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Routledge Approaches to History Books in Order

41
Books
2009
First Book
2022
Latest Book
14
Years

Below you'll find the complete list of Routledge Approaches to History books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.

Reading order verified: April 2026

Quick Answer

What order should I read the Routledge Approaches to History series? Start with "Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life (By: Martin L. Davies)" (2009) and follow publication order through all 41 books.

The complete Routledge Approaches to History reading order is listed below in publication sequence.

Publication Order

1
Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life (By: Martin L. Davies) cover

Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life (By: Martin L. Davies)

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2009

2
Narrative Projections of a Black British History (By: Eva Ulrike Pirker) cover

Narrative Projections of a Black British History (By: Eva Ulrike Pirker)

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2011

3
History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice (By: Berber Bevernage) cover

History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice (By: Berber Bevernage)

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2011

4
Integrity and Historical Research (By: Tony Gibbons,Emily Sutherland) cover

Integrity and Historical Research (By: Tony Gibbons,Emily Sutherland)

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2011

5
Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause: A Journey from Language to Experience (By: Peter Icke) cover

Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause: A Journey from Language to Experience (By: Peter Icke)

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2011

6
The Historiography of Transition: Critical Phases in the Development of Modernity (By: Paolo Pombeni) cover

The Historiography of Transition: Critical Phases in the Development of Modernity (By: Paolo Pombeni)

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2013

7
The Fiction of History (By: Alexander Lyon Macfie) cover

The Fiction of History (By: Alexander Lyon Macfie)

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2014

8
The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism (By: Rolf Torstendahl) cover

The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism (By: Rolf Torstendahl)

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2014

9
The Material of World History (By: David Churchill,Tina Mai Chen) cover

The Material of World History (By: David Churchill,Tina Mai Chen)

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2014

10
Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide: From Mythos to Techne (By: Michael Kimaid) cover

Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide: From Mythos to Techne (By: Michael Kimaid)

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2015

11
'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past (By: Beverley C Southgate) cover

'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past (By: Beverley C Southgate)

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2015

12
The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present: Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies (By: Melanie Ilič) cover

The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present: Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies (By: Melanie Ilič)

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2015

13
Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention (By: Jaume Aurell) cover

Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention (By: Jaume Aurell)

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2015

14
Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance (By: Jay Winter,Alexandre Dessingue) cover

Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance (By: Jay Winter,Alexandre Dessingue)

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2015

15
History, Ethics, and the Recognition of the Other: A Levinasian View on the Writing of History (By: Anton Froeyman) cover

History, Ethics, and the Recognition of the Other: A Levinasian View on the Writing of History (By: Anton Froeyman)

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2015

16
How History Works: The Reconstitution of a Human Science (By: Martin L. Davies) cover

How History Works: The Reconstitution of a Human Science (By: Martin L. Davies)

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2015

17
The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise: Clio Takes the Stand (By: Vladimir Petrović) cover

The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise: Clio Takes the Stand (By: Vladimir Petrović)

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2016

18
Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography (By: Tor Egil Førland) cover

Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography (By: Tor Egil Førland)

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2017

19
History and Sociology in France: From Scientific History to the Durkheimian School (By: Robert Leroux) cover

History and Sociology in France: From Scientific History to the Durkheimian School (By: Robert Leroux)

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2017

20
The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past (By: Kalle Pihlainen) cover

The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past (By: Kalle Pihlainen)

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2017

21
Universal History and the Making of the Global (By: Hall Bjørnstad,Helge Jordheim,Anne Regent-Susini) cover

Universal History and the Making of the Global (By: Hall Bjørnstad,Helge Jordheim,Anne Regent-Susini)

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2018

22
Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money (By: Bin Yang) cover

Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money (By: Bin Yang)

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2018

23
A Personalist Philosophy of History (By: Bennett Gilbert) cover

A Personalist Philosophy of History (By: Bennett Gilbert)

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2019

24
Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons (By: Andreas Leutzsch) cover

Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons (By: Andreas Leutzsch)

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2019

25
Historians Without Borders: New Studies in Multidisciplinary History (By: Lawrence Abrams,Kaleb Knoblauch) cover

Historians Without Borders: New Studies in Multidisciplinary History (By: Lawrence Abrams,Kaleb Knoblauch)

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2019

26
Teleology and Modernity (With: Dan O'Brien,Marius Turda) cover

Teleology and Modernity (With: Dan O'Brien,Marius Turda)

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2019

27
Historia Ludens: The Playing Historian (By: Katherine J. Lewis,Alexander von Lünen,Benjamin Litherland,Pat Cullum) cover

Historia Ludens: The Playing Historian (By: Katherine J. Lewis,Alexander von Lünen,Benjamin Litherland,Pat Cullum)

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2019

28
The Aesthetics of History (By: Alun Munslow) cover

The Aesthetics of History (By: Alun Munslow)

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2019

29
Public Uses of Human Remains and Relics in History (By: Silvia Cavicchioli,Luigi Provero) cover

Public Uses of Human Remains and Relics in History (By: Silvia Cavicchioli,Luigi Provero)

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2019

30
The Enlightenment and the Fate of Knowledge: Essays on the Transvaluation of Values (By: Martin L Davies) cover

The Enlightenment and the Fate of Knowledge: Essays on the Transvaluation of Values (By: Martin L Davies)

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2019

31
Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History (By: Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia) cover

Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History (By: Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia)

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2020

32
Africa, Empire and World Disorder (By: A G Hopkins) cover

Africa, Empire and World Disorder (By: A G Hopkins)

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2020

33
History in a Post-Truth World (By: Marius Gudonis,Benjamin T. Jones) cover

History in a Post-Truth World (By: Marius Gudonis,Benjamin T. Jones)

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2020

34
The Primacy of Method in Historical Research (By: Jonas Ahlskog) cover

The Primacy of Method in Historical Research (By: Jonas Ahlskog)

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2020

35
Archives and Human Rights (By: Jens Boel,Perrine Canavaggio,Antonio González Quintana) cover

Archives and Human Rights (By: Jens Boel,Perrine Canavaggio,Antonio González Quintana)

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2021

36
Humanism: Foundations, Diversities, Developments: Foundations, Diversities, Developments (By: Jörn Rüsen) cover

Humanism: Foundations, Diversities, Developments: Foundations, Diversities, Developments (By: Jörn Rüsen)

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2021

37
National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Comparison (By: Niels F May,Thomas Maissen) cover

National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Comparison (By: Niels F May,Thomas Maissen)

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2021

38
Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand (By: Sophie Scott-Brown,Malcolm Allbrook) cover

Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand (By: Sophie Scott-Brown,Malcolm Allbrook)

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2021

39
Writing Russia: The Discursive Construction of AnOther Nation (By: Melissa-Ellen Dowling) cover

Writing Russia: The Discursive Construction of AnOther Nation (By: Melissa-Ellen Dowling)

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2021

40
How to Write About the Holocaust (By: Theodor Pelekanidis) cover

How to Write About the Holocaust (By: Theodor Pelekanidis)

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2022

41
The Politics of Time in China and Japan (By: Viren Murthy) cover

The Politics of Time in China and Japan (By: Viren Murthy)

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2022

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