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

by Schneider, Axel; Woolf, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780199225996
• ISBN10: 0199225990
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-07-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The fifth volume ofThe Oxford History of Historical Writingoffers 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

List of Maps	p. xvi
Notes on the Contributors	p. xvii
Advisory Board	p. xxi
Editors' Introduction	p. 1
History and Theory	p. 13
History and Memory	p. 36
Censorship and History since 1945	p. 52
Postcolonial Criticism and History: Subaltern Studies	p. 74
World History	p. 93
Global Economic History: A Survey	p. 113
Women's and Gender History	p. 136
The Historiography of Environmental History	p. 159
The Historiography of Science and Technology	p. 177
History and Social Science in the West	p. 199
From die Search for Normality to the Search for Normality: German Historical Writing	p. 220
Historical Writing in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary	p. 243
French Historical Writing	p. 266
British Historical Writing	p. 291
Scandinavian Historical Writing	p. 311
Italian Historical Writing	p. 333
Historical Writing in the Balkans	p. 353
Athens and Apocalypse: Writing History in Soviet Russia	p. 375
African Historical Writing	p. 399
Argentine Historical Writing in an Era of Political and Economic Instability	p. 422
Brazilian Historical Writing	p. 440
Mexican Historical Writing	p. 454
Historical Writing in the United States	p. 473
Arab Historical Writing	p. 496
Indian Historical Writing since 1947	p. 515
Thai Historical Writing	p. 539
Vietnamese Historical Writing	p. 559
Indonesian Historical Writing after Independence	p. 575
Settler Histories and Indigenous Pasts: New Zealand and Australia	p. 594
Chinese Historical Writing since 1949	p. 615
Japanese Historical Writing	p. 637
Historians and Historical Writing in Modern Korea	p. 259
Epilogue: On the Current and Future State of Historical Writing	p. 678
Index	p. 689
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