General History of the Caribbean Unesco - Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean

Informationen zum Autor B.W. Higman is the William Keith Hancock Professor of Australian History at the Australian National University. Klappentext Volume6 looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The authors examine how the lingual diversity of the region has affected the historian's ability to coalesce an historical account. The second half of the volume describes the writing of history in the individual territories! taking into account changes in society! economy and political structure. This volume concludes with a detailed bibliography that is comprehensive of the entire series. Zusammenfassung Volume6 looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The authors examine how the lingual diversity of the region has affected the historian's ability to coalesce an historical account. The second half of the volume describes the writing of history in the individual territories, taking into account changes in society, economy and political structure. This volume concludes with a detailed bibliography that is comprehensive of the entire series.

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• Authors: NA NA
• Assisted by: B. W. Higman (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9781403975942
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-7594-2
• No. of pages: 970
• Series: General History of the Caribbe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; B, Cultural Studies, Historiography, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Palgrave History Collection, Historiography and Method, America—History, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, Caribbean;historiography;history