Encounters
About the series
The best work in history is a product of encounters.This series locates them – human, intellectual, and disciplinary – at the heart of historical thinking. Encounters invites short, theoretically-informed, and self-reflexive books whose authors recognise the pleasure of writing and reading bold and creative historical exchanges on the borderlines of time, space, and place.
There are two strands to the series:
Encounters --body/story/concept is an arena for
exploring all aspects of the history of the human body and associated knowledge
productions. It invites body-stories that embed corporeal epistemologies and
which contextualise them.Existing
titles include
Encounters --history/theory/story invites narratives that are aware of themselves as stories in the remaking of past and present.Reflections on the writing of history and on
the nature of the discipline are especially welcome. This strand has explored
the question of archives, mourning, dreams of modernity, and encounters between
faith and science.Existing titles
include Carolyn Steedman, Dust
(2001), Peter Buse et al, Benjamin's `Arcades': An unGuided Tour (2005),
Liz Stanley, Mourning Becomes (2006),
and Rhodri Hayward, Resisting History
(2007).
Series editors: Roger Cooter, Carolyn Steedman and Bertrand Taithe
Please contact the commissioning editor for History with proposals/manuscripts or enquiries.
This series is within the History subject area.
Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination
Resisting history
Dust
Plants, patients and the historian
Benjamin's Arcades
Mourning becomes...
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