Recent themes in historical thinking : historians in conversation
Offering a look at trends in methods of historical inquiry, this book includes topics of historical inquiry as the impact of postmodernism on the field, the relationship between professional and popular history, and the importance of historical consciousness.
Print Book, English, ©2008
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, ©2008
Aufsatzsammlung
vi, 141 pages ; 23 cm.
9781570037405, 9781570037412, 157003740X, 1570037418
175289977
Historical inquiry and thinking today / Donald A. Yerxa
Are we asking too much of history? / Allan Megill
What is history now? : an interview with David Cannadine / Donald A. Yerxa
On the current state of history : an interview with Richard J. Evans / Donald A. Yerxa
Collective memory, history education, and historical consciousness / Peter Seixas
Historical thinking is unnatural
and immensely important : an interview with Sam Wineburg / Joseph S. Lucas
Popular and professional history / John Lukacs
public use of history / Jeremy Black
Postmodernism and the truth of history / C. Behan McCullagh
Postmodernism and historical inquiry : spoiled for choice? / Beverley Southgate
Postmodernism and historiography / Willie Thompson
Telling it like it wasn't / Richard J. Evans
Is the dark light enough? / Edward Ingram
Good history needs counterfactuals / Richard Ned Lebow
Counterfactuals and the historical imagination / William H. McNeill
new counterfactualists / Allan Megill
Alternate history and memory / Gavriel Rosenfeld
Counterfactualism defended / Jeremy Black
When do counterfactuals work? / Robert Cowley
Response / Richard J. Evans
Compiles articles that originally appeared in Historically speaking