Thinking about history
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it. D...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press
cop. 2017
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- The history of whom? History from above: "Great men" and a few women ; Social history and quantification ; E. P. Thompson's historical revolution ; Resistance and agency ; Power and the private sphere
- The history of where? How national history became unnatural ; Oceans, middle grounds, borderlands ; The rise of global history ; Displacing Euro-America
- The history of what? From ideas to things ; The changing history of ideas ; Thomas Kuhn's scientific revolution ; Science in historical context ; The new history of things ; Nature and other nonhuman actors
- How is history produced? From chroniclers to academics ; Popular and public history ; Orthodoxy and revisionism: how debate shapes history ; Do sources and archives make history?
- Causes or meanings? Causality and history ; In search of laws and patterns: social science history and comparison ; Marxism and the Annales school ; Multicausal history and the return of the event ; In search of meaning: microhistory
- Clifford Geertz, Michel Foucault, and the "new cultural history"
- Facts or fictions? The rise and fall of objectivity ; Postmodernism and history: radical skepticism and new methods ; Everything is constructed ; Barbarians at the gate ; Distortion or imagination: where do we draw the line? ; Conclusion
