One of the world's leading historians delivers a pathbreaking analysis of truth and rhetoric in the writing of history.

Sarah H. Beckjord’s Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in found

Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the 16th and 17th centuries to dissect the weaknesses of the state's case in the 20th-century show tria

Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by wh

Starting with an examination of how historians work, this "Very Short Introduction" aims to explore history in a general, pithy, and accessible manner, rather t