1st Edition

Experiments in Rethinking History

Edited By Alun Munslow, Robert A. Rosenstone Copyright 2004
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

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 well as introductory material in each section that allows the reader to fully engage with the... Read more
List of figures, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction: practice and theory, Introduction: theory and practice, PART I Self-reflexive, PART II New voices, PART III Miniatures, Index

Biography

Alun Munslow is Professor of History and Historical Theory at Staffordshire University. He is the author of Deconstructing History, The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies and most recently The New History and is the UK editor of Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice.

Robert A. Rosenstone, Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology, is author of six books, including Romantic Revolutionary: A Biogrpahy of John Reed, Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan, Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History and King of Odessa. Currently he serves as Founding Editor of Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice.