Recent Trends In Historiography
Recent Trends In Historiography

Author: Satish K. Bajaj

Publisher: Anmol Publications PVT. LTD.

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9788174888778

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The Modern Historiography Is Passing Through A Phase Of Enormous Elaboration With Multi-Dimensional Ramifications. The Great Proliferation Of Historical Writings Regrettably Has Not Illuminated Central Themes Of Modern History, Instead Has Woefully Obscured Them. Moreover, Modern Historical Scholarship, An International Enterprise Which It Has Always Been Is Confronted With A Crisis Because On The One Hand There Is Decreasing Relevance Of Spatial Concept Of Culture As The Barriers Are Collapsing, While On The Other, Increasing Alienation Of Man Has Made History Acquire A Kind Of Mythical Character. Gradually Being Abandoned As An Scholarly Enterprise, History For A Futurist Is Only A Marginal Indicator, For Scientist A Backdrop Necessary To Preface His Discoveries, For The Modern Man, It Is A Dead Burden To Be Shed As Early As Possible, For The Man In The Street Just A Myth, For A Historian An In Chartered Journey Into The Past Taking Him Nowhere And Making Him No Wiser, But For An Intellectual History Is A Total Awareness Of Time And Space.Recent Trends In Historiography Offers A General Survey Of Historical Trends Which Have Emerged Prominently In The Second Half Of The 20Th Century. It Explains The Views Of The Founders, Promoters And Critics In A Simple, Lucid And Systematic Manner.

A Global History of Modern Historiography
A Global History of Modern Historiography

Author: Georg G Iggers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1317895010

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So far histories of historiography have concentrated almost exclusively on the West. This is the first book to offer a history of modern historiography from a global perspective. Tracing the transformation of historical writings over the past two and half centuries, the book portrays the transformation of historical writings under the effect of professionalization, which served as a model not only for Western but also for much of non-Western historical studies. At the same time it critically examines the reactions in post-modern and post-colonial thought to established conceptions of scientific historiography. A main theme of the book is how historians in the non-Western world not only adopted or adapted Western ideas, but also explored different approaches rooted in their own cultures.

Doing Recent History
Doing Recent History

Author: Claire Bond Potter

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2012-04-25

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0820343714

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Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and personalities as disparate as Chavez and Schlafly, books about the history of our own time have become arguably the most exciting and talked-about part of the discipline. Despite this rich tradition and growing popularity, historians have engaged in little discussion about the specific methodological, political, and ethical issues related to writing about the recent past. The twelve essays in this collection explore the challenges of writing histories of recent events where visibility is inherently imperfect, hindsight and perspective are lacking, and historiography is underdeveloped. Those who write about events that have taken place since 1970 encounter exciting challenges that are both familiar and foreign to scholars of a more distant past, including suspicions that their research is not historical enough, negotiation with living witnesses who have a very strong stake in their own representation, and the task of working with new electronic sources. Contributors to this collection consider a wide range of these challenges. They question how sources like television and video games can be better utilized in historical research, explore the role and regulation of doing oral histories, consider the ethics of writing about living subjects, discuss how historians can best navigate questions of privacy and copyright law, and imagine the possibilities that new technologies offer for creating transnational and translingual research opportunities. Doing Recent History offers guidance and insight to any researcher considering tackling the not-so-distant past.

History in Crisis?
History in Crisis?

Author: Norman James Wilson

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780205848959

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Explore the possibilities remaining for historical study. This book explores the possibilities remaining for historical study in the face of the current trends, including postcolonialism, postmodernism, and deconstruction, among others. This text is available in a variety of formats -- digital and print. Pearson offers its titles on the devices students love through CourseSmart, Amazon, and more. To learn more about our programs, pricing options and customization, click the Choices tab. Learning Goals Upon completing this text, readers will be able to: Understand how to examine trends in history. Understand how historical events influence today's world.

Historiography
Historiography

Author: Tej Ram Sharma

Publisher: Concept Publishing Company

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9788180691553

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Historiography in the Twentieth Century
Historiography in the Twentieth Century

Author: Georg G. Iggers

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0819573795

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“No one looking for a well-informed introduction to . . the key views of history adopted by professional historians . . could find a better one than this.” ―Richard J. Evans, author of In Defence of History A broad perspective on historical thought and writing, with a new epilogue. In this book, now published in ten languages, a preeminent intellectual historian examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiography. Georg G. Iggers traces the basic assumptions upon which historical research and writing have been based, and describes how the newly emerging social sciences transformed historiography following World War II. The discipline’s greatest challenge may have come in the last two decades, when postmodern ideas forced a reevaluation of the relationship of historians to their subject and questioned the very possibility of objective history. Iggers sees the contemporary discipline as a hybrid, moving away from a classical, macrohistorical approach toward microhistory, cultural history, and the history of everyday life. The new epilogue, by the author, examines the movement away from postmodernism towards new social science approaches that give greater attention to cultural factors and to the problems of globalization. “The book has all the virtues one associates with Georg Iggers—lucidity, detachment, balance, and the ability to reveal the relation between trends in historical writing and their political and cultural contexts.” —Peter Burke, Cambridge University

The New American History
The New American History

Author: Eric Foner

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9781566395526

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Originally released in 1990, The New American Historyedited for the American Historical Association by Eric Foner, has become an indispensable volume for teachers and students. In essays that chart the shifts in interpretation within their fields, some of our most prominent American historians survey the key works and themes in the scholarship of the last three decades. Along with substantially revised essays from the first edition, this volume presents three entirely new ones - on intellectual history, the history of the West, and the histories of the family and sexuality. The second edition of The New American Historyreflects, in Foner's words, "the continuing vitality and creativity of the study of the past, how traditional fields are being expanded and redefined even as new ones are created." Author note: Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books, including Reconstruction, 1863-1877which was awarded the Bancroft Prize.

The Routledge History of Twentieth-Century United States
The Routledge History of Twentieth-Century United States

Author: Jerald Podair

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-02

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1317485661

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The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States is a comprehensive introduction to the most important trends and developments in the study of modern United States history. Driven by interdisciplinary scholarship, the thirty-four original chapters underscore the vast range of identities, perspectives and tensions that contributed to the growth and contested meanings of the United States in the twentieth century. The chronological and topical breadth of the collection highlights critical political and economic developments of the century while also drawing attention to relatively recent areas of research, including borderlands, technology and disability studies. Dynamic and flexible in its possible applications, The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States offers an exciting new resource for the study of modern American history.

Historiography: An Introductory Guide
Historiography: An Introductory Guide

Author: Eileen Ka-May Cheng

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-03-08

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1441135995

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"What is historiography?" asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938. Professional historians continue to argue over the meaning of the term. This book challenges the view of historiography as an esoteric subject by presenting an accessible and concise overview of the history of historical writing from the Renaissance to the present. Historiography plays an integral role in aiding undergraduate students to better understand the nature and purpose of historical analysis more generally by examining the many conflicting ways that historians have defined and approached history. By demonstrating how these historians have differed in both their interpretations of specific historical events and their definitions of history itself, this book conveys to students the interpretive character of history as a discipline and the way that the historian's context and subjective perspective influence his or her understanding of the past.