New perspectives on historical writing / edited by Peter Burke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burke, Peter, 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

Physical Description:

viii, 306 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.

Summary:

This second edition of New Perspectives on Historical Writing examines the most exciting and important developments in the methodology and practice of history. Concentrating on some of the more recent movements, it sets out to place these within the context of long-term changes in the writing of history. The book has been thoroughly revised and updated for the second edition, and includes an entirely new chapter on environmental history.

Peter Burke is joined here by a distinguished group of internationally renowned historians including Robert Darnton, Ivan Gaskell, Richard Grove, Giovanni Levi, Boy Porter, Gwyn Prins, Joan W. Scott, Jim Sharpe, Richard Tuck, and Henk Wesseling. The contributions examine a wide range of interdisciplinary areas of historical research, including women's history, history "from below," the history of reading, oral history, the history of the body, microhistory, the history of events, the history of images, and political history.

Contents:

1 Overture. The New History: Its Past and its Future / Peter Burke 1

2 History from Below / Jim Sharpe 25

3 Women's History / Joan W. Scott 43

4 Overseas History / Henk Wesseling 71

5 On Microhistory / Giovanni Levi 97

6 Oral History / Gwyn Prins 120

7 History of Reading / Robert Darnton 157

8 Visual History / Ivan Gaskell 187

9 History of Political Thought / Richard Tuck 218

10 History of the Body Reconsidered / Roy Porter 233

11 Environmental History / Richard H. Grove 261

12 History of Events and the Revival of Narrative / Peter Burke 283.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0271021160

0271021179

OCLC:

44914373