History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography

Name: History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography
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ISBN: 9780205848959

ISBN-10: 0205848958

ISBN-13: 9780205848959

Edition: 3rd 2014 (Revised)

Authors: Norman Wilson

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Explore the possibilities remaining for historical study. This book explores the possibilities remaining for historical study in the face of the current trends, including postcolonialism, postmodernism, and deconstruction, among others. This text is available in a variety of formats — digital and print. Pearson offers its titles on the devices students love through Pearson’s MyLab products, CourseSmart, Amazon, and more. Learning Goals Upon completing this text, readers will be able to: Understand how to examine trends in history. Understand how historical events influence today’s world. NOTE: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase…

Book details

List price: $93.32
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 6/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.90" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface



What was History?



Historical Time and Teleology



A Brief History of History



Nineteenth-Century Historicism


Notes



What is History?



Historical Focal Points (Diachronic Versus Synchronic History)



History as a form of Knowledge (Art or Science?)



Historical Causation



The Study of History as an Autonomous Discipline


Notes



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



Experiencing and Remembering the Past



The Indeterminacy of the Past



Reworking the Past


Notes



Cross-Pollination



Cliometrics: Quantification and History



Economics and History



Sociology and History



Anthropology and History


Notes



Varieties of History



Social History



Intellectual History



Cultural History



Psychohistory and its Discontents



Comparative History


Notes



Historical Actors



Rational Actors



Class



Gender



Structures of Perception


Notes



Postmodernist (Re)Visions



History and/as Language



Sociohistorical Pursuit and the Rise of the New Historicism



The Cultural Turn


Notes



Postcolonialism and the Scope of History



History of the Term "Postcolonialism"



The Language of Self/Other and In-Between Spaces



Postcolonialism and the Crisis of Historical Representation



The Provincialization of Europe?


Notes



New Terminology and Progress



Tricontinentalism



The Eclipse of Modernism: Modernism(s), Modernization(s), and Modernity(ies)



Progress in History?


Notes



The Future of History



History at its Best?



Historians and Their Education



Standards and Professional Conduct



Digital History



Conclusion


Notes


Index