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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berkhofer, R.

Fachgebiete

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

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.