Oxford University Press has just brought out "A concise companion to history", edited by Ulinka Rublack.
The book contains a selection of essays on the writing and interpretation of history, and on the treatment of cross-cultural thematic issues such as commerce, population and ethnicity, including a chapter on the merging discipline of environmental history.
SOAS Library has a couple of copies on order ...
Click HERE to read the review by Alix Green (University of Herfordshire) in the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History
Alix is Head of Policy at the University and a part-time PhD student researching how "historical thinking can contribute to public policy development"
