What Is History Really About?: : Reflections On Theory And Practicereflections On Theory And Practice

by Peter Burke

2021-01-06 04:45:28

This volume gathers Professor Burke's most important essays on the theory and the practice of history. In the first part, the main theme is the way in which concepts borrowed from social and cultural theory may encourage historians to a... Read more

This volume gathers Professor Burke's most important essays on the theory and the practice of history. In the first part, the main theme is the way in which concepts borrowed from social and cultural theory may encourage historians to ask new questions about the past or help them to answer old ones. 

 

The second part of the author's work is to illustrate some major new trends in historical practice: the use of images as evidence, for instance, the interest in different attitudes to time, and the increasing awareness of the relation, close or distant, between historians and the past that they study.

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Book Details

File size8.27 X 5.83 X 0.56 in
Print pages232
PublisherEdward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd
Publication date February 28, 2018
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781912224111
Author
Peter Burke is professor of cultural history at the University of Cambridge, UK. His books include What is Cultural History? and Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe....

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