History and Historians in the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9780197262689 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 264 str.

Peter Burke

Opis

One of the major intellectual debates at the beginning of the new century concerns the status of accounts of the past. Do historians discover or invent, construct or reconstruct the objects they study? The discussion has been particularly lively in France and in the USA, and it is therefore appropriate that a group of distinguished historians from Britain should now engage with this subject. These ten essays present a historical and critical overview of British historical thought and writing since 1900, focusing on selected periods, regions, disciplines, and themes. This challenging volume will intrigue anyone interested in the process of history writing.

Recenzje

Much that is interesting, fresh and well-written ... containing important contributions.