A brief history of history / Jeremy Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Jeremy, 1955- author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Philosophy.

Historiography.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 307 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"In A Brief History of History, acclaimed historian Jeremy Black seeks to reinvigorate and redefine our ideas about history. The stories we tell about the past are a crucial aspect of all cultures. However, while the traditional storytelling process--what we think of as "history" in the proper sense--is useful, it is also misleading, not least because it leads to the repetition of bias and misinformation. Black suggests that the conventional idea of history and historians is constructed too narrowly, as it fails to engage with the broad nature of lived experience. By focusing on a singular idea or story within the history being explored, we fail to understand the interconnectivity of the everyday experience. A Brief History of History challenges accepted norms of the historical perspective and offers a view of human history that will surprise many and (perhaps) infuriate some. But above all, it is a history of historians written for this moment in time, a time when the traditional Eurocentric approach to history now appears wholly inappropriate"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Controversy of History

Origin Accounts and Sacred Time

Printing and New Universal Histories

Rejecting the Past

New Pasts

Contesting the Nations

History in the Long Cold War, 1917-1989

Methods for a Modern Age

The Many Means of History

Into the Future.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253066114

0253066115

9780253066107

0253066107

OCLC:

1353817829