Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life | 2009 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 2 | Narrative Projections of a Black British History | 2011 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 3 | History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice | 2011 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 4 | Integrity and Historical Research | 2011 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 5 | Frank Ankersmit’s Lost Historical Cause: A Journey from Language to Experience | 2011 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 6 | The Historiography of Transition: Critical Phases in the Development of Modernity | 2013 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 7 | The Fiction of History | 2014 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 8 | The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism | 2014 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 9 | The Material of World History | 2014 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 10 | The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future | 2015 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 11 | Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide: From Mythos to Techne | 2015 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 12 | ‘A New Type of History’: Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past | 2015 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 13 | The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present: Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies | 2015 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 14 | Theoretical Perspectives on Historians’ Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention | 2015 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 15 | Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance | 2015 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 16 | History, Ethics, and the Recognition of the Other: A Levinasian View on the Writing of History | 2015 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 17 | How History Works: The Reconstitution of a Human Science | 2015 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 18 | The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise: Clio Takes the Stand | 2016 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 19 | Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography | 2017 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 20 | History and Sociology in France: From Scientific History to the Durkheimian School | 2017 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 21 | The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past | 2017 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 22 | Universal History and the Making of the Global | 2018 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 23 | Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money | 2018 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 24 | A Personalist Philosophy of History | 2019 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 25 | Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons | 2019 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 26 | Historians Without Borders: New Studies in Multidisciplinary History | 2019 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 27 | Teleology and Modernity | 2019 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 28 | Historia Ludens: The Playing Historian | 2019 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 29 | The Aesthetics of History | 2019 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 30 | Public Uses of Human Remains and Relics in History | 2019 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 31 | The Enlightenment and the Fate of Knowledge: Essays on the Transvaluation of Values | 2019 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 32 | In Praise of Historical Anthropology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications to the Study of Power and Colonialism | 2020 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 33 | Information and Power in History: Towards a Global Approach | 2020 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 34 | Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History | 2020 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 35 | Africa, Empire and World Disorder | 2020 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 36 | History in a Post-Truth World | 2020 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 37 | The Primacy of Method in Historical Research | 2020 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 38 | Archives and Human Rights | 2021 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 39 | Humanism: Foundations, Diversities, Developments: Foundations, Diversities, Developments | 2021 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 40 | National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Comparison | 2021 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 41 | Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand | 2021 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 42 | Writing Russia: The Discursive Construction of AnOther Nation | 2021 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 43 | How to Write About the Holocaust | 2022 | William Gibson | Buy |
| 44 | The Politics of Time in China and Japan | 2022 | William Gibson | Buy |
The Routledge Approaches to History series is a scholarly collection of 44 books published between 2009 and 2022. The series covers a wide range of historical methodology, from the philosophy of history to specific approaches like oral history, forensic history, and the study of memory and commemoration.
Volumes include works on topics like historical professionalism, the ethics of writing about the Holocaust, the politics of time in East Asia, and the relationship between history and sociology. This is an academic series aimed at historians and students of historiography.