Debating new approaches to history

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Debating new approaches to history

edited by Marek Tamm and Peter Burke

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Global history / Jürgen Osterhammel
  • Postcolonial history / Rochona Majumdar
  • Environmental history / Grégory Quenet
  • Gender history / Laura Lee Downs
  • History of memory / Geoffrey Cubitt
  • History of knowledge / Martin Mulsow
  • History of emotions / Piroska Nagy
  • History of things / Ivan Gaskell
  • History of visual culture / Gil Bartholeyns
  • Digital history / Jane Winters
  • Neurohistory / Rob Boddice
  • Posthumanist history / Ewa Domanska
  • Conclusion / Peter Burke

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With its innovative format, Debating New Approaches to History addresses issues currently at the top of the discipline's theoretical and methodological agenda. In its chapters, leading historians of both older and younger generations from across the Western world and beyond discuss and debate the main problems and challenges that historians are facing today. Each chapter is followed by a critical commentary from another key scholar in the field and the author's response. The volume looks at topics such as the importance and consequences of the 'digital turn' in history (what will history writing be like in a digital age?), the challenge of posthumanist theory for history writing (how do we write the history of non-humans?) and the possibilities of moving beyond traditional sources in history and establishing a dialogue with genetics and neurosciences (what are the perspectives and limits of the so-called 'neurohistory'?). It also revisits older debates in history which remain crucial, such as what the gender approach can offer to historical research or how to write history on a global scale. Debating New Approaches to History does not just provide a useful overview of the new approaches to history it covers, but also offers insights into current historical debates and the process of historical method in the making. It demonstrates how the discipline of history has responded to challenges in society - such as digitalization, globalization and environmental concerns - as well as in humanities and social sciences, such as the 'material turn', 'visual turn' or 'affective turn'. This is a key volume for all students of historiography wanting to keep their finger on the pulse of contemporary thinking in historical research.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction, Marek Tamm (Tallinn University, Estonia) 1. Global History Contributor: Jurgen Osterhammel (University of Konstanz, Germany) Commentator: Pierre-Yves Saunier (Universite Laval, Canada) 2. Environmental History Contributor: Gregory Quenet (Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, France) Commentator: Sverker Soerlin (KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden) 3. Gender History Contributor: Laura Lee Downs (European University Institute, Italy
  • EHESS, France) Commentator: Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 4. Postcolonial History Contributor: Rochona Majumdar (University of Chicago, USA) Commentator: Prasenjit Duara (Duke University, USA) 5. History of Memory Contributor: Geoffrey Cubitt (University of York, UK) Commentator: Ann Rigney (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 6. History of Emotions Contributor: Piroska Nagy (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada) Commentator: Ute Frevert (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany) 7. History of Knowledge Contributor: Martin Mulsow (Erfurt University, Germany) Commentator: Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany) 8. History of Things Contributor: Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center, USA) Commentator: Bjornar Olsen (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway) 9. History of Visual Culture Contributor: Gil Bartholeyns (Universite de Lille 3, France) Commentator: Jean-Claude Schmitt (EHESS, France) 10. Digital History Contributor: Jane Winters (School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK) Commentator: Steve F. Anderson (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 11. Neurohistory Contributor: Rob Boddice (Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
  • McGill University in Montreal, Canada) Commentator: Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University, USA) 12. Posthumanist History Contributor: Ewa Domanska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland
  • Stanford University, USA) Commentator: Dominick LaCapra (Cornell University, USA) Conclusion, Peter Burke (University of Cambridge, UK) Index

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