The houses of history : a critical reader in twentieth-century history and theory
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The houses of history : a critical reader in twentieth-century history and theory
Manchester University Press, 1999
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780719052545
Description
The only history and theory textbook to include accessible extracts from a wide range of historical writing. Provides a comprehensive introduction to the theorists who have most inflenced twentieth-century historians. Chapters follow a consistent structure, putting difficult ideas into an accessible context. This is the only critical reader aimed at the undergraduate market. -- .
Table of Contents
- The empiricists
- Marxist historians
- Freud and psychohistory
- the "Annales"
- historical sociology
- quantitive history
- anthropology and ethnohistorians
- the question of narrative
- memory and oral history
- gender and history
- postcolonial perspectives
- the challenge of poststructural/postmodernism.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719052552
Description
The only history and theory textbook to include accessible extracts from a wide range of historical writing. Provides a comprehensive introduction to the theorists who have most inflenced twentieth-century historians. Chapters follow a consistent structure, putting difficult ideas into an accessible context. This is the only critical reader aimed at the undergraduate market. -- .
Table of Contents
1. The empiricists
2. Marxist historians
3. Freud and psychohistory
4. The Annales.
5. Historical Sociology
6. Quantative history
7. Anthropology and ethnohistorians
8. The question of narrative
9. Memory and oral history
10. Gender and history
11. The challenge of poststructuralism/postmodernism
12. Postcolonial perspectives -- .
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