‘A Low Dishonest Decade’?: War and Peace in the 1930s
Anthony Adamthwaite
This analysis of the origins of the Second World War in Europe challenges several key ideas of the historiography: the ‘thirty years war’ thesis, the notion of a European civil war, and ...
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Abolition and Antislavery
John Stauffer
This article focuses on the historiography of abolition and antislavery. Abolitionism is an idea, articulated through language that emerged in the eighteenth century and propelled people ...
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Absolute Monarchy
Peter R. Campbell
This article argues that in spite of absolute monarchy's success in seemingly rising above society it developed claims and practices that ran counter to long-term representative tendencies ...
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The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 bce)
A. Shapur Shahbazi
Reinforced Assyrian invasions from the mid-eighth century prompted Iranian tribes to consolidate at local states. Thus, while the Medes strain consolidated around King Deioces, Persians ...
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Achieving the Promise of Oral History in a Digital Age
Doug Boyd
The phrase “digital revolution” is frequently used in both popular and academic discourse to describe the multiple contexts of our increasingly electronically enriched and ...
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