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Download or read book Historiography, Then and Now written by Jagadish Narayan Sarkar and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author: David Cannadine
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 2008-06-17
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together David Cannadine's most important reflections on how history has been written and made in Britain in the twentieth century. Empire, monarchy, parliament, the economy, culture, heritage and tradition: Cannadine casts his eye over some of the central topics of our age and their treatment by historians down the years, delivering rich insights into the nature and profession of history itself. Most of the essays included here were produced during his decade-long association with the Institute of Historical Research in London and they are framed by his inaugural and valedictory lectures there. The result is a remarkably coherent collection, which demonstrates yet again why Cannadine is one of the most thoughtful, original, incisive and readable historians of our time.
Download or read book Making History Now and Then written by David Cannadine and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together David Cannadine's most important reflections on how history has been written and made in Britain in the twentieth century. Empire, monarchy, parliament, the economy, culture, heritage and tradition: Cannadine casts his eye over some of the central topics of our age and their treatment by historians down the years, delivering rich insights into the nature and profession of history itself. Most of the essays included here were produced during his decade-long association with the Institute of Historical Research in London and they are framed by his inaugural and valedictory lectures there. The result is a remarkably coherent collection, which demonstrates yet again why Cannadine is one of the most thoughtful, original, incisive and readable historians of our time.
Author: Barbara Korte
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Published: 2014-03-31
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 3839420075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present boom in popular history is not unprecedented. The contributions to this volume investigate peaks of historical interest which favour popular approaches from around 1800 to the present. They analyse the media, genres and institutions through which historical knowledge has been disseminated - from artefacts to the archive, from poetry to photography, from music to murals, and from periodicals to popular TV series. They ask how major traditions in the popular imagery of the past have evolved and changed over time. Cultural contexts covered in the book include Western and Southern Europe, the United States and West Africa. Contributors come from a range of disciplines, including history, literary and cultural studies, musicology as well as social and cultural anthropology.
Download or read book Popular History Now and Then written by Barbara Korte and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present boom in popular history is not unprecedented. The contributions to this volume investigate peaks of historical interest which favour popular approaches from around 1800 to the present. They analyse the media, genres and institutions through which historical knowledge has been disseminated - from artefacts to the archive, from poetry to photography, from music to murals, and from periodicals to popular TV series. They ask how major traditions in the popular imagery of the past have evolved and changed over time. Cultural contexts covered in the book include Western and Southern Europe, the United States and West Africa. Contributors come from a range of disciplines, including history, literary and cultural studies, musicology as well as social and cultural anthropology.
Author: Tor Egil Førland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-01-20
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1315470950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing sophisticated philosophy to bear on real-life historiography, Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography rekindles and invigorates the debate on two perennials in the theory and methodology of history. One is the tension between historians' values and the ideal—or illusion—of objective historiography. The other is historical explanation. The point of departure for the treatment of values and objectivity is an exceptionally heated debate on Cold War historiography in Denmark, involving not only historians but also the political parties, the national newspapers, and the courts. The in-depth analysis that follows concludes that historians can produce accounts that deserve the label "objective," even though their descriptions are tinged by ineluctable epistemic instability. A separate chapter dissects the postmodern notion of situated truths. The second part of the book proffers a new take on historical explanation. It is based on the notion of the ideal explanatory text, which allows for not only causal—including intentional—but also nomological, structural, and functional explanations. The approach, which can accommodate narrative explanations driven by causal plots, is ecumenical but not all-encompassing. Emergent social properties and supernatural entities are excluded from the ideal explanatory text, making scientific historiography methodologically individualistic—albeit with room for explanations at higher levels when pragmatically justified—and atheist.
