Thinking about history
Sarah Maza.
Bok Engelsk 2017 Sarah C. Maza
| Omfang | 255 pages ;
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| Opplysninger | The history of whom? History from above: "Great men" and a few women ; Social history and quantification ; E. P. Thompson's historical revolution ; Resistance and agency ; Power and the private sphere -- The history of where? How national history became unnatural ; Oceans, middle grounds, borderlands ; The rise of global history ; Displacing Euro-America -- The history of what? From ideas to things ; The changing history of ideas ; Thomas Kuhn's scientific revolution ; Science in historical context ; The new history of things ; Nature and other nonhuman actors -- How is history produced? From chroniclers to academics ; Popular and public history ; Orthodoxy and revisionism: how debate shapes history ; Do sources and archives make history? -- Causes or meanings? Causality and history ; In search of laws and patterns: social science history and comparison ; Marxism and the Annales school ; Multicausal history and the return of the event ; In search of meaning: microhistory -- Clifford Geertz, Michel Foucault, and the "new cultural history" -- Facts or fictions? The rise and fall of objectivity ; Postmodernism and history: radical skepticism and new methods ; Everything is constructed ; Barbarians at the gate ; Distortion or imagination: where do we draw the line? ; Conclusion.
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| ISBN | 9780226109169 (cloth : alk. paper). - 9780226109336 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| ISBN(galt) | 9780226109473 (e-book)
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