Houses of History - A Critical Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory

Zusammenfassung An introduction to the major theoretical perspectives employed by twentieth century historians. Incorporates a range of approaches to the writing of history giving accounts of eleven schools of thought. Each chapter begins with a description of the ideas integral to the particular theory which are then explored. The empiricists; Marxist historians; Freud and psychohistory; the "Annales"; historical sociology; quantitive history; anthropology and ethnohistorians; the question of narrative; memory and oral history; gender and history; postcolonial perspectives; the challenge of poststructural/postmodernism.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anna Green, Anna Troup Green, Kathleen Troup
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.04.1999
• EAN: 9780719052552
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-5255-2
• Seiten: 352
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika