The Oxford History of Historical Writing Volume 5: Historical Writing Since 1945

by Schneider, Axel; Woolf, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780198737971
• ISBN10: 0198737971
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-10-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The fifth volume of The Oxford History of Historical Writing offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally since 1945. Divided into two parts, part one selects and surveys theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to history, and part two examines select national and regional historiographies throughout the world. It aims at once to provide an authoritative survey of the field and to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. This is chronologically the last of five volumes in a series that explores representations of the past across the globe from the beginning of writing to the present day.

Author Biography

Axel Schneider was born in Germany. Educated at Erlangen University, National Taiwan Cheng-chi University, and Bochum University he has taught at the Universities of Heidelberg (Germany), Leiden (The Netherlands), National Taiwan Cheng-chi University, and Beijing University. In 2009 he was appointed Professor of Modern China Studies at Gottingen University, where is currently also serving as Director of the Gottingen Centre for Modern East Asian Studies. Editor of the Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography, he has published widely in German, English, and Chinese on modern Chinese historical writing.

Daniel Woolf was born in England and grew up in Canada. Educated at Queen's University and Oxford, he has taught at several Canadian Universities including Dalhousie, McMaster, and the University of Alberta. In 2009 he was appointed Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, where he is currently also serving as Principal and Vice-Chancellor. General Editor of The Oxford History of Historical Writing, he is also the author or editor of several previous books and many articles and book chapters. He previously also edited the two volume Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (1998).

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction, Axel Schneider and Daniel Woolf
1. History and Theory, Chris Lorenz
2. History and Memory, Alon Confino
3. Censorship and History since 1945, Antoon De Baets
4. Postcolonial Criticism and History: Subaltern Studies, Gyan Prakash
5. World History, Jurgen Osterhammel
6. Global Economic History: A Survey, Peer Vries
7. Women's and Gender History, Julie Des Jardins
8. The Historiography of Environmental History, J. R. McNeill
9. The Historiography of Science and Technology, Seymour Mauskopf and Alex Roland
10. History and Social Science in the West, Kevin Passmore
11. From the Search for Normality to the Search for Normality: German Historical Writing, Stefan Berger
12. Historical Writing in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, Maciej Gorny
13. French Historical Writing, Matthias Middell
14. British Historical Writing, Michael Bentley
15. Scandinavian Historical Writing, Rolf Torstendahl
16. Italian Historical Writing, Stuart Woolf
17. Historical Writing in the Balkans, Ulf Brunnbauer
18. Athens and Apocalypse: Writing History in Soviet Russia, Denis Kozlov
19. African Historical Writing, Toyin Falola
20. Argentine Historical Writing in an Era of Political Instability, Joel Horowitz
21. Brazilian Historical Writing, Marshall C. Eakin
22. Mexican Historical Writing, Guillermo Zermeno Padilla
23. American Historical Writing, Ian Tyrell
24. Arab Historical Writing, Youssef M. Choueiri
25. Indian Historical Writing since 1947, Supriya Mukherjee
26. Thai Historical Writing, Patrick Jory
27. Vietnamese Historical Writing, Patricia Pelley
28. Indonesian Historical Writing since Independence, Ann Kumar
29. Settler Histories and Indigenous Pasts: New Zealand and Australia, Bain Attwood
30. Chinese Historical Writing since 1949, Susan Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
31. Japanese Historical Writing, Sebastian Conrad
32. Historians and Historical Writing in Korea, Henry Em
Epilogue: On the Current and Future State of Historical Writing, Allan Megill