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Historians on history : readings / edited and introduced by John Tosh.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Routledge, 2018.Edition: Third editionDescription: xii, 325 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781138057180 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9781138057203 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 901 23 TOS
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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