Doing History
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Doing History bridges the gap between the way history is studied in school or as represented in the media and the way it is studied at university level. History as an academic discipline has dramatically changed in recent decades and has been enhanced by ideas from other disciplines, the influence of postmodernism and historians’ incorporation of their own reflections into their work. Doing History presents the ideas and debates that shape how we ‘do’ history today, covering arguments about the nature of historical knowledge and the function of historical writing, whether we can ever really know what happened in the past, what sources historians depend on, and the relative value of popular and academic histories.
This revised edition includes new chapters on public history and activist histories. It looks at global representations of the past across the centuries, and provides up-to-date suggestions for further reading, presenting the reader with a thorough and current introduction to studying history at an academic level as well as a pathway to progress this study further. Clearly structured and accessibly written, it is an essential volume for all students embarking on the study of history.
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- Taylor & Francis
- 9781000220520
- 9781032219318
- ePub
- 2
- Mark Donnelly; Claire Norton
- English
- 2020-11-16
- 100
- 2
- 2
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Part I What is history?
- 1 Introduction
- Is history the same as the past?
- Why study history?
- What are the functions of history?
- What is historiography?
- Notes
- Further reading
- 2 Pre-modern historians on history
- History in the ancient world
- Pre-modern Islamic history
- Early modern Ottoman historians
- Progressive, linear history and modernity
- Notes
- Further reading
- 3 Academic history
- Nationalism, Ranke and history in the university
- Reconstructionist history
- History from below – social science-influenced, constructionist history
- Marxism and socio-economic approaches to history
- The Annales school
- Postmodernism, deconstructionism and the re-imagination of history writing
- Voices: whose past is told?
- Notes
- Further reading
- Part II What historians do
- 4 Using sources
- What are primary and secondary sources?
- How do historians use sources?
- Do primary sources provide access to the past?
- Notes
- Further reading
- 5 Creating historical knowledge
- What is the historical method?
- Does the historical method ensure that our knowledge of the past is objective and true?
- Responses to postmodern challenges
- Plural pasts and Rortian pragmatism: an alternative view of historical knowledge
- How can we distinguish between good and bad history?
- Notes
- Further reading
- 6 Writing histories: Historical interpretations and imagination
- What kinds of questions do historians answer?
- Are there ‘right answers’ to historical questions?
- What is the role of imagination in history writing?
- Why do historians disagree with each other?
- Notes
- Further reading
- Part III Whose history?
- 7 The power of history
- Colonial history
- Nationalist history
- The history curriculum – who decides what is taught and why?
- The power of the professional historian
- The power of the archive
- The myth of history for its own sake
- Notes
- Further reading
- 8 Histories from another perspective
- Introduction
- Non-Eurocentric history
- Postcolonial history
- Feminist and LGBTQ+ history
- Black history
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Further reading
- 9 Popular history
- History without historians
- Digital histories
- Screening the past
- Past presencing
- Notes
- Further reading
- Part IV History today
- 10 Public history
- What is public history?
- The heritage industry
- What is shared authority?
- Collective memory
- Notes
- Further reading
- 11 Liberating history
- Ethical meditations, identity and activism
- The end of history? Vernacular forms of past-talk
- Colonial trophies
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Further reading
- Bibliography
- Index