This book offers historians and aspiring historians a learned, absorbing, andcomprehensive overview of current fashions of method, interpretation, and meaning in the context of postmodernism that has washed over the historical profession in the last two decades. INDICE: PART I: CONSTRUING THE PAST AS HISTORY: PROCESSES AND PRESUPPOSITIONS - Historical Method(s): From Evidence to Facts - Historical Synthesis: >From Statements to Histories - PART II: COMPARING HISTORIES: FORMS, FUNCTIONS, FACTUALITY, AND THE BIGGER PICTURE - Texts as Archives and Histories - Things in and as Exhibits, Museums, and Historic Sites - Films as Historical Representations and Resources - Afterword: The History Effect and Representations of the Past
- ISBN: 978-0-230-60868-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés