Fashioning History [electronic resource] : Current Practices and Principles /
Berkhofer, R.author.
This book offers historians and aspiring historians a learned, absorbing, and comprehensive overview of current fashions of method, interpretation, and meaning in the context of postmodernism that has washed over the historical profession in the last two decades.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Construing the Past as History: Processes and Presuppositions; 1 Historical Methods: From Evidence to Facts; 2 Historical Synthesis: From Statements to Histories; Part II: Comparing Histories: Forms, Functions, Factuality, and the Bigger Picture; 3 Texts as Archives and Histories; 4 Things in and as Exhibits, Museums, and Historic Sites; 5 Films as Historical Representations and Resources; Afterword: The History Effect and Representations of the Past; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book offers historians and aspiring historians a learned, absorbing, and comprehensive overview of current fashions of method, interpretation, and meaning in the context of postmodernism that has washed over the historical profession in the last two decades.
Historiography.
Political science.
Historiography and Method.
Political Science.