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Some Reflections on the Present State of Historical Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3341033 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Trygve R Tholfsen, G R Elton |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 685 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/205631 |
| OpenAlex | W2108576473 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
This volume contains the text of the three Cook Lectures, delivered by Sir Geoffrey Elton at the University of Michigan in April 1990, which reviewed various current doubts and queries concerning the writing of reasonably unbiased history. The lectures offer critical advice on how such unbiased history might be achieved, together with a general critical survey of 'fashionable' theories on the writing of history. The Cook Lectures appear in print for the first time. Also included in the volume are reprinted versions of Sir Geoffrey's two Cambridge inaugural lectures, as Professor of Constitutional History, and as Regius Professor of Modern History. These tried to dispel, respectively, what Sir Geoffrey sees as the anti-historical fantasies current in the 1960s (but by no means yet gone), and the artificial attempt to denigrate the history of one's native country
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Los giros en la Historia
Hermeneutics and history
Historical Perspectives and Methodologies
Keith Jenkins and the heroic age of British postmodern theory
Seven (1 + 6) surfing stories
Wikipedia and history
The two histories
Beyond history
Invitation to historians
The Traditional Standpoint of Historians’
Foucault and History in Organization Studies
Gendered Space
Divisions within the Ranks? The Just War Tradition and the Use and Abuse of History
Gellner's case against cognitive relativism
Who's afraid of the ‘linguistic turn'? The politics of social history and its discontents∗
The end of social history
Directions in historiography
Antiquarian Attitudes
The Young Finley
The Same People with Different Relatives? Modern Scholarship, Unionists and the Irish Nation
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2015 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |