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Zusatztext 'An excellent potential teaching tool as well as a book from which those working in various branches of historiography will profit.'- Daniel Woolf! University of Alberta! General Editor! TheOxford History of Historical Writing'An expert and well-conceived collection! presenting the major issuesin historiography over the past three centuries ... The work as a whole will become the standard reader for surveying historical theory and practice in the West. It is simply excellent.'- Bonnie Smith! Rutgers University! USA Informationen zum Autor Adam Budd is Director of the Historical Methods Programme in the Graduate School of History and Classics at the University of Edinburgh. He teaches historiography, bibliography, and eighteenth-century literary history, and has published on related topics. His study of medicine and literary culture in the Scottish Enlightenment is forthcoming. Klappentext A perfect introduction to historiography, including both the canon of ideas since the eigtheenth century and the work that formed and discussed those ideas. Zusammenfassung A perfect introduction to historiography, including both the canon of ideas since the eigtheenth century and the work that formed and discussed those ideas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Historian's Task 2. Giambattista Vico and the Meaning of Historical Origins 3. Historical Writing and Moral Psychology 4. The Task of Romantic History 5. Historicism, the Historian's Craft, and the New Century 6. The Approach of Social Science 7. Historical Time and Historical Structures 8. Marxism and "History from Below' 9. History from Within: Trauma and Memory 10. Postmodernism: 'The Linguistic Turn' 11. Sexual Identity 12. Anthropological Description and Objects of History 13. The Social History of Material Objects
