Public History: A Textbook of Practice is a guide to the many challenges historians face while teaching, learning, and practicing public history. Historians can play a dynamic and essential role in contributing to public understanding of the past, and those who work in historic …
Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past, and Oral History Theory provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible overview of this important field. Combining the study of theories drawn from disciplines rangin…
To write history is to consider how to explicate the past, to weigh the myriad possible approaches to the past, and to come to terms with how the past can be and has been used. In this book, prize-winning historian Jeremy Black considers both popular and academic approaches to t…
Se boganmeldelse v/Lund, Joachim i: 1066 Tidsskrift for historie, År: 2000, Vol.: 30 Nr.: 1, side 36-41. Se boganmeldelse v/Smith, Peter Scharff i: Fortid og Nutid, År: 1999 Nr.: 1, side 81-82. "At bogen næppe har sat punktum i diskussionen om erindringen og formidlingen af bes…
Are historians story-tellers? Is it possible to tell true stories about the past? This work combines theory with practice to offer an overview of this debate and illuminates the practical implications of these debates for the writing of history
Since the end of the 20th century' disability has become a new and effective research instrument. One of the most important fields that currently make use of disability as an analytical tool is history. This book is structured into four main parts: Challenging methodologies, pow…
In recent years, historians across the world have become increasingly interested in transnational and global approaches to the past. However, the debates surrounding this new border-crossing movement have remained limited in scope as theoretical exchanges on the tasks, responsib…
Offers a defence of the study of history against traditional empiricism and the relativism of postmodern historiography. This work discusses the relationship between Marx and Engels' theory of history, their methodology, and their politics, with a survey of the Marxist literatur…
