ABSTRACT
Bringing together in one volume the key writings of many of the major historians from the last few decades, Historians on History provides an overview of the evolving nature of historical enquiry, illuminating the political, social and personal assumptions that have governed and sustained historical theory and practice.
John Tosh’s Reader begins with a substantial introductory survey charting the course of historiographical developments since the second half of the nineteenth century. He explores both the academic mainstream and more radical voices within the discipline. The text is composed of readings by historians such as Braudel, Carr, Elton, Guha, Hobsbawm, Scott and Jordanova. This third edition has been brought up to date by taking the 1960s as its starting point. It now includes more recent topics like public history, microhistory and global history, in addition to established fields like Marxist history, gender history and postcolonialism.
Historians on History is essential reading for all students of historiography and historical theory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|19 pages
The documentary ideal
part II|42 pages
The long view
part |12 pages
History as progress
part |12 pages
The national story
part |16 pages
Marxism
part III|23 pages
Radical counter-currents
part |21 pages
History from below
part |21 pages
Gender
part |21 pages
Postcolonialism
part IV|16 pages
The contraction and expansion of scale
part |14 pages
Microhistory
part |12 pages
Transnational and global history
part V|13 pages
History as social science
part |11 pages
Structural history
part |13 pages
The authority of numbers
part |22 pages
Reactions
part VI|25 pages
The cultural turn
part |23 pages
The impact of Postmodernism
part |15 pages
The new cultural history
part |15 pages
Memory and culture
part VII|20 pages
History and society
part |18 pages
The uses of history
part |17 pages
Engaging with the public