What is history for?
An experienced author of history and theory presents this examination of the purpose of history at a time when recent debates have rendered the question 'what is history for?' of utmost importance. Charting the development of historical studies and examining how history has been used, this study is exceptional in its focus on the future of the subject as well as its past. It is argued that history in the twenty-first century must adopt a radical and morally therapeutic role instead of studying …
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- Full title :What is history for? / Beverley Southgate.
Summary
An experienced author of history and theory presents this examination of the purpose of history at a time when recent debates have rendered the question 'what is history for?' of utmost importance. Charting the development of historical studies and examining how history has been used, this study is exceptional in its focus on the future of the subject as well as its past. It is argued that history in the twenty-first century must adopt a radical and morally therapeutic role instead of studying for 'its own sake'. Providing examples of his vision of 'history in post-modernity',
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0203696662, 9780203696668, 9781134267231, 1134267231, 9780415350983, 0415350980, 9780415350990, 0415350999, 1280463503, 9781280463501, 9786610463503, 6610463506, 1134267223, 9781134267224
- DOI:10.4324/9780203696668
- oclc:ocm70204644
- LC Classification:D16.8
- Dewey Decimal:901
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Humanities and therapeutic education -- chapter 2 History for its own sake -- chapter 3 Professed purposes -- chapter 4 Hidden agendas -- chapter 5 Life and needs in postmodernity -- chapter 6 History in postmodernity -- chapter 7 Histories for postmodernity -- some aspirations -- chapter 8 Histories for postmodernity -- some examples.
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