Abstract
The only history and theory textbook to include accessible extracts from a wide range of historical writing. Provides a comprehensive introduction to the theorists who have most inflenced twentieth-century historians. Chapters follow a consistent structure, putting difficult ideas into an accessible context. This is the only critical reader aimed at the undergraduate market. // Table of Contents
The empiricists --
Marxist historians --
Freud and psychohistory --
The Annales --
Historical sociology --
Quantitative history --
Anthropology and ethnohistorians --
The question of narrative --
Oral history --
Gender and history --
Postcolonial perspectives --
The challenge of poststructuralism/postmodernism. Readings: England under the Tudors. Chapter II, Henry VII: securing the dynasty / G.R. Elton --
Exploitation / E.P. Thompson --
The legend of Hitler's childhood / Erik H. Erikson --
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Philip II / Fernand Braudel --
France, Russia, China: a structural analysis of social revolutions / Theda Skocpol --
The household: demographic and economic change in England, 1650-1970 / Richard Wall --
Yucatec Maya women and the Spanish conquest: role and ritual in historical reconstruction / Inga Clendinnen --
The fictions of factual representation / Hayden White --
Anzac memories: putting popular memory theory into practice in Australia / Alistair Thomson --
Gender divisions and class formation in the Birmingham middle class, 1780-1850 / Catherine Hall --
White Buffalo Woman / Henrietta Whiteman --
Science and séance: transgressions of gender and genre / Judith R. Walkowitz.
The empiricists --
Marxist historians --
Freud and psychohistory --
The Annales --
Historical sociology --
Quantitative history --
Anthropology and ethnohistorians --
The question of narrative --
Oral history --
Gender and history --
Postcolonial perspectives --
The challenge of poststructuralism/postmodernism. Readings: England under the Tudors. Chapter II, Henry VII: securing the dynasty / G.R. Elton --
Exploitation / E.P. Thompson --
The legend of Hitler's childhood / Erik H. Erikson --
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Philip II / Fernand Braudel --
France, Russia, China: a structural analysis of social revolutions / Theda Skocpol --
The household: demographic and economic change in England, 1650-1970 / Richard Wall --
Yucatec Maya women and the Spanish conquest: role and ritual in historical reconstruction / Inga Clendinnen --
The fictions of factual representation / Hayden White --
Anzac memories: putting popular memory theory into practice in Australia / Alistair Thomson --
Gender divisions and class formation in the Birmingham middle class, 1780-1850 / Catherine Hall --
White Buffalo Woman / Henrietta Whiteman --
Science and séance: transgressions of gender and genre / Judith R. Walkowitz.