The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies
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Book Description
The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies provides a much-needed critical introduction to the major historians and philosophers together with the central issues, ideas and theories that have prompted the rethinking of history that has gathered pace since the 1990s.
With twenty-nine new entries, and many that have been substantially updated, key concepts for the new history are examined through the ideas of leading thinkers such as Kant, Nietzsche, Croce, Collingwood, White, Foucault and Derrida, and through subjects ranging over class, empiricism, hermeneutics, inference, relativism and technology.
New entries for the second edition include:
* Carl Becker
* Frank R. Ankersmit
* Jean-François Lyotard
* gender
* justified belief
* the aesthetic turn
* race
* film
* biography
* cultural history
* critical theory and experimental history.
With a revised introduction setting out the state of the discipline of history today, as well as an extended and updated bibliography, this is the essential reference work for all students of history.
About the Author
Alun Munslow is a well-known commentator on the nature of historical thought and practice, and founding and UK editor of Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice (Routledge). He is Visiting Professor of History and Historical Theory at the University College, Chicester, and Professor Emeritus of History and Historical Theory at Staffordshire University. He is the author of a number of books, including Experiments in Rethinking History with Robert A. Rosenstone (Routledge, 2004) and the Nature of History Reader with Keith Jenkins (Routledge, 2004).
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