Historical Controversies and Historians

ISBN-13: 9781857287400 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 266 str.

William Lamont; William Lamont

Opis

For students new to the subject of history there are many books on the theory of writing history but fewer on how history is actually practised. This work by a team of historians from the University of Sussex fills this gap. The first half of the book examines a number of notable controversies that have been, and still are, the subject of historical debate - for example, race in South Africa, the legacy of the French Resistance, the origins of the Welfare State. These illustrate the issues involved in doing history. The second half of the book focuses upon the historians themselves - such as Tawney, Carr, Buckhardt, Weber, Thompson - and demonstrates how the historian puts his/her own spin on historical interpretation. Together the study of controversies and historians shows with clarity the practical issues of historical method. Historical Controversies and Historians should be a useful primer for any student embarking on a course in history.

Recenzje

'It is clearly written and tightly focused on practice, not theory, of history' - History

'This is a very stimulating volume, well priced, and above the general standard for collective works' - History

Spis treści

Part 1 Historical Controversies: French Resistance - a Few Home Truths, H.R. Kedward; Ordinary Germans as Hitler's Willing Executioners? The Goldhagen Controversy, John C.G. Rohl; Unreliable Memories? The Use and Abuse of Oral History, Alistair Thomson; The English Reputations of Oliver Cromwell 1660-1900, Blair Worden; Histories of the Welfare State, Pat Thane; Placing Race in South African History, Saul Dubow; Agrarian Histories and Agricultural Revolutions, Alun Howkins. Part 2 Historians: The Weber Thesis - Unproven Yet Unrefuted, Richard Whatmore; R.H. Tawney - Who Did Not a Single Work Which Can Be Trusted?, William Lamont; Lawrence Stone and Interdisciplinary History, Michael Hawkins; Jacob Burckhardt - Romanticism and Cultural History, Malcolm Kitch; Anthony Blunt and Lucien Goldmann - Christianity, Marxism and the Ends of History, Brian Young; Bernard Bailyn and the Scope of American History, Colin Brooks; Writing Women In - the Development of Feminist Approaches to Women's History, Gerry Holloway; The New History - the Annales School of History and Modern Historiography, Peter R. Campbell; Opiate of the People and Stimulant for the Historian? - Some Issues in Sports History, John Lowerson; E.P. Thomson - Witness Against the Beast, Eileen Janes Yeo; Soviet Historians and the Rediscovery of the Soviet Past, B. Williams.

O autorze

William Lamont