HISTORY IN PRACTICE by Jordanova, L J ISBN 0340663324
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An appraisal of the discipline of history and historical practice. It looks at the processes that have 'professionalized' history and at the relations between public history and academic history. The work concludes with a personal view of the discipline, and a discussion of the challenges it faces.
The author examines the way historians have 'divided up' their subject, and how that has changed and with what effects. Why have certain fields, such as women's history and black history, generated such intense debates about their value and validity? History has frequently been seen as something of a jackdaw subject, with a tendency to a ppropriate theories and concepts from other areas. Is that assumption justified? What is the nature of the links with adjacent fields, such as anthropology and literary theory? What is the status of historical knowledge? Is it in some sense objective or should we agree with those who are dismissive of such claims? Shaping the past as a means of making it intelligible is one of the most important of historians' tasks, yet the manner in which they do so through periodisation is rarely examined critically. History in Practice refuses to mystify what historians do and treats historical methods critically; it also determinedly resists the separation of theory from practice. It finishes with a personal view of where the discipline may be going, indicating the challenges it faces and why its future is significant.
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[edit] Title
HISTORY IN PRACTICE
[edit] Author
Jordanova, L J
[edit] ISBN
0340663324
[edit] Published
25/02/2000
[edit] Publisher
Arnold
[edit] Binding
paperback
[edit] Retail Price
12.99 (GBP)
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