Historical Theory

ISBN-13: 9780415179874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str.

Mary Fulbrook

Opis

Writing history involves selection, imagination, creativity. What then is left of notions of objectivity? Is history really nothing but fiction masquerading as fact? Practising historians claim that their accounts of the past are something other than fiction, myth or propaganda. Yet there are significant challenges to this view. Different theoretical approaches provide competing explanations and interpretations; historical controversies are often closely connected with political commitments; and postmodernists have queried whether there is indeed any means of accessing and recounting the past as it really was.

Spis treści

Preface, PART I Interpretations: Approaches to history, PART II Investigations: Routes from the present to the past, PART III Representations: The past in the present, Notes, Select bibliography, Index

O autorze

Mary Fulbrook