Download or read book Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography written by Tor Egil Førland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing sophisticated philosophy to bear on real-life historiography, Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography rekindles and invigorates the debate on two perennials in the theory and methodology of history. One is the tension between historians' values and the ideal—or illusion—of objective historiography. The other is historical explanation. The point of departure for the treatment of values and objectivity is an exceptionally heated debate on Cold War historiography in Denmark, involving not only historians but also the political parties, the national newspapers, and the courts. The in-depth analysis that follows concludes that historians can produce accounts that deserve the label "objective," even though their descriptions are tinged by ineluctable epistemic instability. A separate chapter dissects the postmodern notion of situated truths. The second part of the book proffers a new take on historical explanation. It is based on the notion of the ideal explanatory text, which allows for not only causal—including intentional—but also nomological, structural, and functional explanations. The approach, which can accommodate narrative explanations driven by causal plots, is ecumenical but not all-encompassing. Emergent social properties and supernatural entities are excluded from the ideal explanatory text, making scientific historiography methodologically individualistic—albeit with room for explanations at higher levels when pragmatically justified—and atheist.
Author: Barbara Korte
Publisher:
Published: 2012
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKZusammenfassung: It is a commonplace by now to state that the popular representation of history is booming. This rising interest in history emerged in the 1980s, and it has been at a peak since the second half of the 1990s. This trend is reflected in such indicators as increasing numbers of visitors to historical exhibitions and museums; considerable public interest in controversies among historical experts; and the prominence of historical topics in new and old media, in documentary and fictional genres, or in performative forms (theme parks, living history and re-enactments). Numerous websites on the internet, articles on wikipedia, CD-ROM productions and historical computer games attest the phenomenon's expansion into the digital media. We witness these trends all over the world, in the global North as well as increasingly in the global South. In many cultures, representations of history are of major significance for the negotiation of national, ethnic and regional identities. The contemporary re-turn to history helps to construct continuity and orientation. But engagement with history, particularly through popular display, can also satisfy,the need for emotional and aesthetic experience and for adventure, for a risk-free encounter with what is strange, different or "other" and, finally, for relaxation and diversion. At the same time, public and state organisations, social elites and political groups draw on popular images of history to legitimise either the status quo or political change
Download or read book Popular History Now and Then written by Barbara Korte and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zusammenfassung: It is a commonplace by now to state that the popular representation of history is booming. This rising interest in history emerged in the 1980s, and it has been at a peak since the second half of the 1990s. This trend is reflected in such indicators as increasing numbers of visitors to historical exhibitions and museums; considerable public interest in controversies among historical experts; and the prominence of historical topics in new and old media, in documentary and fictional genres, or in performative forms (theme parks, living history and re-enactments). Numerous websites on the internet, articles on wikipedia, CD-ROM productions and historical computer games attest the phenomenon's expansion into the digital media. We witness these trends all over the world, in the global North as well as increasingly in the global South. In many cultures, representations of history are of major significance for the negotiation of national, ethnic and regional identities. The contemporary re-turn to history helps to construct continuity and orientation. But engagement with history, particularly through popular display, can also satisfy,the need for emotional and aesthetic experience and for adventure, for a risk-free encounter with what is strange, different or "other" and, finally, for relaxation and diversion. At the same time, public and state organisations, social elites and political groups draw on popular images of history to legitimise either the status quo or political change
Author: Michael Bentley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-02-27
Total Pages: 1022
ISBN-13: 1134970234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Companion to Historiography is an original analysis of the moods and trends in historical writing throughout its phases of development and explores the assumptions and procedures that have formed the creation of historical perspectives. Contributed by a distinguished panel of academics, each essay conveys in direct, jargon-free language a genuinely international, wide-angled view of the ideas, traditions and institutions that lie behind the contemporary urgency of world history.
Download or read book Companion to Historiography written by Michael Bentley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-02-27 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to Historiography is an original analysis of the moods and trends in historical writing throughout its phases of development and explores the assumptions and procedures that have formed the creation of historical perspectives. Contributed by a distinguished panel of academics, each essay conveys in direct, jargon-free language a genuinely international, wide-angled view of the ideas, traditions and institutions that lie behind the contemporary urgency of world history.
