Fashioning History

Current Practices and Principles
2008. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-349-37565-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 367 g

This book offers historians and aspiring historians a learned, absorbing, and comprehensive overview of current fashions of method, interpretation, and meaning in the context of postmodernism that has washed over the historical profession in the last two decades.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berkhofer, R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: CONSTRUING THE PAST AS HISTORY: PROCESSES AND PRESUPPOSITIONS Historical Method(s): From Evidence to Facts Historical Synthesis: From Statements to Histories PART II: COMPARING HISTORIES: FORMS, FUNCTIONS, FACTUALITY, AND THE BIGGER PICTURE Texts as Archives and Histories Things in and as Exhibits, Museums, and Historic Sites Films as Historical Representations and Resources Afterword: The History Effect and Representations of the Past

Über Autor(innen)

ROBERT F. BERKHOFER, JR is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.