History in practice / Ludmilla Jordanova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jordanova, L. J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

History--Methodology.

Physical Description:

xvi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Contents:

Historians' values p. 5

Commitments and standards p. 6

Historians' obligations p. 7

Differences and diversities p. 8

Common ground? p. 10

Historians' roles p. 11

Defining features p. 12

Bridge p. 13

1 History in general p. 15

History and disciplines p. 15

Infrastructures p. 17

Learning about the past p. 20

Citizenship p. 21

Universities p. 22

History and its allies p. 24

Organisations for historians p. 28

Publishing p. 30

Bridge p. 38

2 Mapping the discipline of history p. 41

The dimensions of a discipline p. 41

Basic materials p. 42

Kinds of history p. 45

Politics p. 46

Society p. 48

Holistic history p. 51

Histories of lives p. 52

Fresh fields p. 54

Geographical boundaries p. 57

Quantitative approaches p. 58

Oral history p. 61

Thematic history p. 62

Theory-based history p. 63

Bridge p. 65

3 History in the humanities p. 67

Organising knowledge p. 67

Interdisciplinarity p. 69

Philosophy p. 71

Foucault p. 72

Taylor p. 75

Literature and texts p. 77

Art history/visual culture p. 82

Theories p. 88

Archaeology p. 90

Geography p. 93

Bridge p. 96

4 History in the social sciences p. 97

Knowledge and change p. 97

History and the social sciences p. 99

Terms and conditions p. 101

History and sociology p. 102

Culture and class p. 105

Anthropology and culture p. 106

History in mind p. 111

Psychology in practice p. 113

Social representations p. 115

Norbert Elias p. 117

Interdisciplinary history p. 118

Real worlds? p. 119

Bridge p. 121

5 The status of historical knowledge p. 123

History challenged p. 123

Standards and quality p. 124

Truth and reliability p. 125

Ways of knowing p. 126

Evaluating historical writings: Sources p. 131

The chimera of comprehensiveness p. 133

Assessing frameworks p. 134

Judging writing p. 135

Speculation and belief p. 141

Bridge p. 142

6 Periodisation p. 145

History and time p. 145

Dividing up the past p. 150

Events and periods p. 151

Description and periodisation p. 156

Further period terms p. 160

Metaphors and themes p. 162

Historiography and periodisation p. 164

Bridge p. 166

7 Public history p. 167

What is public history? p. 167

History displayed p. 168

The diversity of public history p. 171

Usable pasts p. 175

Genres and audiences p. 178

Public history and politics p. 180

Biography as public history p. 185

Who owns the past? p. 187

Moral judgements p. 190

Bridge p. 194

8 Historians' skills p. 197

What are skills? p. 197

Types of skills p. 198

Technical skills p. 201

Source-based skills p. 206

Interpretation and skill p. 208

The cult of the archive p. 208

Skills and non-textual sources p. 211

Teaching history p. 213

Skills and the discipline of history p. 216

Bridge p. 219

9 History in a digital age p. 221

New worlds for historians? p. 221

What is digital history? p. 222

Historicising 'digital' p. 225

The Valley of the Shadow p. 229

Criminals and courts p. 231

Studying slavery p. 233

Collaborative history p. 235

Space and time p. 238

Limitations and pitfalls p. 241

Bridge p. 243

Why trends matter p. 245

Conflicts and commemoration p. 248

Regrets and responsibilities p. 255

Imaging the past p. 257

The power of place p. 261

Globalisation p. 263

Writing world histories p. 265

Examined lives p. 267

Continuities p. 270

History now p. 271

Hillsborough and humility p. 272.

Notes:

Previous edition: London: Hodder Arnold, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781780933313

1780933312

OCLC:

864789948