Cambridge Elements in Historical Theory and Practice is a series intended for a wide range of students, scholars, and others whose interests involve engagement with the past.  Topics include the theoretical, ethical, and philosophical issues involved in doing history, the interconnections between history and other disciplines and questions of method, and the application of historical knowledge to contemporary global and social issues such as climate change, reconciliation and justice, heritage, and identity politics.

Series Editor:

Daniel Woolf is Professor of History at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where he served from 2009-2019 as Principal and Vice-Chancellor. He is the author or editor/coeditor of eleven books and many articles, including A Global History of History (Cambridge, 2011) and A Concise History of History (Cambridge, 2019). He has taught courses on historiography and historical thought at five universities over a 40-year academic career. He has written on various aspects of the history of historical writing and historical thought, in addition to several works on early modern English cultural history such as The Social Circulation of the Past (Oxford 2003) and Reading History in Early Modern England (2000). He previously was general editor of the five-volume Oxford History of Historical Writing (Oxford 2011-12). His articles have appeared in journals including History and Theory, Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal of the Philosophy of History, Past and Present, The American Historical Review, Storia della storiografia, and Renaissance Quarterly.