Authoring the past : writing and rethinking history / / edited by Alun Munslow

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Disciplina: 907.2
• Soggetto topico: Historiography; History
• Altri autori: MunslowAlun <1947->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; AUTHORING THE PAST; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Writing, Rewriting the Beach: An Essay; 2 'After' History; 3 History is Public or Nothing; 4 I Am Not a Baseball Historian; 5 Beyond History; 6 Practices of Historical Narrative; 7 More Secondary Modern Than Postmodern; 8 Rethinking History; 9 Confessions of a Postmodern (?) Historian; 10 The Story of My Engagements with the Past; 11 In Search of Ariadne's Thread; 12 Invitation to Historians; 13 An Intellectual Self-Portrait or the History of a Historian ; 14 History, the Historian, and an Autobiography15 Invitation to Historians; Glossary; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Please explain why you think about and write history as you do?Collecting together the responses to this question from 15 of the world's foremost historians and theorists, Authoring the Past represents a powerful reflection on and intervention in the historiographical field. Edited by Alun Munslow and presented in concise digestible essays, the collection covers a broad range of contemporary interests and ideas and offers a rich set of reasoned alternative thoughts on our cultural engagement with times gone by. Emerging from an intensely fertile period o
• Titolo autorizzato: Authoring the past
• ISBN: 1-135-70831-2; 1-283-84514-8; 1-135-70824-X; 0-203-72006-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814720103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II