Romila Thapar's "Speaking of History" challenges narratives on early India, emphasizing rigorous historical inquiry over ...

VON RANKE, after turning ninety, keeps cheerfully on with his Universal History ; a score or more of learned men associate themselves in writing the history of a single American town. Which is the ...

Finding a convincing explanation of a complex issue is no easy task. The decision about what qualifies as the "best" solution is inevitably subject to biases and approximations. Coupling statistics ...

Although a core insight of historical institutionalism (HI) is that history affects actors’ beliefs, values and preferences, it is difficult to test these propositions directly. This chapter argues ...