Experiments in Rethinking History

Name: Experiments in Rethinking History
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ISBN: 9780415301466

ISBN-10: 0415301467

ISBN-13: 9780415301466

Edition: 2004

Authors: Alun Munslow, Robert A. Rosenstone

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History is a narrative discourse, full of unfinished stories. This collection of innovative & experimental pieces of historical writing, shows that there are new ways of thinking & writing about the past. The pieces illustrate the performative & fictive nature of history.

Book details

List price: $46.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/28/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 7.76" wide x 9.17" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Robert A. Rosenstone is Professor of History, California Institute of Technology, and author of Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan and Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed (both from Harvard).



Acknowledgements


Introduction


Introduction



Self-Reflexive



When I Was a Child, I Danced as a Child, but Now That I Am Old, I Think About Salvation



Writing, Rewriting the Beach



Reconditioning History



Not a "Kodak Moment"



New Voices



Impressions of the Somme



Antonio Foscarini in the City of Crossed Destinies



Narrating a Southern Tragedy



Reconstructing the Voice of a Noblewoman of the Time of Peter the Great: Daria Mikhailovna Menshikova



A Prologue for La Dame D'Esprit



Blackout



Miniatures



Dictator in a Dumpster



The Abattoir of the Prairie



Liberace



Rethinking Charles Atlas


Index