History : Historiography

Presents a thematic overview of historiography explored through a series of wide-ranging articles. The text has been compiled by experts in the field and is fully indexed for ease of access. The thematic structure of the text enables each topic to be read selectively or sequentially. more...

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The fifty entries in this Companion cover the main issues in the philosophies of historiography and history, including natural history and the practices of historians.; Written by an international and multi-disciplinary group of experts.; A cutting-edge updated picture of current research in the field.; Part of the renowned Blackwell Companions series more...

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Raises the question of how we can get away from the contemporary language of globalization, so as to identify global ways of defining historical events and processes in the late 19th and 20th-centuries. This work traces the historical trajectories of notions of world order, while proposing cutting-edge transnational and global approaches. more...

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Non-academic history – ‘public history’ – is a complex, dynamic entity which impacts on the popular understanding of the past at all levels. In Consuming History, Jerome de Groot examines how society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. This book analyses a wide range of cultural entities – from computer games to daytime television, from blockbuster fictional narratives such as Da Vinci Code to DNA genealogical tools – to analyse how history works in contemporary popular culture. Jerome de Groot probes how museums have responded to the heritage debate and the way in which new technologies have brought about a shift in access to history, from online gameplaying to internet genealogy. He discusses the often conflicted relationship between ‘public’ and academic history, and raises important questions about the theory and practice of history as a discipline. Whilst mainly focussing on the UK, the book also compares the experiences of the USA, France and Germany. Consuming History is an important and engaging analysis of the social consumption of history and offers an essential path through the debates for readers interested in history, cultural studies and the media. more...

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Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was an immensely influential book that attempted to describe the entire world across all of human history and analyse its constituent elements of geography, history, ethnography, zoology and botany. Through this examination of Münster, his publications and scholarly networks, the conflicts and continuities between medieval scholarly traditions and the widening horizons of the sixteenth century are explored and revealed. Of interest to scholars of humanist culture, the Reformation and book history, this ambitious work throws into relief previously overlooked aspects of the intellectual and religious culture of the time. more...

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