Authoring the Past: Writing and Rethinking History

ISBN-13: 9780415520393 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str.

Alun Munslow

Opis

Please explain why you think about and write history as you do? Collecting together the responses to this question from 15 of the world's foremost historians and theorists, this book represents a powerful reflection on and intervention in the historiographical field.

Recenzje

"This is a fascinating collection of responses to the "Invitations to Historians" generated by the editors of Rethinking History to narrate their personal trajectories as developing historians and their investments in its practice." - Gabrielle Spiegel, The Johns Hopkins University, USA

Spis treści

Introduction. 1. ‘Writing, Rewriting the Beach: an Essay’ by Greg Dening 2. ‘"After" History’ by Keith Jenkins 3. ‘History Is Public or Nothing’ by Alice Kessler-Harris 4. ‘I am not a baseball historian’ by Steven A. Reiss 5. ‘Beyond History’ by Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth 6. ‘Practices of Historical Narrative’ by Richard Price 7. ‘More Secondary Modern than Postmodern’ by Patrick Joyce 8. Untitled by Frank R. Ankersmit 9. ‘Confessions of a Postmodern(?) Historian’ by Robert A. Rosenstone 10. ‘The Story of "My Engagements with the Past"’ by Peter Munz 11. ‘In Search of Ariadne’s Thread’ by Beverley Southgate 12. Untitled by C. Behan McCullagh 13. ‘An Intellectual Self-Portrait or the Story of a historian’ by Peter Burke 14. ‘History, the Historian and an Autobiography’ by Jeremy D. Popkin 15. Untitled by Alex Macfie. Glossary.

O autorze

Alun Munslow is a founding and UK editor of Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice. His recent publications include Narrative and History (2007) and The Future of History (2010).