Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Apostolopoulos, Petros, Producing and Debating History: Historical Knowledge on Wikipedia. (Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics 10) 230 S. 2024:10 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-1622>
ISBN 978-3-11-106923-4 hard ¥11,757.- (税込) EUR 49.95 *

In 2021, the American Historical Association published a study on how the American public perceives and understands the past. Almost half of the respondents argued that they turn to Wikipedia to learn about history and acquire a historical understanding of the past. Wikipedia was ranked higher than other historical activities, such as “Historic site visit,” “Museum visit,” “Genealogy work,” “Social media,” “Podcast/radio program,” “History lecture,” and “History-related video game.” These findings combined with the appropriation of Wikipedia’s corpus by ChatGPT and Wikipedia’s partnership with the most central search engine in the digital world, Google, and other digital assistants, such as Siri and Alexa, make clear how crucial the role of Wikipedia in how the public learns about history and makes sense of the past is. But how is historical knowledge produced on Wikipedia? How do Wikipedia editors engage with historical events of the past and transform the past into historical knowledge? Why do they decide to contribute to the production of history? By placing Wikipedia editors at the center of research inquiry and using multiple methodologies and different kinds of data, this book explores how historical knowledge is produced in one of the most central digital communities of knowledge, Wikipedia.

Berg, Mia / Lorenz, Andrea / Oswald, K. (Hrsg.), Geschichte auf Instagram und TikTok: Perspektiven auf Quellen, Methoden und Praktiken. (Medien der Geschichte 8) 400 S. 2025:3 (de Gruyter, GW) <733-1623>
ISBN 978-3-11-135142-1 hard ¥21,173.- (税込) EUR 89.95

パブリック・ヒストリーの概念
Demantowsky, Marko / Pavlek Loebl, Barbara (eds.), The Concept of Public History: Continuation of an International Debate. (Traces. Public History and Heritage Studies 1) 200 S. 2025:4 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-1625>
ISBN 978-3-11-125243-8 hard ¥21,173.- (税込) EUR 89.95

Many people around the world ask themselves: what is in fact this "public history". All those who work at the junction of historical research and the history-related public outreach or public policy in museums, at memorial sites, in editorial offices, administrations, schools and universities must find themselves asking this question, as it concerns both their daily professional practice and their history-related freelance activities. What connects all these people around the world who ?? although they work in different institutional settings ?? experience their work as essentially common, and describe their professions as a part of a larger field of public history? There are countless answers to this question, yet they often converge on a simple common descriptive level which strives to address as many different practices as possible. In recent years, however, an attempt has been made to explain the nature of public history in a way that would provide an operationalizable definition of the concept. This volume presents a continuation of this debate with contributions from Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, Italy, Austria, Russia, the USA and Venezuela. By opening a space for a constructive, explicit and reciprocal discourse, this volume also renders public history visible in its form as a dynamic, theoretical scholarly practice.

Rafferty, Sean, Mythologizing the Past: Archaeology, History, and Ideology. 208 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <733-1626>
ISBN 978-1-03-269019-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-269020-9 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This book examines the origins, development, and current state of myths surrounding 'lost civilizations' and, more importantly, how these myths contribute to modern political ideologies. By examining the myths, legends, and scientific record concerning Atlantis, the Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons, and the Celts, pre-Contact North America and the Aryans, this book reveals the faulty science, logical fallacies, anti-intellectualism, and outright racism motivating the recurrent interest in them. It delineates the development of pseudohistory from its allegorical Classical origins, through renaissance and enlightenment literature, to nineteenth-century popular writing, and finally to modern pseudoscience. It describes how at every stage pseudohistory has been used to reinforce and reproduce dominant ideologies by marginalizing subordinate groups in favor of social elites. This book is ideal not only for the general reader interested in world history, but also for courses across the humanities, including pseudoarcheology, historiographic and scientific methods, and classics.

Raphael, Lutz / Bernet, Brigitta / Zachariah, B. (eds.), History from Below: Between Democratisation and Populism. (The Politics of Historical Thinking 6) 250 S. 2025:2 (de Gruyter, GW) <733-1627>
ISBN 978-3-11-150464-3 hard ¥18,819.- (税込) EUR 79.95

Schneewind, Sarah, The Social Drama of Daily Work: A Manual for Historians. 194 pp. 2024:7 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <733-1628>
ISBN 978-90-485-5953-4 paper ¥10,527.- (税込) GB￡ 36.95

Part manifesto, part manual, this book offers historians of all levels both subject and approach. The subject is work. In every place-time people made and sold objects - and struggled with annoying customers or government regulation. They healed clients - and wanted to bolster their prestige and keep out interlopers. Studying work allows historians to delve into the experiences of non-elite groups using texts, images, or objects. The wide-ranging approach is based on the Chicago-school sociology of occupations, which starts from the premise that work isn't just a job: it's a drama created by people making decisions that shape and are shaped by their place-time. Packed with examples from Ming Chinese apothecaries to twentieth-century New York City doormen, this book is a must for those who want to enliven their study of the past by examining how people spent most of their days and lives: at work.

Seeberger, Julia / Schmolinsky, Sabine / Vinzent, M. (eds.), Beyond the Timeline: Resetting Historiography. (SpatioTemporality / RaumZeitlichkeit 16) 330 S. 2024:10 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-1629>
ISBN 978-3-11-115474-9 hard ¥18,819.- (税込) EUR 79.95 *

Dang, Sarah-Mai / van der Heijden, Tim / Olesen, C. G., Doing Digital Film History: Concepts, Tools, Practices. (Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics 11) 350 S. 2024:11 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-1302>
ISBN 978-3-11-108149-6 hard ¥11,757.- (税込) EUR 49.95

How has the digital turn shaped the practices of film historical research and teaching? While computational approaches have been used by film historians since the 1960s and 1970s, the arrival and use of digital tools and methods in recent decades have fundamentally changed the ways we search, analyze, interpret, present, and so think and write about film history ? from digital archival and curatorial practices, data-driven search and analysis of film historical collections to the visualization and dissemination of film historical materials online. While film historians have increasingly embraced the new possibilities brought by digital technologies, their practical, epistemological, and methodological implications need further exploration. What implications has the mass digitization of film historical sources for film historians? What new questions can be raised by analyzing, interpreting, and visualizing film historical data at scale? By focusing on the concepts, tools and practices of digital film historiography, this edited volume aims to contribute to a better understanding as well as critical reflection on the changes and continuities of doing film history in the digital age.