ABSTRACT

This book explores the versatile nature of historical methodology and its use in interdisciplinary research. Based on the historical overview of the appearance of one sort of historical ideas and disappearance of another, the book aims to demonstrate a wide range of possibilities of research in the field and to show how the pursuit of historical truth may facilitate the formation of collective memory and how the application of research tools can explain events in the contemporary world.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|14 pages

Methods and theories of historical studies

chapter 2|3 pages

Historical past

chapter 3|4 pages

Structuralism and post-structuralism

chapter 4|9 pages

Memory studies. Social amnesia

chapter 6|15 pages

Postmemory and Ectopic Literature

chapter 8|6 pages

Microhistory

chapter |7 pages

Conclusion