The Modern Historiography Reader

Western Sources
Ed. by Adam Budd

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A perfect introduction to historiography, including both the canon of ideas since the eigtheenth century and the work that formed and discussed those ideas.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Readers in History
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RU50797
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 177mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 992g
• ISBN-13: 9780415458870
• ISBN-10: 0415458870
• Artikelnr.: 24424073

Autorenporträt

Adam Budd is Director of the Historical Methods Programme in the Graduate School of History and Classics at the University of Edinburgh. He teaches historiography, bibliography, and eighteenth-century literary history, and has published on related topics. His study of medicine and literary culture in the Scottish Enlightenment is forthcoming.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Historian's Task 2. Giambattista Vico and the Meaning of Historical Origins 3. Historical Writing and Moral Psychology 4. The Task of Romantic History 5. Historicism, the Historian's Craft, and the New Century 6. The Approach of Social Science 7. Historical Time and Historical Structures 8. Marxism and "History from Below' 9. History from Within: Trauma and Memory 10. Postmodernism: 'The Linguistic Turn' 11. Sexual Identity 12. Anthropological Description and Objects of History 13. The Social History of Material Objects

Rezensionen

'An excellent potential teaching tool as well as a book from which those working in various branches of historiography will profit.' - Daniel Woolf, University of Alberta, General Editor, The Oxford History of Historical Writing

'An expert and well-conceived collection, presenting the major issues in historiography over the past three centuries ... The work as a whole will become the standard reader for surveying historical theory and practice in the West. It is simply excellent.' - Bonnie Smith, Rutgers University, USA

'An excellent potential teaching tool as well as a book from which those working in various branches of historiography will profit.' - Daniel Woolf, University of Alberta, General Editor, The Oxford History of Historical Writing

'An expert and well-conceived collection, presenting the major issues in historiography over the past three centuries ... The work as a whole will become the standard reader for surveying historical theory and practice in the West. It is simply excellent.' - Bonnie Smith, Rutgers University, USA