Axel Schneider, Daniel Woolf

Oxford History of Historical Writing, Volume 5

Historical Writing Since 1945
Herausgeber: Schneider, Axel; Hesketh, Ian; Woolf, Daniel

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Produktbeschreibung

Volume 5 offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally since 1945. Divided into two parts, part one selects and surveys theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to history, and part two examines select national and regional historiographies throughout the world.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford History of Historical Writing
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 744
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 167mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 1246g
• ISBN-13: 9780199225996
• ISBN-10: 0199225990
• Artikelnr.: 31199291

Autorenporträt

Axel Schneider was born in Germany. Educated at Erlangen University, National Taiwan Cheng-chi University, and Bochum University he has taught at the Universities of Heidelberg (Germany), Leiden (The Netherlands), National Taiwan Cheng-chi University, and Beijing University. In 2009 he was appointed Professor of Modern China Studies at Göttingen University, where is currently also serving as Director of the Göttingen Centre for Modern East Asian Studies. Editor of the Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography, he has published widely in German, English, and Chinese on modern Chinese historical writing. Daniel Woolf was born in England and grew up in Canada. Educated at Queen's University and Oxford, he has taught at several Canadian Universities including Dalhousie, McMaster, and the University of Alberta. In 2009 he was appointed Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, where he is currently also serving as Principal and Vice-Chancellor. General Editor of the Oxford History of Historical Writing, he is also the author or editor of several previous books and many articles and book chapters. He previously also edited the two volume Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents:

Axel Schneider and Daniel Woolf: Editors' Introduction
1: Chris Lorenz: History and Theory;
2: Alon Confino: History and Memory;
3: Antoon De Baets: Censorship and History since 1945;
4: Gyan Prakash: Postcolonial Criticism and History: Subaltern Studies;
5: Jürgen Osterhammel: World History;
6: Peer Vries: Global Economic History: A Survey;
7: Julie Des Jardins: Women's and Gender History;
8: J. R. McNeill: The Historiography of Environmental History;
9: Seymour Mauskopf and Alex Roland: The Historiography of Science and Technology;
10: Kevin Passmore: History and Social Science in the West;
11: Stefan Berger: From the Search for Normality to the Search for Normality: German Historical Writing;
12: Maciej Górny: Historical Writing in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary;
13: Matthias Middell: French Historical Writing;
14: Michael Bentley: British Historical Writing;
15: Rolf Torstendahl: Scandinavian Historical Writing;
16: Stuart Woolf: Italian Historical Writing;
17: Ulf Brunnbauer: Historical Writing in the Balkans;
18: Denis Kozlov: Athens and Apocalypse: Writing History in Soviet Russia;
19: Toyin Falola: African Historical Writing;
20: Joel Horowitz: Argentine Historical Writing in an Era of Political Instability;
21: Marshall C. Eakin: Brazilian Historical Writing;
22: Guillermo Zermeño Padilla: Mexican Historical Writing;
23: Ian Tyrell: American Historical Writing;
24: Youssef M. Choueiri: Arab Historical Writing;
25: Supriya Mukherjee: Indian Historical Writing since 1947;
26: Patrick Jory: Thai Historical Writing;
27: Patricia Pelley: Vietnamese Historical Writing;
28: Ann Kumar: Indonesian Historical Writing since Independence;
29: Bain Attwood: Settler Histories and Indigenous Pasts: New Zealand and Australia;
30: Susan Weigelin-Schwiedrzik: Chinese Historical Writing since 1949;
31: Sebastian Conrad: Japanese Historical Writing;
32: Henry Em: Historians and Historical Writing in Korea;
Allan Megill: Epilogue: On the Current and Future State of Historical Writing

Rezensionen

The Oxford History of History Writing is a fundamental publication on international historiography traditions, its problems, and key actors. Zaur Gasimov, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas