Historians on history : readings

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Historians on history : readings

edited and introduced by John Tosh

Pearson Longman, 2009

2nd ed

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [362]-363) and index

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Description

A follow-up to the bestselling The Pursuit of History, this Reader brings together the reflections of a number of major historians on the nature and purpose of their craft. They illuminate the different governing assumptions - political, social, personal - that have sustained these leading practitioners in their studies, and show how different influences and methodologies have impacted on them. In so doing, the book not only gives an insight into the great variety of aspirations and convictions that animate History as a discipline, but also brings into focus the key historiographic trends of the English-speaking world since World War II. Key themes which are highlighted include: The nation Marxism People's history Structural history Gender Race Quantitative history Ranging widely from the earlier traditions and schools to the wake of postmodernism, authors represented include Braudel, Carr, Elton, Himmelfarb, Hobsbawm, Scott and Zeldin. This Reader provides the core reading for all History and Theory courses.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part One: History for its own Sake Fidelity to the sources 1. V.H. Galbraith 2. G.R. Elton Empathy and imagination 3. C.V. Wedgwood 4. Richard Cobb Part Two: Political Histories History as progress 5. J.H. Plumb 6. E.H. Carr The nation 7. Herbert Butterfield 8. Daniel Boorstin 9. A. Adu Boahen Marxism 10. Christopher Hill 11. E.J. Hobsbawm 12. Eugene Genoves Part Three: The New Radicalism History from below 13. Raphael Samuel 14. Vincent Harding 15. Alf Ludtke Gender 16. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg 17. Joan Scott 18. Gisela Bok Postcolonialism 19. Ranajit Guha 20. Dipesh Chakrabarty 21. Catherine Hall Part Four: Learning from Historical Perspective Persistence and change 22. March Bloch 23. Peter Laslett Beyond stereotypes 24. Michael Howard 25. Howard Zinn Qualified predictions 26. H.R. Trevor-Roper 27. Alan Bullock Part Five: History as Social Science New questions, new concepts 28. Richard Hofstadter 29. Philip Abrams The authority of numbers 30. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie 31. Robert William Fogel Reactions 32. Fernand Braudel 33. Lawrence Stone 34. Theodore Zeldin Part Six: The Cultural Turn The impact of Postmodernism 35. Patrick Joyce 36. Joan Scott 37. Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob The new Cultural History 38. Mark Poster 39. Robert Darnton Memory and culture 40. Pierre Nora 41. Katherine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone Part Seven: Beyond Academia 42. H.R. Trevor-Roper 43. Gerda Lerner Further Reading Index

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  • NCID
    BA88294216
  • ISBN
    • 9781405801683
  • LCCN
    2008023720
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Harlow, England ; Tokyo
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 372 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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