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Postmodern History Reader

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ISBN-10: 041513904X

ISBN-13: 9780415139045

Edition: 1997

Authors: Keith Jenkins

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The Postmodern History Readerdraws together in one collection some of the most interesting and influential writing--both for and against--on postmodernism and historiography. Drawing on books and articles from across the whole historiographical range, the impact of postmodernism on historical studies is described and exemplified in challenging and thought-provoking ways. The first sections include seminal articles on the formulation of the postmodern position across disciplines, but with particular reference to history. The book goes on to follow specific debates within the key journals which demonstrate how the whole field developed. The final section is on readings of the Holocaust. …    
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Book details

List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/10/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 460
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.25" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Acknowledgements
Introduction: On Being Open About Our Closures
On History in the Upper Case: For and Against Postmodern Histories
Introduction For Postmodern Histories
The Postmodern Condition
The Illusion of the End
Sequel to History
Romancing the Postmodern; Feminism and Deconstruction
White Mythologies
Migrancy, Culture, Identity
Introduction Against Postmodern Histories
E Fox-Genovese, Literary Criticism and the Politics of the New Historicism
C Norris, Postmodernising History: Right Wing Revisionism and the Uses of Theory
B Palmer, Critical Theory, Historical Materialism, and the Ostensible End of Marxism: The Poverty of Theory Revisited
On History In the Lower Case: For and Against the Collapse of the Lower Case
Introduction For the Collapse of the Lower Case
The Discourse of History
Nietzsche, Genealogy, History
Language and Historical Representation
The Challenge of Poetics to (normal) Historical Practice
Introduction Against the Collapse of the Lower Case
Telling It As You Like It
Return to Essentials
History, Historicism, and the Social Logic of the Text in the Middle Ages
Nuanced or Ambiguous Others
Introduction
L Hunt, M Jacob, Telling the Truth About History
Outside Literature; Texts in History
Making History: On Feminism, Narrative and Desire
Debates from the Journals
General Introduction
Past and Present Introduction
History and Postmodernism
History and Postmodernism
History and Postmodernism
History and Postmodernism
History and Postmodernism
Journal of Contemporary History
Introduction
Two Approaches to Historical Study
Response to Arthur Marwick
For Realism and Against the Inadequacies of Common Sense: A Response to Arthur Marwick
Social History
History, Language, Ideas and Post-Modernism: A Materialist View
The End of Social History?
Starting Over: The Present, The Postmodern and the Moment of Social History
The End of Social History? A Brief Reply to Eley and Nield History and Theory and S. Friedlander (ed)
Probing the Limits of Representation: On the Holocaust
Introduction
Probing the Limits of Representation
Historical Employment and the Problem of Truth
"Never Again" Is Now
From Exception to Exemplum
The Holocaust and Problems of Representation
Is It Possible to Misrepresent the Holocaust? A Note on Further Reading
Acknowledgements