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What Is History Now?

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ISBN-10: 1403933367

ISBN-13: 9781403933362

Edition: 2002 (Revised)

Authors: David Cannadine, David Cannadine

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E.H. Carr's What is History?, first published in 1961, was the most influential book to examine writing and thinking about history this century. To commemorate the book's forthieth anniversary, David Cannadine has gathered an all-star cast of contributors to ask and seek answers to E.H. Carr's classic question for a new generation of historians: what does it mean to study history at the start of the twenty-first century? The contributors pose this question anew for the most important and lively subfields of history writing today. For example, Alice Kessler-Harris ponders "what is gender history now?" while Paul Cartledge asks "what is social history now?" This volume stands alongside E.H.…    
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List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 7/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 172
Size: 5.57" wide x 8.53" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Preface
Prologue: What is History?--Now
What is Social History Now?
What is Political History Now?
What is Religious History Now?
What is Cultural History Now?
What is Gender History Now?
What is Intellectual History Now?
What is Imperial History Now?
Epilogue: What is History Now?
Notes on Contributors
Index