling with these issues on a daily basis. The research presented in Archival Materialities in a Digital Age shows how these challenges are causing a reconsideration of archival theories and precepts while at the same time offering a huge range of opportunities to investigate archives in new and innovative ways.

『歴史の終わり』の歴史
Larminach, Florian, Histoire de "la fin de l'histoire": une enquete philosophique. 296 p. 2024:10 (PUF, FR) <738-1371>
ISBN 978-2-13-085760-0 paper ¥6,362.- (税込) EUR 24.00