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Illustrates both the continuities and developments in antebellum Southern history, starting from the work of Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and moving into work that challenges their traditional reading of the slave South as a "paternalist" society. This book also features an introduction to the historiography of the slave South.

Fascism is one of the most complex and hotly debated phenomena of the twentieth century. Comparative Fascist Studies: New Perspectives brings together some of the leading experts in the field, in order to provide an informative introduction to the most recent debates on fascist studies and the history of fascism across Europe.

This is a prestigious collection of revisionist thinking on the key question of 'how did the middle ages begin?'. Including a wealth of material on the origins of the Barbarian people and their tribes, and a clear introduction to each section, this is an invaluable student reference.

The volume shows how the interpretation of gender expands and revises our understanding of significant issues in twentieth-century history, such as work, labour protest, sexuality, consumption and social welfare.

Opens up previously unexplored areas such as cultural diversity, ethnicity, and gender, and reveals the importance of new methods such as anthropology, and historical demography to the study of early America.

A growing body of research on the social history of the Nazi years has revealed the variety and complexity of the relationships between the Nazi regime and the German people. This volume makes this new research available to undergraduates.

This volume introduces the most recent scholarship on the history of the Renaissance, considering not only humanists and artists, but looking at people from all classes, men and women alike.

This collection of key articles from critical thinkers and practicing historians focuses on where history is now in terms of its theory and practice. For students, teachers and historians alike, this is a useful reader.

Collating key texts at the forefront of new research and interpretation, this updated second edition adds new articles on the Terror and race/colonial issues, and studies all aspects of this major event, from its origins through to its consequences.

This collection of both classic and recent articles examines the causes and consequences of the collapse of communism in East and Central Europe, the most important event in recent world history.

Sheila Fitzpatrick has collected together work by young Russian, American and European scholars, as well as some of the seminal articles that have influenced them, in an attempt to reassess the contentious subject of Stalinism in the light of new data and new theoretical approaches.

Combining established work with that of recent provocative scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts students in touch with some of the central debates in this field. Essays by Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Sterling Stuckey and Robert William Fogel are included.

Within the chronological framework of implantation, maturity and transition, this book provides the history of European expansion in the Americas from the age of Columbus through the abolition of slavery.

Starting with Elizabeth I and going right through to the Civil War, Margo Todd has selected pieces which represent all the main arguments of the "revisionism" debate, which has become extremely complex. The articles should allow students to see how historians use sources to interpret the past.

A growing body of research on the social history of the Nazi years has revealed the variety and complexity of the relationships between the Nazi regime and the German people. This volume makes this new research available to undergraduates.

Stalinism is a controversial new addition to the current debates about the history of the Stalinist period. Collected together are not only the classics of the revisionist period but also new work by young scholars.

Combining established work with that of recent provocative scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts students in touch with some of the central debates in this dynamic field.

This work introduces students to a range of interpretations of one of South Africa's central social characteristics - racial segregation. It brings together eleven articles which span the whole history of segregation from its origins to its final collapse.

This collection of both classic and recent articles examines the causes and consequences of the collapse of communism in East and Central Europe, the most important event in recent world history.

An important revisionist study of China's recent past that takes into account the historical shape of the century, local perspectives on national history, and reflections on cultural history.