The powers of the past : reflections on the crisis and the promise of history

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The powers of the past : reflections on the crisis and the promise of history

Harvey J. Kaye

Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This examines the theory that historical thought and study are in decline whilst seemingly there has been a rise in demand for the "past" and historical scholarship has been flourishing. The author contends that to address the crisis requires a more critical concept of historical practice.

目次

  • Part 1 The crisis of history: the crisis in education
  • paradox 1 - the demand for the past
  • paradox 2 - developments in historical studies
  • historians responses to the crisis. Part 2 The crisis of the grand-governing narratives: postwar settlements and grant-governing narratives
  • disruptions and discontinuities
  • again, the crisis of history. Part 3 The use and abuse of the past: hegemony and history
  • class war from above
  • The New Right and the past
  • Thatcher's and Reagan's raids on the past
  • the New Right's historical-education projects. Part 4 The powers of the past: the end of history? the end of the Cold War, the triumph of capitalism and the present as the future ...
  • breaking the tyranny of the present - recalling a vision of historical practice
  • the powers of the past - perspective, critique, consciousness, remembrance and imagination
  • making history - the question of the grand narrative, and critical history as historical criticism. Postscript - the South Korean episode.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA13198491
  • ISBN
    • 0710812647
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York ; London
  • ページ数/冊数
    vi, 202 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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