Historians on history : readings /
Historians on history : readings /
edited and introduced by John Tosh.
- Third edition.
- Routledge, 2018.
- xii, 325 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface to the third edition
A note on the texts
Publisher’s acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I The documentary ideal
1 V.H. Galbraith
2 Richard Cobb
3 Arlette Farge
PART II The long view
History as progress
4 J.H. Plumb
5 E.H. Carr
The national story
6 G.R. Elton
7 A. Adu Boahen
Marxism
8 E.J. Hobsbawm
9 Eugene Genovese
PART III Radical counter-currents
History from below
10 Raphael Samuel
11 Vincent Harding
12 Alf Lüdtke
Gender
13 Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
14 Joan Scott
15 Jeanne Boydston
Postcolonialism
16 Ranajit Guha
17 Dipesh Chakrabarty
18 Catherine Hall
PART IV The contraction and expansion of scale
Microhistory
19 Charles Phythian-Adams
20 Giovanni Levi
Transnational and global history
21 Thomas Bender
22 Sebastian Conrad
PART V History as social science
Structural history
23 Philip Abrams
24 E.J. Hobsbawm
The authority of numbers
25 Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
26 Robert William Fogel
Reactions
27 Fernand Braudel
28 Lawrence Stone
29 Theodore Zeldin
PART VI The cultural turn
The impact of Postmodernism
30 Patrick Joyce
31 Joan Scott
32 Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob
The new cultural history
33 Mark Poster
34 Robert Darnton
Memory and culture
35 Pierre Nora
36 Katherine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone
PART VII History and society
The uses of history
37 Peter Laslett
38 Michael Howard
39 Howard Zinn
Engaging with the public
40 Ludmilla Jordanova
41 Gerda Lerner
Further reading
Index
Bringing together in one volume the key writings of many of the major historians from the last few decades, Historians on History provides an overview of the evolving nature of historical enquiry, illuminating the political, social and personal assumptions that have governed and sustained historical theory and practice. John Tosh’s Reader begins with a substantial introductory survey charting the course of historiographical developments since the second half of the nineteenth century. He explores both the academic mainstream and more radical voices within the discipline. The text is composed of readings by historians such as Braudel, Carr, Elton, Guha, Hobsbawm, Scott and Jordanova. This third edition has been brought up to date by taking the 1960s as its starting point. It now includes more recent topics like public history, microhistory and global history, in addition to established fields like Marxist history, gender history and postcolonialism. Historians on History is essential reading for all students of historiography and historical theory.
9781138057180 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781138057203 (pbk. : alk. paper)
History
Historiography.--Philosophy.
901 / TOS
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface to the third edition
A note on the texts
Publisher’s acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I The documentary ideal
1 V.H. Galbraith
2 Richard Cobb
3 Arlette Farge
PART II The long view
History as progress
4 J.H. Plumb
5 E.H. Carr
The national story
6 G.R. Elton
7 A. Adu Boahen
Marxism
8 E.J. Hobsbawm
9 Eugene Genovese
PART III Radical counter-currents
History from below
10 Raphael Samuel
11 Vincent Harding
12 Alf Lüdtke
Gender
13 Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
14 Joan Scott
15 Jeanne Boydston
Postcolonialism
16 Ranajit Guha
17 Dipesh Chakrabarty
18 Catherine Hall
PART IV The contraction and expansion of scale
Microhistory
19 Charles Phythian-Adams
20 Giovanni Levi
Transnational and global history
21 Thomas Bender
22 Sebastian Conrad
PART V History as social science
Structural history
23 Philip Abrams
24 E.J. Hobsbawm
The authority of numbers
25 Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
26 Robert William Fogel
Reactions
27 Fernand Braudel
28 Lawrence Stone
29 Theodore Zeldin
PART VI The cultural turn
The impact of Postmodernism
30 Patrick Joyce
31 Joan Scott
32 Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob
The new cultural history
33 Mark Poster
34 Robert Darnton
Memory and culture
35 Pierre Nora
36 Katherine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone
PART VII History and society
The uses of history
37 Peter Laslett
38 Michael Howard
39 Howard Zinn
Engaging with the public
40 Ludmilla Jordanova
41 Gerda Lerner
Further reading
Index
Bringing together in one volume the key writings of many of the major historians from the last few decades, Historians on History provides an overview of the evolving nature of historical enquiry, illuminating the political, social and personal assumptions that have governed and sustained historical theory and practice. John Tosh’s Reader begins with a substantial introductory survey charting the course of historiographical developments since the second half of the nineteenth century. He explores both the academic mainstream and more radical voices within the discipline. The text is composed of readings by historians such as Braudel, Carr, Elton, Guha, Hobsbawm, Scott and Jordanova. This third edition has been brought up to date by taking the 1960s as its starting point. It now includes more recent topics like public history, microhistory and global history, in addition to established fields like Marxist history, gender history and postcolonialism. Historians on History is essential reading for all students of historiography and historical theory.
9781138057180 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781138057203 (pbk. : alk. paper)
History
Historiography.--Philosophy.
901 / TOS