266 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
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For students new to the subject of history there are many books on the "theory" of writing history but fewer on how history is actually "practised". This work by a team of historians from the University of Sussex fills this gap. The first half of the book examines a number of notable controversies that have been, and still are, the subject of historical debate - for example, race in South Africa,... Read more
Part 1 Historical Controversies: French Resistance - a Few Home Truths, H.R. Kedward; Ordinary Germans as Hitler's Willing Executioners? The Goldhagen Controversy, John C.G. Rohl; Unreliable Memories? The Use and Abuse of Oral History, Alistair Thomson; The English Reputations of Oliver Cromwell 1660-1900, Blair Worden; Histories of the Welfare State, Pat Thane; Placing Race in South African History, Saul Dubow; Agrarian Histories and Agricultural Revolutions, Alun Howkins. Part 2 Historians: The Weber Thesis - Unproven Yet Unrefuted, Richard Whatmore; R.H. Tawney - Who Did Not a Single Work Which Can Be Trusted?, William Lamont; Lawrence Stone and Interdisciplinary History, Michael Hawkins; Jacob Burckhardt - Romanticism and Cultural History, Malcolm Kitch; Anthony Blunt and Lucien Goldmann - Christianity, Marxism and the Ends of History, Brian Young; Bernard Bailyn and the Scope of American History, Colin Brooks; Writing Women In - the Development of Feminist Approaches to Women's History, Gerry Holloway; The New History - the Annales School of History and Modern Historiography, Peter R. Campbell; Opiate of the People and Stimulant for the Historian? - Some Issues in Sports History, John Lowerson; E.P. Thomson - Witness Against the Beast, Eileen Janes Yeo; Soviet Historians and the Rediscovery of the Soviet Past, B. Williams.
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William Lamont
'It is clearly written and tightly focused on practice, not theory, of history' - History
'This is a very stimulating volume, well priced, and above the general standard for collective works' - History
