Practicing history : new directions in historical writing after the linguistic turn
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Practicing history : new directions in historical writing after the linguistic turn
（Rewriting histories）
Routledge, 2005
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 15 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-268) and index
Contents of Works
- Is all the world a text? : from social history to the history of society two decades later / Geoff Eley
- The determinist fix : some obstacles to the further development of the linguistic approach to history in the 1990s / Gareth Stedman Jones
- The concept(s) of culture / William H. Sewell, Jr.
- Agency in the discursive condition / Elizabeth Deeds Ermath
- Individual experience and cultural order / Marshall Sahlins
- The constitution of society : outline of the theory of structuration : elements of the theory of structuration / Anthony Giddens
- A theory of structure : duality, agency and transformation / William H. Sewell, Jr.
- How to be an intentionalist / Mark Bevir
- Outline of the theory of practice : structures and the habitus / Pierre Bourdieu
- The evidence of experience / Joan Scott
- The practice of everyday life : "making do" : uses and tactics / Michel de Certeau
- Language and the shift from signs to practices in cultural inquiry / Richard Biernacki
- Toward a theory of social practices : a development in culturalist theorizing / Andreas Reckwitz
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This essential collection of key articles offers a re-evaluation of the practice of history in light of current debates. Critical thinkers and practicing historians present their writings, along with clear and thorough editorial material, to examine the complex ideas at the forefront of historical practice.
This volume gives a synoptic overview of the last twenty-five years' theoretical analysis of historical writing, with a critical examination of the central concepts and positions that have been in debate. The collection delineates the emergence of "practice theory" as a possible paradigm for future historical interpretation concerned with questions of agency, experience and the subject.
These complex ideas are introduced to students in this accessible reader, and for teachers and historians too, this survey is an indispensable and timely read.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Practicing History, Theorizing Practice Part 1: Discourse and the Problem of Social History Part 2: Self and Agency Part 3: Experience and Practice
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