Houses of History A Criticial Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory

Name: Houses of History A Criticial Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory
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ISBN: 9780814731277

ISBN-10: 0814731279

ISBN-13: 9780814731277

Edition: 1999

Authors: Anna Green, Kathleen Troup

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Every piece of historical writing has a theoretical basis on which evidence is selected, filtered, and understood. This is as true of scientific empiricism as it is of poststructualism.The Houses of Historyprovides a comprehensive introduction to the twelve schools of thought which have had the greatest influence on the study of history in the twentieth century. Ranging from Empiricism to Postcolonialism, Marxism to the Ethnohistorians, each chapter begins with an introduction to the particular school, the main protagonists, the critics, and is followed by a useful section of further readings. From the classic, such as G. R. Elton's "England Under the Tudors" and E. P. Thompson's "The…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements



The empiricists



Marxist historians



Freud and psychohistory



The Annales



Historical sociology



Quantitative history



Anthropology and ethnohistorians



The question of narrative



Oral history



Gender and history



Postcolonial perspectives



The challenge of poststructuralism/postmodernism


Index