The New History

ISBN-13: 9780582472822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 244 str.

Alan Munslow; Alun Munslow

Opis

This textbook provides an evaluation and overview of the state of history as it is imagined, conceptualized and practised in 2003. Taking an explicitly postmodernist position and opposed to empiricism, the book assumes that the past and history are in fact different.

Spis treści

Introduction: What is History?

Section One: Epistemology and Historical Knowing

1. The History of Historical Thinking

2. Inference, Causation, Agency and Meaning

Section Two: Referentiality, Evidence and Practice

3. Evidence, Reality and Correspondence

4. Objectivity, Truth and Relativism in History

Section Three: Theory and Concept

5. The History of Social Theory

6. Constructing Histories

Section Four: Writing the Past as History

7. Narrative and Representation

8. History as Historiography

Conclusion

Guide to Further Reading

Notes

O autorze

Alun Munslow is editor of the journal Rethinking History.