Manifestos for history
Written by some of the world's leading historians and theorists of history, Manifestos for History draws together a series of manifestos that address the question of what kinds of histories we ought to be considering and making in and for the twenty-first century. With a foreword by Joanna Bour...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Hoboken : Taylor and Francis,
2014
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schlagworte: | History |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource (251 p) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction: On fidelity and diversity; 1 Space for the bird to fly; 2 History-writing as critique; 3 Manifesto for a history of the media; 4 The closed space of choice: A manifesto on the future of history; 5 'Humani nil alienum': The quest for 'human nature'; 6 History and the politics of recognition; 7 The gift of the past: Towards a critical history; 8 Performing cross-culturally; 9 Historical fiction and the future of academic history
- 10 Alternate worlds and invented communities: History and historical consciousness in the age of interactive media11 Being an improper historian; 12 Resisting apocalypse and rethinking history; 13 Manifesto for an analytical political history; 14 Historiographical criticism: A manifesto; 15 The past of the future: From the foreign to the undiscovered country; Afterword: Manifesto time; Index