R. Berkhofer

Fashioning History (eBook, PDF)

Current Practices and Principles

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230617209
• Artikelnr.: 46752290

Autorenporträt

ROBERT F. BERKHOFER, JR is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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