Author: Eric Foner
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2011-06-11
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781439902431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican History Now collects eighteen original historiographic essays that survey recent scholarship in American history and trace the shifting lines of interpretation and debate in the field. Building on the legacy of two previous editions of The New American History, this volume presents an entirely new group of contributors and a reconceptualized table of contents. The new generation of historians showcased in American History Now have asked new questions and developed new approaches to scholarship to revise the prevailing interpretations of the chronological periods from the Colonial era to the Reagan years. Covering the established subfields of women's history, African American history, and immigration history, the book also considers the history of capitalism, Native American history, environmental history, religious history, cultural history, and the history of "the United States in the world." American History Now provides an indispensible summation of the state of the field for those interested in the study and teaching of the American past.
Download or read book American History Now written by Eric Foner and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-11 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American History Now collects eighteen original historiographic essays that survey recent scholarship in American history and trace the shifting lines of interpretation and debate in the field. Building on the legacy of two previous editions of The New American History, this volume presents an entirely new group of contributors and a reconceptualized table of contents. The new generation of historians showcased in American History Now have asked new questions and developed new approaches to scholarship to revise the prevailing interpretations of the chronological periods from the Colonial era to the Reagan years. Covering the established subfields of women's history, African American history, and immigration history, the book also considers the history of capitalism, Native American history, environmental history, religious history, cultural history, and the history of "the United States in the world." American History Now provides an indispensible summation of the state of the field for those interested in the study and teaching of the American past.
Author: D. Cannadine
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-07-05
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 023020452X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKE. H. Carr's What is History? was originally published by Macmillan in 1961. Since then it has sold hundreds of thousands of copies throughout the world. In this book, ten internationally renowned scholars, writing from a range of historical vantage points, answer Carr's question for a new generation of historians: What does it mean to study history at the start of the Twenty-first century? This volume stands alongside Carr's classic, paying tribute to his seminal enquiry while moving the debate into new territory, to ensure its freshness and relevance for a new century of historical study.
Download or read book What is History Now? written by D. Cannadine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-07-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. H. Carr's What is History? was originally published by Macmillan in 1961. Since then it has sold hundreds of thousands of copies throughout the world. In this book, ten internationally renowned scholars, writing from a range of historical vantage points, answer Carr's question for a new generation of historians: What does it mean to study history at the start of the Twenty-first century? This volume stands alongside Carr's classic, paying tribute to his seminal enquiry while moving the debate into new territory, to ensure its freshness and relevance for a new century of historical study.
Author: Gabrielle M. Spiegel
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPostmodernism has challenged historians to look at historical texts in a new way and to be skeptical of the claim that one can confidently retrieve "fact" from historical writings. In The Past as Text historian Gabrielle M. Spiegel sets out to read long-familiar medieval histories and chronicles in light of the critical-theoretical problems raised by postmodernism. At the same time she urges a method of analysis that enables the reader to recognize these texts simultaneously as sacrifice and as works deeply embedded in a historically determinate, knowable social world. Arguing for the "social logic of the text," Spiegel provides historians with a way to retrieve the social significance and conceptual claims produced by these medieval or any historical writings.
Download or read book The Past as Text written by Gabrielle M. Spiegel and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism has challenged historians to look at historical texts in a new way and to be skeptical of the claim that one can confidently retrieve "fact" from historical writings. In The Past as Text historian Gabrielle M. Spiegel sets out to read long-familiar medieval histories and chronicles in light of the critical-theoretical problems raised by postmodernism. At the same time she urges a method of analysis that enables the reader to recognize these texts simultaneously as sacrifice and as works deeply embedded in a historically determinate, knowable social world. Arguing for the "social logic of the text," Spiegel provides historians with a way to retrieve the social significance and conceptual claims produced by these medieval or any historical writings.
Author: John Arnold
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 2000-02-24
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 019285352X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStarting with an examination of how historians work, this "Very Short Introduction" aims to explore history in a general, pithy, and accessible manner, rather than to delve into specific periods.
Download or read book History: A Very Short Introduction written by John Arnold and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000-02-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with an examination of how historians work, this "Very Short Introduction" aims to explore history in a general, pithy, and accessible manner, rather than to delve into specific periods.
