More About Ashgate's History List
With books covering subjects from late antiquity through to the
end of the twentieth century, Ashgate has a commitment to
publishing a broad spectrum of works by historians from across the
world. Concentrating on post-graduate research, with monographs and
multi-authored volumes written by established and up-and-coming
scholars, Ashgate’s history list is complemented by a number of
titles written by non-academic specialists, alongside a significant
number of surveys, reference and primary source books. Ashgate
actively encourages authors to approach subjects in an
interdisciplinary manner, taking account of recent scholarship from
related disciplines.
Publishing a list that offers a wide selection of titles in
terms of subject, period and geography, Ashgate has developed a
number of areas of particular strength. Many of these areas are
represented by a History Series, which
allows for a more in depth approach to a subject via a series of
related titles. Key areas of strength for Ashgate
include:
- medieval history, particularly crusade and Byzantine
studies;
- early modern history, especially gender and reformation
studies;
- intellectual and cultural history;
- history of science and medicine.
These focused areas are complemented by Ashgate’s Variorum imprint which brings together selections
of key articles on specific subjects. Additional series in the
fields of literature, music, theology and visual studies reflect
the increasing emphasis placed by scholars upon integrating a broad
range of cultural indicators within an overall historical
context.
History remains the single largest list within Ashgate’s
publishing programme, and offers an imaginative and expanding
platform to showcase some of the best new scholarly research. These
books continues to challenge received ideas about the past, and to
provide a more sophisticated understanding of how human societies
worked, interacted and expressed themselves.