History and Identity

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ID23433352
AuthorsBerger (0000-0002-0461-2640, University of Manchester, corresponding author), Stefan Berger (0000-0003-1860-7954)
Year2022
Publication date2022-01-20
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueHistory and Identity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9780511984525
OpenAlexW3195641551
ISBN9780511984525
Open LibraryOL36278692M
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice shows how issues of identity have shaped how we write history. Stefan Berger charts how a new self-reflexivity about what is involved in the process of writing history entered the historical profession and the part that historians have played in debates about the past and its meaningfulness for the present. He introduces key trends in the theory of history such as postmodernism, poststructuralism, constructivism, narrativism and the linguistic turn and reveals, in turn, the ways in which they have transformed how historians have written history over the last four decades. The book ranges widely from more traditional forms of history writing, such as political, social, economic, labour and cultural history, to the emergence of more recent fields, including gender history, historical anthropology, the history of memory, visual history, the history of material culture, and comparative, transnational and global history.

Aesthetics · Art · Cultural history · Epistemology · History of ideas · Identity (music) · Intellectual history · Linguistic turn · Political history · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Reflexivity · Social history (medicine) · Sociology · World history · Anthropology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Identity (Philosophical concept)

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