HISTORY – THEORY AND METHOD
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Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
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Fifty Key Thinkers on History
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Reading Primary Sources
History Beyond the Text
The Interpretation of Texts from 19th and 20th Century History
A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources
Edited by Miriam Dobson and Benjamin Ziemann, both at University of Sheffield, UK
Edited by Sarah Barber and Corinna Peniston-Bird, both at University of Lancaster, UK
Reading Primary Sources goes a long way to providing answers for the fundamental questions that surround the use of primary sources: How can they be used to write history? How do interpretations differ? How does the historian approach them?
In History Beyond the Text, Sarah Barber and Corinna Peniston-Bird, open up the discussion on sources to those beyond the ’traditional’ ones. Across ten chapters different historians look at a variety of alternative sources: visual – fine art, cartoons, photography, film and television; aural – music and oral testimony; and physical – ephemera, architecture, and landscape, as well as virtual space. While the sources discussed are ‘interdisciplinary’, each contributor examines how the source can be approached from a historical perspective. Each chapter introduces the reader to the source, suggests the methodological and theoretical questions which student historians should keep in mind when using it, and provides empirical examples of approaches to the source. Pulling these disparate sources together, the introduction discusses the nature of historical sources and those factors which are unique to or shared by the sources covered throughout the book.
In the first part of this unique volume, the chapters give an overview of both traditional and new methodological approaches to the use of sources, analyzing the way that these have changed over time. Part two gives an overview of twelve different types of written sources, taking into account the huge expansion in the range of written primary sources used by historians over the last thirty years. This book is an up-to-date introduction into the historical context of these different genres, the ways they should be read, the possible insights and results these sources offer and the pitfalls of their interpretation. Reading Primary Sources pushes the reader beyond a conventional understanding of source texts as mere ’reflections’ of a given reality, instead fostering an understanding of how each of the various genres has to be seen as a media in its own right. Selected Contents: Part 1: Reading Primary Sources: Contexts and Approaches 1. Reading Primary Sources. An Introduction 2. Sources as the Foundation of Historical Scholarship. 19th Century Hermeneutics and the ’Historical Critical Method’ 3. Reading Texts After the Linguistic Turn. Approaches from the Literary Studies and their Implications Part 2: Varieties of Primary Sources and their Interpretation 1. Letters 2. Opinion Polls 3. Surveillance Reports 4. Court Files 5. Memoranda 6. Diaries 7. Novels 8. Newspapers 9. Dreams 10. Speeches 11. Testimony 12. Autobiography October 2008: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-42956-6: £65.00 Pb: 978-0-415-42957-3: £19.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY
Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Macquarie University, Australia
Taking examples of sources from around the globe, this is the perfect companion for every student of history who wants to engage with sources. Selected Contents: Introduction 1. Fine Art: The Creative Image 2. The Cartoon: The Image as Critique 3. The Photograph: The Still Image 4. Film and Television: The Moving Image 5. Music: The Creative Sound 6. Oral Testimony: The Sound of Memory 7. The Internet: Virtual Space 8. Landscape: The Configured Space 9. Architecture: The Built Object 10. Material Culture: The Object October 2008: 234x156: 272pp Hb: 978-0-415-42961-0: £65.00 Pb: 978-0-415-42962-7: £19.99 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY
Series: Routledge Key Guides Fifty Key Thinkers on History is a superb guide to historiography through the ages. The cross-section of debates and thinkers covered is unique in its breadth, taking in figures from ancient China, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages, to contemporary Europe, America, Africa and Australia; from Bede to Braudel; Marx to Michelet; Ranke to Rowbotham; Foucault to Fukuyama. Each clear and concise essay offers biographical information, a summary and discussion of the subjects approach to history and how others have engaged with it, a list of their major works and a guide to diverse resources for further study, including books, articles, films and websites. Selected Contents: Herodotus. Thucydides. Polybius. Livy. Tacitus. Bede. Ibn Khaldun. Jean Froissart. Giambattista Vico. Immanuel Kant. Edward Gibbon. G.W.F. Hegel. Leopold von Ranke. Karl Marx. Benedetto Croce. Lucien Febvre. Oswald Spengler. Marc Bloch. R.G. Collingwood. Martin Heidegger. Michael Oakeshott. Carl Gustav Hempel. Theodore William Moody. Paul Ricoeur. W.H. Walsh. G.R. Elton. Thomas Samuel Kuhn. Cheikh Anta Diop. Michel Foucault. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. Sheila Rowbotham. Francis Fukuyama October 2007: 216x138: 480pp Hb: 978-0-415-36650-2: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-36651-9: £14.99 eBook: 978-0-203-01917-7 • AVAILABLE AS AN INSPECTION COPY
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Constructing a National Past Historiography, National Identity and the Origins of World War Two Patrick Finney, University of Aberystwyth, UK Constructing a National Past is a broad and comparative international survey of the historiography of the Second World War. It explores how, in the case of each of the major combatant countries, historical writing on the origins of the Second World War has been inextricably linked with conceptions of national identity.
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Consuming History Jerome De Groot, University of Manchester, UK Non-academic history – ‘public history’ – is a complex, dynamic entity which impacts on the popular understanding of the past at all levels. There is currently a voracious audience for all things historical: cultural histories, celebrity historians, historical novels, films, TV drama, documentaries and relaity shows, as well as cultural events and historical re-enactments. In Consuming History, Jerome De Groot examines how society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. It looks at the presentation and interpretation of history across a wide range of media, from blockbuster fictional narratives such as The Da Vinci Code to televised documentaries such as Simon Schama’s A History of Britain and star-studded historical films like Titanic. Jerome De Groot probes how museums have responded to the heritage debate and the way in which new technologies have brought about a shift in historical access, from online gameplaying to internet genealogy. And he discusses the often conflicted relationship between ‘public’ and academic history, and raises important questions about the theory and practice of history as a discipline. Consuming History is an important and engaging analysis of the social consumption of history and offers an essential path through the debates for readers interested in history, cultural studies and the media.
Over seven case studies – Great Britain, Russia, the United States, France, Italy, Germany and Japan – Patrick Finney discusses the political, cultural, disciplinary and archival factors which have contributed to the construction of these historical understandings. Selected Contents: 1. Introduction: Making History, Making Identity 2. Great Britain: The Romance of Decline 3. Russia: Fighting and Refighting the Great Patriotic War 4. The United States: Conspiracy, Exceptionalism and World Order 5. France: The Dubious Allure of Decadence 6. Italy: Anti-Fascism, Continuity and the Forging of a Nation 7. Germany: Intention and Function in Mastering the Past 8. Japan: Evasion and Engagement 9. Conclusion September 2008: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-23017-9: £75.00 Pb: 978-0-415-23018-6: £21.99
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