Fashioning History

Current Practices and Principles

R. Berkhofer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2009 | 1st ed. 2008
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-37565-3 (ISBN)

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This book offers historians and aspiring historians a learned, absorbing, and comprehensive overview of current fashions of method, interpretation, and meaning in the context of postmodernism that has washed over the historical profession in the last two decades.

ROBERT F. BERKHOFER, JR is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.

PART I: CONSTRUING THE PAST AS HISTORY: PROCESSES AND PRESUPPOSITIONS Historical Method(s): From Evidence to Facts Historical Synthesis: From Statements to Histories PART II: COMPARING HISTORIES: FORMS, FUNCTIONS, FACTUALITY, AND THE BIGGER PICTURE Texts as Archives and Histories Things in and as Exhibits, Museums, and Historic Sites Films as Historical Representations and Resources Afterword: The History Effect and Representations of the Past

Erscheinungsdatum	15.06.2022
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 270 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Schlagworte	History • History of Literature • Interpret • modernism • Postmodernism
ISBN-10	1-349-37565-9 / 1349375659
ISBN-13	978-1-349-37565-3 / 9781349375653
Zustand	Neuware