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The New History.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: History: Concepts,Theories and Practice SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2003Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (244 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317873594
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The New HistoryDDC classification:
  • 901
LOC classification:
  • D16.7
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the series -- Introduction -- Section One: Epistemology and Historical Knowing -- Chapter 1: Epistemology and historical thinking -- Chapter 2: Reality and correspondence -- Section Two: Referentiality, Evidence and Practice -- Chapter 3: Evidence, inference, causation and agency -- Chapter 4: Objectivity, truth and relativism -- Section Three: Theory and Concept -- Chapter 5: The history of social theory -- Chapter 6: Constructing history(ies) -- Section Four: The-Past-as-History -- Chapter 7: Narrative and representation -- Chapter 8: History is historiography -- Conclusion -- Guide to key reading -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This important new textbook provides an evaluation and overview of the state of history as it is imagined, conceptualised and practised today. Written by one of the leading 'postmodern historians' working today, the book represents a provocative re-thinking of our engagement with the past. From its explicit postmodern position the book addresses the significance of the difference between 'the past' and 'history'.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the series -- Introduction -- Section One: Epistemology and Historical Knowing -- Chapter 1: Epistemology and historical thinking -- Chapter 2: Reality and correspondence -- Section Two: Referentiality, Evidence and Practice -- Chapter 3: Evidence, inference, causation and agency -- Chapter 4: Objectivity, truth and relativism -- Section Three: Theory and Concept -- Chapter 5: The history of social theory -- Chapter 6: Constructing history(ies) -- Section Four: The-Past-as-History -- Chapter 7: Narrative and representation -- Chapter 8: History is historiography -- Conclusion -- Guide to key reading -- Bibliography -- Index.

This important new textbook provides an evaluation and overview of the state of history as it is imagined, conceptualised and practised today. Written by one of the leading 'postmodern historians' working today, the book represents a provocative re-thinking of our engagement with the past. From its explicit postmodern position the book addresses the significance of the difference between 'the past' and 'history'.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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