Writing contemporary history
By: edited by Robert Gildea, Anne Simonin.
Contributors: Gildea, Robert.; Simonin, Anne.
Series: Writing history
Publisher: Hodder Education; Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780340950005
Subjects: Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: Is there still a place for social history?  -- Chris Waters and Gerard Noiriel; title: Is economic history no longer fashionable?  -- Patricia and Clavin and Michel Margairaz; title: What is cultural history now about?  -- Dominique Kalifa and Michael Kelly; title: What future for gender history?  -- Ruth Harris and Laura Lee Downs; title: Has history again become a branch of literature?  -- Robert Gildea and Jean-Frédéric Schaub; title: How should historians deal with extreme political change and political violence?  -- David Andress and Sophie Wahnich; title: Where does colonial history end?  -- Marin Evans and Raphaëlle Branche; title: Is there a 'tyranny of the present' in the writing of history today? -- Alya Aglan and Robert Gildea.