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1. Authoring the Past

   Writing and Rethinking History

   Edited by Alun Munslow

   Please explain why you think about and write history as you do? Collecting together the responses to this question from 15 of the world’s foremost historians and theorists, Authoring the Past represents a powerful reflection on and intervention in the historiographical field. Edited by Alun...

   To Be Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. A History of History

   By Alun Munslow

   In a provocative analysis of European and American historical thinking and practice since the early 18th century, A History of History confronts several basic assumptions about the nature of history. Among these are the concept of historical realism, the belief in representationalism and the idea...

   To Be Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Discourse and Culture

   The Creation of America, 1870-1920

   By Alun Munslow

   Written history is literary artifact: taking this as its starting point, Discourse and Culture argues that the Foucauldian concept of the shifting scale of linguistic and historic values must be the central focus for a new interpretation of American culture and ideology. Six major American...

   Published September 2nd 2009 by Routledge
4. Manifestos for History

   Edited by Sue Morgan, Keith Jenkins, Alun Munslow

   Written by some of the world’s leading historians and theorists of history, Manifestos for History draws together a series of manifestos that address the question of what kinds of histories we ought to be considering and making in and for the twenty-first century. With a foreword by Joanna...

   Published August 23rd 2007 by Routledge
5. Deconstructing History

   2nd Edition

   By Alun Munslow

   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...

   Published March 16th 2006 by Routledge
6. The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies

   2nd Edition

   By Alun Munslow

   Series: Routledge Companions to History

   The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies provides a much-needed critical introduction to the major historians and philosophers together with the central issues, ideas and theories which have prompted the rethinking of history that has gathered pace since the 1990s. With twenty-nine new entries...

   Published November 16th 2005 by Routledge
7. Experiments in Rethinking History

   Edited by Alun Munslow, Robert A. Rosenstone

   From two of the world’s leading postmodern historians, this thoroughly original collection of articles allows students and researchers to understand and learn important new ways of thinking and writing about the past. This book includes a thorough two-part introduction on theory and practice as...

   Published June 30th 2004 by Routledge
8. The Nature of History Reader

   Edited by Keith Jenkins, Alun Munslow

   Series: Routledge Readers in History

   In this timely collection, key pieces of writing by leading historians are reproduced and evaluated, with an explanation and critique of their character and assumptions, and how they reflect upon the nature of the history project. The authors respond to the view that the nature of history has...

   Published April 21st 2004 by Routledge
9. The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies

   By Alun Munslow

   The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies provides a much-needed critical introduction to the major historians and philosophers together with the central issues, ideas and theories which have prompted the rethinking of history that has gathered pace since the 1990s. With twenty-nine new entries...

   Published November 24th 1999 by Routledge
10. Deconstructing History

    By Alun Munslow

    Published October 29th 1997 by Routledge