Writing Contemporary History
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Writing Contemporary History
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Author : Robert Gildea
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-07-25
Writing Contemporary History written by Robert Gildea and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-25 with History categories.
Writing Contemporary History brings together some of the world's most pre-eminent historians to discuss the core issues confronting students of contemporary history today. Tackling ten key questions of current historiographical debate, each chapter sets in parallel and in opposition the contributions of two scholars. Questions include: Does gender history have a future? When does colonial history end? What is cultural history now about? This volume takes to heart the central rationale of the Writing History series, namely to combine theoretical reflection with the practice of producing historical texts. It introduces the reader to a variety of important theoretical approaches in the field of contemporary history writing and asks how these approaches have shaped historical writing in this important sub-discipline. Writing Contemporary History an invaluable introduction to the central debates that have shaped the field of contemporary history.
The Past Before Us
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Author : Michael G. Kammen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Past Before Us written by Michael G. Kammen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with History categories.
"Is there a distinctive American style of historical scholarship? To what extent have quantitative methods and computer technology affected the writing of history? Has descriptive history been supplanted by analytical history? What constitutes adequate historical explanation? These are just a few of the questions addresed in "The Past Before Us." The contributors, twenty-one distinguished historians, discuss the state of their profession today and describe their interests, activities, and problems. Reflecting new and exciting trends in historical research, their essays, taken together, provide a searching assessment of the major advances in historical methods as well as in historical knowledge during the 1970s"--Jacket.
The Past Before Us
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Author : M. Kammen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Past Before Us written by M. Kammen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
The Memory Phenomenon In Contemporary Historical Writing
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Author : Patrick H. Hutton
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-15
The Memory Phenomenon In Contemporary Historical Writing written by Patrick H. Hutton and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with History categories.
In this book, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the intense and sustained work on the relationship between collective memory and history, retracing the royal roads pioneering scholars have traveled in their research and writing on this topic: notably, the politics of commemoration (purposes and practices of public remembrance); the changing uses of memory worked by new technologies of communication (from the threshold of literacy to the digital age); the immobilizing effects of trauma upon memory (with particular attention to the remembered legacy of the Holocaust). He follows with an analysis of the implications of this scholarship for our thinking about history itself, with attention to such issues as the mnemonics of historical time, and the encounter between representation and experience in historical understanding. His book provides insight into the way interest in the concept of memory - as opposed to long-standing alternatives, such as myth, tradition, and heritage - has opened new vistas for scholarship not only in cultural history but also in shared ventures in memory studies in related fields in the humanities and social sciences.
Making Histories
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Author : CCCS
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-16
Making Histories written by CCCS and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with History categories.
First published in 2006. History and politics are fundamentally connected – indeed historians themselves have often made links between the two explicit. Making Histories explores the relationship between history and politics as it has developed in histories which are critical of the dominant, academic traditions of history writing, and makes a substantial contribution to the debate about the most appropriate way to handle the relations between theory and history. Part One is concerned with the development of ‘people’s history’ – a social history with popular sympathies and links with radical politics. Three phases are discussed: the work of the Hammonds, the Communist Party Historians’ Group of the 1950s, and the historical-political projects of E. P. Thompson. Part Two focuses on the relation between history and theory within Marxism generally and argues that philosophical and methodological assumptions play a key role in more narrowly empirical and historical debates. Part Three presents discussions of three newer forms of political history writing which take a more ‘popular’ turn: oral history, the public construction of the national past in the form of National Heritage or community, and a feminist assessment of histories of the suffragette movement. In challenging received opinion about the scope of ‘history’, the authors stress that historiography is concerned not with the past, but with the relation between the past and the present and argue that popular conceptions of history have an importance usually denied or ignored by academic historians.
History Is A Contemporary Literature
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Author : Ivan Jablonka
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-15
History Is A Contemporary Literature written by Ivan Jablonka and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-15 with History categories.
Ivan Jablonka’s History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that both social-scientific inquiry and literary explorations contribute to our understanding of the world. Jablonka argues that the act and art of writing, far from being an afterthought in the social sciences, should play a vital role in the production of knowledge in all stages of the researcher’s work and embody or even constitute the understanding obtained. History (along with sociology and anthropology) can, he contends, achieve both greater rigor and wider audiences by creating a literary experience through a broad spectrum of narrative modes. Challenging scholars to adopt investigative, testimonial, and other experimental writing techniques as a way of creating and sharing knowledge, Jablonka envisions a social science literature that will inspire readers to become actively engaged in understanding their own pasts and to relate their histories to the present day. Lamenting the specialization that has isolated the academy from the rest of society, History Is a Contemporary Literature aims to bring imagination and audacity into the practice of scholarship, drawing on the techniques of literature to strengthen the methods of the social sciences.
On Writing Contemporary History
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Author : Arthur James May
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
On Writing Contemporary History written by Arthur James May and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Historiography categories.
Writing Early Modern History
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Author : Garthine Walker
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2005-05-27
Writing Early Modern History written by Garthine Walker and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-27 with History categories.
A core of undergraduates readily see the purpose of their study of historical theory, but a substantial number, in this still most empirical of disciplines, are skeptical about its value. Recognizing this, Walker has designed a volume that not only provides coverage of some of the most influential theoretical currents to have shaped history in recent decades but also demonstrates in a concrete way, by reference to particular pieces of historical writing on a variety of key topics, how it has happened. A notable feature of the book is its concentration upon the early modern period, which has its own distinctive issues and approaches.
The Contemporary History Handbook
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Author : Brian Brivati
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1996
The Contemporary History Handbook written by Brian Brivati and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History, Modern categories.
This guide should be useful to those studying and researching modern history. International and up to date, it covers sources and controversies in the subject area and includes a section of useful addresses. The volume is divided into three main sections which together comprise a reference work for contemporary historians.
An Introduction To Contemporary History
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Author : Geoffrey Barraclough
language : en
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Release Date : 1967
An Introduction To Contemporary History written by Geoffrey Barraclough and has been published by Penguin (Non-Classics) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with History categories.