History in crisis? : Recent directions in historiography / Norman J. Wilson, Methodist College.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Norman James, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

History--Philosophy.

History.

History--Methodology.

Physical Description:

xii, 180 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Pearson, 2013.

Summary:

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Contents:

1 What was History? 1

1.1 Historical Time and Teleology 5

1.2 A Brief History of History 8

1.3 Nineteenth-Century Historicism 12

Notes 14

2 What is History? 15

2.1 Historical Focal Points (Diachronic Versus Synchronic History) 16

2.2 History as a form of Knowledge (Art or Science?) 17

2.3 Historical Causation 21

2.4 The Study of History as an Autonomous Discipline 22

Notes 24

3 Problems of Historical Knowledge: Historicism, Presentism, and the Writing of History 25

3.1 Experiencing and Remembering the Past 26

3.2 The Indeterminacy of the Past 30

3.3 Reworking the Past 33

Notes 40

4 Cross-Pollination 42

4.1 Cliometrics: Quantification and History 44

4.2 Economics and History 48

4.3 Sociology and History 53

4.4 Anthropology and History 57

Notes 60

5 Varieties of History 62

5.1 Social History 63

5.2 Intellectual History 76

5.3 Cultural History 81

5.4 Psychohistory and its Discontents 84

5.5 Comparative History 88

Notes 91

6 Historical Actors 94

6.1 Rational Actors 95

6.2 Class 99

6.3 Gender 101

6.4 Structures of Perception 107

Notes 110

7 Postmodernist (Re)Visions 112

7.1 History and/as Language 113

7.2 Sociohistorical Pursuit and the Rise of the New Historicism 118

7.3 The Cultural Turn 120

Notes 124

8 Postcolonialism and the Scope of History 125

8.1 History of the Term "Postcolonialism" 127

8.2 The Language of Self/Other and In-Between Spaces 133

8.3 Postcolonialism and the Crisis of Historical Representation 136

8.4 The Provincialization of Europe? 138

Notes 140

9 New Terminology and Progress 141

9.1 Tricontinentalism 143

9.2 The Eclipse of Modernism: Modernism(s), Modernization(s), and Modernity(ies) 145

9.3 Progress in History? 149

Notes 150

10 The Future of History 152

10.1 History at its Best? 154

10.2 Historians and Their Education 156

10.3 Standards and Professional Conduct 157

10.4 Digital History 158

10.5 Conclusion 163

Notes 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780205848959

0205848958

OCLC:

830668830