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Faced with the challenge of new ideological emphases and subjects of study, academic history has undergone significant changes in its contents in the past half-century. Simultaneously, pressures to change have been directed at its form, particularly in the shape of calls for more socially engaged an...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Faced with the challenge of new ideological emphases and subjects of study, academic history has undergone significant changes in its contents in the past half-century. Simultaneously, pressures to change have been directed at its form, particularly in the shape of calls for more socially engaged and up-to-date modes of presentation. The demand for 'history' in this more existential sense is equally evidenced by the rise of practical and popular uses of the past outside academic history writing. Reflecting on these shifts in the broader history culture, this collection explores the entanglem |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 158 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781138095335 1138095338 |
| CLC: | K0 |
| Call Number: | K0/F996 |
| Contents: |
Futures for the past ("this is a stub") / Narrativity and dialectics revisited / Cognitive inadequacy: history and the technocratic management of an artificial world / Tales of pastness and contemporaneity: on the politics of time in history and anthropology / Michael Oakeshott and Hayden White on the practical and the historical past / Hayden White and Joan W. Scott's feminist history: the practical past, the political present and an open future / |