History: Theory, Method & Historiography

The first book on historiography to adopt a comparative, global perspective on the topic, this text looks not just at developments in the West but also at the other great historiographical traditions in Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere in the non-Western world over the course of the past two and..

This radical analysis of the role and importance of historiography interprets the philosophy and theory of history on the basis of historicity as a human condition. The book examins the norms and methods of historiography from a philosophical point of view, but rejects generalisations tht the philos..

Despite the criticism of his peers and the inattention of his successors, Alexandru Xenopol provided Romanian nationalistic historiography with a greater measure of respectability, especially with the general public. By the time of WWI a strong sense of national identity had become entrenched as an ..

This book, originally published in 1977, is a survey of European historiography from its origins in the historians of Greece and Rome, through the annalists and chroniclers of the middle ages, to the historians of the late eighteenth century. The author concentrates on those writers whose works fit ..

The contributors to this volume, originally published in 1962, explain the raison d’être of their own specialism in history be it archaeology, political, local, economic or social history or historical geography...

1. Introduction István Mészáros 2. Class Consciousness in History E. J. Hobsbawm 3. Barnave: A Case of Bourgeois Class Consciousness Ralph Miliband 4. Class Structure and Social Consciousness Tom Bottomore 5. Reflections on History and Class Consciousness Lucien Goldmann 6. Contingent and Necessary ..

Edited by Alun Munslow and presented in concise digestible essays, the collection covers a broad range of contemporary interests and ideas and offers a rich set of reasoned alternative thoughts on our cultural engagement with times gone by. Emerging from an intensely fertile period of historical tho..

Edited by Alun Munslow and presented in concise digestible essays, the collection covers a broad range of contemporary interests and ideas and offers a rich set of reasoned alternative thoughts on our cultural engagement with times gone by. Emerging from an intensely fertile period of historical tho..

The recent wave of interest in oral history and return to the active subject as a topic in historical practice raises a number of questions about the status and function of scholarly history in our societies. This articles in this volume, originally pubished in 1990, and which originally appeared in..

Beyond Memory analyses the intricate connections between silence, acts of remembrance and acts of forgetting, and relates the topic of silence to the international research field of Cultural Memory Studies. It engages with the most recent work in the field by viewing silence as a remedy to the tradi..

This work examines controversies over textbook content around the globe: how and why do specific representations of war evolve? What are the international and national forces affecting how writers, publishers and state censors depict the past? And how do these forces differ from country to country?..

This work examines controversies over textbook content around the globe: how and why do specific representations of war evolve? What are the international and national forces affecting how writers, publishers and state censors depict the past? And how do these forces differ from country to country?..