Evi Gkotzaridis

Trials of Irish History (eBook, PDF)

Genesis and Evolution of a Reappraisal

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Providing a new and stimulating conceptual framework for the study of Irish historiography, this book combines a theoretical approach with close analysis of important case studies and presents the first historical and theoretical examination of the trailblazer historians who, from 1938, spearheaded an unpoliticized Irish history

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134331987
• Artikelnr.: 38262937

Autorenporträt

Evi Gkotzaridis

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: History and Theory in the Irish Debate : Foes or Allies ? 1. The
Intellectual Mood in the 1990s 2. The Revisionist : A New Type of
Intellectual Part 2: The Genesis of Modern Historical Scholarship in
Ireland 3. Internal Critique : Vicissitudes and Potentials 4. The Loss of
History and the New Historians' Fight against Propaganda on the Irish and
Continental 'Front' 5. The Clash between the New Historians and the Bureau
of Military History Part 3: The Great Famine: The Crisis of Representation
and the Limits of Empirical History 6. Weaknesses in Ethnographic Method 7.
Theoretical Underpinnings and their Impact 8. The Claims of Memory and
Critique Part 4: Master Narratives: Discarding of Historical Thinking ? 9.
The Epistemological and Philosophical Position of Irish Revisionism 10. The
Revolution Comes Under Revisionist Scrutiny 11. The Concept of
Totalitarianism : Comparison and its Pitfalls 12. Revision, Deconstruction,
Semiology : Similar Methods? Part 5: Tensions between Theoretical Intuition
and Empirical Reflex 13. Relativism and its Opponents 14. The Problematic
of Ends and Means 15. Grappling with the Problem of Objectivity
Bibliography Index