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Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
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Surveying the latest research, this welcome second edition of Alun Munslow’s successful Deconstructing History provides an excellent introduction to the debates and issues of postmodernist history.
This new edition has been updated and revised and, along with the original discussion material and topics, now:
assesses the claims of history as a form of ‘truthful’ explanation
discusses... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Past in a Changing Present 3. History as Reconstruction/Construction 4. History as Deconstruction 5. What is Wrong with Deconstructionist History? 6. What is Wrong with Reconstructionist/Constructionist History? 7. Michel Foucault and History 8. Hayden White and Deconstructionist History 9. Conclusion
Biography
Alun Munslow is principal lecturer in History, University of Staffordshire and editor of Rethinking History .






