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Historical controversies and historians /

For students new to the subject of history there are many books on the ""theory"" of writing history but fewer on how history is actually ""practised"". This work by a team of historians from the University of Sussex fills this gap. The first half of the book...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lamont, William M. (William Montgomerie)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : UCL Press, 1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Historical controversies. French resistance : a few home truths / H.R. Kedward ; Ordinary Germans as Hitler's willing executioners? The Goldhagen controversy / John C.G. Röhl ; Unreliable memories? The use and abuse of oral history / Alistair Thomson ; The English reputations of Oliver Cromwell 1660-1900 / Blair Worden ; Histories of the welfare state / Pat Thane ; Placing "race" in South African history / Saul Dubow ; Agrarian histories and agricultural revolutions / Alun Howkins
  • pt. 2. Historians. The Weber thesis : "unproven yet unrefuted" / Richard Whatmore ; R.H. Tawney : "who did not write a single work which can be trusted?" / William Lamont ; Lawrence Stone and interdisciplinary history / Michael Hawkins ; Jacob Burckhardt : romanticism and cultural history / Malcolm Kitch ; Anthony Blunt and Lucien Goldmann : Christianity, Marxism and the ends of history / Brian Young ; Bernard Bailyn and the scope of American history / Colin Brooks ; Writing women in : the development of feminist approaches to women's history / Gerry Holloway ; The new history : the Annales school of history and modern historiography / Peter R. Campbell ; Opiate of the people and stimulant for the historian? Some issues in sports history / John Lowerson ; E.P. Thompson : witness against the beast / Eileen Janes Yeo ; Soviet historians and the rediscovery of the Soviet past / B. Williams.