History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography

Name: History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography
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ISBN: 9780139032059

ISBN-10: 0139032053

ISBN-13: 9780139032059

Edition: 1999

Authors: Norman J. Wilson

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For undergraduate courses in Historiography as well as topical courses such as those on the French Revolution or Nazi Germany. It is also appropriate for introductory graduate courses. This book explores the possibilities remaining for historical study in the face of the current trends, including postcolonialism, postmodernism, and deconstruction, among others.

Book details

List price: $31.20
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 12/14/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 99998
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.28" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English



Preface: History as a Disadvantaged Discipline



What Is History?



Historical Time and Teleology



A Brief History of History



Nineteenth-Century Historicism



History as a Form of Knowledge (Art or Science)



Problems of Historical Knowledge: Historicism, Presentism, and The Writing of History



Experiencing and Remembering the Past



The Indeterminacy of the Past



Reworking the Past



Cross-Pollination



Cliometrics: Quantification and History



Economics and History



Sociology and History



Anthropology and History



Varieties Of History



Social History



Intellectual History



Cultural History



Psychohistory and Its Discontents



Comparative History



Historical Actors



Rational Actors



Class



Gender



Structures of Perception



Post-Modernist (Re)Visions



History and/as Language



Sociohistorical Pursuit and the Rise of the New Historicism



The Future of History








Conclusion