New History

This important new textbook provides an evaluation and overview of the state of history as it is imagined, conceptualised and practised today. Written by one of the leading 'postmodern historians' working today, the book represents a provocative re-thinking of our engagement with the past.
From its explicit postmodern position the book addresses the significance of the difference between 'the past' and 'history'.

List of contents

Introduction: What is History?

Section One: Epistemology and Historical Knowing

1. The History of Historical Thinking

2. Inference, Causation, Agency and Meaning

Section Two: Referentiality, Evidence and Practice

3. Evidence, Reality and Correspondence

4. Objectivity, Truth and Relativism in History

Section Three: Theory and Concept

5. The History of Social Theory

6. Constructing Histories

Section Four: Writing the Past as History

7. Narrative and Representation

8. History as Historiography

Conclusion

Guide to Further Reading

Notes

Product details

• Authors: Alun Munslow
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781138158207
• ISBN: 978-1-138-15820-7
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: History: Concepts,Theories and Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; HISTORY / Historiography, Historiography