Historians on History

by Tosh, John

• ISBN13: 9780582357952
• ISBN10: 0582357950
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This Reader brings together the key writings of the major historians of the last century. They illuminate the political, social and personal assumptions which have governed and sustained historical practice and theory. The book also brings into focus the key historiographic trends since World War Two. Key themes which are highlighted include: - The role of sources - The nation - Marxism - Radicalism - Structural history - Gender - Race - Statistics and economics Ranging widely from the earlier traditions and schools to the wake of postmodernism, authors represented include Braudel, Zeldin, Elton Carr, Hobsbawm, Joyce and Evans. This Reader provides the core reading for all History and Theory courses and will promote further debate across cognate disciplines including philosophy and literature.

Author Biography

John Tosh Professor of history at the Univerity of Surrey, Roehampton and is the author of The Pursuit of History for Longman.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
A Note on the Texts	xi
Introduction	1	(16)
Part One: History for its own Sake	17	(30)
Fidelity to the sources	19	(1)
V.H. Galbraith	20	(6)
G.R. Elton	26	(8)
Empathy and Imagination	33	(1)
C.V. Wedgwood	34	(5)
Richard Cobb	39	(8)
Part Two: Political Histories	47	(60)
History as progress	49	(1)
J.H. Plumb	50	(6)
E.H. Carr	56	(8)
The Nation	63	(1)
H. Butterfield	64	(6)
Daniel Boorstin	70	(5)
A. Adu Boahen	75	(9)
Marxism	83	(1)
Christopher Hill	84	(7)
E.J. Hobsbawm	91	(8)
Eugene Genovese	99	(8)
Part Three: The New Radicalism	107	(60)
People's History	109	(1)
Raphael Samuel	110	(9)
Ranajit Guha	119	(9)
Gender	127	(1)
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg	128	(7)
Joan Scott	135	(9)
Gisela Bok	144	(8)
Race	151	(1)
Vincent Harding	152	(7)
Catherine Hall	159	(8)
Part Four: Learning from History	167	(46)
Persistence and Change	169	(1)
March Bloch	170	(5)
Peter Laslett	175	(5)
Beyond stereotypes	179	(1)
Michael Howard	180	(8)
Howard Zinn	188	(8)
Qualified Predictions	195	(1)
H.R. Trevor-Roper	196	(7)
Alan Bullock	203	(10)
Part Five: History as Social Science	213	(58)
New questions, New Concepts	215	(1)
Richard Hofstadter	216	(8)
Philip Abrams	224	(8)
The Authority of Numbers	231	(1)
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie	232	(7)
Robert William Fogel	239	(8)
Reactions	245	(2)
Fernand Braudel	247	(7)
Lawrence Stone	254	(11)
Theodore Zeldin	265	(6)
Part Six: The Impact of Postmodernism	271	(54)
The Assault on Historicism	273	(1)
Patrick Joyce	274	(9)
Joan Scott	283	(7)
The Backlash	289	(1)
Gertrude Himmelfarb	290	(9)
Arthur Marwick	299	(9)
Assmilation and Synthesis	307	(1)
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob	308	(10)
Richard Evans	318	(7)
Part Seven: Beyond Academia	325	(15)
H.R. Trevor-Roper	328	(6)
Gerda Lerner	334	(6)
Index	340