History in practice
"This new study by one of the liveliest and most acute practitioners in the field has a refreshing transparency, a determination to demystify what historians do. It looks at history as an academic discipline but also engages with the use of historical ideas in the wider world. It examines the way historians have 'divided up' their subject, how this has changed and with what effects. Why have certain fields, such as women's history and black history, generated such intense debates about their va…
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- Full title :History in practice / Ludmilla Jordanova.
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"This new study by one of the liveliest and most acute practitioners in the field has a refreshing transparency, a determination to demystify what historians do. It looks at history as an academic discipline but also engages with the use of historical ideas in the wider world. It examines the way historians have 'divided up' their subject, how this has changed and with what effects. Why have certain fields, such as women's history and black history, generated such intense debates about their value and validity? Is there justification for the frequent characterisation of history as something of a jackdaw subject, with a tendency to appropriate theories and concepts from other areas? What is the nature of the links with adjacent fields, such as anthropology and literary theory?" "Issues such as these are part of the book's careful mapping of the theory and practice of history, exploring the discipline's breadth, its complexities and the intellectual tasks it takes on."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2000.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Arnold, Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2000.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 224 pages : : illustrations, portraits ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0340663316, 9780340663318, 0340663324, 9780340663325
- oclc:ocm43674690
- LC Classification:D16
- Dewey Decimal:900
Table of Contents
List of illustrations -- Preliminaries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mapping the discipline of history -- 3. History and other disciplines -- 4. The status of historical knowledge -- 5. Periodisation -- 6. Public history -- 7. Historians' skills -- Postscript: History's future: a personal statement -- Further reading -- Glossary -- Index.
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