244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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The notion of 'history' has always been one strenuously debated by both academics and the wider population. This deeply provocative re-thinking of our engagement with the past by one of the world's leading post-modern historians takes that debate one step further.
Alun Munslow re-assesses history in the light of post-modernism and other intellectual challenges which have questioned the primacy... Read more
Introduction: What is History?
Section One: Epistemology and Historical Knowing
1. The History of Historical Thinking
2. Inference, Causation, Agency and Meaning
Section Two: Referentiality, Evidence and Practice
3. Evidence, Reality and Correspondence
4. Objectivity, Truth and Relativism in History
Section Three: Theory and Concept
5. The History of Social Theory
6. Constructing Histories
Section Four: Writing the Past as History
7. Narrative and Representation
8. History as Historiography
Conclusion
Guide to Further Reading
Notes
Section One: Epistemology and Historical Knowing
1. The History of Historical Thinking
2. Inference, Causation, Agency and Meaning
Section Two: Referentiality, Evidence and Practice
3. Evidence, Reality and Correspondence
4. Objectivity, Truth and Relativism in History
Section Three: Theory and Concept
5. The History of Social Theory
6. Constructing Histories
Section Four: Writing the Past as History
7. Narrative and Representation
8. History as Historiography
Conclusion
Guide to Further Reading
Notes
Biography
Alun Munslow is editor of the journal Rethinking History.
