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This is a fully developed introductory history book: historiography is a core course for history students, and this volume covers both this, and also teaches methodology and skills.
List of contents
History: An Introduction to Theory, Method, Practice Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: History Matters Section One: Theory Part 1: Perspectives and Themes 1 Proof and the Problem of Objectivity 2 The Ordering of Time Part 2: Philosophies 3 Enlightenment and Romanticism 4 From Hegel to von Ranke 5 Postmodernism and Postcolonialism Part 3: History 6 From the Ancients to the Christians 7 From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance 8 The English Tradition Section Two: Method Part 4: Varieties 9 Political, Social and Cultural 10 Feminist 11 Public 12 Global Part 5: Related Disciplines 13 Visual Cultures 14 Anthropology 15 Geography 16 Sociology 17 Economics Section Three: Practice Part 6: Skills and Techniques 18 Sources 19 Archives 20 Oral Testimony Bibliography Index
About the author
Dr Peter Claus is a Senior Research Fellow in History at Pembroke College, Oxford. He has researched and written about social networks, social investigation and cultural forms in the City of London and the wider metropolis in the modern period. His particular commitmenttowidening participation and teaching strategies that use the archive as a way of enthusing students from non-traditional backgrounds has led to a more recent interest in the historical role of education and training in the development of public policy. Dr John Marriott is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of East London, where he remains involved in the work of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. His research interests are in the nexus between London and empire in the modern era on which he has written widely. Most recently, his Beyond the Tower: a History of East London, published by Yale University Press, appeared in 2011. Last year he emigrated to Yorkshire where he is struggling to restore an early Georgian townhouse.
